Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-05-17

mdisciplined militia. could not be bro't
to withstand any serious onset from
their enemies, but fed Immediately up
on the first serious exhibitions of dan
ger. The kustrians advanced with
t:ifling opposition towards the capital
until the a0ih March, when they had
reached The neighborhood of Capua, less
than eU miles from Naples, when an
armistice occurred, and convention
MS entered into.
To say We regret this issue OF
struggle which certainly deserved
more rigorous support on the side o'
the Neapaii,a, s. would be using but
feeble language. We consider II ohe
If the most n'.:ustifable attempts on
the part Of the Aus ians, 10 intern ed
die with the affs;rs of an independent
nation, that has az any time taken
placc.-E,en the French, during the
bloody days Of their revolutionary Ca
ree,. had in many instances more PiAu
sable reasons % urge in favor OF their
aggres.ions upon other nations. than
the Austrians have in excuse oil their
aIta'k upon Naples.
After all. there is reason to fear that
a peopig VIII, could make n" Srea'erei
forts in defence of their country ana It's
inleuendence, would not have had ener-
CIV or virtue enough to carry on Tree
and representative system of govern
ment. The probability is, that when
not urged to unanimity by external
pressure, and danger. they would have
qasrrelltd among themselves, and IN
that way have lost the benefit of all
they had apparently & ined.
Disturbances still CONTINUE to exist
in SAVOY: but they will probably prove
as short iised as the Neapolitan war.
A Liverpool paper of April Sd states
that the recent accounts, from the tia.
Ian seat of war, state that an engage
meni had taken place between Baron
Frimont and the Neapolitan General
Carrascosa, in which the latter was de-
feated, and had in consequence fallen
baca to A,ersa, which is within 10
miles of Naples; but neither place nor
date is given for the scene or time of
this rumored engagement, and the pro
liability is that the rumor has original
ed in the advance of the Austrian ar
my, which, according to the last &C
counts, was at the date of the 18th at
San Germanu, a town within the Nea-
politan frontier, on the main road be.
tween Rome and Naples. from the lat
ter of which cities it is distant about
so British miles. The near approach
IF the Austrians to the capital is repre-
scented to have produced The most dis
piriting effects at Naples, and accord
ing to accounts from Florence and 1u-
rim of the date of cath and 25th ult.
and from Paris of the 18th, published.
We believe, by the British Government
in London on Friday night last-Ehe
Neapnlitan Parliament 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 in i
PIedmnnt-that Gen. LatOur who com
mands i'm No,ara, as Generalissimo OF
the PiedmOntese troops. in the name of
the abdicatcd King, Victor Emmanuel
has rallied great part of the forces to |
the royal standard-;hat Prince Car'g- |
nan has by proclamation, Invested him
self of the Regency. md joined the ar
my at Novara, placing himself under |
Gen. Latour's orders as junior OIL
Ger. and that Piedmont is replaced I'M
der the authority Of the king, with the
exception only of the citadels Of Turin
and Alexandria. These mighty and
sudden changes are as astonishing as
were the revolutions at Naples and
Turin. and we have no doubt but they
will be hailed by the members of the
Holy Alliance as the triumph of their
cause over the infant Liberties of Italy;
but our belief is, that the struggle for
! independence in that fine region Of the
world, is not vet 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.--Vmerican indie
pendence was not completely esta-
blished till after struggle Of seven
years. and the new leyies of the Ameri-