Star.
London, England, 1821-03-29 00:00:00

POLICE.

MARLBOROUGH-STMT.—Yesterday, a man named Pemberton,
was charged with committing a rape on the wife of a tradesman,
in St. James's Park, on Tuesday night. The prisoner was re-
manded.

Cuticles Case—Yesterday, Messrs. Coxes and DELA 'MILD,
brewers, attended at Bow-street Office, to bear the decision on
an information made against them last week. The question was,
whether the defendants had a right to remove their ashes from
their premises in St. Giles's to those in St. Martin's parish, for
the purpose of being consumed in the way of their business ? The
Contractors for the former parish complained, that, by the de-
fendants' being allowed to do so, they were deprived of the value
of the ashes, which was very considerable ' • and contended, that
the ashes were their property the moment they became so, and
that the defendants had no longer any controul over them. The
l'lltnottarx said, it was extremely hard that the defendants
should not have controul over their own ashes • but the words
of the Statute were so extremely strong and imperative upon
this point, that, taking them, as he was bound to do, in the lite-
ral sense, he must decide against the defendants. He accord-
ingly convicted them in the penalty of £lO. The defendants
assured him they should appral to the Sessions.

Ph ENtii PAPERS:

PARIS, MARCII se.

•
The most recent intelligence from Grenoble states
that tranquillity prevails in that city. The Chamber
of Accusation of the Royal Court has, in virtue of
Article 233 of the Code of Crinti:ial Instruction,
taken cognizance of the affair of the 2)th instant,
and appointed one of its Members to act as exa-
mining Judge.
M. Ferdinand Dalpozzo, who has been appointed
Minister of the Interior in Piedmont, was formerly a
Member of the French Legislative Body. He was
alScr President of the Court of Appeal for Genoa
and Rome.

M. Bussolmo, appointed to the War and Marine,
has served as a Colonel in the French army.
M. Gubernatis, appointed Minister of Finance,
was, while the French governed Italy, Sub-Prefect
of Parma.

Count Christiani, appointed Director-General of
Police, was a Prefect in France. He is known in
Piedmont for an Address he made to a celebrated'
personage during the Hundred Days.
The reply of the Duke of Genevois has reached
Turin, and has caused the greatest sensation there.
He declares that he considers himself the first subject
of the King, Victor Emmanuel ; that he will nut ac-
cept the proposition made to him of usurping the
Throne; and that he protests against everything that
has taken place contrary to the will of the Monarch
and the tranquillity of Piedmont,—Gaz. de France.
We learn from Chambery, under date of the 20th,
that, on the garrison being called out to swear fidelity
to the new Government, the troops broke thtir. ranks
at the moment when they were required to take the
Oath. Most of the soldiers carried off their arms.—
The discontent is general in Savoy, and we ate
assured that much discontent also prevails in Pied-
mont. The King is regretted ; the desertions from
the army increase rapidly.—lbid.

. .
Copies of the Constitution of 1791 are spreading
with profusion in the shops of the booksellers accus-
tomed to vend pamphlets and revolutionary libels.—
Is it because the rebels of Grenoble called for that
Constitution ? or, rather, was it not the shew made
of this book which induced them to report that the
Constitution of 1791 had been proclaimed at Paris ?
Be this as it may, those who wish to revive the sove-
reignty of the People, and the right of insurrection,
and to overthrow the existing order of things, ought
to procure for themselves this Constitution proscribed
by the Charter.—lbid.
We are assured that the Duke of Belluno is :1)-
pointed Commandant Extraordinary of the Sixth
Military Division (Ese,ancon), the Seventh (Grenoble),
and the Nineteenth (Lyons). He will establish his
head-quarters in the last city. _ _

A great many reports were circulated yesterday,
on the authority of an English courier from Italy.--
The name of this English courier was said to be Thom-
son. We can assure our Readers that no English
courier has arrived here.

To the details we gave the day before yesterday,
respecting the criminal attempt at Grenoble on the
20th, we have to add, that the Authorities, perceiv-
ii,g that the standard of revolt was hoisted, were
bound in terms of the law to declare the town in a
state of siege. In thus adopting, however, the means
of making the King's authority to be respected, the
course of justice was not disturbed; and the Royal
Court revoked the sentences of the guilty. The troops,
as French soldiers always do, replied to the cry of re-
bellion, by exclaiming Five le Roi! and dispersed the
mob with the butt-ends of their muskets. On the 21st,
complete tranquillity prevailed throughout the city,
and everything promised that it would not be troubled,
A letter from Turin, dated the 16th, says, that the
new King of Sardinia has written to the Prince of '
Cai ignano, that he will accept the Crown, if his bro-
ther's abdication be free, and if he persist in it ; but
that he will annul whatever has been forced from the
Regent by revolutionary influence, and will freely
give a Constitution suitable and conformable to the
wants of the country and to enlightened opinions.
Letters from Geneva state, that the late events in
Piedmont have produced universal satisfaction in the
Western Swiss Cantons, the trade of which suffered
extremely from the prohibitory system adopted by
the Sardinian Government, with respect to foreign
merchandise. The inhabitants of Savoy,-having been
long deprived of all literary communication with
France, have early written to their correspondents
at Lyons and Geneva, to send them political and
constitutional works, of which they are completely
destitute.

We read in the Gazette of Lyons, of the 20th inst.
what follows :

Yesterday was perfectly tranquil: the Prefect
and the Mayor have res.-red confidence to all good
citizens, by contradicting a.:quieting news, and have
done justice to the good spirit of the inhabitants of
the city. Annexed are the Notices which they have
posted up;

" THE PREFECT OT THE DEPARTMTNT OT THE RHONE TO THE

INHABITANTS OR LYONS.

" Absurd reports were circulated yesterday, and a momentary
uneasiness was the consequence.
" These reports, destitute of all foundation. are incontestably
the work of malevolence, which wishes to create disorder to
furnish pretexts for accusing the Lyonese population, and to dis-
turb, along with the peace which our city enjoys, the commercial
relations that form its prosperity.
" The Authorities are confident that, under these circum-
stances, the Lyonese will afford a proof of the good spirit which
animates them, and that, jealous for the preservation of that cha-
racter of wisdom and moderation which they have acquired, they
will give fresh proofs of their attachment to order, of their love
of our new institutions, and the King to whom we owe them.
" Lyons, March 19. " LEZAY MA lINEZIA."
" MAYORALTY OF LYONS.

" The most absurd reports were yesterday evening circulated
among the Public by malevolence.
" But the good spirit which animates the inhabitants of this
city has not belied itself. The have known how to oppose the
most perfect tranquillity to the efforts of the enemies of the
King, who are also those of the country.
" Lyonese, you will repel the aggressions of the partizans of
disorder, under whatever mask they present themselves; and
you will not allow that perfect tranquillity which you have con-
stantly enjoyed, and to which you are indebted for the prosperity
of your trade and manufactures, to experience the slightest bi-
terruption. In the present circumstances, rs in every other, you
will give a new proof of your unalterable attachment to the King,
and to the invaluable institutions whi-b France owes to him.
" Lyonese, confide in your Magistrates ; they watch for you ;
and they will equally justify the Confidence of the Government
and their fellow-citizens.
" Done at the Town-House, March 19.
(Signed) " BARON BAMBAUD,
" Mayor of the City of Lyons."

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1821.
THR FUNDS.
PRICES OV STOCKS TRU DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK :
per tent. Cons. 71 1/8 1/,, 3/$ 5/6 1,4
S per Cent. Navy 106 1/2 IA
India Bds. 41s. 425. pr.—Exch. Bills, pr. ls. dis.ls.
Bank for Acct. 222%
Cons. for Acct. 711/4 Y 4 1/2 7a Yx

Vague and contradictory as the accounts from the
theatre of war have been ever since its commence-
ment, we have never found ourselves in the midst of
such a mass of conflicting testimony, as the different
Papers of this morning present to us. The Express
which arrived yesterday from Paris, announcing the
report on 'Change of the entrance of the Austrians
into Naples, has been followed by another Express
from the same Capital, with letters of as late a date
as Tuesday night, and extracts from the Journals of
that day (not yet due), the tendency of s‘hich, as far
as report and belief goes, is to corroborate decidedly
the news of the fall of Naples. But, on the other
hand, there is a Gentleman in town who left Pesaro
on the 17th, and Turin on the 21st (Wednesday sett-
night), and who is described to be one " who inquired
anxiously, and believed with caution—one who is
perfectly conversant with the people and events of
Italy, and who is utterly incapable of misrepresent-
ing or garbling what be knows ;" the substance of
whose gleanings is, that instead of the Austrians being
in Naples, they had been defeated in a great battle
rear that Capital, which must leave them no other
alternative but a speedy retreat from all their posi-
tions in the Neapolitan territory.

The whole of this Gentleman's statement, as re-
hearsed by him personally to the Times journal,
within six hours after his arrival, we have given
below. An impaired edition of the same statement
appears to have found its way to the Morning Chro-
nicle ; and this we have also given, least we
sliculd be mistaken in supposing that it is the ori-
ginal statement of the Times' informant, corrupted
in the natural progress of story-telling ; and least
(which tNe do not believe) there should be two Dro-
with; in town, who left Pesaro on the same day, and
Turin on the same day. The account brought from
these places appears not to have rested at the Morn.
ing Chronicle Office; but, returning up the Strand
(during which it seems to have slipped on a com-
plete masquerade suit), it arrived at the New Times
Office, in a shat e, the description c,f which we also
subjoin, as quite a curiosity in its way. The Reader,
we think, must be forcibly reminded of SMOLLET'S
story of the three black crows.
Who could imagine that the defeat of the Austrians
in a great battle could have been converted into the
utter disgrace of the Neapolitans, and the triumph of
a glorious counter-revolution, merely by the simple
process of going through a Press in avowed hostility
to the cause of Neapolitan liberty ? Yet so it is.—The
statement is subjoined, and our Readers can judge
for themselves. We have only to request them to
compare places and dates. If they have then any
doubt that the statement of the New Times is that of
the Times travestied, they must be credulous indeed.
We shall not, for ourselves, attempt to extract
from the different statements before us what is the
precise fact as to the state of affairs between the bel-
ligerent parties ; we shall only say, that our opinion
is with our wishes that the cause of Neapolitan Li-
berty will be yet found in the ascendant. Were even
Naples in the possession of the Austrians, we should
not look on that as decisive of the contest. Our
Readers must, doubtless, remember that, from the
very first, provision for such an event was made by
the Neapolitan Parliament, by a contingent resolu-
tion for the removal of the Court to Calabria Citra.

The Emperor of AUSTRIA, and the King of PAUS.•
SIA, have both known what it is to have their Capi-
Os taken ; but they must not imagine that the way
in which they behaved on those occasions, is to be an
example for the Prince of a People fighting for their
liberties and independence.

We had written thus far, when a piece of informa-
tion was communicated to us from die best authority,
which we conceive decidedly negatives the report of
the fall of Naples; but, at the same time, 6:ves no
countenance to the rumoured defeat of the Austrians.
Our Ministers received dispatches yesterday from
Italy, of a date as late as the 19th; and in the ac-
counts they bring, as to the operations of the war,
there is not a word of any great battle, of of any
decisive victory.

We now proceed to lay before our Readers the
different accounts to which we have, in the first part
of this article, referred :

FROM THE TIMES.
(Statement of a Gentleman Traveller.)

!‘ At Pesaro, where he bad resided but a short time before
he left Italy, great care had been taken to keep from the Pub-
lic all news of the movements of the Army. The Austrian
Oficial accounts of the affair of Ricti, and the subsequent ad-
vance of the divisions of Walmoden and Stutterheim to Aquila,'
constituted their whole intelligence. On arriving at Bologna,
however, on the 18th, he learnt, from authority in which he
was led to place implicit credit, the true state of the campaign,
far as regarded the operations in that quarter. The formi-
dable nature of the attack of Pepe on Walmoden's corps may
be inferred from the fact, that the Austrians sent on the fol-
lowing day WO wounded to Foligno. The retreat of the Nea-
politans, after the division of Stutterheim had been ordered
up to support that of Walmoden, he describes solely as a feint

to draw the troops opposed to Pepe from the main body ; and
this design was effected.vrith so much skill, that the Neapoli-
tans lost few prisoners, and carried off nearly all their wounded.
" Civita Ducale fell a barren conquest into the hands of the
victors, the population retreating along wkh the army, and car-
rying off the whole of the provisions and moveables. Aquila
was also, in like manner, stripped and abandoned. As the re-
treat of the Neapolitans was more rapid than the advance of the
Austrian troops. General Pepe is said to have gained on them
very considerably : when, making a movement across the moun-
tains, he effected a junction with the main body of the Neapo-
litan army, under the command of Carascosa. There appears
to be some uncertainty whether this movement included the
whole, or only a part of General Pepe's division ; but we are in-
clined to the latter supposition. Our informant has no doubt
that it was a preconcerted plan, agreed on between Pepe and
Carascosa. Immediately on the junction taking place, it was

resolved to give battle to the main body of the Austrian army
under Frimont, then advancing on the road to Naples. The
armies met on the high road between Val Montene and St. Ger-
mano, on the 14th inst. The battle was extremely long, bloody,
and obstinately contested, but ended in the total defeat of the
Austrians, who Bed in all directions ; and, according to the last
accounts received front the neighbourhood of the field of battle,
the Neapolitans were in full pursuit of them.

" This is the extent of the information we have revived from
him relative to the operations of the armies; but he also relates
many circumstances of much interest, though subordinate to
that of the battle. A body of 5,000 men, who had advanced for
the purpose of forming a reinforcement to the Austrian troops
in Naples, were ordered, on the breaking out of the Piedmons
test Revolution, to return to Milan, to guard against the new
danger that had arisen. That a Revolution would break out in
the continental dominions of the King of Saannou,, was known
in several of the principal cities of Italy for many days before it
actually occurred. The character of the whole Italian popula-
tion, says our informant, appears to have undergone a sudden
and material change since the commencement of this contest for',
liberty. They no longer dread the Germans, but threaten them
with retaliation for all the acts of tyranny they have inflicted.—
The ceremony of relieving guard, where soldiers or officers of
both nations are brought into contact, seldom takes place without
producing some violent altercation.
" No movement of the Piedmontese Army against the Aus

trians has yet been made; but the strongest desire exists among
the soldiery to revenge the cause of Naples. The army is in the
best possible condition, and consists, at a moderate calculation,
of 50,000 men. But, independently of the regular army, there
has been secretly embodied in the I'iedmontese territory, a force
of scarcely a less formidable nature. The members are termed
Curtfederati, ard they form a distinct sect, but subsidiary to the
Carbootari. Each man engages to acquire the use of arms, to
provide himself with weapons, and to have in readiness, for a
sudden emergency, provisions for a march of three days.
" Our intelligence by this source does not confirm the state-
ment given yesterday, in our letter from Genoa, of a demand
for the Spanish Constitution havieg been made by the soldiery
and people of Florence, and in the north of Italy : though every
disposition for a change appears to exist, no movement had yet
been made to produce it."

FROM TIIE MORNING CHRONICLE. .

" At a late hour last night, we learnt that a Gentleman ar-
rived in town yesterday, having left Pesaro on the 17th, Alex-
andria the 19th, and Turin the 21st. Ile states, that a very de-
cisive battle was fought on the 13th and 14th, near Rome, in
which the Austrians were defeated, and some of their finest re-
giments totally destroyed ; that 30,000 of the Piedmontese had
marched to 111ibn, and 6,000 to Piacenza ; and that no report
whatever of a counter-revolution at Naples, or of the Austrians
having entered that city, existed at Turin on the 2lst."
FROM THE NEW TIMES.

" We have received private letters from Turirt of the !list in-
stant, stating, that advices had reached that city from Florence,
to the following effect :—That the Austrians had been com-

pletely successful in the kingdom of Naples—that a Counter-
Revolution had there taken place in favour of King Ferdinand
—that the Parliament had been dissolved—and that the whole
power of the State had devolved to the Prince Regent, who had
sent a Deputation to the King, his father, inviting him to come
and resume his authority. It was added, that the brae( Neapo-
litan Army had for the most part dispersed, after having spiked
their guns ; that the thrice-valiant General Pepe had suddenly
disappeared from the eyes of men ; and that the heroic Duke of
Campo Chiaro, who swore to bury himself under the ruin 3 of his
country, had declared his oath to be nen.avenat."
FROM TIIE JO URN.IL DES DER.ITS OF TUF.SDAY.
NAPLES, MARCH n.
The Government has just published the first Bul-
letin of our Army. It is in substance as follows :
" General Pe•oe having heard that the Austrians
were concentrating themselves in force at Rieti, sent
a strong reconnoitring party against them. An en-
gagement ensued, and the Austrians were the at-
tackers. Our soldiers sustained the attack for seven
hours. The General, perceiving new reinforcements
arrive to the Austrians, ordered a retreat. The enemy
returned to their positions. They had many men
killed. We had about 30 killed and wounded."
On the Bth, at four in the afternoon, their Royal
Highnesses the Duke of Calabria and the Prince of
Salerno, left this capital for the army.
The Prince Regent's departure has been announced
to the Parliament by the following Message, which
has this day been posted in the streets :

" NAME% MARCH 7.
" The events of the war render my presence with the Army
necessary. I am about to repair to it, and shall make frequent
journies thither, dividing my time between the camp and the
capital, in order that the various affairs of the State may not be
neglected. During my absence my mind is tranquil. I leave
amidst you all that I hold most dear in the world—my beloved
family. I confide in the affection which has been constantly
shewn me by the population of Naples, and in the excellent con-
duct and zeal of the National Guard, which has enabled me to
render the troops of the line disposable for the defence of the
country. My confidence in the Neapolitans is unlimited, in the
same manner as I see that their's in me is equally so. This
reciprocal sentiment will certainly be justified.
(Signed) " FRANCIS, Regent."
The Prince Regent has appointed for his Officers
of Ordnance, the Duke of Casoli, the Prince of Al-
lieno, the Prince of Torella, the Marquis Brancac-
cbio, Count Niscemi, and Count Partanna.
A Decree of the Prince Regent orders all land-
holders and farmers, as soon as they see the enemy
advancing, to remove every kind of provisions and
forage behind the lines of the army. An account
will be taken of their losses.
Our troops occupy Ascoli, under the orders of

Camp-Marshal Verdinosi, and maintain good disci-
pline, with which the Pontifical Authorities have ex-
pressed their satisfaction.