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in quoting a precedent of more recent date. May
it not be permitted to seek a lesson from the history
of our century without evoking irritating remem-
brances Which the present generation repudiate ? I
will, therefore, call to mind that at a moment when
Europe was little disposed to use forbearance with
regard to France, it recognised on the Alps the ne-
cessities of our geographical situation, and unani-
mously thought it equitable to leave to us a portion
of the territory which has now become much more
indispensable to our security. It was only under
the impression of the events of the following year
that that clause was annulled. The Emperor, on
ascending the throne, spontaneously deelaral that
he: accepted as the rule of his relations with Europe
the respect of treaties concluded by preceding

Governments, and this is a principle of con-
duct to which. his Majesty will always make
it a law to rcmain faithful. But it is im-
possible not to recognise the exceptional cha-
racter of the circumstances which determine us
to demand that a modification should now be effected

n the delimitation of the frontier lastly traced be•

tween France and Sardinia. The result of the war
has been to ling about, by the cession of Lom-
bardy to Piedmont, a first change in the territorial
circumscriptions of Italy; the annexation of other
States to this kingdom constitutes a new change of
which the consequences have fer us especial
gravity ; and it is in no way an abandonment of the
respect accorded on all occasions by the Govern.
znent of the Emperor to existing treaties, to demand
that they should not, in reality, be altered to our
detriment.

"In a communication which is addressed before
all things to the good faith of the Cabinets of
Europe, and which proves that which animates the
Government of the Emperor, ought I to hesitate to
say that, in restoring Savoy to Piedmont, it was
wished to constitute that country guardian of the
Alps, so that it should hold the passes into France
open However annoy!ng (facheuse) that situation
was, we loyally resigned ourselves to it during
half a century ; still more, we even accepted it
after a eimpaign in Italy, which would easily have
furnished us the occasion of changing it ; but
ought we to admit that the conditions which we
have scrupulously respected, so as to import no
trouble into our international relations, should be
aggravated. And can Europe, on its side, think it
just that, in addition to the weight with which they
already bore upon us, should he added that of a
State of which the force will have tripled in the
course of one year In inviting the modification of
the treaties on this point, we in some sort c,.nfine
ourselves to asking that one of their stipulations
may not acquire, beyond even the wish of the
Powers which subscribed them, a bearing more
grave and a sense more disadvantageous. I hasten
to add that the Government of the Emperor does
not wish to obtain the guarantees which it demands
except from the free consent of the King of Sar-
dinia and of the populations. The cession which
will be made will therefore remain exempt from all
violence as from all constraint. Our firm intention,
moreover, is so to arrange it as far as the territories
of Savoy, subject to an eventual neutralisation, are
concerned, so as not to injure any acquired right
and not to affect any legitimate interest. In ac-
cordance with our requirements (convenances), and
with the will of the Ring of Sardinia, and without
contravention of the general interests of Europe,
the cession of Savoy and the county of Nice to
France raises no questions incompatible with the
best established and the most rigorous rules of pub-
lic law. If the character, the language, and the cus-
toms incompatible with the best established and the
most rigorous rules of public law. If the character,'
the language, and the customs of the populations
destined to be united to France, assure us that that
cession is not contrary to their feelings; if we re-
flect that the configuration of the locality has in-
termixed their commercial and their political inte-
rests with our own ; if we say, lastly, that the Alps
constitute the barrier which must eternally separate
Italy from France, we may confine ourselves to con-
elude from this that the new frontier to be established
between Piedmont and ourselves finds its sanction
in the force of circumstances. It is not in the name
of the idea of nationality, it is not as a natural fron-
tier that we prosecute the adjunction of Savoy and
of Nice to our territory, it is solely as a guarantee,
and under circumstances such that the mind can-
not conceive, that they should reproduce themselves
anywhere else. In one word, strangers to all views
of aggrandisement, still more so to all ideas of con-
quest, our sole object is to obtain, in the name of
the principles of public law, that treaties should not
be rendered for us more onerous in a point in which
they had been framed in dispositions which time, I
hope, has contributed to efface, and that, as a secu-
rity against the dangers which the development of
Piedmont may bring upon us in the future, our
frontiers should be fixed, by means of an understand-
ing wits the King of Sardinia, in accordance with
the necessities of the common defence.
" The Government of the Emperor, full of confi-
dence in the weight of the considerations which it
could put forward, has entered into negotiations
with the Cabinet of Turin on the subject of this in>
portant question. You know in what terms we
opened this correspondence.

" You are equally acquainted with the answer,
and you have seen that, receiving the observations
which we have put forward, the Sardinian Govern-
ment has shown itself disposed, at the price of a
voluntary sacrifice, to accept their consequence. I
flatter myself that#e reasons of necessity and of
right whichdetermine our conduct will be fully ap-
preciated by -the British Government, seeing the
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in founding their combinations on bases uniting
sentiments of equitywhich inspire it and the friendly
spirit which directs its relations with France. It
mate, we should enter into arrangements with Sar-
dinia
circumstances most frequently independent of
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the
conditions of a true stability, which indeed are no
others than those of justice enlightened by a healthy
intelligence of reciprocal interests ; and it ' is thus
that acts intended to secure peace have sometimes
only had for result the
sowing,
in the political sys-
I tem, of fresh seeds of difficulty and somplication.
The combination of which such just and such power..
ful motives now authorises us to desire the realisa-
tion is, on the contrary, so conformable to the gene-
ral interest that it is necessarily required, we are
confidently persuaded, to make part of any system
wisely conceived and drawn up with foresight. It
finds therefore its legitimacy in the absence of all
clashing with the well understood observances of
Europe, and also in the requirements of our own
situation. We flatter ourselves that the question
will be thus regarded by the Court of England.
" I beg you to read, and to leave a copy of this
despatch with the Principal Secretary of State of
her Britannic Majesty.—Receive, &c.,
(Signed) " THOUVENEL."

The news of the increase of the protective duty
on cotton twist and yarn in India from 5 to 10 per cent. has
created, as was to have been expected, a strong feeling in.
Manchester. A telegram on the subject having been re-
ceived on Monday, the apprehensions of the merchants
were immediately aroused, and at a meeting of the Cham-
ber of Commerce a deputation was forthwith appointed to
wait upon Sir Charles Wood in London. They will be re-
ceived at an early day next week, and much interest is felt
to learn the tone that will be taken on the subject, after the
rigid arguments that have lately been. insisted upon in
every quarter during the discussions on the French treaty.
There can be no doubt that the measure will be quoted not
merely by all the continental protectionists in justification
of their system, but likewise by a majority of the politicians
in the United States, and probably in Canada. The in-
terest of the matter is rendered more intense at the present
moment than it would have been at any former period from
the extraordinary development of the Manchester trade
with India last year, when our total exports to the country
increased from £16,782,386 to £19,832,699, and the serious
effect that might be exercised on the general position of our
commercial relations by anything that could check this in-
tercourse, or throw it into uncertainty.
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