The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-06 00:00:00

PRUSSIAN DESPATCH.

The following is a translation of the text of the
Prussian despatch of the 19th December, addressed
to the Prussian Envoys at Paris and London, of
which a summary has already appeared in our
columns :
" BERLIN, Dec. 19, 1854.
" Monsieur le Comte—As I have had the honour of in-
forming your Excellency by telegraph, it was on the evening
of the 16th instant that the Envoys of France, England,
and Ass came to communicate to me olfichlly the treaty
which governments signed on the 2nd of tvDe-
cember , icons and to express to me, conform-
ably to Art. VI., the desire of seeing Prussia
adhere to it. I lost no time in submitting that important
communication to the King, our august master. His
Majesty fully appreciates its great importance, and in
making it the subject of a conscientious examination he
has been guided by the sincere desire of associating himself,
as much as his convictions and the interests of his country
permit him, to the common work of re-establishing a general
peace on just and durable bases.
"It is with satisfaction that the King saw the protocols
of Vienna referred to. His Majesty continues to regard
them as the expression of the concert of the Four rewire,
and attaches a particular value to everything which is of •
nature to confirm the duration of that accord. It is true
that Prussia did not participate in the exchange of the notes
of the Oth August, the government of the King did not think
it advisable, in the then general situation of things, to bind
himself in that respect by any engagement whatever, but
the language which, at various times, he has held at St.
Petersburg, and which has not remained without effect,
proves that he has endeavoured to assure a practical value
to the guarantees drawn up at Vienne, by inducing the
imperial Russian cabinet to adopt them.
' While en the one band the diplomatic concurrence of
Prussia is then already acquired to the efforts of the other
powers to fix the bases of a general peace, her transactions
with Austria prove no lea, on the other, that the cabinet of
the King, penetrated with the gravity of the interests com-
pomised by a prolongation of the menacing attitude of
Ruuia, has, within the limit of certain eventualities, en-
gaged oven its military co-operation.
" Under all these respects the analogous attitude between
Prussia and the Powers who signed the treaty of the tad
of December already exists, and the King, our august
master, is too far from being under any illusion as to the
incalculable dangers with which the ulterior unchaining of
warlike passions would threaten all Europe, not to be db.'
pesed to cement, in the interest of a prompt and equitable
police, and the real equilibrium it is destined to guarantee,
by new stipulations, as accordance the pacific weight of
which would be called upon to exercise • salutary and dad-
Ore influence.

" Looking upon the treaty of the 2nd of December in
this point of view, and recognising with utisfaction
that it contains the elements of the above nature
indicated, the King, our august muter, has, moreover,
found in most of its articles the impression, most natural, it
is tine, of its special destination, that is to say, of an entente
between the Western Pewees and Austria. It would fol-
low—and certainly the justness of this observation will not
escape the equitable observation of the three courts who
signed the treaty—that Prussia, to adhere eventually to the
general tendency of that transaction, and to acme of its
particular stipulations, does not find herself in a position
ea swore) to accede to a treaty a 'ready concluded, ba

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