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Political Affaire in March. 



[April 1, 



Au'ovito. This corps d'armee has 70 

 battalions of troops of the line and 

 civic guards, and 30 squadrons of ca- 

 valry. The command of the cavalry 

 is entrusted to the Duke of Rocca Ro- 

 mana, who iias under his command 

 Field-Marshal Prince Campana, and 

 the Marquis de Suliana. The latter is 

 brother of the Princess of Castel-Cicala. 



Lieutenant-General Baron Bedrinelli 

 commands the artillery; and Field- 

 Marshal Escamande, tlie engineers ; 

 General Florestan Pepe is Major-Gene- 

 ral of the army. 



In the meantime an Austrian army 

 nominally of C0,00() men, buteflfectively 

 of only 42,000 has advanced to the 

 Neapolitan frontier, and its General has 

 issued the following document : 



PROCLAMATION BY GENERAL FRIMONT. 



" Neapolitans ! — At this moment, when 

 the army placed under my orders sets foot 

 upon the frontiers of the kingdom, I feel 

 myself bound to declare to you frankly and 

 openly what is the object of my operations. 



" A deplorable revolution, since the 

 month of July last, has troubled your in- 

 ternal tranquillity, and dissolved those 

 amicable ties which can subsist between 

 neighbouring- States only upon the funda- 

 mental condition of a reciprocal confidence. 



" Your King has caused his royal and 

 paternal voice to be heard among his sub- 

 jects. He has forewarned you of the hor- 

 rors of useless war— of a war which no 

 one desires to wage upon your soil, and 

 which can only fall upon you as the con- 

 sequence of your own actions. 



" The ancient and faithful allies of the 

 kingdom have, on their part, also addressed 

 you. They have duties to fulfil towards 

 their subjects ; but even your real and du- 

 rable tjelicity is not alien from their views. 

 That felicity j'ou will never find in the path 

 of rebellion, and by abandoning your du- 

 ties. Reject voluntarily a production which 

 is foreign from your hearts, and confide in 

 your King ; your interests and his are in- 

 separably united. 



" In passing the limits of the kingdom, 

 no hostile intention guides our footsteps ; 

 tl^e arniy under my command will regard 

 and will treat as friends, all Neapolitans 

 >yho ai'c faithful subjects of their King and 

 Jf/ieuds of tranquillity ; it will, throughout, 

 ^serve the most rigorous discipline, and 

 will only view as enemies those who shall 

 oppose them as enemies. 



" Neapolitans ! Hear the voice of your 

 King, and that of his friends, who are also 

 yours. Reflect on all the disasters that 

 you will entail upon yourselves by a vain 

 resistance. Be persuaded that the illu- 

 Bory idea with which your enemies — the 

 enemies of order and tranquillity — are en- 

 deavouring to delude you, can never tj€- 

 come the source of your prosperity." 



The Austrians liave since advanced, 

 with little opposition, into the moun- 

 tainous district of the Ahruzzi, as far 

 as Aquila, and at the tiuje of our going 

 to press, there aie various reports of 

 engagement.s, but uo oflicial details. 



PIEDMONT. 



A glorious revolution has taken place 

 in Piedmont, whose inhabitants the 

 congress at Vienna delivered over tp the 

 King of Sardinia. 



On the llth, the king published a 

 proclamation, in wliich he deplored the 

 defection of tlie garrison of Alexandria, 

 and other troops, and aunoimced his 

 contidence in the fidelity of his people, 

 and of the regiments of Turin. 



In the evening of the 12th, the King 

 at the conclusion of a coifucil, which 

 was held on the arrival of his minister 

 for foreign affairs, took the resolution 

 of abdicating, and of transmitting the 

 crown to ins brother, the Duke de 

 Genevois. But this prince being at 

 that time on his jonrney towards Mo- 

 dena, whither he was going to meet 

 the King of Naples, his father-in-law, 

 the provisional exercise of the sove- 

 reign authority was confided to Prince 

 Carignano, under the title of Regent. 



On the 13th, tlie Regent, PrTnce of 

 Carignano, after having taken the 

 counsel of the municipality of Turin, 

 proclaimed the const if nlion i^f the Cortes 

 of Cadiz as the law of the stale, and 

 on the 14th, the Prince organizc4 a 

 junta of government. 



" CHARLES ALBERT, PRINCE or CARIG- 

 NANO, REGENT." 



" The urgency of the circumstances in 

 which his Majesty the King, Victor Em- 

 manuel, has appointed us Regent of the 

 kingdom, though tlie right of succession 

 does not belong to us — the desire, so 

 strongly manifested by the people for a 

 constitution conformable to that which 

 governs Spain, induces us to satisfy, as far 

 as may depend on us, what the chief 

 safety of the kingdom now evidently re- 

 quires, and to adhere to the general wish 

 which has been expressed With unspeak- 

 able ardour. The Spanish Constitution 

 shall, therefore, be promulgated and ob- 

 served as the law of the state, with the 

 modifications which may be made by the 

 national representation, in concert with 

 the King. 



" We hav§ thought proper to nominatf, 

 until the meeting of the national parliament, 

 a provisional junta of fifteen, as well for 

 receiving the oath which we shall make to 

 the Constitution, as for participating with 

 us in the deliberations which, according to 

 the terms of the Constitution, will require 

 the intervention of the parliament. 



"Thla 



