Thomas's Massachusetts spy, or, Worcester gazette. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1811-1821, 1821-05-16
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From the New-York Advertiser. /

By the arrival of the ship Amity, Capt.
Maxwell, and the ship Hector, Capt. Gllen-
der, in 81 days from Liverpool, the editors of
the New-York Daily Advertiser have received
from their attentive friends and correspondents
regular files of London papers to the 4th, and
Liverpool to the 9th of April.
The most interesting intelligence by these
vessels is the termination of Austrian hostili-
ties against Naples. 1t seems that the resist
ance on the part of the Neapolitans was feeble
aswell as Intellectual; the troops being almost
all undisciplined militia, could not be brought
to withstand any serious onset from their enc
mics, but fled Immediately upon the first seri-
Gus exhibitions Of danger. The Austrians adj
vanced with triling opposition towards the
capital until the Goth of March, when they
had reached the neighbourhood of Capua, less
than 20 miles from Naples, when an armistice
occurred, and convention was entered into
which will be found in our paper this morning.
To say we regret this issue of struggle
which certainly deserved a more rigorous sup
port on the side of the Neapolitans, would be
using but feeble language. We consider it
one Of the most unjustifable attempts, on the
part of the Austrians, to intermeddle with the
affairs of an independent nation, that has at
any time taken place. Even the French, du-
ring the bloody days of their revolutionary ca
reer, had in many instances more plausible rea-
sons to urge in favour of their aggressions upon
other nations, than the Austrians have in ex-
ctise of their attack upon Naples.
After all, there is reason to fear that a peo-
pie who could make no greater efforts in de-
fence Of their country and its independence,
would not have had energy or virtue enough
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of government The probability is, that when
not urged to unanimity By external pressure
and danger, they would have quarrelled a
mong themselves, and in that way have lost
the benefit of all they had apparently gained.
Disturbances still continued to exist in Sa-
voy; but they will probably prove as short
lived as the Neapolitan war.
Liverpool paper, of April 8, states that
recent accounts, from the Italian seat of war,
state that an engagement had taken place be-
tween Baron Frimont and the Neapolitan
General Carrascosa, in which the latter was
defeated, and had in consequence fallen back
to Aversa, which is within 10 miles of Naples;
but neither place nor dateis given for the
scene or time of this rhmoured engagement,
and the probability is that the rumour has
originated in the advance of the Austrian ar
was, at the date of the 18th, at San Germano,
a town within the Neapoltan frontier, on the
main road between Rome and Naples, from
the latter of which cities it is distant about
fifty British miles. The near approach of the
Austrians to the capital is represented to have
produced the most dispiritng effects at Naples;
and, according to accounts from Florence and
Turin, of the date Of Oath and 25th ult. and
from Paris Of the 28th, the Neapolitan Parlia-
ment has been finally closed !; the army has
been dissolved :. and the Prince Regent has
submitted to his father, King Ferdinand. The
same account states that the ancient order of
things has been restored d, Piedmont that
Gen. Latour, who commands: in Novara. as
Generalissime of the Piedmontese troops in
the name of the abdicated King, Victor En-
manuel, has rallied a great part of the forces
to the Royal standard; that the Prince Carig-
nan, has, by proclamation, Invested himself
of the regency. and joined the army at Nova
"a, placing himself under General Latour's or
ders as junior officer and that Piedmont is
replaced under the authority of the King.
with the exception only Of the citadel of Tu-
rim and Alexandria, These mighty and sud-
den changes are as astonishing as were the
revolutions at Naples and Turin, and we have
no doubt but they will be hailed by the men,
bers of the Holy Alliance as the triumph of
their cause over the infant liberties of italy
but our belief is, that the struggle for inde-
pendence, in that fine region of the world, is
not yet at an end, and that when the end comes.
government by delegation from the people
will be as certainly established in the States
of Italy, as that it now exists in Spain and
Portugal.
FOURTH BULLETIN OFTHE AUSTRIAN