The Sun. — London, England, 1832-07-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. There has been more than the usual stir amongst the Conservatives in the end of the last, and beginning of the present week, and high change was especially observable at the Carlton terrace " Caucus " yesterday. The cause of all this bustle has been a plan, for some time hatching, to get up a majority against Govern ment, on a •Motion relative to the Russian Dutch Loan on Thursday. Those two loyal and excellent Reformers, the Members for the City of Worcester, who have generally contrived to join in any scheme which could give embar rassment to a Government, to whom their con stituents, with the rest of the country, are in debted for the great measure of Reform, are said to have been taken into council on this, as on former occasions, and are equally disconcerted with their allies, at the signal failure with which they are happily threatened. The first proposal was to oppose directly the Bill of which Lord Althorp has given notice, for enabling the Crown to carry into effect the new Convention with Russia. In this opposition it was expected the economists would join, from a hope of saving the amount of the engagement, and the Irish from dissatisfaction with the tithe measures of Mr. Stanley. An active canvass was begun for other recruits not over-well affected to the Government on other subjects than Reform, and much was expected from the candid hint thrown out by Mr. Baring in the last debate, that Gentlemen will have to account to their constituents on the hustings for throwing away five. millions of the public money. Every thing being arranged and in order, Mr. Robinson gave notice of a call of the House, when it. was unfortunately discovered, that al though Sir Joseph Surface had no objection to any scheme for the annoyance of Government or to any motion of censure for their conduct in the negotiation, neither he nor the Duke of Wellington could oppose a Bill to ra tify an engagement, to which, under any, circumstances, they conceived the country was in honour bound, and without the ful filment of which they saw no prospect of being able to appease the Court of Russia, if they should be called upon to resume the admi nistration of our _affairs—an expectation which has not _ceased to live in the hopes of these sa pient personages ! The Irish Members, also, were ascertained to be obstinately honest---to be determined to side cvith a liberal Government, notwithstanding all their grievances, and to pre fer Lord Grey to the Duke of Wellington, not withstanding their complaints against the Irish Secretary. What was to be done in this dilemma? Was the scheme to be abandoned, after the Tory forces had been mustered from every quarter of the country for this last and desperate effort ? Were Mr. Robinson and Colonel Davies to be disappointed of the honours to be reaped from their share of the anticipated victory ? This would have been " too had." Some motion of censure has, therefore, been contrived by the " Caucus," and is to be produced on Thursday—with certainly but slen der prospects of success, seeing that the econo mists would gain nothing by discrediting the Government for no object, that the Irish Mem bers will be all at their posts to support Minis ters, and that there are few Members so ca pricious, or so regardless of the general desire of the country for the maintenance of the present Administration, as to be ambitious of distinction in the same ranks with the Members for Wor cester. We shall wait till we hear the debate, before entering upon the merits of the question; hut we trust that Members will be at their posts, although not in the spirit in which they have been summoned by the call of the House. It must always be recollected, that this engagement is one of the wretched legacies bequeathed to the present Government by its predecessors; and that although, in the first instance, it may have been a profligate waste of public money, a question of peace or war may depend, in some measure, on the honourable fulfilment of an in discreet and inexpedient contract. The whole amount of the engagement is 21 millions of florins, or about 1,800,000/.,—a sum which has often been wasted in one fortnight of a war ex penditure.—Morning Chronicle. If the letter from the Hague to Paris, on which we commented in yesterday's Times, afford but an indifferent basis for any favouaable result to the protocol negotiations respecting Belgium, we do not think the case much mended by the project of a treaty which accompanied the last answer of the Court of Holland to the Powers in Conference, and which bears date the 30th ult., the aforesaid letter fiom the Hague being dated on the 22d. The official commu nication differs from the unavowed one in sub stituting the name of Belgium for that of France as future possessor of those portions of the Low Countries which the House of Nassau expresser a willingness to surrender. But it annuls, as completely as does the letter, the previous con ditions of the protocols, by flatly rejecting all that had been decided in Conference with regard to the navigation of the Dutch waters, to the destination of Luxemburg, and to the appor tionment of the debt. The King of Holland cannot be acquitted of something worse than dexterity in thus throwing out at the same time, provocations to the Conference as a body, and lures to one of its most powerful and am bitious members. What does he mean by this overture in the nature of a bribe to France, which has been already noticed, if not to embroil that country with England, and thus to strike with palsy the whole popular and liberal interest throughout Europe ? What, again, does he propose by the audacious tone and character of the counter project annexed to the note of June 30, but to cast another firebrand into the circle of the Conference, to furnish the secret friends of his stubborn pretensions, and the enemies of Belgic freedom and stability, with fresh materials of controversy, and arguments for delay ? We must, therefore, make bold to inform the Con <T b res. and more distinctly the Foreign Minister of England, that 18 months of protocols, and two or three dozen of ultimatums, are not to be thus mischievously flung into the fire ; that if an English Government can afford to be ridi culous, the British nation can not ; that, more over, when England pledges herself to the world, and procures the obligation of other Powers, to insist conjointly on the execution of certain political arrangements, which they . for mally explain and ratify, as being essential to the peace of Europe, it is an outrage upon the dignity of this great people, and a disgraceful overthrow of all public ho nour, to tolerate such a system of shuffling aid chicanery as has been practised in more than one quarter against the avowed policy of the whole of Euroke, will the British Govern ment a i m airiallt.--,Every man who speaks upon e t 31 1 ois silent ?)—pro -- nou has been carried to an usi t ,--brta „ievb 7- at these mystifica pst_ c... ; .-- • xr• 4,02' tions ought to be put an end to without losing another hour, and that each actor on the scene ought to be fairly unmasked, as a step towards awarding him the fitting remuneration for his services. Let the thing, then, be finished, we pray Lord Palmerston, and those diplomatic personages who have so long kept his Lordship in play. Distrust and gloom have been every where fostered by the apparent hollowness of their official proceedings. A long state of sus pense between peace and war is utter ruin to commerce and useful industry. All minds be come unsettled when the policy of nations is un fixed ; and when the danger of collisions is mani fest, while the precise direction of them is un certain. Therefore, again we say, close your conferences, and either say that you have been playing at " protocolling," or that you have at last resolved to execute those compacts which have been formally and deliberately discussed and settled.— Times. The number of legal candidates who are pre senting themselves to the electors of the new arid popular districts in the approaching new Parlia ment is a subject not unworthy of consideration. There is one principle which must, we should imagine, press itself upon the mind of every man —which is, that, if a reformed Parliament is to set about a reform of our institutions, none stands more in need of a thorough renovation than that of the law, in all its branches, while none has received at the hands of lawyers more of mock reform. We have Commissions and promi , es without number, every one of the former of which has skimmed lightly over the surface, leaving those two most striking evils— delay and expense—untouched. Even Sir Robert Peel, who has been only the mouth-piece of his professional employees, has promised more, and accomplished less; than any man who ever undertook the repair and improvement of dilapidated objects. Now we doubt exceed ingly whether sending too many lawyers to Parliament is the way to bring about this object. To say nothing of ,their proverbial tendency to look after themselves, and to frame their Parlia mentary votes to meet their own views and in terests, it may at any rate be fairly questioned, judging from past experience, whether they are not much more likely to obstruct than facilitate any measure which may be proposed to render less profitable, and therefore less oppressive, their own gainful traffic. The two last Sessions of Parliament have, with very little exception, shown us what sort of reformers lawyers are ; and those who have so nobly fought for and achieved the triumph of reform will stultify themselves most egregiously if they should now throw themselves and their interests into the keeping of a class of men, who, with a few illustrious exceptions, like 'the image-makers of old, stick most zealously to abuses which bring no small gain to the craft. The candidates whom the people should look out for and encourage are men of business, men of the world, persons who have astake in the country suf ficient to insure their own fidelity, and who value existing institutions not by the standard of self interest, but according to the quantum of good which they produce to the whole community. Had this standard been applied to the contents of schedule A, how many ages ago must their rottenness have doomed them to the extinction which has at length happily overtaken them ! Morning Herald. Having frequently, during several years past, taken occasion to argue in favour of the abolition of the law of imprisonment for debt—having rated our objections to the existing law, as be ing cruel, absurd, and impolitic—it gave us great satisfaction to find that the report of the Law Commissioners embraced a view of the sub ject, which, for the most part, coincided with our own, and was sustained by similar argu ments, recommending as we had done, the abo lition of arrest for debt upon mesne process, and, if practicable, upon execution also. In the sentiments and recommendation of the report the Lord Chancellor stated his perfect concur rence, and that a Bill would be brought in for the purpose of carrying the suggestions of the Law Commissioners into effect ; but as yet no thing has been done in furtherance of that inten tion. Mr. Hume deserved great credit for the zealous and able exertions which he made on former occasions to procure the extinction of the cruel and mischievous law, which props a ruinous system of fictitious credit—punishes upon exparte evidence—treats the innocent debtor as a criminal—and fills the prisons, which should should be used only for the coercion of crime, with the children of misfortune and the victims of revenge. Our attention has been called to this subject at the present moment by receiving a copy of a petition to Parliament, signed by up. wards of four hundred prisoners for debt in the Debtors' Prison for London and Middlesex— Whitecross-street, in the city of London. The petition has been forwarded to us for publication, but we think it sufficient to notice it in the present way, as it only repeats the arguments which we have so often urged against the absurd, oppressive, and demoralising law of imprison ment for debt. The present Session of Parlia ment has drawn to near a close to afford the least hope that any thing can now be done to carry into effect the recommendation of the Law Com missioners before the assembling of the Reform , Pailiament ; but most cordially do we support the prayer of the petitioners that the law which condemns so many thousands to languish in the abodes of misery, idleness, and crime, to the injury of health and morals, and blasting of their prospects, and the ruin of their families, may be brought under the consideration of the Le gislature, with a view to its abolition, at the earliest possible opportunity.— Morning Herald. The clamour raised against Mr. Stanley's Bill is senseless if its alleged grounds are con sidered with reference to the provisions of that measure, and the circumstances in which it is proposed. But if it be intended merely to let Ministers know what is really thought of them by the parties of whose support they have hitherto been chiefly ambitious, the pretences for this clamour convey an insult, a well merited insult, which, if Ministers had the ordi nary feelings of human nature, would make them wish that they could hide themselves in the centre of the earth or at the bottom of the sea. The subject-matter upon which Ministers pro posed to legislate is, according to the liberal and Popish friends of these same Ministers, already extinct. The lawless conspiracy which Ministers connived at and patronized has fully accomplished its purpose. The property of the Church in Ireland exists no longer. The robbery is complete and unredeemable. What Ministers have now to do is, not to protect existingrights, but to re-creat e r i g ht s o f w hich the y have permitted the destruction. This is the position of affairs which Ministers are insult ingly told by their friends that they have assisted to produce with respect to tithes. And if, with respect to tithe, lawless conspiracy and Minis , terial connivance have done this, why do not the friends of Nlinisters also tell them what is the I situation to which they have reduced every other description of property ? Is this example iof successful conspiracy to be barren ? Cannot the power which has been permitted to annihi late tithe be brought to operate upon rent, and funds, and taxes ? What is it in effect that these friends of Ministers tell them but that they have made property of every kind deFendent upon the forbearance of conspirators, and the firmness a►►d integrity of the Ministers of the day ? The various classes of persons who oppose Mr. Stanley's Bill may be thus enumerated :—The Papists, who are actuated by hatred to the Pro testant Church and clergy ; the Jacobin party, who rejoice in every triumph of every conspiracy against government and law ; the levellers, who desire nothing so much as a general subversion of property, and who view in the success of the Irish tithe conspiracy the first fruits of a much more comprehensive harvest ; and lastly, a por tion of the more needy and unprincipled owners of the soil of Ireland, who are so shortsighted as to derive a dishonest gratification at the prospect of the increased rents which, so long as rents are permitted to survive, they know the cessation of t►thes will enable them to extort. These are the respectable classes whom Government must over power if it sincerely intend to accomplish the tardy and imperfect act of justice and policy . which Mr. Stanley's Bill professes to have in view. The general alliance of all these classes with the existing Administration, and its manifest inability to maintain itself in power without their continued support, would be sufficient, without any more direct evidence, to justify the apprehen sion that this salutary measure will be abandoned, white we confess we expect such direct evidence on the subject to transpire within the present week as will convince the most incredulous that the measure was not introduced for the purpose of being carried, but for another and far differ. ent purpose ; that the object of his Majesty's Ministers wap not, by means of this Bill, to dis solve but to renovate and strengthen their alli ance with the various parties whose resistance to any measure of conservative policy they migh hate confidently anticipated. Ministers find that with such allies it is judicious on their part to provide from time to time something to give up in order to guard against the mischance of being deserted in their utmost need. They will be at their utmost need on Thursday next, when the House of Commons is to be called on to decide whether they will tax the people of Eng land to the extent of five million of money in order to enable his Majesty's Ministers to carry into effect a Treaty by which they have agreed to bribe the Emperor of Russia not to obstruct the objects of the Citizen King of the French in Belgium, a Treaty which has no imaginable tendency to promote any Bri tish interest, unless the annexation of Belgium to France, or the confirmation of the absolute power of Russia in Poland, or the humiliation and enfeeblement of the House of Orange, be deemed in our new system of foreign policy a British interest. It is already foreseen that many of the Popish Allies of his Majesty's Ministers, will be deterred from executing their threat of deserting them upon this perilous occasion in consideration of having the property of the Church in Ireland abandoned to their mercy. The ne gotiation, we understand, is at this moment in a very advanced state, and will no doubt be com pleted, unless one of the two parties should be come apprehensive that public inspection is somewhat too vigilantly directed towards their proceedings.—Morning Post. BELGIUM AND HOLLAND. NOTE SENT TO THE CONFERENCE BY THE DUTCH PLENIPOTENTIARY. TO THEIR EXCELLENCIES THE PENIPOTENTIARIES OF AUSTRIA, FRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN, PRUSSIA, AND RUSSIA. London, June 30,1832. By a note of the 11th of this month, emanating from their Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries of Aus tria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, as sembled in Conference in London, the Plenipoten tiaries of his Majesty the King of the Low Coun tries had the honour to receive a project of a direct treaty between Belgium and Holland. They also found a demand made to know from them if, on the supposition that Belgium should accept this direct treaty,that said treaty, and the treaty to be concluded between Holland the Five Powers, would receive the assent of his Majesty the King of the Low Countries. The said note and the annexes having been trans mitted to the Government of the Low Countries, the undersigned Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of the Low Countries has been charged to lay what follows before the Conference. These projects carry with them the recognition of the twenty-four-articles to which the Government of the Low Countries has declared it cannot concede. In effect, in Article 2 of the project of the Treaty between the five Courts and the Low Countries it is found that the twenty-four Articles are invoked with the extraordinary Articles, as necessarily forming► the conditions of separation, and as having the same force and value as if they formed an integral part of a Treaty between Holland and the five Powers; and, according to the same Article, they are to be transformed immediately into a Treaty between Holland and Belgium. The three explanatory Articles are not of a nature to remove the difficulties which arise respecting the signature of the said twenty-four Articles. The first, notwithstanding the six weeks granted for the exchange of the ratifications, orders the re spective evacuation of the territories for the 20th of July; an evacuation which cannot be consented to so long as an understanding is not formed as to the conditions of separation. According to the 2d explanatory Article, Com missioners were to assemble at Antwerp to negotiate by mutual arrangement on the Articles 9 and 12, the execution of which is to be suspended until the definitive conclusion of the said negotiations. The execution of those articles suppose their existence real, and their simple suspension renders always their execution possible at a late period. Besides, the treaty with the Five Powers and that with Belgium will lose all their force if objects such as those contained in Articles 9 and 12, in which ge neral principles and not particular dispositions are treated, were postponed to ulterior negotiations which may be difficult to terminate. To open those negotiations in Belgium would be also to wound anew the dignity of the Netherlandish Government. This article terminates by the stipulation that the free navigation of the navigable rivers which traverse or separate the Belgian and Dutch territories shall be subject to the same rates of passage-money as now exist. The stipulation can have no result for the Low Countries, as the King has formed the re solution of continuing an impassable spectator of the navigation of the Scheldt, as there did not re main to him, since January, 1831, but the choice of preventing the navigation by arms, or of con senting thereto; by which resolution no dues are consequently received on the Scheldt. The 3d article bears relation to the capitalization, and not to the liquidation, of the debt. The post ponement of these subjects to a future and unfixed negotiation is not admissable, since the admission of such entreaty would have for effect to assure im mediately to Belgium the enjoyment of the advan tages promised to it, while no guarantee would be given to the Netherlands for the conditions in which they are concerned. In a verbal note of the 11th of June the Conk once makes mention of its note of the 14th of Ja nuary, 1832, in which a decision was pronounced on several points of the treaty of the 24 articles. The Conference adds, that if doubts should arise on the sense or execution of this treaty, the decla ration contained in the memorial of the 4th of Jan., 1832, were to be regarded as the opinion of the Five Courts on the reciprocal engagements resulting from this treaty. The opinion expressed by the Conference in this verbal note does not seem sufficient to tranquillize the Netherlands as to the execution in the sense of the Articles, on the subject of which the note of the Ist of June, 1832, had pronounced itself favour able—that is, on the Articles 7,8, 10, 17, 23, and 24, independent of the amelioration of Article 9, and the abandonment of the servitude in Limburg, imposed by articles 10 and 12. The following ob servations are submitted to the Conference on those points:— The treaty is to be finally executed by the Netherlands and Belgium, and this latter country has never given in its adhesion to the memorial of the Conference of the 4th of January; it is clear that it will not then consider itself bound by that act. The Conference having of its own accord offered modifications to Articles 7,8, 10, 17, 23, and 24, and the Cabinet of the Hague having accepted them by its note of the 30th of January, this treaty establishes between the Cabinet of the Hague and the representatives of the Five Powers an obligation which necessarily ought to receive a legal fixity, in conformity with the diplomatic forms in usage. If the reciprocal obligations that result from the modi fied articles do not obtain this legal force, they would become, in their application, an inexhaustible source of discord. The Cabinet of the Hague would be obliged in all cases of difference to address itself to the Five Powers, for the purpose of obtaining the ap plication of the modifications, which, not being comprised in the articles, might give ground for opposite sentiments between the Five Courts. Finally, the opinion of the Conference expressed on the 4rh of January, 1832, on the subject of the 24th Article, and according to which it did not seem toll - link about interfering its good offices, in order to prolong from fourteen days to a month the reciprocal evacution after the exchange of the rati fications, is in direct opposition with the first modi- Aed Article, which appoints a determined day. Independent of the remarks made by the Court of the Hague, or the twenty-four Articles, the epochs fixed in the 14th Article are no longer in accord with the payments which are to take place, since the Low Countries have not only effected the payment of the half-year, due on the Ist of Jan. last, but besides procured the funds necessary for the payment of the dividends of the half-year ending on the Ist of July current. From these motives the a nswer cannot be other wise tnan negative to the question of supposing Belgium shall have given its assent to the project of an arrangement between the two aforesaid coun tries; in such case this project and that of an arrangement between the Five Powers and the King, would obtain the approbation of his INlajesty. But at the same time the Court of the Hague has endeavoured to find appropriate means in the actual state of the requisitions to satisfy the dissident par ties on the points of difference. The Court of the Hague believes that it has suc ceeded therein, by the annexed project of a treaty between the King and the Five Courts, tending to regulate the separation of Belgium from Holland, and containing the treaty to be formed between Holland and Belgium, a project which the under signed is charged to offer to the Conference, and which he has the honour of doing in the sub joined note. The Plenipotentiaries of the Five Powers as sembled in Conference in London will find therein a new proof of the desire of the Government of the Low Countries to put an end to the existing diffi culties, of which an example would be in vain sought after in the annals of diplomacy, and without abandon ing itself to the chances of posterior negotiations. The undersigned hope that their Excellencies will fully appreciate the pacific sentiments which this project will give rise to, and will deign to honour him with a favourable answer in as short a delay as their Conferences will allow. He is also charged to state that these new sacri fices for the preservation of peace, made by the King are too hard not to be the last ; and at the same time he is charged to add, in the most formal manner, that if the Five Powers shall not succeed in coming to a full understanding among them selves on the contents of this project, it is to be considered as null and of no avail; that the King reserves to himself most expressly the right of maintaining by all the means which Divine Pro vidence has placed within his power the conditions of the annex A of the 12th Protocol, without ac knowledging either the political independence of Belgium or Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, as long as he shall not have received acceptable conditions ; that the King rejects the responsibility of the diffi culties which may arise, and to which the Conference has made allusion, and which his Majesty shall not have provoked ; and that he will never neglect his honour nor the supreme law of nations, that sacred and imprescriptible law from which no State has ever deviated with impunity, and which leaves to every Government of a free people its own will as the last arbitrator of its rights. The underigned seizes the opportunity of, &c. (Signed) 11. Van ZUYLEN Van NYEVELT. PROJECT OF LAW. BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE NETHER. LANDS ON ONE PART, AND THE COURTS OF AUS TRIA, OF FRANCE, OF ENGLAND, OF PRUSSIA, AND OF RUSSIA, ON THE OTHER. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands having invited the Courts of Austria, of France, of Great Britain, of Prussia, and of Russia, in their quality of parties to the treaties of Vienna and Paris, which have established the kingdom of the Netherlands, to deliberate of common accord with his Majesty on the best means of putting an end to the troubles which have broken out in his kingdom, and the above-named Courts having assented to this invitation, their Plenipotentiaries assembled in conference at Lon don, having with the Plenipotentiary of his Majesty taken into consideration the above-named circum stances, admitted the necessity of reverting to the conditions of the Union of Belgium with Holland, such as these conditions were established by the Treaty of Vienna of the 31st of March, 1815, and the Act annexed to it of the 21st of July, 1814, and the necessity of arranging the conditions of the separation of these two countries. For this purpose their Majesties have named as their Plenipotentiaries, to wit, his Majesty the King of the Belgians, on the one part, Sieur N.; and on the other part— His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, Sieur N. &c. &c.; who, having exchanged their powers, found to be in due form, have agreed to the follow ing Articles Art. 1. His Majesty the King of the Nether lands is ready, and engages himself to cause to be concluded, and to sign by his Plenipotentiary, the treaty mentioned in the following articles, when it shall be signed by the Representatives of the Five Powers. Art. 2. The Five Powers declare that the treaty mentioned in the preceding articles, which has been matured in the Conference, which their Representa tives constitute at London, contains the dispositiona which they desired to see carried into effect for the re-establishment of good understanding and of peace between the five parties interested, and for the main tenance of the peace of Europe, which treaty, guaran teed by the said Courts, is of the following tenour TREATY BETWEEN BELGIUM AND HOLLAND. Article 1. The Belgic territory shall consist of the provinces of Brabant south of Liege, of Namur, Hainanit, Flanders west and east of Antwerp, Lim burg, such as they belonged to the kingdom of the Netherlands, established in 1815, with the excep don of the districts of Limburg, designated in ar ticle 0. The Belgian territory shall comprise further the part of the territory of the Grand Duchv designated in Article , upon condition of obtaining the con sent of which it makes mention. 2. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, consents, in considera tion of the approbation of the male issue of the House of Nassau, and of the Germanic Confedera tion, that the frontiers which shall separate the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg from the territory shall be traced as follows :—To commence from the French frontiers between Rodauge, which will remain with the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, and Athus, which will belong to Belgium, there will be, according to the annexed map, a line drawn, which, leaving the road of Arlong to Linguy, the town of Arlong, with its territory, and the road of Arlong to Bastogne to Belgium, between Me sauez, which will remain to Belgium, and Cle mency, which remain to the Grand Duchy, will pass by Steenfurt, which will likewise re main to the Grand Duchy. From Steenfurt this line will be prolonged in the direction of Eisohen, Heebus, Guirsch, Oberpalen, Grend, Nothom, Pa ret, and Perle, as far as Martelange, Heebus, Guirsch, Grend, Nothom, and Parer, will belong to Bel gium ; and Eischen, Oherpalen, Perle, and Marte lange, to the Grand Duchy ; from Martelange this line will follow the course of the Sure, the towing path of which will serve as a boundary between the two States, as far as opposite to Tintage, from whence the line will be prolonged in the most direct manner possible to the actual limits of the arron dissements of Diekirch, and all parts between Sur let, Harlange, Jescamps, which it will leave to the Grand Duchy, and Houville, Livarchamp, and Lou termange, which will remain to Belgium. Hence, in the environs of Doncols and Zoule, which will remain to the Grand Duchy, touching at the actual frontier of the arrondissement of Diekirch, the line will follow it as far as the Prussian territory. All the territory, all the towns and places situate on the west of this line, will belong to Belgium, and all the territory, towns, and places on the last, will con tinue to belong to the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. It is understood that the Commissioners for fixing the boundaries alluded to in Art. 4, in drawing the line, arid conforming themselves as much as possible to the places above mentioned, and also to the marks in the chart subjoined to the present Article, will pay attention to the local situation and to the conveni ence of both parties. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg, will make the necessary efforts to obtain the consent above mentioned. Art. 3. With a view to the execution of that part of Art. 1 which regards the provinces of Limburg, the territories, of which the boundaries are pointed out below, shall continue to form part of the king dom of the Netherlands. Ist. On the right bank of the Meuse to the Dutch detached pieces of territory on the said bank in Lim burg shall be added the districts of the same pro vinces on the same bank which in 1790 belonged to the States General, so that that part of the present provinces of Limburg which is situate on the right bank of the Meuse, and is comprised between that river on the west, the frontiers of Prussia on the east, the present boundary of the province of Liege on the south side, and Dutch Guelderland on the north, shall henceforth belong to the kingdom of the Net herlands, 2d. On the left bank of the Meuse, a line, com mencing at the most sout h ern po i nt o f t h e Dutch provinces of North Brabant, shall be drawn accord ing to the annexed chart, which from below Was sem shall enter that place and Stevenswardt, and then touch upon the Meuse at the point where on its left bank the boundaries of the present districts of Ruremonde and Maestricht join, so that Bege rotte, Hambroy, Neer-Heren, Hervoort, and Thorn, with their territory, as well as all the other places to the north of that line, shall form part of the Dutch territory. The former butch detached pieces of territory in the province of Limburg, on the left bank of the Meuse, shall belong to Belgium, with the excep tion of the city of Maestricht, which with a suitable circle of territory of at least 1,200 brasses diameter, reckoning from the out glacis of the fortress on the said bank, shall continue to belong, in full sovereignty and property to his Majesty the King of the Ne therlands. The circle thus spoken of shall more over be further regulated by the Commissioners of boundaries mentioned in the following article : Art. 4. In consequence of the above arrangements respecting territory, each of the two parties cedes respectively and for ever all right over all the terri tories, towns, places, and cities situate within the boundaries of the possession of the other party. The said boundaries shall be marked out by Dutch and Belgian Commissioners, who shall as semble at Maestricht. Art. 5. Holland will regulate in the most conve nient manner the evacuation of the waters of Flan ders. It consents even with a view to this object to use being made of its territory. The sluices which shall be established for that purpose on the Dutch territory shall be subject to its authority. None can be constructed on its territory which may be injurious to its defence. Within a month after the exchange of the ratification there shall be ap pointed on both sides Commissaries for deciding on the most suitable places for the establishment of the said sluices. They will understand with respect to those which are to be subjected to the common au thority. Art. 7. The arrangement from article 103 to 117 inclusive of the treaty of Vienna shall be applicable to the waters and navigable rivers, which, where they flow, separate the Dutch and Belgian terri tory. The Dutch Government undertakes to esta blish duties and pilotage on the Scheldt, at a mode rate rate, and to take care of the preservation of the embouchere of that river into the sea. These duties shall be the same both for Belgian and Dutch com merce. The said Government will adopt provisionally for the Scheldt the Tariffs of the Convention ar. ranged for the free navigation of the Rhine, signed March 31, 1830, at Mayense, and also the other ar rangements of that Convention, so far as they are applicable to the Scheldt. But with regard to the assimilation of the navigation of the Scheldt to that of the Rhine, it will be necessary, in order to render it definitive, to have a special Convention. _ _ Art. 8. The use of the canals which traverse both countries shall continue to be free to the inhabitants of both. It is understood that this shall be upon the same conditions, and that both parties can only establish moderate duties upon these canals. Art. 9. Paragraph 1. Reckoning from the Ist of July, 1832, Belgium, on the division of the public debt of the kingdom of the Netherlands, shall re main charged with a annual rente of 8,400,000 florins of the Netherlands. Within fifteen days after the ratification of the present treaty the Bel gian and Dutch Commissioners shall open at Utrecht negotiations for capitalizing that rente. If, within two months, these Commissioners cannot agree upon the capitalization, and if thus the rente remains fixed at 8,400,000 florins, the reliquats which, in conse quence of paragraph 5 below, te olgi n n make eosyasf shalltee liNational result nhe aaebslnr ea di nddr o o eea bgw n ts tuu, ,ino b ilara o rrni t olity h dt..f, sides, shall be considered as compensated, and the compensation shall no longer be accounted for. In that case the capital of the said rente shall be trans ferred to the debit of the great book at Amsterdam, or from the debit of the general chest of the king dow of the Netherlands to the debit of the great book of Belgium. ftraictstedor B44 P :3 ; oh r: oi l : r o a r Paragraph 2. represents, f h s h e tahl s le a bmereenicntasesc,erai andbn t ed h_ d e theoisaidnns tidh_ ce s ear u ped m dietbaa o lists f of the great book of Belgium, between part t o h f a t t ha partthat e o n which may be contracted. Paragraph 3. The payment of the said sum of v fl he o r4 r florins of f o ny f et a ha n re t l y m p a aa l ytm r e e L n a r t t e u without any deduction. s a % v t made'e n Pro u P aoal Paragra p h rBo e ai ren te, of its capitalization, Belgium shall be Belgiumfu Na tionalt formingtlrede anya et partnd a gi n ffa d egreo a egfn n y enteheevb other eertßw i entirely discharged from the chief portion of the pub lic debt of the kingdom of the Net herlanns. Paragraph 5. The Commissioners mentioned pa tagraph I shall proceed to the liquidation of the funds of the Sinking Fund, and of the bank of Brussels, in its character of Cashier-General of the State. Paragraph 6. The division of the obligations, called domain les reinten, shall take place in propor tion to the property mortgaged, according as it may be in the one or the other territory, so that these domains may be represented by their sale price, not yet fixed, or they may still remain under mortgage. Paragraph 7. The Belgian and Dutch Commis sioners, in the event of the capitalization not taking place, shall occupy themselves, besides the said liquidation, with the transport of capital and rentes %vhich are to be placed to the charge of Belgium, to the amount of 8,400,000 florins, as already stated. They shall proceed to the mutual surrender of archives, charts, plans, and other documents, which belong respectively to both parties, or have relation to their Government. Art. 10. Holland having alone made all the ad vances for the service of the whole public debt of the kingdom of the Netherlands, reckoning from the last half year of 1830, it is understood that a portion of these advances calculated on the basis of the annual sum of 8,400,000 florins shall be reim bursed, with the amount of the general capitalization of this recite of 8,400,000 florins,if that capitalization takes place, or shall be paid separately by the Bel. gian Treasury to the Dutch Treasury, by instal ments of 4,200,000 florins; in the latter case the first instalment shall be paid three months after the ratifications of the present treaty, and others every three months. Upon all these different sums there shall be be sides paid to Holland an interest of five per cent. from the Ist of January, 1832, until their full re imbursement. Art. 11. The port of Antwerp shall continue to be exclusively a commercial port, conformably to the Treaties of Paris and Vienna of 1814 and 1815. Art. 12. The works of general or local utility, such as canals, roads, &c., which have been con structed in whole or in part, at the expense of the kingdom of the Netherlands, shall remain with their charges and advantages to the territoiy in which they are situate. It is understood that the capitals which have been borrowed for these constructions, or which are speci. ally appointed, shall be comprised in the above.men tioned charges, in so far as th e y no t y et b een reim bursed ; or that such reimbursements, if they have taken place, may become the object of compensation. Art. 13. The sequestration which for political causes has been placed in Belgium upon any domains or patrimonial property shall be taken off without delay, and the lawful propritor shall be immediately restored to the possession of the said property and domains. The present articles is applicable to the property possessed by the House of Nassau in Bel gium. The stock of the King of the Netherlands in the bulk of Brussels, and his Majesty's annual re venue derived from that bank, shall be delivered up to the order of his Majesty, to be enjoyed according to the terms of the statutes of the bank. Art. 14. The inhabitants and proprietors in the two countries, the separation of which takes place in consequence of the present articles, shall be allowed, if they wish to remove their domicile from one to the other, liberty during two years to dispose of their property, movable or immovable, as it suits them, and t , ) carry with them the value either in money or otherwise, without being obliged to pay any other duties than those now established in the two countries on the entrance or transit of goods. It is understood that for the present and in future the droits d'aubaine shall be reciprocally abandoned between Holland and Belgium. Art. 15. There shall be no distinction between Dutch and Belgian subjects as to the right of pos sessing property in Holland and Belgium. (The articles from 16 to 19 only relate to the reciprocal rights of the inhabitants of Holland and Belgium, as to their respective property; the obli vion of all political acts relating to the late events, the respective preservation of the Belgian and Dutch subjects of pensions and claims on the treasury, the funds of widows and orphans, depots and consig nations, &c. Art. 20. Immediately after the exchange of the ratification of the present treaty, the necessary order shall be given respectively to the military com manders of the two armies for the evacuation of towns, fortresses, and places, of which the domina tion is changed. The civil authorities shall also receive orders to surrender the towns, fortresses, and places to the Commissioners respectively appointed to take possession. This evacuation and surrender shall take place in a month, or sooner if possible. At t. 21. The ratification of the present treaty shall be exchanged at London in six weeks, or sooner if possible. On the signature and ratification of the present treaty, and that mentioned in Art. 2, taking place, the wiion which existed between Belgium and Hol land, by virtue of the treaty of Vienna of the 3d of May, 1815, is declared dissolved. The ratification of the present treaty shall be ex changed at London in six weeks, or sooner, if possible. SINGULAR AFFAIR.—A few days ago a young woman named MARY ARMSTRONG, of Cockermouth, dress-maker, made the following singular statement before use Magistrates of that town, which she averse to be true, but refu•es to swear or sign. She stated that having agreed to be married to a min of the name of Joni.; MARTIN, of Hatton, in Embleton, they left that place together on horseback, about one o'clock on Thursday morning, the 25th June, at the request of MARTIN, for the purpose of going to Bassenthwaite, where an uncle of his resided, and with whom it was intended she should remain until the Saturday, the day fixed for their marriage.—On reach ing the centre of Ouze bridge, MARTIN pretended the girth of the saddle was broken, and that it was necessary to dis mount in order to adjust it; but atter a few moments spent in a pretended adjustment of the saddle, he seized the girl by her legs, and instantly hurled her over the bridge into the water. The man then instantly remounted the horse, and galloped off on his return. The height down which the girl was precipitated is not less than 20 feet ; and the water being rather high, she was carried some distance down the river. She remained about five minutes in the water, when she succeeded in reach ing the bank. What adds to the atrocity of the affair, is the fact of the young woman having been at the time pregnant by the man. This is the st atement made by the girl, to which, however, she will not swear, although she believes the man intended to drown her. MARTIN'S friends have endeavoured. to get the aff air hushed up by joining the parties in mar riage; and, w hat rend e rs rite thing still more extraordinary, t h e girl is herself so little loath, that the b ans were act ually published in Cockermouth Church, on Su nday . last ! M ARTIN has how.. ever since been twice exam ined before the Magistrates; woman co wi ll committed the House of ot gnher previous Cor rectiondecla- ration, until Mo nd ay n ext, when they w ill aga i n b e brought up.— Carlisle Journal. but a s the bo t h y young have been BIRTHS. On the sth inst. at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, the lady of Sir George Crewe, Bart., of a son. On the Bth lust. at Pimlico Lodge, Mrs. John Lettsom Elliot, of a son. On the Bth inst. in South Audley.street, the lady of Edward M. Foxhall, Esq., of a daughter, still-born. On the 6th inst. at Tranby Park, the lady of John Todd, Esq., of a daughter. HeOnnrythsetitt, hEsti. inst. oaf a at Hollowell, Northamptonshire, the lady of RIED. On the 9th i ns t . at St. MAR Giles's, Reading, the Rev. Charles Mackenzie, M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford, to Henrietta. youngest daughter of Henry Simonds, of Reading, Esq. On the 7th inst. at Abergavenny, Frederick Tanner, Esq. of C olleton.crescent, Exeter, to Anna Maria, youngest daughter of to O m n rs th w e 9 i t n li so ii n is , t. b a o t t t o . f G t i h le e s Were Herbert Smith, Esq. of the former place. place.slinCeaberwell, Mr. Joseph Strutt, DIED. On the 9th inst. at Guildhall, London, Timothy Tyrrell, Esq., emembrancer of the city of London, in his 78th year. On the 6th inst. at Ivey, Bucks, John Copeland, Esq. aged 79. On the Ist inst. at Northampton, Miss Katherine Hankey. On the 7th inst. at Hanwell, the lady of Alexander Young Spearman, Esq., of a son. P R INTED AND PUBLISHED EY M U RDO YOUNG, AT T ag SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.