The Sun.
London, England, 1821-03-20 00:00:00

avow its views on Tnrkey and Persia, in a more

decisive manner.

NAPLES.-Private Letters from Naples to the
2d •inst.„ confirm the news, that the utmost cor.
diality subsists between the PRINCE REGENT and
the Parliament—That the generality of the No-
bles are decidedly in favour of the new Consti-
tution—That MEDICI had escaped. with the Duke
of SANGRO, and had arrived at Rome—That
these-individuals Were universally, execrated by
all classes of the peciple, and that TOMASI hid
endeavoured in vain to effect his escape—That
there was but one general feeling throughout the
country, and that little doubt was entertained
that the Austrians must retire within their fron-
tier, and that passports ty LAND were discon-
Untied to travellers, all the roads having been
broken lip.

No positive confirmation has yet been re-
ceived to the full extent of the French Bul-
letin so confidently announced iu some of
the Evening Papers on Saturday. We have
often predicted that the revolutionary spirit
would spread over the Continent, but the Conti-
nental Ruiers seem to have no foresight, and not
even to be capable of deriving knowledge from
the lessons of experience. We fear, however,
that they will soon be taught severer lessons in
the school of adversity. The conduct of Austria
respecting Naples has been marked by such ab-
surdity as seems to sliew- that its Rulers are fitter
for Bedlam than for the government of a great
Empire, and a due management of its relations
With other States. We rejoice, however, that
?ur Ministers have had wisdom enough to avoid
interfering in a cause which threatens ruin to all
who are rash enough to engage iu it.

PIEDDIONTESE.--" The Report of the Prince
of CARIGNAN having headed TIIE INSURGENTS,"
as they are called in an Evening Paper of yes-
terday, does not 44 rest wholly upon the autho-
rity of the strange bulletins published on Satur-
4aY," but on an authority of a more imposing
nature; and if the paper alluded to possessed the
Priority of intelligence, which many think it ex-
clusively does, it could not have ventured on
That assertion, because it was well understood in
the upper circles two months since, that the 7710.
',tent the Austrian troops advanced towards Na-
ples, the Piedmontese Aram) would interpose in
their favour. The sentiments of the Prince de
CAR/GNAN, who is the Presumptive heir to the
Throne of Sardinia, are well known in the diplo-
matic circles. The Sardinian Army are satisfied
With his views, and he is in the possession of
their unlimited confidence ; and so far from hay-
,
log headed " Insurgents," as the Sardinian Army
are degradingly termed by sortie of our cotempo-
raries, he has assumed the command of it, with
the perfect knowledge of His Sovereign, and ap-
pears to be destined to give an effectual aid, in
'checking a system as injurious to the civilized
condition of mankind, as the late Revolution
Fiance was contrary to all sound principles
pep "bversive of the rights and liberties of the
sr eopie.
We lament to see the lengths to which
~c"e writers will go in advocating the cause of
the Holy Alliance," regardless of all those
great conservative principles which ought to be
maintained by the Press of a Free Country. If
iheY will condescend to look at Home and ha-
-11"tly to think on the innovations which are now
attempted to be made, not only on the Mo,
tare y, the Hierarchy, but on all the other insti-
-I.lltions which are connected with, and are essen-
-1.11 to, the preservation of our civil and religious
Iherties, we should not see the apathy of some
(1f them, and the dereliction of sentiment in
:thers,—but we should, we hope, behold them
wtttvieing each other in their endeavours to resist
further inroads on the Protestant establish-
111euts of the Country, which are more likely to
,4.llbvert our happiness and welfare, than that the
liberties of Italy or Europe will be endangered
't'Y- the present .etrorts of the Neapolitans to pre-
"Ye and maintain their national independence '
414 freedom.

, -
Trill:Mß DUTIES.—We give our Readers to-day,
eSupplement (No. I.) the first portion of the
s'el,dence on the timber duties, taken before the
l_et Committee of Foreign Trade. We intreat
r partictilar attention to it. It is iby far the
::14t important part of the Report, and tlae only
acsrt which can enable them to form a just and
B
urate estimate Of the merits of this interesting
eSE
5111 for the report itself, abandoning the
to `fence altogether, goes chiefly, as our • readers
aye seen, into the consideration of certain
iticiPfes, and a particular system founded on
parn; and incompliance, with which system
tune, it is that the committeee have resolved to
re
ofeuronaend n. measure to Parliament, the effect
ab
iit is clearly proved by the most respect.
bple Witnesses, must be to raise the price oft m-
in the Northern ports of Europe, without in.
4,lleaaing,. in atry degree, the export of British
ellufacture, whilst it must as certainly be pro.
ttive of the most' ruinous consequences to the
Ship-ownars and Colonists, ani interme-
erillMy to the British manufacturers of every des-
:llE4 ;n. It is, however, impossible for us at pre-
at to ent.r into that minute and laborious inves-
lation Of the evidence annexed to this Report,
:jell it deserves, and which we purpose in a
:" days to do; but in. the meantime it will be
tie , that one of the principal objects to which
thr,tl„Committee directed their attention, was the
t(le in which an alteration of the present duties
tld be effected, consistently, as they say, in
cc" jargon of the new school, " with those sound
ccNinciples by which all commerce ought to be
cc'egulated ;"—namely, " whether by the reduc-
s,
tion of duty on Baltic Timber; by an imposi-
tion of duty on American ; or by a combina-
tion of both." The Committee having ac-
knowledged, that they had found the Colonial
Timber to be free from the defects, which had,
+vidently, from interested motives, been ascribed
10 it, and that it Was " of a durability equal to