The National Register. — London, England, 1815-11-12 00:00:00

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This, however, was contradicted by authority of the Duke himself. A new paper, how ever, must not only know every thing that passes, but the most secret motives of what happens. Consequently the next day an account appeared, of violent debates in the French House of Peers, and of the refusal of the Paris journals to publish the speech of the Duke of Orleans, when sent to them by kim for insertion; and this was as-, signed as his motive for his journey to this -country.. a motive so inadequate as to. make one smile at the conceit. The. Duke. of Orleans, by his formal contra diction of the first .paragraph, shows hir. soxiety that his journey may not be imputed to . a -common cause, and in fact . bk wish that it might be questioned, and shepld be seen that he does not approve of what is going on.-.it should seem, therefore, that he is by no, mead the sop. porter of the general measures of the Duke of Richelieu* administration, although he did vote in the minority with., him upon the Address. The secret of that minority, in. deed, remains to be explained. Leaving, however, the tangled threads of French politics, we beg to lay before our readers an extract from the ministerial paper, the Courier, representing the inhabitants of the Southeii Ne therlands as .. very discontented with their new Govern. latent. Had thi s . article appeared in the. Chroniclei we should not hve seriously attended to it, .but should have : regarded it as a specimen of the creaking manufactures in which that paper deals. Appearing, however, in tha t quarter it,does t where in general the sunny side of things is alone shewn, we pay attention to it from an opposite motive. The discontents in the Netherlands,' states, may be arranged under the following No. CCCCA7. ~°~,~ - r '~'"'~° r•., .... C 4 Mr. Feick, one of the ablest men in Holland, and who has ever been diametrically opposed to the system of Buonaparte, was deservedly distinguished by the King, and made Minister of State. His Majesty had the nomi nation of the twelve Deputies of Belgium, and those of the United Provinces, who were to-discuss and settle the weighty interests of the two countries. Intimately ac quainted with the individuals of his own country, the Dittch Legislators were composed of all the talents, na, tural and acquired, of the kingdom ; while the Belgians were selected from the Nobility, men unaccustomed to ad. mieistrafive functions; and in every way inferior to the Statesmen they had to cope with. The interests of the former, therefore, were not understood, or were aban. Boned. To this cause is to be attributed the preference given to the Dutch, who fill all the high offices of the State, with the exception of two Belgic Ministers, one charged with the Catholic Department, and the other ap pointed to the Inspection of the Canals and Rivers. They' declaim loudly against the number of Representatives of the Etats Generaux' being equal for the two coun tries, since Belgium possesses a population more name. rous by fourteen kindred thousand souls than Holland, and iniist thit the Council of State and Ittnisters of his Majesty should be nominated, one had from the Southern and the other half from the Northern De. partments. This, and thin alone, say they, will be a sufficient' guarentee against an undue penchant to an cient peepossessions or prejudices. The King will, then be surrounded with an equeLl force of light and iutelligence: • His decision will always be a right one,' because the right one will always be laid before his eyeS, Relative to the ancient national debt of Holland, it is Con fidently asterted tltbp ^ considering the United Provinces ' and Belgium as trio genial bodies, which, by cons ra,:ting new engagements,. conatktute themselves in one and the same state, it by no meal' follows we are to lose sight of the• ietive and • passive condition of these societies. Iu ''conStilting justice alone, it is evident that the act of asso. ciatibn does not necessarily establish either the common. alty of goods or debts? How then can the Government be sur'pri'sed at the repugnance to, and hostility openly ma against, a financial system, by which one half of ioual debt of the Dutch is to be liquidated by the 1 Ka . - ""A. , r Is/ the Courier nifested beads:—. e nati Vr • ,r+Olo