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FRIDAY, MA RC A-4 16, 1821.

iIE LONDON JOUUNALS.

OAILY EXTRACTS FlkOAl 'FLI MGRNIN:3 PAPER:i

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The Court.of Prussia, it is *lid, has deli'ired
• a note of adhesion. to the Austri!ht Declaration.
We regret that some of the principles in thafDc--
claration should have been of to*a questiointble:
a nature. to commandunivet sal approbation : but
that Austria and Prussia are both instilled in
re-
sisting the revolutionary faction, cannot. be douht-
ed by any ofie-whO admits that' Governments
possess the general righf_of self-:preservation.
The faction, we repeat it, is at work to. ov,er-
turn everyGoyernment in Europe ;
,and its local
and temporary 'success at Naples only serves to
peon:pt it to more daritvo,ertiolis every. where
There is little duatt bvittat its contorn-
poraneous ,movements ptzrts of 'Ow-.
world last year, were instigated by t;,e, hope of,
a convulsion in this country, whicf: to strangers
must then have appeared highly probable..
we thus frankly state our seatiments the'dange.r
to be apprOiended' from rebellions• like that Of
Naples, let us not be supposed hostile to the
adoption of a RepresentatiVe Government ty that
country. "On- the contrary, we slibnld regard
such an Institution as highly desirable, if it were
founded on, wise and salutary principles ; but
those principles, which even in England are so
frequently mistaken and .misrepresented, appear
to be utterly beyond the comprehension of the.
Continental Revolutionists. The Spanish Con-
stitution, which they offer as a boon to tlu- Ita-
lian States, to tempt then to insurrection-, is a
maSs'of absurdity and impractica-bility, fit • only
for absolute madmen. We fee what its fruits are
in Spain itself, where the treatment which the
Constitutional King daily experien ceS'ii,ould dis-
grace a horde of barbarians ; and; where, from
one end, of the kingdom .to the other, within.; is
to be met with but misery, oppression, and the
rapid approaches of civil war.

[British Pres.s.ll,
We noticed yesterday the probability that the
German troops employed by the Cabinet of
Vienna to-crush the infant liberties of --Naples,
and prevent the gromith of liberal principles in
Europe, might evince some unwillingness to be
made the instruments of such an atrocious purpose;
We look upon it as a reniarkable corroboration of
our Aus-
trian i
inions upon this subject, that " several
Officers have- passed through Milan under
o'
strict arrest and bound, on account," says The
Constittdionnel,". as it not doo4rtetif-ocopiniw,is-
which they have manifested." 13y the opinions
here noticed must of course be understood opinions
hostile to the principle •on which this war of
aggression is conducted ; arid should :such. opi-
nions, become the tlwrne of conversation among-
the officers, who can in that-the inferior sol-
diers are free from the like impressions ? We.
entertain a sanguine hope that this crusade
against Naples, which. was meant to extinguish
for ever the light of freedom in I taffy, will .have
the effect of promoting• and extending its intla-
(lice not in Italy alone, but also in German
v.—
The attitude of defiance assumed by Naples has
excited iii every •generous mind-throughout Eu-•
rope an ardent feeling of respect and-sympathy,
and cannot. fail of. inspiring- every nation not 3-et.:
blessed with fj-eedorn with the resolution of
bursting the chains of shivery. - The Austrian
and Prussian .Cabinets Might perhaps at no great
distance of time find employment enough for
their .ivisdom- and power nearer home, in endea-
vours tocheck the march of freedom,- and should
their embarras'sments• eventually Provc
greater
than their means to controul:thein, they will have
the.cOn;:olation-to think that their outrage against
Naples was the origin' of their dilliculties.

[Morning Deraidi
There is something.dramatic in the march of
affairs between Austria and Naples. The pro-
ceedings, from the opening of the Congress at
Troppau, have been successively varied by new
views, or retarded or accelerated by new intl..
dents, until at length the denouement approaches
ineyitahly and, .ns• in the contlict of mimic
passions and interests, no bile can anticipate.
for whom fate or fortune will deCide.• We have
,accounts from Italy in the Paris papers of Mon-,
day, and by two expresses. received yesterday.
—One of these brought the Con.yiliutionnel 'of
Tuesday. This Journal states, that an .affair
of om-posts took place in which Gee. Pepe dis-
persed, with grrat loss, a regiment of Hungarian
Cavalry—that General Frimont was waiting on
the defensive for the arrival of a force of• reserve
from Milan—that insurrection had actually bro-
ken out in the marches--and that the rest of Italy
was in, a ferment----that a conspiracy to establish
a constitution in Piedmont, and revolutionize
Loritbardy, with Prince Carignan (of the Royal
Family) at its head, .was discovered at Turin-L-
-that the Deputy Borelli proposed In the Parlia-
ment of Naples to vest -in the Prince liegent
conjontly, with ':fight persons possessing, the con-
fidence of the nation, a Dictatorship—and lastly,
that embarrassment and confusion had been.
caused at /4yhach by the presentation or a note
front the British Minister. respecting the war. in
Italy.
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[-The Public Led(rer.]

It will be seen, by our Report of the proCeed-
ings in the Howes of Commons past night, that
Sir R. Fergunon called the'.attention of. the
House to what he described as a Breach of Pri-
vilege, arising out of some obervations in a Morn-
ing Paper, alluding to the Member for Appleby.
Sorrle.eonversation passed". on the Subject,. but the
ptUara General' cont:oited IliillSCli with calling

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the attention of the House to .the paragraph,
without moving any thing upon..it. Mr. James
afterwards brought ftirWard his motion for refer-
ring,the Petition of-certain Inhabitants of Carl-
isle, complaining of the conduct of certain Ma-
gistrates, for calling in the: Military.at the late
Election, to a,Committee of Privileges:

• [MOrniizg Chronicle.]
•
Hpon --no question '(on Nth i It Ministers are
unattininus)has the sense of the House of Com=
mons been emphatically pronounced as on that
of the Artily 'ltet!uctitins. It is not merely from
tie lists of the_ Majority and Minority that
thisijitidgment appears, but from an enumeration
of. the frieta3 of Ministry who absented them-
Seive,ton the occasion.' Every one of their regular
-supportersi, who declined to vote for the enor-
mous Military, Establishmela proposed by the-Se-
cretary-at Wa-r,nuiy he,presum,ed to coesider it as
unnecessary, and coilsequently as wasteful: The
people tt large so consider it, and we trust that even
yet, n the .1321 lies several stageS to go, through,
that the amount will be diminished: It is maid-
feat into, that by the repeal or modification of the
Enlistment Act, an oDportunity might be given to
many Gallant Officers, who are now languishing
in idleness, and n ho'are cut oil' even from hope,
to pursue their profession in a way congenial
to the feelings of every liberal EngliShinat, and
'chide might gise a temporary relief to the Half-
Pay List. In the course of the discussions On the
A nay Estimates, many valuable hints of retrencS-,
,inent have been given, and which we trust will
net be Inst upon Ministers. We are aware; that
the holding of Gibraltar is considered by Many
as a feather in the cap_of Great I&nitain ; but is
it any thing now besides a feather, except as
the 'weight a its expellee ? This is 'a time when
we ought to divest ourselves of mere- ornaments ;
and there is no doubt but that Gibraltar might
be made the considerition for a valuable equiva-
lent-either in the Eastern or Western World, by
-which our Commerce might derive the most solid
advantages.

[The Times.]
The concessions intended to be made t,o. the
Roman Catholics are now, we find, divided into
two Bill.S;•Of which, one -prevides for the re-
moval of the disqualifications under which they
.labour; kiie.other regulates the intercourse be-
tween_ the priests of the Catholic persuasion and
the See of Itorne. Under this latter Bill there
is to be a large apparatus of Commissionessi,
who are -to examine such correspsndeAce,
may actually exist: an oath also is :to be
taken by those entering Holy Orders, that they
will have no corrununication with the Pope or:
See of Rothe, tending to disturb the PrOtestant
Government. The other Bill removes the de-
claration agains-t transubstantiation, and affixes to
the oath of supremacy
,an interpretation that no
foreign Prince,Prelate, Sze., ha th any jurisdiction,
power, or supremacy, " that interferes with the
duty 'of undivided allegiance." Alas! the poor
Pope ! lie does jillOW, no -.doubt, that there is a
rout made about' his supposed 'influence in Ire-
lan.d :else, if he were to reason from his
own consciousness of any power that he pos-
sesses in the sister kingdom, :against the will
:of. the Church there established, he could not be
more surprised at an Act of Parliament that for-
bad the Irish to feed his Holiness-on ambrosia,
and giVe him nectar or ttep-uithe to drink. Upon
the very subject of this Catholic emancipation,
the Irish swore they would have a Pope; their
religion would be nothing without one; and al
the same lime- they tin-Doped him when he pre;
tendert:l4o interferes and inform them what secu-
rity that religion, of which he is the head, might
give to a Protestant Establishment.

[Morning Post.]
A vigilant and fair Opposition isabsOlutely ne-
cessary to the welfare of the Country... It is a
' sentinel 'who gives warning: as soon as the least
danger approaches the Constitution, or as
soon as a. wrong or a. weak -measure is enter-
tained" by the. Government. It keeps the Ad-
ministration continually on the alert, and affords
'a guarantee in nearly every instance that the af-
fairs of the Public will be managed .wiselY and
hohestly.• A high-minded Minister would. rejoice
al his conduct subjected to such a censor-
shif), for he has no motiv;.• to shroud it' in dark-
ness, and the most agreeable reward of his la-
borious exertions is the upright' udgment that
is pasSed upon them. But a dishonest Oppo-
siti6n is ' one of the greatest evils that can
happen in a tree country. Its sole :object is to
embarrass the Government, and make it odious;
to misrepresent it when it has_done right, and to
refuse it credit a single good motive or a
single good act. It renders the great body
of.the people indifferent to their true interests,
and,encourages • them. to pursue the shadow in-
stead of the Substance. It warps their judg-
ments, jjerverts their feelings, and makes them
'estimate things not by their utility, but as
they minister to. their passions. We leave the
Render to determine for himself under which
of these tWo heads thk. present Opposition de-
serves to he- nriked ; and shall merely mention a
few. circumstances to assist him, in forming.
judgment. AVhenever the public expenditnre is
made a subject of discussion, the Opposition, ge-
nerally speaking: encourage 'a belief that agreat
reduction might .be safe lyinatle, and .suddenly
though they know well that the idea is a delusive
one. Another of their man crovres is, to declaim-
incesSantly upon the *e-ight of the'public burde.ns
I when they know :it to .be unavoidable, and
I'yend the power of ,Imman wisdom to alleviate it
rte: public -are:thus taught to be,
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nee tint they are wantonly-li.udetti.,d, and •t,L?
sulf:!7ing- portion of.: the co:rin-tunity are.lLtl !co
ascribe tli'eir.,clistie.F.'S entirely to the extraragan: ce
and iosensibillty of t earovernment.