The National Register.
London, England, 1821-03-18 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

tions as well ftr the service of his own army as to
exhaust, the country previous to the arrival of the
Austrians, whom he seemed disposed to harass.dur-
iog their march upon the Abruzzi. It is confirmed
that ;%I:o.siril r.. out has tvritten to Milan to cause
his rests-re to advace. The regular troops of Na-
rks tire estlinated at 100,000 mcn, all of whom
reru to le animutcd with the best spirit. Enthu-
'siesta is at its height at Naples. The remarkable
tea o;A:: : movements of the Austrian army i 3
*imitated to cncoumge their adversaries. The
.et of terror which was to have been ez-
.om the invasion is dissipated.
are assured that Pepe has requested General
..tout to establish a guard of safety at Rome.—
reguest• caused by the audacity of the
Neapolitan rartisans, who push forward in every
direction several !mtge. s beyond the frontiers.
MADRID, MARCH . —The number of partizans
of the Institiu !.• reuse prodigiously, particu-
larly in the tr:., : ies of sockty, who find no-
thing but advantages nom them. The troops of the
line and the national guards are animated with the
most lively enthusiasm for the constitution ; whence
its enemies seeing themselves deprived of hope, and
not being able to make any general euterpriso, are
reduced to partial attempts by isolated means.
Within the last few days four persons attacked
the brave Colonel Torrijos ; but he put three of
them to light with his sword ; and the fourth, after
been wounded, begged his life, offering to declare
the names of his accomplices, arida him who insti-
gated them. The Cortes and the Government are
taking the most energetic measures to repress such
attempts. _ .

, MADRID, MARCH 3.—On the 25th ultimo, the
Cortes held their last preparatory committee, after
which a deputation repaired to the palace to an-
nounce to his Majesty that the Cortes would open
its sittings on the Ist of March, and to enquire
whether te King's intention was to be present in
prson. His Majesty received the deputation with
his accustomed kindness : and answered that he
would be present at the opening of the Cortes on
the I st, at ten in the morning.
On the Ist of March, the King, attended by a
strcag escort, repaired to the hail of the Cortes, and
opened the sitting in the following speech :-
6. Gentlemen Deputies—ln seeing myself surrounded,
for the second time, by the worthy Representatives of that
heroic nation, wiach has given w many proofs of its love and
its attachment to my Boyal Person, my grateful heart cannot
be prerenteafrom rendering tha4s to the AbuFlity, who has

~,,sited me on the th7one of my ancestors."
His Majesty then announces that the Minister of
finances will lay the budget of expenditure for the
enseing year beiine theta; and congratulates the
Curies on the rapid revival of all the arts of peace—
on the restoration of credit abroad—on the cessation
of hostilities in America—and the prospect of the
colonies being re-united to the mother country as
integM parts of the same empire.
" But," continues his Majesty,
" I hope the Cortes, in fulfilling their important functions,
will be persuaded of the necessity of taking prompt measures to
tepress the audacity of those who, encouraged rather than awed
by moderation of system, dare to trouble the new 'paler of things,
sad that they will at the same time give to the Executive govern-
ment the nccesssry force which public tranquillity demands under
existing circumstances, and without which it is impossible to
heal the evils which have for so many ages afflicted the nation.
" The stare of our diplomatic relauons with the other Powers
continues as it was. We happily preserve with them those re-
lations of amity and good faith which existed at the period of the
preceding Sitting.
•"flie ratification which I have thought it proper to give,
with the authority of the Cones, to the Tleaty fo: tile cession of
the Florid:.s, and the fixation of the limits with the United
States of America, has taken place within too recent a period to
allow of this Government having, as yet, had any advice of its
hcing received.
'• The resolution taken in the Congress of Troppan, and con-
firm d in that of Lay latch by the Sovereigns of Austria, Prussia,
and Russia, of interfering with the change of political regime
established in the Two Sicillies ha, excited all my solicitude, as
well from consideration for the Royal Family of that Kingdom,
united to mine by the ties of blood, as front the interest which I
feel Mr the welfare of the people of the 'f wo Sicillts, and liecith.se
it imports much to the independence of Nowa, that the sacred
rights of nations and their Princes should be regularly respected.
I have thought it indispensable to the honour of my throne, to
the dibmity of th., great nation which I glory in governing, to
make it known through the proper channels, mat I will recognise
nothing which nosy be contrary to that positive public law, upon
which are founded the liberty, independence, and prospatity of
nations ; a principle which, on her part, Spain will inviolably
respect towards milers. I have the satisfaction to announce to
the Cortes that the Allied Sovereigns, according to ad the com-
munications which I have received up to the present moment,
have, and arc agreed, to respect this principle, in as tar as re-
gards Spain '
tiuch being the different objects which the King
hopes time Cortes will take into their consideration,
his Majesty proceeds, after some complimentary ex-
pressions, to allude to the insults offered to his
royal person, and the attempts made to seduce the
credulous into a belief that he entertains at heart
views opposed to the c.:istitw system.
•' I must, not this day, conceal from the Cortes, as principally
charged with preserving the inviolability rp hich it wishes to be
observed towards a Constitutional King, that these insults would
not have been repeated if the Executive Power had displayea ati
the ener4 which time Constitution prescribes, and which tlae
Cortes desire. The want of firmness, and the inactivity of many
Authorities, have eau, .:I the renewal of such excesses ; and if
trey cominue. it will not tr! astoniahing,should the Splash nation
be involved in evils cold nasiortunts innumerable.'

His Majesty concludes by an earnest exhortation
to the Cortes to co-operate with him in consolidating
that system of things which they had proposed to

themselves, and to which he protests, in the face of
the nation, 111.4 resolution to adhere.

The president replied, according to the custom,
in vague and general terms.
After the departure of the King, Count Turreno
proposed that a conunittee should ha named to draw
up an answer to the speceh of the King. It was
necessary, he said, to satisfy Europe and the nation
on the points which his Majesty had treated of; it
was necessary that all the world should know what
the Natioaul Conitress thinks of the events of Naples
and the congress of Laykich.
A committee of five members was accordingly
airpointed.

On the same evening, the whole of the minister:,
with the exception of the minister of marine, sent
in their resignation ; and the principal clerks, who
were charged par interim with the di thrent po)/(-
fetielles, also sent in their's next morning.