The National Register. — London, England, 1821-02-25 00:00:00

P IW‘i rgilitt _ . ~ Co 2 fri-2.-^t Our Mug, Consattuttom anti natol. No. 2,300.—V0L. XIV.] SUNDAY, F ,UAItY '25, 1821 Paws 9,11 COMMOTION AT MADRID. MADRID, FEU 8 —The municipality of Madrid received, on the Gth, a message from the King, in which his Majesty complained that, on the day of the sth, while he was promenading, he was assailed by very disrespectful cries. His Majesty enjoined the municipality to take care that such disorders should not be repeated. The municipality, in con sequence, ordered that, for the future, nine Cone gidors, with their respective escorts, should be stationed about the Palace, to maintain good order there, and execute the commands of his Majesty. The King went out, on the 6th instant, to make his customary promenade. The people, whom the scenes of the preceding days had attracted to the spot, received his Majesty with cries of " Long live the Constitutional King I" But scarcely had the King's voiture crossed the arcades of the Palace, than some of the Body Guards, with drawn swords concealed under their great coats. rushed out and struck two of the townspeople. The authority of the Corregidors was disregarded; the people immediately dispersed, but soon returned in great numbers, and obliged the Body Guards to take refuge in their barracks, before which, for their safety, three cannon were placed. The energy and assurance of the magistrates calmed the effervescence of the people, and to this the co-operation of the National Guards strongly contributed. The gar rison flew to their arms, to he ready in case of need; all the half-pay soldiers in the city presented them selves to the municipality, to offer their services in the maintenance of the tranquillity awl the defence of the constitution. The municipality presented an address to his Majesty, relative to these events. The Council of Ministers assembled yesterday, at which the King presided. It was there resolved to give four companies of the Body Guards a provi sional furlough, and to refer the final determination of their fate to the Cones. The individuals of these companies are in the mean time to repair to their repective homes, after having deposited in their barracks their arms and uniform. between the soldiers and the inhabitants. Nobody pays the taxes and the Government has not suffi cien t means to enforce the payment. JAN. spite of the exertions of General Nunzianti to calm the public agitation, and to pre. serve order, we are still on a volcano. The General has removed the veterans, who obeyed without any difficulty ; but the first battalion of the royal Pa lermitan regiment has refused to proceed to Trapani and Alcamo. Two other regiments refused to em bark for Naples, whither they were called to op pose the Austrians. Colonel Lembarde was pnrsued by the soldiers with stones, and with difficulty saved his lire. One soldier has been executed, a uumber have been imprisoned, but the insubordination still continues. NAPLES, Jim. 31...--Seareely had the reports of the acceptance of the constitution been spread through the city when the whole population manifested the joy which this event excited. They proceeded in bodies to the Prince's palace, and shouted a thousand times—" Long live our constitutional King : long lice his worthy son." AU the bands of the legions of the national guard and of the troops of the gar. rison assembled in the evening to play under the ‘rindows of the Prince. Thence the people and the music proceeded to the house of the Spanish Ambas sador, and the cries " Lung live our ancient and pa. triotic friends the Spaniards" universally resounded. This evening of rejoicing was only the prelude to a more brilliant day for the Neapolitan nation and our august Princes. To-day the Prince Regent went in person to close the session of Parliament. It would be difficult to paint the respectful affection and loyal enthusiasm with which the Royal family was received. The Prince, seated on his throne, addressed to the Parliament the following speech : • Gentlemen,—We are now senvea at the end of the first pe riod of your sittings ; and I hike the pleasure of testifying to you my satisfaction at the coodiset which the Parliament has pursued, and the respect which is has sever ceased to show to the throne. THE HOLY ALLIANCE. The objects of the Holy Alliance were declared publicly at Aix-la-Chapelle on the 15th of Novem ber, 1818, in four distinct documents. The first is the Note addressed to the Duke do Richelieu, desiring him to invite the King of France to join them. This Note is dated the Ist of November, 1818. The secoad is the Answer of the Duke de Riche lieu, saying that he had his Majesty's commands to testify his satisfaction and acceptance of the invita tion to join the Alliance. This Note is dated tlns 12th cf November. The third piece, intituled a Protest, states that the object of the union of Sovereigns was the peace of Europe, without any isolated or private views or interests; and that they would, for that purpose, if necessary, meet either in person or by Plenipo tentiaries, when occasion might require ; the time and place to be previously appointed ; but that " when these meetings have for their object the in terest of other States, not in the union, they shall only be held in consequence of the formal request of those States, with the express condition that the State or States whose affairs are to be the object of the Meeting shall have a Representative to assist at the deliberations," The Protest is Biped by the different Powers (by their Representatives) France having become a Member. The fourth Piece, intituled a Declaration, is ad dressed to the whole of Europe, stating the object of the alliance, or union, as expressed in the Pro test, and it finishes thus : The Allied Sovereigns will not cease to labour in perfecting the work they have begun ; they formally acknowledge that their duty to God and to the people they govern prescribes to them to give to the world, as far as in their power, the example of jus tice, concord, and moderation, happy in having the power for the future of directing their efforts to the protection to the arts of peace, and augmenting the eternal prosperity of their states, and of a n akening those sentiments of religion and morality, of which those unfortunate times have but too much weakened the influence. The barracks of the Body Guards have been held in a state of blockade by the people for three Buys and two nights. The city was illuminated at night, to prevent any of those disorders which the darkness might have favoured. Several of the Body Guards have presented them selves to the Captain-General, requesting their dig , uiiasal, us they cannot henceforth serve with honour in a corgis, sonic individuals of which have, in cold blcod, sabred their fellow-cuizens. Since these events the service both inside and out side of the Palace is confided to the halbercliers, to the Spanish and Walloon Guards, and to the Royal Curabineers. I. F IENCII PAPERY. --.-- PARIS, FED. 19.—0 n the 6th inst. the Duke of Gallo passed through Florence. Thus he will not arrive at Naples till the 9th or 10th. The Par. . hutment will not be assembled. It is then provable that the answer to the ultimatum will not reach Laybach till between the 20th and 25th. ,Priv ! ite letters from Copenhagan mention, that on the anniversary of the King's birth-day, a patrol of hussars, excited to rage on supposing that certain students in the streets uttered seditious cries, dis persed the young men at the point nt' the sword.— . Four of diem were killed. The misunderstanding arose from this, that the students cried out in Latin, •'‘ Vont Res,' which the hussars did not under stand. The King has written to the University a letter, in which he professes his protimnd regret at the mistake that had happened, and thanks the stu dents for their good intentions. Extract of a private letter :—" On the subject of the late Petard explosions the Peers bit every day from eleven to five, and how much longer they will sit is uncertain. ‘Vhen the trials begin, the say • they may last as long as the trial of Warren Hast ings. Colonel Fabrier is liherated, to the great joy of all the friends of freedom. The Duke de Broglie spoke warmly in his favour. It is non. known that the Petards were made by the Court, and every body declares that that Nereus throat was not cut by himself." PALERMO, JAN. 9.o.—The situation of Sicily is far front being tranquil. There are daily squabbles " My heart is sensibly toward with the marks of affection which the Parliament has manifested awards me on all occasions as well as to my family, and above all, with the cordial and re spectful manner with which the Parliament and the nation. whose representatives you are, bass intrusted to the King. my august father, the defence of tbs muse of its independence. I garter myself that I shall soon be enabled to announce to you that hit efforts have been crowned with a happy result. In the meantime I can announce to you that his health, notwithstanding his long journey in a rigorous meson. has not suffered any injury. I have witnessed, with true satisfaction. what you have done to improve our finances. to reorganise the army, and to place the kingdom in a respectable state of defence." After some other observations on the internal state of the kingdom, his Royal Highness concluded his speech in the following manner 1 see with pleasure that the Members of Parliament remain at Naples; first, betause they will employ themselves in the short interval between this and the approaching session in elating preparations for the labours in which they are to be engaged and, secondly. because they will be at hand, if. according to circumstances and in obedience to the previsional of the constitu tion, 1 should fad myself tinily: the necessity of requiring from the permanent curninisaion an extraordinary convocation of the Parhanient, wishing always is set in perfect concert with the nation, and thus to ensure the confidence whic'a it reposes in me." M. de Cesaro answered his Royal Highness in a style of high compliment and confidence, and enu nh:rated the different acts which the Parliament had in the first session passed for the national order and advantage. TOLERATION.—A letter of the 27th January, from Nlanheim, has the following:—" Last week, in a rill ige about two leagues from this city, u Jew died in the 109th year or his age. This respectable old man, who during so lung a life had never beet: engaged in a law suit, enjoyed the esteem of all the inhabitants around him. At the moment when his brethren were preparing to render the hot dutiea to his remains, the mayor and p4xtur of the place caused the church bells to ring, and in company with the rest of the inhabitants, accompanied the tßyly to the grave, where each pronounced a funeral eulogy upon the body of the deceased, This homage to toleration and virtue does equal honour to those who °tiered it, and to him who was its object ; and acts like this, wen! they leas rare, would be the surest means of hastening the emancipation of the lsrae;ites in Germany, and other parts of civilised Europe." - --• The Earl of Donoughmore has fixed the Atli of March for the Catholic Question in the House Of Lords. A new King and wt unpledged Parliament were noticed by the Nubia Earl as two new circum stances itt its favour. This was signed by two Powers on the Isth of November, 18 18. Now, by the Protocol itself, the meeting which has taken place on the affairs of Naples, a state not in the union, ought not to have been held, except at the request of Naples Thus the High and Holy Allies break the law they had laid down for their own conduct, and this on the first opportunity ! As to the summoning the King of Naples to a.- tend, with a view to avert hostilities, it is a nienstare so out of all rules and propriety, that it requires no commentary. It is a subject of great consolation that England has disclaimed being a party to the treaty, called the treaty of the Holy Alliasce, although the other parties have in all their proposals and declarations spoken of the Five Great Powers. The ti.irmal as surance of the British Government to the contrary, at once overthrows the paltry subterfuge of the Allied Sovereigns, and satisfies us that Great Bri tain will maintain her diameter and preserve her honour, while those who have dared to use her name as a santion to their unjust proceedings are tlriging beflire their inquisitorial bar an independent Sove. reign, as if he were one of theif own vass,als. Per. haps there never was a greater proof of the bl:ssings of a free Constitution than that which is afforded by the conduct °four Government on this occasion. A new uniform has been ordered for the corps of Gentlemen Pensioners, who are to assist at the Corm' ition. It is to be uncommonly superb, and consequently very expensive. The corps, it is said, intend to put in their claim, to have their uniforms found, without the great expense falling upon them selves individually. The Butfeliers, or Beef E.iters, as they are vulgarly called, are also to have splendid new dresses on the occasion of the Corona ioo. Preparations are ni ilting at the front of the Mansion House for an illuininarion on the night of the IA of March, when the Queen is esreeted be present at an entertainment to be given in the Egyptian Hall. A reduction, not of men, but of tiuie and mosey from the workmen, has taken place in eh:abash and Slit:crime dock.yntils. ti 0 I'l 6 . k- +6 ° . • ‘itt i • ~ J