"You will think us very unfortunate in having just reached Nice to see it captured; and you will, no doubt, be anxious to learn particulars. During our residence in Switzerland we heard rumours of an approaching war between France and his Sardinian Majesty; and as many of the Emigrants who resorted last winter to Nice were in fact Republicans sent to disseminate revolutionary principles among the People, we dreaded the event of such a war; especially as we had recently witnessed the misery of Savoy under the existing government, and too well knew the specious offers made by France to every Nation who complained either of real or imaginary grievances."