The Sun.
London, England, 1821-02-02 00:00:00

STATE PAPER.

CIRCULAR DISPATCH TO HIS MAJESTY'S MIS-
SIONS AT FOREIGN COURTS,

LAID IltroßE TILE HOUSE OF L'OtiDS, IN FURSVANCK OF AN

AODRES.S TO HIS MAJESTY, V.I.II.,ITARY, 1821.

FOREIGN OFFICE, JAN. 19, 1821.

Sitt—l should not have felt it necessary to have made any
communication to•you, in the present state of the discussions
begun at Troppau and transferred to Lavbach, had it not been
fur a circular coni►i►uuication which has been addressed to
the Courts •Of Austria, Prussia, and Russia, to their several
missions,.and which his Majesty's Goyernmer4 conceive, if
not edveAed to, might (however unintentionally) conveys
upon the subject the'rein alluded to, very erroneous impres7
siuns of the past, as well as of the present, sentiments of the
Braila) Government. ,

It lias become, therefore, necessary to inform you that the
King has felt hinistil obliged Ig. gyeline becoming a party to
the measures in inestiOn.

These measures embrace two distinct objects t—lst. The
establishment of certain general principles for the regulation
of the future political conduct of the Allies in the cases
therein described;—idly. The proposed mode of dealing,
under these principles, with the existing affairs oflaples. •
The system of measures proPOsed under the former head, if
to be reciprocally acted upon, would be in direct repugnance
to the fundamental laws of this country. But even if this
decisive objection did not exist, the British Government would
nevertheless regard the principles on which these measures
rest, to be such as could not be safely admitted as a system of
international law. They are of opinion that their adoption
would inevitably sanction, and, in the hands of less benefi-
cent Monarchs, might hereafter lead to a much inure fv;:quent
and extensive interference in the internal transactions of
States, than they are persuaded is intended by the august
Parties from whom they proceed, or can be reconcileahle
either with tile general interest, or with the efficient autho-
.rity and dignity of independent Sovereigns. They do not
regard the alliance as entitled, under existing treaties, to as-
sume, in their character as Allies, any such general powers,
nor do they conceive that such extraordinary powers could be
assumed, in virtue of any fresh diplomatic transaction among
the Allied Courts, without their either attributing to them-
selves supremacy incompatible with the rights of other
States, or, if to be acquired through the special accession of
such States, without introducing a federative system in Eu-.
rope, not only unwieldy and ineffectual to its object, but lead-
ving many most serious inconveniences.
With respect to the particular case of Naples, the British
Government, at the very earliest moment, did hot hesitate to
express their strong
thatdisa revolutionpprobatio nof
was
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the mode circum-
stances
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dr which
been effected but they, at the same time, expressly declared
to the several Allied Courts that they should not consider
themselves as tither called upon, or justified, to advise an in-
trs ference. ten' the part at this connt.;y- they fully admitted,
however, that other European States, and especially Austria
and the Italian Powers, might feel themselves differently cir-
cumstanced ; and they professed that it was not their purpose
to prejudge the question as it might affect them, or to in-
terfere with the course which such States might think fit to
adopt, with a view to their own security, provided only that
they were ready to give every reasonable assurance that their
views were not directed to purposes of aggrandizement, sub-
vet sive of the territorial system of Europe, as established by
the late treaties. -

Upon these principles the conduct of his Majesty's GOvern-
ment with regard to the Neapolitan question has been, from
the -fird moment, uniformly regulated, and copies of the sue-,
ccssive instructions sent to the British Authorities at Naples
for their guidance, have been Prow time to time transmitted
for the information of the Allied Governments.

With regard to the expectation which is expressed in the
Circular above alluded to, of the assent of the Courts of
London and Paris to the afore general measures proposed fBr
heir adoption, founded, as it is alleged, upon existing Tree-
Lies ; in justification of its own consistency and good faith,
he British Government, in withholding- such assent, must pro-
est against any such interpretation being put upon the Trea-
des in question, as therein assumed.

They have never understood these Treaties to impose any
such obligations and they have, on various occsionS, both
in parliament and in their intercokirSe with the alliid Go-
vernments, distinctly maintained the negative of such apro-
position.. That they have acted with all possible explicitness
upon this subject, would at once appear front reference 'to
the deltboations at Paris,,in 1815, previous to the conclusion
of the Treaty of Alliance, at Aix la• Chapelle', in 1.818, and
subsequently in certain discussions which took place in the
course of the last year.

• After having removed the tuiSconception to which the
passage of the Cireitlar iti questioh, if passed over in silence,
might • give countenance ; and having stated io general
terms, without however entering into the argument, the
dissent. of his Majesty's Government from the general prin-
ciple upon which the Circular in question is founded, it s-hoida
he clearly understood that no Government can be mot e prepar-
ed than the British Government Is to uphold the right of any
state or states to interfere Where their own immediate secnrity
or essential interests are seriously enqangered by the internal
transactions of another state. But ,as they regara the aSsump-
lion of such right as only to he 'justified by the strongest ne-
crssity, and to be limited and r:egulated thereby, they cannot
admit that this right can receive a general and indiscriminate
application to all revotutiorAry movements without reference
to their immediate bearing upon sonic particular State or
States, or be made proAsectively the basis of an alliance.
They regard its exereis.e as an exception to general principles,
of the greatest value and importance, and as one that may
properly grows out cif the circumstances of the special Case.;
but they at the stunt time consider, that 'exceptions of this
description never can, without the uttinyst danger, be so far
reduced to rule,as to he incotporated into the ordinary 'diplo-
macy of States, or into the institutes of the law of nations.

As it appears that certain of the Minister's of the three
Courts have already, communicated this circular dispatch to
the Courts to 'which they are accredited, I leave it to your
discretion to make a corresponding communication on the
part of your Government, regulating your langeiage in con-
formity .to the principles laid down in the present dispatch,---
Yon will take care, however, in making such communication,
to do justice, in the name of your Government, to the purity
of intention.which teas no doubt actuated these august. Courts
in the adoption of the course of measures which they are pur-
suing. The difference of sentiment which prevails between
them and the Court of London on this matter, you may de-
clare, can temlse no alteration whatever in the cordiality and
harmony of the alliance on any other subject, or abate their
common zeal in giving the most complete effect to all their
existing engagements. I nm,
(Sigurd) CASTLEI:EAGLI.