Monthly Chronicle.

and true criticism upon the conduct of the Roman Governors , against the Officers of a nation to whom they owe the remainder of their political existence . ' M . Le Chevalier Angara , Minister of Spain , did not delay lo make his appearance . This man , justly honoured by his Court , also despised all dangers . He had been a long time with me . It was then eleven o ' clock at night , and they could not avoid expressing their surprise at seeing no public officer arrive . I wrote to the Cardinal a second letter , and received , a few minutes after , his answer . At last an officer , with 40 men , whose intentions I am sure were good ,

came , by order of the Secretary of State , in order to protect my communications with him . But neither he , nor any other person capable of concerting any decisive measures with me , for the purpose of delivering me from the Revolters , who still occupied one part of my jurisdiction , and from the troops who occupied the other , came to me on the part of the Government , notwithstanding the repeated demands I had made . 1 then determined to depart : the sentiments of indignation had given place to reason . I then wrote to the Secretary of State , demanding a passport He sent it to me two hours after midnight . I then made

all the necessary regulations in the dead of the night , with the sangfroid of a determined resolution . ' I wrote to the Secretary of State another letter , which he seemed to desire jn answer to that which accompanied the one addressed to the Marquis Massimi , Minister of the Pope at Paris . ' A * six o'clock in the morning of the 9 th , fourteen hours after the assassination of General Duphot , and the investing of my Palace , and of the massacre of the people who surrounded it , no Roman came to me from Government to know the situation of affairs . 1 set out , after having taken measures for the' safety of

the trench that remain in Rome . The Chevalier Angiohm was requested to deliver them passports for Tuscany , where they found me ; and , after my departure , Citizen Cacauit , with whom I am at present , with the Frenchmen who have not quitted me since the danger commenced . ' After the simple relation of . facts which I have made , I should do injury to Republicans , to insist upon that vengeance which the French Government should take upon this impious Government , which , having assassinated Basseville , would willingly have served the first ambassador whom the French Government deigned

to send to them in thc same manner ; and commit that crime upon a General who was distinguished as a prodigy of valour , in an army wherein every man was a hero . ' Citizen Minister , I will not delay my journey to Paris ; as soon as I shall have regulated the remainder of mv affairs , twill give you more details upon the Roman Government , and I will state the punishment which I think ought to be inflicted upon them . ' This Government adheres to its character ; is absolute , and rash in the

coinmission of crimes , and cowardly and submissive when they are committed . It is now at the knees of the Chevalier Azarra , begging him to go to Florence after me to bring me back to Rome . ' That generous friend of the French wrote me word of it . I add , that this Minister , and that of Tuscany , have assured me they will solicit to he recalled from a country in which there is no real Government ; where the passion of the individual is the reason of the State—where the private hatred of the egotist influences the public man . The Roman considers his existence as the great object , and sacrifices the interest of the State to that sentiment . He will sacrifice to it those of his Church , and of the whole world . BUONAPARTE .

I . DESPERATE ACTION . LEGHORN , Dec . 12 . The latter end of last month a Maltese fleet , consisting of two frigares , one - , sebeque , aiid one bark , was cruising between the islands of Sardinia and Sicily ; . .. they fell in with three Algerine rovers of equal force . The former was com-. manded by a noble Knight of Malta , . and the latter by a fellow called Aza , both " men of undaunted courage and great resolution , well known in these seas for their enmity to each other ' s cause . Aza , the chief of the pirates , ran his ship slung side of that which the noble Knight himself ctimmattded , and poured , in s