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ro. 1,301.—V0L. XIV.]

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• THE AUSTRIAN DECLARATION.
After a long series of political storms the kingdom of
Naples was, in tier year Inls. restored, by the assistance
of the Austrian arms, to the paternal government get its
legitimate King; the two portions of the sit-ilia:l monarchy
which had been so long separated were again united, and
the wiskes of all well-disposed persons- were gratified by
the happy prospect of durable repose. The latter period
of the foreign government load, however, revived au in-
ternal enemy, more dangerous than any oilier to the repose
ni the Italian puoinsula. There witted in the kingdom
of Naples, as well as in other states of Italy, a sect, wink-
ing in darkness, whose secret chief; continued to meditate
Coo overthrow of all the Italian governments, as the first
step towel& the execution of the extravagant plans in
which they were engaged.
At the moment when Moral, In order to support his
tottering throne, coned% eil the desperate project of con-
quering Italy, despair inspired hint with the idea of call-
ing to his aid those same Carbone' i whom he had more
than ence combated, mid whose crimesl intrigues acquired
Prow that time au influence, which, without the assistauce
of ibis unlooked-for alliance, they would perhaps never
have obtained.
The vigilance of the royal government, the seal with
which it employed itself in promoting essential improve.
penis in all the blanches of the administration, the general
affection borne to the Sovereign, whose paternal goodness
bad gained to hint the hearts of his subjects, rendered
*bonnie all the enterprises of this sect daring the first
year which followed the restoration; and perhaps, like so
Many other secret associations, it would have Insensibly
become powerless and have fillet) into oblivion, if the
events whir+ took place in the kingdoteof sipain at the
commencement of the year 11/320 had not gimp it a fresh
impulse. Front this moment its nittlacity redoubled, and
assisted by the contagions fanaticism which it excited, it
soon increased so much in numbers and in infitieisce that
Me laws anti the taihority ref the executive were no longer
sufficiently powerful io suppress it. It disseminoted with
Indefatigable industry, amidst all classes of the people,
till then tranquil and moderate in their desires, a spirit of
discontent and bitterness, dispositions hostile to their
government, and a passionate desire for political innov
tion. It succeeded at length infierrupting ioportion of
the army end, assisted by this most criminal of all its
sti aaaaa es this sect caused the revolution to break nut in
the first jays of the mouth of Jnly.
It is impossible to give a more exact or more authentic
Account of this explosion than that which is contained -in-
the circular despatch addressed by the new blintder for
le °reign Affairs, on the day on'whieh he entered npotchis
functions, to the diplomatic agents of Naples at foreign
1:1041115:-- •
"On tier nights of the Ist and Id (it is stated In this
despatch) the pretest rya of the royal regiment of ca-
valry of Bourbon quilted its quarters at Nola, and raised
p tricoloured standard, with the inscription—' Loug live
the Constitatiool"lbe colours were 11105 c of the sect of
the crothonari, which for sonic time past load kept cuts a
fermentation in the kingdom, and bad demanded, with
earnestness, a cutistitutiolial tot in of goveinment in the
previnces, anti lastly, the insubordination of some chiefs
of districts, proved to his Majesty that Btu with of the
people. ytits IQ obtain a Con*lttntiuoal goverument. Its
“li>ell"Pcv wbercaf the Icing pubtished a proclamation,
annaUtleillai days lie nook, make public the
basis of* CuPatilutioPc'
The first atiratitage was only the preclude of a more
derisive attack. On the next sty' the chiefs of the revolt
fovea the hill' to proclaim the SV:,11i1,11 COlAlCsitillUll
and without any preperutory Wahlii es, they cailhOl boa
Majesty, his iniaisters and finictionaries, and his troops,
to take o soletnu oath to that constitutioin, wbleb, in Ihr
midst of disorders and tel they declared to he the fun-
damental law or the kingdom.
Its lignin; his tit at priciniae, the !Sing had made a great
factitive to the 4gitation which prt v4j1.1.11 find 11111101gli
his Malt sty could not hill be aw are how isivuosiderate and
impossiole to he excepted was the ifteOcct of rowing A
maid otion its ria;it days, there rematitc4 k, hill) et toast
the hope, that more citillt Anil wiser' solution would
AnCford to the eth•rvetcfocc of the toompitt, Bot every
ppprAraiiro changed, when, after this hilt court:64km, a
conostrentional act was etteted for the lireOpt-
hey Niag.drawa tip e!gtal years hetere Ina rule 'go
rontifty; (miler anspico particularly difficult end disas-
trous:- int set of witty!' neither tile Kit% nor his olipidtors,
tune any Neapolitan, with ;ha c&p.ptiiiii of a I'M calltipire-
Gm, had any knowledge, e!:crpt l,y eatractt from
Papile, PIO of which', at the mooxiit of its prevlatnatimi,
there did ;tot exist even a tratitiOloo at Noploo:
love hare top clearly' the iiiarich Pe Ito Origin, and
Of the rii!rinal means which could alt m 'maitre it• specese,
for she lepat doliot to remain as to the position of the MI).
natelis pr of the tittle. itucl. a eoneessiom, committing
(rally the digniti pt the•Susettlen destiojesyf
the coantel, con not be rota MitiCiik by
mitre mesas limn ;hose isf violence and menace,
desire of pi °riding «cultist (;sealer reiir, *44 of prevent-
lug the commission Of dretictotil crimes, email alone inclose
the 'tint; to conisent at the mono 4,ip so fatal a Measure.
c4plamiktiosi of tut cy Inesplicable in nny tut bee
sonar, would exec y with it its own confienontioloolvi li.Wife
It not otherwise esi;tinishrd by intfratphir proot%!
''hr grew Wit helm/ Bias given) and to)al enthe-
!ley etffitily deitroyenti the Etna; of the *ell of ihrir
principal associates 4; Me first &Mira of Ili' rcvoit ioirao-
dliateiy took ppon thensielvo exclistire
resistance pinch the inc(h.n. strily urpo,lllits Iliru
sthitntry vtittipir lees cm usl.lll h.f,ti pea in min,
0111C1 to On its ihtit Iti,arpation eons.: to fury,

,they soon created, finder korigur a !'eltitsonal
Went, an Instrument, by mearsiof,evlsioll, In es& spate of a
few mouths, they overturned 'all exietiog Sights, and all
the basis of public order ; and through till:Shy without any
outer posxer het their arbitrary will, they substituted, is
the room of the ancient civil and political laws of the two
kingdom., institutions perfectly unknown. sandlifiliCil by
nu experience, and which were no less in ceetradiction to
the character than to the wants of the [toque.
The King, unahle to consider such a state of things so
annaturel as likely to be of long derntion, persuaded at
the sans,. time tlertenntimely opposition would only draw
down new perils upon his person, Isis family, and his
country, supported with resignation this cruel lot, which
he hail in nowise merited. All the enlightened
iubabi-
tantsof the country, the greatest part too of those who,
seduced by the vale hope of a more fortunate termination.
had at first favoured, the revolution, bat who had subse,
(meetly become convinced of the pernieltme t-tfects of a
system .which the ruling party had established as most
suited to their particular interests atone, without reference
' to the isitenests of the country—all these were condemned
to silence. The mass of the people soon recovered from
their ephemeral enthusiasm; and grieved to see their
hopes deceived, and discomagesi by vague forebodings of
the calamities tsl,ich menaced them, they awaited in silent
uneasiness the final issue of the crisis. "!'lles is to be ex-
'stained that apparent tranquillity under cover of which
the Parliament, powerless in itself 111141 subject to the eon-
! trol of a small numlier of despots rriols to attempt every
tiling, conducted the kingdom trsiMkrrls Os inevitable dis-
solution ;—a tranquillity which did not
the
the most
1 unbridled anarchy from swallowing up last remains of
public prosperity, and the tree charm er of which could
not be misunderstood by any foreign government.
The events at Naples had produced a strong sensation
throughout the whole of Italy. A- revolution, plotted by
obscure fenatics, and executed by pet pued soldiers, who
in a few days deprived a King of his power and of Wit
liberty, mid phingell two kingdoms in the abyss of disor-
der, neceseasily Mildred, whatever im ititetiur develtip.
nient might be, the moat eeriutis apprehensions in all the
neighbouring governments. The snatches loudly pro-
claimed by the maims of this revolationeethe theility
with which then) maxims were circulated, by words and
k.writiAgs, in all parts of Italy--the daily conversations
of their foreign accomplices these thiugs tended to
augment the prusmice of the epprehents. No Italian
soverei.go could conceal from himself t the internal
peace and prosperity of Isis mates werantenaced equetty
fby tint (-sample and the molts of an 'Overthrow which
attacked the social edifice in its deepati Muudetions.
The Emperor was aware hum the gut moment, that
there would he an end of order and tronquillity in Italy
fora length of time, if the chichi and funtWiters of a revolt
which nothing could justify 41141 ilUttlipt could excuse,
were perthitted with impunity to soctifice the monarchy
of the Two hiciliee in their insane projects, His Imperial
Majesty, penetrated is lilt a sense of whet ho owed to the
preservattun and security of his own empire, to the pun.
tpcaiuu of his happy and faithful people, to his dedicatee
relations with the Piinees ut Italy, matt to bj. pusitiuu its
the general political system of Kiiropediasteised to take
measures for stopping the further prowess of these dis-
orders, and to seake mauifeet at the eine time, without
reserve, the line which he had deckled to follow with
reaped to the revolution of Konica. however painful it
we, to his Impede, Majesty to impose an uneipecteil end
considcrehle charge upon his figusuces, at it tOOilleilt situ
lie had hoped to have burn enabled to Writ his whole
attention to interior antelioretion. Auud wheal the con-
tiourit Inteentiell of the plan= forleoil by the edministra-
five promised the most beneficial results, all ssecosidary
considerations gave way to this cueeettoit id the must
altered of his duties,
to the sitottiop to glitt;ii Whin; Will. the assembly of
"
• corr, d'arnise in the Italian 101:4*1111.
of ttle ; it W. 14 141:kLit)Wiritgiiii as such
by every men in Ausiiia end Europe. The
414114) rate; Which this turiwitte Ins tt. trantoilloging the
neighimerine stews ; up a 000 it At:» produced even at
Nde'et., its eneuuteelee lite friettds met di euetetlieg the
elation of order, is mew tonoiiitioo.is felt to the it Milo vs-
tent 14 the I tailian peoinstil4-
116 Nlaje,l) at the same mono ot relished to Treppeu,
to 11. ldsee., is in pet sews% h josge:i Upon a ogit'stinii
of the ::rfatt:vil tellnotaitcs, not only
it: ihiy—tut to the
Ail:dries; R14)140;1.1 Moor, but to II Vittionno safety of
444tetie. These ttelibprotiolis did nut h:Ove any
doubt as tti the eottoier jut which the led stunts regarded
the el ntld 0141104 C of the revohlt• nof Naple., uud Ilsc
.14ligeri with WhISII it nicutiossi other elan 5.
W dl; respect tis the imulutioos with melt 14 stele of things
etillet, fur, of itarticull4 cAtelidt-thtiesie of 4reitt itall'utduce
seduced hoc Itritt.h eeveroitoitit tog to tot,e toot in those of
the Oho? eourtb, mot coose4 the cabinets or Fr:ow,: Pi
le 111,1t1 wily under certain rebtrietioii. the Linpettor
had glue satisfaction Initial ligitoclf perfectly in utiiam no the
sue-tent wills the tignettl.;lo pi Itoara, toed in crud
to cognitive Isinist•Kot the same time Nal Ilse glutreicinet of
Po.ttnigt Mid wino, het% vett the plows* of I'igiining %board
not give rise to ;my 014reiiee to, to thy. tow: of liwir -111" ere,
mid He to the KeigcCal ottilitrotity tsi pi incieles
The Ttrippaii, though decided
not to atiostaisactisie tine elmisigea Strhich tutee iiil4l it cult
Lail ITO Me 40 !Shiley, MA to pot ell(' is it C0;11111011
OUlt le tint moths of thesis .iscre liars rthele,g*
,itieriCly 4111014*(131 it ilh the is; itria drone of eht.olu.,l;
these eiceeta Igy pacific meigiis, and pith all the MOM-
s;rgiev due trg i 1 ;mutiny already ort.nitelt 1.0),?'" lac"y
t misulsiona mot taLittittu a' It de so le this sioist Item Il"
Isla hiekesly 14 rq.yt i ,stool 1-o, heels. In
altici 10 OI I'4l* OttiP thew upatritto liroelwil, pie"l

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and future, of his kingdom. This invitatieu was sup.
ported by his Majesty the Kisig of France.
Aceoraiug to An article of the foreign code, which was
in become that of the kingdom of the Two Sieilier, the
Monarch cannot puss the frontiers of his States without
the consent of Parliament. The Kisig, looking upon the
invitatinn of the Sovereigns as a blessiug of Providence,
submitted to this humiliating necessity. The Parliament
consented, but it attached to its condition, to the effect
of which the instigators of this measure could out be
Wind, and which destroyed beforehand the prospects and
the hopes of 'Moderate
The Parliament, altholigh completely acquaiuteti with
the principles of the Allied Cabinets, imposed upon the
King the command to insist upon the maintenance, with-
out moJilicatiims, of the constitution ut present estab-
lished at Naples, and to put that co Killion leeward as the
sole object and only Irmis of his explanations with the
Allied Pawers. It is under such auspices as Mese, and
having malting to rely on but the justice and the wisdom
of his august friends, that the King of Naples came to
daybed'. From the moment of his arrival mu that place
hi, Nlajesty had reason to feel convinced that it a ould be
vain to attempt to found any proposition upon a basis
irrevocably rejected by the Allied Sovereigns.
The Sovereigns declared in effect to his Majesty their
firm &terminatiou not to allow tine continuaace of a sys.,
tent which had been formed 'woo the kingdom of the
Two Sicilies by a faction without a name and without
authority, and by means duo twat criminal—a system in.
compatible with the security' of the neighbonrieg states,
and with the
_preservation of the peace of Europe.
That if this state of thsugs did not end, as their Majestic,
earnestly mid sincerely hoped it might do, by a spentamatos
disavowal on she pint of those who exercised the power
al Naples, it would be ueceesary to have recourse to :AMIS.
that as woo as by either of these means this great obstacle
to the peace of Naples and of Italy should hose do:mite:tied,
the sovereigns would look upon their task as accomplished.
riot it would he thou fur the King alone, culinitteued by
the counads of the most honest mad able men of his kluge
duns, us li/upside for the strengths mid stahility of his govern.
meat ilium a just and wise cistern, in couformity M ith the
permanent interests of the two people umted tinder lie
scent" e ; and which goverisaseat, from this very eircumstauce,
should bold out to all the neiAlibouring stales a mithcieut
osarantee of their Isar ty and tranquillity.
After such precise declarations, the King of Naples
coull nut dissemble to himself, that, as every other question
was irrevocably set mole, he had, Hs the Father mid pro-
tector of his people, but the task to Pettit—that of preserving
the tepid and well-summing majority of his sultjects front thi•
dangers and calionitios of a war brought is., by the bitted
obstinacy or the culpable ambition of certain audividtals.
In this conviction it we• that his Majesty addressed to his
son, the presumptive heir to his throne, it 'rank and paterusl
letter, fur the purpose of representing to him the siapureaneo
of the circumstances, and the necessity of employing, (or
the safety of the kingdom, all this means which might tie at
his commaud The expresser', of these pacific seutimeuts
id too Kau, was accompanied by more caption instrectiina,
issued by the cabinets of Austria, liatatia, and Pi UAW, to
their diplomatic agents at Naples I and Ow pleMputentiartei.
of his Majesty the Kiug of Fraud" likewise Wilt tustructioas
to the Charge d'AlToirs of their Sovereign. The effect of
t hi se important tuemones must, decide the impending fate l(
the kingdom of the Tait Cilittli• •
lo this state of things, the army destined to carry into
effect the cleersitros Witco at lass isuch lop received orders
t.' Mitt the Pu, and to triareti towards the Neapolitan
frouttess, It Is repugnant to the feelings of his Imperial
alajesty to suppose that this army Call swig will, eh) tetlol/:
telitStollt.c. None but the enetuita of the politic
the incurable partisans of a s)stimi leading al thitT lit tho
thin a the Sicilian 111,11111.01Y,callthatakt, w hit, eerier Ibis
cireutietaltecS its v., It th.,t iii smart hy is how ploceti, s.
owing to ever). 103441501dh1, and every Mall 141.4Ch0d In bi,
COontrt, to his oolictelgli, and to the safety of his fellow
citiarso•

The great 11)444640n nation, ilvvestod to ;la mooarch, ilteguste4
with an unainary liberty, which. only Prodn'od 6'31C1‘.1
tYtonny, end tired of 3 tliallfl4ol3 and precarious existttiee—
conscious likeviise, fur lonic tune pita, of the J 1431 and Ir acrol of
inientitins by which the Xiiiirr:ror is animated, will romise with
cutifklerice dhow who, in the iirone vi' his Imperial MAjesty, and
of hia august allies, octane to ofibr peace, frienrtahlys and ',rotor,.
tiun, Irthis jos, hope should not be is:alio:1, ttit army will
know hub to suriiinunt the tlinizoltie• erhinit may iiiipttle its
pnwriai ; and it; visntrary to tolcultittuni, awl onistrary to the
fondest hopes of the itllitxl inottanita,, en otittrpriae formed with
the purest interoion and netnatOd by nu Nastily spirit should
ilegeruwatt into actual watt or it the t:..ittance of an impltiaable
shnuld he prot;aeted for an indefinite Omni hit
the hoperor of all toe lltissimi, always faithful to his
eonvineeil Of the auceetity of struggling :Wain%il4 evil in Se TitAti.
and guided by that noble and con •tont friendship, of %shalt ehe
hat lately blVitooo4 tin imtny previous tokens on ihn }Overact
would low no time in joining his forces to thitec of A retries.
In th,.. whole of tin: trans:n:llms which have just ("WI Pifftri.
tlir Min 110141:: have Only 11/14 in view the safety of the chives thigi
tut called upon vi govern, and tile tranquillity of the world.
This yt the impact of their policy: no other thought, no ohs'
tiitortro, no orator restitiu,ltprt found a place OW di:lila:ratio:la
of th‘ir cabinets.
1.11, intwl utility yftill Kim', the iolloputelenee of
11l 14wititi4u: Novexu.qcutl., Ili. 11,Lvgicky of 011 thutr.pos.t.ssioim.
th‘su itfe the btltii:4 (flint which theta fugifinffil4s wit never
dr
YirhG
Th. Monarchs will haseoluainvil the sumaiit of their wiohe,t,
and will IL: fully rew.irded for all tlitit efforts, it it should be
rot late to ensure un thew foto:o4lmb tranquilidy I. .;ie interior
sic sast,s, the Tights of thrones, i.ett Ow trot) liberty arid !irrupt/ or
of natioirs.alrlessings wohtrut whalt t:atertuil pt.ve it-elf could
113/V ryilinr 1,4111. rear thireuort. They will . rho, ;karat
when. tel fit,' Unlit all (.044'1.. rtf Mitl,l.•. 11.1, Can lielietO
Lit riti°cl"Flinno,, Ikea
Ult rUlhi; Willit“ PIP herd. totfl•Ltfti't ::runt than lieltettas