The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-28 00:00:00

PRUSSIA

N
DEN

IkOPOSALS TO
MARK.

TO BARON VON WER fHER, PRUSSIAN AM-
BASSADOR AT COPENHAGEN.
As your Exellency will perceive by my accom-
panying communication of this date, the moment has
stow arrived when the long-delayed ratification of the
treaty of July 2 must be considered as having taken
place. On this account Ido not hesitate to make the
following statement to your Excellency on the affairs
of Schleswig-Holstein.
What we desire and long for in this affair is the
termination of the calamities which have so long
vexed Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein, and menaced
the peace of Germany and Europe.
We have no other wish and no other interest in
this matter than the effectual and permanent restora-
tion cf peaceful and prosperous relations between the
Crown of Denmark and the Duchies, and not a
hollow peace which must be followed by new discord.
Our wishes will be completely gained, our interests
fully satisfied, if in respect of the reconstruction of
those relations, and also of the question of succession,
all rightful claims, and especially the rights of the
Germanic Confederation reserved bylus, shall find full
acknowledgment.
Other than this, the Royal Government, we are
persuaded, cannot wish or need. We therefore do
not doubt, that under all our views of these objects,
the means of attaining them will be found without
difficulty-.
According to Art. IV. of the treaty, the Royal
Danish Government will have to apply first of all to
the Germanic Confederation, and such is, no doubt,
its intention, since it certainly cannot desire to involve
itself in the heavy responsibilities of a violation of
that treaty. It has placed itself, for the purpose of
ratification, in relationship wine the representatives
of various Governments assembled at Frankfort-on-
the-.slain, and, indeed, as having sovereign rights
in Holstein and Lauenberg, has caused itself to be re-
presented in that assembly, and by its plenipotentiary
taken part in its deliberations and resolutions. On a
nearer consideration of the question, however, the
Danish Government must see that while this method
of procedure may well suffice far the ratification of
the treaty, as far as those Governments represented at
Frankfort are concerned, it can lead to nothing more.
. The Germanic Confederation is neither legally nor
actually represented at Frankfurt. The legal repre-
sentation is contested by us on convincing grounds,
and the opposite assertion cannot make the " reaeti-
Netted Diet' a universally acknowledged organ of the
ceefelerstion. That the plenipotentiaries united at
Fraelehrt actually represent but the minority of the
German governments, and that such minority does not
constitute, the to!ality of the Germanic Confederation,
is beyond all deub% Any resolutions of the Frank-
fart convention which would assert a federal autho-
rity in repent of the duchies, will be unconditionally
rapudieted by us; and since we cannot allow the
aczion in Germany of a federal organ unacknowledged
by ne, so would every measure of the Frankfort As-
seinbly inevitably cell forth actual counter measures
on ow patt. We will not tolerate any military in-
tervention which may be resolved on there.
The more necessarily this resolution proceeds out
or the rights which we hold fast, the duties which we
are bound to fulfil, the more strongly must we point
out to the royal Danish Government that any further
steps to procure the intervention of the so called Diet
for the purpose of pacifying the Duchies would fail
of their end, and would probably rather lead to a war
which would overrun the borders of Denmark and
the Dachiee, without in anywise drawing off the war
from tire, territory.
This being evident, it may be expected that the
Copenhagen Cabinet will no longer delay a step to-
wards entering upon another way to a settlement.
We have now several times declared that during
the continuance of the German constitutional crisis,
the right to transact federal affairs, not within the
competence of the Central Commission, belongs only
to the members of the confederation themselves, and
that under such circumstances prompt action is only
practicable by tee joint action of Prussia and Austria
acting in the name of and commissioned by all the
*Abe! G-rmen Governmar!s.
This peteetpiejs wholly applicable to the Schleswig

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Hol,teir. ques-ti)
as nec,ssity requires, this question is to be dealt
with promptly, then, laying. aside all questions of a
revision of the federal constitution, a special commis-
sion ad hoc might be formed.
Should the royal Danish Government admit the
expediency of this course, the only one which could
tend to a successful result, it would also perceive that
the next step to be taken must be to propose such a
cf.trnmission to the court of Vianna. According to
our views, a federal commission appointed by Prussia
and Austria to meet in Hamburgn or other suitable
town, might meet a plenipotentiary of the King of
Denmark to fix upon a mode of executing Article IV.
of the trea.v, to consider in common deliberadon the
means of a right and enduring pacification of the
I)uohies, and lay before their Governments proposals
upon turfher questions which might arise.
rrlin, sa.:t. 17. (Signed) RADOWITZ.