Star.
London, England, 1831-05-12 00:00:00

THE D: Ku OF SUSSEX A. THE REFORM BILL.

Tire foll;lefiwz is a copy of his Royal Highness's letter to
the Cl airman of the Vnion Reform Committee:

" Hydc.Pak-plAce, May 6.1831.

Sts—Having to attend upon his Majesty next Monday, it will not
be in my ',ewer to accept the invitation from the Union Reform Com-
mitter to dir•.r with them and ctlebrate the recent triumph of reform, in
rhe rt lure of f-ur representinives of the City. I regret this circurnstanc.!
the more, as I should then hove bed an opportunity of txpressic:t to the
caampany my firm convictive that the measure 1,1 T d-ints cl by his Majesty's
Ministers is the hest calculated to secure the stability of the Crown, to
ensure the respectability of the aristocracy. amt to promote the rights
and prosperity of the people. Step:ming you, Sir, to express my best
thanks to those Gentlemen who have so zealously exerted themselves in
the promotion of the great and notional cause, I remain your obliged,
&c. lc.

(Signed)
" AUGUSTUS FREDERICK.
" To Gorge Grote, Eq. Threadrerdle-street."

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
ITALY.

HOME, APRIL 26.—1 t was not till within the last twenty-
four hours that I could succeed in procuring accurate copies
of the protest against Austrian military interference, given
in to the Cardinal Pro-Secretary of State, and his Emi-
nence's official answer. These papers, of which I send you
versions, are, at least, entitled to the epithet of curious.—
The French ambawdor's (Comte de St. Aulaire) note
nuns thus :

The undersigned ambassador of France to the Holy See, having
acquired certain information that the Austrian troops have penetrated
iuto the territories of the church, and occupied the city of Bologna, finds
himself compelled to declare to the Pontificia' Cabinet, that .he French
government cannot admit the principle, by virtue of which the said
occupation has been effected, nor consent to a state of' things which,
extending the armed force of Austria beyond the boundaries of her own
dominions, signally affects the political system of Italy. and, ipso
.liteo, destroys the independence of the Holy See. It is in contem-
plation of the interest inspired by this very independence, with regard
to which France has ever shown herself jealous, no less then from a
sentiment of national dignity, that the undersigned has received orders
to protest, and now protests, and in the most formal manner, against
the occupation of any part of the Papal States by an armed force, as
well as against the consequence that might therefrom result, to the pre-
judice of that peace which the French Government has hitherto mules-
vowed, by all the means in its power, to maintain.
" At the ham? time, whilst the Government of his Most Christian
Majesty sympathises in all the sorrows by which the heart of the Su-
preme Pontiff has been overwhelmed, from the first days of his reign,
it is convinced that a Mon to clemency and a voluntary concession of
reforms, recognised to be necessary in the administration of those pro-
vinces in which revolt had broken out, would have imparted reme.
dies more salutary and more satisfactory than the support, always pe-
rilous, of a physical and foreign force. It thinks—it even hopes—
that such means will be embraced by the high wisdom of his Holy
Father, as solely efficacious to recall the minds of his people to sincere
submission, and to accelerate the removal of an assistance from without,
that might be productive of serious perplexities.
The undersigned has the honour, &c.
(Signed) La COMTE DE ST. AULAIRE."
" March 27."