The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-13 00:00:00

THE DANISH NOTE AND THE
CONFERENCE.

The following is the declaration which was made
by the plenipotentiaries of Denmark at the sitting
of the Conference on the 2nd inst.:
W Inn at the period of the conclusion of the Treaty of
Loudon the present King of Danmark acoepted the choice
made of him to succeed to the then reigning king, his Ma-
jesty's resolution was dictated priocipally and desisively by
the firm hope that Europe would know bow to maintain
that which she had re:oo64d sad agreed to by this solemn
treaty. His Majesty did sot wish by his refusal to inter-
pose en obstacle to the integrity of the Danish monarchy
receiving an ulterior inmates of stability, and he knew by
the reeunciations and wordier made by those having the
right, that in socepting the offer made to him be oompro-
mimed the rights of no one.
Since then thing@ have changed, sod his Majesty has bees
obliged to submit to • most cruel disappointment. In spite
of his own efforts and those of his devoted people—his sole
support for the realisation of a work in which Dearly the
whole of Europe bad concurred—his Majesty was obliged
to take into consideration the possibility that kis hopes
would not be realised.

If it must be so, if the powers of Europe really wish to
abandon the Treaty of London, his Majesty, to avoid the
nuumption of hostilities, would not oppose a territorial
oessioc, provided always that he should obtain thereby not
only peace, but also an indepoident, perfectly autonomous
existeoce for that which would remain to him of his stales,
and oo cooditiou that the future destiny of the ceded tern-
tories should not be fixed without their cement.

The Danish government accepts, then, in principle, the
proposition made at the last sitting by Eul Russell for the
re-establishment of peace between Denmark and the two
groat German Powers.
Bat in order that peace, which we ardently wish fee.
may be real, it mud be under all conditions which will be
necessary to amaze to Denmark the independence which
comes to her by right, the political Independence which the
Treaty of London should guarantee to her, and for the pre-
servation of which the Daniels people have not hesitated to
engage single.handed is a anguinary struggle with forces
greaUy superior to their own.
The Danish plenipotentiaries feel bound to observe from
the present time that in the aerator wished to be imposed
ea Denmark there are limits which the Danish government
eased exceed.

The new frontier of Denmark is a vital question for this
country. It is moeseary that she should possess a frontier
having reference to her military and commercial interests,
and this frontier ought to be fixed by sufficient guarantees.
There is one other point on which the Danish government
reserves all its freedom. It le only on quite special con-
ditions that his Majesty the Kiag of Danmark will consent
to the cession of the Duchy of Lewisburg. Thin country
was acquired in his time by the King of Denmark in ex-
change for a pert of Pomerani►, to serve as an equivalent
for the kingdom of Norway, sacrificed for the rwestablish-
sent of the peace of Europe, and it le emestially foreign
to the dispute which has caused the present war.
Finally, the Danish plenipotentiaries ought to claim for
their government fall liberty to reassume the position which
it has invariably maintained up to the present time, on the
basis of the Treaty of London, as soon as it sees that the
provisional sad conditional abandonmeet of this position
will not lead to an equitable sad Jot arrangement fitting
to replace the diapositioes of Ibis treaty.