RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



9. In uniting with the ene- 

 mies of the Pope, you inevi- 

 tably drive him more than ever 

 beneath the exclusive influence 

 of Austria. This assuredly is 

 not a result which it is desir- 

 able to attain. 



10. Is it really the desire of 

 France to offer her hand to a 

 Government which began its 

 career by murder .... 

 and which relies for its ex- 

 istence upon our internal 

 troubles ? 



And you must bear in mind 

 that directly we recognise this 



military political position in 

 the Roman States. . . . 



9. Far from uniting with the 

 enemies of the Pope, we prove 

 to him, on the contrary, that 

 we are the only nation sympa- 

 thetic to the Eoman popula- 

 tions which conceive their in- 

 terests in a just and liberal 

 measure ; and if at this mo- 

 ment his spiritual influence 

 even is compromised at Rome 

 by his imprudent friends quite 

 as much as by the hatred of 

 his enemies, he will be con- 

 vinced one day that we alone 

 can open for him the doors of 

 St. Peter's, and lead him along 

 a way strewn with flowers. 

 He will understand that access 

 to that basilica would be closed 

 to him if he had to reach it 

 along a path sprinkled with 

 the blood which he had caused 

 to be shed. Some sincere 

 friends of His Holiness have 

 encouraged me in the path 

 which I have followed, and 

 they have strongly urged him 

 not to raise any difficulties in 

 my path. 



10. It is no more accurate to 

 say that the R-oman Republic 

 is responsible for the murder 

 of M. Rossi than to make our 

 Republic of '48 responsible for 

 the crimes of '93. The Roman 

 Republic which, moreover, I 

 have not been charged with 

 recognising has succeeded, by 



