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London, England, 1830-10-20 00:00:00

out any fetter or restriction being imposed upon one of
then, for the profit of another.
" 5. Immediately after the union, the provinces and
towns of Belgium shall be admitted to the commerce
and navigation of the colonies upon the same footing as
the provinces and towns of Holland.
" 6. The burdens of the two countries, as well as the
advantages, shall be common. The debts contracted up
to the time of the union shall be paid out of the general
exchequer of the Netherlands.
7. Conformably to the same principles,. the expendi-
ture necessary for the establishment and preservation of tl e
fortifications on the frontiers of the new state shall be de•
frayed by-the general exchequer, as it is the result of an
object interesting:to the safety and independence of all the
provinces and the whole nation.
" 8. The expellee of establishing and repairing the dikes
shall be supplied by the districts which are most directly
interested in that part of the public service, reserving the
obligation of the nation in general to furnish assistance in
case of extraordinary disasters, the tax to be raised in the
cone mode as is now used in Holland.

" These eight articles have been guaranteed by Prussia,
Austria, Russia, and England.

" ADDITIONAL ARTICLE TO THE CONVENTION BETWEEN

MI BRITANNIC MAJESTY, AND THE UNITED PROVINCES
OF THE NETHERLANDS, RELATING TO THEIR COLONIES

DATED LONDON, AUG. 1, 1814.

" In order to provide more effectually for the defence of
the state formed by the Union of the Belgic provinces with
Holland, his Britannic Majesty takes upon himself, and
engages to defray the following expences:—
" 1. The payment of 1,000,0001. sterling to Sweden,
as a compensation for rights yielded by that country to
Holland.

" 2. A stun of 2,000,000/. to be employed in concert
with the Prince Sovereign of the Netherlands, and in aid
of an mull sum to be furnished by that Prince, upon the
augmentation and fortification of a line of defences for the
Netherlands.

" 3. To support conjointly, and in equal portions, with
Holland, such ulterior expenses as shall be mutually regn-
lilted and agreed upon by the above-named high-contract-
ing parties and their Allies, for the purpose of consolidating
and establishing finally, in a satisfactory manner, the union
of the Netherlands with Holland, under the dominion of
the House of Orange ; the said sum to be furnished by
Great Britain ;ohs quota, not being to exceed 3,000,000/.
sterling.

"CONVENTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN, THE NETHER-
LANDS; AND RUSSIA, SIGNED AT LONDON, THE 9TH
or 3IAY, 1815, NELATING TO THE EXPENSES IN-
CURRED S THE ALLIES IN CARRYING ON THE WAlt
AGAINST FRANCE.

" 1. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands engages
to take upon himself the payment of a part of the capital,
and the interest which shall be due on the lit of January,
1816, on the Russian loan made in liolland, through the
agency of the house of Hope and Co., to the amount of
25,000,000 of florins Dutch currency. The annual in-
terest of this !MIN together with the annual payment for
the extinction of the debt which it creates, shall be de-
frayed by his Majesty, and shall become a charge on the
kingdom of the Netherlands.
" His Britannic Majesty engages on his part to recom-
mend to his Parliament to place him in a condition to
take upon himself un equal share of the capital of the
above-named loan, payable in the same manner.
" 2. The said payments on the part of their Majesties
the King of the Netherlands and the King of Great Britain
shall cease, iu case the possession and sovereignty, which
God forbid, of the Belgic provinces, should pass or be
separated a thy from the dominion of his Majesty the King
of the Netherlands before the perfect liquidation of that debt.
" The interest to be paid every year by each of these
Powers is 1,250,000 florins. The sinking fund i 4
250,000 florins more. Together they amount to an
annual charge of 1,500,000 florins on each power.

TREATY BETWEEN THE NETHERLANDS AND Tim AL-
LIES (DUCAT BRITAIN, AUSTRIA, PRUSSIA, AND
RUSSIA), DATED VIENNA, MAY 31, 1815.

" 3. The ancient Duchy of Luxembourg is ceded to
the King of the Netherlands, to be !Jammed in perpetuity
and in full sovereignty. This great Duchy shill form
one of the States of the Germanic Confederation, of which
the King of the Netherlands shall also be a member.
" The town of Luxembourg shall be considered, in a
military point of view, as a fortress of the Germanic
Confederation. The King of the Low Countries shall,
however, have the right to name the Governor and Mili-
tary Commandant of that province, liable to the approval
of the executive power of the confederation, and to such
other conditions as it shall be judged necessary to establish,
in conformity with the future constitution of the said
Confederation."

By another treaty, of the 12th of March, 1817, of the
same King, with the 84f110 Courts, the following modifi-
cations were introduced :

" I. A part of the pecuniary indemnity paid by France,
being intended to strengthen the line of defence of the
States which limit France, the King of the Netherlands
shall receive for that object 60,000,000 of francs.

"2. He undertakes to employ that sum on the works
necessary for the defence of the frontiers of his States, con-
formably to the system adopted by the Allied Powers.
" 3. He renounces his quota of the general indemnity,
and gives it up to Austria and Prussia.
" 4. Owing to the intervention of England, he cedes to
the King of Prussia the right of naming the Governor
am! Commander of Luxembourg, and consents to it so long
as the general garrison, which each party furnishes, shall
be composed of three-fourths of Prussian troops, and of
one-fourth of Belgic troops, without that cession impair-
ing in any respect his right of sovereignty over the town
and fortress of Luxembourg.
"5. The administration of justice, the collection of
taxes and contributions of every description, as well as
every other branch of the civil administration of Luxem..
Bourg, shall remain exclusively in the hands of his Majesty
the King of the Netherlands."

" liy another convention, the forces of the garrison of
Luxembourg are to amount to 6,000 men.

‘. The Garde Bourgeoise is under the authority of the
King of the Netherlands."— Times.

The Beer Bill, the grand Legislative panacea of
last Session for the distresses of the people, is pro-
ducing the effects which we anticipated, by encou-
raging a general habit of drunkenness and dissipa-
tion among the working classes. We thought de-
moralization was proceeding with sufficiently rapid
strides before, but our experimental legislators,
thinking, perhaps, that there was still too large a
stock of virtue among our population, hit upon the
best expedient that could be devised for extirpating
sobriety altogether from the land. There may be
some reason for this; a sober people are apt to re-
flect, and reflection in a people is sometimes trouble-
some to a Governmeat. But we should rather
think it was one of those blunders which incapacity
rather than a wicked intention has inflicted on the
country. Of all the vices to which human nature
is addicted, drunkenness is the most brutalizing.—
This habit, when once engendered, is scarcely ever
got over; nootber vice prostrates reason so com-
pletely, and .man below the level of the beasts
that perish. As there is no vice that produces so
much disorder and: crime (to say nothing of the
domeatie affliction of which it is the fruitful
source), so there is none which a wise and good
Government would be so careful to guard against.
We have the laws of quarantine against the
plague, that only infects the body; and yet the
"glorious" work which employed our Legis-
lators during the greatest part of the last Session
of Parliament was to break down those esta-
blished restrictions, which constituted what we may
call the moral quarantine against that pestilence,
which not only reduces the body to loathsome
debility, but destroys the soul I The scenes which
are now taking place in every town and village in
Englund, in consequence of the openingof unlimited
numbers of low tippling-houses, are only the me-
lancholy evidence of the debasement which we anti-
cipated the Bill in question would produce. From
various quarters we have heard what to every_per-
son of moral feeling must be considered most afflict-
ing accounts of the drunkenness and immorality
which the Beer Bill has occasioned. It does not
&wells° us to find a Lancashire Paper state that
4, the drunkenness and profligacy introduced by this
measure exceed belief—min, women, and even
children, were seen in the streets, especially in the
evening, in a disgraceful state of intoxication, and
the holism) were one continued scene of riot ;"
and, again, " immorality in all its varied shapes was
carried to a pitch beyond conception in Blackburn.
Salford and Northgate formed one mass of riot and
dissipation. l3aisyfield rivalled the former places
by the like disgraceful outrages on moral habits ;
the houses there were literally crammed full—
nothing was to be heard but yelling and shoutiog,
Cursing and swearing, anti moreover fighting to on