82 RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



" The cantonments which, as well as we can judge, 

 would be the most suitable, would be those upon the 

 line which extends from Frascati to Yilletri. The 

 preamble of the declaration may very well be adopted 

 as it stands. 



( Signed) " The Triumvirs, 



" ARMELLINI, J. MAZZINI, and SAFFI." 



The General in command wrote to me declining to 

 co-operate. He did not communicate his fresh instruc- 

 tions to me, this being evidently the result of the change 

 which had occurred in the policy of our Government, 

 but he wrote to me on the evening of May 31st : 



"Your convention is opposed to the instructions 

 which I have received. I will not give it my assent, 

 and I am obliged to declare this to the Eoman au- 

 thorities. When the Ministry, after having received 

 the communications conveyed to it through M. de la 

 Tour d'Auvergne, shall have made known its inten- 

 tions, I shall conform scrupulously to them. In 

 the meanwhile, I regret that I cannot possibly act in 

 concert with you. 



(Signed) " OUDINOT." 



My reply was as follows : 



"ROME, June 1, 1849. 



" Monsieur le General en Chef, I have devotedly, 

 and with much personal abnegation, followed the 



