Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-05-29

the Pope's reyolted cities.
The who'll strain of Lord Castle
reagh's speech proves design to OK
hibit them in the most odious light; the
extent of his baseness or his malevolence
may be judged from the following SEN
tence. "The revolution against which
Austria had now EARNED, had been
brought about by fraud and secrecy; up
| on an organized plan hetwesn the milf
tary and the Carbonari, got IN infhdl
style Of the sporst heriod Of the FreHcl (
revolntion." This is monstrous exags'
geration. What Austria chiefly dreaded
was not an actual wide spread conspira.
cy, or future collision between the Nea-
politan Carbonari and the disaffccied of
her Italian domnions, but, as is pegcep-
tible through her manifesto, and steady
example of a liberal constitution ofNa-
Piles. Onthis head, we may repeat ater
Lord Holland---s' What more exho'bi-
tant proposition could be stated, nan
that because our own government is lad,
we arc entitled to protect it by attacking
a neighboring good government--,e-
cause our state is founded on rottennSs,
we must attack neighboring stse
whose constitution is sound becaue
our habitation is built on stubble, W,
must prohibits neighbor within the en-
closure of a strong wall to light his pipe,
for fear OF our straw-built palace"
The Neapoltan Committee dwell up
on the imposibility of the nations con-
senting to change her adopted institu-
tons at the dictation of any foreign pow
er, or soliciting the intervention OF any
foreign government to obtain peace for
her at the price of her liberty. AS to
her monarch, Ferdinand, they ask how
is it possible he could ever yield his as
sent to a new constitution? Could he
forget his solemn oaths, his reiterated
promises the dignity OF his own charac-
ter, the tears which his people had shed,
the vaccinations with which they had
greeted him when he ratified the Revo-
luton Gould he lend his arm to over
tarow that system of which he gloried
in being the founder Ifhe did, the Par
lament would never SO far forget their
own obligations to themselves and the
people as to yield. Areformation, pre- 4
pared during the space of twenty years,
would not be cancelled through their
fault or imprudence. If the King had
resolved to go to Laybach, he could have
no other object than to refute the Ca
lumnies of the enemies of Naples to as
sure the happiness of the kingdom by
means of independence manifest to the
universe that when he set his seal to the
constitution of Spain, it was not fear,
but the love of glory that guided his
hand"
The Neapolitan papers of the last of
December contain the minutes, publish
cd by authority of a long conference be-
tween Prince Metternich, the prime min
lister of Austria, and Prime Cimitile, who
had been sent by the Ncapolitan Parlia-
ment on an extraordinary mission to the
Russian Efrrp0Iur, but was Stopped at
Vienna. The dialogue is to long for US
to copy at present, but some of its lead
ing points may be mentioned.
The Neapoli,an envoy represented,
that though the revolution in Naples
should be admitted to have been instiga-
ted by the Carbonari, yet it had clearly be-
come the work of the whole nation that
though it should be admitted to have been
reprehensible in its origin and mode of
accomplishment--yet it was done and
could not} be recalled or abrogated.
The Allies should, therefore, in pru-
dence, lay their account with it as CUES
ton Qf.fact. Metternich insisted that, al
lowing it to be considered as an existing
established order of things-allowing
that the new government was resolved
to abstain from all tampering and vio-
lence with other states, and in case of
being attacked, to make DIES perate re-
sistance-yet the example of the revolu-
ton, if it we're tolerated and permitted to
flourish, would betoo dangerous for the
rest OF the world; the contagion would
spread without positive efforts to inocu-
late. Naples was therefore to be treated,
at all events, like the theatre of a physi-
cal pestilence; to be purified and insu-
lated, the means of communication be-
tween her and the healthy countries,
must be prevented at once. Upon this
principle would the allies act, they would
preserve ancient institutions against what
ever attack from innovators and secta-
ries. The revolution in question was
the work OF a reprobate sect and Sc
duced army. There was one course by
which, reconciliation might be effected
(" Implore the King to resume the reins
of government as formerly, try by al
court martial, the Pehes, the iMoreMs