THE PORT OF TRIESTE.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 193, 26 August 1859, Page 4

THE PORT OF TRIESTE.

The Hamburg correspondent of the Daily News writes as L follows :— 44 As there appears to exist in England considerable misapprehension and uncertainty as to whether the Port of Trieste belongs to the Germanic confederation or not, and whether a blockade or bombardment of that city on the part of the French naval forces would be tantamount to an invasion of neutral Germany, and a declaration of war, I beg to point out to your readers that the city of Trieste and its territor)'-, beyond' a doubt, form part and and parcel of the Germanic confederation, according to the declaration made by Austria on the 6th of April, 1818, by which the adherence of the Emperor Francis to the Federal Act of the Bth of June, 1815, was specially and formally given.----41 In the first article of the Federal Act, it is staled that the Emperor of Austria joins the confederation "for the whole of his dominions which were included in the former empire of Germany," and these are defined and specified in the above mentioned declaration as follows :— '•-*". The Austrian dominions- which his Majesty the Emperor includes in the German confederation are—

1. The Archduchy of Austria. 2. The Duchy of Steiermark (Styria). ; 3. The Duchy of Karnthen (Carinthia). 4. The Duchy of Krain (Karniola). * 5. The Austrian Friuli, or the Circle of Gorz (Gorizia,) including Gorzia, Gradiska, Tolmein, Flitsch, and Aquileia. 6. The territory of the city of Trieste. 7. The Ducal county of Tyrol with the territory of Triente and Briken, and the whole of Voralberg with the exception of Weiler. 8. The Duchy of Saltzburg. 9. The Kingdom of Bohemia. 10. The Magriviate of Moravia; and 11. The Austrian part of the Duchy of . Silesia, including the Bohemian Silesiaii Duchies of Auschwitz and Zator.' " For further information, in corroberation of the above, I may relerthe reader to Kluber, the greatest German authority on federal law (Quellensammlung, No_ xiv.; see also Corpus Juris Germanici, by Dr. G. Emminghaus, 2nd edition, Jena, 1844; p. 639). " Trieste has always been considered a German city, though at first colonised by Italians after the destruction of Aquileia, which in time of the Romans was a very large and populous city. It was afterwards seized, and for; a lopg time held by the Sclavonian Dukes of Carinthia and Carniola till the period of Rudolph of Hapsburg who ultimately became the masters of these parts, which till then were infested by pirates and other lawless rabble from Pola and Ragus. Ever since then the great majority of the inhabitants have been Germans, whose language is at present the leading.one in the town, though in the suburbs and surrounding country a Sclavonian dialect is spoken. In the middle ages Trieste was a margraviate, which was subsequently incorporated with the duchy of Carniola. At a still more early period it was inhabited by the Dacians^by whom it was indeed founded, as the original name, Tergesteum, sufficiently implies. " Trieste, which at the close of the last war had a population of about 10,000 inhabitants, .now. .contains nearly 150,000. It owes its extraordinary rise and commercial prosperity to its being created a free port in the fullest sense of the term. The city is greatly indebted for many of its privileges to the baron yon Bruck, the originator of the Austrian Lloyd's and now minister for commercial affairs at Vienna.