The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-20 00:00:00

entire German fatherland, and enabled the man who
possessed universal confidence to respond to the call
made upon War.
" So far as lay in his power the Archduke Eas justi-
fied the confidence reposed in him, and accomplished the
great mission which he had, with such self-sacrifice,
devoted himself. He resolutely and successfully op-
posed the anarchy which daily becomes more encroach-
ing, re-established the supremacy of the law, and
thereby guaranteed peace and order, which were indis-
pensable for the completion of the legal renovation of
Germany.
" The National Assembly, on the other heed, did not
fulfil the expectations entertained respecting it. Instead
of a united and powerful Gernsany—one consequently
rich in future promise—for the foundation of which it
might hive paved the way, it endeavoured to form an
ideal kingdom, an attempt which could only tend to
loosen, perhaps even dissolve, those bonds which for cen-
turies had conjoined the various German races.
" It is not my intention to follow the course of the Na-
tional Assembly since its origin, and to point out more
clearly the evils which its constant vacillations and its
too frequent encroachment on the province of the execu-
tive central power must necessari'y produce. I shall
confine myself to the specifying and 4rucidaiiiig of those
decisions which immediately affect us, and which will
account for the position that, in eons• quence of them,
we are compelled to take under the circumstances re-
ferred to.
" Since the present Ministry, in their opening pro•
gramme of the 27th of November last, expressei the in-
tention of uniting in one great body all the countries and
races of the Austrian monarchy, there has been formed
in the National Assembly a party which has done all in
its power to render our conjunction with Germany
im-
possible.
That party thought it had attained its ends
by passing those provisions of the constitutions (dis-
cussed at Frankfort-on. the-Maine) which, for German
countries that, in unison with non German ones, have
one sovereign in common, prescribes a special constitu-
, titre, form of government, and administration.
" It was foreseen that such provisions were irrecorcil-
II able with the principles of the unity of the Austrian Im-
perial State, principles which were not only announced,
but sufficiently explained, as well as fully carried out by
us. Let those therefore who arrived at that unnecessary
decision bear the consequences of it.
" The National Assembly, moreover, by the election
.on the 27th ult. of an hereditary Sovereign of the Empire,
deviated fro.n tho forma of the contemplated Confederate
State, and put forward those of a single state in a manner
incompatible with'the independence of the various Ger-
man Governments, which only with reference to im-
portant federal questions ought to be held within una-
voidable limits.

"Finally, through its decision of the 28th ult. (deci-
sions to the effect that the Imperial Constitution drawn
up by the National Assembly alone be carried oat
and promulgated as laws) (hut Assembly has abandoned
the path of concordance, the only path to which it was
called, the only path to which it had a right to remain,
and the ono which the. Government had expre,sly held
in reserve. At the same time, by arbitrarily declaring
&ell en permanence until the meeting of the future
Imperial Assembly, it placed itself on iltegal gr.und, to
follow it on which the Governments were not induced.
"Austria,
long-existing felllowship, by inseparable interests, and
intimately connected with Germany by
by treaties incontestably still in force, cannot, and will
not, be severed from such A bond. The German Con-
federation, as formed by treaties, is not yet dissolved,
and the rights and obligations of its members still con.
tinne.

"If, under the circumstances which have arisen, we
cannot accept, for the present, of a Confederate State,
as contemplated in the decisions of the National As•
sembly (even under reservation of the rights guaran-
teed to us by history and treaties), we shall, neverthe-
less, continue to take a lively interest in the fate of our
former associates, and under another aspect of affairs bo
always ready to show that interest by deeds.
" This is the opinion of his Majesty the Emperor, to
whieh he will remain faithful.
" In the same way as his Majesty in my dispatch to
your Excellency under date February 4, sek,mnly pro-
tested against being subjected to the Central Power ex-
ercised by any other German Prince, our gracious Sove-
reign is likewise resolved never to place, on any terms,
under a foreign legislative assembly, the legislative power
constitutionally exercised by him in common with the
representative corps of Austria.
The document conctudes by stating that there is
no objection to the return of the Chevalier Vox
SCHMERLING, as his successor is ready to start for
Frankfort; and that it only remained for the Austrian
Deputies in Frankfort to quit an Assembly which,
as before stated, entered upon an illegal course by its
decision of the 28th ult. The document is signed by
Prince SCHWARZHNBERG.