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leaves room to hope, with the Divine as
sstance, for the adoption of better sys-
TEN in the affairs of Italy, and confrma-
ton ofthe tranquility of Europe"
General Pope, on the 29th, under the
title ofthe order of the day, congratu lates
the national guard, both horse ard
foot:
eff the chances of war;" says lie,
should lead the enemy into your neigh
borhood, remember that the Neapolitals
have more than once defended their fine
country, and that Saragossa, which does
not contain the tythe of the populationof
Naples, resisted for long period the At
tacks of two powerful French armies"
Sicily still refuses to send deputies to
the parliament. A smothered dissats-
faction prevails in the island.
Circular Despatch tohis Majesty's Mis-.
sions at Foreign Courts.
Laid before the House Of Lords, Feb. 1921.
Foreign Office, Jan. 10, 1921.
SIR-I should not have felt it neces-
sary to have made any communication
to you, in the present state ofthe discus
sions begun at Troppau and transferred
to Laybach, had it not been for a circu-
lar communication which has been adj
dressed by the Courts of Austria, Prus-
sia, and Russia, to their several missions,
and which his majesty's government con-
ceive, if not adverted to, might, Chow
ever Intentionally convey, upon the
subject therein alluded to, very erro-
neous impressions of the past, as we'll as
of the present, sentiments Of the British
government.
1t has become, therefore, necessary to
inform you that the King has felt himself
obliged to decline becoming a party to
the measures in question.
These measures embrace two distinct
objects. The establishment of certain
general principles for the regulation of
the future political conduct of the allies
in the cases therein described; 2dly.
The proposed mode of dealing under
these principles, with the existing affairs
of Naples.
The system ofmeasures proposed un-
der the former head, if to be reciprocal
ly acted upon, would be in direct repug-
nance to the fundamental laws of this
country. But even if this decisive OBJ
lection did not exist, the British govern
ment would nevertheless regard the
principles on which these measures rest,
to be such as could not be safely adj
mitted as system of International law.
They are OF opinion that their adoption
would inevitably sanction, and in the
hands of less benrfcient monarchs,
might hereafter lead to much more
frequent 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 reconciled either with the
general interest, or with the efficient an
thority and dignity of independent sove-
reigns. They do not regard the alliance
as entitled, under existing treaties, to as
sumo in their character as allies, any
such general powers, nor do they cor
ceive that such extraordinary powers
could be assumed, in virtue of any fresh
diplomatic transaction among the allied
courts, without their either attributing to
themselves a 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 Europe, not only
unwieldy and Intellectual to its object,
but leading to many most serious incon-
veniences.
With respect to the particular case of
Naples, the British government, a, the
very earliest moment, did not hesitate to
express their strong disapprobation of
the mode and circumstances under which
that revolution was understood to have
been effected but they, at the same time,
expressly declared to the several Allied
Courts that they should not consider
themselves as either called upon, or JUS
tilted to advise an interference on the
part of this country; they fully admitted,
however, that other European states, and
especially Austria and the Italian pow
ers, might feel themselves. differently
circumstanced; and they protested that
it was not their purpose to prejudice the
question as it might affect them, or to
interfere with the course which such
states might think fit to adopt, with
view to their own security, provided on
ly that they were ready to give every
reasonable assurance that their views
were not directed to purposes Diagram
dizement, subversive of the territorial
system OF Europe, as established by the
late treaties.
Upon these principles the conduct of