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overthrow, when Garibaldi for a time became supreme at Rome.

2nd. That he, with many other liberals, became convinced that the
government which Garibaldi would inaugurate, would be little better
than a mob, and would be neither stable nor safe.

(Garibaldi was a bold and skilful party leader, but no statesman. I
witnessed his presence in the Italian Legislature, then held in
Florence; he could declaim against government, and find fault, with
individual acts; but he seemed to have no system of government in
his own mind, and commanded little respect or attention after his
first speech.)

3rd. Dr. Pantelioni stated, that under these circumstances, he,
with several liberal friends, agreed to go confidentially to the
Pope, who was then an exile at Gaeta, and offer their offices and
influence to restore him to power at Rome, provided he would
establish a constitutional government, and govern as a
constitutional ruler. The pope agreed to their propositions, but
when they reduced them to writing for his signature, and those of
the gentlemen waiting upon him, he declined to sign his name; in
consequence of which Dr. Pantelioni and his friends felt they had
no sufficient ground upon their own individual word, without a
scrap of writing from the pen of the pope, to influence their
friends, and risk their lives; they, therefore, retired from the
presence of his holiness, disappointed but not dishonored.

4th On my recovery Dr. Pantelioni invited me to visit him at his
residence. I did so and found him possessed of the best private
library I had seen in Italy, or even on the continent. It filled
three, large rooms; one of which contained books (well arranged) of
general history and literature, comprising the latest standard
works in English (published both in England and America), French,
German, Italian and Spanish. The second room was equally filled
with shelves and books, beautifully arranged, on medical and
scientific subjects of the latest date, and highest authority, in
English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish, &c. The third room
contained a fine and extensive collection of the latest standard
works which had been published in England and the United States,
France, Spain, Germany, and Italy, on Civil Government. I was not
before awa