The Sun.
London, England, 1812-11-21 00:00:00

Your very sincere friend and well wisher,

WILLIAM 'SMITH:
114. COOKE, Theatre Royal, Corent-ga. deo, Londori.
Chedworth.

The boats of the illemene frigate, CApt. GRA.,
have cut out several vesFels from the Islolnd
Gf Curzola, on the Dalmatian coast.

SICILY.

AR.TroLos ESTABLISHED IN PARLIAMENT, AND PEE:
• SENTED TO THE SOVEREIGN FOR HIS lIOIAL

SANCTION. .
Art. 1. 'The religion shall be the Catholic,
Apostolical, Roman, alone, to the entire excin-
sitin of every other; the Icing shall profess. the
same, and whenever he shall profess any Other, he
• shall be ipso facto deposed from the tlltotte:-;--4
Pladet Regis-Majesteti:
Art. 2. The Legislative power shall reside ex-
elusively in the Parliament. The laws to be in
force after being sanctioned by his Majesty. All
taxes, &c. in.:posed, of whatever nature, to be
fixed by the Parliament alone; and also to be
sanctioned by his Majesty. The form to beiveto
or placet,. the King having it in his-power to admit
or reject them without qualitication.,:—Placet Regis
Majeskzti.
Art. 3. The Executive PoWer shall reside in
the person of the King —Meet Regis Majestati.
Art. 4. The Judiciary Power shall he distinct,
and independent of the Executive and Legislative
POWers, and to be administered' by a body of
Joidges and Magistrates. These to be tried, pa-'
nished, sand deprived of their situations, by 'sen-
tence of the House of Peers, after having gone,
through the House of CoMmonsi, as set forth by
the Constitution of Great Britain, and which shall'
be explained at length in the Article of Magistracy.
Placet Regis Majestati.
Art. 5. The person of the King shall be always
sacred and inviolable.—Placet Regis Majcstati.
Art. 6. The Ministers, and ether persons
"iii the employ of Government, shall be subject to
the examination and controul of the Parliament;
and to be by the same accused, tried, and Con-
demned, should, they be found to have otfended•
against the Constitution, and the observance of
the laws, or t 9 be guilty of any other high crimes,,
hi the exercise of their -functions.—Placet Regis
Majestati.
fat. 7. The Parliament shall be composed of
two Houses, the one to be Called the'Coneaos
or Representatives of the People, as: well tree
holders as vassals, on the conditions, and forms to
be hereafter established by Parliament, in its sub-
sequent acts upon this article the other to be'
called the Peers ;- the same to be composed of all
those ecclesiastics and their successors, and of all
those-Barons and theirs uccessors, and the present
'possessors of estates, wk.° now have the right, to
sit and vote in the ecclesiastidal and military
branches, as well as of others who may be here-
after elected by his Majesty, agree'sblyto the con-
ditions and limitations to be.fired by Parliament
in the srtiele of.detail upon this point.—Placet
• -Regis Majestati. -
Art. S. The Barons shall have, as Peers, indi-
vidually, one vote only, relinquishing the multi-
plicity of votes relative to the number of their po-
pnlation.' The Chancellor et the ,Kingdom to
! present an accofint of the actual Barons and Ec-
' clesiasties,-to he inserts! in the Acts of, Parlia-
nunt.—Placei R,Tis Majeslati. ' •
Art. 9. The Icing shall enjoy the prerogative of
convOking; prdrogliing, 'or dissolving the Pailia,
wont, 'agreeably to the forms and institutions
which 'may be hereafter established. His Majesty,
however, to be hound, to Convoke it every year,—
,Pideet Regis Majestati.
Art. 10. -The-nation, haVing to fix the subsidies
necessary to the State, will consider it as a posi-,
tive duty to fix, for the civil List, such sunis as ,
re necessary, to the splendour, independence, and
maintenance of its august Sovereign amid Royal
Family, to the most generous extent that the ac-
tual state. of the finances of the kingdoM will per.-
consequence of which arrangement, the
nation shall take upon itself the management and
administration of the national funds, including all
tilose which have hitherto beencomideredas fiscal
duties, and land revenues; which shall be paid
over to the Minister-of Finances, for the purposes .
established by Parliament. As to the persons,
system, anti means by Which such funds are to be
collected and disposed of, they remain to be fixed'
.in the detail of this article.—Vetat Reg,la Ma-
jestas.

Art. 11. No Sicilian subject shall be arrested,
banished, or otherwise punished, or disturbed in
the enjoyment. of his rights or property, unless in
conformity.to the new 'Code of Laws, to he here-
' after established by this Parliament, and by means
of orders and sentences of the ordinary Magi's-,
trates, in those forms, and with those precautions
for public securify, which shall be hereafter ap-
pointed by Parliament. The Peers to enjoy the
same judicial forms which they enjoy in England,
as will be subsequent)/ detailed.—Placet Regis
Mqjestati.
Art: 19. With that disinterestedness which the'
military 'branch has always shown,, it has .voted
and concluded—and the Parliament has establish-
ed—that the Feudal System shall be abolished,
and all the lands shall he possessed in Sicily as
allodial or free estates ; preserving, lion/ever, the
order. of succession in the respective families,
which is actually enjoyed. The jurisdiction of
the Barons shall likewise cease, and.therefore the
Barons.shall be exempted from all the burdens to.
which :they have hitherto been subjected by such
feudal rights. There shall also be abolished, the
Investitures: Reliefs (Rilevi), Fines:to the Crown
(devoluzioni n 1 Fisco), and every other' burden
whatever inherent in the feudal system—every fa-
mily,- however, preserving its titles and honours.
—Placa Regis Majestati.
Art. 13. It likewise agrees to establish that the
right called ibigariei (being privileges and exemp-
tions from assessment), shall be abolished as
soon as the c.ommunityin general, or the individual,
subject to them shall indemnify the actual pro-
prietors ; 'calcu::-ating the capital either at twenty
,years' purchase of-the produce of the tax, existing
' at the period of liquidation ; or in default of that,
estimating the samelly. the books of the respec.;
tire Segrezia ; it being understood, however, that
the possessors of lands of whatever nature, shall
retain the same power and, the same rights as
before, so far as regards the exacting of debts, or
rents, and this in the same nidnner and form as
'they have hitherto enjoyed them.-7-(His Majesty
reserves to himself to give his Royal sanction to
the-aboveartie!e, when he shall. have'received the
necessary information respecting it.)
Art. 14. The Military Branch agrees also to
the suggestson of the Commons, that every Pro

posal relati%;e to sitbsidies shall proceed exclusive-
ly frOm, and be eoffel4ded iii, the.Hutise of orn-
Inwis, and from thence pass to that of the Peers,
where it sluill_bnly he either aesented to or reject-
ed,.without the least alteration. It is further de-
terniined, that all prOposals repectiur; article; of
legislation, or any Other subject Wthatsoever,r may
be moved in either Hous'e indifferently, leasing to
the other the power of rejection.—Placet

Art. 15. As toAhe other principles andarrang-e-
In'entS of the aforesaid British Constitution, the
Parliament will hereafter deefaire those that are to
be f'Ulturitted, those to be rejected, and those to be
modified, accOrding to the 'difference of the cir-
cumstances of the two nations. It therefore de-
dares, that it will willingly receii-e any projects
which its trO)ers rilay,ifiake for the convenient
application of the British Constitution to the'
kingdom of Sicily,' in order to select what may be
judged most suitable to the glory of his Majesty,
and to the happiness of 'the Sicilian peopic.-.----
(HiS Majesty, 'whenever such articled shall ire Tire-
Seated, will de-errxiine on th6se which may Merit
hi Royal sanction.)