22 RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



that they should rejoin their comrades as soon as they 

 were cured. They could not possibly be better cared 

 for, as Eoman ladies of the highest families are 

 tending them day and night, having taken up their 

 residence in the hospitals, the Princess Beljioso at 

 their head." 



Second Despatch to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, 

 Paris. 



"ROME, May 18, 1849. 



u Monsieur le Ministre, A conference has been 

 held at the head-quarters of the French army between 

 General Oudinot, M. d'Harcourt, and myself. I read 

 and commended my first despatch. My preliminary 

 measures were approved, as well as the scheme destined 

 to form a basis for negotiations. This scheme will 

 undoubtedly undergo modifications of detail which 

 will not alter its main principles. 



"Upon my return to Eome I learnt that the 

 Assembly had unanimously decided that a committee 

 of three members should be selected, and the members 

 chosen were MM. Sturbinetti, Audinot (Bologna), 

 and Cernuschi (Milan). This latter, who would 

 have been a very desirable choice, as indeed were 

 the two others, would not accept out of delicacy, and 

 it occurred to me that it would be better that the 

 deputation should consist of Italians who were 

 natives of the Eoman States. His successor was 

 chosen to-day, Signor Agostini. 



