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THE RETURN OF KING FERDINAND IV --
1815 (1)
Supplement to the London Gazette of Tuesday July 4,
1815
Foreign office, July 5.
Dispatches, of which the following are extracts, have been
received at this office:
Extract of a dispatch from William A'Court, Esq. his Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of
the Two Sicilies, to Viscount Castlereagh, dated Naples, June 17,
1815:
I have the satisfaction to inform your Lordship that his Sicilian
Majesty made this day his public entry into his capital, after an
absence of nine years. The crowd that thronged the road, all the
way from Portici, was immense, and nothing could exceed the
enthusiasm of the people on the appearance of their legitimate
Monarch. It was impossible to mistake the public feeling upon
this occasion. The theatrical processions of Murat drew crowds,
as I am told, of curious spectators, but curiosity was not the
inducement here. In every countenance might be read the honest
expression of heartfelt joy at the return of a beloved and native
Sovereign.
His Majesty was received, on his arrival at the palace, by all
the principal nobility of the country, the great majority of whom
appeared to partake of the enthusiasm which had been previously
demonstrated by the lower classes. In fact, never was national
joy so unequivocally and so universally displayed.
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