The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-07 00:00:00

FRENCH CIRCULAR DESPATCH.

The following is the text of the Circular Note,
addressed by 1117. Drouyn de l'Huys to the represen-
tatives of France at the various German Courts.
It bears date the 27th of March :
" Sir—The journals havegiven the text of a despatch from
the Baron de Manteuffel, addressed on the 2,1 of the present
month to Count Hatzfeldt. Though I do not impute to the
Cabinet of Berlin the publication of this document through
the press, it seems tome indispensable that I should repro-
duce with more force the opinion I have already expressed
on its contents to the Prussian Minister.
" What I wish first to contest is, the doctrine according to
which it will be forbidden to Foreign Powers to take notice
of the internal deliberations of the Frankfort Diet. As long
as those deliberations have no abject but German interests,
France, from the respect it bears to the independence
of Germany, will have neither advice to give nor action
to exercise; but evidently it cannot ba so in circum-
stances of a nature to affect the relations she is bent on
entertaining with Prussia and Austria. A frank and fore-
seeing diplomacy holds it a first duty to be informed of
such dispositions as it may have one day to second or
oppose. Its part is not to react against accomplished
or decided facts. It consists rather in preventing, by
vigilance and frankness, such incidents as, having occurred,
woald draw after them vexatious consequences. It can-
not, then, be doubted that the attitude of M. de Bismark,
in the sitting of the 22d of February, would legitimately,
challenge our attention, since it was at the same time de-
nounced asdeneerous by the Cabinet of Vienna, doubtless as
jealous as the Cabinet of Berlin for the dignity of that Con-
federation over which it presides. In pointing out, on
our own part, a tendency that seemed to us hostile, and
one which the Baron do Manteuffel has disavowed, we
only desired to arrest in its origin a conflict not less con-
trary to the declarations of Prussia than to our own in-
tentions in her respect.
" I regret, then, sir, that the despatch addressed to Count
Hatzfeldt has changed the field of debate, and placed me
under the obligation of verifying the solidity of the ground
on which we are now called to discusi. If would be in
my opinion singularly to lessen the importance of the Diet
and the States composing it to maintain, when an opinion
advanced at Frankfort has been re-echoed sufficiently to
be heard beyond the circle of Federal deliberation, that no
Foreign Power has any cause for taking it into considera-
tion, and, if there be occasion, for reasoning on it with
the Cabinet from whose representative it emanated. I ac-
cept, I repeat, no such doctrine, and I desired the Marquis
de 3lonstier to say so to Baron de Manteuffel.
"Neither can I admit vague imputations of to-
wards Prussia to be thrown on the Emperor's agents abroad.
If we have complained, we have stated precise facts—we
have quoted names. We have not acted in a spirit of recri-
mination, but in a spirit of confidence and concord. We
have attributed to the Prussian Government the sentiments
with which we ourselves are animated, and have frankly
pointed out to it, in the attitude and language of one of its
principal organs, what appeared to us to denote dispositions
unfavourable to the success of the negotiations then opened
between the two Cabinets. We very naturally recognise
in Prussia the right we have used towards her ; and
I shall not refuse, on my side, any explanations which
Baron de Manteuffel can have to demand from me. But I
confess what has most surprised me in the despatch I am
examining, is the regret expressed at the want of a paper
that, by establishing, in an obligatory manner, the identity
of the political views of Prussia and France, would put an
end to the divergencies of their respective legations. Sir, I
have long said the same thing. Our sincerest and most per-
severing efforts have essayed to bring about the result I bad
foreseen; and the Baron de Manteuffel would have been only
just if he had made use of language less impregnated with
bitterness when alluding to our measures for obtaining, in
the interest of European order, the adhesion of Prussia to
the treaty of the 2d December.
" For its own part, the Emperor's Government feels
itself honoured in having clone everythine to facilitate the
accession of the Cabinet of Berlin to the alliance of the
Western Powers. It merits, in this respect, the kind of
reproach that has been addressed to it, but it is asto-
nished at its source. I authorise you to read this despatch
to M. --.

"DROUYN DE L'HUYS."

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, GOOD FRrDAY.

The Queen and Prince, with the elder royal child-
ren, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the do-
mestic household, attended divine service this morning
in the private chapel of the Castle.
The lion. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor per-
formed the service,

Despatches from the Governors of the Australian co-
lonies, and also from the Glvernor of Hong Kong, were
received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
A messenger with despatches from the Commander
of the Forces in the Crimea f)r Lord Panroure, Secre-
t try of State for War, arrived in town yesterday.

The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere have left Lon-
don for H4tcliford.
The E,rl and Countess of Durham leave London, to-
day, I,r Brqcke.tt-hall, Hertfordshire.
Lord Broughton left town on Thursday for Erie
Stone-park, Wiltshire.
Lord and Lady Over Atone left town on Thursday for
Overstme-park. NorthampWnshire.
The Earl of Lucan is expected at Hollymount house,
the residence of his relative, Thomas Spencer Lindsey,
E,q., on Thursday evening next.
Lord John Browne luft Westport-house in 'he early
part of last wzek, fur Constantinople, en route for the
Crimea.
'rl.e Marquis of Sligo purposes le ►virg this country
dnrirg the present week for Constantinople.
Lord John Russell has found it necessary to postpone
his departure from Vienna till after the 10th inst., as
the answer from St, Petersburg to Prince Gortschakoff 's
last despatch cannot be received sooner.
Toe i.:arriage of the Earl of Lichfield and Lady Har-
riet Hami!ton is to take place on Tuesday next, at
Brocket-hall, -Hertfordshire, where the Marquis of
Abercorn now resides.

General Vivian took paFsaoncreivfloornCaolnsltantinople in the
ast. 500 French
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in the same vessel.
A despatch published in the Journal de St. Pete sb°
of the MA), confirms the death, by a cannon ball before4.9''
Sebast )pol, on the 17th, of the Russian Admiral Istorn''ll
M. Geizot has appeared a second time at the Tu'ileriEs..'
in virtue of his functions at the Academy, in order to
submit to the chief of the state the nomination of M.
Ponsar I. The Emperor attempted to engage his visitor
in a long and friendly conversation.
llerEw MAP OF THE CRIMRA,—This excellent map, to
which we called the attention of our readers yesterday,
is nublished at the Hydrographic-office of the Admiralty,
and by their agents, for whom it was lithographed by
Messrs. Molby and Son, Holborn, with their usual skill.
The Senate of Piedmont will proceed to the considera-
tion of the law upon convents after Easter. The clergy
meanwhile are straining every nerve to secure the rejec-
tion of the bill.
PRUSSIA AND THE CONFERENCES.—The indepenclance,
of Brussele, believes that Prussia will be admitted to the
conferences without first signing a special engagement.
Access to the conferences, it is observed, is the entire
question between the Prussian Go eernment and the
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