The Sun.
London, England, 1821-02-12 00:00:00

Plenteousness be within thy wall;,", we pray,
".and peace be within thy palaceS!") and are, at
the sante time, heedless who directs its counsels.

[British Pressi
Intelligence, we unders-and, has reached town
that the Allied Sovereigns assembled at Lay bach
have pablidted a ManifestO against Naples, an-
nouncin;!,- their intention to invade that unfortu-
nate country, for the purpose of taking military
occupation of it, but disclairning all views-of ter-
ritorial aggrandizement. The Austrian- army,
we are told, actually broke up from its quarters
On the 29th of laSt month, having received OrderS
to march directly upon Naples. An outline of
the form of • Government Which the Allies
have ita their wiAont thought proper to
frame• for the- people of Naplei, has, it is
said,- been transmitted from Laybach to the
Neapolitan Parliament, and a -very short time
has been allowed for deliberating-upon the pro-
position. Should • this propoSal, however, have
been offered with gOod faith, it would imply that
the alternative of peace or invasion was still left
open-'to the choice, of the Parliament, with whose
prudence-it rested to -determine whether the
tranquillity of the Country was worth purchasing
:upon the conditions prescribed by the Allies.—
We coniesS, however, our apprehensions that
such is not the alternative 'Which it pleases the
Imperial Despots to- Offer •to the unoffending
people or Naples. We fear that the A Hies
have resolved upon the military occupation of
Naples, whether the Parliament accept of the Con-
stitution, transmitted from Laybach, or reject it,
and that the -.alternative submitted to its consi-
deration is this—" Accept our Constitution, and
the invading army shall commit no violence as it
enters. your territories—reject our Constitution,
and you will he exposed to all the horrors of
war." The character of the invasion is there-
fore to. be determined bv. the answer of the Par-
liament of Naples, - and in the mean tune the
Austrian army is cornmanded to await its final
orders within the States of the Church. Until
we understand clearly what the nature of the
proposition now submitted to the Neapoii-
tans is, we cannot venture to form even a
conjecture respecting . the probable. character
of the answer ; but
.of this we entertain
very little doubt, that a show of hostility
on the part of Naples could be attended
with no prospect of success. For the spirit
of independence and the courage of ,the---
Neapolitans,. we entertain every feeling of re-
spect; but.the more generous their devotion may
be in the cause of liberty, the more should we
lament to see them placed in vain oppodtion
against the overwhelming power of the Allies.

[Jforning -llei•alcl.]
It appears that the Austrians . have as much
co►►tempt for the force of the, Neapolitans as
fur the sacredness of the law of nations. The
financial distress of that Power is such• as

hardly to hold out a three months' Campaign.—
ller expectation probably is to crush all resist-
ance in a single battle,, and then to wring from
the King, or rather from the people of the Two
Sicilies, au, indemnity for the expences of the
war. Such is the modern degeneracy of the Italians,
and such, probably, the extent of discord,
treachery, and base fear in the kingdom of Naples,
that this. calculation stands a chance of being
realized. Bonaparte, a much more formidable
enemy, sank under a single defeat-which is
,great encouragement to these coups tie main of
war and policy. But what becomes of Spain ?
The Allies,
.to be consistent, must
,extinguish
S,piinish liberty too—and the Allies should, recol.
lecf, that the example of a great struzgle in
that country has once already givena great impulse
to Europe. Que of the things most to he appre-
hended and deplOred that the hand which now
pushes hack a bloodless revolution,does but prepare

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the train for a future explosion of wild rebelliou
and devastation over Italy. It is the lot ofSpain
to afford examples of terror for the oppressor,
and of encouragement to the vindicators_of free-
don:). The Conspiracy of the Isle of Leon %vas
the twelfth or fifteent:h attempt in Spain to re—
establish the. Cortes within font. years. Italy
will prObablY present a similar spectacle, should
Naples be subdued. There' is another truly
shocking feature in thi4 transaction—the bare-
faced disregard of the solemnity of oaths. What
a state will be that of the unhappy old man, the
King of Naples sworn and forswbrit in the eyes
of Europe, writhing under remorse, or at least
'under the sense of despising himself. The attempt
to release
.him froth.the obligation of hi's oaths,
on the ground' of. their being forced upon him,
will be an outrage upon Morals more revolting
than even the casuistry of the Jesuits. Did he
resist or remonstrate against these oaths ? if this
doctrine of calling on the. Almighty to bear wit-
ness to a lie, according to the convenience of the
hour, be patronized by the Holy Alliance, there
is an end of faith and trutlramoug men, and civi-
lized society be.cpmes more thoroughly demora-
lized than an association of banditti.

. . .
ON THE CULTIVATION OF POTATOES.--A Cor-
resppnderit in The Fartiier's Journal communi-
cates the following useful information respecting
tile. planting of potatoes I last year (says he)
planted 'a row of sets, cut into single eyes, from

large potatoes chosen' out of a heap~; the roar- was
25.'-yrds in length ; and next to it I planted
another row of equal length, from the smallest
potatoes, picked froM the same h-eap"; some of
these latter were set whole, and .sOme cut An

half- When I took
_them up, the-fOrrner row-
produced four bush4fs uad u half, of large po-
tutoes, with scarcely anJr-small ones. The other
row -gave so few in measure that they all Went

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.nto a 11;1U-bushel scuttle, and Were"Tniserably
small." Here is a fact (laud and culthatian the
same) which mlist be worth attending to.
The system of horse-ploug-hing,, hai lately been
established in some of the West India Islands ; at
Antigua they have at least 35 regular horse
teams, and their, ploughing-matches for white
and black ploughmen. It is neces;ary, in culti-
vating the sugar-cane, to throw th:, earth into
banks or r!ch;es, and this is now p-,:tty -generally
clon? by the blacl plougli;i44 a beautiful
rth,daer.