The National Register. — London, England, 1815-11-05 00:00:00

X 0 V. 5. arms ! ! To arms!! Let the nation - rise in mass ! Let every true Neapolitan, who pospesses sentiments of honour, fly to my calm)! Let the Provincial Legions assemble ? Let the army re-organise itself ! Let my brave soldiers rejoin their standards ! Let the brave and faithful guard of security of rir good city at Naples once more save my capital ! My my:it palace, all the persons and property of that im toethe city, are under its protection !. Let the brave, the faith ful t:htians--let the people of Basilicata, of the province of o ßdermo and of A vellino, let the brave Samoites—let the peop' , 2 of Puglia and of 'Terra de Lavoro, who have always given me so many proofs of attachment, assemble round their King, their General! Let Ferdinand be counselled to remove from a Ration which he has so indignantly offended; let him room to the Island of Sicily ! Let us march to deliver the capital, and, under the double standard of the cross and of li. I,tv iv t Ir t is give freedom to out country, and ensure fur ever its lia;ioni ss and its independence. Faithfid aod courageous Neapolitans! Do not fear that the Allied Powers will avail) arm themselves against your King Your Joachim has neve: abdicated. A military reverse can oot destroy his right to the Crown of Naples. In re-conquer ing t.i tir , one,tiedoes nothing more than imitate the example of t•therSovereigns who have re-aßsumcd theirs. The Quee,n arid, the Royal Family shall he restored to you ; your hr'';;, far from inspiring in future his neighbours with fear, will ne !heir best friend. The Emperor of Austria, who, deceived with respect t• the true political state of the Cabinet of Naples, awl believing your Kivu; to hold a corres pondence with Naiirdcon, made ttpon him so fatal a war, will become, without doubt, his ally. The Icturn of your Meg ought to inspire you with no ap• prchetision, since be can no longer entertain any projects of aggrandisement either on the States of the Pope, or on the rest of It jr. The other Sovereigns wf Europe have no in terest in d clariog themselves his enemies. It would be an insult to the good faith of the British Ca binet, to suppose that it would not seek to repair the evil it haa done, in declaring and making war upon us, when, ac cording to our conven!ions, hostilities ought not to have Leen commenced, at least until after the teimination of the armistice had been denounced. We declare it to all Europe—we should not have to re gret the sad results of the war, were jt not for the invariable sr stem Which we had irrevocably adopted, of preserving peace with England We did not comittence our retreat until after having received a letter from Lord Wm. Ben tinck, d.tted Genoa, in which he declared that Naples being at war with Allbti la, he should be obliged to act aga;nst us ill his farces ry land and sea, in case of his being required t o do so by the Austrian Commander in Chief. J replied to hits, that not wishing, to be nt war with Eng land, I k►d o l del ed the cessation of hostilities, and withdrawn to toy own frontiers. The English General then wished me to make that deter mination known to the Austrian Oencral in ('hief. lle at`o immediately lamed the intention of using his influence with :Marshal Count Bellegarde, to cause him to CI ase hostilities on his side, and to accept an armiAice, which 1 was prepared Su propose to hi►n. In fact, immediately after, I ordered my retreat to he crnnienced. The armistice %vas not w7cel.ted, and we can Pssert. without fear of being contradiett , d, what we have tater] above. We do not regret all the reverses whit It that voluntary retreat occasioned; because . it is incontestibie that the Austrian army should have attacked us in our Old posi tiork9iand that the Cabinet of Vienna, rersuaded that we had rosumed thcz) • (Iraq to act in concet t with its army, • . THE NATIONAL fl MISTER. 709 should have been the first to order the tetmina.ion.or titles, and to pres.erve an alliance so essentialy natuial as th a t between Austria and Maple. • Let confidence revive The favour of fleat.en aga'n shines upon you. Your King will ,terminate, in the heart if his country, the execution of the pl....ie.:As he J:ad and commenced befol.e Ibe war. Pub is vr , trl;::, Irthtrto suspended, shall be purl le:I with vigour, and the btanchrs id the adminioration, hitherto langtoshio;z, iensstime all their activity. The allowances and lay of the w.h •;e attar, and of all•Oilicels, civil or military, shall be paid It , cut' eht Money. The pensioners struck off the list since the 21st of May shall have their pensions continued ; arol the Titulars who have received, in recompense of rheir se , vices. (I , ,:ati:n;s or donations, of m'it.ncli they may hate been deprived, shall re sume the enjo‘m.ent of their property. All functionaries appointed by Ferdinand, since the 2, sl of May, shall cease to exercise their functions ; in a wind, every thin;; shall rout* to the state in which I left mv .Given (Le October, 1815. JoAcnlst NAPOLEON. BATTLE OP 11:,47'ERT.00. [The following account of this tuemorable battle is take. from a Firm+ work said to have been written by an eve-wit ness. It contains some interesting talcs not hi•herto known, avd is curious becatise. thou: , h procee..;ling from an enemy, it gives a colour .to the exertions of the British aith s. even more tavourahle than that detivrd ft out the narratives of the vic tors. For it appears by this stateme. t (wl'm neither the Er.r.;- lisb nor the Pt ussian, Inn the Spanish account tulle assco tett), that the Fa Bitch army was disordered, :out even heafeu, before the arrival of the Prussian trre.ps. • It crit:t7,ins two or three characteristic tutus of Boon:matte, indicative at once of the obstinai v, and plomptitude of that extraorninary I (-son. We begin our extract at the niwt suit:big part—the night of the 17th.] It was a dreadful nig,ht. The rain fell in torrents, a d wa s most oppressive to the troops, bivouacked as they +yr re in the in:dst of mile, and not haying had (lore to constiuct any tem porary shelter. Daylight liaying app,; aped, the French to' k their arms, and were surprised to perceive that the English not only rema'ned where they had been the ni4lit before, but appeared as if re solvs.hl to defend their position. Buonapat te, who had heel% &aid that they wou!d escape during the night, was much pleased at anding them when he awoke, and not bkiiig able to re:strJin his transport, said to some persons near him at the moment he di , cmiered the endny; " ALI ! 1 hare thew, ti;eu —these fnuf,li:,ii!" Without fl.o.ther consideration, a:t.J with that imprudrnt eagerness which constitutes one of his charade' istics, he sunt moiled the columns which had hal ed in the Flat', and with out gaining any information, without knowing tither the po sition or ;strength of !he enemy, without ascertaining that the Prussian army was sufficiently hi:lit in check byt3eneral Grou chy's corps. he resolved on an immediate attack. ,Scarcely wet e the French tinops formed, when Buonaparte, who taken his staliou oil a hill not far ft om the farm house at whi.•h he s'ept, scut old , is to begin the attack Ile walk-d to at.d fro with his aims foidt d over his breast, at a shot( distance tiOril his The weather was stormy, and coutioned Si) do otigir the day. Towards noon, the first discharge of can cop took place from th f! French line , ard a Jai ge body of riflemen were dispatele. l t begio the ac ion, The It ft siproo:ly attacked the fa,