The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-04 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The following is the text of the circular despatch
addressed by Count de Buol, Austrian Minister of
Foreign Affairs, to the Austrian diplomatic agents,
under date of April 29 :
" I send you herewith a copy of the manifesto which the
Emperor, our master, has this day addressed to his people.
His Majesty announces to the Empire that he has resolved
to cause the Austrian army to cross the Ticino. , The
Cabinet iiad accepted the last proposition of mediation of
Great Britain, but our adversaries have not followed that
example, and we have accordingly remitted to arms the
defence of our cause. At this solemn moment it is my duty
to expose once again to our representatives abroad the
circumstances against the fatal power of which have failed
all the attempts to maintain European peace which has been
so long and so happily preserved. -
" The Court of Turin, in returning an evasive reply to
our summons to disarm, only gave once more a proof of
the same hostility which for too long a time already has had
the triple and unfortunate privilege of combatingthe sacred
rights of Austria, disquieting Europe, and encouraging the
hopes of the revolution. As this hostility could not be
broken down by the longanimity of Austria, the Empire
was destined to find itself at last under the necessity of
having recourse to arms.
" Austria lhias tranquilly supported a long series of
offences from tln enemy weaker, 'than herself, because she
knows that he high mission is to preserve as long as pos-
sible the peab4of the world, because the Emperor and his
people know and -love the labours of a progressive pacific
deveioPment, which leads to a higher degree of prosperity,
Mit Man ''''''' mind and of upright heart can now
doubt the right which Austria has to make war on Pied-
inept.
" Piedmont has never sincerely accepted the treaty by
which, ten years ago, she promised at Milan fo live in peace
and friendship with Austria. Twice beaten in war, which
had been caused by her mad pretensions, and although she
has been cruelly punished, that State still maintains her
former views with a deplorable tenacity. The son of Charles
Albert appears to passionately desire the day when the in-
heritance of his himse, which has been restored to it in its
integrity. by .the moderation and raagnaniMity of Austria,
should be for the third time made the stake of a game dis-
astrous to the people.
" The ambition of a dynasty whose vain pretensions
affect the future welfare of Italy, and are neither justifi!
•by. the nature nor by. the history of the Country, has no'
hesitated to, make with• the' forces of 'revolution an alliance
contrary to nature: Deaf to• all warnings it has surrounded
• itself Niith ' the malooritents 'of an the States of Italy, and
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the hopes of the enemies Of,tlie leg:Wm-ate 'governments of
the Italian peninsula have found their chief support at
Turin. A criminal-abuse has been made of the national
feelings of the Italian people. Endeavour's have been made
to keep up and encourage disturbances in Italy in order that
Piedmont might have a pretext for hypocritically deploring
the state of Italy, and for assuming, in the eyes of short-
sighted and senseless people, the part of liberator.
"To assist this rash undertaking an unbridled press
every day endeavoured to carry beyond the frontiers of the
neighbouring States a moral insurrection against the order
of legitimate things; this state of things no wintry in Europe
could support without exposing itself in the end to deep
and dangerous excitement. Out of love fOr those hollow
dreams of the future, and in order to secure to herself sup-
port from abroad, Piedmont took part in a war in which
she had no concern, against a foreign power; and sacrificed
her soldiers for a foreign object. She was also seen at the
Conferences of Paris with a presumption quite new in the
annals of diplomacy, to criticise with effrontery the Govern-
ments of Italy, her own country—Governments which had
never offended her.
ct But that nobody might believe that'these wild
,desires
and efforts were associated with the least sincere sentiment
in favour of the peaceful prosperity of Italy,, the angry pas-
sions of Sardinia redoubled whenever any of the Sovereigns
of Italy followed the
,inspirations of indulgence and, conci-
liation, and whenever the Emperor Francis J. osepia gave
signal proofs of his _love for his Italian subjects,. of his
solicitude for the happiness and progress of, the richest and
most favoured countries of Italy.
- " When their Imperial Majesties visited the Italian.pro-
vinces, receiving- the homage of their faithful subjects and
marking their every step by a host of benefits, the j'eurnals
of Turin were allowed freely to advocate regicide.
ge When the Emperor confided the - administration of
Lombardy and Venice to the Archduke Ferdinand Maxi-
milian, his brother, a prince endowed with high intelligence,
animated by liberal and kindly intentions, and profoundly
sympathising with the true spirit of the Italian people, no
pains were spared at Turin to cause the prince's noble in-
tentions to be repaid with as much ingratitude as Could be
produced in a well-disposed nation by odious instigations
incessantly repeated. •
" The Court of Turin, having once entered upon the path
in which its only choice was either to -follow the revolution
or take the lead, could not but niate-tilut-more' lose the
power and the will to observe the laws which regulate the