The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-17 00:00:00

THE PORT OF TRIESTE.

MOON 09111 OWN OONNISPONDIXT.)
IIaYBURO, Mar 14.
As there appears to exist in Ragland oonsidetable
misapprehenston and uncertainty sa to whether the
port of Trieste belongs tattle Germanic Confederation
or not, and whetherablockadeorbornbardmentoftkat

city on the part of the French naval faeces would be
tantamount to an invasion of neutral Germany, sad
a declaration of war, I beg to point out to year
readers that the city of Trieste and its territory,
beyond the shadow of a doubt, form part and parcel
of the Germanic Confederation, according to the
declaration made by Austria on the Bth of April,
1818, by which the adherence of the Emperor
Francis to the Federal Act of the Bth of June, 1816,
was specially and formally given.
In the first article of the Federal Act, it is stated
that the Emperor of Austria joins the Confederation
"for the whole of his dominions which were isieledsd
in the former.Enspire of Germany,' and doss are
defined and specified is the abova-aosaticsaddadmaa-
tics as follow.: .

The—A;;;;i;a- ionising which We Ilf *sty the lowa
Wades fa the Germs Oialideretioa we:

I. Tbr Artedenly of MOM;
2. The Duchy of Illelersterk (Serfs);
2. The Duchy of Umbra (Carinthia);
4. The Duch of aio (Cfmlola) ;
f. The AeefaMai, cc the Cirele of oOra (Citelia),
babes tirdirka. Tolman, TIM* and Agenda;
S. The of the dry of Triewe;
I. The Decal of Tyrol with the territory of Tritste
moil Mesa, esd the of Vorarlberg with the empties
of Wear •
S. Tabs= ihatbarg ;
9. The of Debessia;
19. The Iliergratfete of lifararia ; end
11. The Asetrlas port of the Duchy of &loofa, hsludieg
the Belsemise-ediena Duchies of Aonthwlta and Zator.
For tertbst infermatisa, is corroboration of the
sieve, I may refer therapist to /Whew, the greatest
Gerson authority en banal aw. (Quellernammlang,
No. :iv. ; ere also Corpus !aria Gormanici, by Dr. O.
Esmingbaes, 2nd edition, Jena, 1644 ; p. 639.)
Trieste has always been considered as a German
ally, though at first colonised by Italians after the
destrestion et Agoiaia, which in the time of the
&males was a very large and populous city. It
wee afterwards seised sad for a long time held by
the ildavealau Dukes of Carinthia and Oaluiela till
the period of Rudolph of Hapsburg, who ultimately
hews* the muter. of thine parte, which till them
were infested by pirates sad other lawless rabble
form Pots sad Ragas*. Byer ethos then the great
majority of the inhabitants hare been Genius,
wham language is at present the leading one la the
teem, though is the suburbs sad surreusding
essatry a Solaeoaian dialect is spoken. In the
middle ages Trieste was a margraviate, which was
sabsequestly incorporated with the Duchy of Car.
aloha. At a still more early period it was inhabited '
by the Dugan., by whoa it wee indeed founded, as
the Menai same, Tergedema, ettilleiently
Trieste, which at the ekes ef the Met war had a
perdition of about 10,000 inhabitants, sow ocid.
tabs meetly 130,000. It owes its extraordinary rise
and commercial prosperity to its being created a free
pert in the foliose sees of the term. The city is
cot, indebted for many of its privilegre to the
vela Bruck, the originiator el the Austria.
Lloyd's, sad now Insister for Commercial Affairs at
Vienna.