For Prince Napoleon, when he was in Florence he might have remained there and delighted everybody.

I _know_ even that a person high in office felt the way towards a proposal of the kind, and that he answered in a manner considered too '_tranchant_,' 'No, no, _that_ would suit neither the Emperor nor England; et pour moi, je ne le voudrais pas.' He used every opportunity at that time of advising the fusion, about which people were much less unanimous than they are now.
But calumny never dies (_like me_!).

Mr.Russell, Lord John's nephew, the quasi-minister at Rome, very acute, and liberal too (by the English standard) being on his road to Rome from London last week proposed paying us a visit, and we had him here two days (in a valuable spare room!).

He told me that Napoleon had been too _fin_ for the English Government.

He had _induced them to acknowledge the Tuscan vote_--( observe that fact, dearest friends) induced them to acknowledge the Tuscan vote; and now here was his game.