The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-05-18

should the latter (which has been done)
concur in the contemplated forced election
of the Austrians from Italy, and, on the
political ground Just stated clung rather
to Austria
And yet the hook had been admirably
baited; the pill skilfully gilded. The
reigning passion of Englishmen to-day is
religious propagandism. For their indul-
gence in that pursuit, which am very
far from condemning, they tax themselves
in millions sterling annually, and to that
weakness, as he presumed to call it, Victor
Emmanuel adroitly appealed. Regarded
as Of the French Philosophic School (al-
belt his subjects are Catholics His Maj
esty, seeing the staid unbending policy of
the British Government, and the enthusi-
astic religious disposition Of the nation, let
drop, while in London, some expressions
touching her not unwillingness to see ar
rive, in Italy, Missionaries from the vari-
Gus so ceties for propagation of what are
termed Evangelical Principles, and thus,
as he believed, secured for himself and his
projects the appreciation of that powerful
class Of British society, which most in
terests itself for religious concerns. 1t
was a wise and astute conception-but
was not quite new OF original. Mazzini
and Kossuth had already availed them
selves of it to raise the wind and sympa-
'tby-but still something might be gained
by it, had not the British Government
perceived, as have Just said, his whole
drift. Nothing 10th to cooperate in the
spread of religious Or social reform in It.
ally, they were startled by the political and
revolutionary quality of King Victor
Emmanuel's propositions and declined
the former because of their connection
with the latter, and King Victor Emman-
uel left London in high dudgeon.
In Paris he is supposed to have been
eminently successful, for must tell you
candidly, that it is believed that before
he left for Turin, he had brought over the
French Government completely to his
views-that the two Monarchs concurred
in the desirability that Austria and Aus
trian influence be forever removed from
Italy-that the Italian Duchies and Prin-
cipalities be left to modify or totally
chage their own existing Governments,
that Piedmont and Central Italy be con-
sttuted into single State, if it so
peases the Italian people after the expul-
sion Of the Austrians and the utter ex-
tinction of Austrian power from thence, "
that the sovereignty of it be given to King
Victor Emmanuel subject to his election
thereto, and that, finally, the new Nation
al Kingdom be placed under the protec-
torate of France.
Such is the nature of the alleged COM
parative failure of the King of Sardinia
in England, and his agreement with the
French Government on Italian affairs
with, | am sorry to say it is now consid-
cred probable, an additional article which
each is also believed to have recognized
as indispensable, the accord of Russia.
This latter alliance in their imputed
projects, each is held to have labored to
secure, and it is equally asserted that each
and both attained to that object. The
ground for this supposition is this king
Victor Emmanuel, who could not be held
in much regard by the Emperor of Russia
propitiated His Imperial Majesty as you
know, recently by the gift of port in the
Mediterranean. Except themselves pos
sibly, no man living knows what occurred
between the Emperors of the French and
OF Russia in their interview (in 1850 at
Stuttgardt, and that between His Majesty
Napoleon Ill, and the Grand Duke,
brother of the Emperor of Russia, last
year in Paris, but it is surmised that
combined plan of operations, Treaty Of
fensive and defensive, qnoad Austria at
least, was agreed upon by the two Emper-
ors, into which the King of Sardinia was
to be admitted if occasion should arise.
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