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find in their union, afure (afeguard a gain ft the enterprifes 
of anarchy. 
“ It is for this purpofe that their imperial and royal 
majefties have ordered their minifters plenipotentiary to 
fign and pubiifti the prefent Declaration. 
«« a a • S Metternich. 
/inkna ( The Baron De Vincent. 
“ Pruftia — K rusemark. 
« Nesselrode. 
“Ruffia < Capo d'Istria. 
v Pozzo di Borgo.” 
At the fame time a circular difpatch was addreffed 
from Laybach, in the names of the courts of Auftria, 
Pruffi3, and RufTia, to the minifters of thefe powers at the 
feyeral courts of Europe. This difpatch breathes a fimi- 
lar fpirit to the above document; but it is more import¬ 
ant in its character, as it exhibits a view of the objedls 
contemplated by the allies, and of the principles which 
they avow to have framed for the regulation of their in- 
tercourfe with the other powers of Europe. The dif¬ 
patch recites the proceedings whiph have taken place in 
Naples and Piedmont, and expreffes the indignation of 
the monarchs at the endeavours made to revolutionize 
thofe countries, afcribing to a confpiracy of factious men 
all the difturbances which have occurred. 
“Thofe ftates which have admitted changes into their 
political fvftem are no more fecure from attacks than 
thofe whofe venerable inftitutions have furvived the 
dorms of time. Ufeful or neceffary changes in legi/lation, 
and in the adminiftration of ftates, ought only to emanate 
from the free will, and the intelligent and well-weighed con¬ 
viction, of thofe whom God has rendered refponjible for power. 
All that deviates from this line neceffarily leads to difor- 
der, commotions, and evils far more infufferable than 
thofe which they pretend to remedy. Penetrated with 
this eternal truth, the fovereigns have not hefitated to 
proclaim it with franknefs and vigour; they have de¬ 
clared that, in refpefting the rights and independence of 
all legitimate power, they regarded as legally null, and 
as difavowed by the principles which conftitute the pub¬ 
lic right of Europe, all pretended reform operated by re¬ 
volt and open hoftility. They have a£led conformably 
to this declaration, in the events which have taken place 
at Naples, in thofe of Piedmont, and in thofe even which, 
under very different circumffances, though produced by 
combinations equally criminal, have recently made the 
eeftern part of Europe a prey to incalculable convulfions. 
The monarchs are fo much the more decided not to devi¬ 
ate from this fyftem, becaufe they confider the firmnefs 
■with which they have maintained it in fo critical an 
epoch, as the true caufe of the fuccefs which has at¬ 
tended their efforts towards the re-eftabliftiment of order 
in Italy. The congrefs, which is about to clofe, will 
meet again in the next year. Then will be taken into 
conlideration the fixing of a term to the meafures which, 
from the acknowledgment of the courts of Italy, and 
particularly of thofe of Naples and Turin, have been 
judged neceffary to confolidate the tranquillity of the 
peninfula.” 
We are forry to fay, that the “ term or period judged 
neceffary to confolidate the tranquillity” of thefe unfor¬ 
tunate kingdoms was not much lefs than two years and 
a half, as the Auftrian troops were not finally withdrawn 
from Aleffandria till the 29th of September, 1823; and 
from Naples about the fame time. Viftor Emanuel V. 
the ex-king of Sardinia, died in the January following; 
and our court is at this moment (March 4, 1824,) in 
mourning for him. 
When the affairs of Piedmont and Naples were fettled, 
it was expedled that the Auftrians and Ruffians would 
march upon Spain. But that fervice was transferred to 
Frances and it was performed about two years after, as 
we (hall have the mortification to relate under the article 
Spain. * 
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PTEDMONTE'SE, f A native of Piedmont; the 
inhabitants of Piedmont. 
PI'EDNESS, f. Variegation; diverfity of colour: 
There is an art, which in their piednefs (hares 
With great creating nature. ShakeJ'peare's Wint. Tale. 
PIEDOU'CHE, /. [French, from the Italian peduccio, 
foot.] In architecture, a little (land, or pedeftal, either 
oblong or fquare, enriched with mouldings, Terving to 
fupport a buft, or other little figure; and is foinetimes 
called a irr'c/o-t-pedeftal. 
PIE'DRA de la HYA'DA, the name given by the Spa¬ 
niards to a (tone found in many parts of America, parti¬ 
cularly in New Spain ; and famous among the Indians 
for curing the colic on being applied to the navel. It is 
green, and is a fpecies of jafper, approaching to the 
nature of the lapis nephriticus, and is called by many 
coliciis lapis, from its virtues. 
PIEDRAHI'TA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Leon : twenty-fix miles weft-north-weft of Avila. 
PIE'DRAS, a river of Terra Firma, which runs into 
the Caribbean Sea forty miles enft of Cape Aguja. 
PIEDROI'T, f. in archite&ure, a pier, or a fquare 
kind of pillar, part of which is hid within a wall. The 
only thing in which it differs from a pilafter is, that the 
latter has a regularbafe and capital, which the other wants. 
Piedroit is alfo ufed for a part of the folid wall an¬ 
nexed to a door or window ; comprehending the door-poft, 
chambranle, tableau, leaf, See. 
PIEGA'IO, a town of the Popedom : fourteen miles 
fouth-weft of Perugia. 
PIELAWE'SI, a town of Sweden, in the government 
of Kuopio, on a lake: thirty-five miles north weft of 
Kuopio. 
PIE'LED, adj . [peler , Fr. to pul! the hair off.] Bald; 
bare.— Piel'd prieft, doft thou command me be (hut 
out ? Shakefpeare's Hen, VI.—Every bead was made bald, 
and every (houlder was peeled. Ezek. xxix. 18. 
PIF.'LIS, a town of Sweden in the government of 
Kuopio, on a large lake: feventy miles eaft-north-eaft of 
Kuopio. 
PIEMEN'TE, a town of Iftria: eleven miles fouth of 
Capo d’lftria. 
PIENES, a fmall ifland of Japan, oppofite to the har¬ 
bour of Sacca, is famed not only for the beauty of its 
walks, to which crowds of people refort from the city, 
but for a deity worfhipped there, to which numbers of 
perfons devote themfelves. They go from his temple to 
the fea fide, where they enter a boat provided for the 
purpofe, then, launshing into the deep, they throw 
themfelves overboard, loaded with (tones, and fink to the 
bottom. The temple of that deity, which is called 
Canon, is very large and lofty, and fo are many others in 
the city itfelf; one in particular, dedicated to the gods 
of other countries, is thought the fined in the whole 
empire. 
PIE'NIN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Cra¬ 
cow : thirty-fix miles north of Cracow. 
PIE'NO, a town of Italy: eighteen miles north of 
Lecco. 
PIEN'ZA, a town of Italy, the fee of a biftiop : forty- 
five miles fouth of Florence. Lat. 43. 3. N. Ion. 11. 34. E. 
To PIEP, v. n. To cry like a young bird. 
PI'EPO WDER-COURT.—The lowed, and at the fame 
time the mod expeditious, court of juftice known to the 
law of England, is the court of piepoudre. Blackjlone. —See 
the article Court, vol. v. p. 305. 
PIER, / [pepe, Sax. pierre, (tone, Fr.] A column on 
which the arch of a bridge is raifed.—Oak, cedar, and chef- 
nut, are the beft builders; for piers, fometimes wet, fome- 
times dry, takeeim. Bacon. —The bridge,confiding of four 
arches, is of the length of fix hundred and twenty-two 
Englifti feet and a half: the dimenfions of the arches are 
as follows, in Englifti meafure; the height of the firft 
5 M arch 
