The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-04 00:00:00

SPIttIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We stated yesterday the great uncertainty which
prevails with respect to the actual state of a airs its
he Netherlands. Every hour produces fresh cif--
sunstances which modify the opinions not only of
he spectators but of the actors and managers of the
;rent political drama. Our correspondent "M. J.,"
n a letter which we published yesterday, states that
it nine o'clock on Tuesday night,. at Brussels, eho
mpressioo was that the petition from that city hid
,teen rejected by the King. In point of fact, ice
lave not the means of contradicting or explaining
his impression; but we know that on the same day,
he 31st, the King had given a very conciliatory
answer to the deputation from Liege, assuring them
that the happiness of his people was the first
abject of his life, and that real grievances had only
;tr be pointed out to be redressed." As the mine'''.
:trance from Liege was couched in much stronger
language than that from Brussels, there seems no
reason to suppose that the King would give a less
favourable answer to the less exigent demand.—
We should mid, however, that our account does not
state that the Liege deputation watt satisfied;
less that it was certain that the party-who sent
hat deputation would be satisfied. The demand is
peremptoty and 'pacific: the answer kind,-but
vague. Our information,' therefore, ages not yt.t
enable us to pronounce a decisive opinion as to the
exact facts of the case. It must be allowed, thrit
perhaps no Monarch has ever had a more difficult
~art to play in managing the differen- sections of his
kingdom than the present worthy anti enlightrned
Sovereign of the Netherlands. hieing a Dutchman
and n Protestant, ho was froM the beginning eft
object of suspicion with the Belgient, *lmo regatiletl
the Dutch as rivals in trade, mid hetetittitt
Naturally disposed to take his sereattli fl ir% thokii
whom he know best, and who enjoyed Pruitt tn. ltle
confidence, he was of emirs(' led to Holland itmoi;
his ancient friends, and gave hie cabinet too much of
to orange colour to please the jealous .politieitins of
his southern provinces. A liberal'Catholic Govern-
ment would have been applauded, Rite atteriipting to
repress the bigotry of the Catholic prissithood, and to
spread knowledge among the people. 'Objected to
their fanatical influence,hut in a Protestant Sovereign
this attempt was denounced as a tyrafacal intei-
forme with the rights 'of vouchsafe, or .si Pagan
persecution of the Catholic. church. NO common
system of taxes—afleglidetimi—of administration-=—
or of trade, however, impartial In itself, and with
whatever good faith executed—eoeld be mside palm-
table to his two classes of subjectso Tit* Belglens;
their union with the united provinces, got ace ess to fife
Dutch colonies, from which they had formerly'llethi
excluded; but they complained that they weretnathi
to bear their proportion of the debt which had
been contracted to preserve these possistiOns for
their common country. If imposts are laid eft
foreign trade, or on articles of colonial produce,
the Dutch on their side find that they ate
oppressed ; the same discovery is made by the
, Belgians as soon as a proposition is made' itiCrreio
the land-tax or the assessment on articles of hineqr
The Dutch, being a quiet busy people', little.disposeti
to political wrangling, and, from long etperienee of
integrity in their Courts, inclined to place itripletit
faith in the honesty of their Judges, have set there
face against trial by jury in eiviletuses or in afiari
of the press. They cannot thiak of going from their
counters or their shops to waste their time tit'exs
ccise sagacity in deciding an matters. where they
have no personal interest, and in "Which the proper
authority decides very well without then); and ha
they are not disposed to commiu themselve' by cri-
ticisms or strictures against the Government, they
require no protection against its ' arbitrary puniali-
omit of alleged Miele. On the other hand, thollel-
gic character, partaking of the activity and mobility
of (their neighbours) the French, eager to make
progress, dissatisfied with present acquisitions, faint
of power, and strongly inclined to political diem,.
sion, found, in the institution of jury Weis at once
a gratification of their bustling disposition) slid tr
protection to their liberal Opinions. They there-
fore loudly protested against the `abolition of jury
trial by a Royal ordinance in 1815, and no* strongly
demand its re-establishmetit. The quiblitkiltior Mi.
ilistarial responsibility seems • a vat* chimera' to the
Dutch, in whose.lntereits the inet Mittietars Ire
always supposed to act, While taw attiOSh
to it the greater important*, . that,,,by4i MO; niky
protect themeelVel against the power ot 011Wrtirds.
The same thing, may be said of :alta fares Oequired
for directing public instruction; end concluding thee
Weirs of public worship. Tho Dutch Wien, and
the Dutch Deputies of the'States-General, have
always manifested a desire to let things remain as
they nre,--to fix the united people within the circle
of old Dutch laws,----to stereotype society tater the
old edition of the Stodiholderahip before the French
revolution ; while the Belgians Lave • eagerly
braced every change that promised to be an hie-
provement, and zealously administered to the le-
gacy of new codes of law which the French had
left them. A Belgian advocate, last spring, pub-
lished a table of all the important votes given. in the
States-General for the last fifteen years, with the
number of Belgic and Dutch Deputies who sup-
ported each side ; and it happens very curiously,
that every liberal measure which was carried was by
a Belgic majority (including only a few Dutch-
men to turn the reale), and that every liberal
bill which was lost was thrown out by a Dutch
majority, with the aid of a similar detachment
of Belgians. We pronounce no opinion on the
quality of these measures in themselves. They may
be good, or they may be bad; but the incontestable
and importaet inference drawn from their, mode of
disposal is, that they are lost or gained by the in-
fluence of nations, and not of partite; that the
Elective Chamber hat not a right and . a left Side
like that of France, but a Belgic and a Dutehilltle
and that front their different tastes on points of lees-
lution, their union in a Legislative Assembly-his
rather tended to perpetuate, or to expo 4, than ,to
remove their differences. Then comes: the epitnitiers
of language, with all its practical hiemivetoiettec and
till its grotesque absurdities. A Royal Ordioinetr,
by prohibiting the use of French' at 611'0404,
struck dumb the most eloquent advoctititt of the
southern provinces, who were too old to learn
Dutch ; mid the affairs of the administration in
every part became complicated and inconvenient for
Belgians. What could be more ridiculous than to
hear a speech made in the States-General in Dutch,
which the southern deputy could not comprehend
without the assistance of an interpreter, though it
might be necessary for him to answer its 'lrgetneote
and to overpower its eloquence iu French, ilsibleh
the Hollander might be equally. ignorant t'• 'pew
could the business of the House eit'Ptettitkifilt -get
on, if the Welsh members should ballet 0n401.001-
ticolgost,,h,eoCr
the rienprtehteentlointfroutiaofiktitihe restreilen,
*tiwtteir,-
O'Connell's Milesian eltinessice hi the Celtic
phraseology of ancient Mallen ? But thotigh these
practical inconveniences and others of the kind 'are
felt, there could not be a batter arrangement, for
the happiness of Belgian,' then its connection with
Holland, nor are the DelOttee themselves insensible
to the great blessings which they enjoy, or, ungrate-
ful to the excellent Prince who rides them. It 4,
this knowledge of the disposition Of the respectable
classes among the Belgians which, in spite of events
on the face of theuecontradictory to our view, yet
gives us hope that the quarrel may yet be tunics*
adjusted.—n.s.

Yesterday we received the Peri: Papers of Wed-
nesday, including the Aft-stager des Cisambres timed
Ttnirkiday, The most important article of
genet! they contain i,t the itAl4lll)Clit of a fact which
wa had more than one.* prerioa4y announced--
namely, that Lord Stuart 119 >Eicpths )lild rtreelvell
" letters accrediting him as Ambessisdor to the King
of the French." J!t two o'clock eg Tuipikdoi, the
Arnbaloador; aerprapailied by his secretaries, re-
paired. in Stitt with his new crodcastigh tti the
Neill Royal, where he was intradacci at a"
audience of ceremony to the King. alit; Lordibhip
Was artstwards intrWu' old to the 41“41, *O4 000

Members of the -Rile! Family. This being the firsi
diplomatic recognition of the new Government, anc.
that recognition Coming from England, excited great'
Interest in Petit. It is justly considered as it pledge"
that the peace of Europe < will not be disterhed ill
France abstain from: interference in the' affairs on
other countries, Boren the crowd which wits -vole
lived about the PA& Royal felt the importance of
the proceeding, and Lord Stuart, on leaving. tlie
Palace, was renewed end loudly - cheered ,by tho
people. The French Papers contain little else which
is remarkable: every thing appears to proceed in a
WWI of perfect order. Indeed, we may say, with`
reference to France and aeonßelgium, that the con
'inertial proceedings, though fearful certainly, have
been, and are, more temperate than we could expect
when we consider what popular commotion alWaysi
have been. In France especially they are still event
exemplary ; and at least they afford assn earnest ant
pledge of security in this country, that if the people!
had any grievances now to urge—any consideration
to press upon Government.-any, relief to claim-1
..they wonld not put themselves under the direction
of furious. demagogues—not -attempt to shake the
established . institutions of the land, or bases of
society.--but seek for rational objects by temperat9
and constitutional means... Dimes.
The " Manifesto to the Spanish nation," 'which
we inserted hist 1 'Thtirsday has indirCod) as miglit.
have been expected, communications from sundry
correspondents. Announcing itself as an expression
of political sentiment, and a forerunner of practical
measures on the part of u powerful body of Spa-
sliards, whose hostility to the Government of Ferdis
nand. VII. they did not affect to dissemble, the
friends of that Governments--if any such existed--
could not: refrain from bestowing. mu :the Manifeseei
its authors, and, indeed,_ its publishers, aortic/ flecen
degree ,of entigution. One gentleman, who sigmn
" K.," has written us a letter, partly of instruction;
pert rebuke, -which, as ii cow/okra peg whereon
to hang two or three of ,our own observations, we
beg the reader to pardon us for inserting., Speakin
this-writer the Manifesto, thisriter calls it inconsequeu
and inconsistent, because the Spanish leaders " begil,
by describing Ferdinand es a tyrant, a perjurer, It
deceiver, awl all that is bad, and finish by raying
that they have spilt much blood, and are still ready,
to spill it for their King.'.! The explanation of 1114
miscalled inconsistency might, we should thiek,hav4
Ingested itself without our aid, to any mind et oncti
candid and discriminating.. - The leaders declare that
they, are ready to-spill their blood " for their King,"
whoever that King may be,. that is, whoever the
nation may acknowledge for its sovereign; and they
take especial care to disavow that the war which they
are willing to carry on has for its prime object the de:
. *Dilation of Ferdinand, so mitch as of the faction
whose tool lie is represented to he, and of the system
through. which his tyranny is exercised. The Spa 7
nigh leaders would have incurred the ridicule of man,
kind for their presumption, and the detains:bidet)
of all the ultra-loyalists of Europe for their bar.,
barity, had they insinuated one word as to their ins
tendon of deposing or decapitating a Royal pert
soilage, on their own authority ;---no, they have
called upon the Spanish nation to meet end form itS
+sive resolutions, and enforce them. . They leave
these high matters to the country at ',age, as well
the nature of the Government as the treatment of
the culprit King; and therein it does appear to wit
that they haste meted with moderations and sound
policy. The writer proceeds to affirm thatiSptsin at
present enjoys " quiet," that persecution has long
ceased" I and that the Spaniards have begun to reap
the fruits of " peace and harmony" I Further, that
a free Government is " not tit for Spain, nor will
be in the present ogee's.." that the Spanish. Noble-
man, saving the privileges of his lank, cares not
whether he breathes the air of freedom or of dr-
spreisso ;„ rurally, that there is tin central power of
union among the Patriots; but that mutual enmity
will never be rooted out of their hearts, until their
whole party shall, bee annihilated." Now it would
. be rather uncivil to-assert- that there are not morel
lines than falsehoods in the above extract :horn
B;four K—'a letter: but we may, ineinuate.that
it is more ,than polite on our part to treat them at
deserving or. refetation. The quiet enjoyed by
Spain is the . stillness of death, If persecution of
individuals as such has ceased, -it is because all—or
with very few and unobserved exceptions—all who
were of consequence enough, by rank, talent, spirit,
and fortune, to „provoke or 'alarm the persecuting
power, hive been proscribed -or have become
voltmtary exiles, . If the, Spaniards have begun to
reap the fruits of peace and harmony, we fear there
ass 140M0. NM. -among the wheat.--some alloy of
poverty, and misery,. and discontent, mixed up with
this netional resignation. It is .to lse apprehended
dust tithes and totes, and boundless and 'habitual;
because . irresponsible, oppreasion, have marked the
sets/mine of the uefortunte Spaniards towards this
political Paradise. But :it appears that the. people
of Spain are" unfit for freedom,'.' mid will be so -for
asst age to come, anti therefore , that it is tin utter
ebsurdity to give them any liberty at present. It is
unquestionehle, we reply, that the tendency of such
a. brutal sway OS that of Ferdinand 'is and will be,
as it over has been, to renderott victims less geniis
lied every day for a free and realm-tilde Government,
It follows, therefore, by .necessary_ inference, that-if
. it b/rabsurtf orimproper to overturn his deapotiim
now in WA In I$R) it must be twice es criminal
tar , foolish ; so that, in- fact, the lonetrivretehed
people hart been, enslaved, the more distant. its MUM.
Option might to bees-or, in other words, no such
thing as liberty ought ever to ise .introduced where
tyranny .hats once beep. established. Of a piece with
K..'s re/emotive, are Isisistai entente of fuel, and equally
. cormlusive against.. any Spaniali constitution.. :. He
"Po 014 the present Government. is.. good enough
for the Spaniards; mid, doubtless, for . dune
who, like K, am willing.to live tinder it : the
,Camarilla is :it geed enough, /substitute for the
cortese—indeed, . somewhat- better than swell
inhotn !Inlets dews* So, " there-is no :central
W 401.1 nor ,power' among die constitutional party,
, whiete. minted liatrede will .. exist, until. they
, (the patriots) are all annihilated." There is nothing
stare toe than that Spain in J 823 Was lost through
the rectifies animosities or corrupt detections of
many to w hunt communal, of the bighest. Atwood
hail been intrusted. Hut why ware this ?. .Because
, the owned ilistreat of (stations. was fentented by n
treacheron Court, and chiefteins oaid hystlei pithily
moncey for betraying. their country, to the :invader,
wire appointed to those partionlarltosta and services,
the seerifiee. of which would .htemeat irreparable to
the station., Is it. likely, then, .we may ask, that a
game So fatal will be played ,by the patriots sootiest
i liemselves, ,or that they have not profited by the
lessee imprinted on shc.ir peondec,tinini, by a cornrow/
cutesy.? We. efintiotssee into the hearts of the
constitutional chieftains, tor CAM We answer, pus!.
flee!), for the exception, of ;dines in witich it is
nevertheless Well known, to the Spanish Govern..
mesh, ,a 4 ,save are informed, , that the great bulk of
the: exileil, pattiots ore combitird ,with their friendi
still rortatioro% in the Peoinsul,i, to accomplish for
their cauntryt The heht4iiid.. projects. may fail of
eirceese—thoselevitiebare one day the moat urgent
awl imperiatit may the next day be rendered we,.
resanny by the nttaitiMent of the thing -desired
threueb other ehlienele; but witheet emisidering it 1
esesiliem. just. itt preSelit, 10 ralgolate from any of
".1,11-,in pl ivie c enures of ins el ligefev, we need only
rt .f"' to the varines seemnits in the French Papers
fru", the PyriMies, anti th written as. well as ore(
conuounicatimis ale wing. in upon 1..4ane0 and on this
emietry from ail the plovitteCs of «7.;plin, 'Old le"'
in " tiny ""binal Parsers to determine whether move-
Mesas of lei extensive met fmtnidahle natuve NU IIM
ihere looked .npon 113 inevitahk. Yet - warns-
spondent, who toldressvi'ns from Mad ' I ' ''
r; i
iiii,,,
mic444
„written tri
teraii, a
,tir.o , ant WlO
toward* the - Coast itittional par; .y, liflit.Trge.nie.a't
" surprise at - seeing its oissiii ' Enr'li'sleil. b'''
Prentli Pattert that !Vein. ii hi Al'
state
rivoluqour alt 114..,4104'p0 to told, a I ta",
assure you that we are at distant Owe any eventE
of thie'riliture, as' at any period (hiring' the hlst
ex - pal* There hal been no proclatinosoo of the