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guarded by rocks, defiles, and mountain streams. Thehead quarters were at Aquila. From hence, Pepe,in order to anticipate the attack of the Austrians, sal-lied forth into the Roman territory, occupied Rieti,and pressed forward even to Terni; hut a body of2500 Austrian cavalry from Viterbo having arrivedat the bridge of Otricoli before him, he left Terni,and his position at Rieti, without firing a shot.Frimont hereupon fixed his head quarters at Foligno.Hence the Austrians spread the royal proclamation,and Frimont, at the same time, issued one of his own,declaring to the Neapolitans that he came as a friend,and would exact contributions from no place except-ing those where the will of the king was opposed.This dissolved the slight band of connexion amongthe militia, already discouraged by want of ammu-nition, food, and clothing, and entire battalions now-dispersed. General Pepe, early in March, with10,000 men, attacked the vanguard of the Austrianarmy, but was defeated ; his troops fled in disorder tothe mountains ; so that, at ten o’clock in the evening,the Austrians entered Civitii Ducale, together with thefugitives. On the same day, a body of 3000 men,advancing from Leonessa, was put to flight nearLugo. These two battles, the first and last of thecampaign, cost the Austrians hardly sixty men, anddecided the revolution. As the Austrians continuedthe pursuit, the Neapolitans evacuated Velino, andthe strong castle of Antrodocco, the important passat Modonna della Grotte, and that at St. Thomas, sothat the Austrians, on the evening of the 10th, occu-pied Aquila. Thus the war ended, without the armyunder Carascosa, on the Garigliano, having made amovement. General Pepe could not rally the scat-tered forces, and he hastened to Naples. The Aus-trians marched from Abruzzo to surround the rightwing of the army on the Garigliano. Carascosaimmediately left the stations of Itri, Frondi, and SanGermano. The militia now began to disperse in thisquarter also, so that the regent, w ho was in Capua,returned to Naples, where fear and confusion pre-vailed, in consequence of the news received fromAhruzzo. All measures for the continuation of thecontest were baffled by the rapid advance of theAustrians.
At length, parliament besought the regent to actbetween the nation and the king. The king, how-ever, professed himself unable to give any promisesconcerning the future, or to stop the march of theAustrians. On the farther advance of the Austrians,Carascosa’s. army dispersed. The militia returnedhome, and the soldiers of the line joined the Austriantroops. The royal guard alone remained with generalCarascosa, and occupied Capua, tearing off thenational cockade, and returning to their allegiance.Upon which the truce requested by Carascosa wassigned, and Capua, as well as the remaining places,were taken possession of bv the Austrians, in thename of the king of Sicily. The Carbonari now medi-tated a mountain and guerilla warfare, when the capi-tulation of Naples, including the strongholds ofGaeta and Pescara, extinguished the last spark of therevolutionary fire. The parliament separated, and, afew hours after, the Austrian army marched into thecapital. The regent, with his family, went to Caserta.The king solemnly entered Naples, May 15, 1821.He had already, w hile at Florence, appointed a pro-visional government, which now abolished the revo-lutionary institutions, restored the old forms, dis-
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solved the Neapolitan army, and prosecuted theauthors of the insurrection. Divisions of the Aus-trian army, which occupied Sicily in the beginning ofJune, first restored quiet in the provinces (whereMorelli, Lorenzo de’ Concilis and Minichini wishedto excite a guerilla war), after the people of bothkingdoms had been disarmed. General Joseph Ros-sarol excited new commotions in Sicily, by proclaim-ing a republic at Messina; but his plan to do thesame in Calabria failed. The troops which he hadinstigated to revolt submitted to the king, and nothingremained for him but flight into Spain. Thus endedthe revolution. (For further information, see Sicilies,Kingdom of the Two).
Napoli Di Romania. A town of EuropeanTurkey. It stands on a rocky promontory whichprojects into the sea. The population amounts toabout 6000 persons. Napoli is twenty miles N.E. ofTripolizza, and ten S.S.E. of Argos.
Narbetii. A market town in Pembrokeshire,South Wales. It is a place of considerable antiquity;and the remains of a strong castle erected for itsdefence are still standing. The inhabitants amountto about 2000 persons ; and it is 255 miles W. ofLondon, and nine N. of Tenby.
Narbonne. A city of France, in the departmentof the Aude, seven miles from the Gulf of Lyons, withwhich it is connected by the canal of Narbonne. Thestreets are narrow and crooked, and the houses badlybuilt. The archiepiscopal palace, a sort of fortress,with square towers, and the cathedral, are the mostremarkable buildings. There are several churches,hospitals, and public establishments here. Narbonneis one of the oldest cities of Gaul. As early as 1118,a Roman colony was established there, and it becamethe capital of Gallia Narbonensis, and was orna-mented with splendid buildings, of which some frag-ments only are still to be seen. Simon de Montfortdemolished the walls in the war against the Aibi-genses : the present walls were built by Francis I.The inhabitants amount to about 10,000 persons.Lon.3° E„ lat. 43° IP N.
Narcissus. According to mythology, the sonof the river-god Cephisus and the nymph Liriope,or according to a less common account, Liroessa.Tiresias the seer predicted that he would liveto old age, if he should not become acquaintedwith himself. The surpassing beauty of the youngNarcissus excited the love of all the maidens anilnymphs. Echo pined away to a mere voice, becauseher love for him found no return. Being heated oneday in the chase, he went to drink from a fountain,and there saw, for the first time, the reflection of hisown beauty. Nothing could turn the unhappy youthfrom this fountain. His raging passion for himselfdestroyed him ; and the compassionate gods trans-formed him into a yellow-leaved flower, which stillbears his name. Such is the account which Ovidgives in his Metamorphoses. The unhappy fountain,in which Narcissus saw himself, has since beeii shownat Thespiss, in Bceotia,—a country w here, accordingto the accounts of travellers, these beautiful flowersstill abound.
Narni. A tow-n of Italy, in the States of theChurch. It is beautifully situated on the brow of ahill, about forty miles from the city of Rome. Theriver Nera, which flows at a short distance from thetown, is crossed by the remains of a magnificentbridge, built in the reign of Augustus, and little