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England, Piedmont, and the Cagliari affair 167
Si vraiment il est fatìgué de nous et qu'il nous le dise franchement, j'en serai charme. Je crois que nous nous tixeions d' affaire mieux sans lui.
Mieux vaut l'abandon de TAngleterre qu'un appui qui n'aura d'autscs résultats que de nous compromettre, en placant le Roi de Naples sur un piédestal.
Nous n'avons plus rieri à attendre, je le crains bien, des hommes d*Etat de l'Angieterre: ils sont tous, plus ou moins, pour Talliance Autrichienne. Cela étant, mieux vaut de taire cesser cette apparence de sympathie et d'appui qui nous gène, sans nous erre d'aucune utilité.64)
As it turned out, Malmesbury was forced to concede that Mediation and not arbitration will and must be the word, for the H. of Commons will hear of no other and Sardinia has chosen it .65) In consequence, Malmes­bury declared, Piedmont was to be ready to make her claims against Naples, and to offer mediation by Sweden in case of rejection, by 3 June. The English claim against Naples which Malmesbury had now set at 3000 compensation and its own proposai for mediation in case of re­jection, would be sent from Turin at the same time. In fact, only the Eng­lish claim and offer were sent on 3 June. The Piedmontese note left Turin four days later much to Malmesbuty's irritation.
It was at this juncture that the Cagliari affair carne to a swift and un-expected conclusion. Malmesbury's claim for compensation and offer of mediation were couched in such hostdle terms (indeed, almost in the forni of an ultimatum) that the Neapolitan government felt it advisable to give way completely. On 8 June, nearly a year after the Cagliari had been seized, Carafa informed Lyons that 3000 had been put at the disposai of the EngHsh government as compensation to Watt and Park. The Cagliari and its crew had also been released.67)
> Cavour to E. d'Azeglio, 23 May 1858, Cavour e l'Inghilterra cit, II , p. 222. See also: Hudson to Malmesbury, 22 May 1858, GlARRiZZO, Relazioni cit, VI, p. 263; Hudson to Malmesbury, 22 May 1858, PRO, CP, FO 519/194. Cavour also pointed out to Hudson, that With regard to the objectìon that a small Power might dcclinc to mediate because it could not enforce its opinion though it might arbitrate, he confessed he did not see how it would be better enabled to enforce its arbitration in case that were rejected. HEABDER, op. at., p. 233.
65) Malmesbury to Cowlcy, 28 May 1858, HRO, MP, 9M73/53.
*9 Malmesbury informed the Neapolitan government that the English courier would only wait ten days for a reply. Lyons was instructed to lcave Naples at the same time as the courier, should no reply be fortheoming. Although Malmesbury offered Naples mediation he pointed out that Her Majesty's Government, in the strong conviction of their right, would be fuUy justified in taking the mattcr into their own hands, and in enforcing a compliance wirh their demands. Malmesbury to Carafa, (two lettera), 25 May 1858, Furthtr correspon-dence respecting the Cagliari, pp. 160-164; Malmesbury to Lyons, 25 May 1858, ivi, pp. 165-166.
67) Carafa pointedly put the ship and crew at the disposai of the English government, rather than the Piedmontese government