GENERAL HISTORY. 
versal amnesty ; and all the autho- 
rities of the kingdom, civil and 
military, were requested, for the 
present to remain at their posts. 
Madame Murat sailed in the Tre- 
mendous for Gaieta, to receive 
her children, who had been sent 
thither for safety, whence she was 
‘to be conveyed to Trieste. On 
the 24rd, the English and Sicilian 
expedition, consisting of about 
‘six thousand troops, under the 
‘command of general Macfarlane, 
‘appeared in the bay of Naples. 
The remains of Murat’s army 
dissolved of itself, so that not a 
‘single division was to be found 
complete. 
On June the 17th, the king of 
the Two Sicilies, after an absence 
of nine years, made his entrance 
into Naples, and was greeted with 
a popular enthusiasm, which ap- 
parently was not the mere tem- 
porary homage paid to existing 
power. His manners, however 
void of dignity, had always ingra- 
tiated him with the Neapolitan 
people ; and the vices of the Go- 
vernment were not attributed to 
him, who, in fact, took little part 
init. What will be the future 
character of that Government, 
time must discover ; but the Ne- 
apolitans will scarcely be losers 
by changing a soldier of fortune, 
ambitious, without abilities, for 
an hereditary Sovereiga, under 
whom they will probably enjoy 
quiet at home and peace abroad. 
Murat made his escape to Tou- 
lon, where he remained, till find- 
ing his residence there becoming 
daily more insecure, he deter- 
mined to try his fortune in Cor- 
sica, where there was still a strong 
attachment to the cause of Buo- 
naparte. An asylum had been 
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offered to him by the Emperor of 
Austria in his dominions, with 
honourable treatment, on the con- 
dition that he should not quit his 
place of residence without the 
Emperor's consent; ‘but the pro- 
jects he had formed, probably 
induced him to decline the pro- 
posal. 
Having purchased a boat at 
Toulon, he embarked with two 
naval ‘officers, but had not pro- 
ceeded far before he was overtaken 
by a violent storm, in which his 
small vessel was reduced to im- 
minent hazard of sinking. In 
this state he was taken up, with 
his companions, by aship which 
landed them in Corsica. He then 
repaired to the country-house of 
general Francescetti, who de- 
clared to the authorities of Bastia, 
that Murat had a sure retreat 
among the mourtaineers, in which 
he would remain, till his nego- 
ciations with Austria should per- 
mit him to rejoin his wife in that 
country. Intelligence was re- 
ceived at Leghorn from Bastia, 
dated September 18, that he was 
at the head of about one hundred 
and fifty armed men in one of the 
most refractory districts in Cor- 
sica. He fixed his head-quarters 
at Vescovato, where he was re= 
sorted to by all the Corsicans who 
had served under him at Naples ; 
but in consequence of a procla- 
mation from the commander of 
that military division, Verrier, de- 
claring his partisans rebels, he 
took refuge at Ajaccio, where he 
continued to hold six hundred 
men in pay. He quitted that 
place on the 28th, and adopted a 
design which appears to have been 
suggested by the success of that 
of Buonaparte, but which the dif- 
