The National Register.
London, England, 1812-03-01 00:00:00

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Ferdinand, by the Grace of coa, King orthe Two Sicilies, Jerusalem,
tee. Infante of Spain, Duke of Parma, Placencia, Castro, &c. Grand
°Hereditary Prince of Tuscany, &c.
• ary mostesteemed.Son .Francis, .Hcreelitary Prince of the Two Sicilies.
Being obliged through bodily indisposition, and from the advice of
the physicians, to breathe the air of the country, to withdraw myself
tr all :;etious application, I should esteem myself culpable before God,
,X ;lid not make such provisio affairs e g verniu.etit of the kingdom, in
, these most difficult times, thatof the greatest Importance should
tie protriptlYdlspatched, and the rublie weal *suffer no detriment through
ipay infirmities. Wishipg, therefore, to slisbarthen myself of the weight
of gOveroment, as long as it shall not please God to restore me to a state
of health suitable for conducting it, I cannot more properly entrust it
to ary other than to you 'my beloved 'Soh, as Wellbecattse you
ore my legitimate successor, as on --account of the experience
Which I have had of your high rectitude and capacity ; and by
. these presents, with my free will and consent, Id constitute and
apix)int you my Vicar-General In this my kingom of Sicily,
*in the saale Way as you have .been already twice Vicar-General
in my ()ilia kingdom of Naples ; and I yield and transfer to you, with
the ample title of Alter Ego, the exercise of all the rights, prerogatives.
f•eminences, and powers, which cotild be exercised by myself: and
that this my determination may be known to all, end obeyed by all, I
order that this nay letter, signed by myself, and sealed with my royal
Val, be reserved in the archives of the kingdom, and that you direct a
copy of it to be sent to all Counsellors and Secretaries of State, for their
storination,.. and that they may communicate the- same to all persons in-
. .lexiated. tiven in Palermo, this lbth day t.f a•mary,
FERDINAND. •
THONIA4 Dli SOMMA.

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A message was on Sunday sent by his Royal High.
'sties the PUINCE REGENT to Mr. PON3ONEY, the object
of, which was, to declare, that neither his RnYAI. HIGH.
VESS nor his Government should in any manner interfere
in the approaching discussion and dectsion of the claims
of the Irish Catholics ; or, in other words, that it should
root he considered or managed as an ordinary Government
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question ; but left entirely to the full, fair, impartial, and
Auninfluenced deliberation, and decison of Parliament.
Mr. SUERIDAN was appointed to be the bearer of the
message, but he requested th.it a third person might be
. present, when he was charged by Ins ROYAL HiGIINESS
with ilke message, and while he delivered it to Mr. PON-
vwesr. The 'request was acquiesced in, and Mr. ADAM
was the third person selected. Thus was all misconcep-
tion of the terms and tenor of the message guarded
against, and all' possibility of future quibble or dispute
...about the accuracy of its delivery obviated.
li.y the Action sloOp of war, which has arrived in the
gowns from Bengal, whence she sailed on the sth of Oc-
Ober, and last from St. Helena, which she left on the Ist cf
.I.nuary, we lct.un the very disagreeable intelligence of a
ntiny having broken out. in that island, which had been,
'with some difficulty, suppressed. Of-the causes of the mti-
tiny we are not accurate.ly infortrid, hut rumour states, i
Atat a degree of dissatisfaction had previously :or some
time prevailed amongst the garrison, in coo sequence of
whose supposed malv.ersation in the di..tribution of the
al,iowaAces of ruin and rations to the troops. • The discon-
Usu& rose in proportion as ti,e effdrts to procure .redres of
JO supposed grievances were iroArectual, and mutinous
As4ciatsons. tvere formed fer the p.urp,,se of obtaining 1,.y 4
force what they rewired. The conspiracy, it appears,
was ripe for expl(sion, and a day actually fixed for carry-
kig the designs of the nin,ittecrs into execution, by an at-
,t,tck tnton the depots of stores. The Governor, however,
having made a timely discovery of the plot, took the ne-
ee.s.sary.measures. to frustrate it, and succeeded in taking 1
the. ringleaders into custodv, in number about fifty. Seven .
were, after a trial for the offence, executed, and above fbrfty j
fia..F ;o be gent to this country. Before the mutiny could 1,
'4)1,... put. downethe.Lagat.,-. CT9ger our tf>rll into the hands .of .the 1: