The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-27 00:00:00

AT PARIS.

Naples, June 30, 1856.
Monsieur le Marquis,—You are already acquainted,
by my despatch of the 7th inst., No. 278, with the sub-
stance of the 09mmunication made to me by the envoy
of France, who at the same time left me a copy of a
despatch, after having read it, addressed to him to that
effect by his Government.
You will perceive by the copy of the French document
which I think it useful to send to you enclosed, that the
Imperial Government has meant to determine, by ap-
plying them to the States of the King, the sense and the
bearing of the preoccupations which it says were mani-
fested in the conferences which were held for peace, and
at which the plenipotentiaries all showed themselves
equally penetrated with the sentiments of respect which
animate their Governments for the independence of other
States.

Count Walewski, in protesting that no doubt can be
felt as to the real intentions of France towards us, has
thought it his duty, in the interest of the preservation of
peace, to suggest the necessity of preventing the recur-
rence of any agitation in Italy. That, in his opinion,
could only be effected by adopting measures of internal
administration calculated to remove the dangers caused
by a system of severity, and which, he says, would fur.
nish fresh elements of success to revolutionary propa-
gandism by increasing discontent.
In acting in a sense contrary to the principle respected
by all the powers, the French Government thinks proper
to suggest that our internal administration should un-
dergo changes which it declares to be superfinous for it
to point out, not omitting, however, to mention the
nature of those which it belonged to the Government of
the King to consider as being proper to secure the main-
tenance of peace.
It is impossible to comprehend how the Imperial Go-
vernment, which speaks of itself as well informed of the
present situation of affairs in the State of the King, oan
justify the inadmissible interference which it assumes in
our affairs by the urgent necessity for reforms, in de-
fault of which it is convinced that the present state of
things in Naples and Sicily would constitute a serious
danger for the tranquillity of Italy. No Government has
a right to interfere in the internal administration of ano-
ther state, and particularly in what relates to courts of
justice.
The means imagined to maintain peace and to prevent
and repress revolutionary movements is the very qne
which leads to revolutions. If any public outbreak were
to take place either here or in Sicily, it would be excited
precisely by such a course of proceeding; and revolution-
ary passions would be raised not only in the States of the
King, but throughout the whole of Italy, by this inop-
portune protection given to the political agitators.
The King, our master, has at all times exercised his
sovereign c,emency towards a great number of his guilty
or misguided subjects, by commuting their punishments
or recalling them from exile ; and his benevolent heart
feels the greatest sorrow at seeing that the majority of
those men are incorrigible, so that if our august master
wished to exercise his clemency, as on former occasions,
he is, in spite of him,elf, constrained in the interest of
the public weal not to exercise it, in consequence of the
agitation produced in Italy by the ill-advised suggestions
of the Governments by which the enemies of order feel
themselves protected.
If the m et perfect calm now prevails in the States of
the King, where revolution has always found in the
devotedness of the people for their sovereign and in the
firmness of the Government the most powerful obstacle
to its attempts at disturbance, it is equally certain that
the malcontents would not fail to succeed in their auda-
cious attempts to plunge the country into disorder and
const _rnation.
The King's Government, which scrupulously abstains
from interfering in the affairs of other States, considers
itself to be the only judge of the wants of the kingdom
for the purpose of assuring peace, which mill not be dis-
turbed if evil intentioned persons, deprived of all support
find themselves restrained by the laws and by the strength
of the Government ; and it is in this manner alone that
the danger et fresh convulsions, which might compromise
the peace of Italy, can be removed, and that the kind
heart of the King our master will find the opportunity of
dofesizaitachre to
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propriety of again exercising his habitual clemency.
You are authorised, Monsieur le Marquis, to read this
, and tto
communication.leav ehi
CARAYA.

No. 111.
THE COMMANDRUR CARAFA TO BARON BREMER, AT
NAPLES.

Naples, Aug. 26, 1856.
Reports which have come from Paris and from Vienna
have informed the King, the august sovereign of the
undersigned, charged with the Portfolio of Foreign
Affairs, of the disagreeable impression produced on the
Imperial Government and on the Emperor of the French
by the reply of the Government of the Two Sicilies to
the communications made at Naples on the part of the
French and English Governments by Sir Wm. Temple
and Baron Brenier, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of the Ftviperor Napoleon ; a reply, ad-
dressed to the Marqu►s Antonini, and which the latter
received orders to communicate to Count Wale tvski, in
the same way as Prince Carini to Lord Clarendon. No
one could ever have had the intention, in the despatch
of the 30th June last, of imputin g to the French Govern-
ment tendencies which were not in conformity with
the guarantees which it has. in so many circum-
stances, given to Europe, and if the Imperial Govern
merit has seen such an imputation in the despatch,, the
most lively regret is felt.
The Government of France, like that of Naples and
of every other country, does not like revolutions, and on