Lord Byron and Moore have....
[_The rest of the letter is lost_] * * * * * _To Miss I.Blagden_ Rome: April 2, [1860].
Ever dearest Isa,--Here are the letters! I am sorry I wrote rashly yesterday; but from an expression of yours I took for granted that the packet went by the post; and I have been really very anxious about it.
No, Isa; I don't like the tone of these letters so well.

I can understand that what is said of Belgium and the Rhine provinces is in the event of a certain coalition and eventual complication, but it doesn't do, even in a thought and theory, to sacrifice a country like Belgium.

I respect France, and 'l'idee Napoleonienne'; yes, but conscience and the populations more.
As to Napoleon's waiting for the bribe of Savoy before he would pass beyond Villafranca, this is making him ignoble; and I do not believe it in the least.

Also it contradicts the letter-writer's previous letter, in which he said that Savoy had been from the beginning the _sous entendre_ of Venetia.

No, I can see that an Italy in unity, a great newly constituted nation, might be reasonably asked by her liberator to shift her frontier from beyond the Alps, but for Victor Emmanuel to be expected at Milan to put his hand into his pocket and pay, without completion of facts, or consultation of peoples, this would be to 'faire le marchand' indeed, and I could write no odes to a man who could act so.