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Monthly Chronicle.
with which we should enter on this expedition . Be assured , thaVwhen the in-i telligence shall arrive of this unanimous movement , the Cabinet of London will feel themselves already conquered . ( Signed ) P . Barras , President—La Garde , Secretary General , "
INSURRECTION AT ROME . SETTER FROM CITIZEN JOSEPH BUONAPARTE , AMBASSADOR FROM THE FRENCH REPUBLIC TO THE COURT OF ROME , TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . ' Florence , IUb Nivose . ( Dec , ¦ $ ! ,. ) ' CITIZEN MINISTER , ' In my dispatch , No . 17 ( the numbers 16 and 17 are not arrived ) I gave you
information relative to the present situation of Rome . Events have since occurred which obliged me to quit that city . On the 6 th Nivose ( Dec . 26 . ) three persons came to me to say that a Revolution was to take place in the course of the night ; that the public indignation was extreme ; and that they apprized me of this , to the end that no new events should surprize me . I replied to them ,, that my situation at the Court of Rome would not allow me to listen tranquilly to such an overture , and that the measure appeared to roe to be as useless as illtimed . They repliedthat they wished to have my adviceand to know whether .
, , the French Government would protect their Revolution if it should be accomplished ? I told them , that as an impartial spectator of events , I should give anaccount to my Government of the transactions ; and I added , that at the moment of a general pacification , it would be unfortunate that any thing should happen to retard it . As a man , I exhorted them to be tranquil ; I did not . think that they had the means within themselves : and I was sure the French Government would '
not protect them . As a Minister of France I enjoined them not to repeat their visit with such intentions . They quitted me with an assurance that everything , should be suspended for the moment . The night accordingly passed in tranquillity . ' Next evening , Chevalier Azarra told me confidentially , that he had just been with the Secretary of State , and that it appeared probable some imprudent persons were about to attempt a rising , which would be as unsuccessful , on account of the smallness of their numbersand their foolish conductas that which was
, , undertaken some months before . ' I learned at the Marchioness Massimi ' s that four of the leaders of this affair were the spies of the Government , ivhich had taken measures to defeat the | plati of the insurgents , and that the insurgents were to meet at Villa Medicis . We separated .
. ' On the following morning at four , I was awakened , and told that there was a revolutionary movement at the Villa Medicis , where from So to 100 men were assembled , and surrounded by the Pope ' s troops . I went to sleep again . In the course of the morning I learned that a palro / e had been attacked by a band of sixty men . Two of the Pope's dragoons were killed . Some of the insurgents ivere apprehended , and the others known to the Government . Many individuals had hoisted the French national cockade ; a sack filled with ivhich had been left , as if by accident , at the spot where they were assembled . I tyent to the
Secretary of State , whom I found tranquil , and told him that far from opposing the arrests of those who had hoisted the cockade , I demanded of him , that this arrest should take place , with the exception of the French and Italians attached to my embassy . These amounted only to the number of eight , and I pointed them oiit to him , and proposed his immediately adopting measures against them . I informed him , that there were six individuals who had taken refuge in my jurisdiction ; that if they were in the number of revolters , I should willingly come to an accommodation with him , in order that the impunity of these . men might not give confidence
. It was then two in the afternoon , and the hour of dinner with the Cardinal ., He begged me to retire for the present , promising to meet me at six in the evening , at the Spanish Minister ' s , whither he was logo with the Tuscan Slinister . All 'his we agreed to . Z now returned home , convinced , bv the sere-
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Monthly Chronicle.
with which we should enter on this expedition . Be assured , thaVwhen the in-i telligence shall arrive of this unanimous movement , the Cabinet of London will feel themselves already conquered . ( Signed ) P . Barras , President—La Garde , Secretary General , "
INSURRECTION AT ROME . SETTER FROM CITIZEN JOSEPH BUONAPARTE , AMBASSADOR FROM THE FRENCH REPUBLIC TO THE COURT OF ROME , TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . ' Florence , IUb Nivose . ( Dec , ¦ $ ! ,. ) ' CITIZEN MINISTER , ' In my dispatch , No . 17 ( the numbers 16 and 17 are not arrived ) I gave you
information relative to the present situation of Rome . Events have since occurred which obliged me to quit that city . On the 6 th Nivose ( Dec . 26 . ) three persons came to me to say that a Revolution was to take place in the course of the night ; that the public indignation was extreme ; and that they apprized me of this , to the end that no new events should surprize me . I replied to them ,, that my situation at the Court of Rome would not allow me to listen tranquilly to such an overture , and that the measure appeared to roe to be as useless as illtimed . They repliedthat they wished to have my adviceand to know whether .
, , the French Government would protect their Revolution if it should be accomplished ? I told them , that as an impartial spectator of events , I should give anaccount to my Government of the transactions ; and I added , that at the moment of a general pacification , it would be unfortunate that any thing should happen to retard it . As a man , I exhorted them to be tranquil ; I did not . think that they had the means within themselves : and I was sure the French Government would '
not protect them . As a Minister of France I enjoined them not to repeat their visit with such intentions . They quitted me with an assurance that everything , should be suspended for the moment . The night accordingly passed in tranquillity . ' Next evening , Chevalier Azarra told me confidentially , that he had just been with the Secretary of State , and that it appeared probable some imprudent persons were about to attempt a rising , which would be as unsuccessful , on account of the smallness of their numbersand their foolish conductas that which was
, , undertaken some months before . ' I learned at the Marchioness Massimi ' s that four of the leaders of this affair were the spies of the Government , ivhich had taken measures to defeat the | plati of the insurgents , and that the insurgents were to meet at Villa Medicis . We separated .
. ' On the following morning at four , I was awakened , and told that there was a revolutionary movement at the Villa Medicis , where from So to 100 men were assembled , and surrounded by the Pope ' s troops . I went to sleep again . In the course of the morning I learned that a palro / e had been attacked by a band of sixty men . Two of the Pope's dragoons were killed . Some of the insurgents ivere apprehended , and the others known to the Government . Many individuals had hoisted the French national cockade ; a sack filled with ivhich had been left , as if by accident , at the spot where they were assembled . I tyent to the
Secretary of State , whom I found tranquil , and told him that far from opposing the arrests of those who had hoisted the cockade , I demanded of him , that this arrest should take place , with the exception of the French and Italians attached to my embassy . These amounted only to the number of eight , and I pointed them oiit to him , and proposed his immediately adopting measures against them . I informed him , that there were six individuals who had taken refuge in my jurisdiction ; that if they were in the number of revolters , I should willingly come to an accommodation with him , in order that the impunity of these . men might not give confidence
. It was then two in the afternoon , and the hour of dinner with the Cardinal ., He begged me to retire for the present , promising to meet me at six in the evening , at the Spanish Minister ' s , whither he was logo with the Tuscan Slinister . All 'his we agreed to . Z now returned home , convinced , bv the sere-