Star. — London, England, 1821-03-31 00:00:00

/ THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1821. a Y b A courier arrived yesterday afternoon at the Fo reign Office, with dispatches from Florence and Turin, of the 24th and 25th instant; and to-day we have, by express, extracts from the Paris Journals of 'Thursday morning, not due till to-mortvw, and private letters from the same Capital, of as late a date as the evening of Thursday. The whole of the accounts brought by these ar rivals concur in representing that a counter-revolu tion had been effected at Naples, and that a similar One was in progress" in Piedmont. the' events which had preceded this lamentable alteration of affairs at Naples are still, however, in volved in obscurity. It is merely stated, that Gene ral EIRDIILLA, an Envoy from the PROM'S REGZWT of NJUIIXI6 had' arrived at Florence, and officially announced to his SicILIAN MAZE - ITT that the Neap*. litan Parliament was dissolved, the Neapolitan Army dispersed, and the Panics RICORIT the most submis sive of recreants. The private correspondence from Paris states, that the weak resistance made by the Neapolitans had ez sited universal disgust in that Capital• - Admitting. l that the fatal reverse which his taken place is wholly to be ascribed to the cowardice of the new levies, of all men the Parisians are the last that ought to reflect upon it with disgust. It is related by Domouatest that 6000 of his volunteers, chiefly from Paris, were panic struck at the approach , of a single Prussian re giment, and had nearly produced the total rout of his army. He, afterwards, took care that they should not repeat such a slippciry trick, by making it impossible for them to fly except upon the bayonets of his vets. raps; and, in mass of time, they became good sol diers. We know not whether Generals Pars and Crass- COSA had tbe means of employing this species oftactics. —We Are still uninformed as to the share which un- I steadiness in the troops, or want of skill in the Com manders, may have .had its the disastrous result of'' the campaign ; but we suspect that political intrigue has had as great a share in it as either of those causes. Wben the King of NaiLes journey to Laybach was Arst talked of, we intimated the injurious conse quences which might result from his being placed in the hands of the Imperial Despots ; and, accord ing to the Austrian accounts, they have found a the KING'S name a tower of strength." All that remains for his People. under existing circumstances, is to intake the experiment whether his promises from Lay. bash are likely to be more binding than his oaths at Naples. If the hopes excited by his Proclamation should also be disappointed, it may yet appear that the spirit of freedom " is not dead, but sleepeth." " Tune, and the various light of roWng years, Dave chang'd frogs bad to happy human thing: And Fortune's winle inconstant new has inock'd E'en those she has again in safety placed r The circumstances attending the moveme wards towards a counter-revolution in Piedmont, are detailed precisely enough. It appears, that on the abdication of VICTOR Emmanust being made known to the Duke me Gammon, he published a Proclama tion, dated at Modena, asserting his right to the Throne ; but declaring that he would not accept the tideof king, until his brother should be in a state to pronounce his abdication in perfect freedom. He also, is a direct manner, denounces as rebels all those who shall alter the ancient form of Government ; and, for the justice of his cause, appeals to GOD and the bayo nets of his Allies. The Prince de CARIGNAN% who bad accepted the Regency provisionally, tin the plea sure of the Duke de GEN/MOIR was known, could of course do nothing else next than resign it. His next step is not, however, to be so satisfac torily accounted for. After issuing a Proclamation, announcing that he had divested himself of the Re gency, he repaired to Novara, and placed hirnwif under the orders of General LA rowt, who has hoisted a counter-revolutionary standard, and is said to have rallied around it a great part of the Piedmontese forces. The Panics, it will be recollected, took the oath to the new Constitution. Are oaths, then, no longer to be of the least avail where Kings and Princes are enncerued ? The Constitutional' system was still, however, ad hered to at Turin and Alexandria. The latter is a strongly fortified place, and filled with adherents to the new order of things. The strength of the Con stitutionalists at Turin rests chiefly in the Citadel, the troops -in the occupation of which were among the first to hoist the Revolutionary standard. The Mi nister of War under the new system, had, it is al leged, endeavoured to inspire more general confi dence, by issuing an Order of the Day, on the 24th, saying, that he expected Prance would take part against Austria ; but this was immediately and offi cially contradicted. It is mentioned in one of the private letters, that the Emperor ALxIANDER had written to the late King EMItANUZL I to tell him, that in sixty days an Army of 120,000 Russians would arrive in Piedmont, and that nothing could alter this determination. It it stated, that Esuu inuat. bad given a promise to the Allied Powers not to adhere to any Constitution that might be imposed on him ; and that, not wishing to break his word, or sacrifice his People, he had re solved to abdicate. Such is the mode in which the independence of the Italian Powers is in futere to be preserved I No change in their internal government can henceforth take place, without consulting the Oracles of St. Petersburgb, Berlin, and Vienna. We had written thus far, when we received a series of Piedmontese Gazettes; but their dates do not come down within four days of the accounts which we have just been detailing. They furnish, ofcourse, nothing either in contradiction or support of them ; but they record some things which serve not a little toincrease our surprise at the step the Prince of CA BIONANO has taken. • It appears, that on the 19th of March, the Prince, sg after receiving Me anstver of Ms new King, CJURLEI Faux," issued a Proclamation to the following effect : •s Considering that, b 1 our acceptance of the Spa nish Constitution, and the oath we have taken, and the appointment of - the Provisional Junta in Turin, the moment is come to make the authority one and cen tral, and to render regular the operations that have been adopted in Alexandria; st Considering that the word amnesty, in our De cree of the 14th instant, has been misunderstood.by 'some persons, and that it is important to . explain the true sense in which it was employed, with the advice of the Provisional Junta, we decree as follows : “ 1 it is declared, that by the word anusesty, in our Decree of the 14th, it was intended merely to indicate the- oblivion of trtinsgressions of duty which had taken place in the great change operated by the establishment of the Constitutional System." (The other ArOclis of the Decree point out what is to be done its kgalize the transactions at Alexandria). What, we would beg to ask, occurred between the date of this Proclamation and the PIMICIeS resig nation of the Regency, to make hiss, all at once, turn his back on the Constitution, to which he avows he had sworn ? Vas it the threat of the march of 120,000 Russians? Was it fear, treachery, or what? —We live in strange times. There are various other documents in these Ga zettes, all in the spirit of the new system ; but we have met with none more worthy of quotation than the following Proclamation to the Soldiers of the Re giment of Savoy. It shews with what a deep-rootld spirit of animosity the Austrians and their fellow. leaguers, the Russians, will have to contend, in any effort which they may make for the re-establishment of the old order of things. We sincerely trust the major part orthe army and people of Piedmont, though deserted by their Princes, will yet be true to themselves, and not submit, with out a struggle, to the tyrannical dictates of the holy Alliance. Let us not despair because the dawn of Italian liberty is for the present overcast. The Aus trians have the task of Sysiphus before them, and are yet far, very far, from the mountain's top. PROCLAMATION. " Soldiers of the Regiment of Savoy !—All honest hearts have declared war against the Austrians : there is no longer any means to arrest the poniard of vengeance with which nations have armed themselves against these barbarians, who desire to govern all Italy. The House of Savoy has been subjected by their Mi nisters, after having been kept down by their political influence. Austria now seeks to dishonour it by her insolent pretensions. " Our august King is not sufficiently free to defend his dig nity ; and it is for us to deliver lum, at home, from the agents of the Cabinet of Vienna, who besiege him; and abroad,from those barbarous troops who are upon our frontiers to confirm the yoke of dependence which they have imposed upon him. Soldiers, the House of Savoy was illustrious for centuries in Italy, by its political independence and by the glory of its arms. To whom did it owe the works of its greatness? To your forefathers. Will you suffer this glory, which comes from the valour of your fathers, to be eclipsed by the fatal councils of some warden? Soldiers of the regiment of Savoy ! Your heart has already decided; do what it inspires, and your illus trious name will be for ever cherished by the friends of the country and the King ! Let us cry Long live the King ! Long live the Constitution r PRIVATE LETTER. 4 TURIN, MARCH 21. "• You will see, by the account published at Flo. rence, that the .4.ust.rians- declare the war against Naples terminated. I must, however, inform you, that many persons of intelligence here think that it is intended to alarm the Milanese and Piedmontese, and disbelieve the facts stated. The declaration of the King of Sardinia's brother is supposed to be written under sbe dictation of Austria, as it entirely disagrees in spirit with what was expected from his character." • PARIS, MARCH 2 44 The news from Naples is not altogether disbe lieved here, on account of the source from whence it was at first promulgated; yet everybody is surprised that no official accounts have arrived. " A letter from Genoa, the writer of which pro fesses to have beard from Naples up to the 13th, takes no notice of the events which are said to have transpired there on the 12th. " The Exchange of yesterday presented a frightful prospect for the liquidation ; and many fortunes arc, likely to be seriously injured by the great variations which have taken place since the last Account-day. It is impossible to state exactly all the prices in the funds which have been obtained, either for actual purchases or for speculations, which must be consi dered extremely hazardous under All the circum stances. One failure of an agent de glaange was de clared: it is to be earnestly hoped it may not be fol losVed by others." FROM THE PARIS PAPERS OF THURSDAY. (Freon the Mowiteur.) a In the night of the 25th of March the Prince of Carignano withdrew to Novara, where General Latour commands. He had previously ordered two Rtgi- Aleuts of Cavalry and Light Artillery to march to that town. Three Proclamations were immediately published at Novara—viz. one from the Prince, and two from General Latour, who therein declared him self nominated by the King Generalissimo of the Troops. " The Prince informs the People of Piedmont, that in virtue of the King's Declaration, he resigns his authority as Regent, and that he places himself under the command of General Latour. 44 General Latour addresses one of his Proclama tions to the inhabitants of Piedmont, and the other to the soldiers. In each he urges the return to obe dience of those who have departed from it. 44 A telegraphic dispatch, received this day, an nounces that Piedmont is replaced under the autho rity of the king, with the exception only of the Cita dels of Turin and Alexandria. " This news has been transmitted to the Prefect of the Isere, by the Government of Savoy. 66 Letters received to-day from Florence confirm ' the accounts contained in the Supplement of the Ga.: tette of that city, which we published yesterday. " General Fardelki, Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of Calabria, arrived there on the evening of the 17th, and returned on the 20th, after having had an audi ence of the King of Naples. " The head quarters of Baron Frimont were re moved on the 18th to San Germano, and in four marches he would be at Naples." " MUD-QUARTERS, CEPRAWO, Meat 17. " The enemy had long been encamped and en• trenched in front of San Germano, and appealed dis posed to wait for us; but the total dispersion of the army of General Pepe, which took place in the Abrutazi, left him no means of opposing the march of Lieutenant• General Baron Mohr's corps, which advanced by the road of Sulmona towards the posi- 1 tions behind the Gavigliano. The enemy abandoned them, and this day we entered San Germano. " Lieutenant-Colonel Entsch, at the head of his co lumn, after forcing and taking Sora, which was gar risoned with 2,000 men, making a great number of prisoners, advanced beyond Attina. " To-morrow the army will march to San Ger mano. The names of the places we occupy sufß ciently indicate the adsantages of our position. " Our columns will soon form their junction on the Bank of the Volturno." The Prince of Cisterna, and the Marquis of Pria, who were arrested some days before thq insurrection of Piedmont, were, on the 20th of March, at the head of the National Guard of Turin. Among the superior Officers was also the Chevalier de Saluces la Manta, who, it is said, was last year obliged to leave the Queen's regiment of Dragoons, to which he be- Itange4, and which was in garrison at Chamberry. The King of- Sardinia arrived with his family at Nice on the 20th, at eleven at night. His Majesty made his entrance incognito. The Magistrates had prepared lodgings for him on the 15th; but the King and the Queen were indisposed on the road, and the Royal Family stopped at Teuda, Sospello, and at the Escarena. Our correspondent from Venice announces that the Neapolitan flotilla has appeared in the Gulf. The little Austrian squadron, commanded by Chevalier Palucci, was also at sea. The King of Sardinia did not stop at Nice. lie is gone to Monaco. Letters from Modena and Parma state, that there have been arrests of a marked description in these two cities for Carbonarism. An English squadron of eight ships of the line and some light vessels is, at this moment, in the Road of Antibes. It was at first believed that it was destined to receive the king, Victor Emmanuel, and his Consort, in order to remove them to Sar dinia; but the course taken by their Majesties dis proves that conjecture. A letter from Vienna, dated the 16th, says—" We learn from Passau, under the date of the 3d, that a secret association has been discovered there among the workmen of different trades, who meet regu larly among the tombs of the Old Capuchin Convent. About thirty of them have been arrested ; and, from their examination, it appears that they had gone so far as to form a kind of secret fraternity, by which they were pledged to mutual defence to the last et tremity, everywhere and under all circumstances.' They were bound by an oath, in the taking of which 1 1 they drank out of a skull. Some of them had dag gers, and they called themselves the Black Brothers.' ' The Madrid Pipers of the 16th contain a Report from the Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Cortes. The ratification of the Treaty with the United States, for • the cession of the Floridas, is 'announced, and Spain is stated to be at peace with the Barbary States, but the principal part of *the Report relates to the affairs of Naples. Explanations ate stated to have taken place between the Cabinet of Madrid and the Allied Powers, which, though not yet terminated, l have already produced, on the part of some of the, Cabinets, the positive assurance that they do not mean to disturb Spain, nor to interfere in any way in her domestic concerns. Yesterday Baron Pasquier, Minister for Foreign Affairs, transacted business with the'King. On leav ing his Majesty, he visited the Prince of Castelcicala, to inform him that the Austrians were in Naples. Price of the Funds, March 28—Five per Cent. Con sols, 81E 60c. Bank Actions, 1,5001. 1 STOCK EXCHANGE —oxt otaxt .•.••••• SomaTKIN. EXTRAORDINARY 10...6NY Report tTV the Pity at this hour says Them are no repo lt on 'Change at present." The following are tilet7r. rent prices : 3 per Cent. Cons. 72% ti 4 714 % ti per Cent. Navy 106% fi 1 / 4 Imperial S per Cent. 72 1 / 4 Exch. Bills, par. 2s. pr. Cons. for Acct. 72 72 REVOLUTION Ix TERCEIRA.-d-A Gentleman who has arrived at Plymouth from Terceira, in the Henry, HELLOCE Master, after a passage of 14 days, informs us, that on the Ist March, the Troops, at the instig..- tion of the higher order of Inhabitants, declared thew selves independent of the Governor-General of Ter. ceira, and immediately placed the Governor of S., Michael's under confinement, until he would consent to the foimation of a Constitution, similar to the (-De at Lisbon. The Island was illuminated for three sue. cessive nights, and salutes were fired at various times, Everything was quiet, and no lives had been 1 0 , / when our informant left the Island. The Bill brought into the House of Commons by Mr. MARTIN, proposing to allow Counsel to per son charged with felony, was last night thrown oat "Atha out a division. We regret to see so little counte. nance given to so equitable a measure. If it is right to allovi Counsel in cases of High Treason, it mint equally so to allow them in ordinary felonies ; th e difference in the extent of punishment can make ne alteration whatever on the- principle of the chilli", To detect and expose the perjuries of a witness is me of the highest efforts of the forensic art ; and it is ra. ther too much to expect that every unfortunate in dividual who is brought to the bar at the Old Bailey, should possess what men of education only acquire by greet ability and long practice. 'Were it not for this want of Counsel, we should not see see so many persons convicted at every spa ns of crimes of which they are innocent; and some eves rescued at the last hour from an ignominious death. It is the province of the Judges, it is said, coact as Counsel for the prisoner; and certainly the English Judges have never at any time been minting in anxiety to fulfil their duties well; but he mast know little of the powers of the human mind who can ima, gine that it is possible for any Judge, however able and impartial, to look with the e) e of the accused into the details of every case that comes before him, We recollect an anecdote of an Irish Judge, which will speak volumes on this head. He had gives some cause of cffence to - the Gentlemen of the Bar who attended a certain Circuit, arid they one and all refused to practice before him. His Lordship, how. ever, insisted on proceeding with the criminal calm. dar, saying, that he would himself act as Counsel for the prisoners. The very first person who via tried was innocent of the charge imputed to him; but his Lordship, though lie did all he could to make this plain, contrived, somehow or other, to produce quite a contrary impression, and the Jury brought in a verdict of guilty. The Learned Judge feh how much the event rebuked his pretensions; and, sending to the Gentlemen of the Bar, made such an ape logy as brought them back to the exercise of their proper functions. The House afterwards went into a Committee d Supply,. for the purpose of considering the Army Estimates ; but previous to the SPEAKER'S leaving the Chair, Mr. Hume proposed certain Resolutiain, declaratory of the increase which hid taken place on the Staff of Great Britain and the Cokuies since 1792; and on the increase . of Salaries in Fabric Offices, and the necessity of reduction. The motion was lost, on a division, by a majority of 50 Id& , The House then went into the Committee of Sep*. Upon the first Resolution, that the sum int:1810 should be granted for the Staff of Great Britain sod the Colonies, exclusive of the East Indies, far die cuirent year, Mr. Hiram moved, as an Amsailmeas• that the proposed grant should be reduced to 000: 0 . After some discussion, Mr. Hums, at the segg•• • of Mr. J. SMITH, agreed to substitute MP a room of his original Amendment. The atounime was negatived by a majority of 55 in favour of site original Resolution.—The next Resolution was Ai the sum of £25,382, for the Staff of Ireland. 'Di =ion was opposed by Sir H. PA RIIRLL, who Wei that the Office of Commander-in-Chief, and pus d the Staff attached to it, should be abolished, by wh iell a saving of 1:4000 would be effected. He moved • Amendment to that effect, which, with several other Amendments, proposed by Mr. Hugs, Sir H. PAP watt., /cc. were lost upon divisions, as will be $ 4 2 by referring to our Report of the Proceedings. Resolutions were ordered to be reported on fifoodeP Yesterday the Duchess of CLitaxsca visited di ! Duchess of LINT 'AM Princess SOPHIA MATILDA. The CHA MCRLLOR of the ETCH moo had apponnd eleven o'clock this morning to receive the biddll s a New Lottery, on the conditions that bad prowl 1 . been sent to the Bank ; but as be still adhered te . s " price fixed as his rainbows at the former Mel Messrs. Stsrxwatotrr were the only Gentlemn • make s ar s : nd offerpai,d their and the Minister's to make term, were, of course, declared the Contractors. s 7 For the Army and Navy, and other s nicks of iate ll B o4 see the lint LON DQN T Printed•and published Teropirsßer. rhdaeptisift acceded/ AV t° r - •