Star.
London, England, 1820-10-23 00:00:00

PARUAMJ2iT2' OF NAPLES:

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The solemn opening Of dd. Pgiliamettt tooit.place
on the 2d of October.. On that chit', at
.ten o'clock
in the meriting, the King entered the Hall .of the
Deputies, followed by the Minikers, the Constnandei
in Chief, and the Presidents of.the Ctittiti. His Ma-
jesty having taken his seat on the-thrtfite, the Presi-
dent and the Senior Secretary apprilached him, the
former holding in his hand the Book of the Holy '
Evangelists, and the latter the Formula of the Oath.
The King rose, and with a distinct voice swore fide-
lity to the Constitution. This grand national act
was followed by peals of acclaingtibn, on the sub
siding of which the President, S. Galdi, addressed his
Majesty in an eloquent speech, containing sentiments
and reflections worthy of the occasion. He dwelt
with forcible observations upon the wretched state
to which ambition and misgovernment had reduced
nations, before the experience of the real principles
of social confederacy had been well understood. He
described the evil consequences which resulted from
the doctrines ofthose who would attempt to remedy
'the existing evils under which declining empires la-
Factored, by the wild theories of the perfectibility of
human nature, as well as the mischiefs that sprung
from the opposite prejudices of others who attributed
all the evils of society to philosophy, and, making
war upon learned men and knowledge, hastened to
throw themselves for protection upon barbatism ;
thus, he observed, flourishing States sunk into ruin
under the hands of the powerful and ambitions,
iwhile there remained yet the grand problem to be
solved of moderating the pride of nations in their
grandeur and prosperity, and of restoring those
whose spirit had been broken by injustice and op-
pression; but the hand of PROVIDENCE, he continued.
could alone point out to people in their dangerous
career, the polar stir which was to guide them in
this ocean of calamities ; and this star of safety was
a wise Constitution, the offspring of knowledge and
experience. He then proceeded to describe the
events which had led to the establishment of the Con-
stitution, the ambition which humbled the pride and
resources of Spain, till its commerce was ruined, its
colonies revolted, its vessels burnt, its army destroyed,
and its King a prisoner when, all of a sudden, the
voice of honour and religion called the Spaniards to
arms, and, recovering their independence and their
Cortes, framed a Constitution which served Naples
for a model. " You," said the President to the King,
" have sworn to this Constitution with tears of joy
and love. The People have witnessed your emotion.
The Heir Apparent has taken the same oath, and
the descendant of the inheritors et the religion of St.
Louis, and of the civil virtues of Charles the Third,
shall not have sworn in vain r After eulogizing the
King and his family „the President went on to state,
that the army would recover its ancient virtue, and
the nation and the monarchy would no longer com-
promise their glory in political transactions with fo-
reigners. Science and the Arts would again flourish
on a soil consecrated by their former achievements,
and great men and monuments of grandeur would
renew the glories of the classic ages.
The King, in person, replied to the President
briefly, to signify his assent to the principles and the
wishes which the Chamber expressed through its or-
gan. The acclamations redoubled, and the formal
speech of his Majesty was read by his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Calabria.
The Speech contained sentiments similar to those
which the President had expressed. He gave the
full concurrence of the Royal will to all that bad
been dune towards the salvation- of the country, and
entrusted to the hands of the Deputies the perform-
ance of what remained yet to be done, in the inter-
nal institutions, in commerce, the ecclesiastical affairs;
and all the civil regulations, for the prosperity and
consolidation of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
After this discourse, his Royal Highness the Vicar-
General addressed a few words of thanks and con-
gratulation to his father and Sovereign. At this
moment the most moving spectacle of general joy
Wok place—the spectators expressed, in the most
touching eloquence, their gratitude to the King, and
their love for the Constitution. The enthusiasm of
the people was not to be described. When the emo-
tion had somewhat ceased, the President replied to
the King. The Hall then resounded with cries of
rive le Roi, afterwards the General in Chief Pepe ap-
proached the Throne, and in a short but emphatic
speech, laid at the feet of his Sovereign the command
of that army with which he had achieved the de-
liverance of his country.
His Majesty replied, and expressed his acknow-
ledgments for the gallant and patriotic services of
the General. This scene, so morally splendid, con-
cluded amid universal rejoicings. The King tra-
versed the streets on his return while flowers were
showered on his Maje,ty and the Royal Party from
the hands of the citizens of all ranks, who crowded
the passages to the Palace gates, and surrounded their
Sovereign with the truest of all protections, the af-
fectionate homage of his people.
The chief subject of discussion on the Sittings of
the sth, 6th, 7th, and Bth, were the law on.the Li-
berty of the Press, the direct contributions, a project
of law for the improvement of prisons and better
treatment of prisoners, and the proposerfloan of 900
millions to cover the deficit in she revenue. The
articles of law on the Liberty of the Press, on these
Sittings, were from ST to 76, which were all ap-
proved, with some slight alterations.
The debates on the direct contribution were very
animated, many Deputies declaring that it was justly
called odious and monstrous in its present state, there
being no data even approximating to the-truth upon
which-to make a just distribution-of it.

Tuesday morning, as Mr. Knowles, sen. of Sitting-
bourn, plumber and glazier, was ascending the portal
of the Rose Inn, at that place, he fell of the ladder
when near the tbp, and catching at a tub containini
some evergreens► placed on the portal, drew it down
upon himself, from which he was so much bruised
that he died in a few hours.
Sunday sennight, as the sloop Heart of Oak, of
Ipswich, was coming through the Half-way reach,
near Gravesend, on her passage from London, a
young man, named Edward Taylor, was called upon
deck to assist in managing the vessel, he unfoitunately
got entangled by the foresail, and was thtown oveK-
board, uuporceited by any of the crevr, and drowned.

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