The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

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The following paragraph on the affairs of Swit-
zerland is from the Napoleon :--
"The question at issue in Switzerland does not refer
to the refugees—it is particularly Neufchatel which
Prussia claims. The rights of the King of Prussia have,
it is true, been acknowledged by treaties, but they
have not been guaranteed by these treaties, as
asserted in the circular of Baron de Schleit-
nitz. A revolution, moreover, has been accom-
plished at Neufchatel, and Prussia can only recover
her rights by force of arms. In that case the entire
confederation would support Neufchatel, and such a
quarrel might produce incalculable consequences. For
this reason we are persuaded that no Government would
have recourse ti extreme measures for such an unim-
portant object. For, as we have already stated, France,
although animated by the most friendly feelings towards
the powers of Europe, would find herself constrained to
take a part, and Prussia is too enlightened to wish at the
present period to displease us.'

GREECE.

The Courier d' Athenes of the 18th publishes the
following note, addressed by Mr. Wyse to M. Londos,
on the 9th ult. :
" The undersigned has the honour to announce to M.
Londos, that he has transmitted to the Bitish Govern-
ment a copy of the note addressed to him by M. Glarakis,
on the 17th (29th) Nov., 1849, in reply to the note of
the undersigned, of the 19th July last, as well as others
of Sir Edmund Lyons, dated the 27th October,
1839, 23d Sept„ 1841, 14th Sept., 1843, and 13th March,
1849, all of which contained representations to the
Greek Government on the subject of acts committed by
persons who pretended to be employed by that Govern-
ment on the islands Cervi and Sapienza, in violation of
the rights of sovereignty exercised over those islands b 3
the lonian state to which they belong.
By a dispatch from Viscount Palmerston, principal
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, dated the 24th January.
1850, and received on the 7th instant, the undersigned
was enjc.ined to ibform M. Londos, that previous to the
date of the note of M. Glarakis on the 17th (29th)
Nov. 1849, the British Government having seen the ne-
cessity of at once protecting the lonian territory against
a recurrence of proceedings so unjustifiable as those
which took place when the lonian prisoners were
set at liberty at Cervi in the month of February,
1849, had given orders for measures to be taken for the
removal of all foreign intruders, not being subjects of the
lonian State. And, in fact, taking into consideration
that the Geeek Government has not only not replied for
several years to the different letters above mentioned,
but that it has ever denied their reception, M. Londos
cannot be surprised that the British Government should
at last feel the obligation of itself proceeding to defend
the rights confided to the protection of Great Britain.
It results, however, at the present moment, from the
note of M. larakis, dated the 17th (29th) Nov., that,
persuaded that the principal stipulations by which the
extent of the territorial rights of the lonian State has
been defined and fixed, are found in the treaty concluded
in 1797 at Campo Formio between Austria and France,
as well as in those signed in 1699 and 1778 at Carlo-
wi:z and Passarowitz between the Porte and. Venice,
the Greek government maintains that the lonian state
caa only pretend to the islands which belonged to
Venice previous to 1683, the period at which the war
began which terminated with the treaty of Carlowitz.
The undersigned has been directed to reply to M.
Londos that the title in virtue of which the lonian State
possesses the island (..f Cervi and Sapienza, as well as
the other small islands which are equally dependent
on the seven principal islands of the lonian
State is founded not on the treaties of Campo For.
mio, Carlowitz, and Passarowitz, but rather upon the
treaty signed at Paris on the sth November, 1815, be-
tween Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and Prussia; and
that the only ether treaty which Great Britain can re-
cognise to contain a description of the lonian State and
its dependencies is that which was concluded in 1800 be-
tween Russia and the Porte, which describes the islands
in the following terms :
" The islands of Corfu, Zante, Cephalonia, Santa
Maure, Ithaca, Palms, and Cerigo, and all the large
and small islands, inhabited and uninhabited, situated
opposite the coasts of the Morea and Albania, which
have been detached from Vienna, and which have just
been conquered."
Ilia by virtue of the above-mentioned treaty, and of
the special guarantee of Russia that the septinsular
republic was organised, and its constitntion esta-
blished, and that the supreme legislative body
of that republic undertook in 1804 to determine the
principal islands to which the smaller ones which are
particularly mentioned in the treaty of 1800 should be
particularly annexed. In consequence, the lonian legis-
lative body declared, by its act of the 22d of January,
1804, Ist, shat the small islands of Strivoli, Maratho-
nisi, Pelusi, Prentanove, Prodano, Sapienza, Pone-
Selinari, Venetia, and all the others scattered about the
sea as far as Cape Gallo, should belong and should be
morally and politically united to the island of Zante.
2ndly. That the small islands inhabited and uninhabited
of Cerigoto, Poro, Paretto, Dragonera, Cervi, and all
others between Cape S. Angelo and Caron, should belong
and should be morally and politically united to the
island of Cerigo.
Thus when Great Britain, by virtue of the treaty of
1815, became the protector of the lonian State, it found
the island of Sapienza and Cervi united to Zante and
Cerigo by a formal and public act of the septinsular re-
public, and. Great Britain is consequently bound to
maintain intact the state of the territorial posses:reins

of the lonian Islands such as it was when those islands

were committed to its charge by the treaty of 1815.
The undersigned must further inform the Greek
Government, that in 1819 the Porte, the incontestable

sovereign of the territory which now forms the kingdom
of Greece, formally joined the treaty of 1815, by an
act of ratification, signed at Constantinople on
the 24th April, 1849. It seems, however, that
the Greek government pretends that Sapienza
and Cervi continued to be occupied by the Porte
until the period of the independence of Greece; that
those islands were occupied by the Greek Government
after that periot?, and that they are therefore included in
the territory assigned to the kingdom of Greece.
The undersigned must declare in reply, that bolt'
Sapienza and Cervi were inspected by the lonian
authorities in 1817, and found uninhab:ted, and that
when Sir Henry Ward, the present Lord High Com-
missioner of the lonian Islands, visited the same
islands in the course of the summer cf 1849, the
former remained uninhabited, while in Cervi there
was only one house and 50 inhabitants scattered abroad
and living in temporary dwellings. But if subjects of
the Porte or of the King of Greece have ever occupied
either the one or the other of these islands, they
have in doing so committed an act of aggression
on the lonian territory. While to the assertion of
M. Glarakie, in which he invokes the treaty
which established the independence of Greece,
and axed the limits of that kingdom, _ the under-

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signed begs to remind M. Londos that the insular limits
of Greece were defined by the protocol of the conference
held in London on the 3d of February, 1830, which
after having described a northern line of demarcation for