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path you had communicated to me previously, has
peen seriously examined in the Council of Ministers,
and submitted to the high consideration of my august
Sovereii ns
I mnsi, in the first place, answering with an equal
frankness the sincerity of your Excellency's declarations,
state that his Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand
Duke's Government has been painfully affected and sur-
prised at the receipt of these documents, and that my
august Prince has shared this sentiment.
Being charged to signfy to you the painful impres-
sien which has been felt at their perusal by my So-
vereign and the members of his Government, 1 mind add
that the latter was necessarily entitled to look upon this
affs,;.r es terminated, after it had been arranged with the
(l kis! representative of the British Government, and
that this negotiation had received in the English Par-
liament the most explicit and solemn senction, with flat-
tering eulogiums of the conduct of that honourable agent.
Relying on those acts, the Tuscan Government had
reason to expect that no modification would be made in
the settlement of this affair, such as Mr. Scarlett had
accepted it; and the British Government cannot forget
that, as appears from the dispatch of Mr. Birron, who
acted in the place of the Cherge d'Affaires during his
illness, of which dispatch your Excellency has commu-
nicated to me en extract., the pecuniary indemnity ac-
corded to Mr. Mather was accompanied by a generous
and spontaneous act of the sovereign prerogative to-
wards the Messrs. Stratford, English subjects, who had
rendered themselves guilty of a political crime, for
which act the Government of her Majesty the Queen
of Great Britain, yieldiug to a sentiment of just pro-
priety, has already expressed to his Imperial and Royal
Highness the most forme' thanks.
Your Excellency, in admitting that the negotiation
had been at first accepted and justified by your Go-
vernment, then developes all the succeeding stages of
this affair, quotes the instructions which your Excellency
has received on the subject, and explains how,
according to those which had been given to
Mr. S urlett himself, the British Government
has thought itself obliged to disavow, as is
declared in Lord Maltnesbury's dispatch, the conduct of
its representative, and annul his work. In appreciating
these explanations, I hasten to come to the main points
of the question, and to declare that the Grand Ducal
Government will never ignore its rights and its duties,
counting amongst the first thereof that of being just to
every one, and of according to foreign subjects the most
extended and cordial hospitality; nor can the excep-
tional case of the special jurisdiction to which the soldiers
of the Austrian auxiliary force are subject affect the
exercise of those rights and of those duties.
The refusal of Mr. Mather to receive any indemnity
having induced the British Government to give to its
demand the new form which is, according to your
instructions, communicated to me by your Excellency,
I must first remark that the note of Mr. Scarlett,
which led to the conclusion of the affair, having now
been completely disavowed by the English Govern-
ment, and being annulled, I acknowledge that all the
correspondence which followed, and which was only
a consequence of the first document, shares logically the
same fate. The whole is therefore to be considered as
if it had never taken place, and passing on (to other
subjects),
sre lam happy to seize eagerly this occasion to
bk a you to be the means of expressing to the Govern-
mans of her Majesty your august Queen the most lively
regrets of the Grand Ducal Government at this unfor-
tunate affair of the wound received by Mr- Mather,
which affair ought not in any wise to disturb such an-
cient, such intimate, and such amicable relations as ours;
and concerning which, moreover, a satisfaction has been
given by the Australian military authority. The per-
fact harmony which bas constantly united the two Go-
vernments, the friendship which reigns between the two
august Sovereigns, and the sympathy which has always
been felt in Tuscany towards the illustrious English na-
tion, must dispel every supposition contrary to these
sentiments, and the Tuscan Government rejects such a
supposition with all the energy and ell the sincerity of
the sentiments which it has already experienced.
The Grand Ducal Government, in priding itself on the
identity of its conduct with its sentiments, is always dis-
posed to accept the obligation of maintaining the rights
and of providing for the safety of British subjects, as
well as of other foreign subjects in Tuscany, by means
of the tribunals, as a general rule, and hastens to recog-
nise the principle that this duty becomes more impera-
tive on the executive power in those exceptional cases,
such as the one which now exists in respect to the Aus-
trian auxiliary force in Tuscany, which cannot be
submitted to the ordinary tribunals. It therefore de-
clines none of the consequences imposed on it by that
protection.
I am happy to acknowledge X le Ministre, the great
tact and the conciliatory spirit of which your Excel-
lency has given a proof in this delicate conjuncture; and
I have the confidence that you will derive from my
language a conviction that thiendTeupsecnadnenGceo,voefrnwmheinct
parbouaritsedresiots
lved, on the contrary, to
iftarh
isfrjoemalouhsavainndg
uphold the rights and to exercise the duties of that in-
dependence.
The enlightened and impartial Government of her
Majesty the Queen of Great Britain will no doubt share
this conviction; and nothing will henceforth be able to
disturb the continuation of these official and amicable
relations which are of ancient date, and ,which the two
Governments have ever been so happy to maintain. For
my part, I shall be proud to contribute to drawing closer
these bonds, and I doubt not but that your Excellency
desires equally to arrive at the same end.
The justice which your Government is desirous of
rendering to the zeal and talent of the Hon. Mr. Scar-
lett, notwithstanding the disavowal given in this case to
his conduct, induces me to express, on behalf of the
Grand Ducal Government, the esteem and confidence
which that able gentleman has constantly merited.
I avail, &c.,
(Signed) THE DUKE OF CASIGLIANO.

No. 3.
SIR HENRY BULWER TO THE EARL OF MALMESBURY.
(Received Jtine 25 )
Florence,,June 18, 1852.

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My Lord,--Your Lordship will read the correspon-
dence which has taken place between the Duke of Ca-
'sigliano and myself, and appreciate the difficulties which
I have had to encounter previous to obtaining the note
from the Duke which I did myself the honour to forward.
In regard to the two most important of her Majesty's
Government's demands, the answer of the Duke of Casig-
liano seems to me in perfect conformity with the letter
and spirit of those demands.
In the third there is a slight variation between the
terms of my request and the terms of ,the Duke's reply,
though it appears to me there is no essential difference
between the tact consummated in the one case and the
object sought for in the other.
Her Majesty's Government requires the withdrawal of
the Duke of Casigliano's note of the 10th of May, and
the cancelling of Mr. Scarlett's note of the 11th of
May; and I am also authorised by your Lordship to
withdraw Mr. Scarlett's note of the 6th of May, which
gave rise to the subsequent correspondence.
Tho Duke of Casiglismo accepts the disavowal of Mr.
Scarlett's note of the 6th of May, and recognises that all
the subsequent correspondence is annulled or annihilated
by that disavowal, and is to be considered as if it had
never existed.
The main point at issue is the annihilation of Mr.
Scarlett's proposal, and of the notes pro and con, founded
thereupon, with the view that neither the one nor the
other can ever be hereafter cited; and according to the
Duke of Casigliauo's present communication, not only is
this point obtained, but a principle directly the reverse
of that suggested by Mr. Scarlett, and laid down in re-
ply by the Duke of Casigliano, is clearly and solemnly
recognised.
to the es
Wi, h respect, however, especial form of with-
drawing the notes in question, the Grand Duke has a
personal and very strong objection. He considers it is
a degradation which ho has not merited, and an acknow:-
ledgment that he intended to inflict an insult which he
never did intend to inflict.
The Duke of Casigliano's note, written by his autho-
rity, was not a note that he volunteered—it was a note
elicited from him by a proposal from her Majesty's
chargé d'effaires; the answer was in the spirit of the
offence or
proposal it replied to. An act of liberality was asked
for; it was granted.
t might be improper to ask for this act as an act
Casigliano. I
not see any
of liberality, but it cannot be deemed an
at all events a voluntary oftenco to grant who' is
adtegthraedsaatmioen
time, having
asked for.
Such is the argument of the Duke of
do not agree with it in one particular. I.de,
discussion,e?ncession
notesy
any more than in the act of mutually destroying
them; .but
the
aaveitnogf obmtuaitnueadllya
completewitharawie
m, .
on the really important matter hitherto under
and which, by being thus settled, must prevent
all future
disputes similar to that concerning Mr. Mather, as well
as change, as a matter of course, ere a verylong
elapsed, the peculiar nature of the foreign time has
force at pre-
sent employed in this country, I have
considered that it
would be injudicious to refuse to receive the Duke of
Casigliano's note, and to break a negotiation sodif-
ficult, and which is so successful ul in
every other parti-
cular, on so comparatively small an issue.
I should add that the Duke of Casigliano has bogged
me to intercede with her Majesty'l; a
—overnment gwgith
respect to this matter; and I. n?Tse .deem it not unwise
or unfair to show some consideration for the Grand
Duke's feelings on a mere matter of form which is of no
• al value, the more especially as it is
practical always to be
remembered that, however irregular the bargain, there
was a bargain made witlo.respect to the Messrs. Strat-
ford, and those gentlemen are now free in
consequence
thereof, their liberation being, under any Circumstances
an act of grace on the part of the Grand Duke, circumstances,
to under the idea that it would be agreeable to the Bri-
tish Government. still I '
At all events the question i'9 ef, for your Lord-
shipl have, 8,,,
to decide. .9
(Signcd) H. L. BIILWER.

No. 4.

TILE EARL DIALMESBUItY.
R d jFaluoere2nseo), June 19, 1852.
asigh:orltilepulLywoEfath. e
a acknowledged
d,galeld diotu bhyt thethe
SIR HENRY BULW(F.RecTeOive
Lore;,—ln order to place
real meaning of the Duke of
16th to my note of the lltb, I
enclosed communication. I have, &0.,

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(Inclosure in No. 4.)
SIR HENRY BULWER TO THE PURE OF CASIGLIANO.
Florence, June 17, 1852.
Sir,—l have received your Excellency's communica-
tion of the 16th, in reply to the one I had the honour of
addressing to you on the 11th instant.
I understand
That th o
by
Tuscan ths tcom
Government,munic
whilst painfully sur-
a t io n :
L
prised at my communication to the effect that Mr. Saar.
left's arrangement was disavowed,
appreciates the tea_
sons for that act which I developed.
2. That the Government of his Iniparial and Royal
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