The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-22 00:00:00

deration at Fl

•Msiae.

At the date of

that intimation I was under the necessity of coSfii-
ing myself to the statement that his Majesty's go-
vernment would take this invitation into cousidera-
tion, but must reserve their definitive resolution until
they had consulted with their allies, with whom it
was equally their duty and their wish to act in per.
feet harmony.
This consultation has taken place, and his Ma-
jesty's government can congratulate themselves on
the lively sympathy with which their allies have met
them half-way, and which is a gratifying guarantee
of the prosperous development of that great and
ever mighty affair which so mach concerns them aIL
I am, therefore, now in a condition to authorise
your excellency to make the following communication
on the part of his Majesty's government, to the im-
perial cabinet, in whioh they will recognise the ear-
nest determina.ion of his Majesty's government to do
all in their power to promote the attainment of the
unanimity respecting the great unsettled German
question which they have so long desired.
We, in common with all the other German govern-
ments, have only one point of view in which we can
consider the invitation of the imperial cabinet—
s regard to the prosperity and preservation of our
common country. The union of all Germany, the
renovation of the old confederation, on a basis corre-
sponding to the real wants of the nation, is so essen-
tial in oar eyes, that we must hold it a sacred duty to
leave no way untried that may lead to this goal: we
have felt too deeply the want of harmony in the
views entertained on this subject, which has hitherto
prevailed, not to hail with joy every opportunity
which offers a prospect of supplying this want by a
frank exchange of mutual wishes and interest/.
In like manner we recognise the urgent necessity
of making pree;sion immediately for at least a provi-
sional management of our common affairs.
All German states have an equal interest in this,
and a general consultation of all German govern-
ments can therefore only appear in the light of a
natural method, and one consistent with their union,
of arriving at unanimous resolution,.
It can therefore afford us nothing but unmixed sa-
tisfaction to find that the imperial cabinet, by its in-
vitation to the governments, has adopted this me-
thod ; and we are ready to accept of the invitation,
and to send on our part a plenipotentiary to Frank-
fort.
We believe that there can exist no doubt as to the
character of the conferences which are to be held
there.

We regard the congress as a free deliberation of
the sovereign states of Germany, whose relations rest
on the entire freedom and independence recognised
in them by the law of nations, and whose approxima-
tion and union can therefore only proceed from per-
fowl,. free decisions.
We therefore expressly decline to recognise any
right to convene this congress, assumed to emanate
from the presidential attributes derived from the
legally dissolved diet of the confederation.
For the same reason, we cannot admit that the
character of the plenum of the late diet of the con-
federation can attach to this congress, but regard it
simply as an assembly of the thirty-five German go-
vernments for specific objects.
It follows as a matter of course that we cannot re-
cognise any right in this corgress to adopt resolutions
in the name of the Germanic confederation which
shall be binding on such governments as do not assent
to them of their free accord.
For such as withhold their assent the results of
the conference can have no other consequence than
that they are not applicable to them.
We indulge in the hope that there will be no need
to make a practical application of this reservation;
that the frank interchange of opinions on the ground
of a common effort to attain the same end, will
unite all the governments in a harmonious co-opera-
tion.

The more confidently we entertain this hone the
more firmly we insist that no Genuan government
shall be curtailed of its right to stand out for its par.
tioular interests.
We do not therefore hesitate to declare that we
will acquiesce in no renovation of the confederation
which does not guarantee to all the governments who
feel the need of it the right of freely uniting them-
selves, as the basis of forming a federal state.
We avow this with the same frankness which we
expect from all members of the Germanic confedera-
tio-, and which alone can lead to a complete under-
standing. We shall meet these members of the
confederation at Frankfurt with confidence
that we meet on the common ground of
devotion to the welfare of the German nation ;
and we willingly express our confidence in the since-
rity with which the imperial cabinet in particular
will exert itself to overcome the difficulties inherent
in the particular nature of the case.
Your excellency will deliver this declaration to the
president of the imperial cabinet, and leave with him
a written copy of this despatch.
(Signed)
Berlin, May 16, 1830.
To his Majesty's Envoy, Count Bernstorff, Vienna.

SCIILEINITZ.

FIRE AT CLAREMONT PALACR.—Coneidrible ftlanel
was *mud in the ♦icinity of Claremont yesterday by the
discovery of a fire hewing broken out in the dining-room of
the palace, bat it was immediately extinitniehea before shy
mater al damage had taken plate. The outbreak k attributed
to the overheatiag of ens of the flux. -

MONISTS& HAILBTOIIII.B.—The following metitot
from a letter Is published by the &nary TelogropA :—" I
tal:: write these few lines to Inform you that on Busday
wean the boars of 4 and 6 e'clock, a tremendous othsll
occurred at a village called Condwul, about ix miles from
&attars. Tit* hailstones are dercribed as being as lugs as
auea-ants. Several houses fell, cattle were slain, and seve-
ral people were killed by the houses falling in. Many large I
tisk were killed is the deer also. The neural declare they
It•ve never seen such hail in their lives. len wiaia
the mark when I say they ware as large as run-nuts; they
have bees ciKeribed ae much larger. In cusp we had
merely tremendous dust-at. rm, but for several boon the
sides of the hill were whits with the hail, like now in ap-
pearapoo."