Rassegna storica del Risorgimento

Documenti americani sul conflitto italo-austriaco del 1859 15
perfectly satified with ali he saw and heard; the fricnds of peacc think Bis satisfaction affeeted and his disappointment great. He has publishcd a Me­morandum of the Italian grìevances addrcssed to the Court of St. Jaines, [sic] which has been extensively circulated. His account of the ills under which Italy labours is nothing new; but what is rcmarkablc in his paper is the faot that he points to Lombardy as the sole place where the trae solution of the difficulty must he sought. He wiH not he satisfied with an evacuation of the duchies and Rome, but insists on a constitution and an Italian army in Lom­bardy things which no Congress will ever wring front Austria unti! a bloody war has gotte against her.
Meanwhile the prospeets of a Congress change from day to day. Last week Austria demanded the disarmament of Piedmont as a preliminary, and Pìedmont positively refused to disarm. Since then Austria has proposed a general disarmament of herself, Piedmont and France. The fate of this pro-p osi tioa is not yet distinctly knpwn, but its failurc may be safely predicted. I am every day better satisfied that either there will be no Congress at ali held, or that it will be an empty mockery.
There is tto solution to these difficulties War seems every day more im-minent and any hour may bring the news of it. Sardinia has now completcd her preparations. She has seventy-five thousand men disposed along the bine of the raflroad from Genoa to Novara, which she can concentrate at the latter place in twelve hours. What the Freneh Emperor has prepared is very mudi in the dark; but it is certain that he has twenty thousand men at Marseilles which could come to Turin in thirty hours; and he has thirty thousand more on the frontier of Savoy who could ali pass the Mount Cenis and be here in two days. On the other band, Austria has certainly not less than two hundred thousand men in Lombardy, and fifty thousand more are on the way there. Leaving a hundred thousand to control the population, she could enter this country with three corps of nfty thousand each.
The affair has been ably managed by Cavour. Werther Piedmont nor France desire at heart a Congress, yet he has succeeded in making it appear that ali the difficulties come from Austria. He now wishes to force Austria to com-mcnce the actual hostilities, and I am of opinion that he will be equally fortunate on tbat point also. France and Piedmont, having more command of money, can maintain the present costly state of armed expectancy much longer than Austria. This latter country having failed in its loan is nearly bankrupt. Shortly she will have no more cash to pay the cnormous force she has heaped up in Lombardy, and in that case her soldicrs will desert. Her paymcnts are
malgré l'cgoisme de la presse anglaisc qui se plait à la denaturer, et malgré les preventions trae notre alliance avec la France inspire aux honuues politiqucs nord amerìcains. Il Berlin;!.li aggiunse che i giornali del Sud erano favorevoli alla causa italiana parcequ'ils puiscnt leurs inspirations dans Ics journaux francai. Ceux du Nord sont plus reservés ponr les raisons <rue j'ai aUegués dana une précédente depfiche et dans celle ci. In un altro dispaccio al conte Cavour, in data Washington, 7 maggio 1859, No. 30, Bertinotti scriveva che il Presidente degli Stati Uniti gli era molto gentile e che gli aveva espresso la sua grande ammirazione per la politica e la saggezza di Vittorio Emanuele; aggiungeva che il Presi­dente credeva clic Cavour fosse lo statista più gronde dei nostri giorni: Archivio di Stato, Torino.