At this point in time, Garibaldi was not yet as famous as he would be in the decades to come, but Mazzini's name had already been registered on the intelligence lists of various European countries.
In the intelligence archives of the British Foreign Office, Mazzini was portrayed as akin to the Irish nationalist leader and Catholic Emancipation movement leader Daniel O'Connell. Arthur's old friend, Deputy Undersecretary of the Foreign Office, Mr. Schneider, when explaining the major events on the European Continent to him, even referred to Mazzini as a "little O'Connell of Italy."
