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this Assembly, and lie has been instructed to shape his 

 course in conformity with it? 



" Thus, even excluding from consideration the un- 

 questioned principles which I have just referred to, it 

 has been admitted by the official declaration of the 

 Minister who signed the despatch of May 8th, 

 containing my letter of instructions, that this letter 

 was not to be my sole rule of conduct, that the aim of 

 my mission was collaterally indicated by the outside 

 circumstances, such as those which occurred in the 

 course of my mission to Borne, or by the external 

 commentaries, such as the votes of April 16th and 

 May 7th, and the ministerial undertakings bearing 

 upon them. The nature of these undertakings is very 

 clearly indicated by the speeches of M. Odilon Barrot, 

 the President of the Council, both at the sittings of 

 April 6th and May 7th, and again on June 9th, 

 upon all three of which occasions he explicitly 

 declares that the French expedition under General 

 Oudinot was not sent with any intention of attacking 

 the Eoman Eepublic, of entering the city by force, or 

 of restoring the rule of the Pope. 



" The reporter of the Council admits that the discus- 

 sions in the National Assembly do not in any way 

 invalidate the character of my instructions, but he 

 nevertheless asserts that all I had to concern myself 

 with was what related to the entry of the (French) 

 troops into Eome and with the special conventions 

 calculated to secure it. 



