At present Cavour was content to help Garibaldi.
Having won over Medici to abandon the Papal States
and to go direct to Sicily in Bertani's despite, the Govern-
ment was bound to fit him out and send him with all
possible speed. Medici's expedition, and the expedition
of Cosenz a few weeks later, were armed, clothed, and
shipped at the expense of the Cavourian National Society
and the Million Rifles Fund. ¹ Since these organisations
had no offices in Genoa, the port of departure, it was
necessary for Medici and Cosenz to set up there a Mili-
tary Office of their own, as they did not wish to be de-
pendent on Bertani's Committee. ² Dr. Bertani did,
however, fit out the ambulance for their expeditions, and
both of them, when they respectively sailed, parted from
him on speaking terms. ³

The Bertani Committee also supplied the Military
Office of Medici and Cosenz with a good many of its
best recruits, in addition to the men whom the Cavourians
raised for themselves in Milan and elsewhere. ⁴ But the
steamers, the arms, and the money for the expeditions of
June and July came almost entirely from the Cavourian
agencies. It was only in August that Bertani and his
friends sent out the great expeditions which they them-
selves had paid for and equipped. In June and July
hundreds of thousands of lire were secretly supplied by
the King's Government to purchase the steamers and
equip the men for Medici and Cosenz. ⁵ Over 6000
firearms were obtained for them by Cavour from the
armoury of the Million Rifles Fund at Milan, which had
been closed to Garibaldi himself a month before by the
inconvenient scruples of Massimo D'Azeglio, the Gover-
nor of the city. ⁶ Cavour now eased D'Azeglio's con-
science by purchasing the weapons with the alleged

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