A Remarkable Career.

Hastings Standard, Issue 74, 22 July 1896, Page 4

A Remarkable Career.

M. Cemuschi, who?e death was announced from Mentone, had had a remarkable career. Born at Milan in 1821, of an old and wealthy Lombardy family, he came into notice as a leader " of the insurrection of March, 1848. He was one of those at the memorable dinner-party that preceded the attack on the Austrian garrison, and in the five days' street battle l that followed he fought in his dress clothes. After the flight of Pius the Ninth he took a leading part in affairs as a member of the Roman Constituent Assembly. On the capitulation of Borne to the French he was tried by court martial, bat acquitted. He then went to Paris and started business as a banker. During the Empire he was expelled from France for the political use to ■which he puts his wealth ; but on the fall of the Empire he returned, and was admitted to naturalisation. He fought with the Parisians through the seige of the capital, and during the Commune was arrested and ordered to be shot. He escaped because the officer charged with the fulfilment of the order demanded a written authority, which was refused. After that escape he travelled through America, India, and the Far East, returning a convinced bimetallism and bringing with him the finest collections in Eastern bronzes and vases now in Europe. He spent much money in promoting the Liinetallist cause, and used to boast that he had been the first to shake Mr Balfour's. faith in gold. He had a magnificent house and museum in the Pare Moncean, Paris, and gathered about him the celebrities of the world politicians, plutocrats, tnfboa, artiste, great manufacturers.