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London, England, 1824-01-31 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

yesterday we received Brussels Papers to the 97th inst.
from which it appears that the Government of the Nether-
lands has rejected the proposal for es!ablishing limitations
on the exportation and importation of grain, and has de-
cided in favour of an entirely fr.-..c trade.
BarssrLs,
The official papers relative to the free trade in corn are now pub-
lished at the Hague, by his Majesty's orders.
The Committee appointed by his Majesty on the ith of 3lareli,
lam, after rejecting the plans laid before it, proposed as a salu-
tary measure, in the critical state of agriculture, to fix a maxim:in:
and minimum for the importation and exportation of grain. (This
proposal tin made by a majority of it to 5.)
In a Report to the King, M. Roell, Minister of State, the Pre.
sident of the Committee thought it his duty to support the opinion
of the minority ; he conceived that nothing eoukl be done with sue.
ass, and that, consequently, nothing ought to be done.
The opinion of M.. de Roell was afterwards adopted by the 311.
Mater of the Interior and of National Indnstr
The last paper is a Report, made to the by the Council of
State. After a mature examination, the Cootttil concludes by sny-
irg, that it cannot point any certain means of relieving the farm-
er. tad that the English Government has lately made, publicly,
the same avowal; it considers unrestricted freedom of the eons
trade as the only remedy for evils which it is net given to man to
cure radically. The Council therefore joins the above-mentioned
Ministers in respectfully soliciting his Majesty to stide by his re.
solution of preserving and securing this liberty to the nation, and
not to adopt the proposal of the Committee."
His Majesty acceded to this opinion. and after so rigorous en in.
vcstigation (the collection contains 307 pages and several tables),
we may believe that the affair is finally set at rest, and that there
is no Imam to fear (says the Ilague Gazette) any restriction in the
corn wade.

Attosnenn, Jas. 13.
Notwithstseding all that is published relative to the favourable
dispositions of the Porte towards the Christian Powers, we learn
from good authority that the commercial intercourse with the Rita.
aim ports in the Black Sea continues to be in a lamentable mate of
stagnation.
A letraw has been communicated to us. written ire
directly from
Perm by a person of some distinction. He expresses h as
follows :—"f he vessels coining front the Levant are s:ill subjected
to the most rigorona search. Those belonging to nations with
alibis the Porte is on the bcat terms, and whom governments hare
rendered it of late the most signal services, are no bette' treated
than the others, as soon as there destination is one of the Russian
port; in the Black Sea."
A separate negotiation has been carried on between Lord Strang.
ford and the Reis Effendi, relative to the expedition prepared in
the MetSserranean by the Erirlish, spinet the Regency of Tunis.
The Porte is said to have made ones of such a nature as to sum
rend all hostile plans against that State. It is known that Lord
Strangtord has sent despatches to the English Admiral, who's at
Malta. They will doubtless teach him in time, for he has sot
made any senous preparations to soil foe Tools.