The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-30 00:00:00

PROTEST OF DEMI :1 71

The fialloWing is a translation of a nolo addressed
(with
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a alterationsna
Hanover, of n a
to the '.:ll'inisters ,ftf-Porf4gt Affairs of Prussia, and
of Austria,mdeasteadndCteiptie(L)
lin Denenedemerbsiegr l 9
ned,—President of the Council and
Minister of Foreign Affairs of his Majesty the King
of Denmark, has the honour to acknowledge the re-
ceipt, on the 15th instant, of the note whereby the
President of the Couaeil and Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Prussia has acquainted him with a Federal
decree of Denember the 7th, and in consegnence.:of
the sn-culled procedure of execution resolved by the
said Federal decree, has requested the Government
of the King to evacuate Holstein within seven days
c, Having, without delay, submitted this
En oetdee
sertaol
his most gracious Sovereign, the undersigned has
bean charged by his Majesty to call the attention
of the Prussian Government to the following 01„,,er.,
the German
vations :
"The Assembly
yresolutionpassed
thof
this by
month is deprived of all
binding force for the Royal Government
already by
the circumstance that it has been passed after the
illegal exclusion of Ills Majesty's Plenipotentiary
from the Assembly.
''Besides, with regard to the fact that the said de-
cree pretends to be founded the on
it preceding Fede-
ralof October 1, is impossible decree for the King's
Government to consider this latter as a valid motive
for the procedure of execution which has recently
been resolved for the following
reasons
"That the ordinance of March 30 of this year,
against which the said decree was directed, has
afterwards been formally repealed;
"That the d• m -
--e lation offered by the British Go-
vernment with a view of reconciling the pending
differences betweenandConfederation
Denmark the
has been
accented by the Royal Government in the
sitting of the 29th
-,
iie 29th of October;
`` That the King's Government in the same sites
ting declared itself ready to meet the Confederation
in every point in which
of rights claimed for the Federal provinces should
not be considered as being sufficiently guaranteed at
present.
cc But the singular character of the pretended
Federal execution has become still more perceptible
since the Federal Assembly has pretended to ques-
tion his Majesty's right of succession and the vali-
dity of the 11
,reaty of London of May 8, 1852. For,
even considering the matter from the point of view
of the German Confederation, it must be admitted
that any demand on the part of the Confederation
with regard to the position which his Majesty should,
accord to Holstein in his capacity of Duke of IEI.
stein must be subordinate to a preceding acknov,,-
ledgment of the King as Duke of Holstein and Lau.
enburg.

" Lastly, I must observe that the request addressed
to the King's Government is not in conforraity
with the prescriptions laid down in the regulations
for the procedure of execution, dated August 3,
1820 (Art. X.)—namely, in this important point,
that it has not been made possible for the Ring's
Government to avoid tho execution by submission
to any precise demands addressed to it. Far from
this, the execution itself appears sinatlly as the only
object of the Federal resolution.

" His Majesty, my most gracious sovereign, is
under these circumstances unable to recognise the
so-called execution, resolved by the Confederation
asa
butlegitimate procedure founded in the Federal
law, intends, on th. 3 contrary, to reserve formally
his sovereign and d3,,nastie riphts. His Msjesty Ls
therefore commanded the I.llld"rsigned to protest by
this present, and in the 13 ')t solemn wanner, against
the unquestionable eric:oasettmentwhich has been
such further re—s-101111;tiaonnds reserves
way consider recon.
announced to him, for himself to take
eileable b Nv;
, - -t,4 his rights and interests.
" C. HALL"
" 'tic tuldersigned avails himself, &c.

Or HERP. MEYER LT;TZ, the
THE ArisERERE
dlheficcunz speaks of as having been nctontly performed
after Vespere, at tho St, George4Edrel, SGUalWark.