The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-27 00:00:00

THE LAST AUSTRIAN CIRCULAR.

The Berlin correspondent of the Independance
Beige, under date of 23d September, gives the
following details respecting the last Austrian cir-
cular of the 14th of September. He says :
" The despatch commences with a retrospective coup
d'ceil upon the state of the negotiations, especially in
the Diet, about the 17th of August last, and adverts to
the declaration of M. de G-ortschakoff on the evacua-
tion of the Principalities.

"As annexed documdnts, it mentions the reply of
Austria to the refusal-note of Russia on the 26th of
August (I believe that Austria maintains in that reply
the demand of the four guarantees), and one to Count
Esterbazy at St. Petersburg, on the language which the
Count must hold under actual circumstances.
" After having declared that Austria, before explain-
ing her policy, wished to wait till Prussia had made
known her views, the Circular professes the profound
regret that Austria has experienced at the refusal of
Russia to grant the demanded guarantees.
"As regards Austria, she cannot abandon those
guarantees, but she does not disavow thereby the bear-
ing of the last declaration of Russia, insomuch as they
have warded off the immediate danger of a conflict be-
tween the two empires ; nor can the political significa-
tion of the evacuation of the Principalities be contested.
" However, Russia has not offered anything de-
finitive ; she has not given any guarantees for the future.
Austria has not bound herself to action against Russia
in view of a final decision ; she is still free in her reso-
lutions.

" Russia had at one time made promises (for in.
stance, not to cross the Danube), which the change of
circumstances doubtless did not allow her to keep
She might thus again be brought to wish to seize a
pledge.
"The question might be discussed to know whether
the treaty of April 20 is not still perfectly applicable to
the present situation. But the despatch declares that it
will not enter into that point, nor examine for the mo-
ment what ought to be done if Austria should undertake
coercive measures.

" Prussia has promised• Austria to assist her with all
her power in case Austria should be attacked upon her
own territory by Russia without her having attacked
the latter. Prussia has expressed the conviction thit,
in thatcase, the confederation also would hasten to give
active succour to Austria.

" Supporting itself on these considerations Austria
proposed to the Cabinet of Berlin to provoke the Diet to
make the declaration.

" That even should the actual state of things, after
the evacuation of the Principalities not imply the neces-
sity of the immediate mobilisation of the armed forces of
the Confederation, that state of things should, however,
afford the occasion of stating that any fear of an attack
by Russia upon the Austrian territory would call the
Governments, united by the treaty of the 20th of April, to a common defence.
" The despatch, in conclusion, reverts to the four
guarantees, the European bearing of which it particu-
cularly points out, and expects that the Diet will ap-
prove of the line of conduct adopted by Austria in this
respect. It was to avoid a dissension with Prussia, that
Austria did not formally demand the insertion of the
four points in the treaty of April, although it was de"
sirable that Prussia, the European attitude of which was
on the same basis as that of Austria, should place her-
self on the same footing.
" But Prussia warmly recommended the four points
at St. Petersburg, and declared to France and England
that she would give them her moral support in
intees
the
future. The engagement to obtain the four guarantees
by a military action was not taken by Austria either.
" This is why Austria thinks she
may
of those same count
in view of negotiating a peace on the basis Prussia
guarantees.

" Austria, who has shielded the German interests, in
no respect incompatible with those of Austria, expects
that the Diet will full Y app' rove of her policy. The four
points are indispensable, also for Germany. But Aus-
tria will not oppose a federal resolution which, as re-
gards the four, guarantees, will make a distinction be-

• tween German and European in this sense, that two of
those points, that concerning a collective protectorate,
and the other concerning the free navigation of the Da-
nube, should be considered as especially responding to
German interests.

" It results from this document (continues the corres-
pondent), which I think I have exactly analysed, that
Austria, whilst she maintains the four points, renounces
the demand of an immediate mobilisation of the federal
contingents. This is what was long foreseen. On the
other hand, she appears to insist with the Diet upon the
adoption of a portion only of the guarantees demanded
by the Western Powers, which she has made her own
by the exchange of the notes of the Bth August, and
which she maintains, as far as she herself is concerned,
towards Russia. It remains to be seen what the reply
of Prussia will be. It is difficult to admit that the two
Cabinets should not come to an understanding on so
narrow a basis as indicated by the Austrian Circular of
the 14th September."