Star.
London, England, 1821-03-31 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1821.

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A courier arrived yesterday afternoon at the Fo-
reign Office, with dispatches from Florence and
Turin, of the 24th and 25th instant; and to-day we
have, by express, extracts from the Paris Journals
of 'Thursday morning, not due till to-mortvw, and
private letters from the same Capital, of as late a
date as the evening of Thursday.
The whole of the accounts brought by these ar-
rivals concur in representing that a counter-revolu-
tion had been effected at Naples, and that a similar
One was in progress" in Piedmont.
the' events which had preceded this lamentable
alteration of affairs at Naples are still, however, in-
volved in obscurity. It is merely stated, that Gene-
ral EIRDIILLA, an Envoy from the PROM'S REGZWT
of NJUIIXI6 had' arrived at Florence, and officially
announced to his SicILIAN MAZE-ITT that the Neap*.
litan Parliament was dissolved, the Neapolitan Army
dispersed, and the Panics RICORIT the most submis-
sive of recreants.

The private correspondence from Paris states, that
the weak resistance made by the Neapolitans had ez-
sited universal disgust in that Capital• - Admitting.l
that the fatal reverse which his taken place is wholly
to be ascribed to the cowardice of the new levies, of
all men the Parisians are the last that ought to reflect
upon it with disgust. It is related by Domouatest
that 6000 of his volunteers, chiefly from Paris, were
panic struck at the approach, of a single Prussian re-
giment, and had nearly produced the total rout of his
army. He, afterwards, took care that they should not
repeat such a slippciry trick, by making it impossible
for them to fly except upon the bayonets of his vets.
raps; and, in mass of time, they became good sol-
diers. We know not whether Generals Pars and Crass-

COSA had tbe means of employing this species oftactics.
—We Are still uninformed as to the share which un- I
steadiness in the troops, or want of skill in the Com-
manders, may have .had its the disastrous result of''
the campaign ; but we suspect that political intrigue
has had as great a share in it as either of those causes.
Wben the King of NaiLes journey to Laybach was
Arst talked of, we intimated the injurious conse-
quences which might result from his being placed
in the hands of the Imperial Despots ; and, accord-
ing to the Austrian accounts, they have found a the
KING'S name a tower of strength." All that remains
for his People. under existing circumstances, is to
intake the experiment whether his promises from Lay.
bash are likely to be more binding than his oaths at
Naples. If the hopes excited by his Proclamation
should also be disappointed, it may yet appear that
the spirit of freedom " is not dead, but sleepeth."

" Tune, and the various light of roWng years,
Dave chang'd frogs bad to happy human thing:
And Fortune's winle inconstant new has inock'd
E'en those she has again in safety placed r
The circumstances attending the moveme

wards towards a counter-revolution in Piedmont, are
detailed precisely enough. It appears, that on the
abdication of VICTOR Emmanust being made known
to the Duke me Gammon, he published a Proclama-
tion, dated at Modena, asserting his right to the
Throne ; but declaring that he would not accept the
tideof king, until his brother should be in a state to
pronounce his abdication in perfect freedom. He also,
is a direct manner, denounces as rebels all those who
shall alter the ancient form of Government ; and, for
the justice of his cause, appeals to GOD and the bayo-
nets of his Allies. The Prince de CARIGNAN% who
bad accepted the Regency provisionally, tin the plea-
sure of the Duke de GEN/MOIR was known, could of
course do nothing else next than resign it.
His next step is not, however, to be so satisfac-
torily accounted for. After issuing a Proclamation,
announcing that he had divested himself of the Re-
gency, he repaired to Novara, and placed hirnwif
under the orders of General LA rowt, who has hoisted
a counter-revolutionary standard, and is said to have
rallied around it a great part of the Piedmontese
forces. The Panics, it will be recollected, took the
oath to the new Constitution. Are oaths, then, no
longer to be of the least avail where Kings and
Princes are enncerued ?

The Constitutional' system was still, however, ad-
hered to at Turin and Alexandria. The latter is a
strongly fortified place, and filled with adherents to
the new order of things. The strength of the Con-
stitutionalists at Turin rests chiefly in the Citadel, the
troops -in the occupation of which were among the
first to hoist the Revolutionary standard. The Mi-
nister of War under the new system, had, it is al-
leged, endeavoured to inspire more general confi-
dence, by issuing an Order of the Day, on the 24th,
saying, that he expected Prance would take part
against Austria ; but this was immediately and offi-
cially contradicted.

It is mentioned in one of the private letters, that
the Emperor ALxIANDER had written to the late
King EMItANUZLI to tell him, that in sixty days an
Army of 120,000 Russians would arrive in Piedmont,
and that nothing could alter this determination. It
it stated, that Esuu inuat. bad given a promise to the
Allied Powers not to adhere to any Constitution that
might be imposed on him ; and that, not wishing to
break his word, or sacrifice his People, he had re-
solved to abdicate. Such is the mode in which the