Star.
London, England, 1814-11-04 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1814.
KING WILLIAM LINDED.--Hollday at the Stock Exchange.

Yesterday a Cabinet Council was held at the
Foreign Office for the purpose of settling and ar-
ranging the topics to be introduced into the Speech,
to be delivered from the Throne on Tuesday next at
opening the Session of Parliament. The Speech of
course will previously be submitted in Council to the
approbation of his Royal Highness the • PRINT!:
REGENT.

The meeting was attended by the LORD CHANCEL-
LOR, the Earls of LIVERPOOL, HARROWBY, BATHURST,
and BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, Viscounts SIDMOUTH and
MELVILLE, the CnaxcELLnit of the Ext.rieutan, and
the Right Hon. Mr. BRAGGE Ilanwnsr, and Mr.
WELLESLEY POLE. The consideration of the Speech
occupied nearly three hours.
A very full attendance of both Houses is expected
on Tuesday, many of the Members having already
reached Town. The Address in the Commons will
be moved by the Honourable Mr. HOOD, Member for
Heytcsbury, arid seconded by Mr. GRAHAM, Mem-
ber for Luggershall. It is expected that the discus.
sions in both Houses will be long and animated.—
The actual state of the war with America will, no
doubt, be the principal subject of debate. The pro-
ceedings and arrangements at the Grand Congress of
Vienna are neither sufficiently known nor charac-
terised by any official authority to justify Parliamen-
tary consideration, although they may give rise to
somee-suggestions and passing remarks. The question
of the Slave Trade will, however, in all probability,
produce several interesting observations.
Among the measures of a financial nature that are
to be brought forward at an early period will be the
continuance of the Property, or more truly speaking,
the Income Tax upon a reduced scale. We understand
that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S plan upon
this very important subject is founded on the absolute
necessity of the continuance of the tax, but at the
same time admitting the propriety of a certain reduc-
tion or limitatioa suited to the actual exigencies of
the country for a given time.

The article which we translated yesterday from the
Gazette de France, stating that nine people had been
ahot at Milan, by the Austrian General BELLEGARDZ,
for calling out, at the Theatre—" Vive Napoleon," is
flatly contradicted in the Journal de: Debate, the Edi.
tor of which states, that he had, some days before,
been offered a copy of the pretended Milan letter, and
had rejected it as a fabrication ; and gives satisfac-
tory proofs, from the Milan Papers, of the article
being altogether unfounded. Is it intended by such
fabrications to incense the French against the Au-
strians ? It is difficult to discover what the contrivers
of such reports can propose to themselves by giving
them circulation.

The Paris Papers notice the publication of two
Brcchures, written with a view to prove the legitimacy
of Monsieur MURAT'S claims to the Throne of Naples.
The title page of one of these notable productions
conveys the idea that the author is an Englishman.
—We doubt it. The bare assertion is, in fact, ano-
ther libel upon the English nation. This redoubtable
Champion of brigandage and usurpation sets out with
insinuating that the flight of FERDINAVU from Naples

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to Sicily was an abdication and what an accumula-
tion of blessings," the writer exclaims, u did not the
Neapolitans experience ?"
We shall answer this question from our own recol-
lections : the Neapolitans saw JOSEPH BONAPARTE
arrive from Paris, who had already, in his humble
office of Storekeeper General,-exhibited talents worthy
of a larger theatre. But the Kingdom of Naples
was too limited for this " Grand Administrator."
JOSEPH was speedily sent to regenerate the Spaniards
in spite of their teeth, and M. JOACHIM MURAT, who
had begun the work by the massacre of Madrid in
1808, had the condescension to accept the little throne
which his brother-in-law left him. Now did MURAT
sit quietly down on his throne, and set about the
amelioration of the Neapolitans by teaching them.the
arts of Peace ? did he exhibit any thing like symptoms
that he was an unwilling victim to the mad and bar-
barous projects of his friend and patron BONAPARTE?
—Where did this man spend the six long and eventful
years which have intervened since his ascending the
throne of Naples?—ln the field, fighting most zea.
lously by the side of BONAPARTE, and dragging after
him to Vienna, Berlin, and Moscow, in succession,
the flower of the Neapolitan population, to perish by
thousands, in the same hopeful cause of subjugating
Europe. And at what period did he desert the cause
of BONAPARTE ? Precisely at the moment when, if
he had possessed even a spark of that counterfeit
honour which is proverbial among thieves, he ought
to have been found cleaving to his fortunes per mare,
per telliu, per flagrantia mania muadi.
Then we are gravely told by his Pamphleteer of
" the shocking ingratitude of the Allied Sovereigns
in taking the Crown of Naples from JOACHIM MURAT,
who, in 1814, had so nobly united himself to the
general cause of the Powers of the Continent."—
Shocking ingratitude, truly, to recompense Monsieur
MURAT for doing in 1814 what he could nut avoid if
he wished to retain the Royal insignia of Naples, of
which he is the illegal possessor ; and at the same
moment to punish FERDINAND, the lawful Sovereign,
for adhering pertinaciously to the great cause of suf-
fering Europe for twenty years—a line of conduct
for which he has been already more than punished
by his long exile
The next Muratist does not assume the dignified
character of an Englishman : in what he calls a coup-
d'ail of the state of Europe in 1814, but which is in
fact a vile attempt to seduce the public opinion into
a bias towards the miserable remnant of the Napo-
leon Dynasty, this writer discloses his wishes in
the following passage : 46 After having tranquilized
the world, it only remains to give to future genera-
tions a grand lesson on the morale politique, an example
to monarchs and to subjects, by confirming JOACHIM
NAPOLEON as King of Naples. The people will
read, in this liberal decision, the encouragement and
the recompense of their love and thciz devtniuli tug
good Kings. But I forget myself in listening to the
dictates of my heart !"—Sad instance of self-forget.
fulness ! Subjects are in future to be cajoled into
love for good Kings by the overthrow of ancient and
legitimate dynasties, and the sudden elevation of a
soldier of fortune to the dignity of a King !
We have no doubt that large sums of money have
been expended by MURAT to procure the circulation
of the flippant declamations which we have noticed.
He has been unhappy in the selection of his advocates.
We cannot drop this subject without briefly re-
minding our Readers that MonAr acted as Aide.de-
Camp to SANTERRE, the brewer, on the day of the as-1
sassination of Lours XVI. and that from his lips, by'
direction of SANTERRE, issued the mandate to the'
drums under the scaffold, to drown the voice of his
dying Sovereign !
The same personage commanded the guard over
the unfortunate Royal family in the Temple ; and
we have it upon record, that his manners were then
rude, boisterous, and savage, while his language to
the unfortunate Princesses was that of the lowest ruf-
fian in Paris ! Tais-toi, Coquina," said this polished
gentleman to Madame ELI Z AIIETH, who complained of
his brutal treatment of her Royal brother, " outran:tit
je to coupe en deux."
To all this it may be added, as a most singular
coincidence, that on MURAT, as Military Governor
of Paris, devolved the office of furnishing the Platoon
of Soldiers who assassinated the Duc d'EsiontaN.—
Mortar, at the head of the Mainelukes, carried a torch
on that horrible occasion, and when the young and
gallant object of his fury beseeched the soldiers, as his
friends, to level low lest they should miss their aim;
" You have no friends here," growled an Officer with
the insignia of the Legion of Honour dangling at his
breast. It was the voice of Mirada I

VIENNA, OCT. 2u.—We have mentioned that his
Majesty the Emperor of Itussu put himself at the
head of the regiment of Hiller, during the grand ml.
litary fete on the 18th. The following fine description
of this circumstance is given in The Austrian Observer:

"As the head of the regiment of Hiller, which his MAJ [ITT
our Emperor gave in the morning to the Emperor ALEXANDER
approached the place in the column where the Sovereigns stood,
the Lniperor ALEXANDER, who had been hitherto at the side of
our Sovereign, gallupped off, drew his sword, and placed him-
self in the place belonging to him as Colonel, led the regiment,
saluting, three times past our EmPLROM as Colonels are accus-
coated to de on such occasions, halted opposite to him with his
sword presented, till all the throe battalions had passed ; then he
gallopped up to the Sovereign again, &doted three tune., put up
his sword, and threw himself into the arra; of our ball/Cd S(,)
vereign. It is impossible adequately to describe the emotion
which this scene, unpanJelled perhaps in history, excited in the
hearts of the many hundred Princes, hi misters, Generals, Ste.
who were present, from all the nations of Europe, and the loud
and unanimous acclamations of joy the most sincere, thlt arose
ftom the inwailowevr4l4 of dfdlOted spectators."