The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-24 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Prince of Monaco has issued the following pro-
test :—" We, Florestan I, by the Grace of God,
Sovereign of Monaco. By our protest of the 13th and
29th of Sept. 1848, we had informed the Foreign Powers,
parties to the treaties of 1814 and 1815, of the events
which had taken place in our principality, as also of the
decree of the King of Sardinia, of Sept. 18, 1848, which
stipulates that the communes of Menton and Roccabruna
shall be occupied without delay by his Government, in
order to be provisionally administered according to the
laws in force. We have subsequently protested against
s new decree of the King of Sardinia of the 20th of
December, 4848, which subjects the communes of
Menton and Roccabruna to the jurisdiction of the tri-
bunal of Nice ; as also against all the acts infring-
ing our Sovereign rights. Since then the tribunal of
Nice, disregarding our rights, being called upon to
pronounce on questions of expropriation on the ground
of public utility, pronounced, on the 14th of July, 1852,
a judgment to the effect that the town of Menton hav-
ing, by the law of the 18th of September, 1848,
been subjected to the authority of the King of Sar-
dinia, the town of Menton was bound to apply to that
Sovereign for the declaration of public utility, as being
the successor of the Prince of Monaco. The judg-
ment pronounced in the name of the King of Sar-
dinia, and by magistrates named by him, implies the
sanction of the Sardinian government, and obliges us to
protest, not only against the pretension of Sardinia to ad-
minister justice in a country depending from our sove-
reignty, but also against the pretension of despoiling us
of the said sovereignty, and giving us a successor in
virtue of a treaty which can neither modify existing trea-
ties nor impair our rights. It behoves us, by the present
protest, to defend these rights, which are not taken
into account, and the principles which guarantee re-
spect and inviolability to established sovereignty
against unjust encroachments. Hence we again
protest against the occupation of the towns of Men-
ton and Roccabruna by the troops of the King of
Sardinia, and against the intervention of the Sardi-
nian Government in the administration of these
communes. We address ourselves with confidence to
the powers who have signed the treaties of 1814 and
1815, which regulate the territorial 1 imits of Europe,
and we pray them to defend and protect the principles
of those treaties violated in our sovereign rights.
" Done at our hotel in Paris, December 2, 1852.
(Signed) " FLORESTAN I."

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

ST. JAMES'S PALACE—DEo. 22.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Dr. Henry Hol-
land, of Brook-street, Fellow of the Royal College of Phy-
sicians, and a Physician in Ordinary to his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, to be one of her Majesty's Physicians in
Ordinary, in the room of Dr. William Frederick Chambers,
resigned __ _

DOWNING-STREET—DEC. 23.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of Belford Hinton Wilson, Esq., some-
time her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General to
the republic of Venezuela, to be an ordinary Member of the
Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders
of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath ; and of Wil-
liam Fenwick Williams Esq., Captain in the Royal Regi-
ment of Artillery, and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in the
Army, some time employed on a special service in Turkey,
to be an Ordinary Member of the Cix 11 Division of the
Third Class, or Companions of the said Most Honourable
Order.