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96.: FRENCH NEWS [21] EXAMINER, 27 MAR., 1831, PP. 202-3 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXII - Newspaper Writings December 1822 - July 1831 Part I [1822]

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The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXII - Newspaper Writings December 1822 - July 1831 Part I, ed. Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson, Introduction by Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986).

Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

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96.

FRENCH NEWS [21]

EXAMINER, 27 MAR., 1831, PP. 202-3

This item is headed “London, March 27.” For the entry in Mill’s bibliography, see No. 55. Exceptionally, Mill here comments also on Italian news, as he indicates in the listing in the Somerville College set, “Article on France and Italy”; Mill gives the page number as 201, rather than 202-3, but the paragraphs here included are enclosed in Mill’s square brackets.

it appears that the change of ministry in France has made no alteration in the intention of dissolving the Chamber.

The most recent news from Italy1 seems to imply that the Austrian Government has no purpose of interfering with the new order of things any where in Italy, except the duchies of Parma and Modena—grounding their pretended right of interference upon the circumstance, that these duchies are held, the one by an Austrian princess, the other by an Austrian prince,2 and revert, on failure of direct heirs, to the reigning line. If this be the limit of the interference—though the violation of justice, and the rights of every independent people to change their government, is the same on the smaller scale as on the larger one, the emancipation of Italy will be no way retarded by this act of usurpation. All that is important is, that there should be a state in Italy, governing itself, and sheltering the exiled patriots of the other states. Round that nucleus the whole of Italy will in time cluster itself. That three or four towns more or less should be included this year or the next, in the independent Italian state, is of little account, when every one sees that all Italy will join it on the first opportunity, and that, in the mean time, Italian patriotism and Italian intellect will find in Italy itself a place, not only of refuge, but of healthy nourishment and growth.

[1 ]In February, there had been popular insurrections in Bologna, Modena, and Parma; when they spread to the Papal States, Pope Gregory XVI called for help, and on 21 Mar. Austrian troops entered Modena, suppressing the uprising.

[2 ]Maria Louisa (1791-1847), Duchess of Parma, and Francis IV (1779-1846), Duke of Modena.