The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-10 00:00:00

Sorfign anb Colonial inttUtgence.

FRANCE.
MANIFESTO OF THE EMPEROR OF THE

FRENCH.

_PARIS, May 3.

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me following communication has been made by the
French Government to the Corps Leuislatif this day :
Austria, in causing her army to enter the terri-
tories of the King of Par linia, our ally, declares war
against us. She thus violates treaties and justice, and
menaces our frontiers. All the great Powers have
protested against this aggression. Piedmont having
accepted the conditions which ought to have insured
peace, one asks what can be the reason of this sudden
invasion? It is that Austria has brought matters to
this extremity, that she must either rule up to the Alps,
or Italy must be free to the shores of the Adriatic;
for in this country every corner of territory which
remains independent endangers her power.
Hitherto moderation has been the rule of my conduct;
now enerry becomes my first duty. Let France arm,
and resolutely tell Europe: "'desire not conquest, but
I desire firmly to maintain my national and traditional
policy. I observe the treaties un condition that no one
shall violate them against rue. I respect the territories
and the rights of neutral Powers, but I boldly avow
my sympathies for • people whose history is mingled
with our own, and who groan under foreign oppres-
sion." . _

France has shown her hatred of anarchy. She has
been pleased to give me a strong power enough to reduce
into nonentity the abettors of disorder and the incor-
rigible members of those old factions whom we inces-
santly see confederating with our enemies ; but she has
not for all that abdicated her task of civilization. Her
natural allies have always been those who desire the
improvement of the human race, and when she draws
the sword it is not to dominate but to liberate. The
object of this war, then, is to restore Italy to herself,
not to impose upon her a change of insiders, and we
shall then have upon our frontiers a friendly people,
who will owe to us their independence. We do not go
into Italy to foment disorder or to disturb the power of
the Holy Father, whom we have replaced upon his
throne, but to remove from him this foreign pressure,
which weighs upon the whole Peninsula,. and to belp to
establish there order based upon legitimate satisfied
interests. We are going, then, to seek upon this classic
ground, illustrated by so many victories, the foototeps
of our fathers. God grant that we may be worthy of
them! I am going soon to place myself at the head
of the army. I lee. in France the Einpresa and my
son. Seconded by the experience and the enlighten-
ment of the last surviving brother of the Emperor, she
will understand how to show herself equal to the
grandeur of her mission. I confide them to the valour
of the arniy which remains in France to watch our
frontiers and to protect our homes; I confide them to
the patriotism of the National Guard; I confide them
in a word, to the entire people, who will encircle them
with that affection and devotion of which I daily receive
so many proofs. Courage, then, and union! Our
country is again about to show the world that she has
not degenerated. Providence will bless our efforts, for
that cause is holy in the eyes of God which rests on
justice, humanity, love of country, and independence.

THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT AND THE
PASSAGE OP TROOPS THROUGH SAVOY.
The Independence Beige of Thursday evening says:—
The gravest news of the day is that the English Govern-
ment has protested at Paris against the passage of
French troops through the neutralised territory of
Savoy; that is to say against the use of the railway con-
structed upon that part of Savoy. The French Govern-
ment replied that it could not acknowledge this prote4,
as the use of this terrritory had been agreed upon with
Switzerland—which was charged to maintain the
neutrality of Savoy specified in the Treaties of Vienna—
and that the two Governments were of opinion that the
Sardinian road was not included in the neutralised
ground, the limits of which were so badly defined by
the treaty."