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inaependence of nations, to continence a hat kt the otte.
throw of our constitutional system, and Air robbing the na-
tion of the liberties conceded to it by its Sovereign. An
wiamy, to whom no provocation Las been given, is marching
us our frontiers. He covers the most uujast aggressions
with the leered name of our King, soil he converts the sacred
nbimstion of oar oath into an offence.
• -r` Bet berlteVii-sisis, pmitret ate,
because we defend a just cause. Show, then, to the world,
that yarn possess all tie virtues that do honour to the hravr,
awl observe the most perfect dhciplite. Regard as emission
only them who have takes up arias against you ; but respect
as brethren the peaceful inbrbititats of thiCoantries you may
occupy.
'• Soldiers! legionaries! Neapolitans ! Greet
laimmas'inel also great glory await as. Re firm in battle,
innedesate in victory, and patient in the midst of difficulties
,and privations. Spina, which is Gaited with us, presents to
you a memorable example the coostancy with which she
umintabserl a long commit foe the recovery of her Sovereign,
sod the allateli elr her independents.

" You will not lay down your arms until you have or/-
cured the eaf..ty of the Throne and the Constitution of the
Country. You will then return to the bosom', of your fa•
milks covered with glory; you will be the objects of public
. gralit ude, the pride of the nation, and the admiration of the
latest posterity. " FRANCIS, Regent."
Enthusiasm is carried to the greatest height is all the
provinces. The Intendant of •Aquila has Preen obliged to
reaort its every means of persuasion to send bark to their
families '2,000 men, who, without being called out, insisted
upon marching telly frontiers.
Tomato aad Lecee bare furnlabed 'recessive battalions of
legionaries. completely armed and equipped. The Bishop of
the latter place displays the greatest zest in the uatioral
. That prelate eddremed the battalion of legtou•ries
of lreee' which lately wirthed to join the army. He said,
" The shacks of our fathers hover seemed you, awaiting the
need of yeeir triumph. The finger of the Eternal has written
on the niejestie vault of the firmament the redemption of
nations. to the name of the Gird of armies I promise you
victory. Mauch to the frontiers; hasten whither the safety
- of the country califs you; teach your meanies to keno that

vo■ VP Aaletitimicass—lhat you are Italians: I give you my
iaetwitetiero.''Stc. The Ilajor who conionauds the battalion
replied t• the bishop in a most patriotic spoech, which he
comforted With the following words—" W e 111,1111 ill conquer
sir to die! Liberty or death!"
rams, marten 21.
'Vann• rumours of disturbances in Piedmont have been
'disseminated, and malevotence has amplified them. M 0411
. was already conquered by the Piedminitese and the Austrian
army, repulsed by the Neapolitans, and placed between twit
fires, was in complete coefasion. Three absurd tales, in-
venti4l by stock jobbers, have brew disseminated ►y them.—
(Monifeur.)
• PANS, MARCH 22.
[The Manlier& contains* letter from Florence, of
the 10th, communicating an extract from the first
bulletin or report of the Austrian army, which we
have thought it 'more convenient for our readers to
. introduce into pur leading article.]
We are assured that the revolution effected at
Tllflll by the Carbonart has not been approved by
all the provinces. At Chumbery the people have
refused to proclaim the Constitution of the Cortex.
Evert in Piedmont several regiments, among which
sire those of the guards, appear to be neutral.—
(Joarmol des Debuts.)
_ _

An account from the Austrian head-quarters at
of the Bth March, says—" The enemy, to
• the number of 9,000 meet, advanced yesterday, the
'7th, in the direction of Rieti, and attacked the
orps under the command of General Count SirAt-
D EN. The third column of the advanced guard of
this General was sufficient completely to beat the
Neapolitan corps, witch fell hack upon Civita !Ni-
cole, in the greatest disorder. A second column of
the enemy came from Lioness*, and attacked near
Pie-di-Lugo, Colonel Schneider, who had need of
only half • company of chaieeurs to disperse them
completely.
"It was only the night and the precipitate flight of
the enemy which hindered our troops from profiting
by all their advantages.
•• The General in Chief has advanced without
delay upon Rieti, with the intention of vigorously
attacking the enemy.
" These two actions have already sufficed to make
many prisoners, among whom is a Captain of the
staff of General i'gre. The Neapolitans being
vigorously repulsed, fell back in a confusion which
the night served to augment.
" Our troops entered at ten o'clock at night into
'Clyne Ducale, which the enemy had pillaged before
they retreated. One cannon and two caissons were
taken. The Austrians have been welcomed at Ci-
vita Ducale as deliverers. The spirit of the inhabi-
tants of the Abruzzi is excellent. Our loss is
estimated at SO men. A Captain of the 7th batta-
lion of chasteurs was killed, and two other officers
wounded."
The Coustiltstionel says—" The Gazelle de Niles
of the 4th still preserves a profound silence as
well with regard to the events in Piedmont, which
must, however, hive been known in that city, as the
operations of the Austrian armies. It thence ap-
pears certain that there could have been no engage-
went between the Neapolitans and tle Austrians
up to the 9th, or even the loth of this month, or that
if any *fart occurred between them it was to the
advantage of the former, for were it otherwise, the
(asette of Milan -would nut have lost a motneut
in chauating the victory."
The Jouroals of Naples to the fith contain
nothing i _nportaot except a proposition for referring
to a Committee the Report of the Low of de: toil)
of July, for placing restrictions upon the liberty
of the press. The motion has been referred to a
Committee.
Ptivate OCCOUIIie from Italy assure us positively,
that up to five o'clock on the eveninq of die Bth
instant, not a musket had been fired between Fo-
liose and Aquila, although s report prevailed at
Florence of a victory obtained on the 7th by the
Neapolitans, and of enothrr engagement also on the
the 7th, in which General Pepeliad been repulsed
with his division, fur having had the immodence
111 flint his esitrenchad position. The Ansiri.iiia
were concentrating themselves in the neighbour-.
hood of Tertii, and hail the appearance of prepar-
ing fur battle.—(Constifarionet)
According to advice. from Tulin, Lieut.-General,
Gideoge had been charged to accompany King

The order of the day was read for the continua-)
tion of the discussion upon the project of law rela-
tive to the budget of 1819.
The sitting was extremely boisterous in conse-
quence of the repeated attacks made upon the
Ministers for their apparent partiality to the cause
of the Austrians, in having given immediate pub-
licity to the account of the victory obtained by them
at Risti, although they had previously forbidden
the publication of the events in Piedmont, and of
every account favourable to the Neapolitans. This
charge was first made against the Ministers by M.
Cassiunir Perrier.
M. Pasquier and M. Roy justified the conduct
of the Ministers in suppressing such vague
iutelli-
gence as could only furnish aliment to the passions
of a certain party, and at the same time in giving
the most prompt publicity to the offieiel advices of
military optratious, whether in favour of the Aus-
' trians or Neapolitans. M. Roy having read the
goofier which he sent to the Exclvange respecting
the affair of Rieti, General Foy exclaimed, " It is
a disgrace to hungenity. It is a foolish act of the
Administration. Never was it before thought of
thus to publi►h the bulletins of the enemy. It is
dreadful !"

M. Chsuvelin observed, that the conduct of
Miiiisters justifisd the distinction which the Aus-
trian Declaration made between Englund and
France, in stating that the latter adhered to the
system of the Allies, though with ceitain restric-
tions which had not been made public.
General Foy, again adverting to the notice
pooled it the Exchange, said, the account was '
false—it was' a lie. It was, he affirmed, impossi-
ble that an engagement of any influence on the
operations of the war could have taken place
at Rieti. But, admitting the hypothesis of
the Ministers to be true:—that the Austrians had
entered the Abruzzi—so much the worse for
them ; never would they get out of them again.
This extraordinary announcement of a victory on
the part of the Austrians was a departure from
neutrality. Had the Neapolitans gained the vic-
tory, would Ministers have announced it ? (MM.
Pasquier and Roy • exclaimed,'" Yes !"j He be-
lieved the contrary. He then proceeded to denounce
that tortuous policy which led the Ministers into
• double diplomacy—to hive M. Blears as Minister
with the captive King of Naplei at Laybach, and
M. de Fontein'', as Minister at Naples, accredited
to that worthy descendant of Hehry IV. who was
fighting for the independence of his people. In
the same spirit they treated the Prince of Castel-
' cicala us Neapolitan Ambassador at Paris, though
he was disavowed by the Duke de Gallo and the
Neapolitan nation. All this was unworthy of •
great nation like France. The events in Italy
would kindle a general scar in Europe. The bar-
barians of the north were once more pouring their
hordes upon the south ; and the constitutionall
nations of the south, Spain, Naples, Fiance, and
England, must unite to resist the invasion.
M. Pasquier again defended the publication of
the intelligence, declared the determination of
Fiance to maintain • perfect neutrality, and justi-
fied the having an accredited Minister near the per-
son of the King of Naples at Laybach, whilst he was
still acknowledged as a Sovereign, and at the same
time having a Charge d'Affaires at Naples to attend
to the interests of the French nation.
Ou Wednesday evening Prince Talleyrand had
a private audience of Louis XVIII. and at nine
at night his Majesty was visited by the Duke De-
lenvy.

SPANISH, FLANDERS, AND HAMBURGH SIAILI.

MADRID, MARCH 10.
The deputy to the Cortes, Jose Moreno Guerra,
has received from the GOVCIIIOT of Ceuta, Major-
General Don Fernand de Button, the following
curious letter, which he requests us to publish:—

By the means of our friend 3—, the only confidential
person whom I have bees able to get among the Moors of
this camp, I learnt that yesterday, Saturday, the 24th, in
the evening, the tyrant Muky Ibrahim, with hie army, ens,
tered Tangier, secompanied by the Cherie, whom he tent to
his father Muley el Viscid, who, on his entering thy city, met
a party of 20 Moors on horat back, who were going out on •
commission, whose heads he caused to be struck off. I re-
quested 3 to go to Tangier and beteg use particular ae-
eounts of all the circumstances, promising him a good reward;
tend in fact Ise has set out for that place; I expect hint hack to-
morrow afternoon; we *ball see what he brings, and I will
let you know. The iudoleut Motley Stillman is at Rabat,
collecting troops; and though this makes me believe that
Ibrahim will nut think for the present of venturing to this
point, and that his enemy was designed only to subject
those provinces which were fur his uncle. I shall, bow.
ever, be on my guard, whatever may happen ; and have
therefore removed my residence to • chamber in the
outer line, where I superintend the works, bastes theirs,
and by this and my small but brave garrison, if the oc-
casion should occur, 1 shall not hesitate to fight, sixes
800 constitutional Spaniards are superior In 80,000 fanatical
Moors. I have nut asked for troops front the Peninsula, be-
d:atm 1 have nothing for them to eat ; for the money which
the Minister of Finance now studs me is only ststlicieut for
.1.7 subsistence for less days, reckoning no more people than
1 have in the place. But I have established signals with the
Isla Verde and El Macho, and is ease soy thing happens, all
the troops in the plain (campo) will come. I have put in
.r to day the whole lint of batteries. Ido not, however,

Victor tnamanuel to Nice. The last Wig
nounce the return of the Lieutenant-General to I
Turin, and' his appointment to the situation of "
Governor-General of that capital.