Thomas's Massachusetts spy, or, Worcester gazette. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1811-1821, 1821-05-16

which has communicated itself to the
hearts of all the Neapolitans. Every
body now knws that our magnanimous
Prince wouli not determine on any
thing till he lad consulted the Deputies
of the nation, to whom he commune
Gated these proposals, that they might
take such iesolusion as was most suit
able, in the difficult situation in which
Monarchy WIS placed. As to himself,
faithful to his oaths, he protested that
he would share the fate of the nation,
from which We never could have sep
arated himself.
The extraordinary Parliament being
then convokei, declared, in the memo
able sitting of the 18th, that it was not
able to conseIt to any of the proposals.
That i. considered his Majesty as under
restraint. That during such state of
things, his Royal Highness, the Duke
of Calabria, lhould continue to exer-
else the Regelcy. And lastly, that all
measures should be taken for the safety
of the State.
Publick opinion has already anticipat-
ed these determinations. The Prince
Regent, bound by a sacred oath to
maintain The Constitution, which is now
the fundamental law of the Monarchy,
has sanctioned them. He has thought
he should thus Nest fulfil the duties i'm
posed upon him, rs much towards the ma
ton, whose destines are con6ded to him,
as towards the Ring his august father,
whose interest cannot be separated from
that of his people.
Meantime, hostileSto the social COM
pact, which, by the benefcence of our
King, forms the palladium of the Mon
archy of the two Siclies, the Court of
Vienna p,e.ends to abolish it. Because
nation, regeneratedto liberty and in
dependence, does not yield to its will,
it has employed every means to make
it believed that the interest of its poll
cy is that Of Europe, and has sworn ut
terly to overturn all our internal organ
ization. Already its troops are advanc-
ing for this purpose towards the nation
al frontiers-already the sword is. stain
ed with blood, and menaces Europe
with war, which has no parallel, direct
ed against constitutional ideas and the
independence of nations.
1t could not have been feared that
those same armies which were united
short time ago, in the name of social
order, to deliver Europe from oppres-
sion, would march against nation
which cannot be reproached with any
nfraction Of the law of nations-and
which, without exciting troubles among
any of its neighbours, without offending
legitimacy, and even protesting the
most respectful yeneration of its Sove-
reign and his august dynasty, is per-
.severingay engaged in the meliorating
Its internal administration. The pow
ers of the second rank must see, in
what happens to the kingdom of Ma
Piles, the imminent danger which threat
ems them. On the day when our cause
shall be razed, the independence, the
liberty Of Europe will share the same
fate.
But cause protected by justice and
publick opinionr-a cause which interests
all wise governments, and all nations
who feel their dignity-a cause which
will be defended by the whole nation,
whose wishes have expressed them
selves on this occasion with such. una
nimity-such cause must triumnh.-
Despair will combat against force: he
who defends the constitutional laws and
independence Of the countryside who
oombats the foreigner who comes to rob
him of the first and to, tread the sec
ond under foot, is not always the weak
est.
The Neapoifan Government, though
it has provoked no one-though it has
opposed the modest attitude of moder-
alton to the multiplied outrages which
have been lavBhed upon it by those
who c0nspired it ruin, is now attacked
by an Austrian army, which pretends
to impose laws uoon it. But since nei-
Their, Russian MOI Prussian troops are
marching towards our frontiers, it is on
" to the Austrian government we are
obliged't oppose the resistance which
our own defence requires. However,
his Royal Highness fatters himself that
the august Monarchs assembled at Lay
bacb,- seeing the noble feeling which
unites the inhabitants of the two, Sicilies,
and the unanimous determination to de-
fendt the liberties and the honour of