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SICILr. •
NUMBER W.
' Governments are not instituted for the benefit of
the rulers, but only for the benefit of the people. • In
ail ages it has been admitted, that the nation whiCh
furnishes the means of defence to a country is the po-
litical proprietor of that country. We are the poli-
tical proprietors of the island of Jamaica, because we
defend it : are we not then entitled to consider our-
selves as the political proprietors of the island of Si-
sily ? It is alleged by the Neapolitan Cabinet, No :
becausewe entered into an alliance by which we agreed

In hold sacred the independance of the King. But we
not allow the Neapolitan Cabinet to set aside the
!Awful Government, and to assume its functions; far
kat did we agree to recognize this Cabinet as that
Government. The Sicilian Government with whom
we entered into alliance has been superseded from
within itself by the Neapolitan Cabinet ; and this Ca-
binet, usurping all powers, legislative and executive,
sets at defiance the laws and rights of the Sicilian na-
tion, and proclaims itself not bound by the •treaties
and engagements of the Government that it has push-
ed aside.
Are we not therefore obliged by the duties of our
political property in Sicily, a property accidentally
- acquired by the suicidal abrogation of the Govern-
anent, to protect the Sicilians who have in consequence
become indented with ourselves from the aggressions•
of the jacobinical Cabinet of Naples, which has usurp.
ed the rule of our ally ? Doer not our own honour
demand from us also, a speedy indemnity for the in-
jury which our own interests have suffered from thAt
usurping Cabinet ? Does not the character of the Bri.
fish nation require atonement for the imprisonment
of a British subject ; for 'the audacious suspension of
the functions of the British Consul General ; and for
the uncalled for and unprecedented effrontery of dar-
ing to tell the Consuls of other nations, that it was
only by the clemency of the King of Sicily that the
British Consul General was not punished ? But above
all, does not the justice of the British nation require,
that a government which publicly professes the jaco-
binical principle of being hound by no compacts,
should itself be deprived of the power of doing far.
ther mischief ?
We are well aware that all the foregoing discussion
is founded upon extreme views of the case. But
though the indications from the premises may be re-
garded as overstrained, yet it will be found that the
facts are at least as strong as the reasoning is exces-
sive. Neither the British nor the Sicilian public, are
prepared to think that the delinquencies of the Nea-
politan Cabinet, have been so great as to merit its
total annihilation, by abrogating the Government.—
But when the character of the Neapolitan Cabinet is
considered, it will not be'thought that the kind of rea-
soning assumed here is injudicious. The subtlety of
mind, the dexterity of expedient,• and the equivoca-
tion of truth employed by that Cabinet in discussions
even of imminent and vital interest, surpass the
acuteness of metaphysical nicety, and affairs of even
a vulgar and practical nature, are treated by it with
a degree of mystery and shrewdness which they do not
' appear to deserve, and which certainly among us
they never do obtain. In our next we shall consider the
character of the Neapolitan Cabinet, in order to jus-
tify the style of reasoning which we have employed.

FRENCH PAPERS.

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PARIS, SEPTEMBER is.
Last Sunday his Majesty held a Council of Minis.
tens at Compiegne, after mass. On Monday he pre-
sided at a Council of Commerce.
We hear of the speedy formation of a corps of lan-
cers, consisting of twelve regiments. Every body re.
members the terror and disorder which was spread
through the English army by the Polish lancers at
the battle of Albuera. What effects, therefore, may
not be expected fri m the powerful organization given
to that force? Si.veral Dragoons and Chasseurs will
enter this new corps, and the command will be given
to one of our Generals, famous for brilliant actions.
SEPTEM BER y set off yesterday from
Compiegtte to visit the co.tst of Holland. It is said
that het Majesty the Empress will set oe immediately
for the Palace of Lacken.
On the 17th, his Majesty condescended to sign, at
the Palace 'Ol Compiegne, ;he marriage-cowl act of
Briete de Mondetour, Auditor of the Council of
State, with Madeinoiselk, the heiress of 13i utelle.
All the fathers of the Council were yesterday pre-
sent at the solemn service, celebrated at Notre Dame
by the Bishop of Feltre. His eminence Cardinal
Fetch, President, filled the pontifical throne. M.
xtv,„ Bi!thop of Brescia, officiated ; the clergy of the
seminary pelf, nned the functions of deacon, sub-dea-
con, acolothists, and cross-bearers. Amidst the choir
%vas raised a magnificent bier, surmounted with an
elevated canopy, which produced a very fine effect.
At the four corners of the bier were statues, re.
presenting the focr Cardinal virtues, " Faith, Hope,
Charity, and Prudence."
Aft,„ the gospels, M. Doadi Bishop
of Padua, pronounded a tune' al citation.
After mass the four Bishoo nominated for the 4-
eolutim took post at the four c irners of the bier,
s assisted at the set.
Chapter of the metropolis
glee—..they preceded the Fathers of the council, who
entered the Church by the Archbishop's Palace, and
reconducted them by the same passage to the H 44
of their sittings. His Excellency the Minister for Yu).
lac W, rship was prekßt at the ceremony.
See mums 21.—iOn two letters, which appeared
• is a Lon ion waning
.pispier of the °Lb ult, the tee
outing. to be front the Count de Broisart. General
CilYteiligno to Lin ic4.114 at Madtki, aid the %ha

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