814 Mary Somerville. 



provisional government was formed with Bettino 

 Kicasoli at its head ; a parliament assembled three 

 times in the Sala dei Cinquecento, in the Palazzo 

 Vecchio, and voted with unanimity the expulsion of 

 the House of Lorraine, and the annexation of 

 Tuscany to the kingdom of Italy. In the meantime 

 the French and Italian arms were victorious in 

 Lombardy. As, however, it is not my intention to 

 give an historical account of the revolution of 1859, 

 but merely to jot down such circumstances as came 

 under my own immediate notice, I shall not enter 

 into any particulars regarding the well-known 

 campaign which ended in the cession of Milan and 

 Lombardy to Italy. 



"We were keenly interested in the alliance between 

 the Emperor Napoleon and the King of Italy, in 

 hopes the Quadrilateral would be taken, and Venice 

 added to the Italian States. We had a map of 

 Northern Italy spread on a table, and from day to 

 day we marked the positions of the different head- 

 quarters with coloured-headed pins. I can hardly 

 describe our -indignation when all at once peace was 

 signed at Villafranea, and Napoleon received Nice 

 and Savoy in recompense for his aid, which were 

 given up to him without regard to the will of the 

 people. When the peace was announced in Tuscany 

 it caused great consternation and disgust ; the people 



