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onion. The Deputation having been introduced to the audience chamber, Signor Calatano addressed his Royal Highness in the following terms : May it please your Royal Highness—The Na- 1 tionse Parliament, convoked by your Royal Highness out of the usual course, upon the reception of the communications from Laybach, has terminated its Sittings. In the difficult circumstances in which it WAS placed, it flatters itself that it has acted con formably with the wishes of your Royal Highness, and in a manner becoming the dignity of the Nation, and the Majesty of the Constitutional Throne. " May the firmness it has exhibited serve as an example to other Nations, and fill with terror the souls of the enemi e s of this innocent Nation. The Parliament begs your Royal Highness to assist atathe closing of jts Ext. aordinary Sittings, unless your Royal Highness be prevented by other important affairs of Government. " We. at the same time, venture to request your Royal Highness, to honour with your presence the opening of the Qrdinaty Parliament, which will hold its first Sitting on the Ist of March, to take into con sideration the nomination of Signor Arcovito, to the office of President. and thatof Signor Poerio to the office of Vice-President." His Itnyal Highness replied— " I aro satisfied with the labours of this Extraordi nary Parliament. I am particularly pleased with the respect and veneration it has displayed towards my august father, and with the measures it has adopted for providing for the subsistence of the army destined to defend the country. I am sorry that it will be impossible for me to assist at the close of gar: Extra ordivaty Parliament, being prevented by important business. I will, however, assist at the opening of , the new Session, in March ; and of this you may ;:s -sure the Parliament." The d4y before yesterday, the 28th of February, his Royal Highness addressed the following Letter to the Deputies of the Parliament: " GESTLiou,s—Tht Extraordinary Parliament, which this day closed its Sittings, is entitled to my perfect approbation for the respect which it has exhibited towards the King, my august father, as %%1,11 as for the moderation and wisdom it has displayed iu its deliberations. " Adhering to the wishes of the Nation, in continuing true to the oaths by which each individual is bound, and maintaining thz most perfect harmony with the Goveinnient, the Parlia ment has most r:alowdy furnished the necessary means for the .:.fence of the national independence. " I am equally pleased to express to you the satisfaction I teal in seeing that, notwithstanding the fervour of the national enthusiasm for the common defence, nothing' has occurred to disturb the order and tranquillity of the Capital or the Pro vinces; and that; on the contrary; each citizen has been markedly emulous to concur in supporting good order, to the maintenance of which I feel how much the conduct of the Repreientatives of the Nation has contributed. " The justice of our cause authorises us to hope that the Con of Armies will approve our efforts, and lend his •11-powerful arm to conduct us to •ictory, by which we may obtain a glorious peace. (Signed) FRANCIS, Regent." Yesterday morning, the National Parliament opened its Session for 1821. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent assisted at the solemn ceremony, with her Royal Highness the Duchess of Calabria, his wife, his august family, and the Prince of. Salerno, his brother. The Court was in full state : the Royal' party entered the Chamber amidst the applauses of an immense number of spectators. After ascending the Throne, his Royal Highness said—" Gentlemen—The great prudence and ener getic measures adopted by the Extraordinary Parlia; meat, which yesterday closed its Sittings, have fur nished all the necessary means for placing our loved country in a situation to defend itself vigorously, and to support the constitutional Throne of my au gust Father. The ccnduct of the last Parliament in spires me with the greatest confidence that, in this new Session, you will continue with the same enthu siasm, and with the same wisdom, to provide every means of rendering us more formidable to the unjust aggressors of our country. 44 You must feel assured that, on my side, I have spared no trouble or care to second, with the greatest possible promptitude, your multiplied and admirable efforts, tending to maintain our national independence with vigour and magnanimity. You may, therefore, Test assured that I will employ all the means which the Constitution gives to the Executive Power, in osier to effect the desired object of repelling the aggression of the enemy. • For this purpose I intend, conjointly with my beloved brother, to appear before the Army, in order to give it an unegqivocal assurance that I watch over its interests, and will provide for its wants ; and that while I traverse the districts which it occupies, I will a1 , .0 interest myself in everything that cdncerns those provinces. .$ I confidently hope that our troops of every de scription will, by their bravery, and the ardent love they bear their country, intimidate our unprovoked aggressors, repulse thus', and adorn themselves with the laurels of a glorious victory. and that they may finally re-enter into the bosom of their families, and enjoy in tranquillity the blessings of peace. .1 I n the meantime may perfect harmony reign amongst you ; and may you, in all your thou g ht s an d all your actions, display those admirable virtues which may render you estimable even in the eyes your enemies, by chewing that you are worthy of the liberty you enjoy." At the conclusion of his speech his Royal Highness was cheered with the loudest acclamations, which were repeated when he retired with his suite. The President ARCOVITO answered with dignity, ex pressing the sentiments with which the Parliament and the nation are penetrated towards his Royal Highness. NAPLES, MARCH 6. The following is a statement, copied from the offi cial accounts, of the composition, the numerical force, and the names of the Generals and Superior Officers of the Regiments which compose the military forces of the kingdom: The Civic Guard is composed of land-holders and merchants, and is.divided into four Regiments of Infantry and two of Cavalry. The Infantry Re giments are commanded by Prince de Toiella Cara ciolo, Prince de Colonna, the Duke of Carignano, and Signor Caraciolo, brother of the Duke of Rocca Romana, Commander of the Cavalry of the Army. The Cavalry Regiments are commanded by the Prince de Carignano and the Duke Casoli d'Aquino. The Gendarmerie, which is likewise a civic guard, composed of the flower of the army, is 7,000 strong, viz. 5,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry. • It is com manded by General Generino, in the absence of Prince Cariati. " The army in the field is divided into two great commands; the first is entrusted to Lieutenant-Gene• • ral Pepe, and occupies the Abruzzi. The corps • d'armee is 'composed of forty battalions and some squadrons. Majors-General Rulfo, Verdinois, &c. hold brigadeS in it. The second carps, which is the most consider able, is commanded by Lieutenant-General Baron I . Carascosa. It contains three divisions of infantry, under the command of General.Filangieri, Prince of Satriano, and Lieutenant-Generals Barons Ambrosio and Arcovito. This corps d'armee has seventy bat talions of troops of the line and civic guards, and thirty squadrons of cavalry. The command of the cavaly is entrusted to the Duke of Rocca Romana, who has under his comr•.mand Field Marshal Prince Campana and the Matquis de Suliana. The latter is brother to the Princess of Castelcicala. " Lieutenant-General Baron lledr inelli comrn•nds the Artillery ; and Field-Marshal Eicamande, the Engineers ; General Florestan Pepe is Major-General of the Army. Field-Marshal Signor De Medicis, ne phew of the late Prune Minister, performs the func tions of Inspector-General. " The Prince Regent departed for the Army, ac companied by Lieuten•ar,t-General Parcisis, and the Duke of Ascoli, Grand Equerry and an ancient friend Of the King. Prince Leopold de Salerno, the brother of the Prince Regent, wishes to follow his brother...- His Royal Highness has for his Aides-de-camp, Prince Diego Pignatelli, and the Marquis de Br amaschio. " The fortres%es of Gaeta, Capua, Pe<cara, and Civita del Tronto, are provisioned for a long period." • We have also received Neapolitan Papers to the 3d instant, and from La Voce del &ado, we have taken the Secret Article of the Treaty of Vienna, made between Austria and his S►ctr.lAN MAJESTY, on the 12th of June, 1815 ; the same Treaty which Lord CasmEstenott had some difficulties• in pro ducing to the House of Commons. It was in conse quence of this same engagement that the British Constitution, which had been guaranteed to the Sici lians, was abolished, and the privileges of that Lland :►nnulled. To this circumstance allusion was made by Lord -W. BENT►NCK, on the occasion of Mr. HUME'S motion respecting Captain llosmo. The . following is the article: a The engagement which their Majcsth-s enter into by this Treaty, being to insure the internal peace of Italy, and as it is their duty to preserve their States and respective subjects from new re-actions, as well as the danger of imprudent innovations which might produce their return. it is-agreed between the'lligh Contracting Parties. that his Majesty the King of the Two Si-, cilies, in re-establishing the Government of the kingdom, shall never admit of any change which cannot be reconciled either with the ancicnt monarchical institutions, or with the principles adopted by his Imperial, 'loyal, Apostolical Majesty, for the io ternal government of the Italian Provincei. 4. Or, as the Editor of the Voce del Secolo remarks, this is the same as to say, " that the interesting people of the Two Sicilies shall never enjoy the benefits of any Constitution whatever." Could, therefore, any Constitution ever be obtained from a Ministry who were not ashamcd to solicit, or to allow a transac tion similar to the above? The Royal Family of Sardinia is divided into two branches, the reigning one is that of SAVOY, the other that of SAVOT-CANIGNAN. It is a remarkable circumstance, that of the three brothers, who consti tute the former branch, two have successively abdi cated—CHAßLES EMMANUEL IV. abdicated in 1502, in favour of Vtcroa EMMANUEL, who has now fol lowed his example. Commas Faux, Duke Da GENEVOIS, the third brother, is in his 56th year, and has been married for fourteen years to a daugh ter of the King of NAPLES, but hat no children. The next in succession to him is the Prince Da CARIGNAN, great grandson of CHARLES EMMANUEL, first Prince of that name. He is about twenty-two years and a half old, and has been married about three years and a half to a daughter of the Grand Duke of Tosca NY; but is also without children. A Mail arrived this forenoon from Hamburgh with Papers to the 18th instant. The Sound was, on the 6th, covered with ice, and sledges had ar rived from Sweden at Copenhagen, by way of Moen. To the south it was still open, and a few days pre ceding, an Englibh brig, from the Baltic, arrived off Pravestein, but was in some danger, as the Great Belt was partly covered with ice, s; hich stopped the passage for the present. _ The following article, from Stockholm, is not with out its interest. It chews how long the arm of con federated despotism is; conveying a distinct enough intimation, that, should even the far-away Notwe gians think the abolition of any part of the existing order of things in their country a measure conducive to its welfare, the measure will excite great sensation in other States, : 1 with the course adopted by which, Norway must be in harmonp."—That is, in other words, that such a measure will furnish a pretext to other States—to the Emperor of RUSSIA, for ex ample—to pour in his legions upon the Swedish and Norwegian territory, in the same way as the Empe ror of AUSTRIA is attempting to do with respect to Naples, and all for the feigned purpose of preserving harmony !—Such is another of the fruits of the Holy Alliance. STOCKHOLM, MARCH 2. The following is the remarkable proposition which the King has addressed to the Norwegian Diet, in re spect to the Nobility " The Diet assembled in 1816, laid• befbre his Ma jesty for his approbation, a Resolution which tended to fix the rights of the Nobility in Norway. 44 I lowever inclined the King was in favour of the principles on which the Constitution of the Kingdom is founded, as well in the whole as in the twenty ' third paragraph, yet his Majesty thought that it seemed doubtful if the dispositions in this Resolution were conformable to the 97th paragraph of the Con stitution, and whether the welfare of the kingdom required the sudden overthrow of an institution . which, according to the annals of the North, goes back to tie remotest ages, because the Norwegian Nation was from its origin warlike. His Majesty, therefore, judged it advisable not to confirm. this disposition. 4. As the second Ordinary Diet of ISI9 made a Decree which was exactly similar to the first, his Majesty, led by the same motives, again refused it his sanction. As his Majesty is convinced that the welfare of the State cannot be effected except when the kingdom and the Representatives endeavour re ciprocally to meet each other in their wishes, his Majesty signifies to the Diet that he is disposed to take this matter into consideration, if a new proposal he laid before him which shall only go to abolish the feudal rights which the Nolility possess and exercise with respect to their property. At the same time, his Majesty calls the attention of the Diet to the indem nifications which will be required to make good the loss incurred by this measure. As this affair will probably be a subject of discussion in the present Dict, his Majesty considers it his duty to invite the Assembly to reflect on the following: 44 At the time when the Constitution was drawn up, it was thought advisable not to make any altera tion in the rights of the Norwegian Nobility, and of ' the fundamental law, and no mote was done th an t o determine that no new privileges should be granted ; and it was deferred to a future opportunity to exa mine the question, whether a total abolition of the Nobility was useful? and supposing that it were use ful, must not great caution be shewn in the choice of the moment for changing a civil institution which has existed from time immemorial, in Norway as well as in the rest of Europe? Do not prudence and policy demand that regard should be had, not only to the people among whom the reform is to take place, but also to those with which it is connected ? " But . the present moment appears to be not at all favourable to the matter. The ferment of people's minds in Europe, and the attention which the Powers pay to all political innovations, give ground to ex pect that so decisive a step as is proposed, with re spect to the Nobility of this kingdom, would excite great sensation in other States. The unfavourable impression for Norway itself, which might be made upon Governments with which it is politically con nected, is the more to be apprehended, as such mea sures as the proposal of the Diet includes, will always appear unjust to the families who would be thereby stripped of rights which are guaranteed by the law. Norway is, by the Constitution, a free and inde pendent Kingdom, but it exists, like the most power ful States, as it were with other States. Its course must be in harmony with the course which they fol low, or must at least not clash with them. The opi nions which other nations conceive of our laws, our policy, our wisdom, cannot be indifferent to the Nor wegian people. The light which experience and re flection continue to throw on all important subjects, especially politics, will afford us means to take, at a future time, a resolution on this subject, which shall be more secure and more maturely weighed than present circumstances allow. 4 , His Majesty therefore believe: that political rea- . sons of great importance to the maintenance of the good understanding which prevails between us and foreign Powers, require that the Diet should not take up this subject _during this Seision, and his Majesty ! therefore proposes that it be deferred. But much as the King wishes that the Piet may not agitate the' question of the abolition of the Nobility, his Majesty can have no objection to the Diet's taking into con sideration the abolition of all feudal rights which are contrary to the constitutional principles of our 50,i41, compact. At the tame time, the kin g pr.p„ e , the Diet to grant to the possessors of fiefs an in, pity equal to the loss which will accrue to them, 3:11, the real benefit of which will be reaped by the Sta g; FIRST BULLETIN OF THE NEAPOLITAN ARMY. The Derbi liret-ctiro of Wednesday, received 4, town this morning, states that a Centleman favoured it g , with the following extract of a letter from his son, a fellow-townsman, now at Naples, and also with the Bulletin of the first battle gai ne d b y the Neapolitans over the Austrians at Abtuzzo." The affair referred to in the Bulletin does not ai.l pear to be that of Rieti, about which there have been so many contradictory reports, but one of a mu c h earlier date, even as far back as the 27th of February: From the date being so remote, we are inclined to entertain strong doubts of the authenticity of till' Bulletin ; but it is at the same time but just to ob serve, that the private letter containing it, is of as old date as any accounts which we have received direct from Naples, being of the $d instant: " NAPLES, MAITII 3, 1821. " On the 25th of February, the telegraph signified to us that an Austrian column, composed ot 1,21 p foot, atui 700 horse, was, on the 25th, ten miles di , . tans from the frontiers of our Kingdom, on the side of AbruzzO; that an attack was expected, and that General Peps said, addressing himself to the Na. tional Parliament, that he hoped to give them cause to keep a joyful Lent. " Since that time, the immortal General PEpt i with the .whole second co:ps of our constitutioall army stationed at Ahru7zo, has ventured to measure his strength with the hostile irptadron s of the Au% than slaves. This is clearly sbewn by the subjoined letter, bearing his signattne: 44 I Write fr om the bead-quartt•rs in Aquila, February F7th, from the N'eapolitan camp of Vittoria. In the battle of yester day, the 26th inst. all the troops of Fermi, and the third regi ment of light troops, with a company of marksmen (berraglieri), and the cavalry, defeated the Austrians with great lost, and took five pieces of artillery, with all thtir WILLIAM PEPE From the Head-quarters in Aquila, fhb. 27, 1821." • REPORTED DEFEAT OF THE NEAPOLITANS ON TITS SEVENTH OF MARCIL Since inserting the preceding we have received the following Copy of a Notice, posted on the Exchange at Paris in the afternoon of Wednesday Lat, by order, it is pretended, of M. Roy, the Minister of Finance: " There has been on the 7th instant an engage ment between the Austrians and the Neapolitans. The latter had advanced on Rieti, which was occu pied by the Austrians. They were repulsed with considerable loss. The Austrian Army has entered the Abruzzi ; many prisoners hare Mien into their hands, and the greatest disorder appears to reign in the Neapolitan Army. 7 'STOCK EXCHANGE. ELEVEN o'CLocK.—A private Express arrived this morning from Paris, which immediately operated on the Funds. Consols, which left off yesterday at 70%, opened this morning at 70 1 / 2 3 / 4 , and instantly rose to 71 ; and were done, in the course of the morn ing, at 71 V I V s . It is understood that the French Funds have been privately done at as low as 79, but this morning's account from Paris brings them 77. TWELVE o'CLoca.—ln consequence of the above rise in the Funds this morning, various reports ate prevalent on 'Change. It is said that the Neapolitans have been defeated by the Austrians, and have offered to negotiate ; but up to this hour, nothing positive is known. Consols are now 71 1 / 8 I A. We need scarcely say, that we attach no faith whatever to these mos. PRICES AT OKI O'CLOCK : 3 per Cent. Cons. 70% 71 • 5 per Cent. Navy 105 5 / 8 A Impetial 3 per Cent. 70% India Bonds 31s. pr.—Excheq. Bills 2s. 4s. 51. India far Acct. 221 1 4 222 1 4 Consols for Acct. 70 71 3 / 4 713/8 His MAJRSTY, within the last twelve months, is considerably thinner than he previously was, and his general health has much improved within that time. Wednesday and yesterday, a heavy fall of snow, accompanied with hail, was pretty general North wards. It was also partially felt in Hampshire and Norfolk. The hailstones in some parts were elutgoele large, and much damage has been done to the hat and green-houses. Some hundred squares of &ass have been broken at Finchley, Harrow, &c. and in many other parts in the vicinity of London. Last night Mr. Husax brought forward his motion on the subject of the Receivers-General of Taxes, and the Distributors of Stamps; and entered at consider' able length into a review of the emoluments at tached to those offices. He particularly enumerated several individuals by name, holding the effites Cf Distributors of Stamps, whose profits, on the average for the last three years, had amounted to from MOO to £5,000 per annum. He contended that Minion , at an expense to the Public of £137,000 a-year, se' cured 137 sinecure places. He contended, that ost this head of Expenditure a saving of £100,0 09 nually might be effected. He concluded by moainli certain Resolutions relative to the Office of Receivers' General and of Distributors of Stamps. The oar CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved, as an amendment , the appointment of a Select Committee, to take int° consideration the nature of the Offices, and to report to the Houie. After a good deal of discusiion, as to the composition of the Committee, the motion of al I CHANCELLOR of the Etc HEQUER was finally agreed re! LONDON I Printed and ptkblithed by Umtata, riekd i ' l'ldc 'temple-:: r. . P I