Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-03-13
FOREIGN REFUGEES AND ENGLISH TRAVELLERS

Late foreign papers furnish the following copy of
despatch addressed by his Government to the
Minister Of AUSTRIA in England, in reply to the
despatch OF Lord GRANVILLE on the subject of re-
fugees, which was published in this paper on the
lst Instant
VIENNA FEBRUARY 4, 1852.
Lord Granville has had the goodness communicate to-
your Exceency the despatch which he addressed to the
Earl OF Westmorand under date of the 18th Of January
last in answer to the protests which you NJ 10 Compile
were charged to present to the Government Of her Bril-
fannie Majesty against the tolerance accorded England
70 the revolutionary proceedings of the political refugees
who have found an asylum in that country.
The first part Of this document Lord Granyille's der
patch turns on the high value which the English people
attach to the right of asylum on the motives which
hinder the British Government from thinking of restrain
ing that right by presenting alien bill to Parliament
We DO not feel ourselves called upon to enter upon
controversy the arguments employed in this part Of the
despatch of Lord Granville denied to
England the exercise Of the right Of asylum in itself any
more than we have to dictate to the British Go
vernment which itself is the most competent Judge the
means which it should employ to obyate the fragrant
abuse Of this right. ~ srgs ~ ~ Il
All that we have demanded Of the British Government
land we shall not to demand it, is that it shall
manage that the political refugees to whom it accords
asylum shall not be allowed pursue under the shadow
OF the hospitality which they enjoy Vaccinations openly
hostile to the States of the continent and especially
Austria.
Lord Granville has been so good as to offer u.s. on this
subject an assurance that the British Government would
the part Of the refugees instruction in their
original country that it would continue to watch the
conduct OF suspected refugees and would seek by all e
gal means to hinder them from abusing to the detrment
OF Governments in friendly alliance with Great Britain
the hospitality which the English LAWS generously ac
cord to them. 45f .s&s
The Emperor, in noting down these assurances, has
pleasure in thence deriving hope that the British Co.
vernment will henceforth know how to make ample
and rigorous than it has hitherto done Of legal
means at its disposal and which it appears judge suf
fcent to enable it to fulfil its international duties
gard to the proceedings OF the refugees
AT any rate while waiting till these dispositions of the
British Government ore followed BY deeds, the almost
limited liberty of action which the refugees have hitherto
enjoyed in England, with regard to the revolutionary
plots that great number of them do not hatch
ing against the repose of the States of the continent inn
poses upon side, the duty of taking mea-
OF precauton tending guard against the
and dangers of which that liberty Is the
The Imperial authorities viii henceorth receive orders
to redoube their vigilance with regard to travellers
coming from England and to strictly, in relation
to their passports, the existing rules which formerly
under the empire of other circumstances it had become
habit to make frequent exceptions in favor of British sub
jecs The Imperial Government moreover, to
itself the faculty of taking into consideration Interior
measures unhappy the need of them still makes it
self felt.
Your Excelency charged to read and give copy of
this despatch to Lord Granville Receive, SC.