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a Eoman Assembly, composed of the great landowners 

 in the country, who are devoted to your cause, and 

 who are not mistrusted by Europe. It is with them 

 that I must negotiate ; but as you are the most im- 

 portant personage, I wish you to be kept informed of 

 everything. You are aware that at the sitting which 

 took place this evening before Garibaldi started it was 

 decided that certain Eoman statesmen, not, with one 

 or two exceptions, residents in the city, were selected 

 to negotiate with me, but you insisted upon being put 

 in their place. Consequently, you have not kept your 

 word or adhered to what was agreed upon between 

 us." "When a difficulty occurs a woman will burst 

 into tears, but a man will throw himself into your 

 arms."" Mazzini did this, and so we continued the 

 negotiations. I found out afterwards that, urged on by 

 his own party, he was somewhat opposed to the object 

 of the negotiations, and that he kept up the agitation 

 in Eome. I was at the head- quarters preparing for 

 the negotiations, when Veyrassat, the man to whom I 

 owed the previous information about Mazzini, came 

 rushing into the camp, bathed in perspiration, and 

 urged me not to go into Eome as I had arranged to 

 do, in order to thank the Princess Beljioso and other 

 ladies for the care they had taken of our wounded. 

 But he urged me to alter my plans, as he said that the 

 Piazza di Spagna and the Via Condotti were filled 

 with people, and that the plot to assassinate me would 



* Not in England, M. de Lesseps. Note of the Translator. 



