The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-03-26 00:00:00

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hONDON:

MONDAY ETENINO, M , 11421.

EXCiLINGF. ONK O'CLOCK*
Consols have rrr.,rrr.•d thrtim•lrr+ this morning,
and are not► aliout 71', hnt with little business doing•

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CharlestArn par:s arrived this enemies to the'
ISth of Fehru.try. By them we learn that an ecpe•
ditiou was fitting out at Rio Janeiro, fur the purpose,
it was ruutourell, of conveying Don Pedro to Portugal,
as Vice Boy of that kingdom.
Ha(MIK harbour was closed ►cith ice, from 1•1 th to
the 20th of Jan ; a circumstance which tweet before
occurred in the mentor:• of the oldest inhabitant.

An express arrived tlok morninv from Paris, lost, it
is supposed only with the prices of the French Fends,
which are quoted at 7; f. 111 c.

EXTRACT OP A PRIVATE LETTER FROM PARIS, DATED

MARCH 21.

" You have no idea of the manner in which every I
step of His Royal Iligline,s the Duke of ttai.KaNtt is ;
watched here, or of those unworthy suspicions thrown
upon his conduct by the ultras. The greatest pains •
have been resorted to, for the purpose either of shark.
ling or intercepting his correspondence, since it was
discovered that he forwarded General Dustornt Les
plan of defence to the PRINCE gr.:ENT of Naples,
with a strong reeommentlation for its adoption. You
will be able to form some notion of the present sys.
teat, when informel that, the Packet you sent five
weeks ago through our legation, and which C---
was to have taken charge of, has never reached its des-
tination 1. Whatever the faction may think or do, the
Duke fee!s that be has a country, towards which he
has sacred duties to perform. Firmly devoted to the
KING, he is ready to sacrifice both life and fortune in
his service, if his 31 %Jr:2; ry does but itlentify himself
with the people who will not much longer bear to be
governed by the ambitious and corrupt men that now

hurry the nation to its ruin."

We have good reason to hdirve that soon after the
arrival of 31. Meters at Paris, a new Ministry was
proposed, of which he would have become the heath,
bad not politics taken a new turn —His rolleagnes
were to have been chosen antonpt the party who are
styled doctrinaires, men whose principles have neither
been defined by themsel‘ex or cotnprebeniled by the
public. Hoven COLLARD, CAMILLE JoeRDAN, and
den. Uouvios Si. typ, ale amongst the names
handed about in the French* capital. as likely to have
formed part of the new Adusinistration. lbus it would
seem, as we hare already hinted, that the return of the
Ex-Minister is little inure than a species of honourable

lieneral Do Auto continnes to brand the actual I
Minister on every occasion, and nwsvitlistanding his
characteristic fury, it cannot be denied that he tells
them some severe troths.—ln the sitting of Monday
last, the General moved that the whole should be int-
peached. and by way of illustrating their crimes es-1
claimed—" what kind of men must those be whose
system of rule has placed France in such a sitnation,
that they cannot order a single regiment to march to-
I wards the Frontier, lest it should revolt and join the
revolutionary troops of Spain and Italy
With respect to a change of some sort in the Conn-
sets of Louis XVIII. it is by no maims ofilikely.

The following is the Austrian offir•ia/ areotint of the
military operations in Italy, reeeiveil this morning by

express :
Letters from Florenre, dated the 1301 of March,
contain the hollowing partienlats :
" Yesterday we had news from the Anstrian army.
After the taw of the 'th, betteral Stntterbeito made
a movement. After having passed through the de-
files of Carniola, without having met a single Nrar.
litan, he entered Jagliacazzo. He is marching hy
Alba, Celan°, Pescitta, on Sulmnna. If he do not
find General Pepe in the last town, hr will proceed
'orthward as far as During this march,
Count Waltunden ought now to have reached Aquila.
Home, which is uncovered loy this march of lien.
Stutterheino, has not been flimptirted for a single mo-
ment. The Neapolitan General Atuhrosio remains at
I:ri and Fondi. Carascosa, it is said, is at San lieu
maim. The Neapolitan Prinees have not yet set out
for the head-quarters. every thing that is reported
respecting the interior of Naples is full of rontradic-
Itions and incohrrences, amidst which it is impossible
Ito form a single rational conjecture u to the situation
1 of that city.
" A bulletin, dated head-quarters Antrodoco, men-
tions that Genera; Stutterlsrim has taken the fort of
Cone, and the passage of Coeca di Cerro."

sIQUItt. of THE otIMAL INTELLIIIENti 114031 Tat
AesTRiAN MOM
" Head-quarters. Freseati. March It.
ts We hare neither space nor time to insert the pre
Ilininary dispositions male by the lieneral Baron Fri-
moot to surmount the obstacles which presented them-
?viers on entering the Abruzzi, and we hasten to the
particulars which are most interesting.
" The advance ruar.l of the centre column under
General leeppert, had orders to advance rapidly until,
it should meet a resistance sufficiently rigorous to ren-
der it necessary to wait for the effect of the tisareli of
the centre column.
" Our chasseurs fell in With the enemy at Canetto.
the eatrance of which *as Imarricamloeml; but it was
abandoned without resistance. Before the village of
Itorehe:to we (wind a bridge on the Veilino. This
bridge, commanded by heights, whose successive sum-
mits might have favoured a brisk and murderous fire,
was entrenched and was capable of an easy defence.
A regiment of light infantry was posted there. Our
eltassettrs advanced boldly. The enemy did not stand
their ground. and a superior officer was wounded and
made prisoner.
" The enemy, instead, of retiring Oh Borghetto,
and thus defending the approaches to Antrodoco,
threw hitnself into the mountains, whither he was
pursneml. We therefore arrived eithout any obstacle
before Antrodoeo. We there saw the neighbouring
heights revered with infantry ; and some cannon fired
front the castle of Antrodoco made us believe that the
enemy was there in force, and that he wonld defend a
post which nature had rendered formidable. The
movement of the column .s slackened, to wait for
tl.e arrival of Major I)'Aspre, and the effect of his at-
tack. ,Meanwhile we exchanged some cannon shot
with the fort of :%ntrodoets. We heard Major D'Aspre's
lite, which was for some inimietits very brisk. It was
late, and the enemy profited of the night to escape
into the mountains. Major D'Aspre occupies the
ahatolitiont fort, and the advanced guard of the centre
established posts in the t twit. We found three thirty-
six nnn and some ammunition in the fort.
Major D'Aspre proceeded in his march at one in
the morning of the 10th, and advanced towards Ma-
duna dells Broth'. Ile found the road undefended,
and one cannon in a bad entrenchment which com-
manded the passage.
" At day-breal: !Amt.-General Walmoden moved
forward : Lieut.-General Mohr marched the division
of the Prince of Wirt!. At ten in the morning General
Villata descended the mountains of the Pas de etwno,
bringing with him stone officers and a hundred soltliets
prisoners. This was a very fatiguing march ; it
made the enemy, who obtained inf irmation of it,
abandon the Nholona del la tirotta. A rapid timed' was
then commenced on Acquila. Major lE.Vmpre, who.
in consequence of his rapid movement, had with his
corps become our advanced guard, found the enemy at
the post of St. Thomas ; hot they withdrew, after
thing a few muskets, awl abandoned two held pieces.
At !wren in the evening he arrived before Actinilit. A
deputation from the town came to meet lam, to inform
him that it was es-imate'', and to invite him to occupy
it. He entered, receiving from the inhabitants evi-
dent proofs of their joy at being delivered from the
intolerable yoke of time undisciplined legionaries.
The commandant of the Castle of Acquits, an old
officer, an invalid and faithful, opened the gates as
soon as he received from Lieut.-lieneral Baron
the assurance that the Austrian army did not make
war on the Neapolitan people, and that it was acting
according to the orders and intentions of his Majesty
the King of the Two !genies.
"tin the 1 Ith General Iteppert, supported by the
division Walmoden, advanced towards Popoli, and the
division !Vied encamped near Acquila.
tt Whilst these movements were being ezeenteml,
Colonel Schneider advanced from Leonessa to la Porta,
and thence tit Monte Beale. In his wards he met
some enemies, disi.ersed them. and took some pri-
soners. On the 12th he marched on To:tra.
" The division of StUtterheint, posted at Tiroli.l
proceeded on the 9th to Carsoli, attacked the hill and
took one piece of cannon. Three battalions of infan-
try were drtacheil fruits 16.6 by !'ogle-Alto on Capara
sil)Aso and Carson. with intent to favor the movement
of the division of Stotterheitn, and to follow the enemy
on that road, tty taking. the direction of Stiltnotia : the
rest of this division was to reinforce time main body of
the army at Valmontore.
" The whole of these dispositions were made upon a
calculation of the pompous words of General Per,
and ewir,,rusalify to the etrorts which be appeared to
introit making, and which, in effee:, he dill make.
"'1 his operation, begua on the itioroinir of the 7th,
terminated on the evening of time Intim, by the acqui-
sition of Acquila,
" 'these facts, thus detailed, in order that their na-
ture may Le better understood, prove suture than all the
speeches of factious orators, what is the actual spirit
of the Neapolitan army and people. The soldiers
abandon a cause which never was theirs ; the militia,
compelled to join through terror, have also manifested
their real cpiuion. The initahitants of the Abrazzis,
plundered by their own defenders n ith the pert: ode
design ut stopping our march, receive its as friends.
" One cannot but pity the fate of the peaceable in-
halinants. The ettilty hare toot even known how to
avail diet:mires of the stssist.anee of art, in addition to
the natural difficulties which the defiles of the Abruzzi%
every where present.
" General Pepe departed from Acquit* without as
army, declaring that the soldiers had betrayed hint.
" Baron tie Frinsont, arrived at the passage of
the Corn°, has sent home a hundred of prisoners, and
some officers.
" On the 10th, at 3 in the afternoon, he left the
corps which had adranred to Atlisila, to rejoin, and
to direct the movements of the other divisions ut his
troops.
(Signed) "JOHN RA HON DI FRIMONT.
—tieneral in niief of the Austrian Arm)."

Nom Ihitrat 21.—The accounts from Turin com-
mimic:tie several decrees of the Prince of Carignana.
Otte augments the number of the members of the pro-
visional junta ; another establiNhes a national guard in
all the cities, town•, and villages: a third orders the
publication in the Italian langintee of the Spanish
constitution, provisionally adopted. The second arti-
cle determines that no alteration •Fall be made in the
organization of the authorities, and their respective
relations with the government. •
'rusts, )lAm:el 17.—ThePrilbeeof.;aroy-Carignamt