The National Register.
London, England, 1815-02-05 00:00:00

MR NATIONAL

FEB. 5.

of throwing himself into the arms of the Emperor of France. He
had received a short time before a letter from Napoleon, inviting
him in very presslag terms to repair to him at his head•gnarters at
Dresden probably," said he, " to celebrate the festival of peace,
rather than assist him in continuing the war, that he had the more
need of his counsel and assistance, as the Viceroy was far from
and death had deprived him of two faithful friends, Dttroc and ltes-
skits. He was sensible he was in want of peace, Isis army being
disorganized, the Finances of France in a bad condition, and age
which had increased his corpulency, rendering him less fit for war
than he had been." Scarcely had King Joachim arrived at Dresden,
v:hen one of his Plenipotentiaries to Au tria ; who suspected that
the Courier had been delayed, repaired to him from Prague, to
communicate to him the contents of the dispatches sent to Count
Mier. The King, to be sure of their authenticity, demanded a
cove. It was sent him from Prague, and the Austrian Secretary of
legation, who had accompanied Count Mama to Napoleon, had
or)ers to decypher it to the King of Naples; but the Armistice
drawing to a close, the Secretary had, out of precaution, delivered
the Cipher to General Bubna, on Isis departure from Dresden,
and thus the instruction remained hid in obscurity; a circumstance
which gave rise to fresh suspicions, and which only the most solemn
asAtrances of the Neapolitan Plenipotentiary were able to dispel.
Then the King of Naples dui not let Isis troops join the French
army ; but not being able himself to leave it, he remained with Na-
poleon till the battle of Leipsie.

" On the :'lst of October, King Joachim wrote to Thionaparte
that lie was going to return to his dominions; and he, in fact, set
out on the same day. Napoleon, in his answer made him some re•
proches on this account, and warned him at the same time not to
listen to any proposals on the part of Austria.
" On the 11th of May there appeared at Naples an ordonnanee
in favour of the English commerce. The King a►►thorised Prince
Cariati, whom the Austrian Cabinet hail commissioned to engage
him to take part in the war against France, to negociate for tl►is
purpose with the coalition. At the same time he sent the Marquis
of St. Elia to Sicily to Lord W. Bentinck, to cuter into ncgoeiatioii
t►kh England, but this last step produced no effect. While this was
passing, Prince Metternich proposed to King Joachim, to negociate
at the same time with Austria and England, Lord Aberdeen having
powers from his Court for this purpose. While the necess►ny in•
structions were given at Naples to Prince Cariati, Count Nopperg
arrived at that city on the 50th Dec. 1813. On the 11th January.
121.1, the King of Naples signed, by the mediation of Cuunt
Napperg, at; Naples, a Treaty of Alliance with Austria, by which
that power guarantees to King Joachim the sovereignty of his
kingdom, and promises him the same guarantee from the other
Powers as well as Ferdinand the Fourth's renunciation of his rights
to Naples. Time same Treaty promises to King Joachim an encrease
of territory sufficient to give a good military frontier to his kingdom.
Gen. Nupperg communicated this Treaty to Lord Wm. Bentinck
who repaired in person to Naples, and concluded there, Feb. 3,181.1,
an Armistice with the Duke de Gallo, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
This Convention stipulates, that hostilities shall cease between Great
Britain and Naple•,and that the commercial relation's between the two
States and their subjects shall he re•established. It was at the same
time resolved, that the Generals of the Austrian, English, and Neapo-
litan armies shall form in concert a plan of operations, according to
their united armies should act in Italy for the same cause.

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" On the 23d of January King *Joachim set off to join his army,
1 tome detachments of which had already begun the siege of Cevita
Vecchia, and of the Castle of St Angelo ; and on the 7th of Februa? y
General Nugent concluded a Military Convention with the Neapo-
litau General Levrr,n. About the time the_King of Naples was
informed by the Austrian Cabinet that it Lad not ratified the
Treaty concluded with him January 11, 1814, because Lard Castle-
reagh, after having deliberately examined it, had made with his ow a
•hand changes and additions, that the English Government might
make no difficulty 10;iotit agreeing to it. The substance of these
changes was, Ist, Joachim was to renounce all pretensions to Sicily,
and co-operate, in securing to the reigning Dynasty the possession
' of that country, and in procuring it an indemnity for the kingdoui of
Naplei. .241, That the augmentation of territory for Naples was to
he regulated for a population of 400,000 souls, and be taken from
the Roman States. The Austrian Cabinet further declared on this
occasion' to that of Naples, that these changes were to be discussed
in concert with the Ministers of Russia and Prussia, anti Rat al I
were agreed, that if King Joachim subscribed to them, all the
Cabinets would accede to the Treaty by particular Conventions
This declaration was confirmed on the 10th February by a note
from the Austrian Plenipotentiary, as well as by a dispatch from Lori
Castlereagh, to Lord IV. Rentinck, from Basle, January fld, which,
charged the latter to make all hostilities cease, on the part if
England against Naples, and to take the most proper measures to
induce Om King of Sicily to do the same on his side.
'' The King of Naples adopted these modifications, and immedi-
ately ratified the Treaty, by a letter written with his own hand to
the Emperor of Austria. The ratification of this last power did
not take place till the 4th of March.
'' We refrain from all reflections on the campaign of the Austrian
and Neapolitan Armies in Italy. The two Armies, or rather their
Commanders, do not. seem to have had 4hat reciprocal confidence
which would li.ave been necessary to act with saccess against the
Viceroy of Italy, who, notwithstanding the inferiority of his numbers'
defended himselffor a long time with glory against the two others.
We shall merely r. ma k in general, that Naples l-might into t!..
field the 30,00 d men stipulated by the Treaty, of which al-n :r
17,000 were detached in Tuscany, before Leghorn, Civita VircLi,:.
the Castle of St. Angelo and Ancona, and the 13,c0.1 others, :tett I
on the Po, and towards Parma and Placentia. At the beginning (;;-
March Lord Win. Bentinck landed with an Anglo Sicilian division
near Leghorn, though it had been at first settled, that this debark-
ation was to take place near Genoa; some days afterwards Lord
llcutinck rep:tiled to Reggio, the headquarters of King Joachim,
and required hint to deliver np Tuscany and to make the Neepalira I:
troops evacuate it without delay, which the King refased-14,
Because Tuscany was occupied by his troops merely to be restored
to its. rightful owner, the Archduke Ferdinand. 2d, Because t! I.

evacuation, without any military purpose, was contrary to the dignits
and intcre:ti of N:iple=. 31, Because such a cession must at least

be the price an finitive treaty with England, which the King

continually propo.,ed. 4th, Because the Sicilian troops in Tuscan».
had circulated a Manifesto of their Government, to enforce ot.

pletension‘ of the old dynasty to NapleF. The King o::.rcctl,

potwithstanding, "to give up to Lord Bentinek the eq!'l,:nrn J it,
'filseaux, provided the Administration of the c9iintly should still b,

continued in the lime of tl,e King, and his flag still fir. upon tilt.

fortresses." Lord Bentiock declared ou the other laud, that