The Parliament of the Two Sicilies had…
1825 CE
The victory had been used by Austria to force its grasp over Naples' domestic and foreign policies.
Count Charles-Louis de Ficquelmont had been appointed as the Austrian ambassador to Naples, practically administrating the country as well as managing the occupation and strengthening Austrian influence over Neapolitan elites.
Ferdinand, the last surviving child of Charles III, dies in Naples in January 1825.
His eldest son succeeds him as Francis I, who had assumed the revived title of duke of Calabria in 1816, when, on the fall of Napoleon I, his father had returned to Naples and suppressed the Sicilian constitution, incorporating his two kingdoms into that of the Two Sicilies.
While still heir apparent he had professed liberal ideas, and on the outbreak of the revolution of 1820 had accepted the regency, apparently in a friendly spirit towards the new constitution.
On succeeding to the throne in 1825, however, he pursues a conservative course.
He takes little part in the government, which he leaves in the hands of favorites and police officials, and lives with his mistresses, surrounded by soldiers, ever in dread of assassination.
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