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London, England, 1821-03-23 00:00:00

THE EVEANG STALL.

,is the Law of the State, *ItS the molidcationa which may be
made by the National Representation, in concert with the King.
" Given at Turin, March 13. " cliArti,Es ALBERT.
(boentersigned) 1' MAGIARCIR,
First Clerk in the Office of the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs."
COPY OF THE DECLARATION OF THE MAGISTRACY Of
TILE CITY OF TURIN, AND OF THE GENERALS AND
COMMANDANTS OF THE CORPS COMPOSING THE
GARRISON.

LON!) ON.

FRIDAY, MARCH 2S, 1821.

We received, yesterday evening, by express, the
Paris Papers c)f. last Tuesday. The Moniteur en-

" We, the undevigned, in our stations as added below, beleg
summoned by his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, declare—.
That the present circurustamees are of so serious a nature, the
danger of a civil war so imminent, the will of the People se
strongly expresst:cl, that we are of opinion, that, for the public
safety, and Glom 'the necessity of the case, it is Indispensable to
promulgate the Spanish Constitution, with such modifications as
his Majesty the King and the National Representation may con-
cur judging proper. [Here follow the signatures.]
" Turin, in the Palace of his Royal !lighness.
the Prince Regent."
" CHARLES ALBERT OF SAVOY, PRINCE QF cAßic.wAsto,
REGENT.

ables us to fill up, by a series of important State
Papers, the preceding void in the history dr events
at Turin.
On the 13th the Prince of CARIGNAN°, by advice
and with the concurrence of :he municipal Authori-
ties of the capital, proclaimed the Constitution of the
Spanish Cortes. On the ltth, he organized a Junta
of Government, and published a Proclamation, de-
claring that, although Regent by the will of the
abdicated Sovereign, he acknowledged CHARLES
FELIX, the brother of VICTOR ESINIANULL, for his
!Awful king ; that the emergency was!such as to' "We have thought proper to nominate, until the meeting of
make it impossible for him to consult 'the precise the National It'arliaatmkenwtk,
which
knovitskionual Jkunrat otfkfifteer,aswll
Constitution,
as for participating well
limits of a Regent's prerogatives. The Prince
for gke
with us in the deliberations which, according
yielded to the necessity created by the universal
to the terms of the Constitution, will require the intervention of
desire of the people for a Constitution, and to the the Parliament! This Junta may, in
persuasion that the new KING, when present, would of its Members, deliberate to t':e mother of seem It is tom-
;eelosed of the following individuals:— Agresti, Chevalier, Ado- the same necessity ; and, in consequence, decreed P
cDatienfrirmtlete
xPioautrquoift A; lei:aenndoria • Di Boroll Marquis Tancredi;
that the " Spanish Constitution should be promul-
(.;ugeistinD, Advocate; della Ca-
gated and observed as the law of the St ate, with the
terns, Prince; Cowers, President of the 'Court of Appeal; Gbl.
modifications which may be made by the National UM, Marquis; Sano, Counsellor of Stare; Mogenta Pic; Maren-
Representatives in concert with the KING." Sub- tini, Canon; DOncieux, Marquis; Piacenza Collateral Paretta
joined to this document is a Declaration from the (Augumini), Marquis; Serra di Albuguano, Count; Serra Mon-
lames, marquis. Our hint Secretary of State for the Affairs of
Magistracy of Turin, subscribing to the same con-
the Interior is charged with Abe execution of the present Decree.
viction of necessity as had operated on the mind of (Signed) " CHARLES ALBERT.
the PRINCE, and considering the establishment of the s. Given at Turin, March Is. DALPOZZO."
Spanish Constitution as the sole means of averting a PROCLAMATION'.
civil contest. On the 15th, a Proclamation appeared " CHARLES ALBE.,T, CF SAVOY, PRINCE OF CAtIO•
NA No, REGENT.
from the PRINCE, containing the names of the Pro- " Under the weighty circumstances in which the country b
visional Junta of fifteen, of whom seven are to con- placed by the abdication of his Majesty Victor Emmanuel, it is
stitute a quorum. The Prince DE CISTERNA is amongst the duty of all good citizens, and more particularly of the armed
force, to rally round the authority to which the Government la
them, who was one of those arrested previous to the
breaking out of the Revolution ; anti many of the
intrusted. Widtout this
. union, neither happiness nor tranquillity
can be hoped for. We may be exposed to anarchy, and proba-
others are of distinguished reputation. Another State
bly to foreign invasion. All persons who circulate insidious re-
Pape: was published on the 16th, which, after some ports, as well on the nature of the King's abdication as on other
prefatory remarks, proclaimed a full amnesty for all imaginary events, or who endeavour to seduce the soldiers and
political offences, and a prohibition against the use of the citizens from the path of obedience to our legitimate autho.
nfiustubbre rc
tegarderdiitas enemiestoil!thee counn-
vice fy, of good order,
ou a
guished the Piedmontese nation, under the House of
any colours or cos trades but such as had hitherto distin-
a we
linavedothperefore ordgered,Yand do order, as follows :
Savoy.• The series of official documents concludes " Art. 1. Full and entire amnesty is given for every political
with the act of abdication of VICTOR ENINIANyEE, in act which has hitherto taken place, on condition that, from th;
which his MAJESTY se:s out by declaring that he had date of the present Proc'amation, all persons return to order, and
crown. yield obedience to the directions which they may receive from us.
He then adds that, from the increased
frequently contemplaied the resignation ofdifficulties of his
" 2. As it is of importatic.: to remove all marks which may
excite discord among the citiz-ra and the troops, it is Le reby
his Government, and from his own exhausted health, strictly prohibited to hoist colours and wear cockades of a dif-
he has fixed on the present moment fur the accom- ferent form or colour from those which have hitherto distin-
plishment of his plan of abdication. What seems guished the I'iedmontese nation, under the government of the
very remarkable in this solemn act of State, is the august House of Savoy.
Ktyo's "irre-rocablit renouncing the Crown," and no- " Those whocontrav
• tu rs of public tranquillity.
he
reinating the Prince _of CARIGNAN° Regent, with
" 3. The act dr Abdication of his Majesty Victor Fmmanuet
supreme authority, yet never once naming his own shall be published with the present Decree.
brother, who is the immediate successor to the throne, "4. As soon as the Provisional Junta, which is to supply the
or alluding to him, as if any such man existed. It place
of the National Parliament until it be convoked, is nomi-
may require some time, perhaps, to clear away the nated, ad
the to
day shall be fixed for the troops to take a solemn oath
t
perplexities which surround many parts of this great o:: san.
Meanwhile all the Constitution.
Judicial, and Military Ambo-
y titles are required to remain at their posts, and to perform their
political change, and to qualify us for more securely
appreciating the whole mass of motives and of causes functions with that increased attention to fidelity and punctuality
which have produced it. which the circumstances and training wants of the country re-
The different documents, the substance of which quire- (Signed) " CHARLES ALBERT.
we have stated above, will be found subjoined. Given at Turin, March 14. " DALPOZZO."
ANUM., by the grace cf Gott King of Sardinia, of
From the same Papers we are also enabled to add Vjc"a EU
Cyprus and Jerusalem, Duke of Savoy, sec.
the reciprocal Addresses of the PRINCE REGENT of " Amidst the vicissitudes which Itsve agitated a great part of
'NAPLES and the Parliament, on the closing of their our past life, and srhich have insensibly exhausted our strength
late Extraordinary Session, and the opening of the and our health. we have frequently contemplated the ;behead%
Ordinary Session for 1821. The speeches and letters of the Throne.
of the PRINCE are worthy of consideration, for the "To this idea, which we have always entertained, was iolbed
the considerations presented to us by the constantly increasing
temperate, dignified, and patriotic spirit which per-
difficulties in public affairs at the present time, our constant
vales therm The capital is guarded by its own desire having always been to do everything which might contd..
Citizens—a proof, by the way, of the admitted una- Bute to the happiness of our beloved People.
nimity of the People. • " Having now determined to accomplish this design, we have
PARIS, MARCH 20.
resolved, after hearing our Council of State, to choose and not&
nate Regent•of our dominions, our well-beloved cousin, Prince
A letter from Turin, dated the 13th contains the
Charles Amadeus Albert of Savoy, Prince of Carignan°, come-
following details:
qUently conferriog on him all our authority.
Oa the 13th of March, the Regent, Prince of CA- " And by this act of our Royal and free will, our Council
RIGNANO, after having taken the counsel of the mu- being heard, we declare--
nicipality of Turin, proclaimed the Constitution of "That reckoning from the 13th of March current, we irrevo-
cably renounce the Crown, and in the same manner the exercise
the Cortes of Cadiz as the kw of the State.
of our rights of Sovereignty, as well over the territories which
Next day (the 14411), the Parm.: organized a Junta we actually possess, as those which, by treaties or othervise,
of Government. We have no other information re- may fall to us by right of succession.
" We mean it, however, to be under.tood that the following
specting the affairs of Piedmont than that which
t vadat]; shall be the essential conditions of our aledication, viz.
may be collected from the following official docur reservations
" 1. That we shall pres:_rve the title and dignity of King, and
meats, printed and published at Tut in on the 13th
the honours we have hitherto enjoyed.
and 14th : " e. That there shall be paid to us quarterly, and in advance,
4‘ CHARLES ALBERT OF SAVOY, PRINCE OF CARIG- an annual pension of £1,000,000 of Piedmonteselitres, rearming
NANO, REGENT. to ourselves, besides, the property and disposition of our pro-
I. The urgency of the circumstances in which his Majesty the petty, moveable and immoveable, allodial and patrimonial.
King, Victor Emmanuel, has appoinsed us Regent of the King- "3. That we shall be free—we and our family—to choose
dom, though the right of succession does not belong to us—the whatever place we shall please for our residence.
desire, so strongly manifested by the People for a Constitution "4. And alto the persons with whom we may desire to live,
and whom it may plszse 'as to admit. into our service and that of
conformable to that which governs Spain, Induces us to satisfy,
as far as may depend on us, what the chief safety of the King-
our family.
dom now evidently requires, and to adhere to the general wish a
5. That all the Acts pissed in favour of the Queen, Maria
which has been expressed with unspeakable ardour. In a crisis Theresa of Austria, our well.beloved consort, and of the Prin-
ens Maria Beatrice Victoria, Duchess of Modena; Marla
Ficit
itneld3i,TaPtiriancckestsittrsinfaLuccacrajina,ll,arioura Aweeena:
so difficult it does not appear to us possible to consider pre-
cisely the ordinary limits of the authority of a 'Regent. One re-
spect and our submission to his Majesty Charles Felix, to whom
beloved dAighters, shall preserve their full force and vigour.
the Crown has devolved, would have induted us to make no
TRlsvresuicaradaFeCrdiaronroda
change in the fundamental laws of the Kingdom, or at least to "Done at Turin, in our Palace, March 13.
wait until the inteations of the new Sovereign should be known. (Signed) "VICTOR EMMANUEL
But as the exigency of the circumstancesls manifest ; as it is, "CHARLES ALBEIIT, OF SAVOY..
above all, important to present to the new King a nation safe "DI S. M.ATANZO." • .
and secure, happy, and undisturbed by factimis and civil war- And fourteen other Sigzaturese
fare ;—having maturely sreighed all these reason', and acting
NAPLES, MARCH 2.
with the advice of our Council—being besides persuaded that
On the evening of the 27th of last month, a Della--
his Majesty the King, moved by the same considerations, will
the Parliament waited cn the Prince Re.
West this decision with his sovereign approbation, we have re_
solved On what follows: itation from
gent, to announce to him the close of the Extraoreli-
" The Spanish Coosthution shalibc pronntizatcd and observed nary Parliament, and the opening of the ordinary.

this Article shall be punished as dis.