The Sun. — 1849-08-24 (London, England)

EMPIRE OF AUSTRIA.—PROCLAMATION.' " Authorised by our most merciful Emperor Francis Joseph 1., I avail myself of the happy occasion of the glorious anniversary of his birth, to extend the pardon granted by my proclamation of the 12th inst. to the greater part of his subjects in flight from the LombardoVenetian kingdom, to those who remain in those provinces. I therefore proclaim:— " 1. Those who for political offences, that is to say, of high treason, rebellion, insurrection, or participation in such crimes, are the objects of prosecution, or, at least, in a state of arrest, shall be set at liberty. " 2. All the preliminary inquiries on account of such offences shall be suspended and discontinued. In general no one shall be called to account for the political events of 1848 and 1849.  "3. Those who, besides political offences, are tainted with any action punished by the penal laws, or who in the past political convulsions have been guilty of the murder, wounding, or capture of Austrian subjects (except in open warfare), are excepted from the amnesty. Moreover, are excepted all the royal and imperial functionaries and officers. The former, even though they may not have committed other faults, shall not be allowed to remain in their offices if they have taken a notorious part in the revolutions. The officers on duty and enjoying pensions will be subject to the consequences of their criminal proceedings. Officers who have abandoned the service and continued the military character, must lay down the latter; and those who have abandoned the service, and net retained the military character, shall be free from further responsibility. Also all royal functionaries, priests, masters, and employes, must resign their offices if they have been guilty of the aforesaid offences.  "4. Those who have already been sentenced for simple political offences shall be set at liberty " 5. The respective authorities will take speedy measures to set at liberty all those coming within the terms of the amnesty. " 6. There shall also be set at liberty all who have been condemned or who are under arrest by way of precaution for secondary political crimes. Arts. 1 and 2 will be applicable to the latter. Among these crimes are the expression of political opinions, the carrying party banners, singing songs misnamed patriotic, and the propogation of political writings, &c. "7. As circumstances will not allow the taking off the state of siege, the dispositions relative thereto will remain in force.  " 8. The amnesty is extended to those (not being of the army) who have enrolled in foreign service. "9. The present amnesty is confined to past offences, and any future transgressions of the law will be rigorously and severely punished. The effects of this proclamation will not extend to Venice and its dependencies.  " May the people of the provinces acknowledge with gratitude, in this new act of the inexhaustible clemency of our Sovereign, his ardent desire to render them happy ; and may I soon be enabled to free liberty from her remaining link—the state of siege. " RADETzKv. " Milan, Aug 18."  The Government of Austria, in return for the services rendered by it to the POPE and to the Dukes of PARMA and MODENA, has required that the navigation of the Po shall be rendered free. This principle was adopted by the Congress of Vienna in the year 1815, but it has never been carried into execution in consequence of the opposition given by the above three States, who found a pecuniary advantage in resisting. The Governments of Parma and of Modena have con. sented to the demand of the Austrian Government, and it is not doubted but that the POPE will withdraw his opposition. The negotiations relative to this affair were directed by the Austrian Minister of Commerce during his last journey in Italy.