Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-07-31
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most interesting of their contents.
The works of Sir Walter Scott, Tin
GLIDING the novels by the author of Wa
verify are publishing in translation at
Paris. There seems to be very great
avidity for them at Paris forty volumes
have already been published.
The works of lord Byron are also
published in translation, and critical
exam lnation of their merit is contained
in some of the numbers of the journal
des De6ats.
The Chamber of Deputies was en-
gagged in discussing the details of sys-
tenn of corn laws, the adoption of which,
in principle, had been determined on !;
not however without very obstinate OPP
position, which was still active in throw
ing distractions in the way of the details
of the law.
The following decree is offered to our
readers to shew the condition of Naples
" Ferdinand |. by the grace of God,
King ofthe Two Sicilies.
The .tatherly intimations of our de-
crees OF the 28th and 3lst of March last
against secret meetings, and in favor OF
a general disarming Of the Kingdom, no,
having produced the desired effect,
which shews the guilty designs OF thos
who disobey, and forces US to adopt more
energetic measures; and, impressed
with the maxim that a law to be perfec'
demands penal sanction, and that the
punishment to be useful requires exam
pies, public, speedy, and impartial, we
have therefore decreed as follows:
L. A Court Martial shall be created
with all the powers oil special council
OF war.
2. This court shall execute rigorous
~ articles and of our decree OF 3ls
March, against those who carry forbid
den arms, by condemning TO eahitalhun-
5shment as an assassin whoever shall b.
found with these arms, and shall with
or delay execute the sentence.
3. The director of police may autho-
rize the search Qfhouses at discretion
1fforbidden arms shall be found withou
legal permission the householder shall
be punished accordingly. If the collec-
tion of arms and ammunition is such a,
TO give room for suspecting conspira-
cy, the person of the inhabitant shall b, |
seized, and placed with his papers at the
disposition of the Court Martial.
4. The same court shall execute the
decree of March 2Sth against the Car
bonari.
S. The object of the society OF Car
bonari being the overthrow of all govern
Inents. every one who after the publica
ton of this decree shall join that society
or attend any of its meetings, shall be
furnished with death, as guilty of high |
treason
6. All who, without being Carbonari
shall be taken in actual meeting with o
view of overurning the public order,
shall likewise be furnished NTH death.
7. The same court shall punish with
smhrisonm ent OF, from three to ten gears,
every person who, in town or country,
shall know of the place of meeting OF
the above description and shall not i'm |
mediately disclose it.
8 Whoever, belonging to the said
meetings, moved by repentance, shall
discover to the police the members and
the projects of conspiracy, shall be
pardoned, his name NOT disclosed nor en-
tered on any register.
SIGNED in due form,
MARQUIS DE CIRCILLO."
A measure more tyrannical in its OBJ
ject, more bloody in its provisions, or
more treacherous in its means of detec
ton, has seldom disgraced human his
tory. What must be the state of the
people to render such decree necessa-
ry9 or the nature of a government which
would adopt such law without neces-
sity :?
Stockholm, AtrH 6.
The message of the king to the Diet
Of Norway, relative to the petition of
Col. Gnstavson, (the old king Of Swe-
DEM for naturalization in Norway, was
communicated to that assembly at pub
lic sitting by Count Wedel, counsellor
of state. After the message was read,
the business was referred to a commit
tee of FIVE. They Immediately met and
agreed to present to his majesty an adj
dress, the substance of which is as fol-
lows :-'' The Diet of Norway see in the
communication of his majesty on this
subject, new proof of his paternal senti-
ments. The Diet thinks it supernuous
to add to the refusal of the request, any
other resolution than that of repeating,
Oh this occasion, the assurance of their
fidelity to that dynasty which the free
throne; and also the assurance Of their