There is Metternich the younger (ambassador in Paris), a personal friend of Odo Russell's, in whose bosom Louis Napoleon seems to pour the confidences of his heart about that '_coquin de Cavour_ who led him into the Italian war,' &c., &c., but it simply proves to you and me how an Austrian can lie, which we could guess before.
My _facts_ are these: First, Ferdinando IV.[69] has an ambassador in Rome, who has been received officially by the Pope (!!) ('The coolest thing that ever was'), and is paid out of the private purse of the Royal Highness.

There is another ambassador at Naples, and another at Vienna--on the same terms; so let no one talk of 'Decheance.' Then let me tell you what Mr.Russell said to me.

'Napoleon,' said he, 'has been too _fin_ for the English Government.

He made us acknowledge the Tuscan vote.

Now he has strictly forbidden Piedmont to accept, and Piedmont must therefore refuse.