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on Monte Mario said that he had not arrived in time 

 to countermand the movement. This note was 

 intended to reassure the Eoman authorities as to our 

 intentions, and it enabled me to explain the occupation 

 of Monte Mario to the Triumvirs. 



Upon my arrival in Eome, I found them very 

 much concerned about the occupation of this im- 

 portant point, and numerous complaints had been 

 addressed to them from all parts of the city. I gave 

 them to understand that it was all a mistake, and they 

 undertook to reassure the population. 



I handed them a final proposal, which I had 

 thought out with great care, and which I believed to 

 be as faithful an expression as possible of my instruc- 

 tions and of the intentions of the Government, as con- 

 veyed by the speeches of ministers at the sittings of 

 April 16 and May 7 and 9. My proposals did not 

 respond to the hopes of the Triumvirs, because they 

 made no mention of the Eoman Eepublic, which I 

 could not recognise, and because they only guaranteed 

 from foreign invasion the territories occupied by our 

 troops. They were, however, accepted as a necessity, 

 and Mazzini told me that if the Assembly agreed to 

 them it would be a proof of the great confidence which 

 I had inspired as to the intentions of the Government ; 

 for if these intentions were not such as I described 

 them, it would be very dangerous for the Eomans to 

 agree to my project. "For," he added, "the positions 

 of which we are about to facilitate your occupation 



