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FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS. JANUARY 17.

The Voltaire, from Batavia, has a►rived in the
Texel, after a passage of one hundred days. It
arrives very seasonably to contradict the news of
its insurrection at SMIUIIIBIII6 which has been
circulated on the rrutlionty of the English Papers.
All the letters from Java, up to the Ist of Octo-
ber, 1818, agree in statiug that the colony en-
joyed the moot perfect tranquillity. Produce was
at a very high price, and there were more than
seventy vessels in the rondo of Batavia, a number
which proves the increasing activity of commerce.
The news received from the Ntoluyeas was so favour-
able, and good order mid tranquillity to well esta-
blished tit those islands, that the Commissaries.
General have resolved to recalGeneral tie Kock, that
he may resume hia military (auctions, and to nomi-
nate for Governor of the Moluccas, M. Tilenius
Kretitholt, now Governor of Macassar, where he is
succeeded by M. Servatius, ►esident at Cheribon.
A most friend! v 'titmice has lately been con-
cluded by M. A. Boeckholt, Cominiosioner of the
Netherlands, with the Sultan of ()maim's, on the
aot coast of Borneo, who has long desired it. This
alliance seems to have been promoted by the assist.
Slice afforded by Majo► Mooting against some
powerfit: neighbours, his tributaries, after a short
combat, in which only the surgeon, Mr. Virtruggen,
was wounded ; lie decided the affair its his favour.
The Sultan expressed his entire satisfaction to the
Major. and desired to testify his sincere gratitude
to the (;overmutent of &he Netherlands. Thin Prince
is a polished and well-ttifunitell man, who governs
with mildness. The shipwreck of his Majesty's
ship tintsterdam is a great loss to the 'lovers of no-
tonal history, as it had on board a vast number of
objects of natural history, collected with the greatest
care, as well at Java us at `t. sago and the Cape,
flimsy of which it will he difficult to replace.
Accounts from Batavia of the 26th September,
say—" In the course of the year MS, the troops
of the Nettle-am& were going to resume possession
of the se:lto-I:wilt of the Netherlands at Padang, on
the west coast of Sumatra, but difficulties were
made by the liriti•h Gove►nment at Bencooleo,
which obliged the troops to return to Jays. The
authority of the Netherlands has been recognized
for these two years past on the east coast of the Em-
pire of Palembang, opposite Bailed.

DUTCH MAILS.

RAARLTM. JANUARY 14.

We hare received (ruin Batavia, of the date of 44th of
August, the following:—" Most of the EuglishJournals whisks
we receive here are filled with such unfavourable accounts
rgo:pecting these Colonies, that persons whu are not in.
(painted with the partiality of these Jonrioals nosy feel great
alarm for our security, sod even for the longer continuance

of the authority of the Netherlands in India. At the same
time the Journals of the Nettie.lands observe profound
admire reapretin¢ this remote but interesting part of the
State, so that the iotorant may lie roof med in thrsegloonsy
thought,. According t , the Cogli►l Journals, the Gave►n-
meut of the Netherlands is hand by the 'seines*, and they
sooty wont fur a favourable opportunity to throw off the yoke
of oppress ; some even inert that the time newt far dis-
tant. I will adduce 'rime arguments which will deprive the
remarks made by the Er Journals of all appearance of
truth. The 11111 V, Iwo, ark,r the conquest.of Java, govern►d
the island for a considerable time. though not entirely dee.
Mute of knowlydi►, by no means possessed that immovable
will, founded on tiros principles, that clear.siglsterhicss,
whirls are indispensable in the head of en extensive admi-
biennials' of a tioverument, cud the matte to adopt them

to local eireomataneet ; bat ha "peseta Isrwant a Fla.
cleat firmness of character to rennin long true to the same
principles. Govern►d by the impulse of the moment, he
was at one time au advocate for freedom, and as another a

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promoter of monopoly. He set se extravagant 'sheens the
intnidnetion of a new and imprnved administration in the

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country confided to his care sod conquered by his n■iinu;

but &Wends and want of knowledge of gover 1111 l rot con-
stantly overthrew the good which national pride or personal
vanity night have effected. It deserves to be remarked,
that the gardens of the man who io his cabinet developed
the moat benevolent ideas of the •Irolitiou of vassalage, were
kept in order by tine hundred Javanese, whose abodes were
at a distance of thirty leagues, and who were compelled to
this work without remuneration—a proof how great edifier-
ence there is between theory and practice. He pretended
to have freed the inhabitants from oppression, and by an
entire want of contiol and superintendence, left them a
prey to the rapacity of their Chiefs, and the faithlessneas of
the officers. He
uniform influence. Unity could not exist in a Government
which consisted of heterogeneous parts. Nothing was more
general under his Government than disorder and blunders.
No great degree of penetration is required to convince our-
selves that under such • Government the abolition of
abuse*, and the introduction of freedom, existed only upon
purer; on our taking possession of three Colonies, ex-
perience confirmed this in its whole extent, and we soon
found nothitig but old and new absurdities cowered with
fine mid liberal names. The protection of the laws
was promised to all, and yet many latiguished in chains with-
out a judicial sentence. Freedom of commerce and cultism-
tints shone in • I the ordinances, but underhand orders re-
voked them, mad prescribed constraint sad monopoly. It is
difficult to imagine why, under 'web circumstances, theJa-
renew should have feared the return of the Government of
the Netherlands. But should some have looked forward with
uneasiness to the restoration of the Dutch Government, yet
all apprehension has certainly been removed by the pro-
mise of • mild government, most solemnly giveu by
the Commissioned General, in assuming the administra-
tion, and by the liberal principle' which have distin-
guished the acts of this Government from the beginning.
By wholesome regulations, the Javanese is protected as
far as possible from extortion; his productions (which
hitherto, by the illegal influence of his protectors, fell at a
low price into the hands of speculators) are sow paid for at
the market price, and are therefore, in comparison with what
lately took place, of fonr-fold value to him. Feudal services
are hindered as much as possible, and where local circum-
stances render them necessary, they have been very much
alleviated by increasing the rates of payment, which, in
moat case', are now more than doable what they were under
the British Government.
The unfortunate events in the Moluccas, have perhaps
lent to the English accounts an appearance of truth; but it
will not be difficult to clear up this matter. It must be
confessed that the system of Government originally intro-
duced into the Moluccas, was not built upon liberal prin-
ciples. Its object was to bring all the valuable productions
of the Archipelago, at very low prices, into the heads of the
Government. Now, the English having given more freedom
in their trade and agriculture to the inhabitants, they were
sorry to be left by • Government which was more favourable
to them than the preceding. But the Moluccas have been
twice under the British Goveromeat,willsout the smallest 111111 e•
linratiou of the lot of the inhabitants, and when the Nether-
lands Government lately resumed possession of these Colo-
nies, all the ordinances and regulations formerly introduced
by the Dutch Government still twinkled in full vigour. It
is not out of attachment to the English that the Amboynese
took up arms. The inhabitants of these islands have
always been adverse to the Government of the Europeans.
This dislike was a smouldering fire, which gave rise to insur-
rections u iider both the Netherlands and English Governments.
It is very natural that this hardly suppressed fire burst out
with double violence through the rash conduct of one
man, when but • small force could be sent at the begin-
ning to these islands. It may therefore be justly con-
cluded, that the odorous given by the English are in all re.
speck extravagant and exaggerated, and with reaped to the
Island of Java, Mir and all false. On the contrary, we may
justly flatter enameled with favourable prospects, sod firmly
' believe that the wise measures of the present Government
will give more and more grounds fur the attachment of the
Javanese to the Government, who miss no opportunity to
secure them the full value of their labour, and to protect
them in the enjoyment of their acknowledged rights."—
(Moar(em Courant, January 14.)

GERMAN PAPERS.

TRH NIPPER RUM), UNUARY 5.
The most important sews we have received is, that the
Court of Bavaria has resolved to accede formally and wit►-
out reserve to the Convention respecting the affairs of
Baden, agreed upon at Aix-la-Ckapelle. According to ac-
counts which have been received, it was the Emperor Alex-
ander, the defender of the integrity of the state of Baden,
who resolved to crown his work by removing every opposi-
tion to the points ■greed upon in this affair by the High
Allied Powers, and indneing Bavaria formally to approve
what had been arranged without its concurrence. This was
the more necessary, as by the Treaties concluded with the
Court of Austria, and partly with other Powers (in which it
is true Baden bail no part), Bavaria had indisputable claims
to the Palatinate of the !thine, and to the Circle of the
Marne and Tauber, which. claims might have been brought
upon any favourable opportupity that might in future occur.
In order, therefore, to wane Baden for the future also, Alex-
ander sent his Minister of State, Count Capo d'lstriajo Mu-
nich to obtain the accession of Maximilian Joseph to this Con-
vention. This accession met with the less difficulty on the
part of Bavaria, as the King had always declared that be had
no demands to make immediately upon Baden, but that he was
entitled to claim for the four great Powers a supplementary
indemnification, as was promised him by Treaty, for the ces-
sions which he was obliged to coat to Austria,and that it was
for the great Powers to determine in what this indemnity
should conrisa. Now as these Powers, upon the application
of Baden, and the earnest intervention of Alexander, bad
derided at Aix-la.Cliapelle that Baden had not to furnish
this indegnity to Bavaria, the latter Court acted quite con-
.sistently in declaring that it would make no difficulty in
adhering to this agreement, and in conipl)ing with t►e de-
sire of Count Capo .distria. This affair is therefore
settled. Baden has henceforth nothing to apprehend Irani
Bavaria. The latter has, by its accession to the arrange-
ment of Aix-la-Chapelle, recognised the rights of the Counts
of Hochberg to the accessaion, and has for ever renounced
its claim. to the Palatinate; the arrangements to be made
in the detached districts (Melons), which concern only
the Circle of the Marne and Tauber, wilt easily be made

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