Indeed! Were the Piedmontese in the Crimea, then, wanting in the military spirit?
M.de Rayneval and the Cardinals are willing to admit the courage of the Piedmontese, but then, they say, Piedmont is not in Italy; its inhabitants are half Swiss, half French.

Their language is not Italian, neither are their habits, the proof of which is found in the fact, that they have the true military and monarchical spirit, unknown to the rest of Italy.

According to this, it would be far easier to prove that the Alsacians and the Bretons are not French; the first, because they are the best soldiers in the empire, and because they say _Meinherr_ when we should say _Monsieur_; the second, because they have the true monarchical spirit, and because they call _butun_ what we call _tabac_.

But all the soldiers of Italy are not in Piedmont.
The King of Naples has a good army.

The Grand Duke of Tuscany has a sufficient one for his defence; the small Duchies of Modena and Parma have a smart regiment or two.