THE MISSION TO ROME. 



projects, and jour action. In 

 return for the confidence which 

 you have shown me, I feel that 

 I cannot do less than treat you 

 with equal frankness. 



2. My private views are of 

 little consequence, but the 

 Government of the Republic, 

 in requesting you explicitly to 

 concert your action with the 

 plenipotentiaries of the Gaeta 

 Conference, was evidently anx- 

 ious to avoid speaking with 

 two voices. I am obliged to 

 say that you have not been in- 

 fluenced by this consideration, 

 a very important one in my 

 eyes, as it involves the honour 

 and good faith of the country. 



be taken in this business, 

 should be consistent with his 

 principles, as I have been with 

 mine. His reservations do 

 honour to the perspicacity of 

 his eminently politic mind, and 

 to the hereditary loyalty of his 

 disposition. 



2. My instructions were to 

 the effect that I was to con- 

 cert with MM. d'Harcourt and 

 Eayneval upon all matters not 

 requiring an immediate solu- 

 tion. I have 'communicated 

 with M. d'Harcourt whenever 

 he has come to head-quarters, 

 where I have made a point of 

 meeting him, despite my in- 

 cessant occupations, to commu- 

 nicate to him not only all that 

 I had done, but the ideas which 

 inspired me in my action. At 

 the same time, I sent to M. de 

 Eayneval at Gaeta duplicates 

 of my earlier despatches to 

 Paris, and I should have gone 

 on doing so had he not, much 

 to my satisfaction, come to 

 head -quarters. I have kept 

 nothing back from him ; I have 

 let him know all the powerful 

 motives, public or secret, which 

 have directed my conduct, and 

 he must have carried away 

 with him the conviction that if 

 we were divided as to our 

 views, I was not less anxious 

 than he to maintain intact 

 the honour and good name of 

 our country. As to consulting 

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