The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-25 00:00:00

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THE REPUBLIC OF CRACOW.
THE ROYAL ORDINANCE.
BERLIN, Nov. 19.—The followiag ordinances have
been published at Cracow :
" We, Ferdinand of Este, by the grace of God Em-
peror of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, Sac.
" After the peace of Vienna, of the 14th of October,
1809, had detached from our empire the city of Cracow
and its territory, and had added it to the Grand Duchy
of Warsaw, but which, in consequence of the events of
the war of 1312, the Russian troops had reconquer
with
e,
our father, the late Emperor Francis L, colicluded
the Allied Courts of Russia and Prssia treaty,
dated the 21st of April and 3d of May, to the follow-
ing effect :
" Cracow, with its territory, shall form, for the future,
a free and independendeut city, under the protection of
the Three Powers. Nevertheless, the express condition
and the necessary supposition of that arrangement, will
be the strict neutrality of that free town, and the duty
imposed upon it not to give an asylum to any refugee
who is a subject of the three protecting Powers, but, on
the contrary, to deliver them to the competent authori-
ties. Nevertheless, an unhappy experience of sixteen
years has pr?ved that Cracow has not fulfilled the con-
ditions ofits independent existence, hut that since the year
1830 it has been the incessant cradle of hostile intr guns
against the three protecting Powers. To such anexte t
has this gone, that at the end of the month of
February of the same year it became the theatre of
scenes more violent and more dangerous than ever.
After the Government and the constitution had been
destroyed, and that the fate of the town was abandoned
to a certain number of conspirators, who had taken the
title of the Revolutionary Government of Poland, and
excited the inhabitants of all the ancient Polish provinces
to an armed revolt against the existing Government, an
armed horde made an irruption from the territory of
Cracow into the states. It was therefore necessary once
naore to place Cracow under a Provisional Government
under the military authorities, and to occupy it with the
troops of the protecting Powers. These events having
placed us in the impossibility of re-establishing the basis
of the liberties and independence of Cracow, which had
been broken by the enemies of the order, the repose, and
the tranquillity of Europe ; and penetrated at the same
time by the duty of plaeing our faithful subjects of Ga-
licia, and the peaceful inhabitants of the town of Cracow
itself, in a position of safety from the attacks of the re-
volutionary party, we haze, in accordance with his Ma-
jesty the King of Prussia, and his Majesty the Emperor
of Russia, submitted to a serious appreciation the future
fate of Cracow.
" With this view, deliberations have taken place with
the special plenipotentiaries of the courts of Berlin and
St. Petersburgh. The result of these deliberations has
been a convention, concluded on the 6th of November of
this iyear, at Vienna, by which the three protecting
Powers of the city of Cracow revoke and suppress the
treaties of the 3d May, 1815, and in consequence that
town and its territory return under our sceptre, in the
same manner that it belonged before the peace of Vienna,
of 14th October, 1809, to our late father and to our an-
cestors. It is on this account that we take possession of
the said city of Cracow and its territory. We join it for
ever to our crown, and declare that it forms an insepa-
rable portion of our empire, in which we incorporate it.
" We name the Count Maurice de Deyme, our cham-
berlain, member of the Council and Governor of Prague,
our Aulic commissioner, for this taking into possession,
and we seriously invite all the inhabitants of the town of
Cracow, and of its ci-devant territory, in their own in-
terest, to obey that Aulic commissioner sent by us, and
also to the authorities whom we confirm, and whom we
establish anew. We invite them, besides, to follow punc-
tually the ordinances made and to be made.
" On the other hand, we promise them the main
tenance and protection of our holy religion, impartial
justice, equal division of imposts, and full and entire
guarantee of the public security to those who will render
.themselves worthy of our grace by submitting imme •
diately to the present measure, which is in their interest,
and by their fidelity and their devotion to our house.
We shall always be a mild Prince and a gracious Em-
peror, and we shall make every effort in our power to
insure to them the benefits that their union to a great
and powerful monarchy is of a nature to guarantee to the
inhabitants of Cracow.
" Done in our Imperial Palace at Vienna, the 11th of
November, 1846, and of our reign the 12th.
" FERDINAND (L. S.)
" CHARLES COUNT DE JAZAGHE, First
Chancellor.
" FRANCIS BARON DE PILLERSDORFF,
Aulic Chancellor.
" JOHN BARON DE KRUCKZA, Vice-Chan-
cellor.
" By the special order of his Apostolic Majesty.
" FRANCIS CHEVALIER OF WADHERNY,
Antic Councillor."

The following proclamation has been issued by the
provisional Governor of Cracow:—
" Field-Marshal Lieutenant Count de Castiglione,
entrusted provisionally with the government of the free
city of Cracow by the three protecting Powers, has
announced in their name that on the 6th instant they
drew up and signed the following convention:—
" Considering that the conspiracy which in the month of
February, 1846, led to certain events in the Grand Duchy
of Posen, was a project arranged at a distance, with the
assistance of numerous accomplices in that country ;
considering that this criminal faction took arms at the
time agreed upon, commenced hostilities, and circulated
proclamations which excited the minds of the people
to a general revolt ; considering that Cracow became
the seat of a central authority which assumed the
name of a revolutionary Government, and that this
Government issued ordonnances for the direction
of the insurrection ; considering that all these
circsmstances have put the city of Cracow into a mi-
serable state of war, which would have authorised the
three Courts of Austria, Prussia, and Russia to use all
the rights which a state of war gives ; considering
that upon this one ground the three Courts aforesaid
might have disposed as they thought proper of a terri-
torry which bad taken a hostile attitude against them;
but, considering also that the intention of the three said
Powers is not to subject the city of Cracow to the law
of the strongest; considering that where there is so great
an inequality of force, such law ought not to come into
operation ; considering that it is no longer a question for
an act of retaliation against that city, nor for its punish-
ment, but that the high protecting Powers only desire
to re- establish peace and order in the territory of Cra-
cow, and have not any other object than to protect their
subjects from a recurrence of events which have so
seriously disturbed their tranquillity; considering that by
a treaty of peace concluded between them on the 21st of
April (3d May), 1815, the city of Cracow, with its tern.
tones, was declared a free, independent, and strictly neu-
tral city, and placed under the protection of the three
high contracting Powers, and that the three Courts have
desired to put into execution by this convention the arti-
cles relating to Cracow in their several treaties of the 21st
April (3d May), 1815, of which one was concluded be-
tween his Majesty the Emperor of Austria and his Ma-
jesty the Emperor of Russia ; and the other, of the
same date, between the Emperor of Russia and his Ma-
jesty the Kizg of Prussia ' • but, considering that the
existence of the free city of Cracow, so far from fulfil-
ling their intentions, has been s source of disorders and
troubles, which for a period of twenty years have not
only menaced the peace and prosperity of that free city,
and the security of the neighbouring territories, but have
further had for object to overthrow the state of affairs
established by the treaties of 1815;
" Considering that numerous events of this kind,
which are too generally known to render it necessary to
examine them further, have entirely changed in its
essence the nature of the condition of the city of Cracow,
and that by proceedings contrary to the provisions of
existing treaties Cracow has on several occasions cast
aside the duties which a strict neutrality would impose
upon her, which proceedings have on several occasions
led to the armed intervention of :the three Powers, and
that all the modifications heretofore effected in her con-
stitution, with a view of giving more strength to her
Government, have not been sufficient to prevent a re-
currence of these deplorable events—considering that
the patient spirit manifested in the benevolent
ordonnance of the three Governments, instead of leading
to the object intended, has only served to strengthen the
irreconcilable enemies of order in their projects, and
that the free city of Cracow is now become the focus of
a new and extensive conspiracy, the ramifications of
which extend into all the ancient provinces of Poland;—
" Considering that this culpable and disloyal project
has been followed up by an attack with open force on
the part of Cracow, which has become the centre from
which the spirit of revolt has sought to undermine the
foundations of the interior tranquillity of the adjacent
territories—considering, from this circumstance, that it
appears that Cracow, as a political state, is evidently too
weak to resist the continual attempts of Polish emigrants,
which hold that city in a state of moral servitude, so that
she no longer affords to the Powers aforesaid any secu-
rity against a recurrence of the attempts at disturbance
so often made;—
" Considering, further, that enterprises of this cha-
racter are an evident violation of the treaty of the 21st
April (3d May), 1815, as also the second article of the
act of constitution for the free city of Cracow of the 30th
May, 1833—considering that the conventions above-
mentioned concerning Cracow, agreed to by the three
Powers, were repeated in articles 6,7, 8,9, and 10 of the
general act of the Congress of Vienna of the 9th of June,
1815, solely in order that that treaty might comprehend
the various results of the arrangements concluded in the
course of particular negotiations betweent he Govern-
ments ;—considering consequently that if the three
aforesaid Courts now agree to change In regard to Cra-
cow a state of things upon which they were voluntarily
agreed in 1815, they are only adopting the exercise of
an incontestable right •
" Considering all which precedes, and having taken
into serious consideration the safety of their territories,
so often threatened by the free city of Cracow, the three
Courts of Austria, Prussia, and Russia have agreed to
the following resolutions :
" First. The said three Courts of Austria, Prussia, and
Russia revoke the articles of the treaties concerning the
city of Cracow, agreed to, the one between his Majesty
th:Emperor of Russia and the Emperor of Austria, and
the _ o:umher. between the Emperor of Russia and the King
of n, and signed on the 21st April (3d May), 1815.
.1"
In like manner the additional treaty between Aus-
tria, Prussia, and Russia, of the same date, is revoked
and suppressed.
" Secondly. In consequence, the city of Cracow and
its territories are restored Austria, and re-united to
the Austrian monarchy, totbe possessed by his imperial,
royal, and apostolic Majesty, as it was previous to the
year 1809.

(Signed) " CASIIGLIONE.
46 Cracow, the 16th November, 1846."

The Paris papers announce the death of the cele-
brated historian Michelet, whose late work, called
“ Priests, Women, and Families," excited so much
attention.