The National Register.
London, England, 1821-01-28 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL .REGISTER

we cannot avoid expressing our delight that the
distressed state of the Agricultural Interest was very
properly and very feelingly alluded to in both
Houses. Lord Castlereagh has accustomed us to
novel figures of speech—he has talked of "a man
standing prostrate"—of " turning his kick upon
himself"—and he last night stated that he " was
delighed at the disappointment." We do nut under-
stand the Irish language, but we think this is
not English,
Petitions for the restitution of her M:ajesty'►
name to the Liturgy pour forth into both Houses of
Parliament, hum all quarters—this is as it should
be, and we hope the people will not be treated with
that sort of contumely that would oLlige them to
convince their Rulers that Petitioners neglected have
another method of entiacing attention. His Grace
the l)uke of IVellington declared, in the House of
Lords, that the Hampshire County i•leeting was a
farce—we sincerely believe that such Meetings are
farces which his Grace and his countryman, Lord
Castkreagh, would gladly get rid of, and we know
no two men more likely to hold the same opinion of
both Houses of Parliament, or to give their fiat
towards the adoption of (in their estimation) the
tiir preferable mode of a military, absolute, and
despotic Government.

NAPLES.

LETTER ►ROM THE KING OF FRANCE TO THE KING

Of NAPLBS.
The following document is extracted from a Naples
Journal of the alit inst. received yesterday :
" Slit, MY Bit UTltEll,—.Allildst the circumstances in
which tile events ut the last live mouths have placed the
dates couli•led to the care of your Majesty, you
could not fur au instant have doubted of the continued
interest felt by me towards you, and 01 toy prayers both
for )our individual happiness and that of you► people.—
YOur Majesty is not ignorant of the motives that have
impeded the inure early expressions of the sentiments
with which I ant animated, and of that counsel which 1
1 telt illations...ll, by the most sincere friendship. to otter
you. But 1 cannot &law allow myself to hesitate longer.
!unarmed by lily Allies at Tropp:in of tile invitation sent
by Mew to your Majesty, 1 ought to smite my Instances
with theirs, both as the Al ember of ao Alll.rnce whose
object IS to si.cu,e the tranquillity of every State, and es
the Sovereign of a people timidly to tile nation governed
by your Atajes:y, if not as a sincerely aliectionate
relative..

" I came t too strongly urge you to come and assist
in person at the ite%v Congress of my, Allies that is about
to take place. 1 can assert to you, Sire, that their views
us tilts Congress are to reconcile the interests awl general
welfare, that the paternal solicitude o: your Majesty
would desire lur your people, with the duties .hey are
themselves pledged to tulhl to their States and, to the
world. Tile most pure glory awaits your Majesty. You
will assist in fixing the bases of social order in Lurope ;
you will preserve your people iron: the miseries which
threaten thew ; and secure, by that accord which is so
necessary between power awl liberty, their felicity and
prosperity through a long series of generations. If my
infirmities had pert:titled, 1 should willingly have ac-
companied your Majesty to the Conarcss; but when you
perceive that in writing this letter I have been compelled
to avail myself of the hand of another, you will COa ly
judge of the impossibilil under which I am placed of
ionowing oil thus point the impulses of my heart.
" You may rely, notivitlistaiiiliiy, that those of my
Ministers who lily assist there in my name, will omit
nothing in furnisiiingyou with :ill tit,: support you might
have expected from toe. Your .Majesty, iii taking a de-
termination conk/unable to tile wish manifested by me
and my Allies, will convey tu your ',midi: an assurance
of your afiecoon by so much the greater, inasmuch as
that determination, I feel wholly convinced, will he the
most certain means of securing to them the blessings of
peace and ritiimal liberty.
" I request your Majesty to accept the expression of
the sentiments of esteem, of friendship, and of high cow
sideration, with which I am, Sir, my brother, your Ala-
jesty's true brother, (Signed Louts.
" Paris, Dec. 3, 1820."

The journal of Dumont, the witness against the
Queen, has been published by Mr. Edward Garston.
who translated it: the only passage worthy of notice
is the one subjoined, where this woman, before she
was bribed to speak falsely of her Royal bcnefitctress,
describes her as follows:—" At three o'clock in the
afternoon we broke up our tents, and the same even-
ing, at nine o'clock reached Jerusalem. At our
entry. the people assembled in crowds to sec the
Princess Of Wales, who rode upon an ass. This
circumstance recalled to the strongly the day of
Palms (Palm Sunday) on which our Stwiour made,
in the same manner, his entry into Jerusalem. I
imagined I beheld him, and iii rally made com-
parisons: fbr, assuredly, if any one can in any tvay
resemble our great Saviour, it is this excellent
Princess. She is, like him, charitable, mild, and
beneficent to all : she has suffered much, and always
supports her mistOrtunes with great patiellee and
resignation ; and, like him, she hiss not deserved
them."