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The following circular has been sent to the diplo-
matic agents of Austria at the various courts of

VIENNA, May 210%
oioY.nour ExcAlency yell have become aware, by an art:.
i. the ()extern Corresp , that the Imperial (Anstrian)
sc.ti Governmentt does not consider closed the negotiations
the plans
.ae Governments of France and Eegland respecting
aguide
.I..pifin! which it proposed for giving execution to the
since'thaes
third point of the guarantee. We have considered it
breaking t o
out theof
hostilities, language
affairs
advisable to inform your Excellency of the true state of
moment
of when more than at another the restoration
peace might be consideredprobable 't was the
1
moment when I
'Et , ,erd John Russell and M. Prouyn de
1 uys left our capital. The Conferences, it 19
ttFue, had only led to the rejection of the proPoii-
Ythierewiwilasiloalady. !life
sides
ss made by the belligerent powers, but upon bait'
it appeared to be admitted that those not
offered the elements f ' t only
o peace, and we were no
able to declare without opposition that we believed our-
selves especially called to occupy in seeking
ourselves
out the means of an approximation, but we also put
forward a draught of an ultimatum which was to be sent
• dot inad-
to St. Petersburg,and •
, which we considere n •of
missible by Russia, since an immediate limitatio
Russia's sovereign avoided,
rights in the Black Sea, was
but '
which at tees same time seemed so completely to
satisfy the object of the third stipulation, and put an
end to Russian preponderance in the Black Sea, that
the before-named Ministers of France and England'
in confidential interviews, showed themselves decidedly
inclined towards our proposal, and undertook to e:
commend the same to their Governments with
their. influence. This plan of an ultimatum, the re
jection of which by Russia we declared ourselves row,
to make a casus belli, consisted of two distinct
tions, of which the Russian Government was to take
ssa
choice. The first of these rested upon the principle offby
reciprocal limitation of their forces, to be agreed "ted
Russia and Turkey, and established by treaty, origins
with France. The second' alternative, offered by Aug"
of guarantees
tria, consisted of a progressive system
against the development of Russian power in the Pilule',
wbiell were to be incorporated with the general body
.0;
European international law,lp rtly by the treaty to b
c ,ncluded between ~ • ' aTurkey and partly by ei
slim, and
E ol 'id and Turkey.
treaty between Austria,
France, n^ 3. ' AS made
Lord John Russell, before leaving Venna, w
sals.
acquainted by verbal communication with these propo
for
Tee French M' • l'lluYs, who
inist,r, M. Drouyn Written of o
Vienna some days later, received a written coPY .
ation
plan. and undertook to submit it to the exatntn .... i.
of his S,tvere•gnandalso i.,,,. it before the Dr .
,
tish Government. It is unnecessary to FP d • ol-
die r. gret with which eceive in
very soon after we r , odand
lieenc t., not of the hoped-f. r acceptance of Er)o. , gi.
France, but, instead, the opposition of tbe Begllie; 're.
nesters to the views of their colleague, and of the er-
sol ition of the Rnper rNa ,leon t , reiequis" the s.O _
vices of the M nisters wh , hadP just won the adtuirahtoi:
and the confidence of the Austrian court. This,
the rejection
certain, that both the circumstances under
the
rejection of our r )sition took Place' an '
and Pare
grounds on whichP)l7“.
,
cont,qter, tl ' us in the e.
. wir value, could only firm dniitted,
viction the s those pr )positions deserved to be 8 id do
and that each of the two Western Cabinets w°utioi
very wrong indeed to allow a solution of an
escapeevt7
question, so honourable as that we offered, to
them. , he 10'
We are not at liberty to speak more fully of t.
.0,
gunge held by Lord Clarendon and Count Waleowesugh
which is only confidentially before us, It i 3 e
Cabinet 13°
that, according to our conviction, neither no of
sufficiently considered the meaning and import:os
~est
the 6
our plan, whether regarded as supplying s
.re
over.
Png'ille and most effectual guarantees against tn, 00 to
reaching policy of Russia in the East, or in rehot
c_
of
preponderao e
the special object of terminating of the
Russia•
in the Black Sea.concern.
His M •
--a.lesty the Emperor has felt no doubt
rtee.
ingder the position marked out for the Imperial C°uto bi 4
these 'circumstances. It appeared at one°
et, of
Majesty that it the Cabit! ir
was his duty to furnish.
_e _.,top es
Paris and London with an opportunity 01 L',•4 which
mining our es t° e
propositions and the consegneun . gurop :
the
_hounexpected rejection of them would exposo..oioatea
T assurances of peaceful sentitnents, concitt,i_ of bet
!zi us by Count Walewski, the evident impresstoli.derpte
mg undeceived that has taken possession of
rasplnuee
rren's minds in France and England ; the ar
with which the English ministers have spoken hoe
even
ment respecting the state of the question, and pert
baps
appealed to the duration of the nag with 'whch
too the seemingly intentional stress, wit) the sb'
the despatch of the Earl of Clarendon dwells 0. _ 0003
oofoation been
sence of all official and direct cotton
Austria—all ssarily ..
these circumstances have nece erg with
an inducement for us to address to the P°lo r plant
which we are in alliance, a full explanati° plateli r'f°.
tn,gether with its motives, as well as the coshould
tation of the ohjectian's raised an•einst it. ere
we
b.- deSl'` '
this step
not be attended with the success _was to
cannot dispute the right of the bellieerent Pruest but
insist on more ample conditions in tbeir bite 'lves
then'
we must leave •
. it to them to procure sly
forreeog-
their demands that title which is Ores declares
nuilsed by the protocol of December 23, `vanih,, ,iii de'
at the details of the base btaine"— for
s to be 0 ve,
pe, d on . the progress of military events, twe deo)
ourpart,
would simply rely on the ba-is the' vp been
ta be obtained by the engagements that haeg reed'
entered into. We should firmly abide by the bas retect
msed by us in the conferences, and continue to
fro' 0.
the integrity of the Turkish empire aza3°,_gt:to aw,gift
tack. It, tt is attitude we should know '-'°•": tions'°'
the moment, when on the resumption of negoteL viable
peace, we might be able to render our influencee %%se we
for the adoption of the four uarantees . roP°sal
attribute to them. Should on the other hand our ['cabinets
for au ultimatum meet with the approval of the 4- neacs
of Paris and London, the final success uf the work:
°oost
would then solely depend on the last resolution of tnthepest
of St. Petersburg. Your, xeellency perceilea, that 0 deoido
communications from Parisand London will have t_„ on
on our further course ef proceedings. Not till tb7to oor
we be in a condition to make a definitive proposs'..tiop of
German confederates with respect to the future twob see
the Diet. C invinced that the line of policy wh' Os
have invariably pursued since the bases of the four P:ae of
were first established deserves the entire coefideg coat
the German Governments, we indulge in the hell? Alieo
the overtures we shah have to make to our federal .eecii
in either of the cases specified will meet with tbeir_r,,tiee
assent, and that the opportunity for securinelout op
unanimity on the part of Gernany will not be 'o
.t of
this eccasien. The correct appreciation which 03°:tep
the German courts have formed respectirg• th.geters'
lately taken at Frankfort for the Cabinet of t. .E.ioo,
burg is well calculated to confirm us in this coorio
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