Rassegna storica del Risorgimento

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Howard R. Marraro
will obliterate ali unpleasant recollectian that ali desircd has not been attained. The prestigi of the Eraperor and the popular favor towards hin) are for the moment, not so great as was cxpccted, but it is not probable that any serious declini: of bis popular strength in France will continue.
The circulatiou of the London Times, in France, espccially of tbe nuntber of Friday, tbe 15tb iustant. is suppresscd, and the state of feeling between the two countries is not more cordial than herctoforc. Indeed, the condemnation of the terme of peace, manifested in Engiaud, will commend them to many in France.
John M. Daniel a Lewis Cass
Turin, july 26, 1859. No. 120.
Sir: [Riferisce sulla composizione del Ministero Rattazzi...].-.. It is almost universally believed bere that Napoleon III will neither pernii t Austria to use force for reinsta ting the old order of things, nor lend bis owa arms to that pur* pose. The meaning of the Villafranca treaty is now said to be that the dukes and the Pope and the Duchess must recover tbeir territory by tbeir owa unassi-sted endeavours, if at ali. If this be so, the treaty of Villafranca, so far as those potentates aro ooncerned, was a mere stultification and mookery. The idea is nevertheless so generalty credited at Turin in officiai circles as to give rise to the belief that the Government has received authoritative intimations to that efiect
But even should this country succeed in holding fast to the duehies, by force or intrigue, by diplomatic arrangements at Zurioh or vote of the peonie at home, it will never be consoled by them for the loss of its hope for Venice. In the lamentations made for the fate of the Queen of the Adriatic a good part of selfish sentiment is mingled. The possession of the Venetian port and terri­tory was more necessary to the force and wealth of this country than ali the rest of Italy together. With Genoa and Venice, Sardinia would command ali the commerce of the two seas, and the magnificent lines of railway now compiei ed between the two ports would be the direct route from Western Europe to the Orient...
In breaking up the petrified network of despotism which covered Italy, Na­poleon ELI has done it a serviee even though its present condition be more un-settled than it then was. In adding to Piedmont the splendid and wealthy province of Lombardy, he has nearìy doubled its importance. But in Italy gratitude is a sentiment less abundant than suspicion, and public sentiment is not now more kindly to Napoleon, despite bis explanation to the corps iFJÉtòt, which your Minister at Paris has doubtless recounted at the date of my last dispatch...
John Y. Mason a Letois Cass
Legation of the United States, Paris, August 22,1859. No. 409.
Sir: On the 14th instant, the grand procession of the trtumphant entry of the army into Paris, with the trophies taken from the Austrians, in the late war, took place with ali the auxiliaries which the French taste can suggest, to xnake it a most effectìve spectaclc. After remaining in camp near Yincenues,