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THE LONDON PRESS. THE DUTCH WAR. . - We have good grounds for believing that the King is as strongly opposed to the atrocious Dutch war as any of his Majesty's subjects. We know indeed, the impudent story that is repeated in the ministerial circles for the purpose of raising an opposite opinion; --we,_ as well as others, have heard th e au d ac i ous t a l e , t h at Lord Grey holds the King's- written assent to the occupation of Antwerp k a French garrison. We utterly disbelieve the story ; we cannot believe that any administration, even Lord Grey's, would dare the second employment of such a trap to entangle the sovereign. We know that King William the Fourth is too wise a man to allow such an inversion of the order of the constitution as this, `which would seem to make hith the servant of his ser vants,---the responsible King of an irresponsible alai nistration,—groUping the King and his advisers as the heedless spendthrift surrounded by sharpers, ever on the watch to catchlim putting his name to some improvi dent arrangement or ruinous speculation. No, it is im possible that Lord Grey can have dared to extort, or even to accept any such written assent as that which it is said he holds. The story, extravagant and incredible as it is, affords, however, a valuable confirmation of what has transpired through some respectable channels as to the nature of the King's sentiments and opinions tipon the subject of the abominable outrage offered to the King of the Netherlands. His Majesty, whose feelings are "right English all," hates the war for its rank injustice,. and, as a prudent prince, views its present impolicy with dissatisfaction, and its ulterior tendency with alarm. If the King be not a hYpocrite, which nobody has ever yet called him, foully as he has been slandered by Queen Caroline's advocates of the bar and the press,—if the King be not a hypocrite, this is his Majesty's view of the Dutch war; and the story of the written assent has been trumped up, merely to-meet the effect which Would naturally be produced amongst the people, by a knowledge that their Sovereign sympathizes in the common indignation against this war. The device, indeed, betrays itself. If the King were not reluctant, why bind his Majesty by a written engagement ? If a kno w l e d ge o f th e King's . re luctance had not got abroad, why make the confession, that so unconstitutional and dangerous a proceeding as this tying of the King's hands a second time had been resorted to ? There is no other answer to these ques tions than that.which we have suggested. The people, then, being assured that their sovereign heartily concurs in their disapprobation of Lord Grey's war "for the dig nity and interests of France," have a new motive for ex pressing, strongly and _promptly, their abh orre nce of th e iniquitous outrage. The feeling of dutifUl affection, which irresistibly impels all loyal and good, men to rally round a legitimate and patriotic prince, now summons the people of-England to give full scope to the expression id those sentiments, which they hold in common with William the Fourth. Loyalty comes in aid of prudence, patriotism, the sense Of honour, and the suggestions (if conscience to command a loud denunciation of the wicked foreign policy of ministers. Standard. TEMPLE V. PALMERSTON. The folly and the wickedness of our present expedition against Holland, and its cause, the ignorance and vanity of Lord Palmerston cannot be more strikingly pourtrayed than in the following extracts from the works of his illus trious kinsman, Sir William Temple. A few more such ' contrasts as we find between Sir William and Lord Pal merston, or the Lord Chancellor and Mr. Wm. Brougham, would utterly subvert our belief that there is such a thing as hereditary talent : " It may be laid down fora maxim," says Sir William, "that no wise state will ever begin a war, unless it be upon designs of conquest or necessity of defence, for all other wars ser ve on ly t o exhaust forces and tr easure , an d end in untoward peace. "One may judge, that if France will begin a war, it would be naturally upon Flanders, unless discouraged by the same al liances which prevailed with them to end the'last. So, the plain present interest of Prance is one way or other to break the con fidence or the force of that triple alliance which alone seems to bound their prospect which way soever they look. "Our interest, abroad, must lie inone of these points ; either to preserve our present alliances, and th er eby th e peace o f Christendom, as it now stands, or to encourage France to an invasion of Holland, with an assurance of our neutrality; or else to join with France, upon the advantages they can offer us, for the ruin of the Dutch. . This was in 1671. Sir William anxiously endeavoured to point out the danger and the infaMy of the latter alter natives. But the Lords Grey and Palmerston of that day prevailed in the council. An alliance was formed with France. A war was undertaken against Holland. Of that war Sir William observes, in 1673 : "The nations have been at war without being angry, and the quarrel had been thought on both sides rather of the ministers than the people. In England, some laid it to the corruption of ministers by the money of France, but some that pretend e d t o think deeper, laid it to deeper designs. The Lord Clifford's (not Palmerston's) violence in beginning it gave it an ill air in general, and the disuse of parliaments, a cruel maim." Before we proceed, ,we cannot but observe, that this " disuse of parliaments," of which ,Sir William Temple complains, is the only precedent for above a century and a half, till the present time, of engaging the country in a war, and yet not summoning parliament to meet and decide upon it ! Sir William goes on— "The subsidies from France bore no'proportion to the charge of our fleets, and our btrength at sea seemed rather lessened than increased by the conjunction of their's. Our seamen ' fought without heart, and were more afraid of their friends than their enemies, and our discontents were so great at land, that * * * §. Here we stop. We shall only add, that Temple him self was despatched to . the Hague, and had the h o n our . o f closing this anti-national war. Littte did he think that another Temple would be the man to resume it !—Guar dian and Public Ledger. . THE CRUSADE OF THE 10TH CENTURY. It is a problem in human nature, that there are men who, ,unless. in violent action, or.stimulated by pain, are in a state of nothingness. A fierce taste of existence, whether of pleasure or its contrary, is necessary to them, • and they are never so much in their element 'as when hitting out right and left, or being hit in their turn. Peace and quiet are to their unhappy constitution but a - state of living death. We have just seen this appetite for cracked. crowns and bloody noses draw a crowd of ' French and English to Portugal, to bear a hand in a paltry squabble, that has been so long pending, and with such miserably indecisive success, that most people have . ceased to care which side wins, or how the contest may eventually terminate. Or if any rational person goes so far as to have a wish on the subject, what would recom pense - him for periling his own particular person in a service where the cannon-ball deals out, indeed, an effi cient, but so shabby a death ? Honourable matter for an epitaph it must be, truly, to have died in vindicating the ' cause of a mincing dandy against an acknowledged scamp, and to have found both (as some report) never a barrel the better herring. Is it in a fit of enthusiasm for the abstract idea of legi timate succession that a man is led to sacrifice his own particular bowels upon its altar ? Or is it not, that pricked on by poverty, idleness, or restless ambition, the volun teer' cares little on which side he fights so long as his pay • and his prospects are satisfactory. In this case the chi • ;mirk spirit of the modern crusader is very considerably lowered: Evpn the virtue Of courage can scarcely be al -1 lowed, when there is either ignorance of, or insensibility to, danger ; for true courage consists in.a full knoWledge of the extremity of the evil incurred, and boldly facing it. There are times when it is necessary to hug death, let it come in what shape it may, and when it becomes the condition of a gentleman's existence that he must tweak the nose of an insulter. But for fighting without just cause of quarrel, we hid it to be a less respectable eMployment than shoemaking. What is any indifferent Englishmen or Don Pedro to him ? Where is their bond of sympathy ? If the Portuguese will not eject their own tyrant (which, if they were unanimous, they are so well able to do,) it may be inferred, that he is les§ obnoxious than has been reported. When conclusions are about to be tried in which huthan life is at stake, there should, at least, be a noble cause. The struggle of the Poles against Russia, or resistance to th e oppression and arbitrary-dic tates of the allied p o w ers , would have justified the- active exertions of any honourable man. But when there are neither complaints nor Suffering, the case is widely diffe rent. We know we shall be answered, that the game of liberty is playing in Portugal, and that swords are being fleshed there Which - may be wielded to good purpose in other fields. But the experience 'is hardly worth its cost ; and a righteous war has always, at least, the satisfaCrion of bringing honourable scars. Let us not be understood to impugn the motives of every individUal who has thought fit to join this expedition ; there may have been inducements too exalted for our comprehension. Our view is a general.one, and the result of it is certainly not a feeling of profound ,admiration.—. Atlas. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. MOB • LEGISLATION. What, again, shall we say to the workers of iniquity on the opposite side of the question ? The report of the ' Key-and-Pearson meeting (at the London Tavern) on Wednesday last, states, that Mr. Wakley insisted on th e reduction of £2Q,000,000 of taxes as a measure at once necessary and practiCable ! The interest of the public debt is £23,000,000, so that without robbing the public creditor (though such an act might be venial enough with some people) the country would have minus £2,000,000 to support navy, army, and all its civil func tionaries ! God preserve us from radical arithmetic ! Mr. Hume might have taught the gentleman better. A blessed set of Lycurguses and Solons, of legislators, financiers. and statesmen, they must have been who sum moned a meeting of all London and Westminster fir the .sake of spouting forth, or listening to, such tremendous rubbish,—of fixing beforehand, and binding candidates irrevocably to the support of what may almost be termed a code of laws dictated by these same nose leaders of the rabble, and voted by their supreme and unerring wisdom to be applicable to the affairs of England at all times, and under all circumstances, foreign and domestic, of peace and war, of famine and abundance, of prosperous andadverse fortune. We reallv cannot, upon looking at the proceedings of the London Tavern, and at those who 'appear to have got up and managed them,—we cannot stifle our contempt for the political meanness of the can didates and Members Who so forgot the respect due to themselves and their avowed pretensions as to obey the summons and attend the meeting. If weakness will thus pander to impudence,—if want of dignity will thus bow before want of principle, no wonder things are come to such a pass, or that the mob assume to be the masters. The coucoctors of the above meeting had as much busi ness to call before them the whole body of gentlemen who stood for Middlesex, London, Westminster, South wark, and the new districts, and lecture them, and exact pledges from them, as they would have had to command the meeting of the Parliament itself to Guildhall:and there issue mandates to their legislative slaves, as Napo leon used to those automata whom he nicknamed -" the Chambers" of his iron empire. The thing is not to be borne,—the demagO,o - ue-and-Movement-monarchy must be grappled with and f l ung down. Let the real friends of liberty show a little of that firm spirit which liberty Only can give, and these wretched anarchists, who understand liberty as much as they do algebra, will soon slink into that obscurity from which they never venture to emerge, except when a false alarm, raised by themselves, has cleared the field for their operations.— Times. THE ,MAGAZINES. ENGLAND'S PROSPECTS. The years of prosperity 'will not endure for ever to England, any more than to any earthly thing. The evil days will come when the grandeur of an old and vene rated name will sink amidst the storms of adversity; when her vast and unwieldy empire will be dismembered, and province after province fall away from her mighty dominions. When these days come, then will she feel what it was to have betrayed and insulted her allies in the plenitude of her power. When Ireland rises in open rebellion against her dominion; when the West Indies are lost, and with them the right arm of her naval strength ; when the armies of the continent crowd the coasts of Flanders, and the navies of Europe are assembled in the Scheldt, to humble the mistress of the waves, then will she feel how deeply, how irreparably, her character has suffered from the infatuation of the last two years. In vain will she call on her once faithful friends in Holland and Portugal to uphold the cause of freedom; in vain will she appeal to the world against the violence with which she is menaced; her desertion of her allies in the hour of their adversity, her atrocious alliance with re volutionary violence will rise up in judgment against her. When called on for aid, they will answer, did you aid us in the day of trial ? when reminded of the alliance of 150 years, they will point to the partition of 1832. England may expiate by suffering the disgrace of her present defection; efface it from the minds of men she never will. The conservative administrations of England have had many eulogists, but they have had none who have established 'their reputation so effectually as their successors : Mr. Pitt's glory might have been doubtful in the eyes of posterity, had he not been succeeded by Lord Grey. The contrast between the firmness, integrity, and good faith of the one, and the vacillation, defection, and weakness of the other. will leave an impression on the minds of men which will never be effaced. The mag nitude of the perils from which we were saved by the first, have been proved by the dangers we have incurred under the second ; the lustre of the intrepidity of the for mer, by the disgrace and humiliation of the latt,er k To the bright evening of England's glory has succeeded the darkness of revolutionary night ; may it be as brief as it has been gloomy, and be followed by the rise of the same luminary in a brighter morning, gilded by colours of un decaying beauty !—Blackwood'e Magazine, WHAT ENGLAND OUGHT TO DO! England, shaking from her foreign chains and depend ence, would take her place amidst the nations. With the balance of power in her right hand, she would sit in proud majesty the supreme dictator, courted and bowed, to by all; restraining the strong and protecting the feeble, site would dispense justice,'- rig t ht, s , se b c u t t i security, and wo would lae tranquillity her to Europe. She would do this, whig ministry. England would close the dreadful vol cano which France constitutes in the centre of Europe. By 'moral power alone she would. lay the godless.:demo crats in fetters,, put ascendancy into the hands Of the in telligent, upright part of the population, and give to France free institutions, beneficial to herself and not hos tile to her neighbours. Bridling 'alike in every nation the partisans of ar'oitrary power, and those of democracy, she would make the desire for Change take for its object the mixed form of government:, and give to this object a prevailing party. Friendly alone to a just distribution of privilege and power to every class, and the mainten ance of the necessary relations between subject and ruler, she would create the harmony and security essential for rendering change a source of good. Thus, she would give real freedom, prosperity, and happiness to Europe. She would do this, but she would lose her whig ministry. England, in ..,criving substantial liberty to other n a ti ons, would give them religion and morals. She would smite the enemy of God as well as of man ; instead of using the least of the ruler's duties as a means for causing him to violate the greatest, she would bind him to the faith ful discharge of the whole circle ; instead of rendering the lowest of human necessities an engine for aggravat inc, the highest, she would choose each to mitigate the ()tiler, and make institutions provide duly for all. Basing earthly authority on that of heaven, she would fix li berty on the only foundations which could give it perpe tuity, and make it the parent of happiness. She w o uld do this, but she would lose her whig ministry. England would bring all Europe to her aid, in banishing her own divisions and distractions, crushing her traitors, defend ing her throne and altar, and preserving her invaluable institutions and vast dominions.. She would do this, but she would lose her whig mi n i s t r y. E ng l an d would not only preserve her trade, but possess means for giving it incalculable extension. Living in amity with the na tions on which her foreign trade mainly depends, and which, from diffeience of production, could give it the greatest increase ; acting .a s th e i r ally, protector, and leading source of trade and riches, she would be enabled, both by influence and such coercive measures as peace sanctions, to cause them to free it f ro m o b s t ac l e , an d yield it ie essentials for growth. She would do this, but she would lose her vvhig ministry. England would obtain a government duly in harmony with her intelli gence, wisdom, and virtue, her laws and institutions,—a government, free alike from the chains of foreign demo crats and domestic traitors, the iron yoke of other nations, and the rebellious portion of herself—restrained from establishing itself on the guilty doctrines and desires of faction, and bound to study her true interests. from the least to the greatest. She would relieve her institutions from their destructive derangement, and give to each its due motion and fruit. She would gain a crown capable of yielding every thing required by her g..od, but effec tually limited from tyranny,—an aristocracy, powerful and magnificent, as the balance to adorn and serve her, but disabled for bringing evil on either her or the demo cracy, a democracy enjoying liberty, right, privilege, and power in all their fulness, for rendering itself prosperous and happy; but balanced, and bound from injuring it se lf or her ; and a church, filling her with scriptural truth and virtue, but incapacitated for doing other than promote her weal. She would give to the most beautiful and finished system of government the sun ever shone on, or erring mortality ever witnessed, the connexion of parts, harmony of movements, and comprehensive potency of operation, which always are wanting to make it produce every thing that can satisfy human needs, or may be en joyed by human felicity. She would' do this, but she would lose her whig, ministry.—Frazer's Magazine. ron.EIGN* XLITELLEGENCE, FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAy, Nov. 27.—The committees appointed by the Legislative Chambers for the purpose of framing the ad dresses in answer to the speeches from the throne are to make their reports to day in both Chambers. It is generally be lieved that the address will be voted without discussion in the Chamber of Peers; but in the other Chamber a long and very animated debate is expected to take place, which will probably be protracted till the end of the week. There seems to be every disposition, however, among a majority of the deputies not to suffer any amendment to be introduced into the ad dress expressive of sentiments of any decided hostility to the present Ministers. M. Guizot, on whose oratorical powers great reliance had been placed for this first trial of strength of the new Ministry, will probably not be able to take a part in the debates. He remains confined to his room by a severe cold.—Nothing very positive is yet known regarding the at tempt lately made on the life of the King. A great number of persons have been arrested, but, after undergoing several in terrogatories, have been set at liberty again; for wa n t o f evi dence as to any participation on their part. The guilty person still remains unknown. Mademoiselle Boury has borne a con spicuous part in this extraordinary occurrence. It is a positive fact that she had addressed a petition to the King a few days before the firing of the pistol, praying his Majesty to advance her a sum of 40,000 francs, that she might set up an inn at Calais! This lady seemed at first to be the only, or at least the most material, witness of the attempt. Her testimony, however, appears to be no longer valued; but after the noise she has made, she naturally became a "personage" fit for the gaping, badauds of the French capital to gaze upon. One of the fashionable limonadiers has therefore offered to advance her the sum she requires, on th ondition of her presiding at his coinptoir for the next three Maths. The profit he calculates in making by the crowds she is likely to att rac t t o hi s s h op w ill most likely pay an interest equal to the amount of capital the lady requires. It is not said whether the bargain has been yet closed.—Nothing particular has occurred at the Bourse to-day, and the transactions in the funds have been quite unimportant. The debates in the Chambers on the address, and the ap proaching, hostilities at Antwerp, were the chief subjects of conversation, but they (lid not lead to any fluctuations in the prices of the funds. The 5 per cents. opened at 96f.. Sc., and closed at 96f. 15c.; and the 3 per cents. opened at 67f. 40c., and closed at 67f. 50c. PORTUGAL. The Lisbon Gazette, from Nov. 3 to 9, inclusive, contains no accounts, official or private, of military operations. Long lists of patriotic gifts for the use of the army are inserted.—The Go vernment continued to receive from all parts of the kingdom official accounts of the perfect tranquillity that every where pre vails, and that the happy anniversary of the 26th of last month was everywhere celebrated with the greatest rejoicings and en thusiasm.—From the accounts of the journey of his Majesty and the Infantas, it appears that, on the 31st of October, they left Couto de Cucujaes, where they had passed the night, anil arrived on the Ist instant at Braga, where they still remained on the 4th.—On the 2d his Majesty had given the beijamano to above 100,000 persons. The enthusiasm of the inhabitants of that city is not to be described. Every day 7,000 or 8,000 per sons collected before the palace, testifying their loyalty by cries of "Long live the King!" who frequently came to the window to thank them.—The loan of 2,000 contos of reis, opened by the decree of the 13th of November, 1830, and prolonged by those of the 15th of January and 27th of August last year, not having been yet wholly paid, the time for making the payment is pro longed for two months more from the date of the publication of the decree in the Gazette.—London Gazette, Nov. 9. The London Merchant, after waiting two days, with the Mar quis of Patmella and suite on board, for smoother water on the bar, and having Government despatches of great importance on board, besides the Marquis's anxiety to get to England, finding that no pilot would venture to sea, Captain Belcher, of his Ma jesty's ship Etna, was kind enough to offer Captain Penlerrick the assistance of his second lieutenant, who has lately been em ployed sounding on the bar; so that on Thursday morning, the 22(1 instant, at '2 a.m., the London Merchant left Oporto, and with some difficulty got to sea, there being a tremendous surf upon the bar. Having despatches on board for her Most Faith ful Majesty's squadron, the London Merchant went in and brought up in Vigo-bay at seven o'clock the same evening. Nextmorning, at daylight, (23d,) the Briton frigate and her Most Faithful Majesty's frigate Reinha de Portugal left the roads and proceeded to sea, the former in search of the Raven cutter, with despatches for Admiral Parker, and the latter for Oporto, leaving the Donna Maria and Portuense refitting at Vigo, and the Don Pedro (late the Marquis of Wellington) at anchor under the Bayonne islands, under orders for Oporto. At 4 p.m. same day, the steamer left Vigo for England, and ar rived at Blackwall this (29th) day, at 2 p.m., where she landed the Marquis and suite in good health, after experiencing nothing but gales of wind from the time they left 9orto. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY EV ENING , Nov. 28.—Don Pedro really seems to be in a difficult situation. The Swallow cutter, Adams, master, has just returned from the entrance of Oporto, which she left on the 19th, haying been unable to manage an entrance into the Douro. On the 18th, when she arrived there, she understood the Raven English m an- o f-war cutt er i n t en d e d to go over the bar with communications to our ships lying in the river; she, therefore, with the Osprey, intended to take the same opportunity, and get in if possible. The Osprey was `r= 3r £ ~~' • loaded with shot, shell, and ammuniti on , an d t h e Swallow hi about 80 men on board ; however, as soon as the three Vefr o f got within range of Miguel's battery, at the south entrance t the river, it opened a lire on them, and with very good air e d tion. About 21 shots were fired, when the three craft tors tail, and stood out in the offing again, and had no commine; o tion with Oporto.—Certain it is, the sortie we h ave h e at° a much of on the I7th, could not have been very successful( else the battery which prevented the entrance of these wed would have been destroyed. The Miguelites had possession the country between Oporto and the spot where Don Pedro(); ginallv landed, and therefore these reinforcements could not landed there, the shore being swept by two strong batteries, a constant look out'kept up. The Swallow was obliged to turn for fear of a want of water and provisions, and, thereto , of the real state of affairs inside the Douro, we are as m uch , the dark as ever. There arc several versions in circulation respecting the Pi o sumed object of the second return of the Marquis Palmate' e i England ; but, from what we have heard from well-infor°• sources, we are inclined to believe that hi s p r i nc i pa l motiVef!, again to urge the British Government to t a k e some s t e p in - a your of the cause of Don Pedro, in consequence of the increne r 4 audacity of Don Miguel against the property and security 1 British subjects.—lt seems that anoth er sor ti e is t o b e m ade t is said with 6,0 W men, against Villa N ova , if p oss ibl e , to ( I ' s : lodge the enemy from that annoying position. At a ll evell' the retention of Oporto for a month or tw o d oes no t even de pend on the closing of the Douro, the l a t e sor ti e h av i ng led to the capture of a large supply of provisions, besides the opportu nities it afforded for extensive purchases of cattle from the Pea santry.—Globe of Thursday Evening. _ _ Don Pedro's situation becomes daily more and more einbar; rassed. He has been shut up, on the land s id e , ever since t, reached Portugal; he is now enclosed by sea a l so . Th e blocs'' ade which was announced some, time ago is strictly enforced, and even a British vessel of war, attempt ing , a f ew d a ys aP to cross the bar, was fired at, and forced to come to an a nchara No merchant vessel can go in. The bl oc k a d e i s no t en force d on vessels going out. A sortie of 1500 men, under the cola' mand of Colonel Schwalbach, took place on the 11th. succeeded in levelling the walls of some batteries that if; enemy were engaged in erecting, and in destroying some if by which their advanced picqu e t s were s h e lt ere d . This inigl feat was accomplished by a loss of 136 men, killed, wound, and missing. 'there was a mutiny on the 16th among to English; 200 of whom marched up to the palace, with 14 ,..,11 bayonets fixed, to demand the arrears due to them, and iw„ clothing and bedding. They were appeased for the time v ' t Sir John Doyle. Sartorius, it is reported, means, if he carl% readity get the detachments' that are expected from Engla', l introdmed into Oporto, to carry them south and laud them i n the A:garves, where the people are well disposed towards De Pedro, and where Miguel has not more th an 600 troops . It pretty plain that something must be done, from w ithin o r without, to draw off the besieging army, or the cause of Pedr must speedily perish.—Marquis Palmella has again visite d England, with a view to move Ministers, if he can, by a tru e statement of the position of the two parties.—Spectator. P mix smouTti,_ Nov. 29.—The Royal Adelaide transPl which attempted to take out 40 horses for Don Pedro, Oporto, returned this morning with the loss of nearly or qUi half of the m , not having been able to ge t i n t o O por t o , in cal; sequence of the fire of the battery Miguel has erected on I '7 point at the south entrance of the river. The Adelaide a'' rived off the port on the 15th, and left it on the 22nd, duris' the whole of which time sh e h a d no commun i cat i on w ith , we city or any of Don Pedro's officers; she attempted to enter 1, .. e river on the 19th, with the R aven man-of-war cutter, and 01 1 cutters laden with stores and recruits for Don Pedro, but well-directed shot from Don Miguel's battery, and a t the saa' e time a cross-fire from a battery on the north po i n t , w hi c h th` v c :a could not tell whether it belonged to Pedr o or Mi gue l, warn •r them all to return, and no other opportunity o ff ere d for the'l• going; in. Nothing was seen of Sartorius' s squa d ron , or se ° the English squadron. The Adelaide heard fro m a Portultl i e , o pilot, whom they were obliged to run away with, th a t reu:i had made a sortie on the 17th, which was crowned with hg.; liant success ; but, brilliant as it may be, it had n o t o pened entrance of the Douro, or raised its blockade five days afte wards, —in fact, he must be in a bad plight. —Ti m es orre sponcnt. BELGIUM. The Morning Herald of Thursday , last, published a Fourth Edition with the following important information : Brussels, Tuesday Evening, Nov. 27 ° RESIGNATION OF ALL THE BELGIAN MINISTERS. The ministers have been beaten. The fourth and fifth r j , graphs were carried in favour of m i n i sters ' amen d me nt L, majority of two only. There we re e i g hty- s i x mem b e rs pr- -- .„„ Deduct from this number th ree vo t es f rom th e m i n i s t e rs Lilo': selves, and they are left in a minority of one. This maruin l s at the opening of the Ch am b ers , M. L e b eau informed House that the members, in consequence of the vote of yest e ,, day, had come to the resolution of tendering their resignatienbi. We are now without a ministry, and some difficulty found to form any other tha n a C a th o li c one . I prepared .Y ° ll, for this at the very commence men t o f the L e b eau a dministran? s and foretold their downfall. It is true the original address 4 not been carried, but it is a matter of great doubt whether. if ;, 4 French will feel them s el v e s j us tifi e d i n commencing hostipti. o until they have some further guarantee that the Belgiansl e , evacuate the territories belonging t o H o ll an d, as so on as uj... are put in possession of the cit a d e l. Th e w h o l e o f th e rezaal - , ing paragraphs ha v i ng b een di scusse d t hi s day, t h e ad was carried by a majority o f s i x , an d a deputation aP.teit to present to his Majesty. Leopold will be placed in adi to position—and he must s t ra i n very h ar d to b e pleased wit A " the o loyal address from his Chamber of Repre sen t a ti ve s, ar' expression of confidence in his ministers. O ur a ff a i rs are bold becoming more enlarged than ever, and it must be a y e a set of men will undertake to steer the crazy vessel. ye . now see the satisfaction of the Belgians, at the friendly I n e ad sion of their Gallic friends and the popularity of Leopol d ion his Minister, for having petitioned the French to take posses of that country, and putting into the back ground the Belgi; army. I think you will give me some credit for knowing ab i t .. state of this country, and the political bearings of its inh ants. Up to twelve o'clock this day all was quiet at Antwerp? the French were unloading ; th e B e l g i ans erec ti n g c annons ? 2 ,.1. the quay, and the Dutch cutti ng dyk es . Th e g reater p art_ Midellebourg is now under water. One f a rm e r alone has for,LY. acres inundated.—l have heard from good authority that he Prussian government will not enter B e l g iu m so long as operations of the French are confined to the citadel of An werp; but that orders have been given to the different veers,. to cross the frontiers the insta n t the French make any attentY4 on Holland. lIOLLAND. SECOND CHAMBER. OF THE STATES-GENERAL. -I. THE HAGUE, Nov. 24.—A Royal message, with a projec tt. law for calling out the landsturm, was read as follows: a t "On the opening of your session in 1830, we announced is' the service of the landsturm was prepared. "The ardour with which our invitation to voluntary arw . V., was answered, and the patriotic feelings manifested as wel l the first ban of the schuttery as by the land and naval f ° 1 , have, however ? enabled us to defer making use of this ad tional force till the moment when greater dangers sh ° threaten our native Div land. " vine Providence has been pleased to suffer this nn°° eat to come. orts "Our merchantmen are placed under embargo in the P o f of France and England, and captured at sea by the flee t .n those Powers, which are cruising on our coasts. A s" - c i t - French army has entered with the avowed intention of atta a ing the citadel of Antwerp. This army will therefore be fin ed postiion near to our territory, which has long been threaten by " the arme o Old force of elgium. T o h f e c sequence Holland, B owfh who, in these sare latter uncertain; tim es, haveb;ath sons tl .toi. proved themselves to be worthy of their ancestors, oug ht to be prepared for all possible consequences, and had a rie,, o al demand that every thing should be done that the eat" institutions prescribe for the defence of the country. l e d "Our decrees of the 17th Nov. and of this day have prel i bo a for this case. Their object is to call out the 2nd and 3rd _ ri o at of the schuttery, and the arming of the nation. They ow the landsturm. "We confide in your pa, you to the protection of God. " The Hague, Nov. 23." ,atriotic co-operation, and recomuliAmerici "WILLIA PROJECT OF LAW. E Of tln "We, William, &c, k ---Considering that the appearan c e f , English and French liket on our coasts, and the entrance t he French army into Belgium, make it necessary to call oe ' landsturm for the , defence of our territory. )4: 11 ; "That according t o article 79 of the law of the 11 th ~. 0 1827, the further measures relative to this call are to b e ` 4 " in " By cnc with the States-G Councilthe of State, and with the I . n een currece of the States-General, we have ordained— rto " The landsturm is composed of, all men able to bear a the who are not already in person in the army or ea v Y' to gto national militia, the schuttery, or any corps o f vol -u te a the formed with our approbation, and who have comp le te age of 19 years, and are under 50 years of age.