The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-21 00:00:00

Manifesto of the King of Italy.

FLORENCE, June 20.
The King of Italy has addressed the following
manifesto to the Italian people :
" Seven years have already passed since Austria attacked
my States because I had supported the common cause of
the country in the councils of Europe. I took up the sword
to defend my throne, the liberty of my people, the honour
of the Italian name, and to fight for the right of the nation.
Victory was in favour of good right. The valour of the
army, the aid of the volunteers, the concord and wisdom
of the people, and the assistance of a magnanimous ally,
gained the almost complete independence and liberty of
Italy. " Supreme reasons we were obliged to respect pre-
vented us from at that time accomplishing that just and
glorious enterprise. One of the noblest provinces of
Italy, united by the desires of the population to my Crown,
and which its heroic resistance and continual protest against
foreign dominion rendered especially dear and sacred to us,
remained in the hinds of Austria. Though sorrowful at
heart, I abstained from troubling Europe, which desired
peace.

"My Government occupied itself with improving the
work of interior organisation, with opening sources of
public prosperity, and with fortifying the country by land
and by sea, awaiting a favourable opportunity to accom-
plish the independence of Venetia. Although waiting was
not without danger, nevertheless wo understood how to
keep shut within our hearts—l my feelings as an Italian
and a King, and my people its just impatience. I preserved
intact the right of the nation•and the dignity of the Crown
and Parliament, in order that Europe might understand
what was due to Italy.

"Austria suddenly reinforcing her troops
frontier, and provoking us by her hostile and threatening
our
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attitude, has come to disturb the pacific task of the
reorga-
nisation of the kingdom. I have replied by again taking
up arms, and you have afforded the world tho grand sight
of hastening with promptitude and enthusiasm into the
army, and to enlist among the volunteers.
" Nevertheless, when friendly Powers endeavoured to
settle the difficulties by a Congress, I gave a last pledge of
my feelings to Europe, and hastened to accept the pro-
posal. Austria again refused, this time rejecting negotia-
tions and all agreement, affording thus a fresh proof that if
she confides in her strength she does not rely equally upon
the goodness of her cause and of her right. You also,
Italians, may trust in your strength, looking with pride
upon your valiant army and strong navy, but you may rely
still more firmly upon the sacredness of your right, whose
triumph is henceforth infallible. We are supported by the
judgment of public opinion and by the sympathy of
Europe, which knows that Italy, independent and secure
in her territory, will become a guarantee for peace and
order.

" Italians ! I hand over the government of the State to
the Prince of Carignan, and again take up the eagles of
Gaito and Pastrengo, of Palestro and San Martino. I feel
that I shall accomplish the vows made at the tomb of my
high-minded father. I wish to be once more the first
soldier of Italian independence.
(Signed)

" VICTOR EM)LiNUEL."

Reply of Hanover to the Piussian
Ultimatum.

HANOVERIAN HEAD-QUARTERS,
GOTTINGEN, June 10.
The following is the full text of the Hanoverian
reply to the ultimatum forwarded by the Prussian
Minister at Hanover on the 15th. The ultimatum
was almost verbally the same as that addressed to
the Sa'on Government :
" The undersigned has had the honour to receive a note
of his Highness the Prince of Ysenburg, forwarded to-
day, and has submitted its contents to his Majesty the
King. The motion brought forward at the sitting of the
Diet on the 11th was adopted on the 14th, with such modi-
fications that it cannot be regarded as an act of hostility•
against Prussia. The Hanoverian Government in especial
has most carefully adhered to the Federal point of view of
the strictest impartiality both in its vote and in its argu-
ments, with which the Prussian Government is fully ac-
quainted. It has voted against the mobilisation of the
three Austrian army corps, in order to uphold the Diet in
its perfectly objective position between the two Powers in
the dispute. It has further not voted for that part of the
motion referring to the measures derived from the arrange-
ments as to Federal war ; and has, lastly, especially advo-
cated accommodation as the ultimate object of all resolu-
tions of the Diet. Upon the other hand, the King's Go-
vernment has been unable to avoid recognising the fact
patent to all the world, that the internal quiet and security
of the Confederation were threatened, and has equally found
it impossible to abstain from its Federal duty of voting for
motions conducing to the protection :of that quiet and

security.
" As the Hanoverian Government therefore is conscious of
having acted, after the nicest consideration and most con-
scientious examination of the existing and rightful circum-
stances, in accordance with its duties as a member of the
Germanic Confederation; as it at the same time believes it
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may claim to have united its support of Federal right with
the most friendly c onsideration for the Prussian Government
—the undersigned was the more surprised at the terms of
the treaty communicated by his Highness Prince Ysenburg,
with regard to which a declaration is demanded of the
King's Government.
" The first of these conditions is that the Hanoverian
troops shall bo immediately reduced to the peace footing of
March Ist last. With regard to this point, the undersigned
can only state that the King's army is not by any means
upon a war footing. It has only undertaken the customary
drills earlier this year than usual, and the undersigned can-
not suppose that this simple step, for which neither purchase
of horses nor any act of mobilisation whatever has taken
place, can be considered an act of hostility against Prussia.
But the Prussian Government will certainly not deny that
the withdrawal of an in itself unimportant ()crier under pre-
sent circumstances would be so heavy a blow to the honour
of the Hanoverian army that. hisliajesty can never submit
to such an expectation.

" The second condition demands that Hanoverjshall con-
sent to the convocation of the German Parliament, and
shall order elections thereto as soon as the same is done by
Prussia. Upon this point the undersigned has the honour
to state that the proposals for the convocation of a German
Parliament lie before the Federal Diet for finaldita oiits
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ment, he can only repeat most decisively that the Hano-
verian Government is conscious of occupying the ground
of unassailable, internationally, guaranteed Federal right,
and that adherence to that right, in its opinion, cannot
give any 'cause to the Prussian Government to consider
tho kingdom of Hanover as in a state of war against Prus-
sia. The Hanoverian Government adheres unalterably to
the opinion that Federal law prohibits war between mem-
bers of the Confederation, and it will therefore not take
any warlike step against its ally, the Prussian Govern-
ment, so long as the frontiers of the kingdom are not as-
sailed. For such an attack, however, the Hanoverian
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" His Highness the Prussian Ambassador,
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