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don, think it their duty to comutunisate to their Excel lencies. the Plenipotentiaries of the five great Powers, the opinion of the Provisional Government of -Belgium on the luestion of the limits which should be drawn betweee that independent and the neighbouring countries. Though so important a question cannot be decided in the last in stance except by the National Congress, to which alone this right belongs; the Commissioners are, nevertheless, chliged to make known the only basis on which a treaty my be concluded conformable to the real interests of the country, and to the dignity of the people-who have con quered their independence. It is necessary for the balanc , of Europe that this people should be happy, which it can not he unless it retains those parts of its territory, the possession of which is necessary for its defence and pros perity. Several verbal notes delivered at Brussels, by the Diplomatic Committee, to the dele!ates from the Pleni p.itentiaries of London, have explained the rights and the facts which entitle the Belgian Government to claim dining the continuation of the armistice, the ancient Dutch Flanders, illsestricht, and the province of Luxem burg. These motives are equally powerful when the final limit' of the country are to be decided. " The ci-decant departments united to those of the Scheldt and of the Lys in 1795, cannot cease to mike part of East and West Flanders, which answer to those two departments. Without the possession of the lef bank of the Scheldt, Belgium would be exposed on that side, and the free navigation of that river might be an illu sory stipulation. " The Dutch, if masters of the country on that bank, and consequently of the sluices constructed to drain off the waters of Austrian Flanders, might inundate at pleasure, as they have done at former times, the Belgian territory. " The city of Ghent, which communicates with the mouth of the Scheldt by the new canal of Teneuze, would lose all the commercial advantages which it derives from this communication with the sea. 31s.estricht, which never made part of the Republie of the United Provinces, but where the States General exercised certain rights in conjunction with the Prince Bishop of Liege, is also one of those possessions which cannot be dispnted with Belgium with any motive of jus tice and reason, the more so as the Dutch are in possession of all the indemnities which were given in exchange. " The question of Luxemburg has been thoroughly die cussed. This province made an integral part of ancient Belgium. The treaties which have given it a particular relation with Germany have never deprived it of the cha racter of a Belgian province. 'I he Grand Duchy of Lux emburg has not formed a State distinct from the kingdom of the Netherlands. At the same time with the other Belgian provinces the inhabitants of Luxemburg threw oft the yoke of Kieg William, who has declared that their re presentatives could not sit in the States-General of the Hague. They have sent their Deputies to the National Congress with the other Belgians; they have voted tin exclusion of the House of Nassau ; they cannot and wilt not return under the domini , n of that family. —(The note then oltserves that Holland is sufficiently secured by its rivers from any attack by Belgium, which ought to be equallystecured by the fortresses on its side of the rivers. Besisku it. may appeal to the fraternity which unites it to North brebank, Whose agricultural and commercial inte e`olklik well ais tile religious opinions of almost all its in eke opposed to the idea of incorporation with litaitifi.) The note concludes by representing that the taititit nature of the circumstances oblige the Commis sioners to request a decisive answer, which they may tran smit without delay to the representatives of the Belgian nation. (Signed) " SYLVAIN VAN DE WEYER. " H. VILAIN XIV." The next document read was the following Sir,—We received, yesterday, your letter of accompanying the conclusion of the report of the Central Section. This proposal, with which we are not ac quainted, is wholly conformable to the idea which I had to submit to you—viz., to leave to the Comp ess the diffi. cult task of choosing a Sovereign. The Congress will then appoint Commissioners to treat with the five Powers. I see, in the same project of the Central Section, that the commissioners of the Congress will be also authorised to treat of the tel and commercial questions."—The note expresses the hope that, as the presence of the Com missioners in London is no longer necessary, they will soon he recalled. It then adds—" The Government has doubt less reeeived our letters and the note on the limits. Since then our situation with respect to the Congress is not changed. The official ❑ode of communication between it and us is not yet fixed. All is done through the medium of Prince Talfeyrand and Lord Palmerston, who had told us to hold ourselves in readiness. However, there have been three conferences this week, since the delivery of our note on the armistice and the raising of the blockade ; but we were not present at them. " Yesterday Lord Palmerston read to us, on the part of the Congress, a protocol on the ob►ervance of the armis tice, which protocol, he added, would be forwarded the aawe night to the Hague and Brussels. " The Govtrnmeut and the Diplomatic Committee should know that (except the note of the 4th) we have not been officially heard or officially consulted on this sub ject, and consequently tie contents of the protocol, which are known to us only by being rapidly read to us, tnust not be considered as the result of a joint discussion. Ac cording to Lord Palmerston, what has hitherto hindered the Congress from entering into any direct communica tion from us is the very question of the Scheldt, first of all to decide. However, such a state of things cannot long be continued, and we propose, as we told Lord Pal merston yesterday, to ask— ... I. Wien and how the discussion on the note of the 6th may he entered upon ; or, " ' 2. If the Congress, which has invited us, now thinks it of no use that we should be heard, as it knows, by our answer to the protocol of the 20tb, and by our note o! the 4th, the opinion of the Government.' •' It is, however, indispensable that the Government should prepare, as soon as possible, to treat the question of the debt of the colonies, not to conclude an agreement with Holland, but to enable itself to discuss what part of the debt Belgium would take upon itself, and also to offer pecuniary indemeitivation for Aliestricht, Flanders, and Luxemburg,—territories which we shall not obtain with out sacrifices, and fur the possession of which we have no territorial indemnities to offer. Either the present Belgian Commissioners, svho are to remain at London, or those whom the Congress shall appoint, must be furnished with positive instructions. The data which I :.ave arc not sufficient, and, besides, we are ❑ot authoris,d to propose any thing of the kind. We have learned from good authority that Holland has alresdy communicated to the Congress its ideas respecting the debt. It is, there fore, absolutely necessary that Belgium should take its re solution. Such, Sir, it the state of affairs. The Con gress having been engaged the whole week, on the raising of the blockade, has not been able to take up the question of the limits. We wait till then to give upon each of the three points a memorial, explanatory of a note of the 6th, which we shall deliver to-morrow to the five Plenipoten tiaries. You will doubtless find this course of proceeding very slow, and ill agreeing with the impatience of the na tion, but such difficulties cannot be removed in a day.— Tke Committee and the Government may be convinced that we do net lose a moment. (S geed) " SYLVAIN VAN DE WEYER." " P.S. We have just left Prince Talleyrand, who has explained to us why the Congress has not yet entered into a direct communication with us. We are, in this respect, on the same footing as the Dutch Commissioners. The Con gress desires to be provided with all the documents before it discusses the points in dispute; meantime we shall com municate our titles and rights to each of the Plenipoten- tiaries." After the reading of these documents a debate ensued, in which M. F. Letton proposed Prince Gustavus Vasa of Swe dfn for the Sovereign of Belgium. Several Members spoke against the sending of Commis sioners, as proposed by the Central Section, and on the question being put, it was rejected by 105 to 63. M. Brouckere, Minister of Finance, presented a new Budget, in which the total expenditure is estimated at 21,193,34.0 florins. BRUSSIELS, JAN. 14.—According to accounts from Antwerp, letters from Flushing announced that the in habitants were preparing that place for defence, and that all the houses and cellars had been inspected by the authorities. (From Le Vrai Palriote.) J AN , 14.—We have just received a letter from a person of.Oil'inetion at Munich, who has the entree at Court. He informs us that the King of Bavaria had received the day before (the Gth) the news that Prince (NM. ' son, his had been proposed for the throne of Belgium ; and, from the number of his partizans, it was probable he would succeed. " I can assure you," adds our correspondent, " that our worthy Sovereign will never consent to place his son on the ti mae of Ilelgiutn, even if the Powers should agree, without having the consent of the dispossessed family. It is even proLable that no Prince, who has a little respect for him, will accept this crown, and that no other will be able to keep it. Our Court is, besides, aware that the enemies of Belgium have the preponderance in the Councils of the . Govern ment, and that they impel to extreme measures irreconcileable with the inter,sts of the European Cabinets, and which must eit h e r soon ruin the country, or place it under a yoke more heavy than that it has broken, but with a great diminution of its resources and its riches." General Douglas and suite art ived here yesterday from the Hague, and set out this morning for London, wit! , despatches for his Government. WARSAW, JAN. 4.—The Journals of this city now give (from the Prussian State Gazette) the proclamation of the Emperor Nicholas to the Polish nation and army of sth (17th) December. The Warsaw Gazette again oh serves, that when the proclamation was issued the Depu tation sent to St. Petersburgh had not arrived in that city. It also gives the proclamation of the General com manding in the Grand Duchy of Posen, published in the Posen Gazette. The same Paper gives the fallowing from Terespol, Dec. 23 :—" According to accounts that have been re ceived, the Russian army is concentrating about Bialy stock. The Cesarewitsch has his head-quarters in the tittle town of Wysoka-Litewska, about 25 miles beyond Bizese, on the road ti Bialystock. Ia the environs of Bizese is a brigade of infantry, under the command of Ge- neral Lewandowski. The artillery lately there is gone to Bialystock. We learn that the troops from Volby nia, and the artillery from Bobruysk, are on the march to Bia lystock. It is reported that the Cesarewitsch in tends to set out in a few days for St. Petersburg'', and that the Emperor himself is expected at Bialystock." Accounts from Marianpol, in the Warsaw Gazette of the 24th ult. say, " llitherto all is quiet here; no move ment is observed in the army of the Russians; nay, the rears of the inhabitants of the place have nearly vanished. Besides, the cavalry regiment of Augustow, two corps of Mazours, are forming here. The prices of corn are very low ; rye is from seven t eight florins a bushel. • Accounts from Groan(' say that the Ist and Bth corps have received orders to be assembled in that town by the 7th of January. Duke Adam of Wurtemberg, General of the Polish cavalry, who gave in his resignation to the Dictator, has arrived in the Russian army. . , On the Ist instant the Dictator went to Motllin tri view the fortification•. The Dictator has issued, at the instance of the National Council, an ordonnance relative to the organization of the National Guard. _ The journals of this city daily contain a number of articles which express not only confUcting views and opinions, but, on the whole, dissatisfaction with the present Government and internal confusion. The patriotic clubs in the capital continue to hold meet ings, at which the members speak and sing. BERLIN, JAN. 9.—St. Schuld. Sch. Four per Cent, S6i ; Pr. Eng. Lnan, ISIS, Five per Cent. Money, 96 ; Ditto ditto, 1822, do. do. NI ; Ditto Bonds, 1830, Four per Cent. do. 741. Prussian State Gazette, Jan. 9. _ - - LITERATURE. WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No. XXVII. LONDON, 1831. If not the most eloquent or classical, or lite rary, this is beyond question the most useful, practical, and spirited of our Quarterly Reviews. It is full of bone and muscle, and exhibits all the symptoms of energetic manhood. Hercules should have been its Editor. To the coarse, homely power of Cobbett it adds at times the epigrammatic point, the stinging invective, of Junius. The Editor wields his pen as the son of Alcmxna wielded his club. There is no cant or make. believe in his remarks—unless it be in his somewhat vulgar depreciation of classical ac quirements—the truth is spoken bluntly and without reserve. The present number is in every respect a superior one, first as regards the nature of its subjects, and secondly its fashion of treating them. The analysis of that able work Webster's American Dictionary, is a masterly one, and displays infinite philological research. It is penned in the strictest spirit of impartiality. The remarks on Johnson's Dictionary, which naturally precede it, are not to be gainsayed " The prejudice in favour of Dr. Johnsen has been of long standing ; and it operates as an injurious check upo❑ the enterprise of those who are willing to devote them- selves to the unprofitable pursuits of the philologists. Many causes have contributed to produce it ; and not the least efficient of these is the extraordinary merit, and the at- 1 tractive character of the work itself. Not but that every person, who has made even but small edvances in the ct iticel study of the English language, has been sensible to its many and great deficiencies as a dictionary : not but that every person who resorts to it fur etymologies, or for assistance when be meets with obscure passages in our early writers, has found reaso❑ for dieappointtnent. or have the critical students its cur language forborne to call ' the public attention to the fact. 'fooke is too severe. Johnson'e merit ought not to be denied him ; but his Dictionary is the &nest imperfect and faulty, anti the least valuable, of any of his productions : and that share of merit which it possesses, makes it by so much the more hurtful.' (Purley, i. 223.) 'Of all publications,' says Mr. Mason, in the Preface to his large Supplement, perhaps no one can be mentioned, where scrupulous exactness should be more peculiarly observed, than in a Dictionary. Yet Johnson's abounds with inaccuracies, as much as any English book whatsoever, written by a scholar. Demonstrating this in the present place may be considered wholly unnecessary, since so great a portion of those articles ' which form the ensuing vocabulary, contain in themselves incontestible proofs of the assertion,. Nor need these manifest defects at all be wondered at, in one who took every opportunity of t.etifying a dislike to his task, and complaining of it as a dredgery ; whereas to those that are intent upon their employment, and attached to lite rary iuvest gation—labor ipse roluptas:—Theue judg ments are too severe ; but hear the more sober judgment of gentler mind , . ' However valuable in other respects,' says Mr. Boucher, in the Prospectus of his Thesaurus of Archaical Terms, ' Dr. Johnson's Dictionary confeseedly is, his warmest admirers cannot deny it to be still incom plete, as leaving unexplained many good and significant words, only because they happen to have fallen into disuse ; notwithstanding their being yet epeken by a large portion of the community, and still found in authors on whose works the nation has long rested ne ordinary portion of its high literary fame.' Mr. Coleridge thus speaks : 'Of this celebrated Dictionary I will venture to remark once for all, that I shield suspect the man of a narrow disposition who should speak of it without respect and gratitude, as a most instructive and entertaluing book, and hitherto, un fortunately, an indispensable book; but I confess that I should be surprised at hearing from a philosophic and thorough scholar any but very qualified praises of it as a Dictionary. lam not now alluding to the number of genuine words emitted; for this is (and perhaps to a greater extent), true, as Mr. Wakefield has noticed, of our best Greek Lexicons, and this too, after the successive labours of so many giants in learning. I refer at present both to omissions and commissions of a more important nature.'" The character of George the Fourth, though drawn with no flattering pencil, is yet as true to life as one of Hogarth's prints. The writer as sumes nothing—distorts nothing—takes nothing for granted—but from certain well-known public acts of his late Majesty deduces certain inferences, which it is wholly impossible to deny or con trovert. George the Fourth is DOW matter of history. The day of prejudice is over with him ; flattery has no more to gain by concealing, nor honesty to lose, by declaring the truth ; his public acts, therefore, both as a man and as a monarch, may as justly be canvassed as those of Louis the Fifteenth. Claiming this privilege as his natural right, the write r discusses the character of his late Ma jesty with as much spirit and acumen as old Clarendon displayed in the portraits of his fa vourite heroes. Strange what a difference one week, nay, one little hour, makes in the divinity that " (loth hedge a King!" Something more than man this day, something infinitely less the next, the Sovereign loses his omnipotence with as much rapidity as the wind shifts its quarter. To day the voice of truth respecting him is scarcely heard above a whisper ; to-morrow it breaks forth with the sound of thunder. The grave makes all the difference, and either elevates or reduces him to his proper level as an historical character. " Maxwell" is a favourable, but somewhat superficial notice, of Mr. Theodore Hook's last novel, in which a few slight but dis criminating remarks are hazarded . otrAe - subject of that gentleman's powers of mind. " Cob bett's Tour in Italy" commends the agricultural merits of the author, though we must confess we think them wholly out of place in Italy. i Who thinks of Rome and the plough's tail at the same time? Who, in wandering along the banks of the Arno, or gazing on the splendours of Florence, or luxuriating in the enchanted region of Tivoli, would dream for an instant of the spade, the harrow, the cart-horse, or the farm yard ? Yet Mr. Cobbett journies through the classic land of Italy with these recol lections uppermost in his mind. The farm predominates in every thing that he sees and describes—his prejudices are all robed in a smock-frock. He expatiates on the fertility of the country surrounding Florence—as Nichol Jarvie commented on the Highlands—with a regret that it is not turned to better account. " Machine-breaking" is a sound, practical article worthy to be read and diligently pondered by all classes of the community. " Tennyson's Poems" display much philosophical and—an unusual thing with the " Westminster Review"— even poetic ability. The young poet is appre ciated as he deserves. He is as full of promise as the spring. Time and perseverance are alone wanting to enable him to scale the heights of Par. nassus. At present he is merely culling flowers at the foot of the sacred mount. " European Re volution" is penned in a lofty, generous tone. of thought. The duties of Europe as respect Poland are ably pointed out, and the profligacy of the Lite war of legitimacy exposed in one terse sentence pregnant with truth and justice. The remaining articles we must dismiss with the remark that if they are not above, neither are they below mediocrity. MONTHLY REVIEW. In consequence of the very late period at which this Review has come to hand we have been unable to notice it till now. It is, we per ceive, the commencement of a new series—a sadly hackneyed Magazine phrase—and if the present is a fair specimen of what the future numbers are to be, we may say that the Monthly Review is likely enough to retrieve its old cir culation. The analysis of " Kennedy's Poetry" mixes up much that is just with much that is severe—we were going to say, ill-natured. Though no Byron, whatever some of his ad mirers may think to the contrary, Mr. Kennedy is no fool. He displays at times fancy, gene rally feeling, always vigour, and once or twice elegance and sound sense. The present review is restricted to a notice of his most recent pub lication, " The Arrow and the Rose," and slashing work it makes of it ! We are no very vehement admirers of modern poetry—the poe tical, being nearly as extinct as the dramatic, fa culty—still, we are far from putting. ourselves into a passion with its mediocrity, as Mr. Ken nedy's reviewer does. " Life of Mrs. Jordan" is a very excellent critique on a very execrable piece of biography, wholly made up of indiffe rent scandal, state criticism , , or past actors and actresses, Jong since dead and forgotten, and opinions of Mr. Bowden, de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis. The " Notice of the An nuals" is shrewd, and pleasantly written. The reviewer properly observes that the speculation is over done, and will shortly find its level. VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES OF THE COM PANIONS OF COLUMBUS.—LosDoN, 1831. Mr. Washington Irving gained much and de served popularity by his able digest of the dis coveries of that Coryphwus of adventurers, Columbus, and will not hazard his reputation by the present volume, which may be considered as a sort of appendix or supplement to his former work. At any rate it has the rare merit of no velty to the majority of English readers, who know as much of the history of the companions and immediate successors of the adventurous Genoese mariner, as they know of the interior of Timbuctoo. The voyages of Valdivia, in particular—whose very name has been till now almost unheard-of in England—will be found exceedingly fresh in point of materials ; while as regards st)le, it is penned in a less florid and elaborate style than any of Mr. Irving's former works of fancy, and will consequently conic more home to the reader. The work, we may add, forms the 18th volume of Mr. Mum ray's very delightful miscellany, " The Family Library." LARDNEWS CABINET CYCLOP2EDIA. LONDON, 1831. This forms the fourteenth part or number of Longman's popular miscellany, and treats chiefly on the subject of Natural Philosophy, which Mr. Herschel], the writer, by his clear, simple, and forcible style, has contrived to render very agreeable. MITFORD'S AMERICAN STORIES. 3 VOLS. LONDON, I b3l. Another work expressly devoted to the use of children, and nearly as entertaining in its way as the Juvenile Tales of Miss Edgeworth. ANNUAL BIOGRAPHY.-LONDON, 1831. As an unassuming record of the lives of those celebrated public men who have departed from amongst us, during the last year, this work will be found eminently useful, and fitted to hold a conspicuous station in public or private libraries. SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS' MAGAZINE, AND JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. PUBLISH ED MONTI( Lt. This publication has now entered its eighteenth year, and has the distinguished honour of being the first " Journal of Education" that was ever published in this country. The number before us contains a Portrait and Memoir of James Montgomery, who, it seems, is celebrated both among Sunday-school teachers and poets. The article entitled " A View of the Education of Man before the Fall," strikes us as being an in tellectual novelty. " The grand Sunday School Effort in America," or a new Mississippi scheme, is really an extraordinary display of Christian philanthrophy. The intelligence concerning edu cation at Tongataboo, at New York, and in Scotland, is varied and interesting. Altogether this periodical is worthy of the cause of Sunday Schools, and merits the patronage of the friend, of universal education. BERTHA'S VISIT, 3 Vot.s.—LoNnoN, 1831. We have just glanced our eye over this littl e instructive miscellany, which is admirably adapted for the perusal of youth, and which professes to be the journal of an intelligent young lady, dc omnibus rebus, 4v. kept during her stay in England, for the purpose of gratifying her re latives, who are supposed to be resident in South America. The idea is novel and in genious, and is well worked out. DIBDIN'S SUNDAY LIBRARY.—LoNDoN, 1831. A useful and intelligent miscellany, which, from the nature of its contents (of the devo tional kind) cannot be too strongly recommended. A calm—cheerful—rational spirit of piety, utterly divested of cant or enthusiasm, pervades the work, which does credit to the heart and head of Dr. Dibdin. EAST INDIA MAGAZINE. A heavy press of matter and a variety of other circumstances have prevented us from referring to this very promising periodical before. It is a work full of sensible matter, both original and selected, and is very judicious and miscellaneous in its collection of Oriental intelligence. FINE ARTS. VIEWS IN INDIA, PART V.—LoNnoN, 1831. Of this part it is only necessary to say that it is fully equal to its predecessors, both in choice of subject and elegance of execution. FISHER'S VIEWS IN ENGLAND.-10NDON, 1831. The three last portions of this pictorial and geographical publication are illustrations of some of the finest scenes in Devonshire and Corn wall, as well as of those in the North of Eng land. They are valuable as works of art and reference, and have been got up in a very superior fashion. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.-PART XXI. LONDON, 1831. If this part possessed no other recommenda tion than the admirable engraving of the late Lord Carlisle, it would be well worth purchase, but it has the further recommendation of slight but amusing biographical sketches, from the practised pen of Mr. Jerdan of the Literary Gazette. - - - - EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (From the Journal de Paris.) PARIS, JAN. 4.-Admiral Rosilly and the Duke of Rovigo were received yesterday, in a private audience, by the King. The amount of the Polish subscription already amounts to 60,000 francs, of which General Lafayette subscribed 20,000 franca. (From the Courrier Francais.) It was reported yesterday on 'Change, that the Prince of Bavaria was appointed King of Greece. If this report be true, the Belgian question will become still snore com plicated. M. Fazi, the Editor of the Revolution Evening Paper, was tried yesterday, and sentenced to four months' impri sonment, and 6,000 francs fine, for having published that " All the acts of the Chamber of Deputies, without any exception, were liable to revision." WARSAW, Jaw. 4.—The enthusiasm which has mani fested itself in the eight Palatinates is increasing every day. The Dictator declared that the army should be 80,000 strong, and ere long it will have amounted to that number. Our forces are now concentrating within a ra dius of a few miles round Warsaw, so as to facilitate their supply with provisions. The Dictator's intention is not to wait for the Russians on the frontiers, but to take several strong positions in the interior, particularly at Siedlec, in Podlachia. (From Le Globe.) BASLE, JAN. DI —Last night a detachment of 500 peasants attempted to take possession of the gates of St. Peter and St. John. They were repulsed, however, and without any loss to the inhabitants of the town ; the in surgents had several wounded. The latter now intercept all communications with the town, and atop every courier and diligence. The bridges in the neighbourhood are all cut down. . _ (Vroin the Constitutionng.) Extract of a private letter from Posen :—" The affairs of Poland are in a flourishing state. The enthusiasm is general among all classes; the peasantry, and even the Jews, ate vyeing with the Lords in their patriotic efforts. Before the end of January, Poland will have 150,000 men ready to take the field, and 200,000 others armed with pikes and pistols. The sacrifices made by the people are immense. Persons worthy of credit say that Nicholas's passion has subsided, and that he has arrived alone at the Lithuanian army, and is ready to nuke concessions. (From Le Temps,) The answer of the French Government to the Congress is positive. The Duke de Nemours refuses the Crown, and the Prince de Leuchtenherg, if elected, will nut be acknowledged by France. France is not unjust, but the Belgians are imprudent and injudicious. France has a right to say to the Belgians, if you elect such a King, I will support you; if you take such another you will wound my interests, and injure my political consistency. Use the liberty you pusses ; I will respect it, but, in the lat ter case, rely upon your own power to maintain it, and do not look to me for protection against those who may attack your King and Constitution. (From the Courrier Francais.) This paper, when treating of the saint subject, says— " In announcing our own opinion to give a Prince to Belgium, we ought to stipulate the same forbearance from the other great Powers ; but beyond this, ought we to make it a matter of importance to exclude other Princes ? For instance, is the peremptory manner in which we have discarded the Prince of Leuchtenberg, who, by the say, has but little chance, fully justifiable? We have given to foreign countries false ideas on the stability and nationality of our Government, by showing ourselves alarmed at the mere idea of having such a neighbour. What have we to fear from a young Prince, who is not even of the blood of Napoleon? The Duke de Leuehtenherg belongs to a new family, and is left free from the prejudices of legitimacy. Far front thus creating imaginary terrors, France might discover many reasons for supporting his election. On the other hand, we cannot penetrate the motives that in duced France to show so strong a desire for the el►oice of a Prince of Bavaria, and it is even very doubtful whether the King of Bavaria, who may at some future day have need of the protection of Russia against Austria, will per mit his son to take possession of the inheritance of the House of Orange." The following letter has been addressed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs to M. Charles Rogier, the Belgian En voy at Paris, on the subject of the letter from that gentle man, addressed to his Government, and which was read in the Congress a few days ago " Sir,—You informed me some days ago that the Jour nals had given incorrect accounts of the letters you hail written to the Provisional Government. But to-day they attribute to you a fresh despatch, containing what I can not possibly admit to have passed at our late i n terviews. As Minister, I have never had to confer with the King upon any arrangements regarding his family, and cofunsseed g France. for a quently his Majesty cannot have either granted orire that which was never proposed to him. I beg eav f e h : i o s add, that neither as a man nor as an i n terpreter o royal sentiments could I ever have explained. myself in such i r ng rt i n i c . e id T i.n ug e e s n te e el d n e , light eau a er rn tr: i z respecting iNtveictoisneg familyory tare f h a , an d am independence pr ou df . v of n If with the belief, that the letter in question I flatter myself long and under time foughtwltos e for the ngloryd I was not the production of your band, but if it be so, shall feel myself oblgtd to hold no further intercourse with you but by writing. " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your very humble and obedient servant, (Signed) " HORACE SEBASTIANI.' CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. The President took the chair at half-past one o'clock. The Chamber resumed the discussion of the law project relating to the Sinking Fund. M. Lefitte said—" The embarrassments which future events may occasion to the Treasury have been brought into view. The future is rich with hopes, and the first reductions on the expenditure we shall be enabled to pro pose, will he sufficient alone to return to the public 20,000,000 francs ; they will contribute to the Sinking Fund. Affairs are not yet so settled but that the Go verment is still bound to take every precautionary mea ,ure to insure respect from abroad and tranquillity at home. To this end every necessary expenditure has been, but proposeatthe and is still being , made—but it has not as yet b een t o any burdensome extent ; and if peace be maint a i ne d it will be very considerable. In a few days a law for the sale of the forests will be presented. the The to alienate produce nothing same time cost the State some expense. The actual pro duct ofthese sales would naturally be applied to the expenses of a war, should war take place ; but I again repeat we have no such expectation. I will now state the precise situation of our floating debt. It is composed of 67,000,000 francs of the arrears of 1814, of 6,000,000 of old deposits, by way of security money, 32,900,000 of the well known deficit of the year 1827, 54,000,000 of the deficit of the extraordinary expellees of the year 1830, 30,000,000 francs granted in aid of commerce, (this sum will return into the Treasury at the expiration of two years), and, lastly, 54,000,000 of the Spanish debt. Ac the floating debt has necessarily an influence on the funded debt embarrassing to the Treasury, it is proposed that the products of the sale of the forests should be applied to the diminution of the former, unless called for towards the expenses of a loan. I am convinced the law, as it has been proposed by the King's Ministers, ought to be sup ported, but we submit it with confidence to the judgment of the Chamber." An amendment by M. Augustine Perier, in the follow ing terms, was then put and adopted : " The endowment of the Sinking Fund, fixed at the sum of 40,000,000 francs by the law of the 25th of March, 1817, shall continue to be exclusively appropriated to the redemption of the Five, the Four and a Malf, and the Three per Cent. Stocks. The same application shall be made of the Funds redeemed since 28th April, 1816, un less they have been otherwise applied by an express law." The President was proceeding to put an additional paragraph, moved by M. Baillot, when M. Lafitte rose and moved that the question should be adjourned till to morrow, upon which the Chamber adjourned. (From the Journal du Cher.) We have a circular from the Minister of the Interior, which prohibits the celebration of the anniversary of the death of Louis XVI. on the 21st instant. The same in junction has no doubt been sent to all the Departments. Extract of a letter from Calais, dated 11th inst.:— " The Heros, a merchant vessel, arrived here en Sunday night from London, with 4,440 muskets on board for the French Government. This cargo is to he followed by others, which will be sent at short intervals. The 'muskets were taken to the arsenal. This week 3,000 bomb-shells have been sent here from the arsenal of Douay. FRENCH FUNDS, JAN. 15.—Five per Cents. 93f. 25c. 30c. 70c. 80c. 75c. 85c. 80c. 60c. 75c. 80e. ; Four per Cents. 77f. 50c. 78. ; Three per Cents. 61f. 50c. 80c. 75c. 50c. 60c. 65c. ; Rente de Naples 63f. 25c. 50c. 80c. ; Royal Spanish Loan 60i- ; Rente Perpetuelle 461 ; llaytian Loan 340.--Exchange on London at one month 25 15 ; ditto three months 25 5. raters or STOC. it S 11115 I,wl .1' ON 1 o'cLocX. Bev, Yctock 3 jer Colt. Red. 41% 3 ,4 India ntuok — 3 p...-1 Cent. Con. 81!4 1 I,i, quo Bon& l6 14 pm 4g per Cent. — South Sea Stock volit Dat. Red. flO% Old Annuities — New' 3% per Cent. 0014% New Ditto .......... ..-....... S pehCent. Ann. 1726 „ —3{ er Cent. Ann. 1751 .... --- 4 per Cent:l:WO 99% 1 A% gx. Bills, .£1,W1.....15 36 34 pzu. Bank L ong Ann. to expire Ditto 50 , ...35 36 34 pm. Jan. 5, 18 1 50 17% Ditto Small ..... ...3G 36 34 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 l7 3-16 Ditto Commercial Jan. 5, 1869 l7 16 15-16 Ditto Advertise 4 — pu. Jan. 5, 1880 — Bank for Account — Aprils, IE6O — India for Account — Jan. 5, 1870 — Cona. for Jan 94 91%%% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — Neapolitan — Brazilian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds — Buenos Ayres 80nd5......... —'Portuguese Bonds ..... ....... C ailian Bonds —'Prussian, Old — Uolombian Bonds — 'Ditto, New 94 Ditto, 1824 Danish — ;Spanish. :1121 10i % = 1 French R l ettes, sp. c. —t —7. Greek Bonds Ditto, 1825 Otiatimala — I--- Exchange —f. —e. Mexican Bonds —,-- 3 per cent —l. —c. Ditto. 1125 .--- Exchange ...... —f. —c. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JAW. 14. Bank Stock — St. Patrick In.ur. (per sh.) Consols, 3 oer cent. Gov. Stock, 33. per cent 89h National Ditto — Ditto, New 90% !Patriotic Ditto 1 per Cent ---- Hibernian Bank — Gov. Deb. 3)4 percent.... 8534 i Provincial Ditto 193( Royal (Anal Stock - Royal Irish Mine Grand Canal Stock ..... .... — 'lmperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per cent. — Mining Co of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c. -- ,Commercial Buildings MAILS. arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. O America O Brazil o Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0 O Carthagena 0 0 Leeward islands ... 0 2 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0 1 Flanders 0 0 Malta 0 1 France 0 0 Sweden 1 Guernsey &Jersey.. 0 2 Waterford 0 NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning... s"_ minutes after 4. 1 Evening...l2 minutes after: 5. TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT LIVERY MEN OF LONDON. GENTLEMEN, AVacancy having taken place in the office of CHAMBERLAIN, occasioned by the death of my good and venerable friend, Mr. Clark, I beg permit_ lion to make a tender to you of my humble services to succeed him ; 111111 should it be your pleasure thus to honour toe, I pledge myself to bring to the discharge of the duties that will devolve on me the same zeal, dili• gence, and fidelity, that have hitherto been acceptable to you in the other high and important offices which, in succession, you confided to my charge. With every sentiment of respect, and regard, I have the honour to subscribe myself, Gentlemen, Your obedient and faithful humble servant, America-squars, Jan. 17, 1831. JAS. SHAW. ,-) , 5.-„„. ..etr . A , - , 51 414 - ,3.. - 41, :-., LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1831. GOODMAN, who is under Sentence of death in Horsha►n gaol, and who l►ad beeu respited for a fortnight, has been further respited during pleasure. The customary despatches from France anti Holland were received at the Foreign Office this morning. The French Journals seem rather sore at the " shameful persecutions which are openly di rected against our French countrymen and un der the eye of our Consul," at Lisbon.— It would not surprise us were some very it sports weretll prompt and ejectual remo ns t rance to b e ma d e on the part of the French Government to that amiable scion o f l eg i t i macy , M I GUEL—a fool who Council-chamber though Q on : flo th o e r o vp l er l og li e : of a precipice as at ueluz. A letter from Basle, inserted • m the Messager des Chambres, gives US some interesting particulars respecting the alarming state of things at Berne, on which city it was expected the peasantry would make an attack. By the Brussels Papers we find that the Congress is not yet able to decide whom they will have to reign over Belgium. Louts PHILIPPE is strongly op- posed to the Prince of LEticHTENBU r relative of NAPOLEON. The Duke de, NI mills disclaims all wish to ascend the Throne, but his Royal father makes no e n i tion to the ch o i ce o f P r i nce Ortro, of 0 A variety of oth er can did a t es have bee posed, and among them the names of the) duke CHARLES and the POPE of Rome. T i last choice one fatal objecti on exists ----At le a the present. There is no Pope of Rol" . 1 who will be chosen, the Pri nce of 011 06 1 manifestly no chance. When his name 1 flounced it was received by the whole asn with loud and unequivocal indignation. Since writing the above, we have roe° Express from Paris, by which we learn 111 preparations of the P o l es f or war still CO and the Dictator is confident of success. German Papers received this morniug el nothing of consequence. The Nu ° , Correspondent states that th e EmPER °. fixed on the Bth of January for the cnl f f, the Russian arm y i n t o P o l an d. The full' are extracts : , I' T , . L nA NA ti, JA 2i . S. •••••01.1r Gazette contains th e article : e tbl " The Constitution has a pp eare d ; t h an ks to 1 tions of the States, and the c a se o f th e Elect°% completed on the sth instant. A s pi r it of ju s „ independence pervades it. It will immortalise r e il sian name. The hopes of the country are seu i l i s , fundamental law, which guarantees the a ccol of all its just wishes. It is for the country 10 o part all that depends on it, to carry with reed , g of the Constitution. May no disorders hencefort h i tb e enjoyment of a happy futurity." i THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. te tt While this publication was announced Ye' b 'email of trumpet, by heralds eecotted by the h e guard, the artillery of the garr i s o n annou nced , i yi to the inhabitants. Fetes are p re p ar i ng to 0 " r and the joy of the brave Hessians is at it s height' ' t l ' i c The following are some of the articles o f 1 stitution : filr i " The rights of the Israelites shall be regu 0 1 special law. d i " No exclusive privileges for commerce er 0 113 " shall henceforth be granted. t " The existing monopolies shall be abolished I ' l titular law. _ rd I " Patent.; of invention shall be given by th e tr i went, but not for more than ten yeart. I' l l " The Press and the book trade shall be o° ll tle A law shall determine on the misdemeanours 0: A ll There shall be no censorship except in cases Or laws of the Confederation. I " The violation of the secrecy of letters shall cuted in the Criminal Courts. i ; " Nobody can be prosecuted for the expression opinions. " Every man capable of bearing arms owe* 60,,1 to his country in case of necessity. The time of the army shall not exceed five years. 0 ,1 " The employments and offices of the State soli confirmed till the qualifications of the candidate Leen ascertained by an examination. " No office can be given in reversion." CASSEL, JAN. 7.—Her Royal Highness ~ and the Princess Caroline arrived here yell e o tO, Fulda, and were received at th e P a l ace of Be/le: i Elector, accompanied by the whole Court, so r o o l i , and military authoriti e s. Thi s even t has g t i , ordinary satisfaction to the citizens of Cassel, WI the Electress with the w armes t t es ti mon i e s O ,A, A great part of the city w a s b r illi an tly ill u rninst:Ao FRANKFORT, JAN. 10.—Ex c ha nge on IA - months, I4Bi. f i NUREMBERU, JAX. 7.—The following table for; fall that has taken place in the prices of variou s g, the Exchange of Frankfort, during the year nie withstanding the terrible decline, the differenee e it e punctually settled, to the satisfaction of all part , Austrian Five per Cents. Ditto Four per Cents. ... ..... Ditto Bank Shares Ditto Partial Ditto Rothschild, 100 florins lB4 Polish 66 *" Dutch Spanish Itentes WARSAW, DEC. 30._Our paper say tlo t t o peror has fixed the Bth of January far the ent(! p c‘ Russian army into Poland; that the LithuallisoV assembling at Sokolta, and that the Polish 4' 1 : 0 0' ing to it are transferred to oth e r r e giments ; corps of General Pahlen is already in inotj o :01i . some regiments of the corps of General Sackesol, received orders to be in readiness to march. I , t ht i r , that in a few days some definitive new. woul ° from St. Petersburgh. Several persons froot, and Volhynia, suspected by the G o verms en ,,A whom are Alexander Chodkiewiez and the r io tt niowski, are said to have been sent into th e • Russia. DIRSDY.N, JAN. 3. -Our highly respects(' 11 ; 1 0 4 ron Von Lindenan, is gone to Berlin o n a ver/ Di° mission. After the arrival of an express froobeto terday it was reported that a convention I' 4 , f € ' eluded between Prussia and a ll th e U p p e r St at ,„, to a very moderate scale th e d u ti es o f Cow" - passing front one of the States to another. The Morning Post, in answer to ,r;I: tion on th e b ar ill a d u ty, h as a dmitted is necessary to convict its clients o f inc° ll in their charges against their successor s viz. that the late Government continn e "o , back on barilla in Ireland (which und er c ) . Geo. IV. cap. 48, sec. 40, would ba vc ,or on the sth of January,) by a Trease r) ; made during the Session of Parliunjen admission is all that we require for the r i p' of our argument, which is, that those an outcry against others for acting authority of Parliament, must neeessa ri ' l o( themselves in that accusation. How fa r , di' tcpnholraeu‘i howivis)) itae)rilyieitlisiftaaeodlrtii judge. li e de:igir a reu r v. t sci e oi d i rs w g i oe t f h s raoarpeeteiro i i t n r o be ish th e `1 se the propriety of to agitate reductic)n, determined on by the late Goveru nle' y l acknowledged by Mr. llERnms l'i9eolf• Parliament. We therefore refer 00 , 1 o f l rary to the late Members of the 13 0 a il '.d for an , explanation of the disregard l'3lsteP " deep interest"—the " important ver,„ rest" of the Scotch kelp-manufa cture fef. late Government was satisfied that th e foc il , ' proprietors in question would not i c' fee ted at all by the further red neti° o l barilla duty, any more than they we re o a ll the former reduction of that duty fr ° ' to ss. per cwt., in consequence of d one soap-maker in Scotland substiteterd of barilla for that of kelp. The kelp Poe could not retain their market duri"geli tinuance of the late barilla do t t: lrsb t u l 3 ) ll ° rioi t c ° . c : equivalent to more then 1001. per oe'' the lorem, and for this reason—tha t the salt duty had caused the introub-rd,i factitious alkali produced by the tle c° lo of salt, called soude-factice, wh ich i p pletely undersold both kelp and bar ' to market. It is therefore a delusion t'vlf t li h h)re a ie t tp a nr i r i es y seb i l n yl j t ury has been done t° the reduction of the determination of its predecessors in ° A Alinistry like the present, P•110` l ies iu Purpo se opinio n probabil the rib; forth f r , the slan Week f o , appetite: m a/ be ci Ples u eschew 'and Self into port it tc The past derate. T salted cone iq awe ii lathe ni• l l ey . lio n d ay n h lyarter g h . ; tinUto o this e arli I co roue s w ues Wheat, R ny e Barley -.alt. 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