The Sun.
London, England, 1821-01-01 00:00:00

[The Times.]

An article, dated Bet lin, Dec. 19, which appears to come
from an official source, ought not to be passed over unnoticed.
The authorised writer undertakes to assert, that no idea was
ever entertained at Trappau of negotiating with " the party
prevailing at Naples" to change the new order of things. Now
the party prevailing is the Neapolitan- nation and
.though
true, it is'.not decent to -acknowledge that a whole nation has
been condemned unheard, andrumarked- out for punishment
Without eieti -the form of a trial. As a reason. for this enor-
mous act of tyranny, it is said that to hegociate with the'
Neapolitans would be to recognize the .` legality' uf an insur-
rection, time instigators of which were a secret political sect,
and its instrument the army.," But must not every change of
government, or reform of almoses, be brought about by the
opinions of one in' more sects, acting upon the will of whatever
body of citizens may hare pincer enough in their bands to of
.feet the required reformation ? Suppose the standing army at
Naples had taken part with the Court, and that both had been
put down by the people,would not the Allied Sotereigns have
exeLeimrd still more violently than they now do, against the
unnatural rebels who had attacked the king's faithful troops,
awl overturned the Monarchy by force of arm, ? It is a just
and striking proposition, that a %stride " nation never can re-
bel;" and the hest proof that the great body of the Neapolitan
pation was n party to the- rCroini•Of the inona,rchy, is, that
the army, the poi lion of•tlie community most closely wedded
to the Court, 'became one to,:ving and paysetful. engine for
advancing time cause of liberty. Time assistance of time
troops, indeed, is in itself alone so clear A demonstration of
the moral necessity of the Iterolution, that we are surprised
haw the politicians of 'l"rnppau conk, be indiscreet enough •
to advert. to such a fact in their search for arguments on
which to
,justify their hostility to • NapleS:' -The article,
however, -grows still worse as it proceeds. •We are plainly
told that the " monarchical principle, rejects every .institu-
tion which is not determitted upon and . accompanied by
the monarch himself, of his own free Why, then,
we say farewell to hUman liberty fur ever---radieu to all pros-
pect of tine anielioratiatt of maim 'in 'society I._ to- star•chant•
tiers; ()asides, imitmisitiolis, and tortures-=-riat peritetua !--ft
" the Wee will" of an absolute Nlonarcia be necessary to Jr.
galize tfie freedom of•his suhject iamposaible they-.ever
should he free. By the very couttitutiop of the mind of man, •
Le who has power is resolute .to hold; and eager to:extend it.
No king, no man .(tlic .exceptlions are. such as ;but- make the
ipi ncipte. more obvious), has ever Shared with (ahem s aprero-
gative tit-other polit.LarlilisitssiUrm ss hich he had the ability to
claims undivided. notiming
the House of flonr.ltoai, ...;whe•th.et7 Atm P'sariceaar Spain, though
theformS of a spontaneous sacrifice, pkye,pp
which it calculated on being able to sirthltbl&''`Geiirgethe
1;1., a just and well disposed Monarch, 'but a man nut ex,
eumpt from human weakness, exhibited nothing like " free
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