The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-29 00:00:00

CRACOW.

As the question of the occupation of Cracow is
likely to be brought before the House of Commons
to-morrow night, it may not be unacceptable to lay
before our readers a translation of the " Address of
the Inhabitants of Cracow," which was drawn up in
March last year, but which, owing to the dlflicul-
ties of transmission, has but recently been received
by Lord Melbourne. A similar Address has been
transmitted to the Government of tire King of the
French :

"My Lord, First Lord of the Treasury,—
The misfortunes which overwhelm the free city
of Cracow and its inhabitants-are such, that the
undersigned can see for themselves and their fellow-
citizens no hope but in the powerful and en-
lightened protection of the Governments of Eng-
land and France.

" The creation of the State of Cracow as a free
city, independent and neutral, was one of the acts
of the general treaty which the representatives of
Great Britain and of France signed at Vienna in
1815, and by which they contracted, in the name
of their Governments, the engagement to cause
the existence of that State to be respected.
" The annexed Memorial is intended to show
that the stipulations concerning the State of Cracow
have not been respected as they ought to have been,
and to exhibit the deplorable situation in which
the inhabitants are at this day placed, in conse-
quence of the violations of the treaty.
" We venture to recommend to the attention of
the Governments of England and France the Me-
morial, which draws a faithful picture of the sor-
rowful condition to which we are reduced. It de-
monstrates the causes of our suffering, and points
out the measures which would tend to diminish it.

" Condescend, my Lord, to take this statement
into your consideration ; and if you be convinced
that the situation in which we arc placed gives us
the right of invoking the intervention of every
Power which has signed the Treaty of Vienna—
that the Governments of Great Britain and France
arc expressly bound to reply to that appeal—and that
the course which we demand of them would. be, on
their part, the fulfilment of a duty solemnly con-
tracted. Then, my Lord, condescend to become
the interpreter of our prayers (yaws) to the Sove-
reign who honours you with her I. ugust confidence,
and to lay at the foot of the Throne the following
demands, which we respectfully address to her :
"Ist. That Great Britain shall agree with France
to exact a fundamental revision of the conditions
on which the existence of the State of Cracow is
established, not only in respecct to the interior,
but in its relations with the neighbouring States,
and that a Commission, or Conference, be ap-
poirted for this purpose by Austria, France, Great
Britain, Prussia, and Russia ; that these five
Powers fix by concert, as they did in ] 815, and
in a definitive manner, the fundamental principles
of the internal organisation of Cracow, and put
them in accordance with the former organic regula-
tions, by which its original Constitution has been
modified, although that Constitution, originally in-
serted in the general Act of the Congress of
Vienna ought' to have been maintained in its in-
tegrity, as well as the other s! ipulations of the same
treaty.

" 2d. That the delegates of the free city of Cra-
cow be admitted, with a consultative voice, to the
deliberations of that Conference.
"3d. That the Conference determine the measures
calculated to procure for the inhabitants of Cracow,
in their commercial relations, and in all their com-
munications with the neighbouring territories, the
benefits which were assured to them by the treaty of
Vienna.—(Sec Art. 14.)
. _ . . . . _

" 4. That the fundamental institutions intended
to govern the future existence of Cracow having
once received the sanction of the Five Powers, all
ulterior reform should henceforth be accomplished,
after the manner already prescribed for that purpose
—that is to say, by the regular agency of the con-
stitutional powers of the country.
"5. That the authorities of the country,constituted
according to the institutions thus renewed, be
henceforth free from every (avowed) foreign influ-
ence, and be answerable for their acts only to the
powers which the law shall designate for that pur-
pose.
" 6, and finally. That to obviate for the future
the necessity of an appeal like the present,
as well as for the purpose of watching the effect of
the measures which we now propose, the Govern-
ments of England and France keep up, equally with
the Three Powers, neighbours to Cracow, accre-
dited representatives to that State.
" Such are the prayers which we address to the
Governments of Great Britain and France. We
flatter ourselves that the examination of the facts,
exposed in the annexed Memoir, will prove that
these demands'are prompted by the most urgent
necessity. and that the measures which we call fcr
are the only ones that can put an end to the state
of things under which we are now groaning.
" Penetrated with this conviction we venture to
hope that Providence will grant a happy success to
the present proceeding, and we shall esteem our-
selves happy, my Lord, if you will support it with
your especial favour.
" We have the honour to be, &c.,
"THE INHABITANTS OF CRACOW.
" Cracow, March 14th, 1839."
—British and Foreign Quarterly Review for April, 1840