The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-03-24 00:00:00

to know whether the report was true, that the Bri-
tish aqnadran had Mine been withara•:. n from the leap
of Naples ? Became it would .appei.r most extraor-
dinary tbat.a sqltaticon stationed there when its pre-
sence might give birth to 'so many miscoacep,i TS.
sh.euld aCerwards be withdrawn at the very moment.
when all the (Jaeger which tkreatened British pro-
perty, awl Which had been elicited as theAroutol for .
kceping it in the Day or Naples, hail beets jnereased
tenfold by the actual breaking or.: of hostilities.. • -
The nest qcestion was eonceroing that material State
Paper er Circular at!dresred to the three* collets of
it•!,sia. P.ns:lit, iiml Anstriar to the var:ons Bistigeti
of Europe, sand' r•Liel contained the basis of the pm-
I
reeilin:s lately ailepted towarls Naples. That Orr
hail oriOnatir Frei pnblithed without a dato,'lfut•
int.! vow eft ieitreil in the Vierna °turtle av:_th the
Gate of the 12th of December 18.10. _ Ife telstted to
know e. ifether this la's circular :rte ktictli the
same as the /termer, or whether it hail been matswed
and extendell: awl his reason for -etching ate infor-
maroo was, that !iavine• un lerotto I from the Noble
Pan oupoe.ty, putt the first paper was a correct eery
he !col e,itiTate4i it with the latter tool found a ma-
terial differtotre tit ?wren them. lii.. thiri enetetleo.
venni.' Ile telt-thee it-ii coneitonsititt'on had been ostVe
to flee Nizt:le F.ifl, or to the flot•eznment of the
volintry by the Coen of. Aostria. f.r ;non-tering in
the affairs of other cinntries hesieles ilLipts-? The
Mowe would ref-oils-et
.that in the tee P:o,l3Twol,n
isaneil by the King of tsartlinia, that Monarch ai'l'ed
to the glerlation of those whom he called t:te Thtre
Great Powers, as his grontel for refnsin 1. to come).
with the wishes of hi:. sitbjer -. which refirisi h;,4
led inevitably to the necessity of his nipliention. He
(the Martinis of Lansdowne) did nnt kuow in what
manner the ein .if the Three Great Poolis lrid been
communicated to the Eine of Sardinia, brat it ap-
peared evident that some interference had been used
on their part. Anil when he recellecte,l the serret•
article whirls had been conclittlei hottvern Naplei
and Austei t its ISIS, he eovseeived it probable drat a •
similar stien:ation toi;:ht hare...silted betri-rew the'
latter power and tit- Comet of Manmit. He there-
fore stislsed to he informed whether the psi tenet- of
soda a secret artiee bete een Piedmont awl .‘rasters
had rotor to the loon linkr of the Noble Carl in
the same manlier PS that between the Anstrian Gl-
vernment and the King of Naple- *r:' He also w'eltri
to inquire Whether the secret article which hail heen
pnblithill and of which hr now held a copy, (•l'ltlf it
the Noble Martinis read aloud, :and which !Les alrecie
appeared in all the papers), was correctly gieen. It
bore the date of Jame it, Inls, awl seems Ito hive .
i brim concluded at the time of the Conereefi of .
Vienna, thoniis it"riirrein sennlonsly keptffrisii Me'
kedsilegdge of id. Majesty's Ministers. It lead be-
come known to them at last, li:orever, sad they ha:l
kept it as wires theinselves, ne.donbt kit the hettlfit
of Austria. • • ' '.. •
The Karl of fiIiCERPfKIL bad do..objettlim trisst-
ever to aesterr the opiestroies pist.to him * the. Nubia .
Marqnli. -With respect-to the siptpdfon in the Medi-
terranean. the inifenitioss*Sent to itscomtnander, tie
Graham Moore. in:Septedther last, when it tad bun
thought net-coney-to make some addition to its forte.
here in all rises to preserve the strictest neutrality*,
with two eteeptiotne. in case.any irtinre sloield is
done to Britists property, or protection should i.e
wanted for the personal security of the Kinr and ef
the Royal Family. He 'said the personal security ci
the Kii,, %realise the inetrulions had no referenze tv
his political situation, am' his person alone and thou
of the Royal Family were to he protected. He hail no
objection to go one 4 tep tardier. and to state that the
instructions made it distin• fly understood, that if in
either of those cases hostilities should ensue, they
were to be entirely confine" tie the circumstances-wiiici.
had given them rise, anti not to. he -.considered lis
taking. part with the tether Powers against Naplei. to
that if any asst of hostility ocurred the country would
not he involve" by it in a general Wit. 'Stich Were
the instructions given to our commander in Chief` in
the Mediterranean. As to our squadron haring brier
withilrawn.ilie Noble Maiqui,. had been misinformed.
It hail beetrentirely left at the discretion of wit Ad-
miral to station his force as he thought proper : but
the bulk of it was in the Ray of Naples, and the Admin."
was there himself, either on board a ship of war or or
shore. If the force antler hint had beets greater at
one time, it was because orders srere sent to certlol.
vessels to join him, in the belief that those forwarded
to a ship of war which had been released. from
the Brasil. had not becu received. But that ship hair
stopped at Oitiraltae, and gone to the Meditetr.ineae.
The Admiral himself was of opinion that one ship or
war and three frigates were sufficient for the purpet-e
which he had to keep in view. That was now t' e
anima of the force under his orders, and the regcl-t•
peace establishment for the Mediterranean wet ore
ship of war and ott air two frigates. With respect tv
the seeoni question concerning the paper wbicl Fad
given rise to the circular of the Allied Powers, he Lad •.
every reason to believe that the copy printed in the .
Hatnitur;il papers, had stated that the genera' sak- •
stance was the sam, though the wording reieht in '
some itlstaoces be different. He therefore b.:Helsel •
that the ropy in the Vienna Duette was rrfettly
faithful. Widi respect to the third toretlen of Se.
Noble Mat-vitt, whether the Proclamation Inca*
the King of Sardinia before his abdication, bail .-
'..
tucle in consequence of any menace er contmetli • . •
flout the Austrian flovernmeut, he (-staid tuatity it
coneninnication might Save been made to tit Court if '
Piedmont by the Marquis de St. Mama Un his retorts
from Lay bach ; but it sea,-, his firm beiip( drat ise mei -
menace or columuniration bad been made. sad dle •
what the King of Sardinia had all•dea to la his Pro-
clamation, was the general expos. of the view.' of the •
Allied Poe ere. lie did sot believe that any
special application of the principles of that eireede
had been made by any Uoierateent to the Court et
Turin. The rest question put by the Noble biseple
related to tie correctness of the pared culltetatit•id*
the secret article concluded bowies -Aistriases los.
pl s. As far as bin recollectios eilelliniesi, lie espy