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made between lord Burghersh, 
the English minister at Florence, 
and captain Campbell of the Tre- 
mendous man of war, the latter, 
in the beginning of May, sailed 
with his ship, accompanied by a 
frigate and a sloop of war, to’the 
bay of Naples. On his arrival, 
he declared to the Neapolitan Go- 
vernment, that unless the ships of 
war were surrendered to him, he 
would bombard the town. Ma- 
dame Murat having sent Prince 
Cariati to negociate for the sur- 
render, the terms dictated by 
captain Campbell were, that the 
ships of the line in the bay should 
be given up; that the arsenal of 
‘Naples should be delivered over, 
and an inventory taken of its ac- 
tual state, and that these captures 
should be at the joint disposal of 
the English government, and of 
Ferdinand IV. of Naples. The 
ships were then taken possession 
.of, and were sent off to Sicily. 
The war was now near to a con- 
clusion. On the 18th, general 
Bianchi received a message from 
the duke de Gallo, requesting an 
interview for the purpose of com- 
municating proposals from Jo- 
achim. The first meeting was 
merely preliminary ; but .on the 
20th, a military convention was 
entered into by general Caracossa, 
commander in chief of the Nea- 
politan army ; gen. Niepperg on 
the part of Austria; gen. Coletta 
on that of Naples; and lord 
-Burghersh on that of great Bri- 
tain, The abdication of Murat 
‘was first insisted upon. Coletta 
~having wished to secure: for him 
asafe retreat to France, and being 
informed that such a condition 
was inadmissible, he declared that 
he had no authority from that:per- 
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son to treat with respect to him. 
By the articles of the convention, 
an armistice was declared between 
the allied and the Neapolitan 
troops in all parts of the kingdom 
of Naples. All fortified places 
were to be given up in their actual 
state at specified periods, for the 
purpose of being made over to 
Ferdinand IV.; but Gaeta, Pes- 
cara, and Ancona, being under 
blockade by the allies, and out of 
the line of the operations of Ca- 
racosa’s army, nothing was de- 
cided respecting them. Naples, 
with its citadel and forts, was to 
be taken possession of by the allies 
on the 23rd, and after its occupa- 
tion, the whole territory of the 
kingdom was to be surrendered 
to them. Prisoners of war to be 
given up on both sides ; and per- 
mission granted to all persons, 
natives or foreigners, to quit the 
kingdom during the space of a 
month. 
The disturbances which broke 
out in Naples, caused the pos- 
session of it by the allies to be 
anticipated by oneday. The po- 
pular feeling was manifested in 
such a manner, that Murat left 
the city for Ischia, and his wife 
took refuge on board an English 
ship of war. General Bianchi’s 
cavalry occupied Naples on the 
night of the 22nd, at which time 
the city guard, assisted by a de- 
tachment of marines sent by ad- 
miral lord Exmouth, who was 
arrived in the bay, were defend- 
ing the royal palace from a furious 
mob; and upon that day Prince 
Leopold of Sicily entered at the 
head of the Austrian troopsin the 
midst of general acclamations. 
Ferdinand had previously issued a 
proclamation, promising an uni- 
