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to h me s line ton thrtsogh 41trir territory beyond'
which their settlements should fur ever& precluded.
from extending, thereby arresting the natural growth
of their popui ain't arid strength t elicilig the
dianti tubstantialty, by virtue of the prnposed gua-
rantee, under the rote! (inn of Great Britain, &Aim-
ing them to perpetual harbArism, and leaiing an ex-
tensive frontier for ever exposed to their savage in-.
cursions." (To lc continued.)
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IMPORTANT STAFE PAPER.

THE CASE OF KING JOACHIM OF NAPLES.
FROM 1 GE AUGSBURG OARRTTL, JAR so.
MEMORIAL.
(AS PURLISULD IN TYE ALLGENIKINIC itrateNn.)
Kinin. Ute. Y 7, isi4.
" Before the prorogation of( tire British) Pai lia mem
Mr. Whitbread introduced some discussions on the
connections of England with Sicily and Naples, and
there is no doubt of their being the subject of fresh
debates when it opens again. For this,reason, and
also for the better understanding of the future deci-
sion of the Vienna Congress on this subject, we think
it of use to relate, from good sources of information,
how Joachim, King of Naples, first formed his con-
nection with Austna, and through this with the bther
Powers.
" As early as March, 1813, King Joachim began
his first negociations at Vienna, by his Minister the
Duke of St. Angelo. He had been irritated by the
well.known article in the which placed him
below the Viceroy of Italy. These negisciations "did
not proceed with any degree of activity, tillihe month
of June, when the King of N :ales substituted for the
Duke of St. Angelo, Prince Cariati, and Mr. Sche-
nina, Marqui.. of St. Elia.
44 At the rime that the Emperor of Austria was at
Opotcchina and Gitschen in 13ohemia' the negocia-
tions were again at a stand, and the Austrian Go
vestment once suffered forty-six days to pass with-
out answering a line to the pressing representa-
tions of its Minister at the Court of Naples, Count
Mier, or to the Notes of the two Ministers above.
mentioned. At last, after Austria had decidedly
joined the Allies, Prince Metternich gave Count Mier
instructions in cyphers to conclude a treaty. These
dispatches were delivered to the Neapolitan Plenipo-
, tentiaries, to send thefts by a courier of that nation;
it being feared that an Austrian courier might be
stopped by the French in the north of Italy. Mr.
Cariati's courier passed, as had been agreed on,
through Munich, to get there new passports. But
Mr. De C irracciolo, the Neapolaan Minister at the
Court of Bavaria, detained him sixteen hour: for his
.own correspondence, so that he did not reach Naples
till the 21 of August, where he misse.l King Joachim,
who had left it on the M. .1 his Prince, who had
been above a month without lieu's from Vienna,
thought himself betrayed or neglected, and had taken
the only step which was left him, that of throwing"
himself into the arprs of the Emperor (f France.
4, lie had received, a short time before, a letter;
from Napoleon, inviting him in very pressing terms
to repair tp-hiar at 'his head quarters at Dresden ;
6 probably; ('said he) to celebrate the festival ail peace,
rather than assist him it continuingahe war ; tuarhe
hid the more need of his counsel and assistance, as the
Viceroy was far from him, awl death had deprived
him of two .faithful friends, nurse and B2ssicres. He
Was sensible tie was in want of-peace, his army being;
disorganized, the finances of France in a bad colds:
tioo, and age, which had increased his corpulericy,
rendering him less fit for war than he had beemPft.:,
Scarcely had King Joachim arrived at-Dresden, w
on of his Plenipotentiaries to Austrbit who suspected 1
that the courier had been dulayed,*repaired to him I
from Prague, to communicate lohififthitonients'ef
ilea dispatch es sent to Count Mier. • The Kingsicrbe
sum of their authenticity, demanded a copy.
44 It was sent him from Prague, and the Austrian
Secretary of Legation, who.had accompanied Count
Buena to Napoleon, had orders to decypher it to the
King of Naples; but the Armistice' drawing to a
close, the Secretary had, out of precaution, delivered'
the Cypher to General Bubna, on his departwesitom
Dresden, and thus the instruction remained hid in
obscurity—a circumstance which gave rise to fresh
Suspicions, and which only the mcst solemn assurances
lafthe Neapolitan Plenipatentiary were able to dispel.
[v.
anen the King of Naples did not let his aroopsioin'
the French army ; bat not being able himsel • to
leave it, he remained with Napoleon till the battle
of Leipsic.
44 On the 21st of October, King Joachim wrote to
Bonaparte that he wits going to return to his elatni-
nions ; and he, in fact, set out on the same day.--
biapoleon, in his answer, made him some reproaches
on this account, and Warned him at the same time,
not to listen to an proposals on the parr of Austria.
" On thellai.ia May there appeared at Naples
in ordinance in favour of the English commerce.
The King authorised Prince Cariati, whom the Aus.
trian Cabinet bad commissioned to engage him to!
/take part in.this war against France, to negociate for
ahis purpose with the coalition. At the • sante time
he sent the Marquis of St. Elia to Sicily to Lord W;
ilreatintk, to enter into negoeiatieov with England;
but this last. psis produced no effect. {Wile (bra was
, passing, Prince tsletternich proposed to,King Joirrehig
to negociate 4t the,sarne time w 0 Austria and gog.
land, Lord Aberdeen having powers from his Cowl
to this pur_p_ose. While the nectstary idatrectionswire
,giving at Naples to Prince Carlini,- Crittut Nuppag
arrived at that city pa the.3oll:llec. 1813. :00 Ole
11th Jan.,10.14.. the 44%0 Naples .signed. by
ethe
mediatiOn of °attire Supperpat Naples, a Treats of
Alliance with Austria, •by which that Power guaran-
tees to King
.Joachim tfie sovereignty of his kingdom,
and proldseS him the same guarantee froni the other
Powers, as well as Ferdinand the Fourth's renuncias.
don of his Oghts to Naples.
" The same. Treaty promisetto King Joachim an
increase of territory sufficient to give e good military
frontier to his kingdom. General NuPperg commu-
nicated this treaty *to Lord; lifjlliant Bentinek,' teho
repaired in persim to Natalliklind concluded there,
February 3, 1814, an ai.ce with • the Duke de
Gallo, Minis* for Foreign Affairs. This Cararen-
ticip ,stipeulaates, that . hostilities shall cease b.:tavern
Great Britain and' Naples, and that the commercial
relations between the two States .and their sntiecta
shall be mestablished. It was at the same time re-
Wied; that the Gager:Us of the Austrian, „English,
and Keg; . 144 *fillies sli4uld.form in concert at plan
•
of ,h.acct.tdibi to which their united tansies
'lliad lit 'ln Italy Thrtheiithe cause. On diskt3d

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of imultiey. itiaehlns set et* loin hie
inner deteihmenti•ot • which hid elrestelYiseguit
siege of Civita Vecchia and the CestMof St. Angeln,
and on the 7th .et February Gener tl 144eent cone'
chided a Military convention with the Neapolitan
General Leyron.
44 About the same time. the King of Nep'et was in.
fawned by the Austrian Cabinet that it bad nil rati-
fied the Treaty concleided With him J ulnas yi 1, Ifit 1.,
because Lord Castlereagh, after having deliberately
etemined it, had merle with his '.ti n hand ch inges
and additions. that the Engil di Government final t
make no &Acuity ;three xereeing to it. The stih-
stance of these changes was, I st. Joachim was to re-
nounce all his pretensions to Sicily, and co-operate in
securing to the reigning Dynasty the pesses.irsn of
that country, and iu procurina it an indemnity for the
kingdom of Waoles, 2J. That the augmentation f
territory for N sides was to be reetileted for a pornil.i.
tiers of 400,000 persons, and he taken from the Rv-
man States. The Aristri in Cabinet tutlier l,r, d
on this occasion to that of Naples, that these ch Inv s
were to be discussed in -concert with the Min:sters of
Russia and Prussia, and that all w,.re agreed, that if
King Joachim suh=crib, d to diem, all .the Cehinets
would accede to the Treaty by particular Cenventions.
46 This declaration was confirmed on the 10th of
February by a note tram the A nv.ri in PLI,
pnten-
tiary, as svc:l as by a diseatch from Lot al Castlereagh,
to Lord William Beninck, tram I. isle, Jaen iry 22,
which charged the latter to nit e all hoetilities cease,
on the part of England against Myles, ant to take
the most proper measures to indace the King ot Si.
oily to do Ow same on his side. The King tit N pies
adopted these modifications, and iminediwely fa, i
the 'treaty, by a letter written with hi. own hand
to the Emperor of Austria 'l'he rititication of thin
last power did not take place till the ath of Much.—
We. retrain from•all reflections on the campaign of
the Austrian and Neapolitan artnies in Italy.
44 The two Armies, or nutter their Commanders,
do not seem have had that reciprocal confidence
which would have been necessary to act with success
against the Viceroy of Italy, who, notwithstanding
the inferiority of his numbers, defended himself for a
long time tsith glory against the two others. We
shall merely remark in general, that Naples brought
into the field the 30,000 men stipulated by the Treaty,
of which about 17,000 were detached in Tuscany, be-
fore Leghorn, Civita Vecchia, the Castle of Saint*
Angelo and Ancona, and the 13,000 others acted on
the l'o, and towards Parma and Placentia.
64 At the beginning of March, Lord W. Bentinck
landed with an Anglo-Sicilian division near Leghorn,
though it had been at first settled that this debarka-.
lion was to take place near Genoa ; some days after-
wards Lord Bentinck repaired to keggio, the head-
wieners o! King Jaachim" and reeitired him to de•
liver np Tuscany, and to make the Neapolitan troops
evacuate it without delay, which the King refused-.
Ist, Because Tuscany was- occupied by his troops
merely to be restored to it• tightfill owner, the Arch-
duke Ferdinand. 2J. Beceosetlii: evepuation, with-
out any military purpose, eras ennira'ry to the dignity .
and interest of 'Naples. 3d. It tense such a cession
mug at least be the price of adefieitive treaty with
England, which the King contintialle.proetaidasl-
-Ith, Because the troop., in Ttiscanylidil lit
'culated a Manifesto if their Goyceentent, to erdorte
the pretensioni e f the old 'dynasty to Naplts.
66 The King offered? natwithstanding,. og to ..give
up to Lord Bentinek the command in Tuscany, pre.
vided the Administrathin c,f the conntry.shoult
be continued in the name of 'the King, and hii-114
upon the foraressel." Lord `Bentinck
on the other hand, that lie eonsidereil the 'refusal of
the unconditional cession of Tuscany as In act of hos-
tility, and that he should act in consequence. He
even spoke of raising the people of Tuscany ageing
the • Neapolitan • army, and threatened a diversion
against the .kingdom itselt ; so that the King began
to be alarmed, and drew his troops nearer together,
that he might in every case secure his retreat.*
og During these discussions the Russian Genetal
Balaschoff came to KiugJoathim, and brought hint
a:letter in Alexander's ~own hand-writing, which
stated, that 44 the Emperor renewed with pleasure
theiriendly relations end the good nnderstanding;be-
, tween. the two powers, and approving of the princi'
pies and the basis of the treaty•concluded between the
Courts of Vienna and Naples, he had given to Ge-
neral Balaschoff the necessary full powers to- aig.
treaty of alliance with the King.". It is said that this
treaty was entirely drawn, and wanted but the signa-
tures, when news was received of the taking of Paris,
and, at the same time of the proclamation of the Em-
peror of Russia, in which he declared that he would
not treat either with Napoleon or with any member
of his family.
" General Balesehoff therefore hesitated to sign
the Treaty at that time, and soon at mit that he left
Italy. It is doubtful whether he left the Ressie n
General Tuyler (now at Vienna) in a half official
capacity with the King, or whether the General, re.
manned at Naples till some weeks ago merely on his
private-business; .In favour of King Junahim, 'it is
further added— •
44 Ist, That England, after all that has happened,
cannot act against him: without a breach of honoir.
• 44 td. That Lord Castlereagh, as a testimorii of
the best understending,had fsrmally promised to. the
.Duc de Campochiare, and Prince Ceriati, 1.500
English muskets to arm the Neapolitan troops. -.
Bdt That Lord Castlereagh had declared to
thosstwo Ministers at Chaumont and at Dijon, that at
there enisted•a treaty between England andehe King
`ot• SicilA the forniertpower could not coaclude
treaty with the King ef
.14taples, before obtaining
'an: indemnity for ,King Ferdinand IV. but 'that
the. King of Naples might depend upon the honour
of 4nglAnd, who, hayiag -en-operated in the en.gage.
;Deo, celleluded between Aosta t. and Naples as
(eyed only nut of &Macy the conclusion of Traty
of Peace with him ; that its case King Ferdinand did
not renounce his right to Naples, and Would not ac-
cept an indemnity, England would not make war
for him ;and lastly, theethe English Givernment
would act'as mediator between the Courts of Naples%
and ' •
66 Lord Bentinck received orders to repeat the same
asturances to the'Cabitiet of Naples, and delivered to
• NotaL-la * dispatch froth Lard Castlereagh to *Lora Wen,
BeattheN,datedoDon, sd Apvii, 1814, the farther Mt " of
the VetielamtattOrs of the Prineepf §ielty to his troop at •
and desirtss.hordllentleck to •eommtnikate to hint thlosiz he
bee
taken to elisaenvk chip proosaling.in the named t* I
Goimunasit.
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