The National Register. — London, England, 1811-09-29 00:00:00

= I= - U THE NATIONAL REGISTER - .4 ur tine, esnOtution, anti Latl3%. tOlz,e 4. • ki: • 4 • ‘. .44 • •iiillt E,D 411 D. iUBLISIITAI AT. NO. 5, PICKETT-STREET, STRAND, NEAR TEMPLE BAR. 4* 33 r* , .li.; *4 1 :: 4 , .I '7 ' • iiit.; * ' g: ... t . . • 6 PRTOE ed. ,196;N ti p *A. AO! . . t " i~ y • SUNPAY, SEPTEMBER 29; 181 L • POLITICAL DISQUISITION. No. 18g. , 4 It really seems is though a dec'ree of fate had ~ • I gone forth against the unfortunate House of Bourt- Box, and every 'other Royal Family connected with it, which mutt end in their, total overthrow from the elevated station they once occupied. 'A 'spirit of blindness seems to have fallen upon them, which, without the aid of external enemies, works their • sure destruction. Had we no other instance of this • fatality than the sudden fall of the King of TuANcr, in the midst of revolutionary horrors, it would be sufficient to warrant a belief that the ruin of the high and mighty of the earth, 'proceeded from that Highest ,Power, who strikes . the haughty in the.midst of their pride, and makes their place - know them Do more. tut confirmation of a still plainer ard:More decisive nature, has continued to crowd upon is in s 9 uninterrupted a succession, as to leave no room for doubt in every mind that ac. ,y ne reigning MonayCh, through imbecillity, resigned his Crown to the bitterest enemy of his House, and his Son, although proclaimed icing in his stead, by a people attached to his person, and willing to bleed in his defence,. obstinately rejected the love and offers of his subjects, and forsook his country, to throw himself defenceless into the arms of the Destroyer of European liberties, an upstart and a tyrant. The consequences of the downfal of these two branches of the BOURBON Family have been nearly as severely felt by the two nations over whom they ruled. Self-torn France found, in her bosom, the punishers of her guilt, whilst Spain, innocent of the folly of her Kings, is still ravaged by a foreign foe, and bleeding at every pore. Notwithstanding these terrible examples, the only Member of the House of BOURBON still wearing the Crown, un taught even by the loss of his continental doini. nions,• is now pursuing a line of policy, which, un less altered, must unavoidably lead to his ruin. .—Maintained on the Throne of Sicily, only . ',by the generous assistance, both in troops Vol. IV. CXCVL t r‘ o 44, ‘- -. 4-•J /4 .-., ,1 money, which this country affords him, he bas, almost ever since the marriage of NAPOLEON: With MARIA LoursA, displayed an unfounded jealousy of the very exertions made by us to p'reserve the independence of his kingdom, attended with mea sures nearly of an hostile nature towards British subjects an British interests, which, whilst they prove a.total want rff gratitude on his part, tend to deprive him of that protection, without which he must become one of BUONAPARTE'S vassals, or shortly resign his Crown. Vexatious regulations were imposed on our trade ; every kind ofTacility was denied to ottr army and navy ; errors, 'if com mitted, were magnified ; services, although ren dered at the expense of our blood, underrated. Our remonstrances were disregarded ; and the Sici lian Noblemen, who 'seemed to espouse our interests, treated with coldness at Court, and lately banished. It was natural that such a state of things, so unlike what we had a right to expect, should have created in this country not alarm, for the presence of a *British force in that Island secured, under any cir cumstances, its territorial inviolability from French invasion, but displeasure. It was also necessary that that displeasure should be strongly marked, in order that those who were not more degcient in gratitude,. than blind to their own interests, should be recalled to a sense of justice and reason, and , in duced to alter their policy. For that purpose Lord BENTINCK was sent as our Ambassador Ex traordinary to Palermo, and instructed to express, in decisive terms, the disapprobation felt by our Government, and to represent the danger attending the course pursued by the Sicilian Administration, as well as the folly of impairing the unanimity which ought to direct every feeling of the heart, and every exertion of coalesced power, against the common enemy. After pointing out the greatnesS and disinterestedness of our assistance, he was to ask for a real and hearty co-operation in a work, at which, in that part of the world, Sicily was to derive the chief benefit. Private letters stated sometime ago, that - the Court of Palermo having had private infOrmation of the nature of his Lordship's mission, ' had carried its liindness, not to say, hostility, so far as to order that he should not be -allowed to land. The Queer, it - was stated, in the same letters, had publicly de - tttat faze would break off the connection ' r r \ ra. 6;4 ;,, ‘r4 . •• '.;.; inowledges an overruling Providence. Scarce had the -*MAT Wit cii.43g;he_a4.41.4,/toustsoris been occo- pied by an usurper, when the Spanish branch of Oita - family blindly fell into his snares. The reigning