The Sun. — 1854-12-23 (London, England)

ANOTHER PRUSSIAN NOTE.  The Augsburg Gazette publishes the following note from Baron do M. anteuffcl, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Prussia, dated the 7th inst., to the Prussian Ministers at Paris and London : "Your excellency had communicated to you some time ago the despatch which on the 21st of October I addressed to the envoy of the King at St. Petersburg, to recommend once more the Imperial Cabinet of Russia points proposed to it for that purpose by ourselves to accept without reserve, as a basis of negotiation, the four and by Austria, and to declare itself ready to do so not only to us, but directly at Vienna. You know also that the result of this proceeding was that Count de Nesselrode addressed to Baron do Budberg a despatch authorising him to declare to us that the Emperor Nicholas was disposed to take part in negotiations of which the four points should serve as a starting point. In this declaration the four points were not set forth in their primitive form. The Russian despatch contained, besides, such erroneous appreciations on the situation of Germany and its relations with Russia, that we dcoidntrnaroyt, etxhpinreksseitd right to act on it. We, on the to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg our regret that it had not followed our counsels, by declaring to that of Vienna its adhesions to the four points, and we renewed our recommendations that it should do so, and should modify in that -respect the overtures it had made to us. Our efforts on this subject were not unsuccessful, and the envoy of the King at St. Petersburg The Russian repreinformed us by telegraph that Prince Gortschakoff had been authorised by telegraph to declare to Count Boul the adhesion of Russia to the four points re• commended to her by Austria. imitative at Vienna acquitted himself of this order by the note of the 28th of November, of which a copy is annexed ; and Count Buol replied on the 30th , as your excellency will see by the despatch also annexed hereto. By the King's orders I hasten to invite you to make known these pacific overtures of Ru,sia to the Cabinet of Paris (London). Your colleague of Austria will be charged with a similar communication. You will therefore employ the same language as he does, in recommending earnestly the Russian declaration to a favourable reception on the part of the French (British) Government. Let that Government reflect well on the ensemble of .the general situation, and convince itself that there is no reason to give way to distrust, nor to suppose underhand designs, where the desire of arriving at a good understanding is general and sincere. We perfectly understand the exigencies which the state of war in which the Western Powers are with Russia imposes on them ; but we have difficulty in believing that since Russia admits, without reserve or evasion, a basis for negotiations which the Cabinets of Paris and London (London and Paris) drew up themselves not long ago, they can now refuse to enter into a path which, without prejudging the chances of military success, is of a nature to offer the possibility of abridging a murderous war, by opposing t' .e barrier of a moderate but serious and united will. In aciing on the instructions of the present cor.: muuication, you may dwell on the high price which the King, our august toaster, attaches to remaining in accord with the European Powers ; to express to M. Drouyn de Lhuys (Lord Clarendeon) the lively interest with which we await your reports on the reception given to your language by the Cabinet of Paris (London.) Receive, &e."