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London, England, 1860-12-07 00:00:00

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THE LATE KING OF NAPLES' LAST
ADDRESS TO THE COURTS OF EUROPE.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs at Gaeta has
addressed the following despatch, bearing the date
of November 12, to the Ambassadors of King
Francis IL at the Great Courts of Europe :
" Excellency—Although the revolution of the Two Sici
lies, ' which was prepared by iniquitous and mysterious
artifices at a distance, has, with wonderful rapidity, effected
the entire ruin of the kingdom, nevertheless, the King, our
august master, has never ceased to resist it, and in this work
of energetic defence—not less glorious than unfortunate—
heroic efforts of constancy and of energy have been made,
which will remain as an eternal monument in our history.
" His Majesty was actuated by the consciousness of two
duties, firmly rooted in his Royal mind, the noble ideas of
which are inspired more than ever by that moral law which
is tho supreme rule of the actions of men, and particularly
of Princes.
" Those duties are :
" ' 1. The obligation of preserving and defending the
monarchy of the Two Sicilies, the august inheritance con-
fided to him by his ancestors.
" ' 2. The respect for that fraternal bond which ought to
unite monarchs together by reason of the Divine mission
which is common to them, and of the conformity of their
interests.'
" It is not necessary for me to reason at length on the
first obligation incumbent on his Majesty, nor on the man-
ner in which it was accomplished.
" Every Government which has had centuries of exist-
ence, finding its reason to lie in itself, in its historical
traditions, and the condition of the people, considers it as
its first duty to maintain and defend itself, and to combat
whoever shall threaten its existence.
"Now every one knows how the army, sapped and decom-
posed by the pernicious manoeuvres of revolution, the navy
deserted and lost, treason and undiscipline which had pene-
trated even into the Court and into the Council, frightfully
indicated an imminent catastrophe and a total dissolution of
the kingdom.
" Nevertheless, the King, our sovereign, resisting with
heroic courage the vile counsels of those who recommended
to him a disgraceful flight, shut himself up in the first bul-
wark of the kingdom, and putting into action all his acti-
vity and his study, succeeded, in a short time, in uniting
together and reconstructing an army, not very numerous,
but possessed of a fidelity and courage capable of again
tempting the chance of combats.
" The glorious enterprises of this handful of brave men
are known to all Europe, and even the lying and malevo-
lent press of the revolution dared not contradict it.
" The enemy were repulsed in their attacks and driven
from their strong positions, and the Royal princes exposed
their precious lives to danger on the fields of battle where
the victories of their ancestors were celebrated ; the King
himself was the foremost among the combatants, and saw
fall at his side the martyrs who immolated themselves for
the sacred cause.
" The revolution was checked and confused by it ; the
faithful people, who impatiently suffered its tyrannical yoke,
began to be agitated, and everything presaged the triumphant
return of the legitimate King to his capital, when another
Sovereign, perjured and disloyal, at the head of a powerful
army, suddenly invaded the States of the King, in order to
show the whole of Europe that the revolution was his
work, and that he would not lose the shameful fruit of it.
" It was then necessary for our Sovereign to renounce
the first idea of war, and to confine himself only to the
defensive, not being able, with a small army already
fatigued by privations and sufferings, to march forward,
leaving a strong and disciplined army ready to attack it in
his rear.
" A series of strategic retreats, during which the Pied-
montese army could not gain one decisive victory, was
then undertaken, and the royal troops found themselves
compelled, part to cross the Pontifical frontiers, and the
remainder to strengthen themselves under the walls of
Gaeta.
" At the moment I now write, there only remains to
the King the fortress of Gaeta, and that of Messina, the
last bulwarks of the autonomy of this kingdom, formerly
so powerful and so fine, of the Two Sicilies.
" They will be defended with that bravery and constancy
which are the virtues peculiar to the august dynasty of
the Bourbons. But as the resistance of fortresses depends
on a thousand different circumstances, which it is needless
to enumerate, it is very probable that this defence may not
be so long as the Sovereigns of Europe appear to desire.
" When the fatal and inevitable hour of surrender shall
have arrived, our august Sovereign, in the midst of the tear;
of his faithful followers, and with that resignation full of
dignity which is a distinctive characteristic of his august
family, will descend from his throne, and will remember
with just and noble pride that he has never failed in the
accomplishment of his duties.
"It still remains for me to examine whether his Majesty,
in generously paying the debt which united him to other
Sovereigns, has in exchange received those succours and
those good offices which he had a right to expect. You will
comprehend that this task will be as easy and conclusive as
the former.
"During the last seven months that revolution has
triumphed in the kingdom, always most openly favoured
by a perverse and perjured Government, the King, our
master, has not been able to obtain anything from the
Sovereigns of Europe, to whom he had hoped that his
cause was dear, unless it be some inefficacious expressions
of affectionate sympathy.
" The serious perils of a small army, the pressing and
extreme penury of the Royal treasury, the audacious viola-
tions of the law of nations, the unbounded ambition of a
revolution which can never be satiated—everything, in fine,
was made fully known to the great Powers, and to all this
they could not and would not give any other response than
good wishes and counsels.
" Neither the interests of dynasties, nor the common
dangers, nor chose of ancient friendships and alliances,
were able to dissuade the Cabinets of Europe from that
political indifference of which they gave proof in witnessing
unmoved the fall of an old monarchy.
" The Emperor of the Freneh alone (and it is for us a
duty of justice and gratitude to openly acknowledge it) set
the generous example of a disposition to put an and to this
state of universal apathy. Loyal and monarchical England

ventured to reproach him bitterly for it, whilst the other
Cabinets merely allowed him to bear the whole risk of the

magnanimous enterprise he contemplatod.
" The sending of the French squadron into the waters
of Gasta, and the fraternal reception given by the soldiers
of France to the faithful and valiant remnant of the Royal

troops on the Pontifical territory, are facts which will ever
remain graven on the heart of the King our Sovereign, and
far exceed the protestations of friendship offered to his
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Majesty by the rest of Europe.
"The King, our Sovereign, till lately cherished the hope
that the conference of Warsaw might lead to the meeting
of a European Congress, the sole means of putting an end
to the violence of brute force which overthrows and mocks
at all the most ancient and most sacred laws : to the
new principle of popular sovereignty which is so strangely
abused, there was need of the old counterpoise of long esta-
blished right, which is the fruit of the wisdom and expe-
rience of ages, in order that from the discussion of those
opposite principles, and the impartial examination of all the
pretexts, a new order might arise in accord with principles
and acceptable to the people when restored to the influences
of wisdom and peace.

"There can.be no peace for Europe but in the realisation
of this grand idea. Any system lhbited to the mere removal
of material obstacles to present interests will open the way
for the revolution, which aims at the successive overthrow
of all thrones, since there would be a departure from that
great unity of principles which forms the safeguard of
crowns, the guarantee of the peace and prosperity of
nations.

,‘ These principles being admitted, your Excellency will
readily conceive what affliction must oppress our august
Sovereign, when you learn that so noble a design will re,-
main unexecuted through the fault of Powers which think
more of their private animosities and questions of secondary
importance than of the great principles of universal order
and the security of thrones.
" I consequently charge you, in the King's name, to
make known the idea above explained to the Cabinet, to
which you are accredited, and if it is not accepted as
.we
urtdersttlnl it, to formally ask of the
.Miu*ter of Forelill

Affairs what are the intentions of his Government with
regard to the last imminent crisis of the monarchy.
" In conformity with this Sovereign order, you will read
and give a copy of the present despatch to the Minister,
and you will be careful to let me know the result of the
communication, which will determine the King's future
conduct. CASELLA."

ORATIONS UPOIV ITALY AND GARI-

BALDI.

The first of two lectures or " orations" upon the
most popular topic of the day was delivered last
evening by Mr. T. Mason Jones, in the large room
of St. James's-hall. Mr. Jones, having just re-
turned from an excursion to Naples, where Father
Gavazzi introduced him to the Liberator and Dic-
tator of that portion of Italy, was enabled to bring
home from Garibaldi a special message to the
audience he had now the honour of addressing.
He accordingly began by announcing to them that
the hero himself, in bidding him adieu at Caserta,
said—" I should take it as an especial favour if, in
all your communications with your fellow-country-
men, you would express the deep and eternal grati-
tude I feel to Englishmen for the moral aid and ma.
terial support they have given myself and Italy
in the great struggles in which we have been
engaged, and should Italy become united and inde-
pendent, England may always reckon upon her
alliance—an alliance which will not be 50 expensive
as those of some other lands." After delivering
this message, which was very cordially received,
Mr. Jones said that in a second lecture he meant
to give an account of the state of parties in Italy, to
compare Garibaldi with his rivals and contempo-
raries, and to make some startling revelations
about Mazzini—upon whom he repeated a
high eulogy, which he had heard from
the lips of Garibaldi himself. He then very
hastily enumerated the well-known incidents of
Garibaldi's adventurous life, and touched upon
some of the events of the late Sicilian and
Calabrian campaign ; but there was nothing in his
narrative beyond what is quite familiar to every
newspaper reader. The exciting vicissitudes of
the battle fought upon the Volturno, on the Ist of
October, were dwelt upon by Mr. Jones with much
animation of manner, and he pathetically described
the scenes which he had himself witnessed in the
hospital, when Garibaldi went there to visit his
wounded and dying men. Mr. Jones had visited
the horrid cells of St. Elmo, and those of the Pre-
fettura, in which so many of the best and noblest
citizens longsuffered a cruel marty rdom,the rev oltin g
details of which, as first made known to us by Mr.
Gladstone, have been amply confirmed. A good deal
of declamation was bestowed upon the character and
genius of Garibaldi, whom, for his talent as a mili-
tary leader, Mr. Jones chiefly likened to Hannibal,
although he charged Garibaldi with the defect of Is
complete incapacity for organisation, as shown by
the strange confusion which prevailed both in his
army and in the civil administration. The moral
excellences of this heroic man of the people, his
generosity and purity of soul, were most emphati-
cally praised, though with a somewhat invidious
reference to other workers in the same cause of
Italian emancipation and union. The second lec-
ture is fixed for next Wednesday.

It is stated in a letter from Vienna, that M. de
Bach is likely to be recalled from his post of Austrian am-
bassador at Rome. As he is one of the principal supporters
of the concordat, his return, says the letter, would be con-
sidered a proof that that convention is to be revised, as it
becomes more unpopular every day, and is opposed to the
spirit of the new institutions.
SOUTHWARK ELECTION. The preliminary
meetings connected with the above election are rapidly ap-
proaching their termination. Mr. Scovell has already
finished his public addresses, and Mr, Fawcett announces
but one more meeting. Mr. Layard, however, continues
to keep the field with indomitable energy and perseverance.
Although as hoarse as a raven from excessive speaking he
regularly addresses his two or three meetings a day, and at
night transacts business with his central committee. There
are various calculations as to the probable results of the poll,
but there can be no doubt as to Mr. Layard's popularity
with the general Southwark public. His patience and
good humour are exemplary, and his readiness to accept
any liberal pledge that is tendered to him has quite capti-
vated the crowded meetings which he has been recently in
the habit of addressing. His committeemen say that they
have already obtained 4,200 positive promises, and that his
success on Tuesday next is certain. In the meantime Mr.
Scovell devotes the short interval that now remains to his
committee and to the more detailed business of his canvass,
and we need hardly add that his committee are quite as
sanguine as Mr. Layard's as to their candidate's chances
of success. There probably has not been so much political
excitement in Southwark for many years as has been ex-
hibited during the present election.
NEWCASTLE ELECTION.—Mr. P. Carstairs and
Mr. Somerset Beaumont were nominated to fill the vacant
seat in this borough yesterday. The show of hands was
declared in favour of Mr. Carstairs, and a poll was demanded
on behalf of Mr. Beaumont.
CRYSTAL PALACE.— ONE SHILLING DAY.—•
THURSDAY, Dec. 6.—Admissions on payment, 374; ditto
by season tickets, 289. Total visitors, 663.
Mr. David Dale Owen, the geologist, died at
New Harmony, Indiana, on the 13th ult. He was a son
of the celebrated Robert Owen, of New Lanark, Scotland,
and a brother of the Hon. Robert Dale Owen, late Ameri-
can Minister at Naples.
" The Varietes," says a Paris letter, "has
nothing remarkable this year. La Guide de l'Etranger a
Paris depends greatly for its popularity upon one joke. A
middle-aged lover, in enumerating his years, refuses to
count two which he passed en Angleterre."
THE NEW WINE DUTIES.—It is stated (says the
Leeds Mercury) that a combined effort will be made by the
wine trade to demonstrate to Mr. Gladstone the inexpedi-
ency of arranging the new duties on the principle of the
alcoholic test. The French Government are represented to
feel much dissatisfaction at the proposed scale, which will
seriously interfere with the importation of wine in bottle.
In the Common Pleas Court last night the action.
of Osborne v. the Eastern Counties Railway terminated.
It was for wrongful dismissal and false imprisonment. The
jury gave a verdict for the defendants on the first count,
for the plaintiff on the second, with £25 damages.
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—The young men, Blight,
Evans, and Regan, have been sentenced to five years'
penal servitude for robbing Mrs. Allen of £2OO, which she
used to carry about with her " for safety."
FELTHAM REFORMATORY.—Two boys were yes-
terday sent to prison by Mr. Arnold, the police magistrate,
for escaping from Feltham Asylum before their term of
detention had expired.
A Begging Letter imposter named Clark has
been trying to raise money " for an artificial leg." He
is under remand from the Westminster police court.
STEALING Hors.—A respectable looking man
named Hunt has been remanded for a week from the South-
wark police court, on a charge of stealing a large quantity
of hops from the Messrs. Pike and Leek, his masters.
GAROTTE ROBBERY.—Two powerful fellows have
been committed for trial for garotting and robbing a gen.
tleman named Pugh of his gold watch worth £25.
A constable of the F division of police was yes-
terday placed before Mr. Henry, charged with not doing
his duty. Tho complainant, Mr. Archer, said he was
and as he was securing
alraleend him back, and thus the
'robbery, got away. Mr.
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Henry said he would well consider the case before he gave
any decision.
A DIVIDED JURY. Yesterday, at Sessions
House, the jury veere unable to agree as to their verdict in
the case of Robinson, who was charged with stealing a
watch. After being locked up till 12 o'clock at night they
were discharged. The prisoner will be retried next sessions.
With reference to the invitation to Garibaldi to
visit England, concerning which we quoted a statement
yesterday, the Leeds Mercury says :—" We are informed,
upon most excellent authority, that if Gen. Garibaldi is not
in England for a short visit before the new year, he may
be expected very early in the month of January. 11, a be-
lieve that if he does accept an invitation that will be taken
out to him, he will visit London, Newcastle, and Glasgow
at least, and possibly several of the other large towns in the
kingdom. Tho only difficulty to overcome with regard to
public demonstrations will bo the modesty of the man and
his natural shyness of anything like display or lionising."
The Propagateur, of Lille, announces that the

camp of Chalons will be opened next year in April, and will
be again under the orders of Marshal M'Mahon. It is
there that the pupils of the Guard, who are now being
organised, will make their first debut in arms. This corps
is to be formed of such enfans de troupe as have attained
the age of sixteen.
FREEMASONRY.—On Wednesday last a very
interesting ceremony came off at the meeting of the Grand.
Lodge of England. It was the presentation to Richard
Jennings, Esq., of a magnificent jewel, on the occasion of

his retiring from the active duties of office. The jewel was

of gold, and in the lozenge shape. On the front—on a
beautiful royal purple enamel ground—were two wands

crossed and tied in brilliants, surmounted by a very grace-

ful tie or knot in the same valuable materials, the whole wam

surrounded by a deep border of dead gold, on which the
words "United Grand Lodge of England" were most

artistically placed. On the reverse an appropriate inscrip-
tion was engraved, to the effect that the jewel was pre-
sented to Richard William Jennings, Esq., P.G.D.C.,
on his retirement, after holding office for a period
of twenty-five years, by the unanimous vote of the
Grand Lodge of England. A more beautiful or artistic
specimen of the goldsmith's art has not been seen
for years, and the admiration it caused amongst the craft
was universal. The jewel was entirely produced by Mr.
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Spilling, of Luard• street, Caledonian-road, by whom it wall c."4*
also designed and modelled. It reflects the greatest credit
on his ability, taste, and judgment,

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