Triumphal entry of Austrian troops in Naples in 1821,
by Johann Lorenz Rugendas. Al. Brown Univ.
" Europe knows the reasons for resolution of the allied sovereigns to suppress the conspiracy and to end the unrest that threatened the existence of the general peace, whose recovery has caused so much effort and many sacrifices. Just when their generous commitment was fulfilled in the kingdom of Naples, a rebellion of a more heinous yet, if possible, broke out in Piedmont. The plan of subversion in general was this route combination against the rest of the nations. The conspirators of Piedmont had their assigned role, they hurried to complete it.
The throne and the State have been betrayed, violated the oaths, disregarded military honor, and forgetting all duties soon brought the scourge of all disorders. Everywhere evil presented the same character everywhere the same spirit led the disastrous revolutions.
Unable to find any plausible reason to justify or support for national support is in false doctrines that the perpetrators of these upheavals are seeking an apology and it is on the criminal organizations that they found a more criminally hope. For them, the empire is a salutary yoke of laws that must be broken. They forego feelings inspired by the true love of country, and putting in place of homework known, pretenses arbitrary and indefinite a universal change in the principles of the corporation, they prepare for disasters in the world without end.
allied sovereigns had known the dangers of the conspiracy to their full extent, but they had penetrated along the real weakness of the conspirators through the veil of appearances and declamations. Experience has confirmed their hunches. Resistance as the legitimate authority has encountered was zero, and the crime has disappeared before the sword of justice.
This is not to accidental causes, it is not even to men who have shown so little the day of battle, we must attribute the ease of such a success. It is a principle more comforting and more worthy of consideration.
Providence has struck terror as guilty consciences, and the disapproval of people, including artisans unrest had affected the lives, made them drop the weapons in hand.
only to combat and suppress the rebellion, the Allied forces, far from supporting any exclusive interest came to the rescue of subjugated peoples, and peoples have viewed the job as a support for their freedom, not as an attack against their independence. Therefore, the war ended; therefore, states that the war had affected have not been as friendly states for the powers that had never desired that their peace and well-being ...
justice and selflessness that have guided the deliberations of monarchs always settle their political allies. In the future, as in the past, it will always aim for conservation independence and rights of each state, as recognized and defined by existing treaties. The result also a very dangerous movement is still under the auspices of Providence, the stronger the enemies of peace that people seek to destroy, and consolidating a range of things that will break their nations and prosperity!
Imbued with these sentiments, the allied sovereigns, by setting an end to conferences Laibach, wanted to announce to the world the principles that guided them. They are determined never to depart, and all friends of good will and find constantly in their union warranty protection against attempts by disruptive. With this in mind that Their Imperial and Royal Majesties ordered their plenipotentiaries to sign and issue this statement.
Ljubljana, 12 May 1821.
METTERNICH Krusemarck, NESSELRODE,
Capodistrias, Pozzo di Borgo . "
Capodistrias, Pozzo di Borgo . "
Cited in Capefigue JB, The Congress of Vienna in its dealings with District current Europe, Paris, Comptoir des United Printers, 1847.
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