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THE ZING'S COURT. BRIGHTON, Ocr. 11. The Count and Countess of MUNSTER, the Baron and Baroness MuNal 11A USSIN Count, Baron WENGENUEIM, aud Mr. Cox, haul the honour of dining yesterday with their !VI A it:sr' ES at the Pavilion. This day the Kura, the QUEEN, and her Royal High ness the Princess AUGUSTA, rode in a carriage to the Gar riban Races, on the Downs, to the great delight of an im mense crowd of spectators. Prince GEoRGE rode thither also in his poney phaeton. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE in the mean time employed himself with a perambulation through the town. The races were beautiful ; the officers of the garrison riding their own horses. We are sorry to state that the Langravine of HESSE Hem BERG has been slightly indisposed for some days past : and Mr. KE.tTE has in consequence attended hor Royal Highness, who, by his renovating care, is much better. The Earl and Countess of Su a REY arrived this day on a visit to their MAirsms at the Pavilion, where the fol lowing persons of distinction left their cards of enquiry :-- Major General P 'ARSON. Lieut. General Sir WI ct.l .% a , ul L'uly HOUSTON. Sir F. J. HARTWELL. Lady and Miss HARTWELL. Rear Admiral Humus. Rear Admiral MANLY. Mrs. MANLY. The LORD CHANCELLOR. Le Prince PAUL DE LI EV EN. Sir GORE and Lady Ov s LEY Y. Count KEILMANSYG. BRIGHTON GARRISON RACES. MONDAY, OCT. 11. These races, agreeable to expectation, took place this day, and from the first day's races being so excellent, and the morning being so un usually fine, much interest was excithed. The course exhibited a splendid chew of carriages, and we calculate that nearly 10,000 persons were present, amongst whom we noticed many of the nobility now resident with us. Shortly after 3 o'clock, their Most Gracious Majesties, as by her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, and suite, in two opera carriages, honoured the coarse with their presence to witness the sport, and remained until nearly five o'clock, much delighted. Her Aajesty appeared in excellent health. The Race-stand was open to the friends of the Officers interested in the sport, and a splendid dejeun6 provided; upon the whole, the scene looked peculiarly gay and interesting, although at the close, the air reminded us of its teeing Oe.ober. A Match for 28 sots. each. Half Mile. Catch Weights. Mr. Ricardo's Mandeville, by Young Woodpecker, out of Platina, white and crimson sleeves - - - - - 1 Mr. Fairlie's Inconstant, white and black sleeves A vary excellent race from the commencement, and won only by a head. Match for 25 soya. each. Half Mile. lest 71b each. Capt. Davidson's ch. g. Gazelle, by Orville, light blue - - 1 Mr. Martin's m. Coquette, by Gainsborough, orange and blue sleeves 2 Won easily, the horse having the best of it the whole way. A sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, (handicap.) 1 mile. slr. Iticardo's Paul Pry, list. 71b. - - - - 1 64. J. Ogilvy's The Bird, Ilst. . . . . 2 Mr. Fairlie's Inconstant, lOst. 71b. - • - . 3 A beautiful race, Inconstant came off at a clashing pace, followed by The Bird; at distance, Paul Pry came out and %OD by a head only. The mile run in 1 minute 33 second.. A match for 25 cove. each. Half mile. Hon. G. Corentsy's Sharper, rode by Capt. Heinle Radcliff, black, and white cap . • - - 1 JIIr. Martin's Coquette, green, shot with brown, and cop . 2 Very good race. A Match foe 25 sore. each. Half Mile. Catch Weights. Capt. Davidson's ch. g. Gazelle, by Orville - . . I Mr. J. Fairlie's ch. tn. Evelina, slate colour and cap - - 2 Won in &canter ; the mare evidently overweighed. ... Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each. Three-quar t ers mile. lOst each. . Sir J. Ogilvy's The Bird . - - - 1 Mr. Fairlie's Evelina, rode by Mr. D. Radcliffe - - 2 Hon. O. Coventry's Sharper - - . . - 3 Mr. J. Fairlie's Inconstant - - - - dr _ A good race, in which The Bird proved a very superior horse. A Sweepstakes (Handicap) of 6 soy,. each. Half Mile. Four to start, or no race. Sir J. Ogilvy's The Bird, 12st - - - - - 1 Mr. Fairlie's The Mammoth, list Mb . - - - 2 Mr. Ricardo's Neil Gow, list 71b - - - 3 Capt. Cooper's The Mayor, list 101 b - - - 4 Very excellent race : won by half a length. STE WA ADS.-...51E John Burgoyne, Bart. Captain Williams. Capt. D. Radcliff. N.B. Each Officer rode his own horse with the weight allowed. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Christiana Louise, Swedland, from Gefie, has arrived at Strom. ness, wick her cargo shifted, and most discharge, bound to Cadiz. The Saladin, of Belfast. drifted on shore near Ballyonnel 7th inst. a complete wreck, and is abandoned. Dun., OCT. 10.—ArrIved the Plato, Hamilton, from Virginia. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. W.—Arrived off the Wight, the Rubicon, Champion, from Jamaica ; and Concordia, Clue, from New York. FALLasourn, Oct. 9.—Arrived the Magnet packet, front Lisbon— sailed the 26th ult. Duress, Ocr. 9.—Arrived the Margaret, Fleming, from Arcbangel; Scotia, Meuas, from Riga; Athol, Burney, from Nava; and Mi. verve, Goger, from Stettin. Burros. OCT. 9.—Arrived the Adeoaa, —, from St. Petersburg's, and Ann, Finlay, from Riga. Donuts, Ocr. 9.—Arrived the Mary and Louise, Roe, from Leg. born. CORE, OCT. IL—Arrived the Champion, Bream., from Gibraltar. PISZAPCI, Oct. 9.—Arrived of the port, the Friends, Fisher, from Grenada. YARMOUTH. Ocr. 9.—Arrivcd the Betsey, Donaldson, and Lavinia, Taylor, from Archangel. PITIRBRAD, Oct. 9.—Arrived the James, Hogg, from Davis' Straits Their Majesties will, it is expected, coma to town on tho 23t1 inst. and will remain a few weeks. The Duke of Brunswick had an audience with the Duke of Wellington yesterday, at the Treasury. His Serene Highness visited the Earl of Aberdeen, at the Foreign Office. Sir Robert Peel arri►ed in town yesterday, from his seat, Drayton Park, Staffordshire. The Dublin Papers say that it is now ascertained that his Majesty will honour the Dublin Musical Festival with his presence, and that the arrangements are rapidly proceeding. An order has been issued at Calais, to prevent the running of small boats with expresses, couriers, Etc. between that port and England. _ _ _ Prince Talleyrand, the French Ambassador, and the Austrian Ambassador, had interviews with the Earl of Aberdeen yes. terday, at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Spanish Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. A Cabinet Council was held at half-past three o'clock y:stertlay afternoon, at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the Lunt Chancellor. ;h. Duke of Wellington, Earls ltos%lyn and Aberdeen, Viscount Melville, Lord Ellenborough, Sir Robert Peel, Sir George .hurray, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Ile/ries. The Council sat two hours and &half in deliberation. What is now the Western extremity of the Bank of Eng land was erected about fifty years ago , upon what had been till then the Site of th e Ch urc h of Sc Christopher.le.Stocks, which was pulled down for the purpose ;—so that the Jews of old are not the only persons who corerted the House of Oon into a plate for money-changers. The Woolwich division of Royal Marines, under the com mand of Colonel 3l'Cliveny, had a grand field.day on Friday, on Blackheath. The battalion (about fs3o rank and file), was under the command of Lieut,r.ant-Colonel Lawrence, and went through a series of brilliant manceuvres. The correctness of the firings, and the rapid formation of different squares from column and line, were most wasp'. , :uous. The band of the gallant corps played several martial and mo dern airs in a retired part of the Heath, during the movements of the battalion, to a large assemblage of fasitionables from the neighbourhood. This morning, as Captain Louth, of the brig Betsey, :yi ng in the river, outward bound, was giving directions to bis mate mpecting the rigging, the rand b e i ng on the eve of sailing, his foot • ame in contact frith a rope, by which event he was precipitated into the ;wet ; the boat was put out, and a diligent search made for his body for pwards of an how; it was at length found, Wein& it is supposed, that his head struck against the aids of the vessel while in the act of falling. He has left a wife and five children at Hull, who were wholly dependent upon him for support. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE HAAIBURG PAPERS. Bauxawrcir, SEPT. VI. Yesterday morning a deputy from the Duke arrived here, who came from London with a message to Duke William. It was soon made known that the former had transferred to the latter the government of the country for an unlimited time. The Estates have drawn up a very long address to Duke William, in which they paint in strong colours the melancholy state to which the country was reduced by the arbitrary measures of the Duke.—This ad. dress of the Estates was published here yesterday evening at six o'clock. An immense multitude was immediately assembled, to whom it was read aloud by lamplight, and received with acclamations of joy. Bauxawtcr, SEPT. 30—The following answer of Duke William to the Address was published the day before yesterday : " I thank the Estates of the Duchy of Brunswick and the Principality of Blakenburg, for the assurance they have given me of their attachment and confidence. " It is agreeable to me to find, in the address presented to me on the 27th, a new proof of the exalted patriotism, as well as oldie zealous and prudent endeavours of the Estates to maintain the constitution of the country, and to insure its permanent prosperity. The more painfully I am affected by the picture given in this address of the present state of the country, the more securely may the Estates rely on my sincere and entire concurrence in all constitutional measures, the object of which is to restore and consolidate the welfare of the country. " It gives me particular satisfaction to be able to inform the estates, in answer to the proposal made to me, that i have been induced to as sume, for the present, the government of the country. I may expect that In this manner the continuance of tranquillity so happily restored will be secured, and the most urgent wants of the moment provided for. Meantime I shall exert myself to the utmost by a negociation, to be immediately commenced by his Highness my brother, to attain the object intimated by the Estates. If, contrary to my expectation, my efforts should not prove successful, 1 should not, indeed, be able to resolve to take myself the steps to which the Estates allude, but shall not object to their making a proper application to his Majesty the King of Great Britain and Hanover, and I do not doubt that the desired end will be attained by the moderation of that generous and enlightened Monarch. I have now only to express my wish that the Estates may use their influence to revive and consolidate the confidence of, the subjects in the Government, without which a country cannot prosper. (Signed) " WILLIAM, Duke of Brunswick Oels. " Brunswick, Sept. 28." Hasitsuao, Oct. s.—Boaszx Foust o'CLocit.—The af fairs of Holland have kept our Exchange in a fever for some days past. Public securities have fallen considerably ; yesterday in particular many stockholders came forward to sell. To-day, owing to purchases made by several of our bears to cover their engagements for the 15th, prices are a shade higher. In Berlin limes have been very low. Discount 6, 541 per cent.—Angle.Danish Loan, 3 per cent. 59/ ; Anglo-Russian, 901; Hamburg Russian, 89}; Polish Bonds, 114; New Prussian, 4 per cents. til ; Austrian Bank Shares, 1042 ; New Austrian 4 per cents. 82.—Ilarabsorg Reporter, Oct. 5. DUTCHAPERS. THE HAGUE, OCT. 7. We learn that the three new Ministers have accepted their appoint ments. This event has given great satisfaction, and caused a rise in the Funds on the Exchange at Amsterdam, which have lately been much depressed. It is not doubted that the King's Proclamation, cal ling on the inhabitants of the Northern Provinces to arm, will have a similar or still greater effect. Here, at least, it has excited great seal, and, since the publication of the Proclamation, one hundred and fifty volunteers have offered to march with the militia, and many others have offered to serve here in the town at their own expense. In the course of the week all the moveable militia will go to the fortresses. Some of the officers are already on actual service, and went yesterday to Utrecht, with some hundred militia. The naval division before Antwerp, consisting of the Eurydice, of 36 guns, and the Porcupine, of 28 guns, is reinforced by the Comet, of 28 guns. His Majesty has issued a Proclamation to the following effect " Desiring, as far as lies in our power, to provide that the difficulties of the present state of things may not be increased by a high price of provisions; and considering that a reduction of the import duties on corn appears to be calculated to contribute to this object, the duties on wheat, rye, oats, barley, and spelt, fixed by the law of 10th January, 1825, are reduced to the rates fixed by the law of 26th August, 1822. AMSTERDAM, OCT. 8. Some foreign officers lately arrived here, who, as has since transpired, are some of the exiled Constitutional Spaniards. We learn they came by sea from Lisbon, where they had been long kept in prison by Don Miguel, and intended to go by way of Brussels to France. In the state of affairs they have been dissuaded from this journey, and provision has been made far their lodging and support. AMSTERDAM, OCT. 4 —Fuwos.—Actual Debt, two and a half per cent. 391 to 42i—Deferred Debt, 15.16 to 1 1-16—Amort Synd. four and a half per cent. 691 to 71I—Ditto, three and a half per cent. 54) to 581. EXCHANGES ow Lowoow.—Amsterdam, October 8, 11 85; two months, 11 80—St. Petersburgh, Sept. 24, 101—Hamburgh, Oct. 5, 13 81; two months, 13 7l—Berlin, Oct. 20, (three months, 6 21/ Bremen. Oct. 1, two montha.6ol—Leipzic, Oct. 1, three months, 6 13fr Stockholm, Sept. 28, 75 : 12 8. OEltll ANY. VIENNA, SEPT. 28.--Count Appony, our Ambassador at Paris, is to be recalled, and to have a high office in the Imperial Household. It is said that he will be succeeded at Paris by Count Fiquelmont, who is at present on an extraordinary mission at St. Petersburgb. Marshal 3lortier is to be the new French Ambassador to Petersburgh, and Mar shal Maison to Vienna. The report of a Congress to be held at Trop. pau gains ground. The whole Imperial Family, except the Archduke Francis Charles and his consort, is now at Presburgh, to which city a great part of the most distinguished inhabitants of this capital are gone, to be present at the coronation of the Crown Prince as King of Hungary. The mag nificence displayed on this occasion, both by our Court and the Hun garian Magnates, is said to exceed every thing before seen : 22,000 pieces of silver, and 6,000 of 'gold coin, have been made expressly to scatter among the people. The young King of Hungary is to make his solemn entry into this city on Monday next. Viz/lan, SEPT. 30.—The report of a Congress to be held at Troppau gains more credit, and to-day it is even said that his Majesty the Em peror will set out from St. Petersburgh for that place on Saturday next. A courier was suddenly despatched to-day to Turin. FROM BRANDENBURG/I, OCT. 4.—The unfavourable accounts of the progress of the insurgents in Belgium excite the greatest atten. tion, and it is more than ever believed that the European Powers will interfere. A partial intervention of a single Power is, how. ever, the less probable in this case, as occasion might thereby be given to France, to intervene in a contrary spirit. It is said that this matter was brought under discussion while Count Lobau, the French Ambassador Extraordinary, was here. It is said to have been expressly required by the three Allied Powers, as a condition of their recognising the new dynasty of France, that the latter should not inter. fere in the affairs of the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal. The French Government is said to have acceded to this condition, but requires now that similar assurances of non-intervention AO be assumed as a prin. ciple. People are more confident than ever that k:nglantl, which is most interested in preserving the integrity of the kingdom of the Nether lands, will speedily take a decisive step. BRCNSwICK, OCT. 6.—ln the third and last Sitting of the Estates of Brunswick, Wolfenbattel and Blankenberg, it was resolved to send Count Von Ober'', of Duttinstedt, with a suitable Address to his Ma. jesty the King of England. All patriots ardently hope that Duke William may convoke, as soon as possible, a General Assembly of the States, which may discuss the means of removing the great grievances under which the country still labours. There can be no doubt of the willingness of the Duke of Brunswick Oels to contribute all in his power, but to attain the object it is absolutely necessary that tranquillity, order, and security, which are now happily restored, should be preserved. HAMBURGH, OCT. B.—The Beurs Van Amsterdam, steamboat, which has arrived at Lubcc from Cronstadt, has not brought any Rus sian letters or journals. VIENNA, OCT. I.—The Coronation at Presburgh took place on the 28th. HAMBUROII, OCT. B.—Boaszx Hamm, BALT-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. —The supply of wheat has been small during the week. The only purchasers were our own consumers. For new corn few offers are to be obtained, most of the samples hitherto shown being light in weight and damp. Rye has gone down, but the holders have warehoused their grain in hopes of prices recovering. Barley and oats are of ready sale, if the quality is good. This year's oats are light and extremely damp. During the six last days of Sept. 21 cargoes of corn parsed through the Sound ; of these three were bound for British, three for Dutch, and ten for Northern ports. —_ FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Constilutionnei of Saturday, Oct. 9.) Pwars, OCT. B.—The number et barricades erected at Paris during the three days of July, amounts to 4,065 : the number of fiag.stones removed, to 3,124,000 ; the repairing has cost 260,000 franca. TovLow, Ocr. 2.—lt is thought that Admiral de in tr a y siy who will complete his term of quarantine in a few d a ys, w ill in: to Paris. It is reported th a t he is a pp o i nte d Mi n i ster o f Marine. if: whole navy would be delighted with this choice. M. de Rigny, with all that is requisite to make an excellent naval commander, adds disdn. guiabed abilities daring the six years that be has commanded the French naval force in the Levant ; be has been enabled to make himself tho roughly acquainted with the foreign policy of the European Powers ; 1 and by his superior merit has acquired greet inluenos in all diplomatic trasnactions. As be has never taken any part in parliamentary debates, It is possible that M. de Rigny may not at the commencement prove a successful orator, but under the happy gems:nest under which we live, it is not the brilliant subdedas at a speaker, that must be sought in a Sliniater. but ardent patriotism, and a perfect knowledge of the service at the head of which he is placed. In ell these points M. de Rigny is the very man ; •and it will be by the acts of a firm and en lightened administration that he will make himself brown to the Chem bets and to the nation, and merit the gratitude of the Navy, which places entire conlidence in him. Peels, Ocroant B.—The circulars and secret ceders of the Mi nisters Calomarde and Zambrano, as well as of Carvagal, the In spector• General of the Royalist Volunteers, produce their fruits in Spain. At Madrid, Ferdinand was to be dethroned, perhaps asses ainated, and succeeded by his brother Don Carlos ; the Ministers Ballasteros, Salmon, and Sauer, as well as the Liberals in the capital, to be massacred, and their houses pillaged ; the in , habitants of the lowest quarters of Madrid, who were gained over, were to co-operate with the Royalist Volunteers in their notable exploits, when happily, on the 24th of September, the day fixed by the conspirators, the conspiracy was di►covered just as it was on the eve of execution ; the streets were filled with soldiers, the squares converted into bivouacs, and &treats commenced. At Oviedo the assassins, organized by the Bishop, attempted to make themselves, masters of the depot of arms, and but for the presence of mind of the officer ou duty, who made an honourable re sistance, all the Libetals would have been massacred without mercy.— At Seville, Dun Vincent Quizada, Captain-General of the Province, see ing the public safety endangered by the intrigues of the Royalist Volun. teers, prudently resolved to disarm them. In short, in all the provinces of Spain the priests and the monks declaim from the pulpit to excite the people to make a St. Barthelemy of all those who are known for their li ttera! opinions. At Barcelona the arrests continue. The Carlists of Catalonia, whom the Count d'Espagne disarmed when Ferdinand came to that province to punish their rebellion, have just resumed them by order of the same Count cPlispagne ; and it is, also, by his orders that a Regiment of Royalist Volunteers is now forming at Barcelona. The Colonel and Commander of the battalion are known as the most violent partisans of the Apostolic party in Catalonia. The men who offer themselves are noblemen's servants, people connected with the Monks—but no honest workmen, no one connected with manufactures or commerce, has offered himself. This Court hat given orders not to suffer any Constitutionalists, or persons suspected to he such, to travel about. and to fire on all who may attempt to leave their own communes. Fifty Constitutionalists have been embarked at Barcelona, and sent to the Presidio.. All the ai ms of the old t'onstitutional Militia, supposed to have any influence, have been arrested and imprisoned some at Mont.Jouy and some In the Citadel. Several Frenchmen, who were arrested at Barcelona, applied in vain to the French Consul, and were released only through the intervention of their friends. General Monet, and two other General Officers, arrived at Figueiras on the 30th of September, and reviewed the garrison of 600 men. Batteries of field pieces have been organised, and horses put in reluisition for them. At the same time, to encourage the Absolutists, it is reported that an expedition will be made into France to re-establish the Throne cf Cl:arlea X. FREWC II FuNDs —Five per Cents. 961 70c 80c 70c 75c 80c 75c 70c 65c 75c fief 110 c 75c 70c 50e ; Three per Cents. 661 40 e &,c 60c 45t: 35c 10c 6c ; Rink Stock, 1,700 E 1.705 ; Acmes de Naples, 661 15c 10e 65f 611 85c &V 60c 25c ; Rentes d'Espagne, ; Royal Spanish Loan, 491 a ; Rcntc Perpetuelle d'Lapagne, 38i 4I 38 381 38. Ex change on London, one month. paper, 25f 35c; money, 25f 30e; three months, paper, 20c; money, 25f 15c.—Cours Authentift44. THE HAGUE, OCT. 8. Attention is completely turned front the slow progrcssof the conttnis sion of 16 here to the me,: appropriate rapidity with which the Prince of Orange is following up the object of his mission to Antwerp. His first proclamation has already produced important good. At the review of the Communal Guard yesterday, he was hailed with acclamations ; and two deputations from 31alines and Lier, the first headed by the Archbishop, have set an example of promptitude and loyalty to the rest of Belgium. There can be little doubt but that the good sense of the country will pie vail over the ambition of the men who direct the bad spirit of Brus sels. Tito Prince has, as you will observe by the Antwerp papers, star. rounded himself by the most repeatable of the leading members of the States-General, all Belgians, and men of undoubted character and pa triotism. An individual exception might be made, but this is not a time for invidious scrutiny. Such mcn as Surlet de Chokier, Le Hon, de Brouckere, and the great majority of the Prince's Council, hold out every hope that may be founded on the junction of talent and experience with wealth and honesty. Some cavillers think the Prince's proclamation vague in one expression —that in which he promises a full pardon for "political faults." It is imagined that an intention may be in reserve of punishing the military men who have joined the rebel ranks. The character of the Prince, and the circumstances of the times are sufficient to refute this sinister suspicion, of which, however, it is to be feared M. de Potter and his colleagues will not fail to take advantage. They have, it appears, pronounced Belgium independent. That measure must have sprung front oneof two causes—ac. tual despair at their situation in consequence of internal dissensions, or un qualified encouragement from France. In the first case, the proceedings of the Prince of Orange will, in all likelihood, shatter this ephemeral fabric of republicanism ; in the second, the work must be performed by England, Prussia, and Austria, who cannot, in the teeth of their own treaties, and (probably a more powerful argument) of their own in. terests, stand by unmoved spectators of this double game. While Belgium is left struggling into tranquillity through the efforts of the Prince, or being warped into the still more crooked line of treason and misery, traced by its self-named Government, this portion of the country is vigorously organising all its force for the common good. The King's appeal has been answered by a general movement of loyalty. Thousands of volunteers are pouring in, and young men of the first families are joining the ranks for the ser vice of the garrisons, which form the second line of national defence. 11. Van Msanen, and the other newly-appointed Ministers, mention. ed in my last letter, have already begun to bestir themselves. The King is, as usual, indefatigable in his exertions. Prince Frederick, who arrived here this morning from Antwerp, will now give his whole attention to the completion of the army,—a duty from which he never should have been removed for the ill-fated expenditure against Brussels. Every Dutchman, in short, is at his post, preparing for the worst which may arise from the general convulsion.—Private Letter from the Times. MADRID. SEPT. 27. Spain needs only the impulse to be given, and she will revolutionize; but the exasperations of her factions will render her revolution a civil war, the issue of which cannot be doubtful. The liberty of a nation never loses by a civil war, when the struggle is undertaken by a people against the minions of tyranny. To prove that the Spanish nation is now ripe for sueli7a contest, I need but refer to the constitution of 1820, which, cradled by the enthusiasm of a few individuals, was welcomed by:millions, and thrived, notwithstanding the suicidal effects of poll. deal inexperience, and the incapacity flora thence arising. Was not that constitution maintained against the same powers that now sway the absolute authority of the Court ? Did it not exist for three years, until banished from the land by 100,000 French bayonets ? The Cortes was proclaimed at the Isla at a time when France was known to be a ready auxiliary of the dynasty and faction against whose absolute con troul it contended ; and' yet it was sucettaul. What is the fact now ? The French nation not only are friendly to the enterprise, but have themselves shown the example. A correct judgment of the fitness of Spain for a liberal Government may thus be formed without visiting the country, unless the paradox of a nation retrograding in civilization and free opinions, amidst universal liberalism, can be supported. The last Cortes made enemies among the grandees, by their not ad mitting a Chamber of Peers. That was an error which they now ac. knowledge ; the new constitution will, I believe, provide for it. The opinions of that class are divided: the old grandees are misfiles ; the' young ones are incline) to liberalism, which would be increased by the prospect of having a share in the Gevemmeet. They are now the body servants of their King, or little better, and entirely at his disposal, or of the faction that rules for him. Their personal fortunes are, generally, much deteriorated, and consequently their influence is not so great as might be expected; yet sufficiently so to be disadvantageous to the li berty of the country, if provoked to hostility by a revolution threaten ing to sweep them into a nonentity has than what they now are. Freedom of speech, though not sate, is very general here. Great curiosity prevails with respect to the events in France and the state of that frontier. This can only arise from one feeling. In my next I will detail the military force of the Government, and continue my informa tion on the state of the country. I will now merely add, that there are about 12,000 troops in this capital, but they cannot all be depended upon. Mercantile letters inform us that General Mina has entered Navarre.—lbid. VIM!' OF Posr.—Much time cannot elapse before events occur and counsels transpire to remove some of the obscurity by which at present the guess don as to the probable institutions and future destiny of Belgium are enveloped. It appears in the meanwhile, that the Government of the Hague has ceased to cherish the hope, or perhaps to entertain the de sire, of a re-union with its late refractory subjects, and that it has ae. cordingly, in relation to some affairs of very great importance both to Belgium and to Holland, already adopted a policy peculiarly and exclusively Dutch. The reduction of duty upon the importation of foreign corn into Holland, and a similar measure with respect to coals, seem clearly to indicate that the Dutch Government does not contem plate • speedy re-union of the two kingdoms, end that it fully sy.n pathises in the just and natural eagerness of its faithful subjects to cut off the burdens they have sawined , and to discontinue the mailces they hare hitherto offered, for the sake of a connection which, for the present at least, is entirely dissolved. The infamous exaggerations relative to the conduct of the troops in Brussels have been so exposed, that we hope the public mind is sullieiendy Ms-abused. Individual cases of outrage, in a conflict so *lamming, must have occurred; but that there was any general ferocity of conduct, or even relaxation of dia. cipline, evinced by th e so ldi er y, is denied by all the evidence possessing the slightest claim to respect. The calumnies attempted to be OM upon Prince Frederick were headed by the base forgery of•• proclamation, in which he was made to bold out the pillage oftie city as the reward of its capture. --Noo-- Turn—The rudest deterognotion of the French Government to remain at peon with all Europe,—tho moderation end good tease of the Organs of public opinion in France, n wisely pr. r !lie et-limit) eon solidation of the national liberties to dunbrul advantage of an ex tended territory,--and the general feeling in the Chan:l...Tv an the upper classes of society . that they have enough to do at Lome, are strong guarantees ktr the nn::-intervention of F'rae, • lit Belgic affairs. This state of things C4ll only, however, Is• tonia tained so long as other nations likewise abstain from intirferit.g.— Were Prussia, as the ally of the King of Holland, to amid troops into Belgium in the present struggle, it 'nigh' on• he possible for the Creech Government to restrain the ambitious ariour of its army (torn such a tempting field. King Philip and his advis..ra art only now requit e' to exercise a little self-denial in repelling renders of submission oflired as the price of protection. They have only to lend a deaf ear to traitors ; but if Prussia interfered, they would have to rune. lint may Belgic importunity,but the feeling-sof pride and the passion forennquest which throb in the breasts of their own prop;:. Keen thougli willing, they would find it impossible effectuaily to 'restrain 0.. erititi slum for war which would be excited in Frenelimen by the sight of Belgians imploring succour, with offer; ef r: zatilo, and Prus sians leagued with Hollanders en subjugate their (nerds and threaten their frontier. It is, therefore, most desirall'e that no demonstration of intetference should be made on the pert 0. Prunsizi. aryl the wisdoin, as well as the fears, of the Prussian Cabinet am a sseurity for its pa cific conduct. Strong hopes arc said to be entertained in various ran, of Belgium, that an arrangement may still be brought about on the mi t :hint terms of an administrative separation of the two (lit isiei.s of the king. dote, with the appointment of the Prince of ()range as Viceroy In Brussels. The Ghent journal tleelares the great n•::,., of the citizens of that great manufacturing town desire nothing mote. But it is evi dent that no such aectimmodation can be eft eted, so I.mg as the Provi sional Government of' Brussels exists. It has made an appeal to a nit tional convention, and before the convention meets it promises to hare a constitution of the republican stamp ready for ha adoption. It ma), by the way, be mentioned as a rather singular circumstance, that twa of the members of this constitutional con mission. nominated by He Potter, should likewise be members o# the Royal of Antwerp, nominated by the Prince of Orange. We *1,14 see by tt•e neat arrival which muter they mean to serve. CI :H110:4 ICLE.—Here conies Pruisia, a nt..r tnighbour of tile rips Bas--a lover of mustachios, women, and Pr.nestantiam. Pittss:a, arc told, can never allow the establishment of democratic princip'... itt the neighbourhood of the Rhenish provinces. Prussia, who 1216 - tive in bringing about the peace of Adrianople, is now ro unite wito Russia in compelling the Belgistut to be satistio.st with tl:e Mum: of Otattg:A A week ago, Prussia was to have marched her sot diers into the field, to reduce Brussels to aslits, and to occupy all the atirong places in Belgium. But row, after the States-Gcneral, notwithstandit,g all the interests and prejudices of Holland se-re there represented. have decided for the judicial and adminisuative se. separation of the Belgians fnim their Dutch enemies, Pros tia is to march her troops to the aid of the Prince of Orange, and at; iinst the French and Republican parties in the Southern Provinces. %VIII Prussia do this? I answer, No—decidedly not. But if Prussia can do nothing as a foe, may she not advance as a friend ? Never. The Belgians will never submit to either PrtillSiali dictation or Prussi in friendship. To unite Flanders to Prussia would be more difficult than even to unite it to Holland. You must exterminate the population, and then take possession of places dyed with the blood of their former cultivators, and ofunpeonled villages, and rased and ruined cities. A war with Prussia must be a war of extermination. " roe greatest happiness of the greatest num ber, and that for the greatest length of time is opposed" to a union with Prussia, or to a conquest by it. And there is France—yes, there is France. Belgium sighs to be united to her. She sees in a citizen King the triumph of the sovereignty of the people, and she longs to send her Deputies to that Assembly which has presented to Lnuis Philippe an address, praying for the abolition of the penalty of te. ath. But France refuses to interfere ; France knows that her h . dories are the Alps, the Pyrenees, and the (thine! i , eon - scious that, ere long, she must egain possession of her at ciete t. en tortes, but she will force nothing—she will hasten nothin , --slic i'• prove herself to be free by her moderation, and great by her iorb.:at - &nee. Why, France has only to say, by the mouth of her :Mitsui. 'or Foreign Affairs, that she will not oppose the union—and in twenty-low. hours Belgium and France would be one country. But this one word France will not utter—this simple act of acquiescence France sill not pronounce. She is unwilling to excite the jealousy of tier Northern Allies, and she is supremely desirous of proving how the last act of the French revolution differed from the first scenes at the clo,• of the last century. Yet, believe me, France will not lose by this tem perance ! Such sublime self-governing will not be lost upon mine Courts and other nations. She will gain eventually by common con sent the provinces which belong to her by right and by the true alle giance of* free and devoted population. England might act a nobler part—and give to her now that which, ere long, France must pats( Si. If England shall so act, the cause of civilisation and human happint 61 will advance, by such a treaty, at least half a century in a single benr. PRUSSIAN POLICY—FORTIFICATIONS on the RUIXE. _---.40.---- (From the .Spec tator.) " The treaties by which Prussia acquired the districts on the Rhine, which formerly belonged to the bishoprics of Munster. Ce logne, Troves, Br.o. have not produced any advantage to these cowl. tries; on the contrary, they feel the iron rod of a Government most absurdly devoted to a military system. Nor has Prussia gaited any strength by the acquisition of that extensive territory.- - The strength of a country depends on the good-will of the inhabit. ants to the Government; and that never can be obtained where every young man is obliged to serve three years in the army and nine years in the militia—where every parish is directed, by military pla cards, to what regiment of militia it belongs, placed conspicumssly o.t every road, as if playing the soldier was the sole object of society. This is mighty foolish on the part of Prussia, for, if ewer she come to be pressed by an enemy, all these acquired provinces will be unwilling defetwiers of the mother country, to which they have no link to bind them. The old separated territory of Jolters, and Berg and Cleves, is much in the same state of attachment. If all this useless military machinery of the disunited (I mean territorially disunited) provinces were set aside—if the money spent in training these triennial soldiers and nine-years militia men were applied to making passable roads and good landing quads at the towns on the Rhine—if the town duties on the cony 01 meat, flour, and other articles of food, were done away, then might these province% become rich and faithfully attached to Prussia, anti even produce a re venue, not burdensome to the people, which would till the coffers at Berlin. The hlinistersof the King of Prussia do not seem to under. stand that a well-filled treasury is a stronger defence than a country of trained soldiers not having an united interest to defend. " A new system of fortifying the towns on the Rhine has sprung tip, whether copied from Wellington's defences at Lisbon, or (tom Ita vonst's works at Hamburg, I know not; but it has decidedly m a . ) , advantages over the old Vauban plans. I need not say eh:a a laid: fortified town was formerly defended by a circumvallaittn. td• %VOILA close to the outward houses, with double or triple tittchts, and one or two horn works todefend some weak angle. The consequence was, the utmost misery to the inhabitants at the very COMMCLCCIII4nt of the siege, as the shells could be thrown into the very heart of the city la foie any parallels of attack were formed. The attackers had the inhabiunts and soldiers compressed into the smallest space, and required thus I. war troops to invest the places against receiving supplies. " Mama, Coblenta, &c. a chain of forts, each complete in itself, has been constructed at some distance from the town. on the most C,lll. standing situation that could be found ; and the town itself is nu iely ;eft with its old common wall, gweway, anti single ditch. If the insure invests, he must do so against each fort, and the towasmen are mere spectators of the conflict; for the forts remove the enemies aulvanees beyond the range et shells, and indeed it is useless to expend them against a town thus disunited from the defences. The time required to make advances against three or four forts—the uncertainty of salli, • from so many points—the extent of country that requires to be invested in order to cut off the communication—arc all advantages gained by the defenders of this new style of fortificatinn. • " The winks of the celebrated Ehrenbreitatein were blown up by the French ; and the Prussians have rebuilt the fort. strongly, as they think, than ever it was—nay, they say, stronger even than Gibraltar. I sin rof a military man, but I have doubts of this. The French battered :he former tort from a neighbouring height with sonic effect, though they never could breach it. On this height the Prussians have envoi) an other fort, to keep off an enemy from this point of attack. Tilts is t-.A work, I think; for, if the fort be impregnable without any addition - it defence, why erect a fort not impregnable, which may be gained, and would be a point cropped against the main fort? Again, the old tint on the land side was confined to the plateau of the bill. The sew fort has its land defences extended below the plateau ; and in corning down upon the fort, from the Nassau toad, I saw into the interior of the fort. The guns on the land side are worked through port-holes. in two or three tiers in some of the batteries ; but pert-holes limit the tight and left range of guns; and guns so placed are more readily &amounted. and the port-holes are liable to be choked by shot breaking down the sides. Guns placed on walls en larbette are far more eileacious in tic. fence than either in embrasutes or in port-holes. A rail, of Martello towers, commend with a thick upright wall, having a dry ditch. wt. tt cannon mounted rue barbeige—the towers booth-proof, and tarring .s casements for the soldiers--would present, in my humble opinion, s much stronger detence than the present fort ; which I think a patty t t English sailors might scale on the land side at more than one place. 0:. the Rhine side, which is a precipitous rock of considerable height, the fort is impregnable, I have little doubt. " But along.the Rhine the peat European powers seem So expect and are preparing against wane sensed Bonaparte that is to rise up in full disciplined array of tens of thsusands against than. The little Princes of the Rhine have more wisdom. Tito Prime of Nassau, for example, has made, and is continuing so stake ' the hest Macadamised roads I bars seen anywhere, equal, If not asperior, to the best of England. He is planting his wastes and welly sails with oak weeds, and encou raging industry tbwagMtlb well-regulated !We territory. The taxes ate light, and ea nrs devoted to him.' Piet Jess wise ars Princes th e of Hesse and Hesse Etarolm lknr dt, who fo tint Hesse such examples. Is their one is not troalikel with police or custom-house seurebses, and kw Of AO soldiers are to be amen. They live without any alloadas estate, and see with their own eyes the two. dition of things in their dominion." I ' I