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by the army and the House of Lot& alone. That the hope his been expressed by some of the party, is, we are omit: d. • fact, of which evidence might he given; that a Tory Onvernment could practically be conducted on no other system, is obvious from the nature of things— every other power in the state, King, Commons, -trid, rople, being open enemies to the anti-reform faction. Then it comes to this..-Can the 'I ory leaders govern Enghtne tqr means of the array and of diet Hausa of Lords? A isslvEn US, COUNTRYMEN, WILL TOU LE 30 RULED? VIA, WILL THE TROOPS. WHO ARE ENGLISHMEN. AND I , CEPLY IMBUED WITH THE SPIRIT OP THEIR FRIENDS ,ctrl PELLOW.CITIZENS, WILL THEY, WHETHER OFF!. CTRS 01 SOLDIERS, BE MADE THE INSTRUMENTS or scat A BASE DOMINATION? NEVER! How poorly qua. rd are the tonjority of the. Lords to carry en a war art ~ , !rristeinnem with the nation, may i.c gatkreil from an able ..iraitur; of the generally well-elizpo,ed, but essentially hortlinst, :tot: passive, order in the state, taken from the .pltlet to which we have aiready drawn attention. " What the Lords do ?" If the Lords reject or ntutil.:te the they are in effect, thout,h imisputably by ei sign, guilty—first, of throwing the t o,pire :nto confusion ; se condly. of more than endangering their own existence. CHRONIC LE.—lt is hardly necessary for us to observe that tile people. when united, are all.powerful. That they are united on the quottion of Refcwm is proved by the large majorities of repot...cry:tires chosen by the perple, in spite of the oppes:tian I I all thoie :rho were returned to Pailia. treat thr. ugh sinister infitterc 4 .l'hat an idea of House of Peers would the work' receive. from the spectacle. of their oppcsing the Commons in a measure for which the whole nation, %ehh the exception of themselves, were anxi ous—the object of which measure bein to prevert the Peer from positessin:: an irflucnce over eke:ions, v.hich the Con. stitution never mended titer should hate ! A decision of the I louse against the nation would hold up the House as slid the enemy of the nation ; and we need not repeat that, in these times, no order can exist by any other title ,ban the Ter , uasion of the people that its existence is bene ficial to them. Let the peers only teach the people that they are opposed to the welfare of the people, and the result may be anticipated without the gift of prophecy. The peo ple of France harem this time their eyes on England. The quettlton which is about to be presented to the Howe of Peers, places this body before them in a position in which it has never yet been placed. The corruption of the House of Commons has hi. hertn produced an unifortnity between the two houses, and the Upper liaise has not yet appeare.l to differ from the Lower, in the latter's being identified with the ration, and the former's being opposed to ie. I Ipposi tion on the great question of questions, which shall &^k, whither the people of England shall, or shall not. possess real representatives ;—whether they shall, or shall not, emancipate themselves from the aye. tom n!' corruption under which they have long groaned will call forth—not merely in France, but in nil Europe— a deadly hatred to all institutions, nut directly emanating from, and responsible to, the people. The people of Esq. !and were tine to themselves during the late elections They must continue true to themselves. They must, by exertions corresponding is the emergency, secure the nation against the mischiefs which might result from an improper decision at this conjuncture. Much evil may be prevented by the people acting in such a manner at this crisis us shall extin guish in the House of Peers all hope of the possibility of sue. ceding in depriving the nation of the blessin,o which is now in prospect. Let the people be on their guard, all sorts of devices will b: resorted to. Tire plunder of the nation is a prize worth centendin i : for. Reform in Parliament is a terminadon to the red's of plunder. Through it we see gradual atueliora thins of all sorts; the fruits of industry secured to the in dustrious, an united people, instead of plunderers and plun. dereil—the coign of true morality and true religion, instead ot cant and hypocrisy, the spawn of corruption and pecula tMn. There arc many honest men in the House of Pecta, content to lire on their own property—but let the people bear in mind, that there are also twiny to whom the pillage of the people is desirable, and who will struggle for it. The opposition in the House of Commons might, in some in- I t!: flees. proceed from wrongheadedness. In the House of Peers, opposition to the Reform of the Commons. for which tti. Coil mons themselves have declared, can have but one motive—dr: desire to retain the pillage of thenatito. COUCETTS REGISTER.—I will now, in the most ren and plain manner, state the things which I wish to see accomplished, at.d which, if you send me to the Puha mrnt, I will u•e my utmost endeavours to cause to be ac complished ; and which things are as follow : 1. Tn put an end to all pensions, sinecures, grants, al lowances, half-pay, and all other emoluments now paid oat of the taxes, except for such public services as, upon a very scrupulous examination, shall be found fully to merit them ; and to reduce all salaries to the American standard. .2. To discharge the standing army, except such part of the ordnance and artillery as may be nesessary to maintain the arsenals ut the sea-ports in a state of readiness for war ; and to abolish the military academies, and dispose of all barracks and other property now applied to military uses. 5. To make the counties, each according to its whole number of members of parliament, maintsin and equip a body of militia, horse as well as foot and artillery, at the county expense, and to have these bodies, as they are in America. mustered at stated periods; so that, at any time, a hundred thousand efficient men may be ready to come into tbe field, if the defence of the kingdom require it. 4. To abolish tithes of every description ; to leave to the clergy the churches, the church-yards, the parsonages Insures, and the ancient glebes; and, for the rest, leave them to the voluntary contributions of the people. 5. To take all the rest of the property, commonly called church-property; all the houses, lands, manors, tolls, rents, and real property of every kind, now possessed by bishops, chapters, or other ecclesiastical bodies, and all the misap piled property of corporate bodies of every sort; and also all the property called crown-lands, or crown-estates, in cluding that ut the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster ; and Nell them all, and apply the proceeds to the discharge of the Debt which the late parliaments contracted with the lundholders. 6. To crass., during the first six months after June,lB32, ' to pay ititere►t on a fourth part of the Debt; second six month•, to cease to pay interest on another fourth ; and so on tor the other two fourths ; so that no more interest, or any pan or the Debt would be paid, after the end of I two years. 7. To jlavide the proceeds of all the property mentioned fu paragraph No. 5, and also in paragraph No. 2, in due pr .puratm, on principles of equity, amongst the owners of what is calloi stork, or, in other words, the jundhuldere, or pens.** who lent their money to those who borrowed it in ' virtue of acts of the late parliaments; and to give to the' furdholdtrs out oh' the Lazes, nothing beyond these proceeds. 8. 10 make an equitable adjustment with respect to th pecut iary contracts between man and man, and thereby rec. ' tify, as ter as practicable, the wrongs and ruin inflicted on thousands upon thousands of virtuous families by the as.. binary changes made by acts of the late parliaments, in the value of the money of the country. 9. To abolish all internal tares (except on the land), whether direct or indirect, including stamp-taxes of every des.cription ; and to impose such a postage-charge for letters as to defray the real expenses of an economical and yet efti. ulellt posi-oflice establishment, and no more, so that the postage would be merely a payment for the conveyance of letters, and not a tax. 10. To lay just as much custom-house duty on import. firms as shall be tound conducive to the benefit of the navi gation. commerce, and manufactures of the kingdom, viewed as a whole, and nmto lay on one penny more. 11. 'l'o make effectual provision in every department for the maittunance of a powerful navy; to give such pay and soolt an allotment of prize money to the seamen as to render ill l.temmen. wholly unnecessary ; to abolish the odious in novation of naval acadetniee, and re-open the door of promo tion to skill at d valour, whether found in the heirs of nobles, or in cat,. ,on,, of the loom or of the plough ; to abolish all nil:nary orders, and to place the navy next in honour to the throne Itself. 12. To make a legal, afised, and a generous allowance to the King, and, through him, to all the branches and mem bets tit his family ; to leave to him the unshackled freedom of appointini, all his servants, whether of his household or of his public ministry ; to leave to him the full controul over his palaces, gardens and parks, u land-owners have over !hell caul!. ; to take can that he be not worried with in. ttigucs to purloin from him that which the people give him for his own enjoyment ; so that he may be, in all respects, tt hat the Chier of a free people ought to be, his name held in the highest honour, and his person held sacred, as the great guardian of the people's rights. 13. To make an accurate valuation of all the houses, lands, mines, and other real property, in each county in the wtmle kingdom; to impose a tax upon that property, to be p.ml quarterly, and in every county on the same day, and at such manner as to cost in the collection, or, ratbet, pay ment, not more than 4001. a-year in any one county ; to make the rate and amount of this tax vary with the wants of the state, always taking case to be amply provided with weans in case of war, when war shall be demanded by the safety. the inter:at, or the honour of the kingdom. Nt/17, electors of Manche ter, if eau to Patliamcnt by or. or by any body che, tb.te ali , `Fi I Bill endeavour to accompli •:t; and, by ter!ument nraescaeble, I am ready .0 maintain the justice, the expediency, aryl the. cosy pruc. iica6iiiiy of them all ; art; these I wid w- amain in dr. cedes of aeiresscs of which this ie the gm. Ti r. e thir.ga done, ale yearly expouliturc of the kln.'.ett- comes far whhin the -um of ten winners ; anti I du most -olf-rnnly sr r. 7. you, At; • if I had no hop:: to sce that result of my efforts, not on: •is ;,le .lay more of my life the uld b: peg' ed :r tie; rile...! and stench of this WEN. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. DUTCH AND lIAMBURGH MAILS, RECEIVED THIS DAY. HAMMY UGH, SEPT. 3.—Private letters from Leipzig, of August 31, bring the unpleasant in telligence, that in consequence of a change in the occupation of the principal guard-house, which it was erroneously supposed would be again given up to the police, riots had taken place against which it was absolutely necessary to employ the military, and that three persons rere killed and above fifty wounded. HA ME KGII, SEPT. s.—Letters from Leipzig of September Ist, say that 1,500 infantry and some cavalry had arrived in that city the day before, and that every thing v..as then quiet. On board the Nicholas I. steam-boat, twenty-eight passengers, with fourteen passports have arrived in the road of Lubeck. Among them are the Duke of Mortomert and hid son, the secretaries Count de Beam and M. Canner ; M. 0. Sullivan de Grass, Secretary to the Legation of the Netherlands, &c. The Swedish mail from Yslad. unhappily brings the official intelligence that the. Cholera has ma nifested itself at Helsingfors, the fortress of Swea bouig, in consequence ki which, the whole coast from Hanpatteld (to which place from the eastward it had already gone) as far as the riverTornea, on the Swedish frontier, including Orland and all the large and small islands of Finnland, is declared suspected of infection. The board of health, yesterday, de clared the towns of Garrand Stettin, in Pomera nia, to be infected, including the whole coast from the ricer Oder, to and including the city of Lu beck, the islands of Hagen, Usedom, and Wollin, to be suspicious ; so that this designation is now extended to the whole coast of the Baltic on the east and south from the frontiers of Tornea, all round to Lubeck. Precautions have already been taken in the island of Gothland, in case the cholera should ap pear there. LtMBunGII, SEPT. G.—Ssylno, where the Russians wore bringing their magazines over the Vistula, lies on the right bank of that river, above and not far from Thorn, in the Polish territory, quite close to the little town of Ossick. BERLIN, SEPT. 1.--(From a letter.)—Private letters of the 25th August, from the Russian head quarters, say that very serious preparations were making there, to storm Warsaw ; bat the Field- Marshal intended to wait for some corps of infan try, of which he is said to have been in great need. Opinions at head-quarters were divided ; some dis suading from an attack en Warsaw, and hoping to take the city by capitulation. Since General Krukowiecki had been appoint ed dictator by the Diet, some persons believed that a capitulation might be soon concluded, for which he is said. to be authorized by the Senate. In the city itself most formidable preparations were making to receive the enemy, and should not the terms offered be moderate, Warsaw may become another Saragossa. BERLIN, SEPT. 3.—(From a letter.)—News has just been received from Thorn, according to which the Russian troops had sustained a consi derable defeat. A Russian Councillor of State had passed through that town in great haste, with post horses. The accounts of the affair are, how ever, so vague, and obscure, that it is impossible to form a precise idea of it. It is said, that the bridge near Szylno (this town is on the left bank of the Vistula, on the Prussian Polish territory) had been hastily broken down by the Russians, and all the magazines moved to the left bank ; that General Uminski deftly pursued the Russians, and that consternation was painted in their coun teuances. It is not stated whether this pursuit, which can only have been in consequence of a preceding battle, was on the right or left bank of the Vistula. From the removal of the magazines to the loft bank, it would be natural to infer that the affair took place on the right bank, i. e. in the province of Plozk. It is not, indeed, easy to ex plain how Uminski, with a Polish corps, who was but lately the fear of the Russian main army this side of Warsaw, should all of a sudden have got Northward to the frontiers of Prussia; it is howe ver, possible, especially as we are quite in the dark respecting the late operations of the Polish army. Uminski may perhaps be appointed Commander-in- Chief, which was before in contemplation and have made a sally with the Polish troops from Modlin. In this case it must be the corps of Gen.Kreute that he has attacked, and which then had in all haste creas ed the Vistula, with the magazines, broken down the bridge, and gone to join the main army, which was in fact the object it had in view. This, however, could not properly be a retrograde movement of the Russian troops, but rather a precipitate advance, from a pressu r e in the rear . Th e news h as E much sensation here ; and, if we may be lieve another report of a defeat of Rudiger, the two wings of the Russian army were beaten, and the centre itself might be in danger. This news has caused the more surprise, as even the most zealous friends of the Poles had almost given up their cause as lost. BERLIN, SEPT. 3.—The King and the Princes bare removed to Charlottenburg, where the palace and the gardens are surrounded with a guard, and an adjacent building is set aside for fumigating those persona who have occasion to approach the Royal family. The King, however, is too much used to despise danger to suffer himself to be shut up as the physicians desire: he and Prince Wil liam came again to the capital to-day. The Crown Prince has not quitted the Palace at Berlin. STOOKHOLM, Arc. 30.—The Crown Princess and the young Prince are well. Part of the King's horses are already gone to Norway, so that his Majesty's visit to that king dom is certain.—Hamburgh Papers, Sept. 6. Histamie, IPT. 6.—Borran Halle, 4 o'clock Discount 4 to 44 per cent. End of Sept. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent. Ulf A nglo- Rusaian 86 Hamburg ditto 1101 Polish Bonds 89 Austrian Bank Shares 945 Austrian Metal. 784 New Au- trim, 4 per cent. 676 —Hamburg &porter. BERLIN, SEPT. 5.—A letter from Stettin of the 2d gives an account of serious riots in opposition to the measures adopted for checking the cholera, particularly the removal of the sick even at their own desire to the hospitals. Tho mob, consisting of persons of the lowest class and worst charac ter, broke the windows of several . houses, and in particular proceeded to spoil the residence of a respectable magistrate who has the direction of the measures against the cholera. The military and civic guard succeeded in quelling the riot, and arrested the greater part of the persons implicated, I who will soon meet their merited punishment. It is not ascertained that any persons were killed or wounded, though the soldiers were obliged to fire I on the mob. It was hoped that the measures that have been adopted will prevent further disorders. THE CHOLERA AT BERLIN. New Cases. Recoveries. Deaths. To Sept. 3 ... 17 0 ... 13 4 ... 12 1 ... 6 20 0 .. 10 Total .. .. 49 ... 1 .. 31 Remaining on the Bth, at noon ... ... 17. Prussian State ticusette, Sept. 8. The Prussian State Gazette of tho sth and 6th September contains no news from Poland. ST. PETERSBUGH. CHOLERA. Aug. New cases. Recoveries. Deaths. 19 16 12 10 20 21 27 11 21 11 4 5 22 19 18 8 23 15 15 2 24 10 7 5 25 20 16 6 Remain 118, of whom 62 arc likely to recover. EXCHANGES OX LONDON: Hamburg, 6 Sept. 13 7. 2 m. 13 5i Berlin, 3d Sept. 3m. 6 24t. Stockholm, 30th Aug. 90 days, 12 47. Petersburg, 26th Aug. 12 25.32. Bremen, 2d S:pt. 2m. 603. POLAND. From the Prussian State Gazette of Sept. 4. The Russian corps, under the command of Lieutenant-General Von Knorring, which is still encamped near Kalisch, was yesterday joined by 3,ooo'infantry, and expects more considerable re inforcements : 10,000 men are said to be already on their march from the main army near Warsaw. The re-organising of the province will take place in a few days. A proclamation, just published, promises pardon to all civil officers, if they return to their posts within a given time. In general, the disposition of the inhabitants in the province of Kalisch is said not to be unfavourable to the Rus sian Government. According to accounts from Warsaw, the Polish Minister of War, Morawski, bad resigned, and General Skrzynecki entered the 4th regiment as a grenadier. P.S. An unauthenticated report from the Lower Vistula is just spread of a retrograde movement of the Russian troops. The bridge over the Vistula near Szylno, is said to have been broken down by them yesterday, and the magazines in that part to have been removed iu the greatest haste to the left bank of tho Vistula. General Uminski, it is ad ded, with 6,000 men, ,closely follows the Russian cor. Bams, SEPT. 3.—ln all, 17 persons have been attacked here by the cholera, of whom 13 have died, none recovered, and four are under the physicians.—Brussels Papers, Sept. 10. THE HAGUE, Sept. 9.—ln the absence of au thentic and direct accounts, as well from Warsaw as from the Russian bead-quarters, it is no won der that there are manifold reports in circulation modified according to the wishes of those that spread them. Thus among statements favourable to the Russians, we are told not only that negoti ations are commenced, but that they are ended with the result that Warsaw has surrendered to the Russians, and that, with the assent of Count Paskewitsch, who had announced a general am nesty, Prince A. Czartoryski had assumed the go vernment of Poland with the title of Viceroy. On the other hand, a Cracow journal speaks of great victories gained by the Poles. In its num ber of the 26th of August, it affirms that the Polish army under Skrzynecki, had defeated the Russians at Sochaczew, who had had many thousands killed, and lost besides 2,000 prisoners and many pieces of cannon. On the 27th of August the Cracow journal announced another victory which the Poles again under Skrzynecki had gained over the Russians, but this time at Kole, 40 leagues from Warsaw, in which, besides a countless number of prisoners, they had taken 38 pieces of cannon. BERLIN, SEPT. 4.—From the absence of any positive or certain intelligence, great obscurity pre vails as to the state of affairs in Warsaw and the Russian army. In the Cracow Journal, of Aug. 30, it is men tioned that a letter had been received in that town from the Polish General Rozycki, dated from Ostrowiecz (on the road from Radom, near San domierz, about ten miles from the latter place) the' 25th of August, in which he states, that he re ceives no certain intelligence from Warsaw, in consequence of that capital being entirely sur rounded by the Russian troops. He gives as surances, however, that the Poles have obtained an advantage on their left wing. At the time of writing the letter the force under the command of General Rozycki was preparing to march upon' Radom. The Austrian journals state, on the authority of accounts from the frontiers of Gallicia, dated Au gust 24, that the fortress of Zamosc was then closely invested by the Russians. Several sorties made by the garrison had been repulsed by the besiegers. In one of these sorties, on the 16th, the Poles lost 600 men in killed and wounded. In another, which took place on the following day, the whole of the suburbs were set fire to, and destroyed partly by the Russians, and partly by the Poles themselves. ---- • --- General Kaisaroff, who has his head-quarters at Sirno, near Zatnosc, had received accounts from General Rosen to the 16th ; on which day, that commander, who advances against Warsaw from the east side, had the main body of his army at Minsk, and his vanguard at Dembi-Wielki. HA //Sultan, ►SEPT. 6.—At the moment when the friends of the Poles at Berlin apprehended that they must expect to bear of the junction of Gen. Rudigcr with Marshal Paskewitach, and the con sequent surrender of Warsaw, accounts reached the Prussian capital from Thorn by no means fa vourable to the Russian cause. Meanwhile it appears that no data have been received at Berlin on which it can, upon any solid grounds, be ascer tained what events have occurred. Front the Moniteur. PARIS, SEPT. B.—Letters have been received from Vienna, Dresden, and Berlin, which contain a circumstantial narrative of the melancholy riots of which Warsaw has been the theatre. It was the patriotic club which had long excited alarm among the true patriots by the anarchical doctrines pro. trines professed in it, which took advantage of the weakness of the Government, and of the inactivity of General Skrzy. necki. The club met in the afternoon of the 15th, and proceeded to the Palace of the Government to demand that Skrzyneeki should be brought to trial. The Government had the weakness to promise it, which only increased their boldness; their nomben were augmented every moment. They consisted of officers of the army, Lithuanian refisgees, and some populace. They went to the Royal Palace, which was gt arded by 200 men, who mode but a slight resist ance. It is said, in one of the letter., that Count Ostrowski, Commander of the Civic Guard, had the baseness to say that arms bad not been given to them to use against Poles. The gates of the Palace were opened or forced, and Generals Jankowske, Salacti , Ilurtig, and Bukowski, and M. Fan shawe' and Madame Basanow were hanged to lamp-posts. The daughter of this lady was cut to picas in endeavouring I to defend her. These unfortunate persons were mutilated, their dead bodies outraged. We have not courage to repeat all the horrid details which are reported to us. About 60 victims perished in that dreadful night. General Krukowieeki seems to have declared himself Governor of the city, and to have been confirmed by the national Government. The want of regular troops hindered him from stopping these proceedings, and several murders were committed on the 16th, amon n . which was a Russian officer, taken prisoner i n a skirmish. The chief of the Government was obliged at the beginning to fly for refuge to the army, where he arrived at two o'clock in the mooing. On the account which he gave to the Generals, tine nearest regiments were sent to the city, where they arrived on the 16th in the evening, so that Krokowlecki was able to restore order, and nothing happened on the night of the 16th, which , otherwise would probably bare been sanguins.y, as lists of I proscription were circulated, including the most honourable names. All those who did not approve of these excesses, were, according to the club, sold to the Russians. All the journals, except the Onion, praised or justified the crimes that had been committed. The government, feeling its weakness, resigned, and the Diet invested Krukowiecki with dictatorial power. On the 17th, he caused the principal as sasdns to be arrested, appointed a military commission to try them, and on the following day published an energetic proclamation, and closed the club. Order had not been disturbed after the 16th. Four obscure assassins had been shot; bat the men whom public opinion designated as the chiefs of the insurrection were spared. Several, after being arrested, were set at liberty, for want of proofs. Among these were two priests, furious clubists, who were seen by every body encouraging the murderers. The terror inspired by the events of the 15th diverted for some days the attention of the public from what was passing lin the army, where the commission er s had found it necessary Ito remove Skrzynecki. If this General may be blamed for slowness and hesitation, the army is affected by another evil, namely, an immoderate desire to combat, which relaxes all discipline. All the Generals having, it seems, been con vinced that it would be madness to attack the Russians in their lines, the army commenced it, retreat on the 14th to the intrenchments of Warsaw, and though harassed by the enemy, it would not have sdffered any great loss but fur the imprudence of Col. Le Gallois, who was taken prisoner with his detachment. Marshal Paakewitsch, who has been joined by part of Rudiger's corps, is encamped one or two miles off, but it is not thought he will attack. The Poles have sent a corps to Podiacbia, and another to Flask ; the first, which is the most considerable, is under General Romarino. This expedition, by forcing General Golowin to retire,has enabled ' a great supply of provisions to enter Warsaw. It was report ed, however, on the 27th, that the Russians had returned in force to Minsk, and there was fighting there, but it seems certain that etc greater part of the army which is under the intrenelimenut of the city hcs had no serious engagement. The letters from which the above extracts are taken con tain some fragments of journals printed at Warsaw. Among them arc—lst, a Proclamation of the National Government, announcing the appointment of General Dembinski ; 2d, a Proclamation of the Government to the inhabitants of War saw after the night of the 15th, deploring the murders that had been committed, calling on the people to be calm, and announcing the appointment of Krukcwiecki as head f the Government ; Sdly, the following : TEE PRESIDENT OP TEE GOSZINNENT IN COUNCIL In the capital of the Polish people, where all the autho. cities are concentrated, where the representatives of the na. tion deliberate day and night on the interests of the country, where the national government exercises its power, where so many courts of justice exist, atrocious crimes have been con summated, and murders have been committed in the name of the Polish people, In the name of the country. The Polish people rejects with contempt these sanguinary and atrocious abuses. It is not upon degrading crimes, but upon national virtues, that it has founded its power: it desires to have heaven, and not bell, for the ally of its cause. We have sworn to conquer or to die ; if we must die, we will perish with all the dignity of a civilised people; we will , not sofa the madam' tomb to bear the stigma of crime The supreme whacky of the nation, the united Chambers, have felt the necessity of changing the form of government. Founded on the power of the laws, it will act with the strength and vigour which the present situation of the coun try requires. The law will overtake the guilty. It is to them that we must attribute the recall of part of our troops to the capital to protect it against the agitators and murder ers—a recall which yesterday causes us losses that we should not have sustained if we could have sent these same troops to the assistance of those that were engaged with the enemy. May these losses—may the blood of the brave men who have perished fall on their heads, with the maledictions of the Polish people. When has Poland had a government like that which has just been changed ? Did it not emanate from the na• tional will ? Was it not guided by wisdom, patriotism, and modern Lion ? Km liberty ever been more flourishing ? I Was there not at the bead of the Government an honours.' We, pure, and virtuous man, who has sacrificed every thing to the country ? What have all these virtues availed against the disturbers of public tranquillity ? They have abused the moderation of the mat liberal Government to sully our history by murdering individuals under trial, who were per haps guilty, but unarmed. It is for this, then, that the blood of the Poles has flowed. Was it then for this that we have made so many sacrifices and given proofs of a devotedness without mralW ? Our last insurrection bat one was sullied by similar murder. Kosciusko effaced this stain by punish. ing the guilty, and the history of his life and the revolution has been banded down with the most brilliant glary to pos terity. I will not deceive the national gory; I shall find means with the aid of the laws to annihilate crime, and the agita. tors who are the best allies of our enemies. " Warsaw, Aug. 18. " Count KRILIKOWIECHL" 4th.—A short bulletin, signed by Dembinski, gives an account of the retrograde movement of the Polish army. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, SIFT. 8. OPENING OF THE CHAMBERS.-ROYAL SITTING. At one o'clock, the ring of cannon announced the departure of his Majesty for the Palace. On his way he was saluted with the most joyful ac clamations by an immense multitude, and, at a quarter past one, hi s Maje s ty en t ere d the hall, preceded by the deputation. On his entrance the whole assembly rose; cries of Vive le Roi burst from all parts of the hall and the galleries. His Majesty graciously saluted the assembly, and seated himself on the throne, having on his right Count D'Aerschot, High Steward of the Household, and Baron d'Hoogvorst, Commander of the Civic Guards; and on his left General Chas teler and M. de Lagotellerie, his aide-de-camp. Profound silence ensued, and his Majesty deli vered the following speech : Geodeotes—l am happy to be for the second time amidst the representatives of the nation. " The proofs of affee'Lin and devotedness tt.' , ich the gic natko has not nosed to give me from the moment I set my foot on :he territory of my adopted comfy, bate filet my heart with uv.ly gratitude. This voluntny trans. port of a whole nation, while it Inspires me wit:t very aline. able pride, has made me sensible of tlic fill extent of the ditties that ar.i imposed on me. Ido not dissemble to my. self any of the numerous difficulties of my situation ; with the aid of your knowledge and experience I shall b. able to overcome them. " When the principles laid down in the constitution which I have sworn to otrerra shall have received by the projects of law which will ba submitted to your considera. tion the development which they still require, Belgium will occupy a greater degree of liberty than any other na. Lion in Europe. The crisis throng!, which the country has had to pit., in order to auxin hs political regeneration, has for a moment affected its material imereas. " It must henceforth ba the object of our united efforts to promote their interest by encouraging manufactures and opening new channels to commerce. " The rehitious :heady so happily estaLlished with frunce and England, and which I hope will soon be ex tended to the other Powers,tvill facilitate the performance of tills task. "Negotiations have just been opened to effect a defini dye arrangement of our differences with Holland. The honour and interests of the Belgian nation will be defended ID them with peseventnce and dignity. With you, gentle. men. and the whole nation, i look with confidence to the Issue of those &lodations, the result of which will be laid before you. " The neutrality of Belgium guaranteed by the five Powers, has suggested the pe,sibllity of modifications in its syst em of defence. This possibility, the principle of which is ad. mitted by the Powers concerned in the erection of the for. tresses t.f 18 1 5, will, I doubt not. be acknowledged by the nation. Ne:;otistions will take place to regulate the emu. don of ,he "lemma connected with the d.molition of sonic ref these fortresses. Happy in being Eble to draw closer the tics which dnite the two people, Belgium will on this °CO. dun give a 1,,00f of its gratitude to Frsatee,—Europe 4 trriking of its just confidence in the honour of th,. King of the French. " The emitted( services rendered by Fiance involuntuily call our attention to a recent event, the consequences of which I must say have been too much exaggerated. Bel. glum confiding to excess in the engagements contracted by Holland towards the five Powers, to whi c h it h a d i tse lf subscribed, was stot:denly surprise d by MI army, the force of which far exceeded that which Belgium could oppose to it. In these painful circumstances the succour of friendly powers became urgent and indispensable. You know with what generous promptness it was afforded us. If individual courage, if tie bravery which has never been denied the Belgic soldier, could nave made ut; tor the want of organisation and onion which was felt in our young army, without doubt—(and yon will believe my testimony)—without doubt we should have victoriously re. ouleed an unpin aggression, contraty to all the principles of the law ut nations, The aation will be but the mote sensible of the absolute neceesi.y of the reforms already commenced, and which are prusecuud with a degtee tat activity, the results of which will be soon apparent. In a few days Belgium will Lave an army, which, if it should be again necessary, would be able to tally round its King to defend with honour and toil, success the in. , lependeuce and the rights of the country. Projects of law will be laid before you during t h is ses. sion, to give to the Oovernntent ha legitimate share of in. fluent* in the composition of the army, to restore confidence to the soldier, and to ,caste a just recompense to those who shall distinguish themselves in the day of danger. " Gentlemen, I will call your particular attention to the state of our finances. I knew the care which this essential part of the public service requires. The prevailing desire of my Government will always be successively to introduce in the public expenditure the economy which is so loudly called for by the state of society, and by the aid of which it will be practicably gradually to lessen the burdens of the people. " At p.esent, nevertlitless, sactifices ate still necessary ort the one hand to defray the expenses of the reorganization et thy allay ; on the other, to make up for a diminution in the revenues which the circumstances in which we are for time placed indicate es inevitable. The nation has proved that it did shrink from the sacrifices v. bleb the honour and the interest of the country requirtil. It will also know how to bear those of which the Government shall have proved the necessity. The confidence with which the whole nation has hitherto met its King, gives me a right to reckon un representatives in all the mesures which may contribute to the good of the country. bly hopes will not be disappoin.ed Belgium will see us animated by the same desire to lantnue in concert for the happiness and glory of this country, to which I shall not cease to devote all my solicitude, as I have already devoted to it my dearest affections" FRANCE. SPAIN.—The French Government of the King has received with a lively satisfaction the official intelligence that his Majesty the King of Spain has ordered the liberation of 71 Frenchmen, who were detained in the prisons of Pampeluna and St. Sebastian's, for having formed a part of the de tachments of Spanish refugees who attempted last year, as an armed body, to enter the peninsula. PORTUGAL. Lissom, Aoo. 24.—The number of killed and wounded on both sides amounts at present to 300 men : the soldiers of the 4th regiment, though amounting only to a fourth of the forces opposed to them on the Place du Rocio, repulsed them, and did not yield until their ammunition was ex hausted : the prisoners have been placed on the pontoons ; the inferior officers have been shut up in fort Belem ; they will be brought to trial and shot in a few days. An Englishman, returning from the country, has been killed by a patrol, although he showed his carla of protection, and proved that he was English. The British Con sul has caused a corvette of war to be placed be fore the arsenal, threatening to set fire to it, if he r did not instantly receive satisfaction and indemnity for the family of the deceased. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 10.—A violent fire broke out on the 2nd inst. about half-past nine o'clock in the morning, at Pera (a suburb of Con stantinople.) A very strong wind blowing N.N.E. spread the flames with so much rapidity that the whole suburb was quickly reduced to ashes. The hotels of the ambassadors of England, France, and Holland, which belong to those nations, and the residences hired by the ministers of Russia, Prus sia, Sardinia, and Naples, together with a vast number of churches, of which three were catholic, fell a prey to the flames. The loss sustained is very enormous. The number of houses de stroyed by the fire is estimated at about 5,000. It is a heart-rending spectacle to witness so great a multitude of persons without resources, without shelter, and without clothing, wandering up and down, and having no means of sustaining their existence. It was possible to oppose but a very weak resistance to the flames. Pere exists no more ! Its inhabitants have received permission to retire to Galata, Bugukdere, and Therapm (suburbs of Constantinople.) To this frightful misfortune have just been added the first attacks of the cholera morbus, which has been brought hither from Odessa ; and the plague has not )et entirely quitted us. Mention is made of an earth quake, which has laid waste the isle of Scio. (PRIVATE) PA 'tn.—The local disturbances which occurred in Paris for a couple of days in the middle of the week have entirely yielded to the action of the local authorities. They had nothing whatever of a political character, and sprung prin• cipally from the dearth of employment for the ma nufacturing classes, *Mai has so long been felt in this metropolis, and which has become aggravatei l by the change of temperature at the advance of the season. - I:iri