Upon arriving in the northern capital they were informed that they would not be received as Dele gates of the Stadtholderate, an authority installed, as' your Lordship will recollect, by the late Central Power of Germany on March 26, 1849. All the encouragement vouchsafed to their mission of peace amounted to this — that the Danish Ministers con sented to enter into conversation with them concern ing those matters which, in a private capacity, they might think fit to communicate. Upon this, they brought forward the second of those propositions, my Lord, which you laid before the Chevalier Bunsen in your Note1 of June 23, 1848; the same upon the basis of which the Stadtholderate, in their late Circular2 (dated April 20, had declared themselves willing to treat.