The Answer

Annoyance felt by the French Government

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Letter from the President of the Republic to Edouard Ney

Proceedings of Ney at Rome

General Rostolan

His Words

Communications from Barrot to Rostolan

Answer from Rostolan respecting the Letter to Ney

Honours shown in the Capitol to General Oudinot

His Speeches

Banquet

Other Honours

284

Journey of Oudinot to Gaeta

- 286

Remarks on the Condition of the Pontifical State at the

beginning of 1850

316

LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLAD-

STONE, M.P.

319

HISTORY

ОР

THE ROMAN STATE,

FROM 1815 TO 1850.

BOOK VI.

FROM THE ARRIVAL OF THE FRENCH TO THE TERMINA-
TION OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC.

CHAPTER I.

ACTS AND WORDS OF GENERAL OUDINOT AT CIVITA VECCHIA.-CON-
FERENCES WITH THE DEPUTIES OF THE ROMAN

ASSEMBLY.

COLONEL LE BLANC AT ROME.-HIS DECLARATIONS.- -RESOLUTION
PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY.-TEXT OF A NEW PROCLAMATION BY
GENERAL OUDINOT.-CAPTAIN

HIM. INDECISION OF THE

FABAR.-DECLARATIONS

MADE BY

TWO TRIUMVIRS.-DEBATE IN THE

ASSEMBLY.-NEW RESOLUTION.-REVIEW OF THE NATIONAL GUARD.

RESISTANCE.-ARRANGEMENTS.-PROCLA

-PREPARATIONS

FOR

MATIONS OF THE

COMMITTEE OF

4.

BARRICADES.-PROCEEDINGS

PARIS.-ADVICE AND

OF THE CLERGY AND REPUBLICANS IN

HOPES OF M. FORBIN JANSON.-TEXT OF A LETTER OF M. DROUIN
DE L'HUYS.-ADVICE OF M. D'HARCOURT AND M. RAYNEVAL.-
MARCH OF THE FRENCH ARMY.-TEXT OF A PROCLAMATION
ADDRESSED BY GENERAL OUDINOT ΤΟ THE SOLDIERS.-THE
ROMAN FORCES.-BATTLE OF THE 30TH APRIL.

AFTER the French had gained possession of Cività
Vecchia under pretence of entertaining the most libe-
ral designs, they kept the minds of the inhabitants in
suspense, by alternate marks of enmity and kindness,
gentle words and harsh deeds. They proclaimed liberty;

VOL. IV.

B

the magistrates of the Roman Republic retained their offices, the soldiers and the National Guard remained in arms, but General Oudinot showed his real power by detaining in the harbour a Lombard legion of 600 men, commanded by Luciano Manara, which, after the reverses of the Piedmontese army, had sailed in two Sardinian ships for the Roman coast. When Manara complained of this detention, and desired to be set at liberty with his men, the general sharply answered: "You are Lombards, what right have you to meddle with the affairs of Rome?" Then Manara, replying to foreign insolence with Italian scorn, exclaimed: "And you, general, do you come from Paris, from Lyons, or Bordeaux?" The President Manucci, also, who, after he had been accused in Parliament, on account of the descent of the French, had regained his character, and had been maintained in office by the minister Montecchi, appealed to General Oudinot in vain. The general was at first so enraged that he took his office from him, then apologised and reinstated him. On the other hand, Rusconi and Pescantini, the deputies from the Assembly, were received by him with kind and liberal words. He said that France did not intend any offence; that she had only made an armed descent to secure Rome from the Austro-Neapolitan invasion, and that they ought to trust in him and in his nation. To this the deputies answered, that the manner in which the enterprise had been undertaken did not seem to savour much of friendship, but rather tended to excite suspicions of an intention to restore the dominion of the clergy. The general took