Note 49 — CAPITOLO CXC. Pio IX. Le Riforme. Le Costituzioni.

Dubitavasi che le dimostrazioni fossero provocate dall’Austria per aver occasione d’intervenire. Palmerston ad Abercromby ambasciadore a Torino, il 23 marzo 1847 scriveva: I have to request that you will report how for your information lead you to give credit to certain reports which prevail that those manifestation have been in some places secretly encouraged by Austrian agents, in order that they may furnish a pretext for active interference in the internal affairs of some of the independent States of Italy. I successivi dispacci tornano spesso a questo senso. Vedasi la raccolta più interessante intorno agli avvenimenti di quegli anni, cioè: Correspondence respecting the affairs of Italy, presented to the House of lords by comand of her majesty, 1851.