The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-07 00:00:00

AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.

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BERLIN, July 5.
The following identical Note has been addressed
by the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin to the re-
spective representatives of Austria and Prussia at
the Courts of London, Paris, St. Petersburg, and
Stockholm :

"Sir,—When the Government of the King took
part in the Conference at London it was animated
by the earnest desire to put an end, by a firm and
lasting peace, to the sanguinary conflict which had
broken out between the two great German Powers
upon the one hand and Denmark upon the other.
Firmly resolved to procure for Germany the just
satisfaction which her honour and interests entitled
her to demand, we endeavoured at the same time

to arrive at a solution which should not endanger
the balance of the North of Europe. We firmly
adhered to the view that the blood of our brave
soldiers should not have flowed in vain ; but we
were also unwilling to prolong the contest past the
point we had laid down at the outset. Our attitude
at the Conference has always been conformable to
these resolutions. We should have been willing to
accept a combination which, while securing a sepa-
rate political existence to the duchies, still allowed
a dynastic bond to exist between them and Denmark
Proper. As an arrangement of this kind did not
find favour either with the Danish Government or
the neutral Powers, we were obliged to seek another
basis. As we thereupon demanded that the Duchies
should be constituted an independent State under a
separate Sovereign, we were disposed to cede to
Denmark a portion of Schleswig, although the
union of the entire Duchy with Holstein was de-
sired with equal zeal in the country and in the whole
of Germany. We should have made a real and im-
portant concession of permitting a portion of Schles-
wig to be incorporated with Denmark, as it is pre-
cisely these attempts at incorporation—contrary to
the ob;igations which have been undertaken—which
have embittered the dispute between Germany and
Denmark, and have occasioned the present quarrel.
When, finally, the impossibility of agreeing upon a
just line of demarkation became evident, and when
E:igland proposed to appeal to the good offices of a
friendly Power,we declared ourselves the more ready
to accept this offer as it was in accordance with the
stipulations of the Treaty of Paris, ft was the
Danish Plenipotentiaries who made shipwreck of
this last attempt at reconciliation by a categorical
rejection at the sitting of the 22d of the mouth ; it
was also the Danish Plenipotentiaries who refused
at the same sitting their assent to the prolongation
of the armistice required by the representatives of
Prussia and Austria,

'° lire arc obliged solemnly to state these facts, for
they prove that if the London Conference has not
led to the desired result, the Cabinet of Copenhagen
alone bears the blame, if the work of peace has
been interrupted, and the resumption of hostilities
impends, the responsibility cannot attach to the
German Powers. The responsibility rests utterly
and solely upon Denmark, which rejected the last
offer of conciliation, and refused all prolongation
of the armistice. Our representatives were 03als
missioned to deliver a declaration in this sense at
the opening of the sitting upon the 25th.

"You, Sir, will kindly refer to what has taken
place at the London Conference, to demonstrate the
bhare of each party in the events that have oc-
curred. Be good enough to remind the Government
to which you are accredited how great has been
the moderation of our demeanour up to the last
moment, and that we have ever been ready to put
an end to a war called forth solely by the faithleEs•
ness of Denmark, and which
to continue entirely l'arough her obstinacy.—
Receive, &c.,
"VON BISMARK."
Re are now compelled