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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 60, 12 March 1868, Page 2

A correspondent of the London Review, of November 23, says : — 'Amongst the originalities of this last campaign I have learnt one which deserves to be embalmed in history. An Englishman follows the Garibaldian forces. He is armed with a rifle of excessively long range, and made expressly for long shots j to this weapon is fitted a small telescope, and a reflecting mirror permits our Englishman to sweep the country to a distance, of ,1800 yards. Comfortably installed on a height out of reach of the enemy's shot, he picks off his men in an artistic manner, just as a sportsman shoots down larks. This sanguinary eccentric keeps a sporting book in which he jots down the exact circumstances of every homicide which he commits. He has no political opinions ; he is a simple slayer of men j but, as no regular army would permit such 'sporting,' he attaches himself to the irregular Garibaldian bands. From the position he occupied at Mentana, there is every reason to believe that it was he that killed young Julian Watts Russell, of whom I spoke in nay last letter. I remember reading in the public journals of an Englishman who accompanied Garibaldi in his campaign of 1862, and who was said to have given as a reason for doing so, not that he was enthusiastic in the cause of Italian unity, but that he was fond of shooting. Is this the aame man, and if so, who is he ?'