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Sept. 15, I860] The Saturday Analyst and...
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THE TRIUMPH AT NAPLES. ALL the Sovereign...
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MR. ROEBUCK'S POLITICAL DYSPEPSIA. npHE ...
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Sept. 15, I860] The Saturday Analyst And...
Sept . 15 , I 860 ] The Saturday Analyst and Leader . 795
The Triumph At Naples. All The Sovereign...
THE TRIUMPH AT NAPLES . ALL the Sovereigns of Europe may learn a lesson from the undignified , exit of the young gentleman who recently came into possession of the crown of the Two Sicilies , with a considerable revenue , a powerful army , and a people disposed to be contented with very moderate reforms . The courts of England and France gave the new Sovereign obvious warnings and excellent advice . In his own dominions were men who pointed out the path of honour and safety ; and in the kingdom of Sardinia he saw an example well fitted for a
nursery story—of how good behaviour was rewarded , and a little King made into a great one because he was honest and true . To all these sights and sounds the last of the Neapolitan Bourbons was blind and deaf . He had been brought up to hate liberty and scorn justice ; to listen to the evil counsel of intriguing priests ; and to believe that heaven and earth would work miracles to enable an ignorant and vicious young man to revel in the satanic luxury of a brutal and despotic rule . His people were too enervated to throw off his yoke and effect their own liberation ; but from the hardier region
of the North of Italy a man set out- —in the Charles . Napier style—^ with a piece of soap and a towel— -and with a handful of half-trained followers he declared his intention of overthrowing an old sovereignty which had great arsenals and 80 , 000 soldiers at its command . In a little while the King of Two Sicilies was reduced to the King of One Sicily . There was a desperate skirmish , but no great battle ; and the island crowned by Mount Etna , famous in classie story , and celebrated for having j > ossessed a constitution older than that of
England was once more free . The Manofthe Hour set out again , landed in Calabria , did aj little more clever skirmishing , and sent word to Naples that he would arrive there on aparticular day , and take ¦ tie Government into Ms own hands . The time canae , and the representative of Italy reached the city of Parthendpe . He had with him no force of arms , no means of compelling obedience to his commands ; but as he entered at one door , Bourbon royalty went out at the other , and Fkancis II . vanished like a puff of bad smoke ,, leaving an evil
odour behind . In other stories of the Ml of Kings there has been some tinge of tragic grandeur , or at least some elements of decency or dignity ; but in this case Francis II , made a more despicable Sovereign than the worst actor that ever strutted upon the melo-dramatic boards . The " great" Nai'oleon got Talma , to teach Mrti how to put on his imperial robes , and strut and frown as an e mperor should ; but FkAncis II . had not even a theatrica , ! education . He did not know what to
dp with himself because he had no manner of belief in himself , and he fell from the rash confidence of presumptious ignorance to the self-annihilation of hopeless imbecility . Morally and materially he was nowhere . His nobles and his courtiers , his generals arid his admirals , could find nothing to support . He was too impalpable for loyalty to stick to , too rickety a peg to sustain any manner of crown—even that of martyrdom could not stand on so weak a head . "We may hear of the young gentleman , loitering about the Courts of Spain or Germany , but history has rubbed him put before she liad finished inscribing his name .
The old sixperstitioii which adhered tp anything that called itgelf a King , has left the world , and the whole fraternity , of Sovereigns are startled at the facility with which one of their orde ? has passed away . Italy is foitiuiato in having a Gauiualdi , and Ei ' irope is fortunate in having the story , of how he went io Naples , to toll . In every land this noble tale is passing from mouth to mouth ; it is kindling new flames of patriotic ambition in the sxmny south , and warming x * p the- regions of the icy north . In many . a land the people feel that they top want ) a GAfciBALDi . Germany has need of one . to bid her rabble of selfish Princes vanish into smoke . Austria needs one to snuff out Fbanots Joseph , ' and introduce a .
government based upon popular right , Kussia wants one to lay me foundation of free institutions , and curtail the absolutism of the Ckar . Franco tvill reqiiire her Gaiubaldi when tho Iniporial fovcr-fifc has passed away . Although England has got beyond tho warrior ' s sword , she too wants a Gabida ^ di of peace to rouse tho pooplo to a perception of thoir riglits , and ¦ wring from tho aristocracy a jnat measure of parliamentary reform . , „_ ,. Successful in the Two SioiHcs , we trust the cause of Italian nationality will bo np less so in the Roman States , to whidh Sardinia has wisely sent her troops . It was impossible for Victor Emma ^ uei . to stand still as the diplomatists wished . Gambam )! and Muzeim . between whom , notwithstanding slanders to the contrary , there appears perfect ; unanimity , as
far as action is concerned , represent forces which impel Sardinia onwards . Victor Emmanuel must be King of Italy , or king of nothings To this he is called by the general voice of the landi and he is wise in making a . willing response . The non-intervention - ¦ of Austria was a fraud , thousands of her test troops were in the Papal army , and if Victor Emmanuel had hesitated , a series of Perugia massacres would have speedily taken place . The speech of the King of Italy was worthy of the occasion , and those Sovereigns who disapprove Of his proceedings , cannot deny that they tend to prevent revolution , and establish a possibility of peace .
Meanwhile Emperors and Kings plot together , and as the news runs , Francis Joseph and the Czar exchange professions of friendship . An Austro- Russian alliance might at a former period , have been the signal for tremendous exertions to put "right divine" on its legs s * gain , but times have changed , and Alexander will not dare to repeat the invasion of Hungary , merely to sustain a principle , and gain no personal advantage from a costly war . tip to these days the rich money Jews have teen profound believers in the old despotisms , and easily managed to obtain the loans they required . Now Austria has brought her credit below that of Turkey , and Russia can get no one to provide the money for an . absolutist war . The military expenditure of Austria / and the interest of her debt will absorb all the revenues she can raise , and any representative
bodies she can form will protest against the system that has led to such a bankrupt results The blandest person of the hour is the Emperor Napoleon III . He could intake nothing of the phlegmatic Prince of Prussia , and the two potentates twiddled their moustaches , and looked at their boots during the Toplitz interview , because they could contrive no basis upon which a diplomatic conversation was to proceed . Out of the quarrels of Kings Slid their subjects , LoursvNapqleon ' s opportunities may arise . As he stands on the shores , of the Mediterranean , " envious
murmurs reach him from afar , " but what matter , 'Mthe works of peace are in his eye as beautiful as crowns of laurel . " The innocenceis quite pastoral , and might be believed in if forts were not rising contrary to European law . in the neutralised territory stolen from the Swiss , and if all France as well as the rest of the wprld could hot see the Imperial eye squinting , at the Rhine . The French Treaty goes on bravely , but the nations are notyet tied together indissplubly by spun cotton , and England will do well to double her volunteers , and render her navy still more
formidable as a " preventive check . ' The German Potentates and Russia are murmuring threats of intervention if the popular movement finds its way to Hungary . Against this England should protest . The rights of the Hungarians are as sacred as those of the Italians , and Bonopartist ambition would be finely servedi if he could rally all the elements of revolution and nationality around him ; and as the price of his assistance , demand tlie frontier of tho Rhine .
Mr. Roebuck's Political Dyspepsia. Nphe ...
MR . ROEBUCK'S POLITICAL DYSPEPSIA . npHE Cutler ' s Feast of last week afforded the honourable A and learned member for Sheffield , who delights in the self-imposed name of " Tear ' era , " an opportunity of favouring the country with his opinions on divers questions . He began by praising the men of Sheffield for having left him alone during the session , and not having " postered ? him with , their suggestions ! " His course had' been entirely miprejudiced by almost any observation on tho part of his constituents . " With reference to the position of an M . P ., he remarked , " while ho is acting for them , any pestering , any call of interest , or tellin " him that his constituents think this , that , or the . other is wholly foreign to the representative system . " Mr . Robkuck belongs to a school of politicians who think they prove their honesty by exhibiting their ill manners . Indeed we trust the school is confined to himself , and that no one else would have tho bad taste to call an expression of opinion on the part oi ' his constituents a piece of ' " postering . " A man must be wonderfully full of conceit , or waspishness , to resent a reasonable , intercoiirso or exchange of opinions between tho electors , the ' elected , and tho theory of representation put forward by Mr . Rokbuoic , although by no means novel , is decidodly wrong . The services of men of ability and integrity can only boliaa upon honourable terms , nnd no man fit for a member ot i arliamenfc would consent to bo a . mono puppet , whos ° strin g J »* constituents wore to pxall nVftoix discretion ; but ttw own wide difForenco between tins , and that supercilious independence which Mr ., JRokbuck claims . pnv \ outi 1 Historically lie is in error , and may wmwj ^» * ° ™ Passat in Coke / which . shows thnt inembora formerly con-% S $ Cm & bound to represent the vie ^ of . those who
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 15, 1860, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15091860/page/3/
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