i 3 4 RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY YEARS. 



throw him into the street, but the Frenchmen sur- 

 rounded him and pushed these three men into the 

 staircase where Prince "Wolkonsky was standing. On 

 M. de la Tour d'Auvergne getting back, I asked him 

 what had occurred. He said, " Three men came up 

 to the carriage as I was starting and grumbled a little 

 because you had not come." 



Colonel de Maubeuge had been sent to assist me in 

 my negotiations, so I despatched him to Mazzini to com- 

 plain of this. I had the names of the three men, and 

 one was a Frenchman named Colin, who, like the two 

 others, has since died. I remember that on the pre- 

 vious night a dozen individuals had come and yelled 

 the " Ca ira " under the windows of the Embassy, so I 

 instructed Colonel de Maubeuge to inform Mazzini that 

 if the three men were not at once cast into prison I 

 should order General Oudinot to attack the city. He 

 replied that he had no power to do so. The man 

 who had saved my life was up to everything which 

 occurred, and it was arranged that he should generally 

 take his stand at the corner of a street facing the 

 hotel. I accordingly made a signal for him to come 

 and talk to me, and after informing him of Mazzini' s 

 answer, asked what had best be done. He advised 

 my applying to Ciceronaccio, a popular leader of 

 great influence who had organised the revolution. So 

 I sent to tell Mazzini that if he could not calm the 

 population I must ask Ciceronaccio to do so, and the 

 effect was magical. 



