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Show By Tel' graph. Tht Secpet Trf.att. Berlin, 31. The AiLzf.igure publishes a circular addressed ad-dressed by Count Bimarck on the 20th inst , to the representatives of Prussia at the courts of neutral powers. The following is an expose of the secret negotiations ne-gotiations between France and Prussia. Before the Danish war, jays Bismarck, the French legation at Berlin ureed an alliance between France and Prussia for the purpose of mutual aggrandisement. aggrandise-ment. France, anticipating a war with Austria, as a consequence of the Danish Dan-ish war, made overtures relative to the restoration of the Luxembourg frontier of 1814, the acquisition of Saarbourg and Loudon, with a broader settlement of the boundary -question. In May, lSOO, these advances took the form of a proposition for an alliance offensive and defensive between France and Prussia; and the latter was to cpen hostilities against Austria within nineteen nine-teen days after the dissolution of a congress. But should no congress meet Prussia was to attack Austria within thirty days after the signing of the present trpaty. Napoleon was to begin hostilities against Austria as soon as Prussia began despatching 300,000 men during the first month across the Bhine. No separate treaty was to be made by either power with Austria; and when a joint treaty would be made the following were to be the conditions: First, Yenetia to go to Italy; -econd, Prussia to select G erman territory at will for annexation, the number of inhabitants not to exceed 8,000,000 of souls; the territory thus acquired to bpcome a part of the kingdom king-dom of Prussia within federal rights third, France to have a liberal share of the Khine provinces ; fourth, a military mili-tary or maritime alliance may be made with France, to which Italy may be a party should she so desire. The programme, the circular states, was rejected in June, 1866, in spite of the threatening emergency of France. The proposals were immediately renewed re-newed with a modification sacrificing South Germany, but they were never seriously entertained by Prussia. For the sake of peace, however, it was thought best to leave Napoleon to his delusions. No word implying approval was returned, but time was counted on to revolutionize France and extinguish extin-guish the scheme; hence the long delay de-lay and the silence. The attempt against Luxembourg failing, France repeated her proposition, making the specifications clear in regard to ths acquisition of Belgium by France, and South Germany by Prussia. These last propositions were formed by j Count Beneditti himself, and it is improbable im-probable that he wrote them without the authority of the Emperor, as they are the same which vere made four years ago under a threat of war and the alternative of their refusal. Any one acquainted with these antecedents must have known that had Prussia acquiesced in the security of Belgium, France would soon have found another ifelgium in Prussian territory. |