The National Register. — London, England, 1821-02-26 00:00:00

7~ r Xai -2 ' , 4)p , e • - •' -' ..' , '.. —1,.•.' ... 1 ./ 7.., rat Our lAing, etinfitittition, anb itatil. MONDAY, FEBRUARY c 6, lsql between the soldiers and the inhabitants. Nobody pays the taxes and the Government has not suffi cient means to enforce the payment. JAN. 25-1 n spite of the exertions of General Nunzianti to calm the publie agitation, and to pre. serve order, we are still on a volcano. Tile General has removed the veterans, who obeyed without any difficulty ; but the first battalion of the royal l'a lennitan regiment has refused to proceed to Trapani and Alcamo. Two oases , regiments refused to em bark for Naples, whither they were called to op pose the Austrians. Colonel Lo was pursued by the soldiers with stones, and with difficulty saved his life. One soldier has been executed, a number have been imprisoned, but the insubordination still continues. NAPLES, JAN. 31.—Scarcely had the reports of the acceptance of tLe 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 live his worths , son." All the bands of the legions of the national guarl and of the troops of the gar.. rison ;Assembled in the evening to play under the windows of the Prince. Thence the people and the music proceeded to the house of the Spanish Ambas sador, and the cries " Long live our ancient and pa. triotic friends the Spaniards" universally resounded. This evening of rejoicing was thily the prelude to a more brilliant day tin. 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 affCction and loyal enthusiasm with which the Royal flintily was received. The Prince, seated on his throne, addressed to the Parliament the fidlowing speech ; (aitletnen.—We are now arrived at the end of the fl•st pe. rind of )our sittings ; and I have the pleasure of testifying to. )(in my satisfaction at the conduct which the Parliament has pursued, and the rt./poet which it has never ce.sed to show to the throne. •• My heart is sensibl.i touched with the inarlis of xffection which the Parliament has manifested towards me on all oOCathiOns as well as to sty fuetiiy, and above all, with the cordial and re• spectral manner with it hien the I'min:intent and the nation, whose representatives you are, have intrusted to the King, my august father, the &knee of the cause of its indtpentletee. I Dauer myself that I shall soon be enabl.4l to announce to you that his efforts have beers crowned with a happy result. In the meantime I can announce to you that his health. notwithstanding his long journey in a rigorous season. has not suffered any injury. I have witnessed, with tru: satisfaction, what you have done to improve our tlintricei. to reorgani4e artily, and to place the kingdom in a respectable Susie of tie:Lim:v." After some other observations on the internal state of the kingdom, his li.tyal Highness concluded his speech in the following manner 4. 1 see %lilt pleitsure that the Mernbsirs of Parliament remnin at Naples; first, because they will employ themselves in the short interval between this and the app:oaching session initialising prvpsrations fur nit. labours in which they are to be engaged ; anti. xxonilly, bevansa they will he at hand. if. accorcing to circumstance, and in obedience to the provisions of the constitu Min, I shotill and myself under the necessity of requiring from the permanent commission an extraordinary convoeation or the Pailiament, wishing always to act in peitect concert with the nation, and thus to ensure the confidence which, it reposes in ate." Al. de Cesaro answered his Itoyal Highness in a style of hlgh compliment and confidence, and cnu merated the direrent acts which the Parliament had in the first seliou passed fin. the national order and advantage. TokruvrtaN.—A letter of the 27th January, front Nlanheim, has the following:—" Last week, in a village about two leagues from this city, a Jaw died in the 108th year of his age. This respectable old man, who during so lung a life had never been engaged in a law suit, enjoyol the esteem ufall the inhabitants around him. At the moment when his brethren were preparing to render the last dutie.; to his remains, the mayor and pastor of the place caused the church bel s to ring, uu i in company with the rest of the inhabitants, accompanied the holy to the grave, where each proaotince.l a tioteral eulogy upon the batty of ilia tleeeasul. Ilia homage to toleration and vit tue does equal Honour to those wits tafered it, and to him who "as i.s object ; and acts like this, were they less rare, would be the surest nteal.s of iwtening the ctuancipation•of the lsraclitt's in Germany, and utter !mat of eiviiiwxl Europ:." The Eta of Donnughew° has fixed the Bth or March for the Cut- 1 ).4w qiestion in the 11004 e of Lords, A new King avid un unpledged Roil:intent were notirod by the Noble Lid as two tiew vinous attunes iu its favour. No. 1,900.—V0L. XlV.] COMMOTION AT MADRID. MADRID. FEB 8 —The municipality of Madrid received, on the 6th, 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 he repeated. The municipality, in con sequence, ordered that, for the future, nine Come gidors, with their respective escorts, should be s•ationed Litwin the Palace, to maintain good order there, and execute the commands of his NI ajtely. The King went out, on the 6t!, instant, to make Ins customary prommule The people, whom the scenes of the precedingelays had attracted to the spot, received his Mejesty with cries of " Long live the Constitutional King !" flat scarcely had the kings voiture crossed the arcades of the Palace, than some of the Body Guards, with drawn swords concealed under their great coats, rusle.d 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 barrate:.s, 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 g a r. rison flew to their arms, to be 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 an•l the defence of the constitution. The municipality presented an address to his Majesty, relative to these events. The Council of Minieters 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 Cortes. The individuals of these companies are in the mean time to repair to their repective homes, utter having deposited in their barrack.' their arms and unifirm. The barracks of the Body Guards have been held in a state of blockade by the people for three days and two nights. The city was iiluminated at night, to prevent any of those disorders which the darkness might have ftvoured, Several of the Body Guards have presented them. ad yrs to the Captain-General, requesting their dis missal, as they cannot henceforth serve with honour in a corps, sonic individuals of which have, in cold blood, sahr..d their fellow-cajun& Since these events the vrvice both inside and out side of the Palace is confided to the halberdiers, to the Spanish and Walloon Guards, to the !loyal Carabitteers, FR EAVII Pit PE RS. PARIS, PM 19....-On the 6th inst. the Duke of Gallo passed through Florence. Thus he will tint arrive at Naples till the 9th or 10th, The Par- Jiament will not be assembled. It is :hen pathable that the answer to the ultimatum will not reach Laybach till between the '4oth and 523 i h, Private letters from Copenhagen mention, that on the anniversary (lithe King's birth.day, it patrol of hussars, excited to rage on supposing that certain 'indents in the streets uttered setlitious cries, dis. versed the young men at the point of the sword.— Four of them were killed. The misunderstanding arose front this, that the students cried out in Latin, ef Viral lies, • which the hussars did not under. annl, The King has written to the University a letter, in which he practises his protUutul 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 sit every day from eleven to five, and how much longer they will sit Is uncertain. When the trials begin, the say they may last as lung as the trial of Warren Hast ings. Colonel Fabrier is liberated, to the great ioy of all the friends of freedom, The Duke de Broglie spoke warmly in his i'avonr. It is now known that the Petards were made by the Court, and every body declares that that Neveu's throat was not cot by himself." Piaanato, JAN. t:O.--The situation of Sicily is far from being tranquil. There are daily utuabblos tior4 Paws: 911• THE HOLY ALLIANCE. The objects of the Holy Alliance were declared publicly at Aix-k-Chapelle on the 15th of Nuvein her, 1818. in four distinct documents. The first is the Note addressed to the Duke de Richelieu, desiring him to invite the King of France to join them. This Note is iLted the Ist of N.ivember, 1818. The secoatl is the Answer of the Dale de fiche- - lieu, saying that he had his Majesty's commands to teitify his satistitction and acceptance of the invita tion to join the Allianec. This Note is dated th• llth i f November. • 'fbe third piece, intituled a Protest, states 0 4 4 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 Pienipo.. tentiaries, when occasion might require ; the time and place to be previously appointed ; but that " when these meetings have f , r their object the it serest 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 affiirs are to be the object of the Meeting shall have a Representative to assist a t the deliberations," The Protest is signed by the different Powers (by their Representatives) Franco 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 wink they have begun ; they titrotally acknowledge that their duty to (it I and to the people they govqrn prescribes to them to give to the world', us as in their power, the example of jos. lice, concord, and moderation, happy in having tiw lower fir the future of directing their etlbrts to the protection to the arts of peace, and augmenting the eternal prosperity f their states, and of awakening those s.mtiments of religion and morali t y; o f whir;; those untbrtunste times have but too touch wcakened the influence. This wasliigned by two Powers on the 15th of Novetnber, I IS. Now, by the l'rotocol itself, the meeting which has taken lace on the affairs of Naples, a state not in the union, ought not to have been hell, except 4t the request of ' Thus the High and Holy Allies break the law they had hod down for their own conduct, and this on the first opportunity ! As to the summoning the King of Naples io tend, with a view to avert hostilities, it is a measure so out of all rules and propriety, that it requires no twin men t :try. _ It is a subject of great consolation that England ha' disclaimed being a party to the treaty, called the treaty of the Holy Alliance, although the other parties have in all their proposals and declarations spoken of the Five Great Powers, The f ;neat as surance of the British Govermuent to the contrary, at once overthrows the paltry subtertitge of the Allied Sovereigns, and satisfies us that Great Bri. unit will 1111111staiti her character and preserve 644 honour, while those who have dared to us:. her name as a santion to their unjust proceedings are dragging beforti their inquisitorial bar an italependont &We.. reign, as if he were one of their own Per. Imps 111.. re never was a grouter proof of si l o bLvi ug , 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 Curou.aiuu. It is to be uncommonly superb, and consequently very expensive. The kviros, it is inten.l to put in their claim, to have their uniforms kola, without the gnat expense falling epee Clete. selves in:Lviltially. The Bripiers, or Beef Eder , . as they are vulgarly called, are also to have s k pitnitlid new dresses on the occasion of the Coro-111 Pet:par:nip-1s are to ,Ling lit the front of the %lamina Hone for an iLeatination on the night of the Ise of Mareii, when the Queen is exieet be present at an entettamment to be given in L. o Egyptian Hall. A reduction, not of men. but of time and money from the workmen, has taken plus; in CliAtliani an Sheerness dock-y*ole. 1 'II • I -~-; ..,r•" 0 ' / -VOrik ) • A • • ' ) .‘ ILS>