ultérieurement sur les concessions réciproques qui pourraient donner à la présente Convention additionnelle des développements nouveaux, aussi bien que sur la prolongation éventuelle de la présente Convention et du Traité du 5 Novembre, 1850. Elle sera ratifiée, et les ratifications en seront échangées à Turin, dans le plus bref délai possible. En foi de quoi, les 2 Plénipotentiaires l'ont signée et y ont apposé leurs cachets. Fait en double original à Turin, le 20 du mois de Mai de l'an 1851. (L.S.) BUTENVAL. (L.S.) COMTE DE CAVOUR, II. Le Garde des Sceaux, Ministre de la Justice, le Ministre des Affaires Etrangères et le Ministre des Finances sont chargés, chacun en ce qui le concerne, de l'exécution du présent Décret. Fait à Paris, le 17 Juillet, 1851. Par le Président : LOUIS-NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. Le Ministre des Affaires Etrangères, J. BAROCHE. CORRESPONDENCE and DOCUMENTS relative to the Affairs of the Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, &c.-1844 1848. LIST OF PAPERS. No. .. 1. Protest of the Assembly of Estates of Holstein against the Vote of Page 1253 1261 French Act of Guarantee June 14, 1720.. 1261 1262 3. Protest of the Duke of Oldenburg against the Royal Danish Rescript 1264 1265 5. Declaration of Right of the Duke of Augustenburg. .. Augustenburg, August 11, 1846.. 1266 6. Resolution of the Germanic Diet respecting the Affairs of the Duchy of Holstein. Frankfort, September 17, 1846.. 1267 7. Proclamation of the King of Denmark to the Inhabitants of the Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, &c. Plön, September 18, 1846.. 8. Letters Patent of the King of Denmark announcing His Majesty's Accession to the Throne.. Copenhagen, January 20, 1848.. 1268 1269 9. Royal Rescript of the King of Denmark for the Introduction of a Con stitution .. No. LIST OF PAPERS. Page 10. Proclamation of the Provisional Government of Schleswig-Holstein. Kiel, March 24, 1848.. 1272 11. Proclamation of the King of Denmark to the Inhabitants of Copenhagen. Christiansborg, March 24, 1848.. 12. Reply of the King of Denmark to the Schleswig-Holstein Deputation. Christiansborg, March 24, 1848.. 1273 1274 13. Proclamation of the President of the General Assembly of the Bur- 1275 14. The King of Prussia to the Duke of Augustenburg. Berlin, March 24, 1848.. 1275 15. Proclamation of the King of Denmark to the Inhabitants of Schleswig. Christiansborg, March 27, 1848.. 1276 16. Proclamation of the King of Denmark. .. Copenhagen, March 29, 1848.. 17. Proclamation of the King of Denmark to his Subjects of the Duchy of Holstein. Copenhagen, March 29, 1848.. 18. Proclamation of the Duke of Augustenburg to the People of Schleswig-Holstein. Rendsburg, March 31, 1848.. 19. The Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Prussian Minister at Copenhagen. Copenhagen, April 1, 1848.. 1278 20. The Danish Minister at Berlin to the Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs. 22. The Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Danish Minister at Berlin.. Berlin, April 5, 1848.. 1282 23. Proclamation of the King of Denmark to the Schleswigers. Sonderberg, April 6, 1848.. 24. Protest of the Danish Government against the entrance of Prussian troops in the Duchy of Holstein. Copenhagen, April 6, 1848.. 25. The Minister Extraordinary of Prussia to the Minister for Foreign 1283 1283 Affairs at Copenhagen. Sonderberg, April 8, 1848.. 1284 26. The Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Prussian Envoy. 27. Resolution of the Germanic Diet. .. Rendsburg, April 16, 1848.. 1287 1288 30. The Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs to the British Minister at Berlin. 31. The Hon. E. J. Stanley to Messrs. Faith, Forbes, and Co. for Foreign Affairs .. 32. The Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Danish Minister in Copenhagen, April 22, 1848.. 1291 1297 34. Declaration of the Danish Government of the Blockade of the German Ports.. 35. The Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs to the British Minister at Berlin.. Berlin, April 30, 1848.. 1298 36. The British and Russian Ministers at Copenhagen to the General of the Prussian Army,. Copenhagen, April 30, 1848.. 1299 37. The General of the Prussian Armies to the British and Russian Mi- Page 1300 1301 1303 1305 1307 1309 1310 1312 1315 1316 1319 Foreign Affairs. 44. The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Danish and 46. Project of Armistice agreed upon at Malmö between the Danish and .. Prussian Negotiators. July, 1848.. 47. The Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Swedish Minister at Berlin... Malmö, July 23, 1848.. 48. The Commander-in-chief of the Danish Troops in Schleswig to the Commander-in-chief of the Prussian Troops in Holstein. 1322 1325 1327 1328 Veile, July 24, 1848.. 49. The Commander-in-chief of the Prussian Troops in Holstein to the Commander-in-chief of the Danish Troops in Schleswig. Hadersleben, July 24, 1848.. 50. The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the British Minister at Berlin. Foreign Office, July 25, 1848.. 1328 51. The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the British Minister at Berlin. Foreign Office, July 25, 1848.. 52. Proclamation of the Provisional Government of Schleswig-Holstein. Rendsburg, July 25, 1848.. 53. The Minister for Foreign Affairs at Copenhagen to the Danish Envoys at Forign Courts.. Copenhagen, August 12, 1848.. 54. Instructions from the Regent of the German Empire to the UnderSecretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the German Empire. August, 1848.. 55. The Chargé d'Affaires of the French Republic at Berlin to the Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs. Berlin, August 16, 1848.. 56. Convention of Armistice between Prussia and Denmark. 1332 57. M. de Reedtz to General Wrangel. Malmö, August 26, 1848.. Schleswig, September 8, 1848.. 58. Circular of the Danish Government to their several Missions. 1333 1339 Copenhagen, September 17, 1848.. 1340 59. Proclamation issued by the pro tempore Government Commission for the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. Sonderburg, September 18, 1848.. 1340 60. Proclamation of the Provisional Governement of Schleswig-Holstein to the Country. Rendsburg, September 22, 1848.. 1341 No. .. LIST OF PAPERS. 61. Circular addressed to all the Police Authorities of the Duchies of Page 1342 1343 Gottorp, October 22, 1848.. 1344 64. Speech of the King of Denmark in the Constituent Assembly at CoOctober 23, 1848.. penhagen. 1345 .. 65. The Commissioners of the Empire of Germany and of Denmark to the Schleswig, November 3, 1848.. 68. Proclamation of the Danish Government to the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. 69. Memoir of the Provisional Government of Schleswig. 1346 1347 1847 and Holstein. Schleswig, November 22, 1848.. 70. Proclamation of the King of Denmark to the Duchies of Schleswig Fredericksburg, December 17, 1848.. 1349 1352 No. 1.-Protest of the Assembly of Estates of Holstein against the Vote of the Roeskild Assembly, affecting the Rights of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. Itzehoe, December 21, 1844. THE Holstein Estates again approach your Majesty's throne. A great and important event, and one of vital interest for the duchies, excites the inhabitants of our country, and commands their representatives to secure their rights. It might justly be called a presentiment of the impending fate that at the commencement of the present session, and in the address which we voted to your Majesty, the independence of the duchies was mentioned, and their consequent national and legal alliance. We did it intending to mediate and to do away with misconceptions which appeared to threaten the power of the countries subject to your Majesty's sceptre. We could not foresee that most dangerous vote against the independence of the duchies which, in these very days, was adopted by the Roeskild Assembly of Estates, whose convocation coincided with our own. As most dangerous do we consider the motion made and adopted in the 2nd session of the Roeskild Assembly of Estates, "that your Majesty might be pleased to declare in a solemn manner that the Danish monarchy, Denmark proper, the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, together with the Duchy of Lauenburg, shall form one sole, indivisible empire, and be an undivided heritage, according to the provisions of the royal law, and that your Majesty should, consequently, make the necessary arrangements to prevent, in future, any step or steps tending to dissolve the union of the constituent parts of the state." This motion did not affect the rights of the kingdom: nobody doubted the unity and indivisibility of the Kingdom of Denmark, and much less its succession according to the Danish royal law. The motion, indeed, did not pretend to confirm so undisputed a fact. Its meaning was directed against the duchies, of whom it asserted that they were indivisible from the kingdom, and that they stood under the Danish royal law of succession. An assembly of Danish estates is not entitled to make such motions; and, in doing so, they trespass on ground which to them should be holy. The duchies had a right to expect that your Majesty's Commissioner would censure such conduct, and call the defaulters to order. In this they were disappointed. Your Majesty's Commissioner, who is, moreover, a member of the Privy Council, expressed his "sympathy with the motion," and took upon himself to assure the Estates, "that your Majesty would certainly be pleased with a petition of this kind." He is free to confess that the motion has a tendency towards an act of violence, and he approves of this tendency, for he declares-"he presumes that the Government will be inclined to consider whether any possible objection might not at once be put aside, and the proposed energetic measures adopted, in such a manner that the declaration of the indivisibility of the Empire, and the joint succession, according to the royal law, should be accompanied with a prohibition to discuss the subject." And in the next sentence he adds: "that he does not think the declaration of the right of succession will have any effect, unless it be tacked to the proposed energetic measure, viz., the prohibition of all discussion concerning the same." The Royal Commissioner goes even further. He calls upon the Danish Provincial Assembly of States for their adhesion to the motion, and says, "the votes of the Assembly on this subject would certainly influence the Government." He declares further, that the condition which the motion tends to create, is, according to his opinion, already in legal existence, and he protests that "the indivisible union of Schleswig with Denmark is founded upon Treaties, namely, on the Treaty of Peace of 1720,* and the homage which followed it; that Schleswig's union with Denmark, respecting the succession, is indivisible, that it was formerly recognized as such, and that the cunning interpretations of this homage in later times prove nothing." He adds, that as to Hol * Vol. I. Page 218. |
