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London, England, 1815-04-25 00:00:00

Dural PAPERS►

VIENNA, APRIL IS.
ARMY REPORT.

By official accounts from Rome and Milan, the'
gof Naples. after the free passage through the
Roman territories was refused him, violently entered
the Pope's dominions on the 22d of March, at the
same time he marched with his main force from the
marches to the Uganons, and on the 30th began li.is-
tilitio by attacking the imperial posts at Cesena.—
ciorel Gavenda, of the Prince Regent's Hussars,
orjoej, in case of attack, not to engage in any
cLrion: action, and therefore retired to his position of
lice.
B ti-on Frimont, one to whom the Emperor has
Fivoo the chief command of his Italian army, is col.
lecti .1; it between Canal Maggiore and Piadena (here
1,,11,m, die account of the action with Field-Marshal
already published).
Aiter the battle, General Bianchi, according to
„lees, took his position behind the Canal of Ben-
aild on the tete-de punt of Burgaforte, on
APRII. 16.
A 01.11 in of 10,44ki Hanoverians has passed
within a few days, on their march to

IMUSSELS. APRIL 19.
L ar.l WA;itigcon„ with his torincipal Aid-d ••Camp,
is ir .3.• t,, iii3pecL ilia frontiers. On his way through
A conference with Lotiii XVIII.
t ;le Minlilltd the works which ire thrown up
t..,„ lit:t .o much :0 fortify that city as to
•t tt hom a su.lden data. The castle is already
vered by htrorr.! baiteries, and the works on the
tho to Ale far advanced. Lurd Wel.
pro,:cc.,i,d then to Ostend, on his way to
Fla Ypres. Cambray, Mons, avid Char.
.tween .it ard Bruges he met some Egg-
with a large trAin of artillery, amma-
-6,;":, hid' were landed At Ostend, and were
tloceediiig by forced marches to Cambray. The
Frrncit ate collating in two points. The most nu-
men its c,srp; i, nett Lille, the other between. Man.
bog and VAletirennes.
It is ipiiserved that the French are endeavouring to
1-c
-establish the camp of Jim is', near Valenciennes,
a- well as the camp of Celia, near Boucham, they

raising nu on the RiountAin of Augni.
The puke ~f Weilington is incessantly busied in
c..;A:iising the dilfcrent corps oi• his army, which,
~n mired, will amount to 160,0(X) me•n.
The correspondence between the Court of Vienna
cl the Ri ig of France is extremely active.

THE EVENING sTitt. •

11,0 N 1)ON.

TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1815.
Sr. MA ax.—Holiday at the Bank.
Last night, at a late hour, a Dutch Mail arrived,
contents of which, taken along with the Frock-
' aim of the King of PAUSSIA to his subjects, laid
},fore our Readers yesterday, and the movements of
II the Powers win to decide the question of war as
;ow determined. On Wednesday, the 12th inst. was
..blishedat Vienna the following
DECIAWATICM 01","/A -
BY THE EMPEROR OF Auinti4 AGAINST THE
KING OF NAPLES
FROM THU VICNRA COURT GAZETTE.
a. Ytenn2, Aiirl 12.
" After the campaign of 1812, the King of Naples
,•ft the French army in which he had Commanded a
.r: s. He had scarcely arrived in his capital, when
caused overtures to bc made to the Austrian Court
i-,pecting his intention of combining his future politi-
c ,1 proce:dings with those of the Austrian Cabinet.
S'ottly after the campaign of 1813 commenced, on
the first appearance of a favourable prospect for Na.
}Aeon, King Joachim left Naples, and again took a
command in the French army, at the same time he
privately proposed to the Atiattian Cabinet his medi-
ation between the Allies and the French Emperor.
The glorious 18th of October decided the tall 9f the
French Empire; the King returned to hie donlinimser
end immediately renewed the orguciations that bad
been broken off respecting his accession to the Euro-
;lan Alliance. He caused his army to advance, and
proposed to Muria the partition of Italy. The l'o
Tas to be the limit of the two states. Some months
c;apsed in coatinued negoeiaticns with the Allies
oa in a no less frequent correspondence with the
e;:rnmander in Chief of the French Italian \nrinT--
'ilie Neapolitan army did not side with either party
;:itlier meld count upon it; but neither bad to com-
bat it. For Austria this state of things was the lea ,t
do:rime:l:Al. it could direct its chief force against
the common enemy. without attending to Italy.
" On the 11th of January, 1814 y the Treaty be.
tween Naples and Austria was at length signed. yet
the N:apolitan army remained long inactive, under
tae pretext that the indications were cot yet az-
e!langtci. Written proofs which fell into the hands
of the Allies left no doubt that the King's secret con-
rections with the enemy still continued. They shewed
chiefly hi; intentions of decoying the French Empe-
ror, respecting the accession of the King to the Al-
liance of the powers which had already taken place.
The victories obtained in France itself decided the
ate of the King. Paris was in the hands of the allies,
and the Neapolitan army began its campaign ;—the
aivention of the I lilt of April, 1814, had ended the
War again* Napoleon ; the negociatioes at Paris
Led the reciprocal relations between France and its
I.lte enemies ; all the armies began their retreat ; the
Neapolitans retired into the Papal Marches, to which
tlic King pretended by the treaty of the 11th April.
(S!‘nuld this be January 11 ?) Therelations between
all the powers to be fixed at the Congress at Vienna.
The branci.es of the House of Euurbon . declared
I•inst the recognition of King JOACININ / the situa-

edit of tly latter etas yet MuclAhange a by the retarq
of the ancient Royal Family to the thrones of France
and Npain. An equitable policy could not but pre-
scribe to hint to limit his future views solely to the
reclaiming one of the finest kingdoms in the' world,
and wholly to renounce all conquests, and the more
since conquests could not be made but at the expense
of a neighbour, who in a military point of view was
wholly inoffensive, and in a political point of view of
the highest importance. Moderation and good faith
are words without meaning in the eyes of the Princes,
of the new French dynasty. King Joachim, however,
instead of thinking on maintaining himself, formed
in silence extensive projects for the future. He pre-
pared the execution of them by taking advantage of
all the elements of a political and military revolution:
none of his plans nor of his movements escaped the
Austrian Cabinet. This was not the way to bring
over to his side the opinion of the Courts who opposed
the admission of the King of Naples to a place
among the Sovereigns of Europe. As the burden of
the military exertions was too great for the kingdom
to bear, the King resolved to take more decisive
steps. In the course of the month of February he ex-
pressed his design of sending an army to France, for
which end he required nothing less than the passage
through Middle and Upper Italy. Such a strange
proposal was rejected with a suitable reproof.
44 O.* the 25th and 26th of February, 1815, his
Imperial Majesty sent declarations to the French and
Neapolitan Governments, announcing his irrevocable
det.:rmination never to allow the tranquillity of
Middle aitd Upper Italy to be endangered by the
marching in or passage of foreign troops. His Im-
perial Majesty gave orders for the march of a large
reinforcement of troops to his Italian dominions, to
supeort his declaration ; this declaration of Austria
was answered ou the part of France with the assurance
:I!itt the King had no such intention. King Joachim
kept his declaration back ; the discovery of his real'
views was not yet come. On the sth of March, the
news of Nap:denies escape arrived at Naples. The
King immediately sent for his Imperial Majesty's
Ambassador, and declared to him that he was and
should still remain inviolably faithful to the system of
the alliance ; he renewed the same declarations to the
Cabinets of Austria and England, at the same time
he sent his Aide-de-Camp, Count de Beaufremont,
to FranCe, with the commission to look for Bona-
parte, and to assure him of his support. Scarcely was
the news of Napoleon's entry into Lyons received at
Naples, when the King formally declared to the
Court of Rome—' That &considered the cause of Naito-
leon as hit own, and would now prove to him that it had
never been foreign to him.' He required at the same
time a passage through the Roman states for two of
his divisions, which, however, fir from acting in an
hostile manner, should nut disturb the Holy Father
in his capital ; the Pope protested against this viola-
tion of his unitary, asii whey it took.plaras.l4ll4-
ness left Rome and repaired to Florence.

44 On the Bth of April the Neapolitan Plenipoten- I
tiaries at Vienna delivered a Note to the Cabinet,
which, with assurances of the mod friendly sentiments
of their master, and of his unalterable wish never to
separate from Austria, announced that his Majesty
saw himself forced, by the altered state of things, and
for his own safety, and in agreement with the military
measures which all the Powers thought it necessary
in take, to give likewise to his military force a greater
developement. This developement should however
be within the line of demarkation which was fixed for
the Neapolitan army, by the armistice of 1813.
Meanwhile the Neapolitan army, without any fur-
ther declaration, began on the 30th of March, hosti-
lities against the Austrian posts in the Uganons.
•, His Majesty the Emperor and King, confiding
is the perfect justice of his cause, and relying on the
valour of his army, on the tried loyalty of his people,
, and in his immediate communication with all the
Powers in Europe, has caused it to be signified to
the Neapolitan Government, by an official note,
dated the 10th instant, that his Imperial Majesty con-
siders the state of war between the two States as
begun, and leaves the farther decision to the force of
his arms."

From the particulars stated in the Declaration of
FRANCIS it is impossible to deny that, whatever
causes of complaint Mona? may have had against
the Allies, or any of them, for their slowness in ac-
knowledging his Sovereignty, his conduct has fur.
dished at least equal cause for complaint to • the Al-
lies, and more particularly to Austria. It is certainly
reident that the Ku of NAPLIS has been guilty
of Much duplicity ; nor were the Allies, as it now ap.
pears ignorant of his proceedings : and with such
knowledge k would have been strange had they bear
hasty to meet his wishes, and thus to extend his
means for perpetrating evil. From the moment it
was known that he had notified to the Court of Rome,
"That ht considereel the awe of NAPOLEON al his owe,
and tosuld now prove to him that it had never ken fortify;
to him," it beehive impossible that the Allies could
place any faith in his professions of attachment to die
common cause.
We have given in the preceding column sow
other extracts from the Papers brought by the Dinah
Mail. We have also inserted some extracts from the
Ist and 2d Numbers of a new Paper entitled the
Journal Universe!, published at Ghent under the au-
thority of Louts XVIII. The rime Papers inform
us, that the Kino has with him three of his Ministers,

be Duke of FEAT!, Count BLACAS, and Count stiu-
COURT. :His Majesty lately called to his councils
Count LALLEY TOLLENDAC, and M. de CHATEAU-
IiftIAND. The Dukes of RAGUSA and BELLEW, a►e
also at Ghertt. The Kreo's health is quite re-esta-
bl:shed. Part of the household troops are at Alobr,
under the Duke of Brm.

No Paris Papers arrived either yesterday or to-day,
tun come private letters have reached town, which
concur in stating that the French metropolis never
displayed more gaiety than at present. Various re.
ports are circulated. respecting the Constitution which
has been promised to France as the result of the cx.
petted Champ de Mai. If we may credit the reports
circulated, the Republican party will be gratified
by the adoption of some name for the head of
the government less offensive to them than that
of either Emperor or King. At ail events the
Sovereignty is to be limited. It is said that
when BONAPARTE entered Paris and saw CAN-
NOT, who was the first person he sent for, he ad-
dressed him thus t... 46 You are the only man who told
me the truth before my reverses."—,, Sire," rep Ned
CA.RNOT, " do you wish I should continue to speak
the truth ?"..46 I require Well, Sire, France
'will and mutt have a free Constitution."—" I will
give k to her : I am determined she shall have it."—
Such is the dialogue which is said to have passed be-
tween these two extraordinary men ; the one a repub-
lican, who never unbent the rigidity of his principles,
and the other a man who, after having rioted in the
fullness of arbitrary power, and brought even Mo-
narchs and nations to obey his mandates, now art.
fully professes to strip himself of his restored autho-
rity, to revive and consolidate the rights and liberties
of bis people, of which his whole political life proves
him to be the greatest enemy.

It will be seen from the proceedings ip the House
of Peers last night that, as we stated on a former oc-
casion, the copy of the Treaty of Vienna, of the
25th ultimo, which has appeared, is substantially in-
correct only in the clause threatening the adhe-
rents and supporters of BONAPARTS with exemplary
vengeance.

The Alien Bill again came on in the House of
Commons, and the Report will be brought up this
day. We are rather surprised that any objections
should have been urged against this Bill. Those who
do so would be the first to complain should the pub-
lic suffer any evil from the great influx of foreigners.
If Ministers shall abuse the power committed to them
they are responsible, but to make them answeubJe
for the public safety without arming them with proper
power would be unreasonable.