The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-23 00:00:00

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC AND THE CAUSE

OF SARDINIA.

LAIdARTINET REPLY TO OEN. LA. MARMORA.

The Presse of last evening publishes the following
reply of K. do Lamartine to the late speech of General La
Marmots, Sardinian Minister of War, In the Chamber of
Deputies at Turin

" Sir,—Wirowe respect to existing powers ; we ham
nothing but bed pleasantries for fake ones snch is the
maxim of certain statesmen on both sides of the Alps. I
have not the honour to know Goma La Mezarms. I
believed him to be a swims man. He shanties to as to-
day in his comio-heroic speech to the Turin °busker mime
absurdities and puertlities which ass would blush to esonle
to so Idiot of the Alps. According to tide stemmas, when
to Alesseadria in 1846, I mistook soros Piedmontsse sappers
in their shirt sleeves for Austrians ; the chamber laughed,
me the report of the sitting; it would ham
laughed a good deal more if it had known
that I have never set foot either in Alsenendrie
or in Piedmont since 1822, when cue of my inthnate
Mends, General Marquis de Fanerges, commendnd the
pr Leon end mused me to admire the gam Platmeatme
troops ander his command.

Aoootding to the same General LA Mamas, I replied
in 1848 to as envoy of Kis( Charlie Albert, who .ought of
me Priori intsrventlas in Italy :—*Net, I will Rem
solar the Mediterranean to beams an Italia like.'
Inatome* el laughing at this, the Chamber of
Depths' at Turin ought to have bees lased with
great ambition at such extreordnery foresight; for
with what prophetic genius meat he be endowed who could
dread the monopoly of the seas by three AMU triples and the
five or mix lap al the Sardinian navy in th. promisee a the
ionamenthle Preach end English vessels which covered the
ems with the shadow of their sails. This elnioet equals the
=Mime faith& of that British newemonger who feared the
monopoly of the ocean by the galiot of St. Cloud 1 There
mast be a peat hued of credulity In a Minister of War of
Turin who toad seriously attribute such kilns to a minister
of the republic ►t Perim. The fact I. that I never bad
any relations, official or non-oftloith with King Charles
Albert in 1848 bat through the rothectable sad loyal Mar-
quis da Brignole, minister d that unhappy prince to the
Preach republic; and if I had tallith such stuff to that MC
of good seine and hoe, he weld have thought he was
Lasting in the °ingress of Charestoo.

" To speak seriously, all the foreign policy, irreproachable
policy, cif the republic while I directed it, waa procielmoi in
what is cialhd my ' nmaifasto to Europe.' All the special
policy of the French republic with regard to Piedmont,
policy which woe scrupulously honest, oonsiated in these two
facts .-1. Not to adrift King Charles Albert to an offensive,
inopportune, sod rash war with Austria; bemuse a great
power like France is morally and jointly responsible for
the acts to which it has instigated on allied power inferior in
*length. 2. If Piedmont, badly advimd, entered upon
war, and if, after an impolitic aggression, it incurred dangers
to its existence se en independent nation—to descend the App
W Is rid* end to take between Austria and it the position
of an armed mediator. Why otherwise did I useable the day
slier the revolution of February the army of the Alps, if
It was not fur this policy ? Such is the whole mystery.
- - - -

"As to the policy of General Cavalgnac after me I have
not to reply thereupon. While impeding the motives
whith doubtless animated It, and of which I
ate ignorant, I mid myself at the time that there
was between my policy and that of General Cztvaignao
Q. width of the Alps ; that I. to ray, that he kern the
army of the Alps on thin side of those mountains, and that
I would have pima it on the other; but to judge of
the Malty of the tribune-recollections of Gomel La Mar-
iners respecting General Cavaignoa by them which concern
I little doubt that those mallectioos, upon which I pre-
judge nothing, will ass day be oomeeted oe memento! 'pea
by those oho are the natural guardians of that parer@
He geed, bat in history the Mite of @soh mot
speak best—Receive, Sc.,
" Lassawristn,
" Fame !Oilier of rorol6ll Alain
of ttl'a lie is.
"Par* April 21, 111511."

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