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London, England, 1823-12-19 00:00:00

cessary to retain theirs in an allegiance so dear
to their hearts—that is, Old and New Spain
would both belong to Trance ! We must beg
leave to ask, if it is likely, or even possible, that
we should see this unmoved ? We find that Mi-
nisters are increasing our army, and we have
said nothing upon this subject, from the in-
sinuation thrown out that the West Indies
was the position for 'which the additional
troops were required, owing to the precarious
state of those islands from the agitation of the
Slave Trade. We hope, however, that France
will not let one unmerited success lead her to at-
tempt a second enterprize of an equally unjust
character. It was thus that Buonaparte went on
from iniquity to iniquity ; but his course was
well sustained; and yet Moscow, where he failed,
is not so far from Paris as Lima or Peru ; and the
intermediate regions of water are ours.

[l.l KM TIMES.]
By our Private Correspondence from Naples
It appears, that the Minister of that country, M.
de Medici, is attempting to adopt a system, which
appears at first sight injurious to our commercial
interests ; but which, as our Correspondent judi-
ciously points nut, will probably benefit them in the
result. M. de Medici has the reputation of being
an able politician, and has introduced many sa-
lutary reforms in the Finances; but on the par-
ticular subject to which we are now adverting,
his conduct illustrates the adage—

A little knowledge is a daniiirous thing.
—During the usurpation of Murat, M. de Me-
dici retired to England ; here no doubt he
saw with admiration the wonders effected
by manufacturing industry ; he was but too
sensible that the prevalent defect of his coun-
trymen was indolence ; and therefore, like
an honest man and a good patriot, he be-
came anxious to promote manufactures, as a mode
of rousing the energies of the Neapolitans, and
drawing forth the resources of the nation. Pre-
mature measures for this purpose, however, will
counteract the intended effect. The appre-
hended prohibition of English manufactures is
already producing a greater demand for them ;
and if the Neapolitans should be thrown on
their own manufactures for a supply, it would
be so inadequate to the demand, that the
prices would be raised enormously, and an im-
mense stimulus given to contraband trade ; and
after all the exclusive system must be abandoned,
from an absolute want both of skill and capital in
the Neapolitan .manufacturers to furnish their
countrymen with the articles which use has mi.
tiered necessary.—We have no right to blame
the motives of the Neapolitan Minister ; they are
such as a patriotic Minister in any country must
act upon ; but his want of sufficient experience
in the practical part of commercial'policy has
led him into an error, which the force of circum-
stances will, ere long, compel him to abandon.—
Naples is an agricultural country, with few or no
great capitalists. She must devise means of ac-
cumulating capital largely from the products of
her soil, before she can, to any great extent,
succeed in manufactures.

[MORNING} URRALD:j
We recently noticed a Decree orthe Austrian
Government, dated Milan, and denouncing con-
fiscation of property and civil death against all
Austro-Italian subjects absent without leave,
who should not forthwith return.—Some further
light has been thrown upon this despotic measure,
by private accounts, and by the French Journals.
The Paris Constitutionnel gives the names of fifty,
or nearly fifty persons, affected by this Decree.
They are for the most part persons distinguished by
rank or talents, andmany of them fathers of fami-
lies, What is the Offence by which they have incur-
red this sentence of attainder.? I t appears that they
are to a man, persons against whom there is not
even an accusation. In acts they are not only
uncompromiaed, but unaccused; But their opi-
nions were suspected—they knew themselves to
be obnoxionsand they thought it prudent to
withdraw themselves, for a. while, froni a Go-
vernment having the power to send them with-
out trial to the dungeon or even to the scaffold.
Many of them had taken refuge in Switrerland.
The Austrian Government forced the unhappy
humbled SWiss to drive them out of the Can-
tons. After this, some went into Spain, which
of course they have since abandoned. Many
sought refuge in the Netherlands, and some
few in this country. The Austrian Govern-
ment finding that' it could no longer reach
themr--for the kingdoms of the Netherlands has
hitherto had its-independence respected--more,
perhaps, on sufferance than security---the Lom-
bardo Venetian Government, we say, seeing that
the persona of the victims were beyond its reach,
has issued this decreed us a formality for the
spoliation of their property.. It is well observed
by the Paris Journal, to which we have referred,
,that this degree is hut the revival, mutatis mutandis,
of the formulary by which the Terrorists, in the
French li,evolution,, plundered the emigrants.
It is a fact that the Austrian Government is,
sadly distressed for money. But. this fact, in-
stead of affording any palliatinn, only renders the
decree rnera(464ll by removing all doubt of it*
object and motives. This is a sort of cruel raga.
City to which any regular Oovernment,profeasing
to, respect municipal justice, and acknowledging
.any thing like
,regular law, should bins,' to re-
sort. To strip the innocent children of their
inheritance, on
,the ground. of the guilt of the
parents, Without any other proof of crimina-
lity —or even any. charge, than mere
ranee--is an outrage. upon the hateful And
cruel principle of, attainder, which is Itself
'scarcely consistent with hiunane and civilized
legislation. It. is, true that an alternative is left
to these tibientees. They are invited
,to return
to their domiCile. The. invitation is not unlike
that of tho gaoler tO the,: prisoner in 114psure for
'Meaittre', "Master narnordo—carne end be
hinged Master Barnardine." They may well
be excused coinplyingwitit ft in. the re.a,sonable
apnrehenaion if not of banging, at leant of heing
thrown into a dungeon for the remainder of their
*jives. It is true the Austrian Gevernment may
justify itself by the example of that of Turkey.
,But the Grand Seignor has the merit of doing
theta things "without Aisguise, or mincing the