"The President, GALLETTI.
"Secretaries, FABRETTI, PANNACCHI, COCCHI."
"ANSWER OF THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE NATIONAL GUARD.
"General,—The treaty, of which we await the ratification, assures this tranquil city from every disaster.
"The National Guard, destined to maintain order, has the duty of seconding the resolutions of the government; willingly and zealously it fulfils this duty, not caring for annoyance and fatigue.
"The National Guard showed very lately, when it escorted the prisoners sent back to you, its sympathy for France, but it shows also on every occasion a supreme regard for its own dignity, for the honor of Rome.
"Any misfortune to the capital of the Catholic world, to the monumental city, must be attributed not to the pacific citizens constrained to defend themselves, but solely to its aggressors.
"Accept, &c.
"STURBINETTI,
General of the National Guard, Representative of the People".
ANSWER OF THE GENERALISSIMO.