KING VICTOR’S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY

resolved to be free, and if Victor Emmanuel would not be their head, they would find one more dangerous to the peace of Europe ; therefore it behoved hlm and his government to take the guidance of the révolution into their own hands, so that they might conduct it the more speedily to a peaceful termination, and establish an order of things that would prevent a récurrence of these troubles,

Order of the Day.

Soldiers ! — You enter the Marches and Umbria to restore civil order in the desolated cities, and to give liberty to the people to express their own wishes. You will not hâve to combat powerful armies, but to liberate unhappy Italian provinces from companies of foreign adventurers. You do not go to avenge the insults offered to me and to Italy, but to prevent popular hatreds from breaking out into vengeance on bad rulers. You will teach them the pardon of oflfences, and show an example of Christian tolérance to those who stupidly compared to Islamism the love of the Italian country.

In peace with ail the great powers, and far from giving any provocation, I wish to remove from Central Italy a continuai cause of turbulence and discord. I will respect the seat of the Head of the Church, to whom I am always ready to give, in accord with the allied and friendly powers, ail those guarantees of independence and security, which his blind councillors hâve in vain promised him from the fanaticism of a VOL. II. E

malignant faction, conspiring against my authority and the liberties of the nation.

Soldiers ! — They accuse me of ambition. Yes, I hâve one ambition ; it is to restore the principles of moral order in Italy, to preserve Europe from the continuai périls of révolution and war.

Victor Emmanuel.

Cavour.

September ii, 1860. FaRINI.

General Cialdini met the papal troops at Castelfidardo, where he won a complété victory. Ancona soon fell into his hands, and some thousands of prisoners surrendered themselves, with the general. The foreign mercenaries being utterly overcome, the citizens received the conquering army with joy and gratitude.

AU this time the Pope never lost heart ; he was full of faith in the ultimate triumph of his arms, and said to General Lamoricière before he went to battle that he was absolutely certain that God would ‘ convert his enemies or destroy them.’ The necessity of destroying them was painful to the kind-hearted Pope, who would hâve much preferred their conversion. But since they were not moved by ail the censures and anathemas of the Church, it was plain they were incorrigible. The robber king’s proclamation to the army, in which he spoke of the Papalini as ‘ a malignant faction, conspiring against his authority and the liberties of the nation,’ showed that his majesty’s soûl was in a very bad state ; he had never before expressed himself so strongly,