96 RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



tions they were the same as they had been at the 

 beginning, and if the delay in attacking has been of 

 advantage to either side, it has notoriously been so to 

 the French forces. 



"Not a single foreigner joined the Eoman army 

 during my stay, and those who had been there before 

 I came consisted simply of some twenty Frenchmen, 

 a few Germans, and from 150 to 200 Poles, who 

 expressed to me in writing their desire to quit Eome 

 rather than join in hostilities against France, and to 

 go wherever we might see fit to send them. 



"With regard to the Italians of states other than 

 the Eomagna, are they to be considered as strangers 

 to the cause for which Eome is struggling ? In any 

 event, it would be absurd to attach much importance 

 to them in a city which contains 30,000 regular 

 soldiers, and a whole population in arms ready to 

 offer the most desperate resistance. I had already 

 informed the Government of these facts by a despatch 

 dated May 16th, and I had specially instructed MM. 

 de Forbin-Janson and de la Tour d'Auvergne to 

 confirm their tenour. 



6th. I should have stipulated for the occupation 

 of Eome, as the only means of holding a high tone 

 with the foreign armies which were advancing. 



Is it fair, is it reasonable to reproach me with not 

 having insisted, as the sine qua non of any agree- 

 ment, upon a clause for the occupation of Eome, when 

 M. Drouyn de Lhuys declared in the sitting of 



