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Extract of a Dispatch from Lord Burghersh to Viscount Castlereagh, dated

Teano, May 21, 1815.

I have the honour of congratulating your Lordship on the termination of the war with the Government of Naples, closed by the Military Convention I herewith transmit, by which the kingdom, its fortresses, arsenals, military force, and resources, are, almost without exception, surrendered to the allies, to be returned to the lawful Sovereign of the country, Ferdinand IV.

After the successes obtained by General Nugent, and stated in my last dispatch, General Bianchi received, on the 18th, a message from the Duke de Gallo, requesting an interview, to communicate to him propositions he was charged with from Marshal Murat.

A meeting for the next day was appointed on the part of England, General Bianchi requested me to attend it, and in the absence of the British Commanders in Chief, both by sea and land, I consented.

I met therefore the Duke de Gallo with General Bianchi, on the morning of the 19th.

The conversation which ensued with that Minister led to no other result than in having given the allies an opportunity of stating to him the grounds on which alone they would engage to arrest their military movements.

Having stated that he had no authority to treat on any basis of the nature so announced to him, the Duke de Gallo returned to Naples, having received, however, an assurance, that any propositions Gen. Carrascosa might wish

to make, should, in the course of the following day, be received.

The meeting with General Carrascosa took place this morning. General Niepperg, on the part of Austria, General Colletta, on that of Naples, and myself, in the absence of the British Commanders in Chief, negociated the Military Convention.

On the part of Naples, propositions were at first made totally inadmissible; on our part the abdication of Marshal Murat was insisted upon. General Colletta wished to secure for that person a safe retreat to France; but finding that such was totally impossible, and having declared that he had no authority from Marshal Murat to treat with regard to him, the Convention, such as your Lordship will receive it, was agreed to.

It is impossible to conclude this dispatch without calling your Lordship's attention to the manner in which the campaign, now terminated, has been carried on by General Bianchi. The activity with which he has pushed his operations is almost without example. The constant successes which have attended his arms, are crowned in the satisfaction of his being able to re-establish the authority of the legitimate Sovereign, without those misfortunes to the country attendant on protracted military operations.

With regard to Marshal Murat, he is stated to be in Naples; General Bianchi has declared that he must consent to go to the Austrian Hereditary States, where his future situation will be fixed; no answer whatever has been received from him.

(Translation.)

(Translation.)

MILITARY CONVENTION.

The undersigned, after having exchanged the full powers with which they were invested by their respective Commanders in Chief, have agreed upon the following articles; subject, nevertheless, to the ratification of the above-mentioned Commanders in Chief :

Article I. From the day in which the present military convention shall have been signed, there shall be an armistice between the allied troops and the Neapolitan troops, in all parts of the kingdom of Naples.

Art. II. All fortified places, citadels, and forts of the kingdom of Naples, shall be given up in their actual state, as well as the sea-ports and arsenals of all kinds, to the armies of the Allied Powers, at the periods fixed upon in the following article, for the purpose of being made over to his Majesty King Ferdinand the Fourth, excepting such of them as may before that period have already been surrendered. The places of Gaeta, Pescara, and Ancona, which are already blockaded by the land and sea forces of the Allied Powers, not being in the line of operations of the army under the General in Chief Carascosa, he declares himself unable to decide upon their fate, as the officers commanding them are independent, and not under his orders.

Art. III. The periods for the surrender of the fortresses, and for the march of the Austrian army upon Naples, are fixed as

follows::-

Capua shall be given up on the

21st of May, at noon: on that day the Austrian army will take its position on the canal de Reggi Lagui.

On the 22d day of May the Austrian army will occupy a position in the line of Averse, 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 decision of their future destiny.

On the 23d of May, the allied army will take possession of the city, citadel, and all the forts of Naples.

Art. IV. All the other fortresses, citadels, and forts (the above-mentioned excepted), situated within the frontiers of the kingdom of Naples, such as Scylla, Omandea, Reggio, Brindisi, Manfredonia, &c. shall be likewise surrendered to the allied armies, as well as all the depots of artillery, arsenals, magazines, and military establishments of every kind, from the moment that this Convention shall reach the said places.

Art. V. The garrisons will march out with all the honours of war, arms and baggage, clothing of the several corps, the papers relative to the administration; without artillery.

The engineer and artillery officers of these places shall make over to officers of the allied armies, named for this purpose, all papers, plans, inventories of effects belonging to both departments pendent thereon.

Art. VI. Particular arrangements

ments will be concluded between the respective commandants of the said 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 sick and wounded, who will be left in the hospitals, and for the means of transport which will be furnished to them.

Art. VII. The Neapolitan commandants of the said places are responsible for the preservation of the magazines within them, at the moment of their being made over; and they shall be given up, in military order, as well as every thing which is contained within the fortresses.

Art. VIII. Staff officers of the allied and Neapolitan armies shall be immediately dispatched to the different places above-mentioned, in order to make known to the commandants these stipulations, and to convey to them the necessary instructions for putting them into execution.

Art. IX. After the occupation of the capital, the remainder of the territory of the kingdom of Naples shall be wholly surrendered to the allies.

Art. X. His Excellency the Gen. in Chief Baron de Carascosa, engages until the moment of the entry of the allied army into the capital of Naples, to superintend the preservation of all the public property of the state without exception.

Art. XI. The allied army engages to take measures in order to avoid all kind of civil disorder, and to occupy the Neapolitan territory in the most peaceable man

ner.

Art. XII. All prisoners of war that have reciprocally been made during this campaign, as well by the allied armies as by the Neapolitan army, shall be given up on both sides.

Art. XIII. Permission will be granted to all foreigners, or Neapolitans, to leave the kingdom with legal passports, during the space of a month from the present date. The sick or wounded must make a similar application within the same period.

The present Convention, when it shall have received its ratification, shall be exchanged with the least possible delay.

In faith of which the undersigned have affixed their signatures and the seals of their arms.

Made upon the line of the advanced posts at Casa Lanzi, before Capua, the 20th of May, 1815.

(L. S.)

The Baron COLLETTA, Lieut. General, Councillor of State Commander of the Royal Order of the Two Sicilies, decorated with the Medal of Honour, Chief Engineer of the Neapo litan Army.

In virtue of my powers, and in quality of General in Chief of the Neapolitan Army, we have approved and ratified, and hereby approve and ratify the above Articles of the present Military Convention. Given at Casa Lanzi, before Capua, (L. S.)

The Baron CARASCOSA.

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of Maria Theresa, and of Saint George of Russia, Grand Cross of the Orders of Sweden, of St. Anne, and of St. Maurice of Sardinia, Field-Marshal, commanding a Division of the Imperial Austrian Army in the Kingdom of Naples.

In virtue of my powers, and as General in Chief of the Austrian army in Naples, I ratify the above Articles of the present Military Convention. (L. S.) BIANCHI, Lieut. Gen.

Signed and ratified by us, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty at the Court of Tuscany, in the absence of the Commanding Officers of the British Sea and Land Forces, employed on the coast of Naples.

Given at Casa Lanzi, before Capua, May 20, 1815.
BURGHERSH.

(L. S.)

FOREIGN OFFICE, June 13, 1815.

A Dispatch, of which the following is a copy, has been received by Viscount Castlereagh, his Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from Lord Burghersh, his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Tuscany, dated

Naples, May 23, 1815. My Lord,-Prince Leopold, of Sicily, greeted by the general applause of the people, made his entry into this city, at the head of the Austrian troops on the 22d.

The passage of that Prince through his father's states to the capital has been most gratifying. The inhabitants from considerable distances flocked to meet him, and having re-assumed the national cockade, brought him proofs of their attachment to his family, and their detestation of the rule they were escaping from, im

posed upon them by conquest, and maintained by force.

By the Convention transmitted to your Lordship in my last dispatch, the allied arms were to have been placed in possession of Naples on this day. The popular feeling had, however, so strongly manifested itself against the then existing government, on the 20th and 21st, that Marshal Murat left the town in disguise, and his wife sought the security which had been assured her on board a British man of war.

General Carascosa sent to General Bianchi, requesting he would prevent the misfortunes with which the town was menaced, by entering it immediately; and Madame Murat, by the same request to Admiral Lord Exmouth, prevailed upon him to land a body of 500 marines, to maintain tranquillity.

Marshal Murat appears to have been aware of the little support his usurped dominion, when menaced, would receive either from

the

the army or the inhabitants of this kingdom his children were al

ready placed at Gaeta.

General Bianchi sent forward his cavalry, under Count Niepperg, on the evening of the 21st. It occupied this city during the night, and preserved it from disorder.

Prince Leopold has requested all the authorities of the kingdom, the ministers of state, and the officers of the army, to remain at their post to await the orders of the King.

Admiral Penrose sailed from hence to Melazzo, to bring his Majesty to his capital. In a few days his Majesty's arrival may be expected.

Admiral Lord Exmouth arrived in the Bay of Naples on the 20th. The expedition from Sicily is arrived this morning.

Madame Murat will sail tomorrow on board of his Majesty's ship Tremendous towards Gaeta, to receive her children on board, and will then proceed to Trieste.

No disturbances of any serious nature have taken place. The enmity against such as are supposed from their employments to have been attached to the late Government is great, but the activity with which General Bianchi has carried assistance to the points where it might be required has retained the country quiet.

I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) BURGHERSH

INDIA-BOARD, Whitehall.

June 15.

The following statement of the operations of the second division

of the field army, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Mawby, of his Majesty's 53d regiment, before Kalunga, has been this day received from India :

Fort William, Dec. 13, 1814. His Excellency the Vice President in Council, is pleased to publish the following statement of the operations of the 2d division of the field army, under the command of Colonel Mawby, of his Majesty's 53d regiment, before Kalunga, which terminated in the evacuation of the Fort on the 30th of November.

The battering train from Delhi having arrived in Camp on the 24th ultimo, the operations of the army against the fort of Kalunga, were resumed on the morning of the 25th. At one o'clock, p. m. on the 27th, the breach was reported completely practicable by the officers in charge of the engineer and artillery departments. Colonel Mawby having also satisfied himself of the fact from personal observation, and being anxious to avoid any delay which should afford the enemy sufficient time to strengthen his internal defence, either by cutting up the breach, or erecting works so as to command the entrance into it, ordered the storming party instantly to advance. The storming party, consisting of all the grenadiers of the division, and one battalion company of the 53d, with the light infantry company of that corps, was led by Major Ingleby, and after being exposed till three o'clock, an interval of two hours, to a most galling and destructive fire of musketry and matchlocks, they found their efforts opposed

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