The Sun.
London, England, 1821-03-29 00:00:00

DIED.

Lately. At Cat:►;+ the lion. Li entenant-Colucel Irhy,
of the Life Guar dc, and sun of Lord Boston.

Yeste;rday. in Aldorsgate-street, -.Sarah'," wife of Thomas
Sparks, Esq., aged 71.
On Mouday last. at Firomie). in Kent,. §lizabt:th, wife of
Mr. Ch.eyne, in the 43d yeas of Iser are.

THE LONDON JOIJR,A.LS

[DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING l'AitRS.:

The Times.]
At Pesaro, where he had resided but a short
time before he left Italy, great care had been
taken to keep from the public all news of the
movements of the army. The Austrian official ac-
counts of the affair tif 'Ceti, and the subss.quent
advance of the divisions Of Walmoden and Stut-
terheim-to Aquila, constituted their whole intel-
ligence. On arriving at Bologna, however, on
the 18th, he learnt, from authority in which he
was led to place implicit credit, the true state
of the campaign, so far as regarded the opera-
tions in that quarter. The formidable nature of
the attac& of Pepe on Walmoden's corps may
be inferred from the fact that the Austrians
sent, ou the following day, 500 wounded to
Poligno. The retreat of the Neapolitans, after
the division of Stutterbeim had been ordered up
to support that of Walmodeu, he describes
solely as a feint to draw the troops opposed to
Pepe from the main body ; and this design was
effected with so much skill, that the Neapolitans,
lost few prisoners, and carried off nearly all their
wounded. Civita Ductile fell a barren conquest
into the hands of the victors, the population re-
treating along with the army, and carrying off tine
whole of the provisions and moveables. Aquila
was also, in like manner, stripped and abandoned.
As the retreat of the Neapolitans was more rapid
than the advance of. the Austrian troops, Gene-
ral Pepe is said to have gained -un them very- con-
&Wei-M:4 : when, making a movement across the
mountains, lie effected -a junction with the.main
body of the Neapolitan army, under the com-
mand of Carascosa. There appears to be some
uncertainty whether this movement included the
whole, or enly a part of General Pepe's
division ; but we are inclined to the latter
supposition. Our informant has no doubt that
it was a preconcerted plan, agreed on between
Pepe and Carascosa. Immediately on the junc-
tion taking place, it was resolved to give battle
to the main body of the Austrian army under
Frimont, then advancing on the road to Naples.
The armies met on the high road between Val
Montone and St. Germano, on the 14th instant.
The battle was extremely long, bloody, and ob-
stinately contested, but ended in the total de-
feat of the Austrians, who fled in all directions ;
and according to the last accounts received from
the neighbourhood of the field of battle, the Nea-
politans were in full pursuit of them.
*„* The above account is stated to have been given to
The Tiute.s. of this day, by a gentler:lan just arrived, who left
Pesaro on the 17th, &Aqua Ain Ole I.9th, and Turin on
the 'Hit.

[Netil Times.]
'We have received private letters from Turin
of the 21st instant, stating, that advices had
reached that city from Florence, to the following
a:et t :—T hat the Anstrians had been completely
successful in the kingdom of Naples—that a
Counter-Revolution had there taken place in fa-
vour of King Ferdinand—that the Parliament

had been dissolved—and that the whole power of
the State had devolved to, the Prince Regent,
who had sent a deputation to the King his father,
inviting him to come and resume his authority.—
It was added that the ?Yore Neapolitan Army
had for the most part dispersed, after having
spiked their guns ; that the thrice-valiant Gen.
Pepe had suddenly disappeared from the eyes of
men, and that the heroic Duke of Campo Chiaro,
who swore to bury himself under the ruins of his
country, had declared his oath to be non-avcnu.
Now, considering the quarter from which our

letters came, we own we should be inclined to
put some confidence in them ; but for the positive
assurance of The Times, repeated day after day,
that any events of the kind here stated, are phy-
sically and morally impossible.
[Here Tke New frimes gives the sulistance of intelligence
inserted in The Old Times of Monday, Tuesday, and Wed•
nesdsv, chiefly caus4sting of unauthorised reports and cague
cotjectures.l
With such a mass of authority before us as

three 'successive numbers of The tales, how can
we venture to put any trust in letters from Turin
o Florence ? People there, being so much nearer
the scene of action, cannot of course judge with
the tekotnes; and impartiality which so strongly
mark tie Jucubrations of our learned cotewpo.
rary. True tit Js (and here lies our ho,pe), that
even The •27,,,, yt:,sterday put forth a second
Edition, expressly .to 40;_itrthliCt its first ; and to,
announce a rumour in Paris that the Austrians
had got possession of Naples! We, ourselves,
had received the same news, atan early hour, but
we did not think it becoming to pub' fish a Se-
cond Edition on the mere ground of rOmour•
Our information was dated at Paris on
Jtvitant, and it is stated that a Gend'arrne had,
broeght to the French Exchange the report in t
queatiosa, which had immediately raised the
French Funds to 77, 30.—Had we published
this, rit would not have contradicted ;in one co-
lumn-what was asserted is the adjoining column :

tit would not have rendered ridiculous all our
reasatriaigs for three days previously. But we
thougqrt it more respectful to our Readers to
await die confirmation of the statement frOcal
other q►tarters. That confirmation has now been
received : our Readers will judge of its validity :
such us it is we lay it before them ; and if we
might be allowed to advert to our former specu-
lations, we should say, that their agreement with
subsequent •advices from Italy is an additional
reason fur our giving some credit to the latter.

[ fqrniazg .Clu•onicle..]
The news from the North of Italy leads to a
confident expectation that the Austrians will
soon be compelled to retreat behind the Adige,
abandoning, all their strong places in Lom-
bardy, excepting Mantua. Milan, from which
they have deemed it prudent to remove the Vice
Regal Cour:', and every thing of value, is only
about fifteen miles from some of the Piedmontese
fortresses. There is little doubt that the Pied-
montese, as soon as they are in a condition to
do so, will enter the Milanese. That they have
not yet removed is easily accounted for. In-
deed our expectations .with respect to the Pied-
montese have been,very unreasonable. We forget
that the late Government was in the interest of
the Austrians, .that the efforts of the pepple have

hitherto been diectetl to the overthrow of flat
Government, and Ofatthey must have' tirnt;
make suitable preparationsto obtain the intrA.--
rid, in order to carry Oh hostilities -with any ad-
vantage. Letters .horn Turin state, that- the
number of experienced sous EMicicry who had ar-
rived there front France.; was so great, that 'the
Regent's means were itt'ilicient for the affording-
adeqUate-employment foir.them. It was under-
stood, however, that" a'utimber of these OfficerS
would be advantageously eittployed discip/in-
ing the militia, so that the Government would
thereby have a much greater disposable force.—
The unprepared state of the Piedmontese, and
the delay which that must occasion, will be so far
favourable to the Austrians, that it will enable
them to remove their treasures and depots, which,
korn the proximity of the Piedmontese territory,
they would not otherwise have been enabled
to do.

At a late hour last night we learnt that a Gen-
tleman arrived in town yesterday, having left
Pesaro on the 17th, Alexandria the 19th, and
Turin the 21st. Ile states, that a very decisive
battle was fought on the 13th and 14th, near
Rome, in which the Austrians were defeated,
and some of their finest regiments totally destroy-
ed ; that 30,000 of the Piedmontese had march-
ed to Mil2n, and 6000 to Piacenza, and that no
report whatever of a counter-revolution at Naples,
or of the Austrians having entered that city,
existed at Turin on the ‘2lst.—(Mid.)

{British Press.]
We know from the date of the first Austrian
bulletin that the main body of the Austrian army
under General Frimout was stationed at Fras-
cati on the 12th of this month. Now, supposiug
that the march from Frascati to Naples was wholly
unimpeded by a hostile army, it would occupy at
the least five or six days to accomplish it. An
Austrian army was never celebrated for the rapi-
dity of its movements, and it cannot be doubted
that the circumstance of its marching through an
enemy's Country, and probably in the presence of
a formidable army, under General Carrascosa,
must considerably impede its progress. The
roads, too, as we understand, were all broken up
by the Neapolitans, so that if the Austrian army
marched from Frascati on the 14th, which
must he the date of its earliest movements, it
could not he expected, supposing even that
General Carrascosa offered no opposition, or in-
terposed no difficulties, to reach Naples sooner
than the 20th or 22d of this month. If this cat-
culation be nearly correct, we must conclude
that it was at least extremely improbable that the,
_account of the capture of Naples by the Austrian
army under General Friraont, could have been'
known in Paris at five o'clock on the evening of
the 26th. The same observations -apply with
still greater force to the division of the
army which, under General " Geppert, had
entered the Abruzzi., awl which would en-
counter more serious difficulties in its march eve('
from the nature of the country itself. But sure-
ly it cannot be presumed that in either case the
Neapolitan Generals would suffer the invaders
to march upon their capital without striking 0"
blow for the independence and honour of the 4
country. The accounts from Italy are becoming
every day more pregnant with interest ; a few.
days must certainly clear up much of the obl
scurity that at present envelopes them.

[Morning Post.]
Nothing certainly could be more natural than
that the Piedmontese Revolution should excite
considerable apprehensions on the part of the
Allied Powers; and increased preparatieets bee
came the necessary consequence of apprehensions
so obviously well founded from the dream
stances of the case. From the commencement
we considered that it were absurd to hope a %vat'
of the description of the present could be ended
by compromise. As soon as the sword was
drawn, both parties threw away the scab-
bard from necessity, and total defeat or vic-
tory must be the result. A war of opi-
nion is invariably of this character, and
therefore ought, if possible, to be avoid-
ed. Whether the Allies can show a command-
ing necessity, is more than we are at present able
to determine ; but we have not the presumption
to decide directly against them ; seeing from the
recent conduct of the Piedmontese how deeply
the revolutionary spirit has worked in the mind';
of the Italians. That it was the interest Inn"
the bounden duty of the Austrian Government.
to prevent the explosion, if she could, no imPar"
tial man will deny. Whether see has takes ro-
per measures of prevention is a fair'subjec"t'of
dispute. But it would be ridiculous to say in the
face of recent events that her fears were eeagge-
rai,'d. They rested upon the clearest certainty ;
and li any blame attaches to her conduct, it i 0
that slte Accelerated a rising of the Italians/
which might
have been retarded a little time
longer. She no floubt feared the event, and hef
sitated long before site took her final resolution.
Her councils do not .neeri...` the charge of ambi•
Lion, which have been latn:ched against therm
by the partizans and apologists of revolution io
this country. Her finances are lab:. in that lion'
rishing state to tempt her to hostilhieal of a wan-
ton and selfish eharaeter; she had bled and suf-
fered too much in a former contest, to be eager to
plunge into the risks and unavoidable 6acribee3
of another. Probably the strongest wish of her
Government was peace, if it could be safe!!
maintained; and if the Ministers of the Emperor,
Francis have erred in their policy, it may be
confidently asserted that ambition was not the
motive. 'We 'strongly suspect that a parsion for
war and conquest works with much greater force
in the clubs Of the Revolutionists than in the
palaces of Kings. We also cannot chase awaYr
an intruding fear, that the cry of liberty whicit
has been raised in Italy, had its origin in $
spirit of military ascendancy ; and that it will be
followed, if not checked in time, by as pert'''.
cious effects as those which flowed from the strn-
tocracy of revolutionized France.

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