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I should send a second one to Paris by Colonel 

 Lavelaine de Maubeuge, and that the third would 

 remain in the hands of the Eoman authorities. 

 Returning to Eome the same night, I received the 

 next morning (June 1) a letter from General 

 Oudinot, protesting against the arrangement con- 

 cluded with the city. The Triumvirate subsequently 

 sent me a copy of a communication by which he 

 declared that what I had done was null and of no 

 effect. I replied that so far as concerned myself I 

 adhered to the arrangement, subject to the ratification 

 of my Government, and that I was about to start for 

 Paris. 



Subjoined are the documents relating to the final 

 incidents of my mission. 



"Roans, June 1, 1849. 



" M. le Ministre, My despatch of the 29th ult. 

 was accompanied by a declaration, in the form of an 

 ultimatum addressed by agreement with General 

 Oudinot, to the Eoman authorities. The result which 

 I hoped for was attained ; nine hours before the expiry 

 of the time fixed I received from the President of 

 the Constituent Assembly and the members of the 

 Municipality, composed of all the most distinguished 

 men in Eome, very satisfactory replies, the Executive 

 Power, which had been appointed to arrange with 

 me, sending me at the same time a counter project. 

 This document, upon the margin of which I at once 



