Selections From the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton volume 1
Selections From the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton volume 1
Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
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There can be no doubt that it was intended to balance the Martyrs' Memorial, I have only just discovered that Montalembert, after the coiip d'etat, not only condoned it, which was public, but privately asked the bloodstained Dictator for certain con- cessions to the clergy, in return for their support. So that he was ready to sell the liberties of the nation for a price to be paid to the Church, \^'alewski2 told Houghton that he had asked for the ministry of Foreign affairs ; and although I hav...e no proof of that, I really come very near it. Napoleon refused his demands, and so he had to make the most he could of the Orleans confiscation, to justify his breach. ' i\rtom, Cavour's Jewish secretary and confidant, has written to assure me that the scheme of the Libera Chiesa was not merely an expedient and machine of war, but a 1 A. W. Hutton. * Walews/d, Alexandre Florian Joseph Colonna, Comte (i 810-68), a Pole by birth, who became a Pre. -^h politician. He was ambassador at London. It was he who obtained irom Palmerston the swift recognition of Louis Napoleon, which was the cause of Palmerston's famous dismissal.
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