ABSTRACT
The Milanese are aware, that their house, if open to such indiscriminate society as must make up a crowded assembly, would forward the views of that fearful espionage, which, not unknown under the Bonapartists, has now become the bugbear of Lombardy. There is scarcely one office under the present government filled by any Italian gentleman of rank or consideration; and the want of confidence in the ruler, is justified by the open and frankly avowed aversion of the ruled, to a government which has violated every promise, and broken every pledge. It is curious and painful to oppose to this disinterested loyalty, in whatever cause it embarks, the notorious veerings of that privileged class in France, for whom, and for their ignoble imitations, the term Girouettisme has been invented. The late republican government cut through it boldly; and the Emperor Napoleon treated the Italian prejudices on this score with ineffable and avowed contempt.
