SIGNORI! Appena cessata la dominazione straniera che teneva separate le provincie venete dall'Italia, il Governo del Re chiamava i popoli della Venezia ad esprimere in solenni Comizi la loro volontà di unirsi al regno d'Italia sotto il Governo costituzionale di Re Vittorio Emanuele II e de' suoi successori. Poichè quelle nobili provincie avevano già sino dal 1848 manifestata questa stessa volontà, facendo prova di valore, di cui rimarrà imperitura la memoria, ed avevano con diciassette anni di resistenza e di patimenti consacrato quel generoso proposito, il decreto 7 ottobre che intimava il solenne plebiscito ebbe. principalmente per iscopo di rendere omaggio al principio onde s'informa il nostro diritto costituzionale. Voi, o signori, sapete in che modo rispondessero i popoli della Venezia all'appello che in nome d'Italia fece loro il Governo del Re. Nei giorni 21 et 22 ottobre, 647,246 si raccolti nelle urne elettorali delle provincie venete chiusero per sempre la storia del dominio straniero in Italia. Conosciuto il risultato del suffragio nazionale, il Governo di S. M. con decreto del 4 novembre 1866, proclamava che le provincie della Venezia e di Mantova facevan parte integrante del regno d'Italia, e vi promulgava l'articolo 82 dello Statuto perchè vi GENTLEMEN: Scarcely had the foreign domination ceased which held apart the Venetian provinces of Italy, when the King's Government called the people of Venice to express in solemn popular assemblies their will to unite themselves to the Kingdom of Italy under the constitutional government of King Victor Emanuel II and of his successors. Because these noble provinces have manifested this same desire since 1848, giving proof of valour, which will remain an imperishable memory; and having by seventeen years of resistance and of suffering consecrated this generous proposition, the decree of October 7 which announced the solemn plebiscite, had for its principal purpose that of rendering homage to the principle on which our constitutional law is based. You, gentlemen, know in what manner the people of Venice responded to the appeal which the Government of the King made to them in the name of Italy. On the days of the 21st and 22nd of October, 647,246 affirmative votes were recorded in the electoral urns of the provinces of Venetia, and closed for ever the history of foreign domination in Italy. The result of national suffrage once known, His Majesty's government, by a decree of the 4th of November, 1866, proclaimed that the provinces of Venetia and of Mantua formed an integral part of the Italian Kingdom, and promulgated Article 82 of the Esercito, delle liete accoglienze che ci faceste. L'ordine mirabilmente finora serbato, continuate a guardarlo; chè senz'ordine non v'è libertà. Romani! la mattina del 20 settembre 1870, segna una data delle più memoriabili della Storia, Roma anche una volta è tornata, e per sempre, ad essere la grande Capitale d'una grande Nazione! VIVA IL RE, VIVA L'ITALIA. Roma, il 21 settembre 1870. Il comandante generale il IV corpo d'esercito. Army, for the joyous welcome you have given to us. So far order has been wonderfully maintained; continue to guard it. Without order there is no liberty. Romans! The morning of September the 20th, 1870, will be a date among the most memorable in history. Rome has once more, and forever, become the great capital of a great nation! LONG LIVE THE KING! LONG LIVE Rome, September 21st, 1870. R. CADORNA. R. CADORNA. Election of a Provisional Administrative Giunta by a Popular Assembly. September 22, 1870 1 ROMANI! Notice Il Comizio popolare, convocato oggi alle ore 3 pomeridiane nell'Anfiteatro Flavio, al quale intervennero oltre 10,000 persone, eleggeva, quasi all'unanimità, a componenti la Giunta Provvisoria Amministrativa i seguenti cittadini; — ROMANS! The popular Assembly convoked at 3 P. M. today in the Flavian Amphitheatre, at which more than 10,000 persons were present, elected almost unanimously the following citizens as members of the Provisional Administrative Giunta : Mattia Montecchi - Alessandro Castellani - Giovanni Costa - Vincenzo Rossi Felice Ferri - Pietro De Angelis - Augusto Silvestrelli — Duca D. Michele Caetani - Alessandro Avv. Cavallini - Filippo Avv. Bruni - Comte Luigi Amadei-Ingegnere Francesco Armellini - Avv. Luigi Boccafogli Generale Pietro Rosselli - Ernesto Ranucci Nino D'Andreis - Baldassare — de' Principi Odescalchi - Francesco del Gallo Felice Scifoni - Prof. Guido Baccelii Prof. Pietro Rosa - Emanuele de'Principi Ruspoli - Ignazio de' - 1 British Parliamentary Papers, Affairs of Rome [c. 247], p. 52. Principi di Piombino Gaetano Narducci - Achille Gori Mazzoleni — Pietro Camporesi Gaetano de Nicolo Dott. Carlo Maggiorani - Eugenio Agneni - Conte Michele Amadei - Vincenzo Tittoni - Avv. Francesco Tancredi Filippo Costa - Luigi Simonetti - Avv. Raffaele Marchetti - Alessandro del Grande Princ. Francesco Pallavicini - Augusto Castellani Duca Sforza Cesarini - Avv. Biagio Placidi - Avv. Augusto Baccelli Augusto Tittoni - Bosio dei Duchi Sforza Cesarini - Eugeni de'Principi Ruspoli. Per la Presidenza, (Firmato) MATTIA MONTECCHI. Cadorna Appoints a Provisional Giunta. September 22, 1870 1 Il comandante generale del IV Corpo d'armata in forza dell'alta autorità conferitagli dal Governo del Re, anche all'effetto di promuovere la promuovere la formazione della Giunta per la città di Roma, 1 The General Commanding the 4th Army Corps, by virtue of the authority conferred upon him by the King's Government and in order to form a Giunta for the City of Rome. DECREES that the said Giunta shall be permanently composed of the following citizens, who will enter immediately into the exercise of their various functions: Michele Caetani, Duke of Sermoneta, President; Prince Francesco Pallavicini; Duke Francesco Sforza Cesarini; Emanuel, of the Princes of Ruspoli; Prince Baldassare Odescalchi; Ignazio Boncompagni, of the Princes of Piombino; Carlo Maggiorani, Professor; Biagio Placidi, Adv.; Raffaele Marchetti, Adv.; Vincenzo Trancredi, Adv.; Vincenzo Tittoni: Vincenzo Rossi; Pietro de Angelis ; Dispatches of Mr. Jervoise to Earl Granville, British Foreign Minister, September 27 and 28, 18701 MY LORD, Rome, September 28, 1870. A monster meeting was held at the Coliseum on Thursday afternoon, called by Signor Mattia Montecchi, a member of the Republican Government of 1849, at which a Giunta was proposed of forty-two persons, whose names are given in the accompanying list. The Republicans were becoming extremely dangerous, when General Cadorna, who does not appear to have been furnished with instructions before he entered Rome for the Civil administration, issued a Proclamation appointing another Giunta to act as a Provisional Government until the plebiscite to be taken next month shall have been declared. This second Giunta, composed of eighteen persons, includes the names of the most influential Roman citizens, whose acceptance of the position is a guarantee that the Republican element has for the present been suppressed. Its partisans, I am told, immediately that the Giunta was settled and before its official declaration was announced from the Capitol on the 24th, were informed that if they did not leave Rome quietly they would be put out at the point of the bayonet. The Giunta was finally composed of fourteen persons, (Extract) Rome, September 27, 1870. The King's letter to the Pope, and General Cadorna's Proclamation, had given it to be understood that the Public Administrations were for the present to continue to exercise their functions as before, and the Roman Giunta refused to accept the nominees from Florence; two members of the Provisional Government left Rome yesterday for Florence, in order to represent the case to the Cabinets. 1 British Parliamentary Papers, Affairs of Rome [c. 247], p. 52. |