Star.
London, England, 1820-12-29 00:00:00

answer to these new communications.

Meantime everything here looks like war. 'Orders
have just been given to organize a new Regiment of
Chasseurs, the Battalions of Chasseurs now existing
are to remain entire. To compose this new Corpv
soldiers are to be taken from the Regiments of the
line, which receive the necessary reinforcements to
keep up their full compliment. In this state at
things, the appearance of hostilities takes a more
decisive direction ; already we are given to no.
derstand that the late events at Madrid, have)
greatly contributed to darken the political horizon.
It is asserted that the Austrian Ministry has made
great use of them, to strengthen their system, and
that they have successfully urged to the Russian Mi-
nisters the principle, that the Spanish Constitution,
in the combination of the powers of the three different
branches of the Government, leaves so little influence
to the Monarchical element, that the introduction of
such a regime into Italy would not be compatible
with the interests of the Austrian Monarchy. The
late accounts from Spain have excited the more sen-
sation here, because they have been accompanied
with remarkable notes, both in the Austrian Gbseroer
and the Court Gazettes.
.The ultimatum now sent to Naples, contained a
repetition of the invitation to King FaRDINA ND, either
to have a personal interview or to send a Plenipo-
tentiary to treat with the Ministers of the Great
Powers on the means of making the basis of the Con-
stitution of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies harmo-
nise with the principles of the Monarchical System.
The outlines of the Negotiation have likewise been
communicated to the Court of Naples, and Laybach
still proposed as the place of meeting.
In case the Government of Naples refuses to con-
form to the wishes of the Congress of Troppau, Aus-
tria, Russia, and Prussia, will openly declare their
intention to have recourse to arms, to re-establish in
the kingdom of the Two Sicilies an order of things
which may guarantee the maintenance of peace and
of the stability of the essentially monarchial social
institutions of Europe. France and Great Britain have
observed an entirely passive policy, with respect to
this definitive step.
The final answer of the Neapolitan Government is
impatiently expected; and as it is anticipated that it
will not be satisfactory, preparations are made to
carry on the measures for the prosecution or hostili-
ties. The Austrian army in Upper Italy will be in-
creased to 100,000 men, and will be considered as the
Army of Execution of the Holy Alliance.

The aspect of the political horizon becomes every
day more dark and perplexing. We consider a war
in Europe—a general war—as now inevitable, and
its commencement as at no great distance ; and we do
so from the very circumstances which make many
count upon•a long-continued peace.
We stated yesterday our disbelief of the possibility
of the Neapolitans being brought to agree, that their
Monarch should comply with the mandate of the Con-
gress at Troppau, to give the Allied Sovereigns a
meeting at Laybach. The report, as we then stated,
rested on the authority of private letters from Paris ;
and it now appears from the French Journals (received
last night), that it was current, and fully credited at
Paris. The accounts go so far as to mention, "that
the King of NAPLES has embarked on board the Eng-
lish ship the Vengeur, of 74 guns, and his suite on
board the French frigate La Duchess de Berri, and
are to land at Trieste, whence his MAJESTY will
proceed to Laybach, to meet the Allied Sovereigns."
Singular—unaccountable—as this fact may appear,
we must, for the present, consider it as true; and for
this very reason we consider war as being deter-
mined upon. How, in the name of common sense,
can the presence of the Kix° of NAPLES at Laybach
—his putting himself in the hands of those who have
already prejudged the question, declared in public
documents that the Neapolitan Revolution is sub-
versive of the principles of legitimacy, refused to re-

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ceive the accredited Ambassadors of the Kingdom of

Naples, threatened the KING and the Nation with war
should he refuse to quit his Kingdom by their man-
date, and trait on them at Laybach!—how can com-
pliance, under such circumstances, avert hostilities ?
The KING of NAPLES, a man of seventy years of
age, in a great measure retired from the business of
active life, but little qualified to wriggle, personally,
through the quirks, quibbles, and chicanery of dipl
matic artifice, quits his kingdom, .at the command of
other Potentates, to tell them by mouth what had
been over and over offered through his Ambassadors,
insulted by these very kgitimates, and refused admis-
sion to their Courts! and all this, that the miseries
of a threatened war. may be avoided I—By the Holy
Allies acknowledging the independence of Naples—
the right of that Kingdom to make a new Constitu-
tion for itself ?—No such 'thing. They have already
denounced the conduct of the Neapolitans as having
put them out of the pale of the domicile of Europe !
—By making the captive Kula consent to. destroy