No other name._ The General, who can do what he pleases, pleases to receive our paper (our kind Abbe mediating) on condition that we do not talk of it, and so at last I shall attain to getting out of this dark into the free upper air.

It is insufferable to be instructed by the 'Giornale di Roma' as to how Cialdini writes to Turin that his Piedmontese are perfectly demoralised, and that the besieged dance for triumph each time an Italian cannon is fired into the vague.

On the other hand, I hear regularly every morning from the Romans that Gaeta is taken,[96] with the most minute particulars, which altogether is exasperating.

The last rumour is of typhus fever in the fortress, but I have grown sceptical, and believe nothing on either side now.

One thing is clear, that it wasn't only the French fleet which prevented our triumph....
Robert came home this morning between three and four.