Rassegna storica del Risorgimento

England, Piedmont, and the Cagliari affair 169
he thought he had never seen people so cocky and puffed up or who more wanted to be taken down a peg.72) The behaviour of Cavour and Azeglio during the Cagliari affair merely confirmed Malmesbury in this opinion. Malmesbury was to be one of Cavour's severest critics over the following months (I look upon him [Cavour] as the father of ali the ills present and to come, he was to write). Malmesbury's relations with Azeg­lio, too, never recovered from the Cagliari experience. Towards the end of 1858, Malmesbury tried to have Azeglio removed from his post. Even at the very end of his speli at the Foreign Office, Malmesbury could stili be found complaining of Azeglio, When will that young man learn the decen-cies of life and the duties of his position?.73)
The Cagliari affair, and the coming to power of the Tories in England, did not begin the deterioration in Anglo-Piedmontese relations which reached a nadir in the first six months of 1859. Relations between England and Piedmont had steadily cooled after the Congress of Paris in 1856, dur­ing a period of Whig government. However, the Cagliari affair ensured that, even with a new administration in England, relations between the two countries would continue to worsen.
NICK CARTER
*9 D. MACK SMTIH, Victor Emanuel, Cavour, and the Risorgimento, London, 1971, n. 1, p. 91.
73) Malmesbury to Hudson, 20 May 1859, URO, MP, 9M73/55; Malmesbury to Hud­son, 12 June 1859, HRO, MP, 9M73/56.