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Novemifir 16, 1818, they have invited the Ambassador of
his Majesty the King of the Netherlands to join in
their deliberations.
" 2. To accomplish these resolutions to stop the effu-
sion of blood, they Are of opinion that there must be an
entire cessation of hostilities on both sides.

" The conditions of t) is armistice, which would pre-
judge nothing relative to tbe questions, the solution of
which the great Courts will hare to facilitate, wont! be
as follows ;--

" Hostilities on both sides shall entirely cease.
" The respective troops will have to retire reciprocally
behind the line which previously to the treaty of the 30th
May, 11114, separated the possessions of the Prince So-
vereign of the United Provinces from those which were
added to his territory to form the kingdotn of the Nether-
lands, by the said Treaty of Paris and Vienna of 1815.
" The respective troops shall evacuate the places and
the territory which they occupy beyond the said line, in
the term of ten days.
" This armistice shall be proposed to his Majesty the
King of the Netherlands, through his Ambassador present
at the deliberations.

" The terms of this armistice shall be communicated in
Belgium in the name of the Five Courts
(Signed) " ESTERH A Z Y.
" TALLEYRAND.
" ABERDEEN.
" BULOW.
" MATIJSZEWIC."
ANSWER MADE BY THE PROVISIONAL GO-
VERNMENT OF BELGIUM.
eIeNTRAL COMMITTEE.

" The Provisional Government of Belgium has had the
honour to receive the protocol of the conference held at
the Foreign•oflice, on the 4th November, 1880, signed
Esterbazy, Talleyrand, Aberdeen, Bulow, and Alatuszewic,
as respective Plenipotentiaries of Austria, France, Great
Britain, Prussia, and Russia.
" The members of the Provisional Government feel
pleasure in believing that very natural feelings of sympathy
for the sufferings of Belgium have led to the wholly phi-
lanthropic mission of the Plenipotentiaries.of the five great
Powers.

" Full of this hope, the Provisional Government wish-
ing besides to reconcile the independence of the Belgic
nation, with respect for the rights of humanity, thanks the
five Powers for having taken the first steps to check the
effusion of blood, by an entire cessation of the hostilities
between Belgium and Holland, In conic quence the Go.
vernment engages to Rive orders to take measures :

" I. That all hostilities on the part of Belgium against
Holland shall cease.

" 2. That the Belgian troops shall retire to this side of
the line which, before the Treaty of Pat is of 30th May,
1814, separated the possessions of the Prince Sovereign of
the United Provinces from those which were added to his
territory, to form the kingdom of the Netherlands, by the
said Treaty of Paris, and by those of Paris and Vienna of
1815.

" On this occasion the Provisional Government of Bel-
gium is called upon by good faith to observe that it un-
derstands by this time the limits which, conformably to
Article 2 of the fundamental law of the Netherlands, sepa-
rated the Northern Provinces from the Southern Pro-
vinces of the country, including the whole left bank of
the Scheldt.

"S. That the Belgian troops evacuate the places and
territory which they occupy, beyond the line above laid
down, within the term of ten days.
" The whole, on condition of reciprocity on the part of
Holland, in the same time by sea and land.
(Signed) " D. POTTER.
" Count FELIX DE MERODE.
" Cll. ROMER.
" ALEX. GENDEBIEN.
" J. VANDERLINDEN.
" F. DE COPPIN.
(A true Copy.)
(Signed) " F. DE COPPYN.
" Brussels, Nov. 10."

A report has arrived from General Daine, dated Venloo,
Nov. l 1, which place he had taken with the aid of the in-
habitants, after some fighting. The Dutch garrison were
taken prisoners.

zit usszcs, Nov. 16.

NATIONAL CONGRESS.
The President comrnuoicated to the Congress—l. A
letter, addressed to it by M. de Potter. 2. Another let-
ter, from M. Emmanuel d'Hoogrorst. The letter from
AI. de Putter is as follows:

" Gentlemen,—At the bottom of the Act by which
my late colleagues yesterday offered you their resignation,
as members of the Provisional Government of Belgium,
you did not read my name. You will see the motives in
the annexed letter, which I address to Messrs. Gendehein,
Ch. Rogier, Count Felix de Merode, Jolly, Joe. Vander-
linden, and Baron Coppin, as having made part of that
Government, and by which I announced to them my reso-
lution to withdraw.
" I have thought it my duty, Gentlemen, to commu-
nicate it to you likewise.

" Before concluding this letter I will take the liberty to
observe how much I have been surprised by yoar prompt
decision on the resignation given in the name of a body, all
of whom had not signed the resignation, and this without
having asked an explanation of the reasons, as well of the
signature of some, as of the refasal or the absence of the
signature of others.

" Please, Gentlemen, to acc,pt my sincere wishes for
the speedy and entire success of your important labours,
that is to say, for the salvation and the prosperity of our
country, and the assurance of my profound respect.
(Signed) " DE POTTER."
" Brussels, Nov. IS, 1830."
"TO TINE AIRSIBERS OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.
" Gentleinen,—For some Jaye past we have been dis-
cussing a question of the resignation to be tendered to the
National Congress.

" Sure, you said of being confirmed, you desired in offer-
ing to retire, to prove to the Congress anti to the country
your disinterestedness.

" Besides other serious accusations, you accuse me of
ambition!; because, as you pretended, I seemed determined
to retain the power even in spite of the representations of
the nation.
" You were mistaken, Gentlemen, and I now prove it
in my own way by really retiring without any hope of
being confirmed. My motives are, that I consider the
National Congress to be a purely constituent body, exclu-
sively summoned by the Provisional Government to found
a new social order, and to institute the definitive autho-
rity which will preside over the destinies of Belgium.
" The Provisional Government was, in my opinion, a
power anterior to the Congress, distinct from the Con-
gress, and necessarily neuter between the people and the
national representation ; a power which in this quality had
convoked the Congress itself according to a manner which
it had determined, and of which the existence of the Con.
gress was the result; a power in short whose task it was
to execute the decisions of the majority of that assembly,
keeping itself nevertheless, and, above all, though entirely
independent of it. It was necessary that this power should
remain entire, until the definitive power should take its
place, fur then and ugly then its functions would cease ;
but thee they would cease by right whenever a sovereign
assembly finds itself alone opposed to the minority : no-
thing is more easy for the latter, if it does but seek sup-
port without, and in the masses of the population, to
overturn the majority, and with that the assembly itself :
from that moment a revolution begins, and a terrible re-
vulution. It passes through all the phases of anarchy—
what is worse, a
cisouLnritnerPreivnoliuttsiotnr.ain despotism'
and,

" This is the history of the National Convention of
France, of the French empire, and of the restoration of
the Bourbons.

" I wish it may not be that of the Belgic revolution.
" As a member of the Central Committee, I felt my-
self called upon to exercise a power, moderating the Con-
greed (pouvoir moderateine du Congres), to defend the
Congress against the Congress itself.
" These, Gentlemen, as you know, were the principal
arguments which I made use of to hinder you from com-
mitting a fault which appeared to me to be irreparable,
and which the country perhaps, and history undoubtedly,
would reproach us for some day.
" You thought fit to proceed. I do not complain of
this, and I leave to you the responsibility of your decision.
Now hear mine, it is irrevocable.
" I did not receive my authority from the National
Congress ; therefore I ought not, and could not, resign it
into their hands. This authority became null, in my opi-
nion the moment that you invested the Congress as you
have just done by your resignation, with all purgers,
united and confounded. I beg you to accept mine, as well
as the assurance of my distinguished consideration.
(Signed) " DE POTTER.
" Brussels, Nov. 18, 1830."
Letter from M. D'Eloogverst :—" Gentlemen,-.`When
our brave men fought to hinder our enemies from entering,
the city of Brussels was without any authorities, and with-
out any centre faction. Some citizens, of whom I was
one, offered to form a provisional administration. We
were received by those brave men, and this was our only
commi
ssion, which was soon confirmed by almost all
Belgium.

"Now that the nation hat regular argent aswitibled,
Ihe Government has found itteif called upon to deliver into
leir hands its provisional power which it held only from