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London, England, 1821-03-03 00:00:00

and visit a person who was in-great distress. The
-Etrgliishman, for the reason stated, lost no time in
complying with the request, and he was directed
to, a. prison, where he found his friend in a dun-
geen half-filled with water. He had lainthere
for lonic time, but the reason of his detention he-
was utterly at. a loss to conceive—he was con-
scious-of -no .offence against .the State, and the-
onlythirig sOtiChlo'ccurred tb him as at all likely
to fad "to-this outrage on his person, was a cotr-
versatiOn which he recollected -to have had with
a fri;3ltd ;Caw time previously, about disposing of
serge corn which lay on his hands. Po this tri-
iar jirCirrustance, and this alone, he attributed
is4riSoninent, and hejudged rightly that the.
m6.nopOliiing'Alinistes was.' Connected with it.-
I,..arraished with this clue; the English officer-be-
`himself ; he went without delay to the
Ministes---queStioned him as to the fact—received
at first 'an evasive' answer,' but was at length.
teld.Oaistly, by the candid Italian, that he had
eo 'in sending the Neapolitan to prison.
- 71Vh-at did he then- do ? He returned to.
the. prison, and learned front the gaoler, that the
priSenerwas'in fact confined by order of the li-
nist;:r. Again he returned to the officer's house,
ss.te did not nick* him ; he saw 'his secretary,
and this latter confirmed- the informa-
r-eived from ,the gaoler. He learned, too,-
was not confined for any' crime,
because the Minister wished to have
a, place of safety, Where he could speak
Stith him. The Neapolitan was eventually re-
leasied,,by the interference 'of his English friend;
isnt'lle.-(LordL.) could not'say how long he had
been confined. Was this A stateof things to be
protected ? or were' the Neapolitans to be
treated a's:disturbers 'of general tranquillity, if
theY,Strove to get ridof it ? Anothet•reason as-
si-gnol was, that the Constitution was forced upon
the ,King that, against his will, 'he was corn-
..
p •
; elted to give his sanction-to a foreign and a Spa-
oish Constitution. With 'regard' to its -being a
Spanish Constitution, he (Lord L.) did not now,
like a Noble Friend of his (Lord Holland), on a
founer occasion, feel:himself called upon to de-
feria that Constitution. He 'would not say whe-
ther it Was, or was not, the tnoSt'fit Constitution
for Naples. He would only-say that there was
itothing extraordinary in-the Neapolitans taking
a Constitetion from a people who were of • the
sante . religion and governed by a monarch of
the same family with thetnselves. The British
Constitution they.'Could not have,. for the King
had two. years before rAitsed it in-the case-of
Sieily. , Besides, the Neapolitans had the sanc-
tion of the British for their' adoption of the
- Spanish COnStitUtion. Did not -Lord William
Bentinck, in_ 181-1, address to' them this procla-
mation, when he called upon the Italians to de-
fend their liberties; and put themselves- in the
same position that Spain then was in ? His
cords Were,: " Warriors of Italy, assert your
rights and your liberty ; call upon us, and we
hasten to your assistance, and when our
forces are-joined to yours, sve'Svill make such an
et:tart as will -again-place 'ltaly in what she was
in her best days, and what Spain is now.'' 'And
in an earlier passitge" Portugal, Spain, Sicily,
and Holland attest the liberal principles of Great
:Pritain ; Spain, by, the great-undertaking which,
with her Allies
:she "accomplished,. &c." What
• cas that undertaking, but the recovery of her
.liberty ? or what did the Noble 'Lord call upon
the Italians .to do, but to imitate the example of
Spain? And was it forgotten, that the Austrians,
who now protested against the existence of that
liberty even fot: rinhour; were then parties to, and
sanctioned the. cirCulatiOn of that Proclamation.
The
.power which the Anitrians now had, was
owing to the results of thoSe excitements to
libarty which they had 'hitherto sanction-
ed... When , war was made Upon Buona-
parte, his -attacks- 'Upon the independence,
anti interference irt.the internal affairs of nations;
was made a prominent cause: Yet the Austrians
w stit,:to war now, because some chancres had
b,stnspade in the internal government of 'Naples.
And .what Were the circumstances in which they
argued that the interference of a Foreign Power
.vos defensitile. In almOst.every possible case.
For; said the Austrian Declaration, when a Re-
, volution was brought about by a Sect--an army—
by private' meetings in a country where public
in aeliugs were not 'permitted ?—where a' Press
was, not-suffered to exist. In all these cases, the
. interference of a Foreign Power Was justifiable:
. •-Nons,swas it possible to effect a Revolution by
anY other than some of these means ? ' The Allies
certainlyhad abstract ideaS of :Reiolutions very
different from corporeal ones. Their reasoning re-
minded hira of a passage in Swift, where Marlinus
,S'crillirrus and his fellow-pupil fall to logical rea-
souingond a dispute arose as to the most abstract'
idea of a Lord MayOr
" Mar. Sergi —I think so many .tliinfzs necessary to a
Lord ,layne,.tt:at I can have no idea'of one, without a gold
sing and chitin."' . : _
" ./Npf/..4l:gri:farther, fur I cannot conceive a Lord.
Mayor if he ikas hands, eyes, nose, or legs."—(A lau01.)
S') it was with the
.Austrian. They would admit
of,s;,ltartges., but they should not be brought about
by a, sl..ct, an army, by private meetings, or in fact
, any of those means which were .indispensiWy
uecessary to such an undertaking.. 'Mien ro'o-.
. .lutions were accomplished in this way, their ab-
stract ideas of them were gone, and they thought
•• theniselves called upon to interfere and -crush
:them; Bat were they equally vigilant when li-
berty -was invaded--did they'. Interfere when
Ferdinand of Spain overturned the Spanish Con-
stitution? Were nochanges.to be permitted, but
.such as took.place at the will of an absolute Mo-
. narch ? 'Ile: was now' come to the second
• part,_ namely, what would be the probable
• consequences of the. Allies 'continuing to act
upon the principles avowed by them in their
declaration. If-Austria, failed in its attempt upon
'.Naples, then would the principles of liberty on
which the Neapolitans acted, extend themselves,
perhaps, into the very States of the Allies. If, on
the other hand,AnStria succeeded, he would ask in
what way could their power he maintained,*bUt.
,by military occupation, and would not 'that in
effect make. Naples a province.of Austria ?.The
success of despotism could' be .but 'transitory ; and
the revolutionary feeling in Spain, and in France,
had been already much existed by the progress
which had been made. In the former country,