The National Register. — London, England, 1821-03-25 00:00:00

mop P ■ r•• ,••• • .: :'~~*" IN "MANIFES7'O ON THE KING ON THE TWO SICILIES. The Constitutional Government of the Two Sicilies, against which the Congress at letylnerh has ful aivated it- astatheabui, %%bile it prepares to repel the most utijoist and and the most violent aggress . of a hich history has ever made mem ion, desires clot to appeal tit opt ~ i, n of Europe, ant! of .111 cisilizr.l ;bilious; and that every sine - may equally judge to %hid, side is reasail and eel whir, side is injustice, in the oar which, after five scuts of peace, is going to break out in unhappy Italy, the Goverioneut oafs it to itself to make key wn all the particulars which have conducted it to the political situstion in a huh it is sit this moment placed. The wants ,if the people of the Two Sieilies. the degree of eivilisa to which it ha- attained, had called fur nialiv jeers fora Change in the internal sjstesii it the state. At the heglnnine of Juts, ISiO, the coostilublitt of Spain was demanded by the uturnin 1111 l voice of the nation. The King adhered to it, saving the modifications 'lmposed by the represeotalives of the nation, who were convoked piincipnlls fur this purpose, wills the obligation to respect the hoses of the tiers social compact. Chi the 15th of the aline mo nth the King swore to oaserse it, hedire the pro visional junta; mid on the 19th his Nlajesty ustide an official communication of it to all the foicign power-, with whom he was on terms of friendship. Ever store these first moments, the spirit of moderation, and a scrupulous regard to the independence, the nut hint iilll4, mid the rights of other nutioto, hive formed the rule of the 'conduct of the Neapolitan government. It proclaimed these maxims before the whole world, when it refused to interfere in the alTioes of Benevento and Poole Corm, which had called for its interfrienee. Europe cannot doubt of the sincere desire of our govern ment to live in peace and good understanding with all others, if it examines without partiality th e conduct ob server; towards Austria. Scarcely was the form of our political regime changed, when the first thought of the Court of Naples was to motile the Cabinet of Vienna that sun Is a cliuni:e could not, in any mangier, impair She relations of friend-hip and alliance ew listing beta ern the two states. The hist overtures having been rejertid, the Kin,, setting aside all resentment. repealed Isis insurances, sent ambassadors, nod, in shoe t, attempted all manner of amicable ci 11111 l einication ; but till was is sale. So much harshuesa on the part of Austria was returned at Naples. by the greatest respect to she legation, the councils, alai all the subjects of Austria. Nevertheless. the Corti of Vienna, constantly. alleging that our political refinin " shook the fiend: ions of the sociakeilidee, that it proclaimed anarchy as a 14A, that it menaced the safety of thrones, and that of recognised ins *miens, aiid the tranquillity of nations," urged with preci pitatio' the must eatraorditutry preparations of war in the Italian states, increased the garrison of Ferrara, Placentia, and Commachio, and solicited all the powers of Europe to declare a ‘ riiiist the Neapolitan government, not to receive its ministers, mod to break off all rominniention ait .t. His Majesty then ordered the Duke de Campo Chiaro, h's secretary irf state, minister for foreian affairs, to demand of that coon, in his mime, a categorical explanation of thew ratraurdinaus allllllllli its, and of the attitude which it as sented lust:oils us ; hut this note—scut for that purpose to Prince Metternich the very day when the King, on opening the first session of the national parliament, renewed in the midst of it the 'math to maintain the constitution—this note, In which all the accusation directed again.' our political reform were refuted, received on answer. In the interval the Sovereigns of Austria, Russia, and Prussia, met at Troppen, with their plenipotentiaries, and those of France and Etiglaud. The object of this meeting was to take into consideration the affairs of Naples, and is result to invite his Majesty the King to repair to Lay bairli, to co-operate with the Allied Sovereigns " in the means of conciliating the inteiests and the happiness of his people, with the duties which they were called upon to I oilfil towards their own states and towards the world." His Majesty accepted a mission which was proposed to Lira in the name of a tutelary alliance, solely destined to guarantee the political independence of all states. 'Fite parliament consented to the deo:Wine of the Sovereign mad thus, refitting the calumnies spread respecting the state of constraint in which the King was supposed to he, it showed the confidence which it placed in its august de tender. He departed, in fact, attended by the prayers of the illation t but seercely has be arrived at Lay birch, when Le is deprised of the niiiiister whom he had brought with him, and threatened aitlt a disastrous war, to oblige him to adhrte to the principles and to the violent measures already resolved at Tropeau. All the means which be employs to avesl this misters time are fruitless. It was then that the Allied Powers assembled at Lay barb funk • I t most the kingeloni of the Two Skates resolttious, which, at the utmost, would have been int posed alter a great uumther of vi. hake neon a vanquished end humbled mition. The envojh of Russia sod Prussia, and the charge d'etfaires of Asistria, • d them to his Hoyal Higruess the Pieller Regent Of the Utli of Fehrtialy, and di chord to I • that au Austrian - army would advent e to occupy the Neapolitan territory, unless the older of things esiabiish. ti since the Gilt of July be ilottlethaitly abolished; and Mao, es en if this spontaneous submission took 'dace, the runty would still pewit ale into the kingdom, to maintains the new older of thitigs *loch it was intended to establish throe. It was then that hit Royal Highness gave to I'.•• diplo -71141iC agents those noble ins% ris %%loco, alter having eseited their admit:moo and respect, produced in the parliament a transpuit of enthusiasm which has coin 1111 l • pleated use's . to itie Malts tit all lime Neepolitatis. Every boils now knows ttlat the magtia 11111 l ons Prince would not deter on any thing lull he had eumsolled the deputies of the nation to w 11111 l he c -ated these pi uposals, Met they might take such a resolution as was t suita ble in the difficult situation in which the mo n archy was placed ; as to himself, 14111110 i to its oaths, he promoted that lie would share the tats of the nation, limn which he never could have separated himself. The Estraordmary Paiii•suctil teeing then convoked. drclaied in the iarmulalde ratio% of the Lith e Mai it its, Out able to consent to rev 01 lite pi opusa is ; tint it con.i dered his Majesty as undet testi mint ; that diii ,ugh a state of things, his Itojai /11111111 , ••• the Mike of Cei•Lo ia should euelimie to exercise the Regency ; and heady, tftat all measures should he taken fur air safety of the slate. Public opinion had .111.4.1 y autiryuated those deter rnination 4. The PI Mei, Reeelit, hound by a sailed tooth to maietain the Loostthithol, which is nu* the funda mental law of the ultimo ch) , leas Artletioiteti them. Ur Ihoeghl lie should ;ups best 111161 the duns s imposed upon Lim, as flinch ton at (Is the I/411011 whose tit:slimes are • -• _ If the reader imagine the Neapolitan frontier pro jecting, like the arc of a circle, from Aseoli to Rieti, with the other extremity of the bow to the south of Palestrina, he will have a tolerably accurate idea of the relative situations of the armies. It is obvious, theretime, that it' the Austrian army was scattered in the manner here represented, a successful attack un its cesim would be attended with the most im portant consequences. The two wings, being dis joined by the mute of the centre, and at so consi derable a distance from each other, in an imprac ticable country, would be exposed to almost certain destruction. • TIME NATIONAL REGISTER confided to him, as towards the King, his august father, whose interest cannot he separated from that of his people. Meantime, hostile to the social compact which, by the beneficeece of one Ki n g, form. t h e palladium of the silo• touchy of the Two Socliu.p, Ole court of Vienna pretends to modish it. Hw•alise a nation regeneratiil to lilies ty and independence does not yield to its will, it has em ployed every means to :mike it believed that the interest of its policy is that of Europe, and lies sworn Intel ly to overturn all our internal erganization. Already its troops are advancing for this purpose towards site national fron tier; already the au oeil is stained with blood, and menaces Europe with a war %Inch has eio parallel, directed against constitutional ideas, and the independence of nations. It could not have been feared that t h ose same armies which were united a short nine ago, in the name of social tinier, to deliT.4 Europe from oppression, woudd march against a nation which cannot be reproatelied wills any infraction of the low of nations, and which, without ex citing tronb:es tinning any of its neighbours—without offending legitimacy, and even professing the most res pectful veneration for its Sive, elan and his august dy -11.1.1), is perseveringly engaged ih the ameliotating ins internal sid iii iii nitration. The powers of the second rank most see, its what happens to the kingdom of Naples, the imminent danger nide,' threaleiistliem. On the day la hen our cause shall be carried, the independence, the liberty, • I Europe will share the saute fate. But a cause protected by , justice and public opinion-- • cause which 'messes all wise gover iiiii e its and all na tions who feel their dignity—a cause which will he de fended by the whole nation, whose wishes have rs:sressed themselves on this occasion wills much tmaiiimits ; such a cause musttriumph—despair a ill combat against force —lie who defends the ronstitntional laws mid indepen dence of the emasitry, he who combats the forriguer, who comes to rub him of the livid, and to tread the second nattier feet, is not always the weakest. The Neapolitan goverstineot, though it has provoked no one, though it has opposed the noble attitude of - iteration to the multiplied outrages which have been la vished upon it by those who cotiltitt . il its ruin, is now attacked by au Ata! tan artily, who pretends to imanse laws upon it. But since neither Russian nor Prussian troops are marching towards our frontiers, it is only to the A ti ‘irtiin gore' nissent, that we are ohiiged to oppose the resistance which our own defence reimires. Ho-sever, his Royal lii,fhtiess Ratters himself that the august monarchs assembled at Lay bads. seeing; the noble feeling which unites the inhabitants of the Tao Sicilies, and their unanimous determination to defend the liberties and the I :our of their nation, will ren 11111 l ee their pre judices, and will leave at peace a generous people, who live only to enjoy the benefits of its new political system under the protection of the constititt• lor legitimate throne ; a people which, doting a period of seven lts, has shown that noble attitude, and that respect to the King and to the royal faintly, which have made Europe judge it to lie worthy of liberty; a people, in title, which taking no share in the affairs of other nations, lia- surely a right to expect that no one should Mimicry of its concerns., His Royal Highness also flatters himself flint all the other powers of Europe not cancer led as the pri sent contest a contribute, by their peisuusiun or good °dices, to put an end to the disasters in which the scourge of war. ready to fall upon our cousitry, threatens to involve hutilanity. If the lire is now Lindh d iu the south of the Italian pCIIIIISUIR, a tin is there shot must slut fear the CIIIIStqaeIICCS? find wlto cats say win re its drr ,rdful raVile,CS a ill stop. If, unhappily, a w:11* Of ll 11l atm° cannot be a voided, the Pounce Urgent and his amitist brother vi ill plave thein selves at the head of the Neapolitan army, and will circuital with it to the last extrema) itgaina the foretos invasion, invoking the hid of the Mips etne Arbiter of Empire-, who putter's innocence mid and pumstirs abu-es of force, injustice, end oppression. POSITIONS OF THE AUSTRIAN AND NEAPOLITAN ARMIES. The battle which is said to have taken place at Rieti on the 9th is very probable, judging from the accounts in the Frenchpapers of the previous posi tions of the two armies. On the 2d of March ac cording to some accounts, ltieti, Ponte Mullo, and Palestrina, were occupied by the right wing of the Austrian army ; while Ascoli, Amatrice, and Ara 'nolo, were occupied by the left. According to other accounts, Gen. Frimont has his head-quarters at Rieti, with about 24,000 men. Palestrina and Ascoli are about eighty miles apart; Palestrina to the south or right, Ascoli to the north, or left of the Austrian army—Rieti is midway between these two extremities. The Neapolitans were said to have been retreating upon Aquino', the first town in the Neapolitan territory over against Rieti, and not twenty miles distant from the latter place. The retreat of the Neapolitans may have been for the purpose of concentration, and one day's or night's march would bring them to the Austrian force at Rieti. The following will give an idea of the rela tive positions of the places we have mentioned : I PALESTHINA. RIETI. • I Anglian right. • 9. A ii , trian centre. .4 ;1 I AQUILA. • Neapolitan army. ASCOLI. • Austrian left. THE DRAWING-ROOM. -f The King held a drawing-room yesterday, at his Eralace of Buckingham-house, and an occurrence so common to the inhabitants of the metropolis would, perhaps, have excited little attention, but for a report which had been current that the Queen intended to honour it with her presence, for the purpose of presenting a petition to her royal consort, praying the restoration of her name to the Liturgy. This report acted ar a stimulus to the public curio. sity, and, notwithstanding the very unfavourable state of the weather, drew immense crowds to the Park. We know not what orders were given at the Palace with respect to the reception of her Majesty in the event of her aiming, but it is evident that the Mar shal's men stationed at tile gate at the top of Consti tution-hill were enjointsl to offer no obstruction to her Majesty's equipage in its pastage to the Palace. The company visiting the drawing-room began to arrive directly after the gates were opened, and the carriages continued to set down without intermission until past three, atier which there were very few arrivals. His Majesty, assisted by the Pancess Augusta, received the company in the Grand State Apart ment, surrounded by his ministers of state and officers of the household, and a great number of presenta tions took place. The drawing-room concluded about five o'clock. -a• 11.1%K OF EAGLAND. At Gewral Court of Proprietors held at the Rink of Etta Lind on Thursudy, fur the purpose of coniidering A dividend, The Cliairinan proposed, that a Resolution. ordering s (lit idend of five per cent. for the Cl/field liali.ye.aly dividend be paid on the G ts of April. ()Is the question slut the Conn do order this dividetill, Air. Goody said, tie was a l'io l oirior of 5001. *lock, and ILA written to the Coon tit Directors, reepiestilig their prochiction at lice ms, Getierai Court td the ac counts of all the 1311. k pr;nits. Were these accounts now in Court The Chairman arloimylcul:!ed having received Mr, (;iitly's letter, but said he Mal un autiority, without the consent of lie Couto, to lay open the accounts of the Concern ; if they ordered it to be done, their cow. minds sitould be obeyed. Mr. Gaudy said, he haul a right to the accounts all a matter oi course, fur the Act ul Queen Anne said, that they should not only he forilicounimi at the call of any Proprietor in a Gellert! Court, lot: made N: soh- Jeet of consideration at that Court, u healer or no the nrhfitc should hot be thylueui ni the I)l%mi:ha upon Bank I)arley denied this law, 111,1 said the CJSC Wad decided Doti' in the Cu,,it ui 1i.:11 4 . b .111,1 itt ltle Conn tot 1 ) t rovixtur,, whet' ,N If. (tatsti) tirollblll tits ini r. Guuuy dein, d that he h.ul cd the question. and demanded the accounts d, a Illal t..r 0I rtant. A w trm d igcoissi oil arose, aim tm: point was ruled against Nit'. Gundy. P.O.ViNTION OF FoKGERIES. Mr. John Smith (he'll-ell to know, whether the Com missioners had as yet succeeded in a i•lan of Book notes whiten was llk ly to szt at rest toe imitation by for geries. The Chairman read from a _paper, which he held in his hand, d Statement of Inc Progress of the Commis sallitis, from whiles) it appeared, that they were still eagerly pursuing the attaiotts.lit of their object to make such a note as would make ordinary forgeries absolutely impossible. Min) , difficulties had as yr..% delayed the plait, hut they hoped ultimately to succeed. He ex plained, that with a %.ew of soppressusg forgeries, the Hai.k had I At:ly avphot Ili for power to Issue Sorcrd cos WI o.le MeV pleased, on the Ist of May next, ilistuid tit hle Ist Niay, 182. This would, he Itoir.d, suppress we lurgery of Otte Pound Noles. Tile Chairman said that it was not meant to re-issue any ()I' the prese .1 one pound tones when they should be exchange lor Tile ilivuortol for toe hall year codwg the 511 . 1 Arol teas then (I. c Jrutl to hr 5 p r a... 1 t.ie Court, wro.:11 was Jtietided hiy all the great th.otte.l Inert to the city, men broke up. Oa Wednesday the Recorder made a report to his :11;..j2sty of the prisoners in Newgate, capitally con victtd at the last sessions, when George Barry, for highway robbery ; Joseph Kitsall and Jas. Pitcher, for stealing in dwelling-houses; William Dawson, for uttering forged Batik-notes ; and Wm. Robinson, fir burglary, were ordered for execution on Tuesday next. The others were respited during pleasure. His Majesty on Wednesday night honoured the Ancient Concert, Hanover-square, with his pre sence, and was receive(' by a numerous and fashion able audience with every possible degree of respect. Ten millions of gold have lately been coined in the ltoyul Mint, and are now to be issued at the Bank of England. The shipping of foreign warehoused corn to Naples and the South of Italy is continued with much acti vity ; several large policies have been opened at Lloyd's on the voyages, and some of the stores have '-' ---- ------- I completely emptied. .~ Pr