The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-08-02

BIsMAKCKs CIRCULARS.
THE SECRET NEGOTIATIONS
Passports Required by France.

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patch from Paris states that the En-
peror' headquarters tonight are at st
Await. near the frontier. This indicate,
a general engagement close at hand.
BERLIN, July 3l.-The Anzeiger pub
fishes circulars addressed by Count Bis
marck, on the Goth instant, to the rep
resentatives of Prussia at the courts O
neutral powers. The document give,
the following expose of the secret nego
tiations between France and Prussia
Before the Danish wal" says Coun
Bismarck, ''the French Legation al
Berlin urged an alliance between France
and Prussia, for the purpose of mutua
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. France anticipated
the war with Austria as consequence,
OF the Danish war, and made overture,
relative to the restoration of the LuXem
hourg frontier of 1914, the acquisition o.
Saarrourg and Landau, when broader
settlement of the boundary Question or
the basis Of the language was not to be
excluded. These instances, in May,
1866, took the form OF proposition ior
an alliance, offensive and defensive
The manuscript, the original Of which
is in the Foreign Office here, Of these
propositions, is as follows:
First. Should a Congress Of the
Powers assemble, Italy is to have Ven.
eta and Prussia the Dutchies.
Second. Should the Congress disa-
gree, an alliance, offensive and defens.
i've, will hc made between France and
Prussia.
Third. Prussia is to open hostilities
against Austria within ten days after
the dissolution of the Congress.
Fourth. Should no Congress meet,
Prussia is to attack Austria within
thirty days after the signature OF the
present treaty.
Fifth. Napoleon is TO begin hostli-
ties against Austria az soon az Prussia
begins, dispatching 100000 men during
the first month across the Rhine.
Sixth. No separate treaty shall be
made by either power with Austria,
and when a joint treaty is made, the
following are to lie the considerations ::
First, Nenetia TO 90 to Italy; second,
Prussia 10 select German territory at
will for annexations, the number of
inhabitants not to exceed eight millions
of souls; the territory thus acquired TO
become part of the kingdom Of Prus-
sia without federal rights; third, France
is to have liberal share Of the Rhine
Provinces.
Seventh. 4 military and marine al
lowance is to be made between France
and Prussia, to which Italy may be 4
party, should she desire.
This programme, the circular states,
was rejected in June, 1866, in spite of
the threatening urgency of France.
The proposals were necessarily renewed
with notifications, sacrificing Belgium
and South Germany, hut were never
seriously entertained in Prussia. For
the sake of peace, however, it was
thought best to leave Napoleon to his
delusion. No word implying approval
was returned. Time was counted on to
revolutionize France and extinguish the
scheme, hence the long delay and
silence. The attempt against Luxem-
bourg failing. France repeated her
former propositions, making the speciti
cations clear in regarito the acquisition
of Belgium 10y France, and South Ger
many by Prussia. These last proposi-
tions were formulated 10y Count Bene-
detti himself, and it is improbable that
he wrote them without the authority o.
the Emperor, as they are the same
which were made four wears ago, under
the threat of war a. the alternative OF
their refusal ANY one acquainted with
these antecedents must have known
that had Prussia acquiesced in the seiz'
ure of Belgium, France would have
found another Belgium in Prussian ter
ritorv.
PEsrH, Amgust 1.-The lower cham
Der Of the Hungarian Diet has voted
a supplementary credit of five millions
for defense and has been authorized to
call out next year contingent whenever
necessary.
BERLIN, August liking William
left for the front at = clock last even
ing. The Queen attends him TO the
railway station. Multitudes of enthu-
Siastic people collected there and flags
and flowers were without end.
PARIS, August 1.-The French Med
iterranean fleet has arrived at Brest.
1t will 90 and join the Baltic fleet.
Berlin, August Fifteen ships
laden with stope are moored in the
Elbe, below Hamburg, ready to be
sunk on the approach of the French
fleet.
LONDON, August lit is certain that
England will take action to defend
Belgium. The Times says Mr.. Glad
stones speech at the Mansion House
meeting Saturday evening proves that
he recognizes war and is ready to
meet it,
The French squadron is still cruising
off ThurSo, Scotland.
PARIS, August THE Journal oth'
ciel of this morning SAYS the govern
ment has decided that during the war
no person. Of whatever nationality, will
lie Permitted to enter or leave France
without a passport This, however, Is
not applicable to subjects of those States
actually at war with France They
can only travel in the interior with spe
cial permission of the Minister OF the
Interior
The Journal Otficiel also says thai
the French citizens expelled from Ber
lin were subjected TO outrageous treat
ment. They We're conducted TO tn,
frontier in chains, and made to paw 70,
the place where they were locked up tt
escape the violence of the people
The Duke of Celore, now in Stock
holm on a mission from the French
Government, will 90 TO Copenhagen sl
similar business.
The Liberte opposes the sugge.te,
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