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FRIDAY, MARCH 30;. i 921.
REPORTED SUBMISSION OF THE NEAPOLITANS.
We are seriously apprehensive that the brilliant
hopes in which the friends of freedom and heaaanil
in this country hove been indulging, with regard to
the triumph of Naples and the independence of
Italy, are not to be realized. There is too much
reason to fear that the Neapolitans have abandoned
the struggle in which they had embarked, and
have consented to submit themselves and the hest
interests of their country to the in bitrary control of
the Allied Sovereigns.
The following information upon this subject has
been received from Paris :
" SUPPLEMENT Ti) THE EXTRAORDINARY

GAZETTE OF FLORENCE.

" FLORENCE. NUMB 17.
" After the publication of the Gazelle of this
day, we have received from Rome, dated the 15th,
the following news, which appears to us of the
greatest importance :
" On the evening of the 11th, three dispatches
arrived at Naples to his Royal Highness the Duke
Or CALABRIA. The first, coming from the
Abruzzi, announevd that General Pere had been
abandoned by his troops after his first rencontre
with the Austrians; the second, that st Gaeta
the army had revolted against General BRRGAMI
the third brought a request to his Royal Highness
from General Czaitzscosa, to proceed immediately
to Averse, in order that be might have an inter-
view with him. His Royal Highness thought it
better, instead of going himself, to send General
FARDRLLA, with the Minister of War. On the
12th'theae two personages returned to the capital,
mod after having replanted the nature of things,
the Parliament assembled, ■nd ordered the Duke
of CALA/Rik to address • Message to the KtNO,
in the mine of the Assembly, to declare their re-
spect sod submission to his Mammy, and to invite
him to retorts to the capital.
" The towu of Naples is quiet.

44 Other letters from Terracina, dated the 14th,
announce that the war is ended, and the Parlia-
ment dissolved, after having surrendered all their
power into the hands of rite PRINCE Roam.
46 Lieut.-Gemmed FA ROBLLA, dispatched by the
Doke of CALABRIA, arrived me the 16th at half-
past nine in the morning at Rome, and presented
himself at the Peirce Farneses, is the hope of
finding the 'Liao. Being informed that his MA-
JUTE' was at Florence, he continued his journey
fur that capital."
Accounts had previously arrived from Turin,
dated the 21st, announcing the retreat of General
C•imiscos4 to Averse, in conseqoence, as it was
said, of a defeat sustained by the Neapolitans, and
that at Averse General CA RILASCONA was compelled
to spike all his cannon to prevent it from falling
into the hands of the Austiians ; but if the state-
ment in the Florentiwe Gazette be correct. it satis-
factorily disproves the supposition of • battle hew-
ing been fought previous to this counter-revolu-
tion in Naples, for General FRINONT had not ad-
vanced from Frascati on the Ittli, end the dis-
patches from the Abruzzi, froni Gaeta, and from
Generul CAIRN/MORA. to the PRINCE REGENT,
appear to have reached his Royal Highness ou the
1 I oh. It is, however, to br also observed, that the
PRINCE REOINT, by a message dated the 7th of
this month, announced to the Parliament his in-
tention of setting out immediately to the head-
quarters of the army. This message was publish-
ed in the Neapolitan Journals, which further state
that his Royal Highness, accompanied by the Prince
of SA /ARNO, actually left hie capital on the sth.
We find it extremely difficult to reconcile this po-
sitive assurance by the Prince of his immediate de-
parture for the army, and the subsequent statement
of his actually having left Naples on the Bth, with
the assertion of his bring still in that city on the
11th. We moat, however, still confess, that the
intelligence to the tlorestiee Gazette bears a cha-
ricter of authenticity which seems to entitle it to
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no slight degree of credit.

Sht.uld this news prove true respecting the ge-
ne►al defection of the Neapolitan army, we shall
despair of the future prosperity of that part of
Italy. We shell confess that thee late revolution
WWI merely the result of a political intrigue, in
which the great body of the people really felt no
interest, and that the Neapolitans are unworthy of
enjoying the blessings of freedom. For it matters
not whether they suffered their courage to sink in
proportion as the danger advanced, or were influ-
enced by political feelings unfavourable to the in-
dependence of their country ; in either case they
shew themselves devoid of the ennobling principle
that leads mankind to grt at achievements fur the

'aititittaltatt of liberty, Mid Mist therefo►e be fleet•
ed unfit for the powesaion of • good which they are
utterly incapable of ',predating.
The accounts from Turin of the 21st, to which
we have alluded, elsat jetiesate that a counter-re-
volution was expected 'to take place in Piedmont,
sod it was feared that it would be attended with
bloodshed. It is further stated, that on the 10th
• large mob proceeded to the Palace of the Prince
de CARIGNAN, sod with loud elite demanded that
the Austrian Ambassador, Baron de BINDER, should
be sent away from Turin. The Prince replied in
the most positive terms, that he could not comply
with the demand ; that, besides being an act of
injustice, it would be perfectly witless; that it
would he considered as a declaration of war. The
mob then proceeded to the residence of the Austrian
Ambassador, which they evinced an intention of
attacking. They called for his Excellency, but
he had taken the precaution of removing to the
Russian Ambassadors house. M. de BINDER,
after the attempt upon his house, demanded pass-
ports, which were granted him, and lie left Twin
for Milan.

Paris Papers of Monday and Tuesday have ar-
rived at our Office. They contain news from Na-
ples of the 11th, the day nit which it is said in ilie
Ilarentine Gazette that the PRINCE REGENT re-
ceived such an accumulation of bad news from his
armies, but there is nu intimation of any such intel-
ligence in these Papers. lu our extracts from them
will be found the substance of the First Bulletin of
the Neapolitan army, giving an account of the affiiir
at Wei. This, as we had anticipated, re-
presents the engagement as an affair of very
trifling importance, deserving, in no respect, the
character of a general battle. General PEPE
having understood that the Austrians were collect-
ing in force at Rieti, sent a strong reconnoitring
party against them, which sustained the attack •f
the Austrians for seven hours, as was admitted
in General FEIMONT'S bulletin. The Neapolitan
account differs in one remarkable point from that
of the Austrian, in saying that the Austrians were
the assailants. The charge of commencing Ito•-
tilities is thus thrown by the opposing armies upon
their antagonists respeetvely. General P►Pa says
tha► he lost about 30 turn in killed and wounded.
Private accounts from Paris inform us that not
at Lyons and Grenoble alone were the symptoms
of revolutionary principles manifested, but that the
towns of Strasburg, Rennes, Nantes, and Brest,
also suffered some partial disturbances. The troops,
however, uniformly conducted themselves with firm-
ness and fidelity, and quickly suppressed every
tendency to riot.
A private letter, dated Paris, three o'clock,
Tuesday afternoon, says—" The reifies have reached
7* f."

A Flanders mail arrived last night with papers
to the 27th instamt; but they contain no news or
any interest.

Spanish Papers of the 15th inst. have arrived.
They contain some particulars respecting the rival
candidates for the throne or Morocco.

A Lisbon Mail has arrived, ■nd brought Papers
from that city to the 16th instant, from which we
have copied a sketch of the proceedings of to
Cortex.

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Intelligence was received at Lloyd's yesterday
that three Tunisian frigates, three corvettes, a brig,
a schooner, and another vessel of war, with nearly
two-thirds of their crews, were lost in the bay of
Tunis during a violent gale on the 7th and Bth
alt. ; and twenty merchant vessels were lost or
driven on shore there at the same time.
Letters from the different sea-ports state that
considerable damage has been done to our shipping
by the late gales.
The kingdom of Naples, comprising the whole
southern part of the Indian Peninsula, contains,
according to the last census, a population of
5,114,613 souls, of which 2,163,538 are males.
The Clergy and Nobles are very numerous.—
revenues amount to seventeen millions of
ducats. lu the tune of peace its armed force
consisted of 42 044 men in active service, and
80,500 reserve. Its strong places are Gaete,
Scills, Amandea, Reggio, Blindest. Manfiednioa,
Capita, sled Pescara.. Its navy consists of three ships
of the hoe, five frigate., and several armed vessels
of less size.
Naples, the capital, is sitnate three days journey
from the booties, and five days journey from Route.
It is surrounded by innanstains stud theses; nothing
can surpass the beauty of the Bay of Naples. It is
the most opulent and best peopled city of Italy. Its
population is estimated at 350.000 souls, of which
60,000 are Luzzsroni, and 4,000 men of the law.
Six strong castles defend the city, and the entrance
of the port is protected by an excellent mole or
jeter. It was under the Government of MURAT that
Queen Csitort a a of Austria, who knew the spirit of
independence that animated the nation, instituted
the society of the Carboxisri, with a view to have
him considered a foreign usurper who must be
driven away. She promised them to establish
Government founded upon a wise liberty, sod all
the initiated bound themselves by a solemn oath
to preserve the most inviolable secresy with respect
to the object of the society.
These ideas of liberty have not ceased to grow
among the members of this secret society con-
sisting of citizens of every class. It was a fire
covered with ashes, ready to burst forth on the
first favourable unguent. The Proclamation of the
Spanish Constitution of 1814, made last year at
Madrid, was the signal for it. This tame Pro.
chiniation was proclaimed at Naples.

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PASHIONA BLit MOVEMENTS.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford IA lairs Jr
'Made&
for their seat, Woobsien Abbey.
The Countess de Grey has arrived at her bossalliat
James's-square, from her seal in Surrey.
The Earl anti Countess of Surrey left town yesterday mad-
for Paris.
Departures from Brunet's Hiatt, Ltiivester.sgusre t—the
Chevalier Rodriguez. A mbsuadur from the Court of Portugal
lit his hardisdari Allajestv, for Paris; Count Joles de Sales,
fur ditto; and Wm. Rubinson, Esq. for his seat is Scotland.
The .Earl And Countess of Illerrnwhy have arrived at their
house in Grusreousnquare, frees Bath.