The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-16 00:00:00

" TO THE EDITOR OF THE ETOILE.

" SIR—The opportunity of attracting public attention has more
than once presented itself to me these last twelve years, but I al-
declined to avail myself thereof, as my personal interests
aloes were concerned. Bnt being_now provoked by a supposition
Which is attempted to be converted into a decisive argument re-
'P sting a question which affects me in common with several of
4'5 most illustrious contemporaries, I cannot remain silent any

," After mentioning in. your paper of the day before yesterday,
That the pretensions of the Court of Austria (which have been
but lately manifested) existed ever since the year 1814, and that
had never abandoned them ; that the sacrifice made by the
'reach negotiators being an abandonment imitated by several
Other dignitaries, had satisfied the Imperial Court, by allowing it
t° reckon upon a general assent,' you add—' That the aforesaid
Court was the more justified to rely thereon, inasmuch as 'the
claims respecting the ' Mont de Milan' had reached it on the part
Of, the Dukes.of Bassano and Vicenza, the correspondence being
"IPly signed.Maret and Caulincouit.'

`` With respect to what concerns myself, I intend to answer by
"Lett I shall be under the necessity of entering into details of a
es' Y futile nature, since I am obliged to inquire successively whe-
"' one name has been put for another at the bottom of a letter,
upon an envelope.
" When Prince Metternich wrote to me, by order of his Sove-
r'ign, on the 17th of July 1815, he traced, with his own hand,
binder the countersign of his own signature, the following super-
"iPtion
' To Monsieur the Duke de Bassano.'l
On the lOth of September of the same year the Baron de
"'"lut, the Austrian Minister, handed to me at Berne, where I
11M been detained as a prisoner on his demand, passports from
prince de Metternich, granted for Lintz, in Upper Austria, to the
Duke de Bassano. At the same time the Prince de Metternich
delivered, himself, at Paris, passports to the family of the Duke de
.°Assano, for the same destination.
" Though it be concluded from hence that on the 17th of July,
arid 10th September, 1815, the Austrian Cabinet did not yet pre-
!ad to suppress the titles taking their foundation from the late
Duke
States, yet it cannot be denied that the proof of the
"uke of Bassano not having renounced his titles appeared from the
veil acts of Prince Metternich himself.

" Since that period I had the honour of writing three letters to
"'" Majesty the Emperor of Austria. The first was dated from
~?ratz the Ist of December, 1815, and was written for the pur-
ri°4 of making claims on. the Mont d'ltalie,' with which his
fro testy was to occupy himself at Milan ; the second was dated
'641 Goritia on the 31st of July, 1817, and contained a request of
Permission to reside in Tuscany . The third was written from
41ilan on the 3d of August 1819, and handed to Count Carman,
the French Ambassador, at the moment when P was going to leave
7the Austrian dominions, to express my gratityde for the personal
"I's which had softened the rigours of my exile. Each of
get. three letters was signed ' Duke of Bassano.'
" In the interval from January 1816 to August 1819, I have
iLltten fourteen letters to Prince Metternich to request his inter-
t-lice in ivers circustances concerning my situation. All of
r4l IVere si ned thme Duke of Bassano.' ,d gll used to write about the same time to other Ministers and
hzrni' in. authority, with whom my sojourn in different provinces
4,nade me acquainted. These letters, like the others, were all
°-``` by the name only which is annexed to my,titles. Not one
remained unanswered, excepting that which I had the honour to
Write on the 3d of August 1817, to Count d'Appony, then the
rustrian Minister in Tuscany.
t`ln truth commencing from the 16th of August, 1816, the
it:Lwera of Prince Metternich were uniformly addressed to the
v Duke de Maret ; but at the same time the other Members of Go-
Dollueut
.and of the high Administration used to write to the
oke de Bassano. The same was the protocol of the Grand
iBsanlherlain, Count de Wubna, wben replying, on the 13th Jan.
hi '6, to the letter for his Imperial Majesty, which I had sent
4;, the month before, 'respecting my demand on the Mont de
18 au,' and afterwards when writing to me, on the'22d of April,
d by order. of the Emperor, on his journey to Trieste. Count
Seltnitzky, Minister and President of the Supreme Council of
Pike, employed the same address on the 24th of July, 1817.
Li'S Serene Highness Prince de Hohenzollern, Govemor-General
the provinces of Styria, Carinthia, &c. used the same on the
Gaof April, 1819. The same thing was observed by the Civil
04ernors, and upper employees of the Administration.'
t ``Since the 3d of August 1819, I have written but one letter
i° Personage belonging to the Government of his Imperial Ma-
,i'(!tY, that wa s upon a. particular affair, and came to Baron de
incent about the end of the year 1825. If any one takes the
ftQuble of searching among the papers of the embassy, it will be
°undaigned like all the rest, ' Duke de Bassano.' "What, Sir, becomes of the assertion which you made public?
MO doubty the Imperial Court, as the author of the article supposes,
sent vei.,
' gratuitously, had set any importance on my as-
h- i t." enuclude from a particular to an universal, it would have
control 'rnPnesihle for me to conform to its wishes. It has, on the
proof Y) f"4,1 in the signature of a long series of letters, the
itlecitfbaatpietr,sieivsering resisance on my part, and has not signified
"6 As to theaPproved
and the state Dukef Vicenz.a, borne (.lOwn by a cruel distemper,
esBto which
tohhm ea
o weakness
that in no actit aeniZerr himself, he can only authorise me to declare
name of Caulincou t f -Duke de
private r pulic, has be ever separated his
the honour, Ice. r from his title of Vicenza.—l have
" DUKE DE BASSANO.7
* " If the author of the article would be pleased to favour me
by raising the anonymous veil under which he covers himself, I
shaU show him, and every one else who requires it, not only the
superscription of this letter, but also that of the other letters
alluded to."

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