The Sun. — London, England, 1820-04-07 00:00:00

FOR. THE SUN. AUSTRIA. EDITOR,-1 perceive by your Paper of the 3d inst., that the Paris Journals mention a report of an impending Revolution in the Italian States subject to the dominion of Austria. I am in clined to consider this rumour as a mere sot miss, founded upon the well known discontent of the Italians, 'for the French Papers always contain some report or other, invented for the purpose of anticipating occurrences which the common course of events renders probable. There is, however, in the present rumour, so much foundation as to what may very reasonably be expected to take place that the Austrian Government will do well to profit by the folly of the announcement, to check the evil ere it assume too powerful a cha racter. When 1 was in Italy about five months ago. I remained a few days at the little town of Sesto Ca!lenda, which is the first place belong ing to the Emperor of AUSTRIA, after leaving the dominions of the King of SICILY, whose joris diction' rcaches to one hank of the Like Major, as that of the Austrian Monarch begins upon the other. While in Sevo, I dined two or three times with several half-pay officers, who lived on the Piedmont side of the Lake, hut regularly cros.ed over to Sesto every morning. From one of the ply y with whom 1 took a walk after dinner, an who appeared to have partaken rather too fretly of the excellent wine which some part of the country produces, 1 learned that the motive of their residing in Piethnont, although_none of theta belonged to that country, was to guard against any sudden visits from the Austrian Anthotities, who suspected that a secret corre-pondence exist ed between the retired officers of the army, fur the purpose of overthrowing the Government. I have little doubt, from what I saw and heard, that such a correspondence really did exist, and I know it to be a fact that dur ing the months of July and August last, seve ral French officers visited Piedmont, and were frequently in close conference with the retired military resident in that country. The latter are Dearly all Italians, who have served under Book►" ?ARTY, and ate even greater enthusiasts in his favour than the old French officers. This enthu siasm is not confined to the retired military alone, but is almost equally conspicuous in the Italians in service, who having once tasted the advan tages of licensed plunder under the French go vernment, are desirous of any change which could place them in a similar state of activity. Sesto being a frontier town, has a sort of garrison, which is chirfly composed of soldiers who had served under BUONAPARTE. Some of these an swer the double purpose of soldiers and custom bouse officers. Ten or twelve of them were one evening taking their wine, under the inn window, and mutually reciting their exploits against the Austrians, and as any of the officers horn the other side of the water appeared, thvy were ac costed with great familiarity, and entertained by the saute tort of conversation• Tt►is little trait bad a great deal of meaning in it, and connected with the subsequent observations that I made, was pa►titularly striking. At Milan and farther on wards, there is the same spirit, though not so openly expressed. The inhabitants of the coon try are also strongly in favour of a change, for the severity of the Austrian government is much complained of, and the taxation is very heavy. The various pledges made by the Emperor of Austria have been nearly all disregarded, and the condition of the people becomes daily worse,whilst the insolence of the Austrian Civil and. Military authorities appears to be tolerated by the govern ment. The Italians complain loudly of want of trade, and want of money. Italy under the reign of BLIONAPARTE, shared the spoils of Europe with France, trod the close connexion of the two Crowns secured an almost continual traffic, for which the visit of English travellers is but a poor substitute. Milan, which was a second Paris, is now comparatively dull and uninteresting, and men of fortune, from various causes, prefer the Popish to the Austrian possessions in Italy. Whilst the active spirit of revolt is fast spleading over some European countries, might not such of the Sovereigns of Europe as are friendly to good government, very fairly remonstrate with the Em peror of Austria, on the itnpolicy of suffering dis content to exist, when, by a proper application of severity against the Boonapartists, and a more paternal government over the people, it might be easily removed ? All revolutions have a bad effect upon other countries. The -revolution in Spain, and the threatened explosion in Italy, although completely foreign to our interests, and altoge ther unconnected with the complaints of the Bri tish Reformers, will not fail to sustain the spirits of the factious and give them a new impetus against the Constitution which they ought to re spect and venerate, 1 am, Sir, Your very obedient Servant, G. I►l-- THE SUN. • .. QIJL DICERE FALSUM AUDI AT LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1820. We received this morning the Paris Pipers of Tuesday last. The Chamber of Deputies assem bled on Monday, but they were occupied during the whole Sitting with nothing but questions of merely local interest.—These Journals contain the following news from Spain : (From the Moniteur.) " At tl►e date of the 17th March, Cadiz was more tranquil ; positive intelligence of the events at Madrid had tended to produce tranquillity. The Constitution, however, had not then been proclaimed; the Municipality waited the departure of all the troops who occasioned the misfortunes of the day of the 10th. ".The Regiment of Guides set out the 16th ; that of Leostad, and the Dragooos of Xeres, were to march tie lith ; the Regiment of America, and the Militia of Fittjaialice, were to depart the day alter. It is presumed that the Proclamation at the Constitution would take place on the 21st &larch. " Qitiroga was s ill in the Isla (le Leon ; Ge neral Freyre had set out for Seville with the Di vision of General Cruz. " Reports, the most worthy of confidence, make the number of persons who were killed on the 10th, amount to 475. " The last accounts received at Gibraltar re specting the state of heallb of Africa mention, that 200 persons died daily of the plague at Mo rocco, and 10 at Mogadore. It is said that a vessel from Mogadote had entered the - River of Santi I'et►i (Isla de Leon). The French Consul at Cadiz had demanded of the Committee of Health all the necessary information, in order to prevent any melancholy consequences resulting from the arrival of this vessel, it the news is true. `.` According to letters from Aladrid, of the 23d llarch, the King, without delay, scnt to General O'Donojn, Commandant at Seville, the nomina tion of General•in -Chief of the Army of Anda- lusia, with the most extensive pow ers. "'There exists at Madtid in the Coffee-house, Lorencini, a Political Cinb. They bitterly com plain that the Junta is deliberative, insteA being executive. This Club is not without in fluence. " The Junta of Gallicia have received the King's decree of the jth March, and sent their congratulations. They have also invited the sol diers absent on leave to return to their colours. " The oath of the King was known on the 10 hat Saragossa. The Junta, nevertheless, pub• lished a sots of Manifest►►, in which they declrr• ed, that they should have no confidence in it un til the King should have taken the oath in the presence of the Cortes. " The Count de Abisbal had written to Gen. Ballast9 - ps to pray him to place at the feet of the King the homage of his submission. It is said, how ever, that he has since manifested an intention of following the example of Gallicia and Arragon, and maintaining himself in a state of independ ence, until the assembling of the Cortes. " The fermentation continues at Valencia, against General Elio• " At Malaga, the public tranquillity has not been disturbed. " General Castanos is no longer at Barcelona ; he has beenwithdrawit from the persecutions of the multitude who required his arrest. " General Espoz Mina is Captain-General of Navarre. " His lthjesty has accepted the resignation of the Doke de l'lnfantado, Colonel of the Ist Regi ment of Guards. His command has been c 4 .n -(erred on the Prince d'Anglona, brother of the Duke d'Oisuno. " M. Canga Arguelles is Minister of Finance ; he held the Ministry under the late Cortes, during the King's captivity. " The Marquess tie Santa Cruz accepted the Embassy to Paris on the 23d March. " On the same day the Manifesto and the Instruction for the Convocation of the Cortes were sent to press ; they would be published on the 24 b." (From the Journal des De'ats.) " MADRID, 'MARCH 23.—Private letters from Cadiz of the 17th state, that there was no excess of any description to which the troops had not abandoned themselves ; 414 of the inhabitants were killed, 200 dangerously wounded, and about 400 wounded severely or slightly ; there , was not a house which had uot,been plundered of some thing. " On the 1 I th, in consequence of an inhabitant firing upon a soldier, the disorder recommenced, but General Campana put himself at Ilse head of some Patroles, and restored order. " The 151 b, the troops in the Isla de Leon opened the fire of a new mortal- battery on the Cortadura, but Admiral Villavicencio having communicated to them the decrees of the 6rh and 7th March, the fits ceased on the 16th, and the troops in the Isla sent a flag of truce, with mili tary music to Cadiz, to announce tl►eir subMi , ,sion to the King." The Gazelle de France contains extracts of dis patches from General Freyre, giving in substance the same particulars as already known. General Freyre, it is stated, was watching the conduct of the Count Abisbal at Cordova, intending to treat him as a traitor, unless be submitted himself to the Royal Authority. " PARIS, APRIL 4.-The King, on &paddy, re ceived the Ministers, the Spanish Ambassador, and several Marshals. Yesterday, his Majesty transacted business with the Grand Almoner, and bbe Duke de Richelieu. FIVE PER CENTS. Monday 73 f. 46 c. DEFERRED STOCK. Of the 22d March 1817, 99 f. GO c. 42d Marcb, nno, B7 f. 60 c. We feel deep regret at the proceedings of the Radicals at Glasgow. Such are the eou►equeoces of the doctlines of the BulWaTTs, 11013HOUSBOt H Ts, and tlit whole race of modern Reformers ! There was hardly ever a more stiillog prohf of the freedom 'of this country than was to be found in ' the celebrations yesterday at the London Tavern, in honour of Sir WILLIAM CURTIS, and in that at the Crowe. and Anchor, in supporg of the Radical Candidates, whom a majority of Dectots have disgraced their city by returning two such men as Members of the Legislature. We have given an acoount of both of these celebrations in our Paper this day, • and never Was there a more striking and gratifying coo-. trast. The venerable Baronet, Sir %VILLIAM COATIS, .made a manly address to a very nume rous assemblage, consisting of the most opu lent, respectable, and loyal inhabitants wLich could be found in the great Metropolis of the World. The Worthy Baronet gave a brief but impressive history of the whole of his public lite and conduct, which was received with the warmest applause by those who were witnesses of th 0 truth of the narrative, and who, by their zealous applause, fully attested that troth. In the course of his Speech be spoke %%Hi the most emphati zeal of the iiinsttions WILLIAM PITT, the tbOsL wise and virtuous Statesman that the world ever saw—the Pole-Star, the Beacon, the Pilot of Bu rope, and ut the civilized world. We regret that a e have not space for the whole of what the ifo# nourable Baronet said on the occasion, as well as for the Speeches of Sir JosEra YORKE, Mr. JACKS, Mr. HALL, Mr. DIXON, and other respectable - Characters who paid a due tribute to the conduct of the Baronet, and testified those principles which entitle them to the esteem and confidence of their fellow-citizeus. Such, thertfore, is the Iteedum of our Government, that at one end of the Metropolis Loyalty was triumphant, and at the other the orgies of Radical miscreants,. the instigators of Sedition, and the Promoters of ' that Reform which would bury the best political fabric ever raised, amidst the rubbish of that Anarchy and ruin which it is the object of , die infatuated wretches to accompl;sh. • We have already received warm commendation for having revived the accounts which we gave on the 2lst and 22,1 of September, respecting the memorable Manchester Meeting, and have beet' desired to reprint them fur the information o f the People at large, in order to expose the falsehO'octs which the Morning Chronicle and the Old Times ate every day bringing forward, in order to cast an opprobrium on the Magistrates and Military; who rendered such essential service to the Coun try, as well as to arrnitio Government,and his MA JESTY, for having given those thanks which were so well metited on the occasion.—Widat encoa ,ragement else would those Magistrates and Military have had to expose their lives for the safety of the State at a moment of peril, when seditious Orators were endeavouring; to rouse the spirit of revolt and to spread the flames of rebellion over the country ? We shall adopt the sug gestions of our Correspondents, by re-printing this day the accounts of what really happened ; and we defy the Morning Chronicle and Old Times , with all their emitting and with all their pots . , r r of malignant invention, to contradict a word of (Woo authentic statements. Nay, considering the sub ject as, highly important, and solemnly relying oa the truth of the narrative, in all respects, we s hall re-print it (for the last time) TO•MORROW, as vve write not merely for the Readers of the SUN, but to frustrate, and, if possible, stop the rancour of faction, by diffusing the information to the coon' try at large. We, therefore, after this intims" tint), deem it to be the duty of Government to circulate extensively the SUN THIS DAY and T6** MORROW, as it ought to makett vriking imprLs' sion upon every real friend to the Constitution,and Man of Property throu4hou: the British Empirp , to preserve it trout the Radices, Rebels, an d Traitors, who are incessantly attempting to over.' whelm us all in the depths of [evolutionary de" struction. The Letter signed G. 111. in our Paper of this day, comes front an intelligent Correspondent , whose remarks are the result of personal kno' ledge. They concur with many suggestions which we have received from other quarters. The spiri t of revolt is abroad, anti is proceeding to take by sap what at prot , ent it cannot destroy byopen for ce ' The at t icle in our Paper of yesterday, referring "' the indulgence billowed to BUONAPARTE, in cootie" (pence of en application from the Austrian Court, is a woof that that Court is limier an influen ce Which may tend to its overthrow, particularly B : clandestioe correspondence is known to exist , b it eannot he openly detected and frustrated. jf th e Ausitian Coot t deserves what is said of it, it is to more incumbent on it to be upon its guard, other; wise formidable events may ensue. The pres,. efl 'state of Spain holds torth a striking lesson to all u();; vet mews where the people are heavily burtben" and their just complaints disregarded. LON bON JOUR LS. FROM Tlll MORNING P?.1 , 1 7 .1tS OF THIS DAY. [Morning Chronicle.] Letters received yesterday by persons in the citir having shipping at Cadiz, mention that fresh arrangements had taken place on the subject of transports. The Russians, Prussians, Greeks, and foreign poldcres and minor vessels, to the number of 40, had been discharged, but the Bd . - fish copper•bottouted troop-ships were retained, and were to be held in readiness for sea. Their freights were regularly paid. Letters from Botirdeanx, received yesterday, mention, that a host of Spanish Inquisitors had alieddy arrived there, weariti4 very long face s . Are they goine: to offer their services to the French Ifittas ) [The Times.] Cantz.—Letters of the 17th ult, were received yesterday from Cadiz, but without commutlicaliog 111 , 101 athil!!0031 information on the Mate of the city, or affording any distinct clue to the Origin or the authors of the late massacre. Up to that day the shops and the houses i..mained closed, few persons venturing into the streets ; and Mercantile transactions were 'so completely suspended, that no hills were paid or indeed (offered for payment. It appeals that, some time previously to the fatal 10th of Match, the inhabitaots of Cadiz had been called on to. deliver up what sibrcs and fire-arms they had in their possession, aml were forbidden to appear io public with the long knife usually worn by the lower orders, which is tendered in their hands, by peculiar dexterity in its use, a most formidable awl dangerous weapon. Deprived of this defence. they fell an easy prey to the fury and brutality of the soldiery. They had subse quently, however,again eqaipped themselves with those and other means of defence, and had accu mulated in their houses qaatitaies of bricks and stones, so that there was reason for supposing, had the troops manitested any disposition to re new the attack, that a general massacre of the military would have taken place. This spirit had already discovered itself in individual acts of re venge, particularly by the gypsies, mho, in Cadiz, exercise the more laborious desetiption of trades, and who are said to have des , toyed seventy men of the regiment of Guia, the leaders in the tragical deeds of the 10. h. They would have dispatched more of them, had not those troops been removed by night, and carried across the hay to Piot St. Mary's. A considerable portion of the garrison, it is said, have been removed in a similar foamier. Notice was giten that the Constitution woold be proclaimed on the 18!h, hut the Civil Authorities wete determined not to attend any solemnity of that nature till the whole of the troops were re moved from the city. The following passage in one of the letters, if coirect, would fix a large share of guilt upon Campana, who was early named as one of th e Au! hors :-'' 1.0 crown the in famy of General Campana, he gave thanks to his abominable companions and friends in arms, as lie calls them, for their conduct on the 10th----a day of general massacre; and yet this monster is still at the bead of affairs !" 'According to letters from Madrid, O'Donoin, th.e Governor of Seville, had been appointed to the Captain-generalahip of Audalusia,atn. it was supposed would preside over an investigation into the unhappy affair of Cadiz. These letters ctratain no mention of Preyre ; and, what is still more remarkable, are as silent con cerning Qairoga, and the troops iu the Isle of Leon, as it they had never existed. The number of persons killed On the 10;11 is, now stated to be as follows: 371 men, 29 women,,and 36 chil dren'. No names have hitherto beenyublished, but they are supposed to have been chiefly of die lower ranks. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. THEAIRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANR.—Hamlet : Hamlet, by a Gentleman ; Ophelia, Miss Kelly. After Which, The ' Sleeping Draught. THEATRE• ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—The Antiquary: Jona than Oldbuch, Mr. W. Farrel:: Miss Isabella Wardour, Miss Stephem. Alter which, Harlequin and Cinderella. I'BICE c'F STOCKS THIS I.IV AT FWELVE (3 CLOCK. Bank Stock ' 2174 21S 1 i per Ct. Navy Ann..... 10144 s per Cent. Red. 671 (iS 4 Imp. 3 per Cent. Anti..,.. Gs 3 per Cent. Cons. .. .. 681 ail in,ii. buds .... I6s. 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