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in Flanders, proves that our manufactories employ hardly a fifth of the number of workmen who were occupied in the most unfortunate moments of a most disastrous war. In short, the depopulation of these fine Provinces advances rapidly, and what the fury of the Duke of Alba, and the ltidoas aspect of the Inquisition were not able to do, will be effected by our liberator:. , g Who will prctect us in this fatal decay ? Will Englan.] ? It is Engl tnd which draws off our coin and ruins our manufactures—her jealous eye his al ready observed the perfection ‘khich our mechanics have attained. She has already counted with rage the numerous manufacturing, establishments which our cities contain and which flourish throughout the country—she has already calculated our immense ca pitals—she has seen our population compt.sA of ma nufacturers—she knows our industry and firm 1 , 1.14. England has not forgotten that when she was less opulent and less proud, she received tram us (thanks to the tyranny of Phillip II !) her best weavers and makers of cloth. Knowing our sources.of prosperity, would she encourage us ?—no, Belgium would soon be a rival, which, escaping sooner or later from her trammels, would obtain a superiority over her in all the markets of Eurape. The interest of England, therefore, is to destroy all the elements of our pros perity. 44 Will Holland protect us ?—Holland is nothing More than an English province—it is to Great Bri tain in the North, What Portugal is in the South.— Besides, supposing Holland,independent, is it her in 7 terest to encourage the industry and commerce of Belgium ? In this case, Antwerp alone would depe pulate Amsterdam. Whatever may be the fate of our Provinces, Holland does not hope any more than Prussia to preserve for ever the portion which may be allotted to her. Will she transport hither her riches ? Will she let her resources flow hither ? No! Nature, overcome by prodigious efforts, has not the less marked the limits of the Batavian Empire. Where the mi racles of liberty and patient industry finish, the Dutch territory concledes. Never can it pass with advan tage this terrible line of Dutch Brabant. All excur sions on this side are forbidden by nature and reason. But it is observed, Holland will be protected by Eng land, and it is this fatal support which will always hold her in dependence; and as a price of our slavery, we shall defray the enormous expense of the suste nance of the English armies and of the fortified places which are spoken of, or, in other words, of the bars which are for ever to exclude us front the political and commercial world. 66 Shall we be protected by Prussia ? If such a pro ject were attempted, Prussia would soon, nay, now, be forced to seek for aid against ourselves, so great is our repugnance to her Government. The Frilisians have done every thing to merit our hatred : nev,:r were the abuse of power, barbarity, and mili:ar y op. pression carried to a greater excess. Besides, Prussia is checked in the North by a Power justly jealous of her extravagant extension of territory. We neither expect nor desire any thing, and °or only wish with respect to her is, that we may not be under her do minion. " Should we reckon upon Austria ? This Power abandons us to turn all its views towards Italy ; and, besides, it must be allowed that our situation and pi i vileges have always rendered Austria indifferent to our internal welfare. gi Our tears, already justified by present events, arise from the experience of the past. This is not the first time that the fate of arms has placed our pro vinces under the dominion of those Powers which now govern us. We have not forgotten that. atter the famous campaign of Marlborough, in 1706, Ow English and Dutch seized on the Government of tilt Netherlands in the name of Charles 111. King of Spain, and that, under the sanction of a nation ti Council of State, sold or submitted to them their Commissaries, sent forth, under the name of requisi-' am, Decrees fatal to our renascent prosperity. The 23d of June of the same year is the date of the de structive requithion which annulled the excelle. t ordi nances called for in 1698 and 1699, by the Chambers of Commerce of different cities, in favour of the pro ductions of the country, and against the introduction of foreign manufactures. At this period, Belgian commerce had just fre d itself from the oppressive tarn : f 16h0—a tarif agreed to by ignorance and weakness, and the Commissioners of the Maritime Powers hastened tore-establish it. " Canals were opened to facilitate internal com munication, a Decree of the Commissioners caused them to be blocked up. The Scheldt was rigorously closed as well as the canals falling into it, and exces sive duties weighed upon commerce to discourage and destroy it. England and Holland caused these de structive acts to be confirmed by Articles 20, 21, and 1:6, of the unfortunate Treaty of Antwerp in 1715, known by the name of La Barriere. England and Holland, jealous of our industry, enemies ot our pros perity, excited all Europe against a company of mer chants establisked at Ostend, and caused it to be dis solved by the Emperor who had ILmself encouraged it. England and Holland, by Article .5 of the Treaty of Vienna, in 1715, abolished for ever all commerce and navigation of the Netherlands with the East and West Indies, leaving us, however, the illusive liberty of purchasing such Indian merchandize as foreign vessels may import into harbours not belonging to :is. Such are the masters who are now placed over us, or rather with whose Government we are threatened. " Sire, while the fate of our country is not irrevoca bly fixed, we tan, and we ought to declare our wishes. They resound from one end of Belgium to the other. They are in the hearts of all• our countrymen. Yes, 3ire, cur safety is in the laws of France; she alone is interested in the preservation of our commerce, of oar laws, of our liberties, and of our religion ; and ;he alone has the power to preserve them. Scarcely any armed force is necessary for the conquest of our provinces; our hearts are with . you, Sire, and, when you shall desire it, 200,000 Belgians are ready to unite with the first battalion ot Frenchmen who shall come amongst us as brothers. We are of at least as much value as some colonies, whose ruin appears to be approaching in consequence of the system of Eng ..inel. Besides, has the Cabinet of St. James's alone', sae right of disposing of us ? , 6 Let Russia, henceforth delivered from the fear of your antis, sustain the interests of the Continent, and oppose the English despotism with the same energy as she has destroyed the despotism which is now no more. Is the loss of their colonies a bug-bear ..0 nations who possess them ? Is it policy on their ac. LON DON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1814. FIF TT-FOURTH ANNIVERSARY or HIS MAJESTY'S ACCESSION To Tot rHaoNz.—Holiday at the Bank and Stock Excbaoge. To-Jay we present our Readers with a document as rematkable as any which has appeared since the promulgation of the Treaty of Paris. It purports to be an Address from the Belgians to Loots XVIII. beseeching his Majesty to take them under French protection, but we suspect that it was originally drawn up in Paris : it bears a close resemblance, in fact, to one of those multifarious Constitutions, Pro clamations, Projets, and Contre-projets, which were issued from the Pigeon-holes of the Abbe Sims' bureau during the French Revolution, and which always preceded the occupation by French troops of some unfortunate adjoining province. • It is, we hope, the last act of the sanguinary drama which the revolutionary buffoons have so many years performed for their own gratification, but to the de vastation of all Europe. It is, we trust, the dying ebullition of that wicked and restless spirit which disturbed the peace of the world for nearly a quarter of a century : to the firm and resolute conduct of the French King we look for the final extinction of these embers of revolt and uproar. We are persuaded that his Majesty will be the last of the Bounsoar Princes to fan them into flame, merely at the instigation of the thirsters after glory of BONAPARTE'S tuition, with whom necessity and policy have made him acquaint. ed. This M inifesto cannot, we apprehend, be the composition of a native of the Netherlands—for what Belgian capable of putting together such an eloquent arpeal to the Royal feelings, for eloquent it certainly is, would lose sight so far of the glorious achieve. ments of his forefathers in defence of their indepen. deuce, their laws, and their religion, as to invite the yoke of a powerful and ambitious neighbour—to sup plicate the subjugation by conquest of his country, and the restoration of the Catholic Religion, with all the frightful engines of despotism in its twain ? Have these descendants of the Belgians, who ex pired under the racks and tortures of ALVA, forgot that to the succours of England and Englishmen, they were indebted for the final expulsion of their fo reign oppressors ? But they are still doomed to increase their debt of gratitude to Great Britain : France can do nothing for them. The restoration of her owe Navy and the resettling of her own Colo nies, cannot permit her to extend any thing like bene ficial protection to Belgium : it is England alone that possesses the sources of real prosperity, from which the Belgians are speedily about to drink. Their interests, incorporated as they now are with those of Holland, will doubtless be warmly supported at the ensuing Congress : it will. be the policy of England to make Belgium a rich and powerful, if not a generous and grateful ally. A participation in our commercial monopolies, and a relaxation of our ma ritime preponderance in their favour, will, in all pro bability, be shares! equally. by Holland and Belgium. 'SpeAkingupnn this subject. it most intelligent Corres pondent at Brussels, observes : " The effects of the treaty of Utrecht upon the pros?erity of Belgium have never been sufficiently considered on your side of the water: they must now be weighed in order to be avoided In a tilndlar settlement of the States of Europe. While that treaty stipulated the eternal separation of the Belgic Provinces from France, it provided also most carefully for entailin3 on them such a state of poverty as should render their loss an object of but little regret. It shut up the Scheldt, then the only outlet of their commerce. It gave permanence to a tariff, which had been esta biblied on the suggestions of the Dutch during the time that the .silies had possession of the country, and which was intentionally and admirably calculated to ruin its internal trade. " This was like stamping the body of your friend to death, ' while you are defending it front the capture of his enemy : and when the Emperor CEIAILLZS VI. in order to relieve 11:1zium from the multiplied evils entailed on it by the Treaty of Utrecht, granted the Charter to the East-India Company of Ostend, only to trade to those ports, harbours, places, and rivers 'nu les auks: no tionitranfyurntliirenient; it was as if the very stones of Amsterdam and I.oadon would have riser against so reasonable an indulgence. " In 1731, his Majesty was obliged to allow that the commerce of his subjects to the East Indies " ' snail aboli d jantais." But a more liberal policy stow prevails in England with respect to the East-India Trade; ind whatever the Treaty of Paris, or the more detailed arrangements snaking at Vienna grant to the Dutch, they grant also to the Belgians: both must now draw from the same well; but they are the same Power, and it is our bounty that supplies them both." To return to the address itself—the whole compo sition is aimed at the passions of the multitude, and the perversion of the historical facts which pervades it, shews that, like the vile reptiles who deluged France and Belgium with misery and blood, they trust to the ignorance of the readers for security against exposure. Indeed it was one of the maxims of the Ja• cobins, that a bold lie would often produce the effect intended, before detection could take place, and there fore a fair weapon of annoyance against the existing and established order of things. The following is stated to have been the circum stances attending the publication of this curious State Paper :—About three weeks since, a meeting of the Inhabitants of the cities, towns, and districts, of the Netherlands, was held at Lisle, consisting of persons unfriendly to the new order of things, to the number of between 2 and 300. They hod been summoned by circulars dispatched by confidential messengers, and addressed to those who were known to be inimical to the incorporation of their country with Holland.— After a long discussion, during which the assembly appeared influenced but by one common feeling, the Address was unanimously agreed to, and has been since presented to the KING of FRANCE. We regret that it did not lie unnoticed in the Royal Closet ; —it was printed, and, at this moment, copies of it are circula ted openly in Paris, and privately through the Nether lands. We understand that 20,000 copies have been sent for distribution in Germany, and more particu larly at Vienna. By the lama advices from Ghent, which are of the date of Thursday last, it appears that some of the American Commissioners were then absent—Mr. ADAMS at Brussels, and Mr. GALLAIIN still at Ant werp, where he had been for some time. They were not expected at Ghent for a fortnight. Previous to the sailing of the WANSTBAD from Ba tavia on the 16th May, an expedition under General NIGHTINGALE, consisting Pf 2000 men, had sailed against the Island of Macassar, whose native inha bitants greatly annoy our trade, and use the prisoners with great cruelty. The PRINCE REGENT arrived at Brighton early on Sunday morning, attended by General BLOOMFIELD. As soon as it was known that his Royal Highness had arrived, the Royal Standard was hoisted on the church steeple, and the bells rang till the time of Divine Ser ♦ice. The QUEEN is hourly expected at Brighton. The Duke of SUSSEX had on Saturday night, a very severe and dangerous attack of his old complaint. Mr. CANNING, we understand, will take his depar ture from Portsmouth in a few days, for Lisbon, in the LEVIATHAN, 74, Captain Bilious. Major-General the Hon. E. M. PAKENIJAM is said to be appointed to succeed the late lamented General Ross, in America. Another expedition will immediately sail for Ame rica, from Plymouth. The VENGEUR, of 74 guns, with a fleet of transports, having on board the 7th and 43d regiments of Foot, and detachments of the 64th regiment, and 13th and 14th Light Dragoons, making iii all about 3000 men, will sail with the first fair wind. Several millions of busk-shot are shipping at Ports mouth, in the Leonidas frigate, Captain W. KING, for America. This description of shot has been in common use with the Americans in the present war, and the mangling wounds they inflict are found, when not attended with death, so to protract the recovery of our soldiers that their services are lost to the army for a considerable time. The formation of the wea pon is—a large shot at the bottom of acartridge resting upon three small ones; and these four are fired off with the usual quantity of powder. The Ameri cans always use them in wild-fowl shooting. Two agents from St. Domingo, sent by Prrtow to this country, are arrived in town. 'l'hey are both Mulattoes, one of them a General Officer, and are charged with an important mission to the British Go vernment. Their arrival has been officially notified, but they have not yet had an interview with any of the Ministers. They state the decided determination of CHRISTOPHE and PrrioN to make one common cause against France, should she attempt the inva sion and conquest of the Island. Since the knowledge of the article of the Treaty of Peace, by which the French are to carry on the Slave Trave for the term of five years, the general hatnA against them has been inflamed to a degree almost indescribable. The Eng lish are, on the contra' y, held in the highest esteem throughout all parts of St. Domingo. Pits/wt.—No alteration in the price this week. COURT-MARTIAL ON COLONEL QUEIVTIA This morning, the Members of the Court-M rt:al having assembled at the usual hour, the Jonog A two. CATS read a letter from IIIeCOUOI de GRA NNIONT, now in France, stating, that being still unavoidaWy detained, he could not as yet attend. Colonel QuENTIN then handed his defence to the JUDGE ADVOCATE, who read it to the Court. It occupied an hour and thize quar ters, and was listened to with the deepest interest: Colonel QueNTIN began by stating his varioni ser vices in the Army. He served in the Fen!n:uia ol der Sir JOHN Mootte, when he burst two blood-ves sels from over-exertion. He ascribed no improper motives to the Prosecutor, Colonel PALNIEIt. He then proceeded to comment, seriatim, on the various charges, and on the evidence brought in supp and particularly alluded to the second :rid : He hoped that his whole culpability would be found to have arisen from an error in judgment only; and ascribed his not being so far in advanc • as he oug%.t to be on some occasions as described by the wit. nesses, to the circumstance of his horse's breath being exhausted, or what is termed " h!own !"- -He concluded by expressing his coaviction ti, it the evidence which he should he able to adduct would relieve him, in the eyes of the Court and of the world, from the sellout; charges which bad h-en brought against him. He reminded the Court th it it was at his own express solicitation that they had assumed their present regular form. General CARTWRIGHT was then examined as to Colonel QURNTIN'S character as a soldier. The G - neral spoke in the highest possible terms of his atten tion to the discipline and equipment of tt,c loth Hi.g sars, while the General was Colonel of that lteji ment.—The Court was uncommonly crowded. count to sacrifice all to England ?—.710, Sire ; peace no doubt is necessary, but above all things, the inde pendence of States is indispensible. Without that, 'lolling has been gained in the sanguinary struggle which is just concluded, and Europe has not seen the end of revolutions. What does it matter if the Continent has broken the fetters which oppressed her, if she has only ex changed the shackles imposed by a warlike people tor those of a mercantile nation It is high time to consult the opinions and interests of nations—this is the true means of rendering them happy, and of con• soludating the peace which costs so many sacrifices to ch.! whole world. In spite of the successes claimed by England, France and Russia can alone, by their union, pacify and liberate Europe, whose happiness depends on their energy and moderation. Never were circirmsta.ncesl more favourable, for the whole world renders ample justice to the magnanimous character of the two Mo narchs, •rne of whom PROVIDENCE has placed in the North and the other in the South, as two equal weights, to maintain that equilibrium and peace of which unhappy Europe has so much need. " When Russia extends her dominion towards the South, when Austria obtains possession of Italy ; when Prussia raises herself to a Power of the first rank ; France, proud of 500,000 heroes, is to be en closed la limits out of all proportion with the increase of the ne;ghbouring Powers, and to see herself, in pro fuund peace, besieged by an English army, which weighs upon our territory and threatens your fron tiers, the fortresses of which it desires to possess. " Let your Majitsty guarantee to your neighbours their conquests as a return for the possession by your self of these provinces. Holland knows that they are useless to hcr, and that they will be separated trcm her on the firing of the first cannon. if Eng land cpposes the union of the Netherlands to your Crown, has she not also colonies which may be seized upon ? Will you not find in the Congress itself Princes who are alarmed at her monopoly and power, aad who will threaten her with exclusion from the markets of their kingdoms? What she would lose is much more important than what she could invade, and after the enormous sacrifices which she has made, and which she makes every day, to uphold a domi nion beyond her natural means, England will be cautious in undertaking a war which would compro mise in one campaign the whole force of her Mo narchy. To conclude, Sire, when the most momentous interests are al;nut to be decided, do not abandon a people who tor 2i) years called France by the endear ing name of Mother Country, and who would be so proud to declare themselves the faithful subjects of the most just, benevolent, and enlightened of Monarchs. (Signed) " J. V. MELLE." THE EVENING STAR. IN"! LLLIGENCR. The Maria Hoggart, Cooks, from St. Bartholomew, arrived in the Clyde, bound to Amsterdam, was sent in by the Fly letter of marque. The Oscar, from Amelia Island, to Liverpool, is burnt at the former place. Sra. Rosa , from Liverpool, is lost on Amelia Island Bar. The Pizarro, Miatures, from Lverpool, to Amelia Island, which was taken on the 25th of July, by the Midas privateer, has been liberated ----- The Bellona, Gondes, from Amelia Island, Is arrived at Liver pool ; was boarded and plundered, on her passage, by an Ante. rican privateer. The Flying Fish, ----, from Leghorn for Lotidtin, is taken by the Sabine American privateer, and carried into Welmirwon. The Sarah, Headley, from St. Joint's, New Bruuswice, to Batbadoe•, was retaken the 14th ult. by the Maidstone frigate, and carried into Halifax, the sth instant. A SPANISH PRIPATEEN.—The Melville, ROACti, from --, was detained 19th July by the Santa Anna Spanish privateer, and carried into Rio de la Hache, where her cargo was landed, and the vessel sent to Santa Martha. The Georgiana, Ne , ), from —, has been taken by tite sante privateer, and carried in, and the cargo sold. The Botany Bay chip Wanstead, loaded on private account, arrived off Deal the 21. th instant--idt Ba tavia the 16th May, and St. Helena the Ist S:latzm ber, where she left the Mirchioness of Ely, outward. bound Indiaman, which ship was t.) sail the next day for the Isle of France. General NIGHTINGALr ..1 left Batavia wish abut 2100 troops, on an against Macassar. His M tjesty's ship DANE:HAM:, with the homeward hound Indiamen. was homly ex pected to arrive at St. Helena. The Three Bees 83. tany Bay ship was accidentally burnt at Port Sid c. The Fortune Botany Bay ship, not 11::ving bezn heard of, is supposed to h ive toundertld at sea. TRURO. OCTOBER 9!. On Tuesday, the Little John, (an open . vessel), Jos en MICHAEL, Master, from Fowey, hound to Wvagissey, with 70 hogsheads of salted pilchards on hoard, shipped :c sea in the course of her passage, by which she almost immediately filled and went down. The master and two other persons were drowned.. One man (a passenger) was cored. RIGA, SEPTEMBER 19, (0. S.) We have had a gale from the N W. for the List twenty-four hours. Accounts from Boldera state, that two ships, supposed to be the Lord Wellington, and the Joaquin, Stamm master, laden wit) timber for Lisbon, and the Russian ship Ellen, with timber for the Dock-yard, are on shore to the sonzliward of our harbour, but it is hoped the crews will be saved as the gale abates. Considerable damage has also been done to the small craft and ships in the River, and great apprehensions are entertained for the satuty of the Concordia, a large Dutch ship, that w a s ta ki ng in timber in our Roads—it is said the mate got her under weigh can the gale coming on, but it is appre hended it wiil he impossible for her to clear the land. GRAVESEND, 0C1'01:ER Arrived the Kangaroo, Alzeive, :did the Duncomb, Mateo, from Ostend; the Nlartha Hencka, Younger, and 'row Aluta,• Crown, from Rotterdam ; De Hoop, Distrof, front Harlingen t. Geminu, Frazer, trom I.a Bradore ; Platoff, Retisou, front Gi braltar; William, I'orretr, from Leghorn ; It Stool Havannah ; Abiona, Short, from Archangel ; and Betttr-luelt stiu, trum Petersburgli. Sailed the lirnce, Smi h, for Leghorn; Belvidere, Smith, for Dieppe; Nymph, Ihlant, for Elsineur ; atid Concordia, Swart, for Rotterdam. LOSS OF THE AtiltOß.A. This vessel, salich sailed frosn Belfast in the been,. ning September for Quebec, and joined the convoy from Cork, suffered much damage in a gale on ate 25th, put back for Ireland, and sunk within about 56'. miles of the Shannon. The passengers were put into the lung boat. The Belfast Chronicle states, that it appears by the evidence of two of the passengers that the Captain and crew actually scuttled the vessel in their sight when they alight have brought her into port. They allege, as the only reason for this step, that the master and crew having plundered some wine, ttcc., on board, they dreaded detection. It is supposed she must have sunk in half an hour after they left her. The boat, with the passengers and ship's company, made.the land to the northward cf Loop-head, and were in great danger of being lost among the tremen dous rocks on that part of the coast ; with the assist ance of the country people, however, they all got ashore, when the boat drifted to sea. Two lisl:erolen, went off in their canoe to recover her, and, we we sorry to add, they unfortunate]; tell victims to ti.eir temeril, as their canoe was upset. and they both perished. The Captain, through the active exertions of Mr. FRAREAR, tine of the Magistrates of Water ford, and Mr. GELSTON, of Portaterry, owner of the vessel, was apprehended on the 15th, und give* in charge to a constable, to he conveyed to Carrickfer. gus jail'; hut, it seems, by some unaccountable new .lect he effected his escape. The mate hubeen lodsist, in Downiatricl: