The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-04-05 00:00:00

LONDON,
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1841.

We this day communicate some further particu-
lar respecting the event* that have averred the des-
titbits of Italy, which cannot fail of being interest-
ing to the public, even though they are not later in
point of date than the accounts which we have al-
ready published. General D'Amsaosto, assum-
ing the title of General Commandant, has address-
ed a Proclamation to the Neapolitans. dated Na-
ples. the 20th of March. in which hr apprises the
people that " the time has come when it is the in-
terest and duty of all good subjects to adhere to
anal obey the laws, and when from the state of
affairs they should resign all hope of resistance."
He further informs them that " the efforts of the
divot/ivied and of those misguided indivieletale who
imagined that submission to the ■nthoity of the
KING would lead to foreign subjugation, have fail-
ed in every quarter, and that the Austrian armies
have approached the capital, compelled to appear
as enemies, when in the first instance their greatest
anxiety was to act as friends." He then exhorts
them to merit the forbearance of these excellent
friend.. and gladdens their hearts by announcing
that " the Knits will soon restore himself to the
bosons of his people." A Proclamation of this cha-
racter, coining from one of the professed revolu-
tionists, is a 'litigator, if not a suspicious circum-
stance. This General D'Amartosto enjoyed in a
high degree the confidence of the Conotitational
Government, mid was intrusted with a high and
important command in the army which was des-
tined by the Government to serve under Ge-
neral CARRAtiCOSs, and contribute to the de-
fence of the frontier. He appeared at the con-
ference held at the Grand Priory of Naples on
the 20th, and signed the Military Conventina
on the part of the Neapolitan Government. His
Proclamat►on was issued at Naples on the same
day, probably at some hour subsequent to the
execution of the Military Convention, but it is to
he presumed that the Proclamation had been pre-
pared previous to the day of its publication, and it
is thence not . a little probable that General
D'Aatsaos►o had by midis) services during the
cany►aign well deserved the office of General
Commandant, with winch we suddenly find hint
invested. Gen. IYAsienosio had thrown himself
Tutu Capita, which was one of the strongest bul-
warks of the kingdom, and there it was that the
defection of the troops front the cause of their
country commenced. It is impossible to believe
that this men could ever have been sincerely de-
voted to the establishment of a constitutional
form of government. Ilad he ever entertained the
peir.riplis or countenanced the errors which were
professed by the constitutional party in the State,
he never could in his Proclamation have designated
the friends of their country's freedom by the op-
probrious and insulting terms of " disaffected end
misguided individuals." The sentiments that are
felt towards him by the Royalist Party are suffi-
ciently obvious from the nature of the command
with which he is intrusted ; were he not well known
to be an enemy to the freedom of his country,
and had he not proved his principles by other cer-
vices than his merely holding a confidential and
important command in the revolutionary army, he
would never have possessed in so high a degree the
favour of the KING, or what is now the same in •
effect, of General Faimoer. The sudden diaper-
siou of the disciplined army of Napier, without
having sustained a defeat, or enduied any of the
privations bud hardships that usually attend spot.
an active campaign—without having even once
measured their swords or exchanged a shot with the
invading enemy, is one of those extraordinary events
that rarely occur in history, and which are not to
be easily explained by a reference to the ordinary
motives that iuffuence the conduct of mankind.
The secrets of this event will probably be unfolded
by time, and we own that it would not ►urprise us
much if it should be proved that no iuconsiderable
share in effecting this inglorious termination of the
wur was borne by the Gemmel who now exhorts the
Neepoliteas to loyalty and submission. Treachery,