THE MISSION TO ROME. 4.1 



the despatch of troops to Italy to prevent foreign 

 intervention, will be grateful for the support which it 

 may receive. 



" Article II. The Eoman people are entitled to 

 decide for themselves upon their form of government, 

 and the French Eepublic, which has never questioned 

 this right, will be pleased to recognise it formally, 

 when the constitution, as created by the National 

 Assembly, shall have been sanctioned by a general 

 vote. 



"Article III. Eomc will welcome the French 

 soldiers as brethren, but they will not enter the city, 

 unless the Eoman Government, threatened by an 

 immediate danger, shall call upon them to do so. The 

 civil and military authorities of the Eoman Eepublic 

 shall fulfil their respective functions. The French 

 Eepublic guarantees more especially the right which 

 it recognised the Constituent Assembly as possessing 

 to complete and put into working the constitution 

 of the Eepublic." 



This scheme was drafted in the handwriting of 

 M. Charles Bonaparte, the Yice-President of the 

 Eoman Assembly, who subsequently gave me a 

 second copy of it. In that which had been handed 

 to General Oudinot by Mr. Cass, the latter had intro- 

 duced a fourth clause, in which it was proposed that 

 he should sign the agreement as Minister of the 

 United States. It will be readily understood that in 

 view of my instructions I abstained from discussing 



