The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-23 00:00:00

THE CIVIL. AUTHORITIES OF THE PROVINCE.

I again hear of small bands of plunderers which
are endeavouring to form themselves in some parts
of the province. After the rough treatment that
the plunderers have met with, I do not think there
is any ground for alarm. Your zeal certainly needs
ye stimulus, but it is my duty to remind you, that
by the law of the 10th of Vendemaire, year 4., the
communes are civilly responsible for every riot or
act of pillage in them.
"Liege, Sept. 18." " SANBERG."
General Van Gem has issued a proclamation to
the inhabitants of this city, in which he informs them
that be had hoped to spare the peaceable citizens the
inconveniences of the measure which he had long been
authorized to take, but had delayed—viz. declaring
.the place in a state of siege, but that he has just
received orders from the War-otlice to delay it no
longer. He says,' I shall modify as much as pos-
sible the measures prescribed on such occasions,
but from this day, I take exclusively on myself the
civil police, and the proceedings to be instituted
against the agitators and instigators who shall dis-
turb the public tranquillity.
Inhabitants of Namur, you are indebted for this
measure to a handful of turbulent men, and especially
to some writers, who preach only revolt, and endea-
vour to seduce the King's troops. If I bud had the
assistance which I bad a right to expect, to pursue
and overtake the guilty, the War-office, justly irri-
tated at all the attempts of the pamphleteers against
the fidelity of the troops, would not have compelled
me to the measures I announce ; but I have tried in
vain milder means : it is now. too late.

" I therefore give notice, that all who shall either
trouble the public tranquillity, or preach revolt, shall
be prosecuted with all the severity of the powers
which are delegated to me.
" Ask yourselves, if, during three weeks, you have
seen any thing hostile in my conduct or that of my
troops : if I have not proved, even to the writers in
question, my great patience. The offence is too
great, and must be remedied. As for the exercise
of my powers, they are expressed in Art. 141, and
of chapter 4, division 3, of the Imperial Decree of
the 24th December, 1811, which is still in force.
" The Lieutenant-General commanding the 6t
Military Division,

a VAN GEEN."
BRUSSELS, SEM% 20.--The following passages are
from a letter written to us from Namur :
" Our citizens, not understanding the real mean-
ing of the term a state of siege,' were much
alarmed, thinking that all communications would be
interrupted; but when they found that the measure
tended only to preserve order, and repress ma-
noeuvres that might endanger the public tranquillity,
they took courage, and are even pleased to find in
the new order of things grounds for confidence and
pledges of security. Every body praises the mode-
ration of General Van Geen and the troops under
hie command."

The Courtier de la Sambre says, that on Friday
the house of the printer of that journal was sur-
rounded by a considerable force of gendarmes and
troops of the garrison, coinmanded by Captain Du-
pont, who placed sentinels at the door, with orders
to suffer no person to come out or to enter. At
eleven at night the troops retired, and the printer's
men, as well as some strangers who happened to be
in the house, were able to leave it. However, two
sentinels were left at the door till four o'clock next
day, when a notice was bent by the General to
Capt. Dupont to withdraw the sentinels, but fast to
signify to M. Mimeo, the printer, that any offence
contrary to the promulgation of the decree of his
Excellency General Van Geen will be prosecuted
immediately on publication, aceording.to the powers
delegated to him, and expressed in his decree
quoted in his proclamation. If Captain Dupont
should not find the editor, he was to leave the no-
tice with his wife, or some other person on the
establishment, from whom he should require a receipt.
A proclamation posted up yesterday afternoon
Was torn down its many places. The populace as-
sembled in a tumultuous manner opposite the town-
hall was in extreme agitation, and uttered cries,
mingled with imprecations, against some citizens.
About six o'clock a discourse, in the form of a pro-
test, was read on the steps of the town-hall. This
discourse had a good many signatures to it. It was
welcomed by the multitude with long-continued
bravos. It demanded, among other things, that the
Committee of Public Safety should take adefinitive
resolution, and call to Brussels till the citizens of the
towns of the south who had offered to come hither
at the beginning of the revolution.
After the reading of this protest against the mea-
sures adopted by the Committee, the agitation in-
creased. An immense crowd pressed against the
door of the town-hall, which was guarded by some
sentinels. At length the populace got into the
town-hull, and came out again with some arms.
Several detachments, preceded by drums, traversed
the streets during the night. About one o'clock in
the mornintthe populace, who had not quitted the
Grand Place, attempted to disarm the post of the
Burgher Guard stationed there. In this extremity
the Guards were obliged to fire. Two men were
wounded—one in the hand, the other in the thigh.
This morning two or three bands, among which
there were only a few individuals with arms, are
meld to have left the city it is not known in what
direction they have gone.

(From the Journal de la Belgique.)
Dumas, SEPT. JO.— IVlessrs. Nicholai and
Vleminckx, who went to the Hague with the address
to our Deputies in the two Chambers, have returned
from Holland. It is said that the Committee of
Public Safety will issue a proclamation relative to
their journey.
Sum 20.—Yestettlay there were numerous 0-
'14)11440s in the great matketliace. They de-
manded arms, to march to Vilvarde, and already in
the night of the 9.oth, some detachments had gone
out on that road, and the road to Tervueren, and
brought
heel( with them four horses of the mare-
ehaust6. This proceeding was disapproved by the''
Council of Public Safety, in e,,proclamation which
was posted up iu the afternoon. This
iproclamationi
increused the effervescence of the
torn to pieees in the great maiketillica.c":7;rmans(wwearts,
loudly called for, a group CUT entering the
Town-hall, and seized on a eh:l:teat °
-
muskets
This state of things contin° o •
Thatket.place till night. Aboutteal,„tickle great
kt,f,
sidetahla ;palinode inviti to tra
Yer,a the streets
preceded by drums and Burgher Cliialds of 4
They marched with great older, foiternizing4-1;
the posts, and announcing, in noitl netlartattiong'
their desire to march ; but towards midnight a do•
plutable scene occurred in the matiet-pluce. It is
gigetlif to state, under such circumstances, ail in

the darkness of the night, how the facts really hap-
pened. Some musket-shots were fired, and it is
said that one person was mortally wounded. Great
agitation still prevails in the city.
This morning the drum beat to arms; the post of
Amigo has been disarmed. At the moment we are
going to press, the same thing is taking place in the
Corps de Garde.

The courier des Pays Bas gives an account of
the object of Messrs. Nicolai and Vleminckx. They
arrived at the Hague on Thursday evening. It was
not till the next morning that they were able to
speak to four or five of our Deputies, who having
promised, in the name of their colleagues, to take
the address into consideration, advised our two tra-
vellers to leave the Hague before the object of their
journey was known. They accordingly left the
Hague on Friday morning, at ten o'clock.
The courier adds, that from what Messrs.
Nicola and Vleminckx could' collect in their commu-
nications with those of our Deputies who received
,them, it seems that our representatives are in an evi-
dent state of constraint at the Hague, and in eh-
cumstanees which hinder them from acting and
speaking with due freedom. The Dutch majority
openly manifests an intention not to deliberate on
our affairs in the presence of what it calls the Belgic
rebellion.

A letter from the Hague, of the 17th, says—" It
is said that the sections are generally disposed to
advise the separation, but that they will ut the same
time require conditions to be attached to it."

DUTCH PAPERS.
(From the Haoue Courant of Monday.)

THE HAGUE, SEPT. IS.
SECOND CHAMBER OP THE STATES-GENERAL.
The Sitting opened at half-past one, 101 Mem-
bers being present.
The President announced that he had received
letters from Messrs. Cogels and De Stassart, ex-
cusing themselves for non-attendance, the former be-
ing on a tour in Italy and Switzerland, and the latter
having been obliged to leave the Hague on account
of the serious illness of his wife.
The President then said, that having received
several petitions, it was necessary for him to up-
point the Committee of Petitions. These petitions
all relate to the separation of this two parts of the
kingdom.

M. Becaerts said, the extraordinary Session of the
States-General at this moment sitting has been con-
voked for a certain purpose, which is stated in the
act of convocation. I therefore think that the
Chamber cannot attend to any business except that
for which it is exclusively summoned to deliberate,
and that the petitions which do not relate to this
business must be deferred to the next Session.
Those which relate to the separation may be referred
to the Committee.
This proposal was adopted by the Chamber.
The President—M. Sytzama has to speak in sup-
port of a motion made by him,
M. Sytzarna said, in substance--From the Royal
message addressed to us, it is evident that some
provinces in the kingdom are in a state of insurrec-
tion,—that the legal authority and the power of the
law are no longer respected. It is also indubitable
that this state of things imperatively requires mea-
sures to be taken, calculated not only to restore, but
permanently to establish tranquillity and the power
of the laws.
After some remarks on the actual state of the
provinces where the insurrection exists, the Speaker
made to the Chamber the following proposition :
." That the Chamber respectfully asks the King
to be pleased to ask the Ministers to lay before him
a detailed report, pointing out the causq which
have led to the revolt.

" That this report shall make mention of the
events which have receded these troubles, the re-
sults which have followed them, and pointing out
the persons and their acts as far as known, up to the
date of the report, as well as of the means that have
been employed to repress the disorder : lastly, if it
is true, as is generally believed, that the possibility
of this insurrection was known some days before-
hand, the report shall state what was done to pre-
vent it.

" That his Majesty be then requested to minim
e.4.4te tins report to the Chamber."

Such (continued M. Van Sytzama) is the only
means that will enable its to consider of the measures
to be proposed to the Government. But if the Go-
vernment should see any inconvenience in laying be-
fore the Chamber the whole of the detailed report
which I ask for, it yet seems to me that there Call
be no reason for sparing the persons implicated.—
Meantime, it is not my intention that my proposal
should contribute in any manner to suspend or to
delay the energetic measures which may be ordered
to suppress the rebellion. I only desire to place
myself u► a situation to act with a knowledge of the
circumstances, and with that prudence which the
importance of the case, our love for the country, and
fidelity for the house of Orange, require. Igo fur-
titer, and openly declare that I regret that vigorous
treasures were not sooner employed to restore order,
for the more we temporise the more will the good
spirit of the inhabitants be weakened, the more in-
jury will be sustained by good and loyal citizens,
who have incontestable rights to the paternal protec-
tion of the Government. They undoubtedly de-
serve more regard than those who, to testify their
attachment to the dynasty, have burnt in the city of
Brussels the speech of the King to the States-
General, have placed themselves out of the pale of
the law, end have trampled our institutions under
foot. There are moments when it is better to act than
to write or talk. This moment is come. The plun-
derers and incendiaries must be punished,and honest
people must be protected. I cull for the employ.
ment of energetic measures only that we may be
able to discuss with composure, and above all, with
frankness, the dearest interests of our country, with-
out other authority than that laid down by the fun-
&mental law after the re-establishment of tranquil-
lity and order, after entire submission to authority
and the laws, after the insult offered to the national
flag shall have been atoned for. Now, such a dis-
cussion is impossible so long as a rebellious part of
the population is in arms, to defend exaggerated
demands, and to frighten weak minds. I lay my
proposal on the bureau, and request the Chamber
to order it to be referred to the sections for exami-
nation.

M. Van Dam Van Ysselt seconded the mot►on of
M. Van Sytzama. . . .

M. Van Alphen—The whole nation is attentive
to what this Chamber will do. It is impatient to
know the result of our deliberations. In conse-
quence I propose that for this time the address, in
answer to the speech from the throne, be publicly
discussed. This answer greatly interests the nation,
It must eminently contribute to the speedy restora-
tion of tranquillity, for the desires of the King are
positive, and its the answers of the Chamber ought
likewise to be positive, there will be no room to
doubt, or to consult respecting our dispositions.
The proposal of M. Van Alphen was then
cussed in the General Committee, which resolved,
that the itddress should be discussed in the usual
manner. The project of the address proposed by
the committee was then sent to the sections in
which it was examined. Immediately after the ge-
neral committee broke up. The central section is
to draw up its report to.day (Sunday), and lay it
before the Chamber in the secret committee on
liontifty. The debates onsiiiis important subject
will begin immediately aftcrWards.
AmsrithbAm, set-E, N.—Actual Debt, 21 per cent.
t 9 to 50i; Deferred Debt, I to 1 .5.11; ; Amount Syn-
dic, 1-11 per cent., b 6 to Still ; ditto, ditto, :31 per cent.,
138 to 70.

STATE'. OV MORALS IN ENOLAND.—The
Leeds inidfigeneer of Thursday contains an adverti,ernent,
oitering a reward of 10s. it-liesd, for no less than (SI per-
ilous* who are each and all fugitivoi from that town for
"I).W/tardy." The intimation is particular with respect to
!bass and among others there are an Irishman--a brick-
elerk—a quack-doctor...a surgeon, and a gentle-
man s aer out.

FRANCE.

" CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, SErr. 20.

" The President took the chair at a quarter past one
o'clock.

" Thirteen law projects for improving the roads in as
many departments, were brought up and adopted without
disenosion.

" The President announced a message from the Chamber
of Peers, with the law project for applying the trial by jury
to offences by the press, and to political offences, adopted on
the 18th, which was ordered to be printed.
" Fourteen other law projects, relative to the limits of
as many departments and arrondissements, were then pre•
sented and adopted.
" Reports of the petition committee were laid before
the Chamber ; but none of them were of a nature to excite
any general interest.
" The President said, that as there was nothing more
upon the order of the day, he would propose an adjourn-
ment till Thursday. The reporter of the committee of
impeachment was then reading his report in that com-
mittee, and if, should be ready to be laid before the
Chamber previous to Thursday, summonses would be sent
to the members at their rosyective residences.
" The Chamber then adjourned.
" The committee of impeachment against the late Mi-
nisters assembled yesterday to hear the report drawn up
by M. Beranger, which, from the time employed in read-
ing it, is evidently very long. The meeting was secret.
It is however stated, that the report, which concludes by
recommending to the. Chamber that three commissioners
should be appointed to conduct the proceedings before the
Chamber of Peers, was adopted.
" The Moniteur of Tuesday contains a Royal Ordinance,
prescribing regulations for the service of the saltpetre and
gunpowder-works of the Government, which is followed
by ten other Ordinances, announcing numerous judicial
and magisterial appointments.
" The Brussels Papers of Sunday, the 19th inst., due
this morning, have not reached Paris. A traveller, who
arrived at twelve o'clock by the diligence, states that
Brussels, on Sunday night, was in a state of great confu-
sion ; the populace had that day attacked the Hotel de
de Ville, and the citizens from Liege were marching to the
assistance of the inhabitants of Brussels.

" The Nuremberg Correspondent has the ihllowing,
dated Dresden, Sept. 13 Our Burgher Guards are
now organized everywhere, and reckon in their ranks the
most respectable inhabitants. Yesterday was for Saxony a
memorable day. The citizens, upon a wish expressed by
Prince Frederick, assembled to deliberate on the claims to
be submitted to the Government, and the redress of
grievances to be demanded. Many changes in the consti-
tution, the abolition of several oppressive taxes, especially
those of the police awl excise, a reform in the communal
administration, an extension of the right of voting in the
Diet, a public account of the administration of towns, a
reduction in the expenses of Catholic worship, and several
other points, were successively the subjects of discussion.
The citizens will continue under arms, and the military
will remain outside the town, until an answer has been
received upon these remonstrances. The artillery, who
are upon good terms with the citizens, occupy two gates,
whilst all the other posts are in possession of the citizens.
The Chasseurs, by order of Prince Wiiliam, marched out
yesterday. The fair, which takes place annually on the
1 L, will not be held. Several of those who were wounded
on the 9th inst. have since died. The town is surrounded
with troops.' "

Fatamit Fotos.-PAnts, SEPT. 21.-Five per Ceuta.,
96f. 30e. 25c. 30c. 35c. 40c. 96f. 45c. 35c. 40c. 60c.
65c. ; Four per Cents., 88f. 25c. ; Three per Cents.,
66f. 60c. 50c. 515 c. 60c. 90c. 80c. 90c. 67f. 67f. 20c.
10c. 20c. ; Bank Stock, 1,715 f.; Rentes Is Naples,
671. 25c. 40c. 50c. 60c. 68f. 50c. ; Rentes d'Espsgne,
18 181 i; Royal Spanish Loan, 50 49i 50 ; Itentes
perpetuelle d'Espagne, 401 40; Ilaytian Loan, 3701.
3901.-Exchange o■ London, one month, paper, 25f.
45e. money, 251. 45c. ; three months, paper, 2bf. SOc.,
money, 25f. SOc.--•fours .Autheniique.
Last Prices.-Five per Cents., 971. 10e. ; Three per
Cents,, 67f. 70c.