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London, England, 1820-02-23 00:00:00

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3t, and eras reread. The „Krgoalaster madrAl-
damn ordered instauCy an armed force, and with
• sledge hammer, in open day, and some labuisr,
broke open his door. An Offices and his servant
were then introduce.), and finally were lodged and
entertained at the inn, at Treppes' expense, as were
other Officers during the following drys. The
next day Trapper made his complaint before the
Jay &Instruction, which not being attended to,
after different delays daring three months, he ad-
dressed the Preetrrinr do Roi (the King's Atteoa
try.), wWo nit), if he was aggrieved, he should
b:i.;g his action against the Commissaire de
Police and assistants, who were the aggressors; he
did so, and after many other delays, owing to ill-
ness of the Coannissaire, who could not attend,
and other pretences, the cause came before the
Tribunal on the 10th of February. Thursday last.
A number of respectable witnesses attended to
prove the facts, which were notorious to all the
town, as the breaking the door took place in the
middle of the day, and before hundreds of spec.
tators, astonished to see the Civil Authorities, the
Commissaire de Police, and his assistants, armed
men, who are supposed to exist for the protection
of the inhabitants and preservation of order, en-
gaged in such acts of violence.
The Plaintiff's Counsel opened the ease, and
with much clearness and precision laid down the
law, and the steps prescribed to be taken. But
the President, and the two other Judges of the
Tribunal, without paying say attention, and hav-
ing heard the Procureur du Roi, who said there
was no cause of complaint, non-suited the Plain-
' tiff with toots, or rather dismissed the matter, and
would not listen to it. •

IS is unnecessaty to observe that the Burgomas-
ter and Aldermen did not cause these violent mea-
sures to be taken solely on their own authority,
however disposed they are to vei theii townsmen in
this as in other respects, and they would not have
ventured in so scandalous • =banner to Invade the
dwelling of a peaceable citizen, had they not been
encouraged by orders or letters from a higher
quarter, and which is sufficiently proved by the
winding up.
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Mr. T. brought his action against the Commis-
moire de Police ,and assistants on the 10th, before
the T,ibuual; the Burgomaster and Aldermen de-
clued he acted by their order', and as these orders
came from a higher source, the Minister or Gover-
nor who gave them, wishing to be quickly disem-
barrassed of all responsibility, and put an end to
the @Mir and prevent Mr. T.'s appealing to another
tribunal, obtained an order (we do not pretend to
say by what means) from the King, who, assuredly,
must be kept in ignorance of facts, ordering Trappe,
out of his dominions. The same Commissaire de
Police who broke Isis doors in September last came
into his house on Saturday morning, the 12th, trs
companied by an agent de police and two gene-
d'arnis. The agent reed from a paper in the Dutch
language, whic h T. dues not understand, but the
interpretation of which was the order above stilted.
A copy of this order was refused him, and from
the moment of their arrival until •the time of Isis
departure for the French frontiers, on Monday
morning, the letli, at sit o'clock, these soldiers,
or Bens-alarms. never quitted or lost sight of
him. The Governor of the province came to
town on Friday evening, and concerted measures
with the Burgomaster. the Commandant de Place,
&c. and placed guards around the house, and we
are assured, did riot leave Louvaiu on the 13th, till
he was satis.ed the Prisoner was in safety.

I leave you to your own reflections ou this zeal
and activity in a Governor; indeed the who!.
transaction offers a crowd of painful ideas ; we see
his Majesty's Ministers exercising with a high hand
arbitrary power. trampling under foot laws and jus-
tice, and sporting with the liberty of the subject.
To see a man thus LOTH from home, family, and
friends, fills the mind of every thinking man here
with indignation and alarm, and •hews but too
clearly that if any of them should have the misfor-
tune to diiplease only one of these Excellencies. he
is exposed to be treated the mate way without the
remotest hope of obtaining justice; for in Belgium
the Ministers are above the law. lied instead of go-
verning by it. it is governed by them. M. Del.
housigne, who wu so ill-treated on the lath Sep-
tember by the police soldiers, rod imprisoned with.
nut any form of law fur twenty-four hours at that
time. for. asking the Co►ttmisseire de Polite by
whose authority he acted, complained. and brought
an action. This *as rejected; they accused his of
beating five armed soldiers, and of having the ft.
testi= to lay hands on the Commissaire. and. on
the lath JlllllllfYi he was fodod guilty of rebellion.
fined gOO francs. and ordered to be imprisoned six
days, for having meddled with other people's af-
fairs, in asking the Commissaire why he broke
open his neighbour's door ! All these are facto; but
to give you an idea of the shameful conduct
of Judges, King's Attorney, &c. the partiality
and ignorance displayed is above the time 1
have, or the powers of ally pen. Delhoteugee, fear-
ing to go farther and fare worse. paid the Gut sad
suffered the imprisonment, l'reppes has left a
power of attorney, and appeels to another tribunal ;
but it is vain. GM family remains here for some
time.

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Lord GiUnits hos retried his imetessioris to
Windsor.—Sir Hannan TATLOIL. hie Secretary
to his Mills??, starts in his place.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, FRIRUARY 23, NO.

It is well understood that her Majesty th,.
Queen of GREAT BRITAIN will commute to re.
ceive until the meeting of the new Parliament, the
amount of pension granted during the life of th..
late KING to the Princess of lVaLks. It
however, suggested last night in the Iloit.r or
Commons by Mr. TI,RNIT, that as the piiisioo
was originally granted to the Princess of WA IAS
so *mine, and as the title of Princess of \V AI. Li
is for the present extinct, the pension cannot h.!
continued to any individual under that a..d
that if the Ministers of the Crown advance soy
money to the Princess of Wales, they will h..
guilty of a high misdemeanor. The
however, would encounter any danger from Par-
liament rather than by pronouncing the horrible
name or QUEEN, seem to give even an indirect
recognition of her MAJESTY'S constitutional riviiis„
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER in rtply.
ing that an individual's rights were not afreek,t
by a change of denomination. eitlwr did not
perceive the object of Mr. TIERNEY's uhros-
vatiou, or for an obvious purpose effa.:ted to
misunderstand it. Mr. TIERNEY assuredly bad
no desire to stop the pension of the Illuptrious
Exile, nor would he, from en untimely tilt...r-
ue:ice of a strict form, subject her MAJLSTY
to the extreme inconvenience in a foreign cows.

try of not receiving pecuniary supplies at the
regular periods. But so far es we could coiltct
his purpose, it was to compel the Ministers io
continuing to her MatesTY the amount of pelt.
lion granted to her as Princess of WA Les, to cause
the allowance to be made to her MAIM!' in her
proper style and title. The pertinscity of the
Serirants of the Crown in refusing to recopinie
6 terms her MAJRTIIT'S proper tide, is ex-
tremely suspicious; but until they shall have
sdceeeded in their probable intention of .in-
ducing Parliament to degrade her from a p.n.
ticipetioh of the throne of these realms, their
cooditct is both absurd end reprehensilile. What
would be thought of any man in the country, how-
ever elevated in rank, who should presume to speak,
of the Kitt* as " the person in question," the
illustrious person," or " the high gentleman," or,
disregarding the increased splendoUr of his rank, in-
solently address hiin by his former title of " Prince
of W•Les ?" And yet DO kW/ tinproptr is the
conduct of the Ministers in refusing to acknowledge
as Queen, the illustrious Princess who is now call-
ed by the spirit end terms of the constitution to
partake the throne of these realms.
A very curious reason was indeed lait night given
by Mr. LUSHINGTON, to explain the apparent un-
willingness of the King's Ministers to suffer the
allowance to her MAJESTY' to stand in her proper
name as Queen Consort. We think, however,
that in uttering it, the Hon. Secretary must have
been laughing in his bkm at the House of Com-
mons, for never did we hear any thing purporting
to bear the semblance of an argument ,o utterly
ludicrous. Should the allowinice now granted by
Parliament Le made to stand in the 'same of the
Quaint, it would forsooth require some alteration
to be made in the list of allowances ; and some
further chatiges might also be required, the which
would be attended with soma inconvenience I The
Princess of WaLes, therefore, must never, esen
at any future time, be regarded or addressed as
Quicxx, lest the alteration in her style and title
might possibly reuse some inconvenience to
_the
Gentlemen of the Trustily 1 Why did not this
sage temark occur to the Ministers before they
permitted his Royal Highness the Prince of WALL*
to assume the style and title of KING ? for un-
doubtedly if the argument (we beg pardon of our
readers for thus prostituting the word) be of any
avail iu the-csaa of the Princess of WALES, it most
have been quite irresistible when applied to the de-
signation of her illustrious Cost ort.

It will be seen by our Parliamentary Report,
that the provisional measures required to tin up
the interval between the demise of the late K►twt:
and the meeting of the tiew Pailiament are ra-
pidly advancing. The business before the House
of Commons will, it is understood, be completed
this evening, when the Route will, it is said, be
adjourned until Friday. In the mean time the
House of Lords will leave completed their part of
.the public duty, and on Friday the Royal attri.t
will be given by Commission to the provisions', 1;111..
Both Houses will them adjourn, urd in Saturday
night's Gazette will probably be inserted the Rise'.
proclamation dissolving the present, sod al the bailie
time yelling another Parliament.

We have received Paris Papers of Saturday last.
The Jorneed des Debate of that day, in a postscript
published as of tea o'clock at night, states, that
the Kris has dismissed M. the Comet Decants
from his elevated situation of President of the Coau•
ail sud Minister of the Interior. The &missal
of this distinguished Minister will most probably
be followed by the retreat of several other Members
of the (Abend, but it is suderstood as certain thug