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" The pretended necessity of having Kome occupied, 

 despite the opposition of the Eoman Assembly, the 

 authorities, and the inhabitants, was not so much as 

 referred to in my instructions, and it was in opposi- 

 tion with the statements of the Minister in the Cham- 

 ber. Be this as it may, the reporter, taking as his 

 starting point the principle of an entry, by force if 

 necessary, into Eome, encompasses me within the 

 circle which he has seen fit to trace, and beyond the 

 limits of which I was not, according to him, to have 

 stepped. 



" The report charges that my first proposals did not 

 produce any immediate effect, and that they under- 

 went modifications. Inasmuch as I was instructed to 

 treat, and as in all negotiations there are several con- 

 tracting parties whose interests are different from one 

 another, I could not, from the very outset, force my 

 own views upon those with whom I was treating. I 

 could not but admit the presentation of counter pro- 

 jects, discuss them, and be led perhaps, either by 

 force of conviction or by the urgency of circum- 

 stances, to make concessions. 



" The reporter blames me for not having shown 

 sufficient consideration for the susceptibilities of the 

 Papal Court at Gaeta. This is a question which the 

 Council of State could not possibly have sufficient 

 data for discussing; and the Minister of Foreign 

 Affairs, in laying it down in my instructions, had cer- 

 tainly no idea of fixing any particular limit. The 



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