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THE SLAVE TRADE.

AusTRrA.- PiennG, June 13-The Austrian
Observer publishes the following articles:
i. Answer ofthe Cabinet of Vienna to the note
laid before the Congress of Verona, by the Duke
OF wellington respecting the treaty of Negroes.
The Austrian Minister has received from the
Emperor his master. orders to declare what follows
His Imperial Majesty renders most perfect JUS
tice to the generous perseverance with which the
government of Great Britain has maintained the
honor OF the European powers and defended the
cause OF suffering humanity in the important qucs-
ton oil the abolition of Negro Slavery"
The emperor, far from granting that his Brit
tanic Majesty ought to be the only sovereign in Eu-
rope to whose care should be confded all that there
may be complicated and difficult in this question:
makes no objection to contribute all in his power
to any measures that may facilitate and accelerate
The success of this affair, in consequence of these
dispositions his Majesty is ready
"To Join in new declaration, which shall an
nounce the invariable resolution to put an end to
the slave trade"
10 accede to the measures, by which the mar
thine powers who have abolished the slave trade,
shall agree among themselves to regard it as pira
Icy"
"To take from any individuals born in the states
Of this monarchy who shall carry on the slave trade
under the Austrian flag, the and protection Of
this flag, if any such cases should occur
" In relation to the measures proposed by the
Duke of Wellington, which particularly concern
His Most Catholic Majesty, the Emperor reserves
himself, as soon as these measures shall become
The subject of deliberaton in common, to cause
them to be supported by his minister plenipoten-
Itiary at Paris in the manner which shall seem
most proper to him."
Q. Answer OF the minister plenipotentiary OF
Prussia to the Duke Of Wellingtons note respecting
the slave trade.
Verona, Nor. %, 1892" The plenipotenliaries
Of his Prussian Majesty, who did not receive until
late Yesterday the note Of his Grace the Duke of
Wellington, concerning the slave trade, which
was read in the conference of the Gath Of this month
must con6ne themselves for the present, to decla-
ring what follows:
"The king their master remains invariably faith
full to the principles Of humanity which have deter
mined the sgners of the Congress Of Verona to de-
cree the abolition Of the slave trade; they are
moreover fully authorised to accede IN the name
Of his ma icsy to new declaration, which the ALI
cd courts may Judge necessary, to manifest anew
their sentiments on this point"
" In regard to what concerns the political ant
Legislative measures, which the English govern.
ment considers as most proper to abolish signal a
buses, the penipoientares can take only adrefereh
dnnt any proposition the acceptance OF which OK
cceds their full powers-and they have come to thu
decision to await, before they proceed to resolu
ton respecting the demands made by the EDglisl
government on France, until the plcnipotentarie'
of His Most Catholic Majesty shall come to SOM
Explanations on this point"