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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



STATE PAPERS. 



BRITISH. 



Extract from Lord WiUiar.t Ben- 

 tinck's Official ISote to the Duke 

 fie Gallo, the j^eapolitan Mi- 

 nister. 



" Bologna, April 1. 



TNcaseof the Neapolitan Govern- 

 ment exacting a written con- 

 firmation t)f the sentiments which 

 Lord Castlereagh has verbally de- 

 clared, ii continuation which has 

 not been called for, not thinking it 

 necessary, the undersiiined is au- 

 thorised to declare officially, that 

 the English Government entirely 

 approves of the Tieaty concluded 

 between the Austrian and Neapo- 

 litan Governments ; that it con- 

 sents to the addition of the terri- 

 tory I here specifie<l, under the same 

 conditions made by Austria, of an 

 active and immediate co-operation 

 of the Neapolitan army ; and that 

 if the English government refuses 

 to sign a definitive Treaty, it is 

 caused by sentiments of honour 

 and delicacy, which make it un- 

 willing that the hereditary estate 

 of an ancient ally should be given 

 up without an indemnity ; and the 

 undersigned has in consequence 

 • orders to invite the Neapolitan 

 Government to make the greatest 



efforts in order to obtain the same 

 object." 



Admiralty Official Pai'er. 



" Admirahy Office, 

 April :jO," 1814. 



" The Lords Commissioners of 

 the Admiralty cannot announce to 

 the Fleet the termination of hosti- 

 lities with France, without ex- 

 pressing to the petty officers, the 

 seamen, and royal marines of his 

 Majesty's ships, the high sense 

 which their Lordships entertain of 

 their gallant and glorious services 

 during the late war. 



" 1 he patience, perseverance, 

 and discipline; the skill, courage, 

 and devotion, with which the sea- 

 men and marines have upheld their 

 best interests, and achieved the 

 noblest triuuiphs of the country, 

 entitle them lo ihe gratitude not 

 only of their native land, which 

 they have preserved inviolate, but 

 of the other nations of Europe, of 

 whose ultimate deliverance their 

 successes maintained the hope, and 

 accelerated the accomplishment. 



"Their Lordships regret that 

 the unjust and unprovoked aggres- 

 sions of the American Govern- 



