The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-02-20 00:00:00

ceedingly that was danger to a despotic Boiret,n.
meat, from the mere vicinity of freedom. ft wail*
account of the baseness, and in proporttan to the haw.
nets of a Governs:suet of that description, that its sap-
porters felt alarm. Instead of averting the danger,
as they effectually would, by the improvement .ssf
their own political system, thty strive to drive it
away by overwhelming their neighbouring states.
The same unprincipled arrogance that makes
them treat inferior classes in their own ter-
ritory as subjects only of their caprice and ag-
grandisement, prompts them to invade the country
of an inoffensive people, whose principal fault is their
vicinity, and to strive to rivet upon them the galling
chains with which their native slaves are bound.
Such is the aim, and such the motive of those rulers
who, taking advantage of the proatratc state of liberty
on the Continent, by their successful invasion of France,
had, under the hype:critical name of a " Holy Alliance,"
leagued together to reduce the people of every land,
so far as their aims could reads, to become the
tools of a tyranny the most insolent, revolting and
debasing,. It is this design that combines against
their machinations whatever is generous and noble in
the human breast, and that cannot fail to make a com-
mon cause amoug ealightencil men of every land,
against those enemies of human kind. Had the feel-
ing of the British Government been more congenial
with the spirit of Reform at home, hail the system it
had previously pursued bee ss snort comistent with the
happiness and peace of the t.enietry, bad in word, the
spirit of the Administration been consistent with the
spirit of the Constitution, the re would bare been no oc-
s casion for such a motion as was made last night. That the
• Missiaers of a Sate whirls boasts of its political,
. liberty, and which owes its greatness not to the extent
of its territory, the Humber of its population, or the
riders of its soil, lent tee the in-leprisdence of its people.
and to that energy which fe CI iiitstl (*ail alone inspire,
could, in tie nerat.ures they haie pus sued respecting Na-
ples, so far belie the character of the country they .effect
to represent, is a subject mods to lea deplored-
But such has been the oatmeal conceepsence of their
Continental Alliance;. neir Alliance has been with
the Governors, met with the Ge.sertsed. '1 he " Sove-
reigns" have been the (Lief objects of their concern;
the " People" least. As at the commencement of the
Revolution of France, so also at that of Naples, the
circumstances that hare given therm the greatest
umbrage are those that leave arisen on the popul er
side. Ileoce the blame they attach to the origin
Id' Reform, to the, p.oceediesas of the secret par-
ties, and the movements of the military ; and heard.,
their inconsistent neutrality, and their suspitiole rgool-
will to the cause. fleet the 'lie is east ; and soon, per-
leaps the mask is ill el: op ; and nothing is now left for
the friends of freedom every where but to join their
hearty prayers is ith the arms of the brave Neapolitans.

The Paris papers contain to:Ailing dello' tire with re-
spect to the movements of the Austrians.
FICESt 11 Fl*,:lo•.—Fire per Cents. 113 f. 25e.

NUREMIIERG, Pun: 3.—Letters from the north men-
tion, that important dispatches were received by the
Prusaian Ambassador at the tenet of Sweden, but the
object of these dispatches a►e as yet a secret. .
In a sitting of the (•reads at Lisbon, it was resolved
that the Kingdom should be governed by a Regency,
consisting of live per.-ons, one of them acting as a
President. The Members have been chosen, and a
decree of the Cortes issued, appointing the Urgency
to govern in the name of King John VI. The func-
tions of the provisional Junta of the supreute Hovers•
wont have ceased.—(Lisbon, Erb. t 4.)
A slight disturbance took place on the sth instant
at Madrid ; it has been much exaggerated by the
Ministerial papers. As the King was leaving his
palace on that day a party of Militia cried nut
lung lire uer Cosaiti In timial Kiag ; when the hotly
guards escorting his Majesty, fell upon and wounded
several of thesis. A tumult ensued, but order was
quickly restored, and the town enjoyed perfect tran-
quillity. At Malaga there has also been some slight
disturbances.
FR I,SIiFORT, Fan. I.l—The important information
which follows, is taken from one of our jouroals:—
Larnscit, FEn. . —Tli t• Austrian army.. passed the
To on the 28th and .29tIs of January, and is advancing
npon Naples by three different routes. Forty thonsand
men will first advance to the frontier,. mho will alt•
ninnies% in case of resistance, that they will be followed
by P 41.0110 more!
His Majesty the King of Naples has addressed a pro-
clamation to the inhabitants of the Two Sicilies, in
which he orders the immediate dissolution of the Perlis.
anent. Ile also culls ou them to receive the Austrians
as friends. and promises, on his return, to give tbens a
Constitution.

A letter from the King of Naples li.ts recently been
pnblislied, in which he express. s his satisfactionat the
treatmeut of the Allies, but complains of an i.ierease of
his cold in couseeiscace of the great heat of Me atoree
Extract of a letter from Vettile, .11n. 27.—A vessel
arrived here in five days from Corfit, which brings the
melancholy account of a great earthquake which took
tee at Zante. Dec. 29. Several bosses in the town
ve beets considerably damaged, and numoben thrown
gown ; that was followed by an extraordinary hail
storm which slid considerable damage indifferent parts
of the country, and after the expiration of seven days
the heir ible phenomena returned •
' the town were destroyed. Nothit
sery of the poor inhabitants. At
it is not aseerttunad tha .amber
risked.

ON THESOCISTY OF CARDONA!!! IN NA PLE
•
In 1813, during the campaign its Sway, Carolie
Mink who had remained as ltegeut in the absence of
her husband. thought she perceived in the Carbonari •
.party whose existence could not be tolerated without
compromising the existence of the system then esta-
blished. She commenced some persecutions against
thinn ; Murat continued them, when, after the battle of
Leipzig, he returned to Naples, and, perhaps, it was to
those impolitic measures that the public disgust into
which his Government had fallen during the last year of
his power, should be traced. It was at that same time
that the division in the sect took place. The number
of the initiated had increased - out of all measure ; the
chiefs seeing the difficulty of directing that multitude,
formed the plan of a reform, and executed it with se:
crecy land celerity. The members still continued-
to bear the name of Carbonari (Colliers) whilst those
who were rejected took the name of Calderari (Flak s)
and an implacable hatred arose between those two rise'
sects ; disturbances were the tonsequences of it, and the
public tranquillity was often endangered : Murat, who
was alarmed, wavered sometime between the two parties,
and at length decided on promising his support to the
Carbossari, who were the most numerous, but it was too
late; the decisions of the Congress at Vienna were sus-
peeted, or known ; nothing would be done for a man
whose fall appeared inevitable ; and Murat, despised by
the Carbunari, hated by the Calderari, saw his Throne
sink, without any party waking the least movement in
his favour.
flue Chevalier de Me(liri, to whom the superintend.
once of the police was temporarily committed on the re-
storation of the King, appeared to attach hut little im-
portance to those internal divisions. Almost wholly oc-
cupied with the impost ant care of the finances, lie treated
the two sects with indifference, which the Carbonari at-
tributed to fear, and the Calderari to the protection they
were going to enjoy. The latter had beheld the istora-
tints with pleasure, fur it bad revenged them on the man
who was their enemy. The Carbonari, on the contrary,
dreading the future persecutions which their rivals
mixlit rabic against them, deemed it necessary to take
precautions for their safety ; they straightened their ties,
and renewed the oath of mutual and perpetual assistance
and defence ; such was the situation of those two sects
at the moment when the Prince de Canoga became Mi-
nister of Police. He adopted relatively to the two mys-
terion: associations a different conduct from that of his
predecessor ; persuaded that the Carbonari, who, during
the last moments of the reign of Murat, had been pro-
tected by him, were irrtconcileable enemies to King Fer-
dinand; he forried a plan of attack against them, which
could not have sneceeded excepting by the subversion
of social order. Ile commenced by composing lists of
all the robbers who had acted a part in the sanguinary
scenes of 1799, and created them members of a new as-
sociation, of which he became tlse elder, and to which
be gave the name of Calderari del Contropeso. He en-
listed into it all the ancient Calderari, oe account of
their enmity to tlse Carbonari. He exacted from all the
initiated an oath, of which the principal articles were
passive obedience to his orders, and the engagement to
exterminate, by all possible means, the Carbonari and
Freemasons. The new sect was divided into Cnria. In
rash province a central curia was empowered to cor-
respond with all those which were in its district. The
Minister took measures for a prompt and secret commu-
nication. lie recommended to the chiefs to make pro-
selytes, and distrihnted to them twenty thousand suns
quiets, which Ise hid taken from the arsenals, or bought
from various individuals. That unheard of plan was
proceeding to be post in practice, and had already carried
terror into the provinces, when the King, having been
informed of what one of his ministers had presumed to
do unknown to him, deprived him of Isis functions and
banished hint : thus it was that a scheme terminated
which might hare led to new calamities, to scenes of
blood, awl which, even though it had not had an insole-.
diate result, has not been without consequences trouble-
some even at the moment in which we write. in fact
the Carbonari, the sect supposed to the Calderari have
multiplied, and are still multiplying ss the kingdom. The
two societies are constantly in presence of each other,
the least spark might cause a flame, and from the midst
of the ruins, which it would produce, souse expert or
boldly ambitions character would inevitably start forth
to endanger tlse govern went.

THE Wei:N.—Th. following company hail the
honour of dining with her Majesty on Saturday
[hike of Bedford, Karl tirey, Lord Nugent, Lord Os-
sulston, lion. !fees Bennet, Hon. Mrs. Bennet, Mr. and
Lady Lonisa Lainbtou, Sir N. Ferguson, Mr.
Brougham, Hon. Mitt. Hamer, Dr. Lusliington, Mr.
Wilde, and W. A. 3ladocks, gay. M. I'.
SIR Fn.%Neis Ilea toe c's Nrwrxxer.—The Com-
mittee appointail at the public meeting held at the
l.:rown and Anchor-tavern, Strand, on blesday es's-
night, will assemble at the sign of the Crown, MORT
the Obelisk, St. Ceorge's-fields, at I I o'clock to-mor-
row, and proceed to the King's-Bench prison, to pre-
sent the address voted to Sir Francis Burdett.
WRIGuT r. Conarr.r.—l t is said that a compromise
has taken place between the Law Agentsof these par.
ties. and that the Plaintiff, instead of the £l,OOO da-
mages awarded by the Coins, has accepted of .£sllll,
with the full payment of costs, amounting altogether
to £7OO, which sun. has actually been paid.
Tur !are Dum..—Mr. Scott's surgical attendants as-
certained on Sunday afternoon that the hip bone had
been shattered by the ball ; and in the cosiest of the
evening they extracted a large splinter of bone from the
wound. He passed a sleepless night afterwards sad
the consequence was an accession of fever ; which in-
creased so Much that at one o'clock yesterday the me-
dical gentlemen apprehended his immediate dissolution.
Shortly afterwards there was a total cessation of pain,
and he fell into a deep sleep; which also was regarded
lnfavourahle symptom ;_ bet we understand

COURT OF KING'S BR NCIL—TuIo 14114
4.1
The Court has been occupied during this sqr
by a cause of nu public interest, in which hie Bent
the Master of the 14,110, was th fendant, and 41. Cu.
ton, Req. an eminent Solicitor, in Chancery-lase,.
the plaintiff.

01111 BAILEY SESSIONS.—Tata Munk
J•nsees !firma, a respectable looltiols; Fog" abt
was indicted for erubestltn; Lone pounds and ether
vies, the property of Ann bulloway, his mistress. ;
Mr. Ati.xv staled tile. ease fur the pi-wet:ll4w-
Mrs. Holloway deposed that she lives at Helasisti
the prisoner was emplord to collect monies (slip.
sometime in Septetuber last she sent him to a Mr.°
Her for the sum mentioned in thu indictment,
the pris,•ner did not account for.
Mr. Garleter deposed that the prisoner came to
for payment of the above snm ; be elesised hint
down a few minutes and he would pay hilts; '
so ; the prisoner gave a receipt and went awar,
Several rellectable witnesses gave the prisoner,
excellent character—The Jury found the prism',
Ralph Dow,ritly, a young nsan, dressed is the
style of fashion, was indicted for shilling a bonnet
valued at I/. the property of Mary Bunn.
Mary Bunn deposed, that last Sunday fortnight,
about 10 at night, as she was passing through Thin,
11unit-street, the prisoner came up and to tehed
bonnet from Ler Lead.

John Cousins, the watchman, deposed, thatiksins.
secutrix came to him and told him, that the raw
had stolen her bonnet, and if he would not take char
of hi►n, she would give him, the watchman, in ehargtz
he went out, when he was immediately stirrou.nied ►t
four gentle►uen, one of whom seised him by the •
for the purpose of rescuing his stick ; another
his hand upon his month ; a third seivell hold
rattle, whir h lie still obtained possession of, althuegLie
strap was broken iu the senile. After the battle:
row were over, he succeeded iu conveying the priwan
to the watchlionsc.
I t appearing that it was merely ad t unken frolictite
prisoner was immediately acquitted After waviest►
Bar the prisoner went into Court and paid the
cutrix for her bonnet.

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