I afterwards found that these despatches influenced very much the important step taken by Pio Nono a few days afterwards.
Subsequently I several times conveyed communications between General Garibaldi and General Oudinot.

The former had most pluckily taken possession of an important position inside the walls of Rome, and it was a hard piece of work to dislodge him.
I used to gallop in between General Oudinot's camp and Garibaldi's headquarters, having on my arm a red scarf for a sign that I was not a belligerent.

My scarf was not much use, however, as I was generally fired at all the time that I was passing the space between the French camp and Garibaldi's headquarters in Rome.
I was amused by the audacity with which Garibaldi resisted the French army.

I fancy he wanted to delay matters so that the Pope should be induced to take the ill-advised step of leaving Rome, and in this the republican general succeeded.

What went on in Rome, the way in which the Pope escaped, &c., I am not able to relate.