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

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.