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advice, accepted by General Oudinot. I am still 

 going forward with it. You will see which of us is 

 right. If not agreed upon these points, we are on 

 very cordial terms." 



Ever since the 16th inst. I had been agreed with 

 General Oudinot as to the drawing up of the following 

 project, opposed by M. d'Harcourt, which I forwarded 

 to the Ministry, with an intimation that it would 

 undoubtedly be modified in some particulars : 



" Clause I. No restriction shall be in future placed 

 by the French army upon the liberty of communica- 

 tions between Eome and the rest of the Eoman States. 



" Clause II. Eome shall treat the French army as 

 a friendly force. 



" Clause III. The present executive power shall 

 resign and be replaced by a provisional government 

 composed of Eoman citizens, and appointed by the 

 Eoman National Assembly, until the inhabitants, 

 having been called upon to express their wishes, the 

 Senate shall have decided as to the form of govern- 

 ment by which they are to be ruled, and as to the 

 guarantees to be given in favour of the Catholic reli- 

 gion and the Papacy." 



I soon found, after a preliminary conference with 

 the Eoman authorities, that this question could not 

 even be discussed without awkward consequences, and 

 that Clause III., relating to the resignation of the 

 executive power, would lead to interminable discus- 



