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SATURDAY.
The report of differences between the French Government and the Gaeta Conference was authentic: a letter which may well have annoyed
the Cardinals and the Pope had been written and is now officially published. President Bonaparte seems to have taken shame at the tion into which France has fallen, and his letter to M. Edgar Ney makes sort of politic amend& " Elysia National, 184 August 1849. "My dear Ney—The French Republic has not sent an army to Rome to strangle Italian liberty, but on the contrary, to regulate it, and preserve it from excesses, and on a solid basis to restore to the Pontifical throne the Prince who at the first pieced himself boldly at the head of all useful reforms.
"I learn with pain, that the benevolent intentions of the Holy Father, and our own deeds, remain unfruitful in consequence of the influence of passion and hostile feelings. It is wished to have as the basis of the Pope's return proscrip- tion and tyranny. Say, on my part, to General Rostolan, that it cannot be per- mitted, under the shadow of the tricolor flag, to commit an act derogatory to the character of our abnegation. "I sum up thus the reestablishment of the temporal power of the Pope,—a general amnesty, the secularization of the administration, the Code Napoleon, and a liberal government.
"1 have been personally hurt, on reading the proclamation of the three Cardi- nals, to see that it has not even made mention of the name of France, or of the sufferings of our brave soldiers- Every insult offered to our flag or to our uniform goes right to my heart; and I beg you to make known to them, that if France does not sell her services, she requires at least that she may have gratitude for her sacrifices and self-denial.
"At the time when our armies made the tour of Europe, they left everywhere, as the traces of their passage, the germs of liberty, and the destruction of the abuses of the feudal system. It shall not be said that, in 1849 a French army has acted in another manner and brought about another result. "Desire the General to thank the army in nay name for its noble conduct. I have learned with pain that even physically it has not been treated as it deserved to be. Nothing should be neglected to make our troops comfortable.
"Receive, my dear Ney, the assurance of my sincere friendship.
"Louis NA.POLEON BONAPARTE."
The Municipal Council of Havre have agreed to a censure of M. Bertin, their Deputy-Mayor, for the Republican speech he addressed to the Presi- dent on the first of his provincial progresses. M. Bertin and one of his colleagues thereupon resigned, and other " adjoints" were elected in their place.
The towns of Venice and Chioggia were, on the 20th of August, declared in a state of siege. Every armed body was dissolved, and all arms and ammunition required in forty-eight hours; political assemblies were pro- hibited, and the inhabitants confined to their houses after ten p. m.; the press was laid under censure; and military commissions were appointed for trial of offenders, with power to punish by shooting in twenty-four hours.
The Regent of the German Empire returned to Frankfort on Monday, and was received by the citizens with great demonstrations of joy.
A Council of the different Protestant Churches based on Lutheranism is about to be held at Wittenberg.
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