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Political Affairs in April. 



[May 1, 



oofTee-room to dinner, Mr. C declined 

 to speak, and a division being snddenly 

 called, only 4;i appeared for the com- 

 mittee, and !^') against it. Tlius ended 

 the hopes and ten years' exertion of 

 the people of England in a house in 

 which only 100 nienihers were present 

 out of 658. The circumstance speaks 

 volumes, and would lead one to despair 

 if right and justice were not often ob- 

 tainexl by means the most unexpected. 

 Thepersonalactivity of the Sovereign 

 may be said to form a feature of the 

 times. 1 1 is proposed that the corona- 

 tion sliall take place in June, and ex- 

 cursions to Ireland and Hanover are 

 projected for the Autumnal months. 

 We hope that in these royal progresses 

 the conduct of all local and delegated 

 authorities, and the complaints and 

 distresses of the people will be unre- 

 mitting objects of royal solicitude. 



Tbe following is the oiReinl Abstract of 

 tbeNet Produce of (lie Revenue of Great 

 BritiiiD in llie Quarters ending 5tli April, 

 IS'^O and 5tli April, 18'iJl, shewing also 

 tbe Increase and Decrease ou each head. 



ITALY. 



The modern Italians, not being Ro- 

 mans, nor united among themselves, 

 have easily been overcome by hordes of 

 trained barbarians led on by men ac- 

 customed to the science of human 

 slaughter. 



A divided people, therefore, beset 

 by traitors in every department of the 

 state, and not practised in any warfare, 

 opposed an inefficient lesistauce to the 

 Austrian hordes ; and Frimont, like 

 Caesar, " came, saw, and conquered." 

 Never did people seem to do less for 

 their honour, liberties, and indepen- 

 dence, than the Neapolitans ; and they 

 must continue to be despised by all na- 

 tions if they have not rallied and con- 

 centrated in Calabria, and do not ulti- 

 mately destroy the Austrians and the 

 infamous court party who have be- 

 trayed them in detail. 



It .seems impossible that the good 



principles wliicli were propagatetl dur- 

 ing the ascendency of liberty in Na- 

 ples, can be extinguished by toreign 

 bayonets; we consider the war, there- 

 fore, as continuous, and that it will 

 last till the Austrians and their infa- 

 mous adherents are destroyed and a 

 free government established. 



In Piedmont, either the army acted 

 with more energy, or the details could 

 not be so well concealed, for the slaves 

 and barbarians met with active resist- 

 ance from inferior numbers of the 

 Piedmontese patriots, and acquired 

 an ultimate ascendancy only by trea- 

 chery, disunion, and the spreading of 

 false reports. 



Convention between the Auitrians and 

 Neapolitans. 

 The undersigned, furuLshed with all full 

 powers for that purpose, have agreed upon 

 the following articles: — 



1. There shall be a suspension of hosti 

 lities on all the points of the kingdom. 



2. Hostilities shall also cease by sea, 

 with as little delay as possible. Orders ■ 

 to this effect shall be immediately dis- 

 patched by the two armies. 



3. The Austrian army shall occupy 

 Capua. To-morrow, the 21st, its posts 

 shall occupy but not pass the town of. 

 Aversa. 



4. The occupation of the town of Naples 

 nnd its forts shall be the object of a parti- 

 cular Convention. 



5. The Austrian army shall respect 

 persons and property, whatever may be 

 the particular circumstances of each indi- 

 vidual. 



6. All Royal property and property of 

 the State existing in the provinces occu- 

 pied by the Austrian army, or which it 

 may occupy ; all arsenals, magazines, 

 parks, dock yards, manufactories of arms, 

 &c. belong of right to the king, and shall 

 be respected as such. 



7. I Q all the places and forts occupied 

 by the Austrian army there shall be, in- 

 dependent of the Austrian Commander, a 

 Governor in the name of the king. AU 

 the materiel of war, in as far as respects 

 the administrative part, shall be under the 

 royal administrative directions. 



8. The present convention shall be rati- 

 fied by the Prince Regent and by Baron 

 Frimont, the General commanding the 

 Austrian army. 



Signed by the Grand Priory of Naples, 

 before Capua, March 20, 1821. 



According to the gazette of the pre- 

 vailing party on the 11th of April, 

 " Count Saillan de Latour, Comman- 

 der in Chief of the Royal armies, and 

 Governor-General of Piedmont, entered 

 Turin. 



