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3. The periods for the furrender of the fortreffes, and 
for the march of the Auftrian army upon Naples, are 
fixed as follows :—Capua (hall be given up on the a ill of 
May, at noon: on that day the Auftrian army will take 
its polition on the Canal de Reggi Lagui. On the 2zd 
day of May, the Auftrian army will occupy a polition in 
the line of Averfe, Fragola, Meleto, and Juliano. The 
Neapolitan troops will march on that day upon Salerno, 
which place they will reach in two days, and concentrate 
their head-quarters in the town and its environs, in order 
to wait the decifion of their future deftiny. On the 113d 
of May, the allied army will take polfeffion of the city, 
citadel, and all the forts, of Naples. 
4. All the other fortreffes, citadels, and forts, (the 
above-mentioned excepted,) iituated within the frontiers 
of the kingdom of Naples, fuch as Scylla, Omandea, Reg¬ 
gio, Brindifi, Manfredonia, &c. (hall be likewife lurren- 
dered to the allied armies, as well as all the depots of ar¬ 
tillery, arfenals, magazines, and military eftablilhments, 
of every kind, from the moment that this convention 
fitall reach the faid places. 
5. The garrifon will march out with all the honours of 
war, arms and baggage, clothing of the feveral corps, the 
papers relative tc. the adminiftration ; without artillery. 
The engineers and artillery-officers of thefe places ihall 
make over to officers of the allied armies, named for this 
purpofe, all papers, plans, and inventories of effeCts, be¬ 
longing to both departments dependent thereon. 
6. Particular arrangements will be concluded between 
the refpe&ive commandants of the faid places, and the 
generals or officers commanding the allied troops, as to 
the manner of evacuating the fortified places, as well as 
for what regards the lick and wounded, who will be left 
in the hofpitals, and lor the means of tranfport which 
will be furniffied to them. 
7. The Neapolitan commandants of the faid places are 
refponfible for the prefervation of the magazines within 
them, at the moment of their being made over; and they 
ffiall be given up, in military order, as well as every thing 
which is contained within the fortreffes. 
8. Staff-officers of the allied and Neapolian armies ffiall 
be immediately difpatched to the different places above 
mentioned, in order to make known to the commandants 
' thefe ftipulations, and to convey to them the neceffary in- 
ilruftions for putting them into ex-ecution. 
9. After the occupation of the capital, the remainder 
of the territory of the kingdom of Naples ffiall be wholly 
furrendered to the allies. 
10. His excellency the general-in-chief, baron deCarraf- 
cofa, engages, until the moment of the entry of the allied 
army into the capital of Naples, to fuperintend the prefer¬ 
vation of all the public property of the ftate without ex¬ 
ception. 
11. The allied army engages to take meafures in order 
to avoid all kind of civil diforder, and to occupy the Nea¬ 
politan territory in the mod peaceable manner. 
12. All prifoners of war that have reciprocally been 
made during this campaign, as well by the allied armies 
as by the Neapolitan army, (hall be given up on both 
fides. 
13. Permiffion will be granted to all, foreigners or Nea¬ 
politans, to leave the kingdom, with legal paffports, dur¬ 
ing the fpace of a month from the prefent date. The fick 
or wounded mud make a limilar application within the 
fame period. 
The difturbances which broke out in Naples, caufed 
the poffeffion of it by the allies to be anticipated by one 
day. By the convention they were to have been placed 
fai poffeffion of it on the 23d ; but the popular feeling had 
fo ftrongly manifefted itfelf againft the then exifting go¬ 
vernment, on the 20th and 21ft, that Murat left the town 
in difguife, and his wife fought the fecurity which had 
been allured her on-board a Britiffi man-of-war. General 
Carrafcofa fent to general Bianchi, requefting he would 
prevent the misfortunes with which the town was me- 
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naced, by entering it immediately ; and madame Murat, 
by the fame requeft to admiral lord Exmouth, who had 
arrived in the bay, prevailed upon him to land a body of 
500 marines to maintain tranquillity. General Bianchils 
cavalry occupied Naples on the night of the zzd ; and, on 
that day, prince Leopold of Sicily entered at the head of 
the Auftrian troops in the midft of general acclamations. 
He requefted all the authorities of the kingdom, the 
minifters of ftate, and the officers of the army, to remain 
at their polls until they received the orders of king Fer¬ 
dinand. Madame Murat failed in the Tremendous for 
Gaeta, to receive her children, who had been fent thither 
for fafety. She was afterwards conveyed into the Au¬ 
ftrian territories. 
On the 23d, the Englilh and Sicilian expedition, con¬ 
fining of about 6000 troops, under the command of ge¬ 
neral Macfarlane, appeared in the Bay of Naples. King 
Ferdinand had previoully iffued a proclamation to the 
Neapolitans from which weextraCl the following paffages : 
“ At length I re-alcend the throne of Naples. Every 
thing concurs to make my return happy. Your unani¬ 
mous willies recall me. The general wiffi of the great 
pow r ers renders juftice to my rights. The firm and vigo¬ 
rous affillance of my auguft allies animates and lupports 
me. I put myfelf in march at the head of an army, not 
like ufurpers, to deceive and difturb nations ; or like ad¬ 
venturers, to carry off, in the diforder of the tempeft and 
the Ihipwreck, that which the calm could not procure for 
them. I return to the bofom of my dear family: I bring 
to it confolation and -peace : I come to reftore its ancient 
ferenity, and to efface the recollection of all pall evils. I 
promife you that I will not prelerve the leaft recolleClion 
of all the faults committed by whatever perfon, without 
any exception, againft the duties of fidelity towards me, 
during my abfence frOm this kingdom, at whatever time 
committed, whether after my firft or fecond departure. 
An impenetrable and eternal veil Ihall cover all paft ac¬ 
tions and opinions. With this view I promife, in the 
moll folemn manner, and on my facred word, the molt 
complete, moll extenfive, and general, amnefty, and ail 
eternal oblivion. I promife to prelerve to all individuals, 
Neapolitan and Sicilian, who ferve in the armies by land 
or fea, all the pay, the rank, and military honours, which 
they now enjoy. May God, the witnefs of the re&itude 
and fincerity of my intention, deign to blefs them with 
fuccefs! Ferdinand.” 
“ Palermo, May 1, 1813.” 
The king of the Two Sicilies, after an abfence of nine 
years, made his entrance into Naples on the 17th of June, 
and was greeted with a popular enthufiafm, which appa¬ 
rently was not the mere temporary homage paid to exift¬ 
ing power. His manners, however void of dignity, had 
always ingratiated him with the Neapolitan people ; and 
the vices of the government were not attributed to him, 
who, in faCt, took little part in it, having been chiefly 
employed as we have noticed at p. 545. But it gives us 
very great pleafure to obferve, that the humane terms of 
the above proclamation were ftriClly adhered to ; and we 
have heard of no perfon being put to death, or even ba- 
nilhed, after the fecond reftoration of Ferdinand. 
Mr. Euftace happened to be at Naples at the point of 
time when the court returned from Palermo ; and hence 
he takes occalion to elucidate the characters of the prin¬ 
cipal perfonages. The king, Ferdinand IV. he reprefents 
as conliderably more amiable than intelligent. His man¬ 
ners are eafy, his converfation affable, and his whole 
deportment is that of a thorough gentleman. His men¬ 
tal endow-ments, it feems, are in the ftate belt fitted, ac¬ 
cording to this author’s ideas, for his fituation and office, 
that of mediocrity, without either defeCt or excellency. 
For Mr. Euftace is of opinion, that, if a monarch is one 
degree below this happy mark, “ he becomes the tool of 
every deiigning knave about his perfon, whether valet or 
minifter; if only one degree above it, he becomes reillefs, 
and unintentionally milchievous ; if curled with genius, 
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