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upon us, we paid with the greatesr 'exactness, to
Prince Beauharnais, the five millions of francs
which the Government had engaged to supply to
him, it is maintained that acknowledged institu-
tions and the repose of nations are endangered !
FOrtunately the facts just related are too
notorious to be doubted, and the Cabinet of
Vienna could not even for a long time disiemble
acknowledging these facts. Therefore, in the
confidential explanations Which his Highness the
_ _

Prince de Metiernich has had with the Prince de

Cimitile, he attacked Us with other arms. Ac-
; cording to the opinion of his llighness, the Car-
bonari were the sole instigators of the events that
have happened at Naples ; they forced the
King's inclination and the majority of the nation,
.excited the army to rebellion, and proclaimed a
defective Constitution, which offers no guarantee
of stability.
" Such are, in short, the new grievances which
the Austrian Minister urges to the Prince de Ci-
mitile against our political reform. •Let uscahnly:
examine them.

" Whenever a sect or any faction .obtains 'any
concession by force, it is in the nature of things
that thit sooner or later. an-opposition is formed and
augmented, and at times .acquires even the as-
cendancy over the triumphant party. In Our,
country, on the contrary, far from perceiving
the smallest mark of discord, nothing is 'see►►.
but ayerfect u►►ison of sentiments, principles,

and desires. Unbounded attachment. to the

King, and his august dynasty, inviolable attach-
ment to the constitutional system, a resolutiOn to
defend it to: the last extremity, this is the pro-
fession of faith of all the inhabitants of the Two
Sicilies. NV-; do not except the inhabitauts,of
Palermo, whose difference of opinion arises from
_other points of a less generous interest ; with the
exception of what has taken place among them,
no violence nor the slightest re-action has dis-
turbed the tranquillity of the kingdom. The
orders of Government are respected ; justice is
impartially administered ; the taxes are paid ;
the discipline of the army is -maintained; indivi-
dual liberty, that of opinions, is full and entire ;
aria if an exaggerated zeal for the public good at
'first caused a few altercations, they soon disap-
peared at the firm and paternal voice of Govern-
ment. The elections for deputies to Parliament,
that infallible thermometer Of public opinion,
would alone suffice to prove that the nation is
animated . with one single sentiment, that of its
own welfare._ Men, distinguished for their vir-
tues, services, and talents, have been chosen from
one end of the kingdom to the other, as repre,
sentatives of the nation. No disparity of Opinion
was displayed in these selections. The best ci-
.tizens obtained the preference., Is there still
wanting an incontestible argument that it
was not
,a faction which operated our poli-
tical refOrm ? Those who were the foremost
to cry out for a new system, those,' in
short, whom report had proclaimed as the pro-
moters- of our political change, were not elected..
Can it be imagined that if a faction had brought
about this change, as it is insinuated, that 'faction
would n3t have insisted that its -chiefs should
figure atnong the representatives of the nation !
A still" stronger argument again3t the opinion
willing to be proMulgated in Europe, that the
Governthent is here at the mercy- of a faction,
eve willbring.forward from the great example of
moderation and' long amity which we have given
to civilized nations, by permitting the Austrian
legation and consulship to exercise freely 'the 1
functions in this country, whilst at the same time
our Ambassador was obliged to stop at Klagen-
furth, and our Consul was dismissed from Milan'
without the slightest ceremony, and'on the invi-
tation of the, police. Had the Government been
less strong in itself, had it been ruled by a'fac-
tion, whose passions are always impetuous, would
it have been able to restrain the' effects of the
national pride, justly irritated at such a treat-
ment ?

" As to the defects imputed by the AuStrian
Minister to the Spanish Constitution, we will in
the -first place observe, that no foreiff'n Power has
the right to call either good or bad that system
which an independent Sovereign has thought pro,
per to adopt in his own States. But if one wishes
to judge of the stability of Governments by the
institutions which direct them, it is certainly no
longer a problem in this age, to discover whe-
ther this stablility can be more "easily obtained
by the arbitrary or constitutional system. The
Charter of Spain may have its defects undoubt
edly, but its principles bear the stamp of rea-
son and of every virtue.'. The nation, more Over.
Las too great an interest to perfect its institu-
tions not to apply its. attention inrectifying any
thing it.maysuppose convenient to the forMation
of the new systern,. inasmuch as the "act 'of the
king's Proclamation left to the National:Parlia-
ment the right of propOsing any modificatithis.
The Cabinet of Vienna may rest.therefore secure'
on. this. point; for we have it; greatly at heart to
give to our system all,thestability,'snSceptible in
the undertakings, of men.„conyinced that the first
merit of a constitutional, Qovernmen(is that of
fortifying the State against the commotions occa-
sioned either through despotism or too. great,li-
betty ; and the wisdom of men recommendable
for their qualities, whom the nation ha's chosen'
as their Representatives, seconded moreover by
the rectitude and paternal sentiments of the King,
is a sure guarantee of the fulfilment Of What-we
have here advanced. _
_

" Having plainly demonstrated how perfkctly
unfounded and unjust are the wrongs imputed to
us, we will enter into the discussion of the last
argument whiCh the Austrian Minister might op-
pose, although until now it has not been brought
forward.

" There exists'in the'Treaty signed at Vienna,
on the 12t1i of June, 1815, hetween the Courts
of the TWo Sicilies and Austria, a separate article
in these terms :

" The engagements entered upon in this
Treaty by their Majesties, in prder to secure the
interior peace of Italy, imposing on them an obli-
gation to preserve their states and respective' sub-
jects from fresh re-actions and from the danger
of ithprudent innovations, which might be the

forerunners of them, it is unaerstooti by the ,high
contracting Powers, that his Majesty theAing
of. the Two Sicilies, in re-establishing, the. Go-
vernment of the kingdom, will not admit:of any
changes irreconcileable either with the ancient
monarchical institutions or with the -principles
adopted by his Imperial Majesty, for the interior
Government of his Italian provinces.' '
"The vague and ambiguous phrases of this
tide, require an explanation. It is well !wok)
that in diplomacy the literal sense of treaties is
the only one that can be depended upon. The
King, haVing conformed to_ the understanding. of
the said article at the time of the restoration-of
the-Government of Naples, has fulfilled his pro-
mise. And it is forth remarking here, that the
question rested et a mere understanding, and
not on a condition or any obligatory engagement
for an indefinite time.

" Upon NI. hat foundation, therefore, can Aus-
tria impute it as Nvrotig to the King, in having
yielded to the unanimous wish of his people who
demanded the Spanish Constitution ? However,
admitting it evenas an hypothesis, that the above
cited article was obligatory in perpetuum, it must
be proved, in order to reclaitn against its infrac-
tion, that the change operated in the form of our
Government is in opposition with Monarchical
Institutions. We will, on the contrary, maintain
that inStitutVans consolidate thrones, since they
render the persons of Sovereigns inviolable, and
guarantee the legitimacy of their rights ; but tlie
is .
question not here to discuss theoretical points.
The question is merely to prove; and we think
we have sufficiently proved it, that Austria could
not reasonably take advantage of a stipulation
which related to different epochs and to different
circumstances, in order to -justify .an opposition
to our political reform.
44 To what then can we attribute the attitude
that Austria has taken, and still daily assumes
against us? What can be the motive 'for the
augmentation, excessive as well as precipitate, of
the Austrian troops in Italy ? -As long as the
King imagined, that in taking this step, the Cabi-
net of Vienna' had in view only the maintenance
of good order and the interior tranquillity of his
Italian States, his Majesty respected the right
which every Power has of doing in its own Country
whatever may appear suitable and convenient.
But when the Court of Vienna obstinately ref&,es
to enter-into any explanation with that of the Two
Sicilies, -and to receive the Representatives and
Agents of the King; when the Emperor refuses to:re-
ply to the. confidential letters of his Majesty
when the Austrian Cabinet circulates notes among
the Allied Powers, the. Germanic Confederation,
and the 'ltalian G.overnments, against the new
order of things established in Naples ; when, in
.short the newspapers of Vienna and Milan of-
ficially promulgate sentiments hostile to us, which
a self4especting Government should never autho-
rise, the. King Would be- wanting to the sentiment
Of his own dignity, to what he owes .to the brave
and generouS nation, whose destinies haVe been
confided to him by Providence, if he showed him-
self indifferent to soinconceivable a conduct on
the part of a friendly and allied Government.
" In consequence, his Majesty has commis-
sioned the undersigned to address himself to his
Highness the Prince de Metternich, to require a
positiVe_ and' categorical explanation respecting
the intention of these extraordinary armaments,
and the attitude that • Austria has assumed to-
wards the Neapolitan Government, an attitude
as contrary. to the bonds and sentiments of friend-
' ship existing between the two Courts, as it is un,
conformable to the principles of• fraternity and
disinterestedness, which the Allied Sovereigns
have proclaimed in presence of the whole world.
- " The King, who has received so many proofs
of cordiality and attachmentifrOm his Majesty the
Emperor, his . august nephew and son-in-law,
doubts not but that the explanatory information
contained in this note, by dissipating the sinis-
trous impressions which malevolence, or the indi-
vidual passions of some enemy to the repose of
Europe, may have inspired in him., will cause him
to renounce every hostile project against a nation
which has closely admired his great virtues. For,
certainly, if any circumstance could tarnish the
splendour of those virtues, it would be the ag-
gression which Austria might meditate against
the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Posterity
would scarcely give
:credit to such an injustice,
an outrage so inimical to the rights of nations,
and the more odious, as the same Power which
would render itself guilty of such a
.crime never
Interfered in the smallest. States of Germany,
which framed constitutions to themselves, and
took no step, at least no public one, toWards
Spain, whose example we followed.
" To other motives, therefore, .must be attri-
bated the war that Austria would undertake
against a pacific nation, solely occupied with its
oWn welfare, and anxious to maintain the best
understanding with every foreign, power, and to
cement the-particular relations existing between
the Courts of Naples and Vienna..
" The high opinion which his. Majesty the
King has of the' individual qualities of his Majes-
ty the Einperor of Austria, is to him .a guaran7
tee Of•the justice and Wisdom that will preside
at his deliberations ; and he has reason to be-
lieve that he is not mistaken in thinking that
at no distant period, the Austrian govern-
ment will shake off every prejudice against us,
and that the bonds of friendship which formerly
united the two States will be again cemented for
the reciprocal advantage of both natious. But if,
unfortunately, this hope should not be realised,
the King and the whole nation being determined
to defend, to the last extremity, the independence
of the Kingdom and Constitution, which is the
palladiUm of ' our rights, and the firmest sup-
port of legitimate Monarchy, are ready to bury
themselves under the ruins of their country,
sooner than submit to a foreign yoke. The ex-
ample of the heroic resistance of the Spaniards
to the' despotism of Napoleon, would encourage
US j and the reports which the Cabinet of Vi-
enna receives from Naples are founded on truth,
it will not suppose what we here .advance to be
exaggerated.
44 The undersigned, therefore requests of his

THY SUN -4 I- 1 •

SOLEM QUIS DICERE F4LSUM AIiDE.IT?

LONDON,
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1820.

We have inserted this day a very important
State Paper, taken from The Britisih Monitor of
yesterday, relative to the situation of Naples and
the apprehended intentions of Austria. We are
not yet sufficiently apprized of the real state of
affairs in Naples, to be able duly to estimate the
views of Austria. As to the King of NAPLES,
however he may affect to concur in the neW
order of things, and to require .his nephew, the
Empepr of AUSTRIA, to do the .same, it is im-
posAle to tell what may lie his real sentiments,
and whether he may not be in the same state as
this Country would be placed in, if it were in
the hands of such men as Sir Roacirr WILSON,
HOBHOUSE, Ald. WOOD', COBBETT, WOOLER,
and such Reformers.—ln such a lamentable state
of things, if the King retained his office, how
could he be supposed to have a will of his own,
and if another State should be bound to interfere
by treaty, as is the case between Austria and
Naples ?—On the other hand, if the King of
NAPLES, reflecting on the course of the times, is
convinced that arbitrary Monarchies cannot last,
and that a Representative System is the best
foundation for the security of the Throne and
the happiness of the People, and if the Govern-
ment is conducted by wise Statesmen and real
Patriots, it would be folly and madness, as well

i

as injustice and oppression, in the Emperort:
interfere, and he• would only expose himself t
the danger of similar consequences.

We received yesterday and this morning
Paris Papers of Thursdiy and Friday I°'
•
ar\re extrActs
"lAySci*Oir. 24. lk
• " ROYAL ORDiSANCE.
Lours, &c.—The Chamber of Peers and the Cliamb'
Deputies of Departments are convoked fot the 17th dal,
the month of December of the present yeat.
Dated 24(1 November, 1820.
(Signed) LOUIS.
(Conntersigned) ' SIMEON:
" The Ring gave a pi ivate audience yesterday to the Din
of Sahn -Saha. His hlitiesty also received the Princesso,
Gall zin. • bsi
-in-,

" The Duke de Dcci es, formerly Minister of Mar--
on _ 0
Wednesday night nearly been the victim of an expl°si°o;
which blew up the teed be had just quitted, in consequence
0(
a sultH of burning:. -His valet, who threw himself out
'the-window instead of coming Whet called to the assistaoceot •
his master, and who is strongly suspected, died in the cool'
of yesterday. • V 4
" Wednesday the King held a Council.of Ministers.
Marquess' de Lauristou-took his seat at it, as Minister of t
Royal Household. et
" It is said,lt hat the christening of the Duke of I.lourde

will nut take place su soon as has been announced.

ELEcTioN OF DEPUTIES._ •
DEPARTMENTAL COLLEGES.
L'Aude—M. M. Baran: Labastide: En•Depuly, and v

-
lieu genii.
Pyr6nks Orientales-L•M . Poydavant:
Half
Hantes Pyrine.es—M. M. Fortner de Saint Lary,
Da; rit•ux, and de Clatae.
L'llvratilt—Nl. M. d'ilauteroch, and Cais6 guys.
PDo Puy de me— M: M. de Chaim'', de u, Crool, d'Aubje°
and Niollilleury.
" Baron Bergarni arrived at Paris on Monday with a Secs

tart', a valet, a chasseur, and a courier.
gat
" Letters from Rochfott, dated the 13th inst. state, -
M. Hyde de Neuville was to embark the neat day for
United States, from whence he is to proceed to the pea

as Ambassador.
" In the night of the 13th inst. a slight shock of an e!rtti'
quake was felt at Marseilles.
" Private letters speak of decisive measures'being prat—
to be taken by England with respect to Portugal. Men oalilv)
themselves well-informed, assert that an English Army
sent to That country, arid that fur the execution of this
jeet, nothing is wanted botithe formal consent of the
Portugal, which has been a,ked of hint by the English Milli
ter at Rio Janeiro.—(Journal de Paris.)
" The Court of Turin has refused to receive the Cad t
h
Pescara as Envoy (ruin Naples.

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44 VI ENNA, NOV. 12.—The conferences at Tropp,u sti;l6o‘l.

tinue; the result is not koown, hut the impulse given
Pests the spirit which presides at the deliberations of they 1y
gross; it is the same that dictated the Treaty Of the t
Alliance, and which tenders particular and isol.itert
subordinate to the great pi inciple of legitimacy, estahl'''
as the basis and the guarantee of the general
Our Coutt has assemli:ed an imposing force in order to or
pose a strong harrier to the propagation of moral contagi')l:l;
and to be ready at the first moment atter 16easures hare boor
concerted with the whet Sovereigns. If hostilities °tot
'pence, it will not be Austria alone, but the coalition t
will enter into the contest. r,

" It is said that our army in Italy is about to receive a
forcemeat of 80,000 Hien. These enewetic measures are Pfit
•
than sufficient, not only to put an en l to the Iterointio" •
Naples, but also to extinguish the Revolutionary spirit• „0,
" NAPE.' s, Nov. 7.--The Independent contains the fit or
ing article :•—‘ Our Government having been posiiirciY,r
formed that the Government of !tome has demanded "I,' ot#
tens corps of 16,000 men, to maintain trainimllity
States, has declared to that Govermornt, thar,if, in 0"1301/
of existing treaties, a foreign power infringes the nvolc-,telf
of the Roman States, the Neapolitan troops will inimedi3
pass the frontier.
It VI ENNA, Nov. 13.-.—Since the first Conferences at 1.1";,11:
pau all the branches of the War Administration hate

doubled their actNo y. •
"Au GSBU KG, v. 13.—The last ad vices from Vieno3fii3,66;
nounce positively that a Courier had been expedited op
Troppau fur Naples, with the ultimatum of Austria, Pr Us
and Russia.

" TaoreAu, No. 1. is current repot tei. key.
the name of the Congres
s of—tt Troppau, anly ultimatum has "-to
sent to the King of Naples, and that iirm the an,wtq. ;,''
this ultimatum depends t he ulterior decision of the Cougres"

We see by Mr. K EPPEL CRAVEN'S letter to the
Earl of LIVERPOOL, in which< by the way he 051'5
a style of authority as if he acted from himse
rather than by deputation, that her MAJ°-
to
has refused the pecuniary allowance offered "
.her till a suitable establishment can be made I°r
her under all the circumstances of her case.'"
That.her evil counsellors, who partly live oil
her, should have advised this rejection, is sornewhil
extraordinary, but she will find it very
nient ; for she may he assured that such frieot.
as immediately surround her will act upon the
o
principle of" no longer pipe, no longer dance',,
and that in. turn they will vanish into " thin air.

The Times of this day entreats " the Pub,
to read the Psalms for the 'day "Von Wednesqo
next, and says, " Can such a coincidence be t
effect of chance ? Ts it the ordination of Pao r,
DENCE or the arrangement of human desigll,e
While every body must be shocked at th`'iv
blasphemous queries, the latter question is cas's
answered, for it is Well known that Sunday ''oa
the day first chosen for the visit to St. Paul
the
therefore it is obvious that the change was

arrangement of human design."
without
It has been reported, but we hope
truth, that after a late Meeting at Southwa's,
broke up, and before the company had disPeirag
ed, certain Military Officer said 'c he woul``ls
soon head an army for THE QUEEN as for VI,
KING." If it could be proved that the person ''lllo
luded to really uttered these words, it wouldl•e,
strange timidity indeed which suffered him t 0
main a moment longer iu the army,

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