he was involved in Daniele Manin's struggle on behalf of the Venetian Republic of San Marco, sent from the staff of Guglielmo Pepe. He also defended the Roman Republic of 1849 against Austria, which he did as deputy to Garibaldi. He sought in 1860 to involve himself in the Mortara case by an expedition to Rome, that later came to nothing. A contemporary account of his efforts on behalf of the Hunters of the Alps is in Les Chasseurs des Alpes et des Apennins (1860) by Louis de La Varenne. Context Seymour was Military Secretary under Colonel John Whitehead Peard of the British Legion by October 1860. Seymour, according to some accounts, accused a brother officer of embezzling funds. The officer challenged Seymour to a duel, that Peard forbade him to attend, Bacchin writes: "... in a public letter, Captain Scott accused both Peard and Captain Sarffield, who was the brigade secretary, of 'stirring things up, making things up, and slandering'. This caused riots and police mobilization in the centre of Naples." British Legion background George Holyoake, organiser in London of the Legion, wrote in his memoirs that "There being no legal power to enforce order was the cardinal weakness of the British Legion." On its arrival in Palermo, bogus commissions caused confusion, and there were "Captain Sarsfield, Colonel Peard known as "Garibaldi's Englishman," De Rohan, Captain Scott, and others on the spot, with colourable pretensions to authority". It was argued at the time that Scott and "an Italian" who used the name Captain Hugh Forbes were interfering with the British Legion's effectiveness, as outsiders. Forbes, like Scott, was of British birth, had lived in Italy for a long period, and was a veteran of the 1848–9 conflicts. After a period in the United States, he had recruited in the United Kingdom a multinational group for Garibaldi with support from George W. M. Reynolds. Forbes's candidate for commander of the British Legion, called Hicks, had been thrown out of the party before it sailed from Harwich by William James Linton, accused of financial irregularity. At the end of October, Forbes was trying to attract further support for his brigade stationed at Resina, from the British Legion, with support from Scott. Scott's account In a pamphlet of 1863, Scott gave his own version of events: Seymour objected to a payment to an English army contractor, who applied to Scott. Scott looked