The Frankfort correspondent of the Times gives the summary of
a cir- cular addressed by Austria to her agents in Germany, dated on the 28th February. The object of the despatch is to contend against the proposi- tion of Prussia to the Diet that the Germanic States should assume a warlike attitude towards all parties indiscriminately. Austria asks how Prussia could reconcile this with the missions to London and Paris ? Austria deprecates the supposition that she thinks only of making the Confederation assume an attitude of "armed neutrality .' The proposal to arm the Federal fortresses which look on France—Landau, Radstadt, Mayence, and Luxembourg—which Prussia contemplates, Austria would not hesitate to consider a gratuitous provocation ; and in the mean, time she desires the Federal Governments distinctly to understand her own position, and the grave consequences of the course proposed.,
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