Star.
London, England, 1811-10-04 00:00:00

SICIL r.

No. V.
• The Kingdom of Naples, standing out of the Tory
Ma of European politics, was, for a long time before
itie French revolution, n.it involved in hostility with
any great power. The opportunities for promotion in
the Court were in consequence few, and the avenues
to distinction full Of rubbish. The Government had
rarely occasion to undertake any enterprize in which .
it was necessary to consider the popular sentiments,
and the people little regarded the proceedings of the
.Government. To prevent scarcity, and to keep the
hpeace during the public spectacles, seemed to be all
the duty of the Government of Naples. still it was
necessary that it should have the shew at least of
greater affairs, and the ministers and courtiers, to.
maintain their consequence, were obliged to throw
over their petty concerns a veil 'of mystery which
magnified them not only in the eye of the public, but
even deceived themselves. From this artificial and
cunning course of proceeding grew that sceptical and
derelict habit of thinking and acting, which all tra-
vellers have represented as more peculiar to the Nea-
politan nobility than to any other people. Every thing
about the Court of Naples was managed with the
dexterity and providence of intrigue and conspiracy.
—The road to place was by the toll-bar of ccw-
ruption, and success in-public affairs was obtained
only by the advocacy of fees. All was in masque ;
and truth, and honour, and justice, when they lip-
peared its their native fairness, were regarded late
every thing else, only as painted artifices, and re-
treated as such. This is a disagreeable sketch, bet
the correctness of the outline and the likeness cannot

be denied.
The Neapolitan Cabinet in Sicily, possessing the
arts, practices all the tricks so notorious in the
;Court of Naples. By the condition and feelings of
the Royal Family, it possesses a facility in its opera-
Itions,. which its over-reaching subtlety carrying
beyond the object, CAMS to increase the misfor-
' tunes of the family, and to disgust their best
friends. This flagitious cabinet knows that the
mind of the Queen is full of the terror of being com-
pelled to swell the dependent train in the Cowl of
St. James's ; that •on this rim she is deperste, and

.9ould perhaps rather be La ow ?setae ekin i '
Nit to the degradation. they aviathennelves Of thii
inhappy fear to work in their own way, and the tea-
,equence is that they lead the Queen nearer and

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nearer to the fall which the w, much dreads. It is FRITS4IY, 0C...
impossible to topsider her situation without cora- SUCK OF S':l'oos..ir us DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
passion ; nor to think ti. her betrayers without : per Ct.t. ftieditteie7 .put ',lva.; specpittjent." NI 9;44
indignation. In Balm and steady representations to 1 per Cent. dnet—Boode hie. 16e. ps-e.—Onanivor i es.
herself she shewt all the ability and judgment that , Each. Bill` (3d.) Is. "47 -Di" (314•)11°. to 4.. Pool.
she is allowed to possess, though the tear of her fall By a letter which we received this mining fidni
is ever preSent to her Mind; but the sactarnt that she Gibraltar, we learn that rte army of General Batas-
takes counsel of the Neapolitans, if the matter at all nada had marched frail Algesiras towards Rotida,
furnish any way for touching her Sok, site catches where the French haVe "bout a thousand men;—
like ginpowder, and there is no farther dealing with SOELT was it Malaga, leviiing heavy contributions on
her oh rite Subject, nor is it possible to conceive to pierce. communication still cut off Between
that Allis
what lengths her ektravagance will Ay. 1 the garnlon bf Gibraltar and Spain, to guard against
Some titheigo she consulted al lit-entlettisin privately : the introduction of the fee* 'Which still rages at Car.
about applyi4 for a loan of iirtoo,eoo to the DA- thagena: . . . I
tish merchants iii Sicily. He took the opportunity
Papers and s the avid 4th of last mcrili
*net' to 3d
of telling her, thit it might be more easily obtained
have been received from America; their contents,
froth the British GOvelittitetit, if her Majesty would
however, are still unimportant. The act of Comm-
content to make certain irriagements for the benefit
of her own subjects, whit were very loudly called dore Romans, in attacking the LITTLE BUT, is
stated, in the Bahimors Refesdolits, to be disavowed
for. Acid, among other things, 'it was mentioned, rs
by his Gpvernmeut ; aasl, it iii adde ' e know not
'that the Officers of the Sicilian Army were constantly
tity:
iliaking comparison betvrecri their condltion and feat whether on sOfillfr tit' that
or the British Officers. It Was also 13ointaal qa 4,. is to be assembled for ottfAst. -:.
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her; hat considering that the object of beith armies* 17 V t
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the same--the defence of Sicily, it would Materially
conchibe to render it trove secure if they were plated,
under:the command of the same General. Her faticy
caught aC this proposition, and she became, greatly
agitated, repeating several times that-she would think
alit, that it wtl,ld be done, and bursting into tents, eit
claimed it was'a hard condition, for what is grandiat
Without 'power. At the same time she admitted, chit
no attempt had been made by the British ever to die-
tate in any point that affected the independence of the
"Cretan. The infirMity of the Queen is the vivacity
of her feelings.' In iY.tellect, judgment and
:nation 'she is an extraOrtiinary woman ; but all these
great qukities are distorted by the excess of her seri,
oibility. On this occasibUit was particularly so, be-
cause she had an opportunity of acting magnanimously
towards her own-subjects, and of granting voluntarily
tb her ally what Clitumstances ihay afterwards extort.
frOns her—next day, when her Majesty had taken
Counsel of the Neapolitans, she had recovered her self:
poisession, anii the affair was no longer talked of, but
ody if the loan could "be easily raisid. In order
to theta in what manner the Neapolitan Cabinet
at once tortures the Queen, and endangers'ehe Siate,
we shall mention two cur;oes tricks*-; ohe ofillein ins.
Mecliately of national importance, and the others
'though at first only private, has become also national.
Last summer, when Mar.it was on the coast of Ca-
tabria, the British Commanders requested that the
troops and vessels cf .var at Palermo ihoild 'be sent
to assist in the defence of the East side of clic
The pi-Oposition was reasonable, particularly in what
respected the gun-boats ; but the Machiavelli round
the Queen could not suppose that any thing was Mr

the rumoured insurrection of three black regiments
turns out to be an affair of no greater moment,
than a conflict between a party of thirty Maroons;
i and, nn the other side, a multitude of free people
and slaves, who attempted to rescue some prisoners
1 whom the Maroons were escorting. Still, however,
{there seems to be something unsettled in the internal
state of the Island. A Colonel LAPOINTE, and a
trenchman of the name of BLANCHET, from St. Do-
mingo, have been taken up, and exaMilied respecting
thi object of their mission to Jamaica.

THE KING.