Here is the full text of the Proclamation of the King (Messina, 20 May 1815) of Ferdinand IV, later Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, as published in the Collection of Laws :
"After so many years of painful separation, like the Divine Providence, to return to 'our beloved subjects of their legitimate sovereign, and our hearts that he holds most sacred. Our sacred rights of the Two Sicilies, recognized and confirmed by Universal consent of the Powers of Europe in Congress, the forces of 'our allies and our magnanimity, love of' people who have longed for our return, they get the time they stop all the evils that have a bleak, beautiful and great part of 'our dominions. To respond to such a marked benefit of the Most High, and to 'feelings of our minds, we consecrate all our moments, and employ all our care to make our people happy and quiet: and they will help Hill virtues necessary to social order, harmony, moderation and mutual trust. Remains of extinct each pass each other in their memory, as it is in ours. Since 1. ° of the current month of May we express our ploclamazione from Palermo with our fathers' intentions and promises. Confirming now, and most extensively explaining the same, solemnly declare and promise in our name and on behalf of 'our successors, to create laws based on which will be established the system of our Government, the guarantor segueti that immediate grant irrevocably to 'our beloved subjects. 1. assure individual freedom and civil. 2. The properties will be inviolable and sacred. The sale of 'state property would be irreversible. 3. The charges will be enacted by a method that shall be prescribed by law. 4. the public debt will guaranty. 5. pensions, the grades and military honors will be retained, as well as the old and new nobility. 6. Each will be eligible napolitano negl'impieghi civil and military. 7. No one shall be sought, nor disturbed by the opinions and conduct policy, which held prior to our re-establishment in possession of 'our Neapolitan dominions, at any time and in any circumstance that is. As a result we give a full and complete amnesty to those objects, without any exception or interpretation. "
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