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now offer you, — a book which recommends to ail the Italians whom fortune permits to elect a worthy prince, that they should use every effort to unité themselves under your constitutional and heroic sceptre.

While Victor Emmanuel was on this tour, takîng possession of the newly annexed provinces amidst the indescribable joy of the ‘Eleven Million Italians,’ far other scenes were going on in Sicily, the inhabitants of that unhappy island, unable longer to support the Bourbon rule, having risen in a formidable rébellion which the royal troops found it impossible to crush.