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Rome in the company of his elder brother, who died 

 during the insurrection. 



Upon returning to see M. Drouyn de Lhuys, I was 

 careful not to confide this matter to him, nor did I 

 make any use of it while in Borne, so as not to 

 excite public feeling unnecessarily. But when I 

 repeated to him the Prince's observation about a 

 foreign intervention in the Roman States, he asked 

 me how I interpreted the expression "'at all costs" 

 as applied to preventing anything like a common 

 action with the Austrians and Neapolitans. I told 

 him that it was for him to settle that with the Pre- 

 sident and write to me ; but that, until I heard further, 

 I should interpret it in the widest sense. M. Drouyn 

 de Lhuys's salon being then full of visitors, as it was 

 his regular reception-day, I took leave of him and 

 was soon travelling in a post-chaise to Toulon, where 

 telegraphic orders had been sent for a man-of-war to 

 be got ready for me, upon which M. Drouyn de Lhuys 

 had given leave for Signor Accursi, a friend of 

 Mazzini and Minister for Home Affairs of the Eoman 

 Eepublic, also to travel. M. Drouyn de Lhuys had 

 suggested that Signor Accursi should accompany 

 me to Toulon ; but I pointed out that this might be 

 compromising. 



Before embarking I received two despatches from 

 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for MM. d'Har court 

 and de Eayneval and for myself, which I give in 

 their entirety. 



