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the situation in which we found ourselves placed, and 

 which had not varied since the 15th of the month, the 

 day of my arrival ; that is to say, our Government, 

 which had long since been called upon to decide, had 

 not sent us a word either by courier or by telegraph. 

 Thus General Oudinot was still bound by the despatch 

 of the 10th, which did not allow him to attack. I 

 put together the letters of the Eoman municipality, 

 the Assembly, the Triumvirate, as well as the pro- 

 ject which I had annotated. I added to it the follow- 

 ing memorandum, and requested Commander Espivent 

 to hand the whole to General Oudinot : 



" MEMORANDUM. 



" Having started from Paris while the impression 

 produced by the events of April 30th was still fresh, 

 and having come for the purpose of treating with the 

 Eoman populations, I have no need to recall the fact 

 that I have never allowed for an instant my cause to 

 be treated as a distinct one from that of the worthy 

 Commander-in-chief. 



" I was not blind to the difficulties which I should 

 experience in bringing people to believe that the in- 

 tentions of the French Government and of its general 

 were the same after as they were before the 30th of 

 April. But I have at last succeeded. I am disposed 

 to sign at once, with a few modifications and the re- 

 jection of Art. 3 relating to the recognition of the 

 Eoman Eepublic, the counter proposal sent me by the 



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