The National Register. — London, England, 1821-03-19 00:00:00

F !6t AationA Argil( 1". 4. e trr+ •• Our Ring, Comnitution, anti No. 1,303.—V0L. XIS .] NEAPOLITAN PAPERS. NAPLES, Feb. 26.—We are infbrmed from an authentic source, that the Chevalier Medici, ex. Minister of Finance, who has been for some time at Rome, has freqquent and lung conferences with Cardinal Gonsalvi. The Chevalier de Fontenay, French Charge de Affaires, yesternay received a courier with highly interesting information, of a nature to be welcomed with the most lively joy by the friends of liberty and the country. We, however, shall not venture to publish it till we have absolute certainty, that we that we may not lead the nation into illuiion and error. NATIONAL PARLIAMENT EXTRAORDINARY. PITTING or YES. 43. —SIG N 0 R C. GALDI, PRESIDENT. The process verbal of the last sitting was read and approved, A request was read from the Prince of Molitorno, who desires to assist in the defence of the country as a private soldier, (referred to the war minister). Another from D. A nsclmo Adorno, who offers to furnish an armed man at his expense, and to main tain him during the war, The Minister fur Foreign Affairs gives an account of a conference with the French Charge d'Affaires, by whom he has been informed that that government will observe the strictest neutrality. He likewise Communicates the tenour of the British Circular to he ministers abroad. Lastly, he communicates the request of the English General, Sir Robert Wilson, who offers his services to our country, whenever it will be attacked by Austria. He is ready to fly to our succour at the first invitation. Some deputies observed that not being a citizen, be could not have a superior command. The Secretary de Luca.—" Let the rights of ci- Sixenship (naxionalits) be given to him." The President.—" And let the decree of the Par- liameat be sent hint by means of our minister at London, in order to testify to the illustrious general the gratitude of the nation of the Two (Approved ) Signor de Flippo-_" Let this decree be circulated in England. In that free country there are many generous and sensible minds who may imitate the example of their brave fellow-countryman. Signor Burelli--" In the War-office there is an offer of 2,000 English volunteers; it should be examined." Signor Netti — " Our nation has displayed its energy, and its firm and heroic chasucter; but it is adviscable to unite with some power, the better to ensure the triumph of our cause. The English nation might be very advantageous to it. Let us attach ourselves to it by a treaty of commerce." The French courier . that arrived yesterday was • addressed to the Government, and not to the French Charge d'Affaires, Al ; • du Fontenay : he performed his journey in nine days, and is the bearer of des patches such as might be expected from a,Constitu tional Government like that of France, i. c. the the formal disapprobation of the conduct of its representatives ut the Cengress of Laybach Era. 28.—The cavalry of the royal guard, which is chiefly composed of veterans, set out this mortiin 4 amidst cries of " The Neapolitan Constitution " Ten soldiers who had des;:rted front the regiment of the crown, no sooner learned that war was de clared, than they voluntarily - presented themselves to their eorps. Wo wish, said they, to die in the presence of our fellow-soldiers, and to wusli out the stain on our reputation in the blood of the enemy. Campania, which was the least Itsposed to take up artua, now presents the must warlike aspect. A •arps of legionaries destined to march to the fron, tiers, is forming at Caml. The peasants duck from all patters to be admitted into it. Citiaen Francis Tocci, an Albanian, settled in Calabria, lean applied tins permission to tbrm is corps of Albanians, to be employed in the Neapolitan ser vix. A great number of the inhabitants of Catania, in Sicily, have Applied to Lc admitted into the corps which are to march first against the enemy, The parliament has passed is decree, granting re• w ar d s an d h ono ur s to the troops who shall distinguish themselves in the war. The last article is us fol lows The children of the::: who die with arms in their hands are declared the adopted children of the country. The nation shall provide for their htsuattance and educatit.n," MONDAY, MARCH 19, 18'21. Another deciec admits foreigners to serve as vo lunteers in the Neapolitan army. Their services may procure them the rights of citizenship. Several citizens between whom law-suits existed have abindoned their respective claims, declaring that at the present moment union ought to prevail among all the children of the country. Thirty-two new legionary battalions have been placed at the disposal of the executive government. A brigade has been added to each of the regiments of artillery. In the sitting of the Parliament of the 23d, Sig nor Castagna read intelligence from Terracina, announcing that the inhabitants of that province, eager to attack the enemy, hsd abandoned their houses to hasten to the frontiett ; others had gone to the Roman States—all resolvisd to conquer, or to perish fur the cause of independence. Some corps of partisans formed by them have taken a great quan tity of corn destined for the Austrian army. • Baron Ramdolir, Envoy Extraordinary and Mi nister Plenipotentiary from ha. Prussian Majesty, and the Chevalier Sasso, Russian Councillor of Le gation, have, under different pretexts, demanded passports of our .Minister for F4eign Affairs to quit this capital. The Minister, ill; giving them pass ports, declared that they were file to stay or go, as they pleased, and that the individuals of their respective nations would continue to enjoy the same protection and the same favour 'which the constitu tional government assured to. all friendly nations, thst the Neapolitan people did net regard as enemies either Russia or Prussia, to which countries they had given no legitimate cause :of complaint; and that they wuuld only consider themselves in a state of war with nations which should attack them. . - CATHOLIC L'IILINCIFATIOX. Abstract of a Bill to prehtdr forth, leisure of the Distinsati ! jir,dions under which Ate Majesty's Algoma* Cabe* Subject nate tabour, Ntifiereas the Protestant succession to the Imperial Crown of this United -Kingdom and its devisdencies, is, by the act. for the farther limitation of the Crown and the better securing the liberties of the people, established permanently and inviolably. And whereas the Protestant Episcopal Church of England and Ireland, and the doctrine, discipline, and government thereof, and likewise the Protestant Presby terian Church of Scotland, and the doctrine, discipline, and wryer ttttt ent thereof, are, by the respective acts of Union between England and Scotland, and between Great Britain and Ireland, therein severally established permanently and inviolably. 4.id whereas, after due consideration of the situation, dupusitinils,andCclil . , lUCt Of Ili. M .jetty's I{ollllll Ca tholic sul.-cts, it appears jiist and fitting to committal eate to thein the full enjoyment of the benefits and ad. vanciges of the Constitution and Government happily esiabliched rothikunited kingdom, thus pitting ail end to reit:nous jealowieS, emoulnfattrig - the Unloll between Great Britain rind Ireland and uniting and knitting thgeriter the hearts of all his Majesty', subject, iu one and the same interest, for the support of his Majesty's person, family, crown, and government, and for the defence at their common r ghts and liberties. And whereas, by ceriain acts passed in the Parliaitichtf ui Gfeill Britain and Ireland, the oaths of alicioance and supremacy, therein provided, are required to be :oaken fur certain ;imposes therein mentioned ; tie said Oath uf supremacy is expressed irk the loflorving irrins :—" 1 A B. do swear, out I do front my heart, detect and abjure, as impious and heretical, that daub- sable docir tie and position, that Princes, excommuni cated or deprived by the Pope, or any autilority of the fee of Rome, way be deposed or murdered by their 'wh it:ClS, Of any oilier whatsoever; and I do declare, Ina& nu foreign Prince, Prelate, .State, or Pohnitater Math ur ou g ht to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre eminence or autitoriry, reclestaaticil or spiritual, within this ream : Su 'kip me Gad." A.lll whereas his Nlajesty's Homan Cathohe stibi , els (.;tea: 13,iiain and Ireland have kern 41 411 WM'S r,•ady :Intl desirous to take this said (Loh of Jilrvancs• ni with his Nlajesty's other ',objects ; but enter tain sciiiples with revect to taking the wilt of Shprots. , cY so far as the same might be Collloll.leil tia 1111 Port a di— ciarity r or the spirituel authority of the Pope of of Rhine in matters of religion* belief : And whereas it appta3 1;ow th e ai l mon i!ion annexod to the injimetioys of tier Alturtly V;;ern vulthshcd in the tirst year of tier Majesty's relt:11, alit sanctioned by tile act pasted in time Filth year of 11. r ign, minted, " An act bur the assitranceof the Q....eu's regal poets over 411 eildlexi and ,ultjvc3 o ottio I.ci do mot.uo, - that such ILA-Linnet was originally Imam now to extend in any 01:o cekoaccierlgnient to foreign porv:r, irrprtras f ry„ preasatorence, or autnos Pales 941. rity, as is or could be incompatible with the civil duty and allegiance which is due to his Majesty and succes sors Prow all his subjects : And whereas a legislative expVanation, to that effect. may thereMie be properly and safely given and declared. M.y it therefore pleav your Majesty, that it may be enacted and declared, and lie it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty. by and with the advice and con sent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com mons, in Parliament assembled, said by the authority of the same, that nothing costumed in the said oath of supremacy shall be understood to express or imply fit titer or otherwise, than that the persons taking this saute do thereby uoreser..eilly and unequivocally pro fess and declare, in the presence of Almighty God, that no foreign Prince, Person, Prelate. State, or Potentate. hath or ought to have jurisdiction, power. supremacy. pre-eminence. or authority, temporal, ecclesiastical, or spiritual, within this realm, that in any manner. or for any purpose, conflicts or interferes with the ditty of full anal undivided allegiance, which by the laws of this realist is due to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, front all his subjects, or with the legal rights of his Ma jesty's subjects, air any of them. 'lite Bill then proceeds to enact that, the declaration respecting Tratisubstantiation, be repealed ; that no 04116 be tendered to Roman Catholics, except . those re quired from other subjects ; *Lai nothing iii the act shall repeal the statute of uniformity, or enable Roman Ca tholics to hold any office or place of tit! stinted Church of Etieland air Ireland, or the Couch of Scotland ; or any office or benefice belonging to the said united Churches ; or any place in any Eeclesitstical Co:art of Judicature ; or in any Cathedral or Collegiate Estals. lisliment or foundation ; or atty office or place in any of the Universities ; or any College or School id Royal or Ecclesiastical foolidatioo ; or to exercise any right of presentation. That when ally ri ; :Jit of presentation is annexed to any office held by a Rom in Catholic, his Majesty may transfer such right 01 presentation w any member of Inc Privy Counsel being a roiestant.— iy, Routait Catholics not to advise the Cross n sat the appoititnient or disposal of any lay or ecclesiastical offices of the ut.ited Cottrell of Englatut and Ireland, or the Cnurch of Scotlaisd. 717 E QUEEN. The following is " an account of all monies ex pended touching any proceedings had respecting her Majesty the Queen, from the year 1817 to the present time." It Mita presented to the House of Lords, and ordered to be printed, on the 12th inst. ITEMS OF CHARGE. The total sum supplied out of the Secret Service t a. d. Money. from the commencement of the Procceed inch is 11,100 15 • The total sum issued to Mr. Mauls. the Solicitor of the Treasury, out of his Giant of Parliament for Civil Contingencies, for the expense of the Pro ceedings. is 46,000 0 0 The total stun issued to Mr. Vizsrd, her Ma jesty's Solicitor, out of the Gram of Parliament for satisfying certain eharges upon th e Consoli. dated Fund, or Civil List, for the espznse of those Proceedings. is 60,000 0 0 To his Majesty's Great Chainberlaiu (Lady Wil loughby de Ereaby, acting by het Deputy, D. W: Fellowes, Esq.) out of the said Grant for Civil Contingencies. Mr extraordinary expenses incurred by him on this occasion, is 1.2.50 0 0 To Sir Robert Baker. (Chief Magistrce of the Bow-street Police and Horse Patrole,) out tel the said Grant for Civil. Contingencies, towards the extra expenses of preserving the Peace during those proocediugi 3.103 10 0 . Whitehall Treaiury Charnbcrs. £1•29,4.34 4 0 Feb (S:gnea) It. Ll.:610 15, Mi. ~XGrON. - Oroaro, FEN. Journal called the Cor. reiro do I'orlo contains the following article :— ~~ Rio DE .1.41.; ELKO. Nov. s.—lt is coati:mai in the most positive 111/1111Cf, that in one oldie Sitting* of die Coum;il held to.day in tile piesente of the King, the Conti: des Areas spoke in favour of the new order of things in Portugal. and expressed his opinion wit , . great ii•mness. He said it was 'ii4hly important. and at the sante time conformable with the dignity of hie cowls to adopt the constitutional system, not only for Portugal but also fur Brazils, where the spirit a liberty was making a raptd progress. " The Ministers, Villa Novo and Targini, replied to the Count, and endeavoured to prove that the ptinei t nes which he had just laid down, were very contrary to the true principles of Monarchy. They say. that tlie mesons adduced by the l mat des Areas in favour u. the constitutional system, made a great imiiresslon on the mind of the Kong, whose gootmelia and love of justice ate wall knot% uto 41 his subject.. It is affirmed. that their Boys! Highnesses toe sins of ins Majesty, arc well incitned n these changes. and have declared as muds to their august a, ther, Übe troops takes groat part in the genets! joy caused by Coe evens in Portugal. 4+ol the Butopeans especially distinguish themselves. Tilabe lAA doubtless tarot the best part of the tone of the Government. They an.ount to bout at least. Toe die. Ninon in rile troops, arid of the inhabitants of Brazil, desersis Benoit* consideration. and gives 110 tC4,... , 11 to :IC persuatleu that the king will not 611 roulily to yiel.i to the aishts of the public." , The Dissenting Congre g ations of Brighton have unauituou>ly agreed .3 petvioa P,rlielakent %ming • el Mr. Broughant'l Educetionl3:ll. 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