The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-11 00:00:00

REPRESENTATION OF LIVERPOOL.

We have stated ' already, that Sir Robert Peel
had declined to beeinne a candidate for the repre-
sentation of Liverpobl. Sir Robert stated, in his
letter, that the pressure of his public duties, us a
Minister of the Crown, would render it Impossible.
for him to discharge, with satisfaction to himself,
the duties of a representative of Liverpool, and that
he must therefore forego the honour of being put,
in nomination; that he assures the requisitionists.
that•he is gratified in the highest degree by this
proof of their good opinion and continence, and
that it adds another to the many motives which will
ever induce him, though not its representative, to
take the warmest interest in the welfare of Liverpool.
Mr. Charles Grant, who had also been requested
to offer himself as u candidate, ha likewise. declined
to offer himself. . The following is a copy of the
letter in which. Mr. Grant declines the intended
honour:--

" GENTLEMEN,--I have been honoured by a
communication from you in reference to the repre-
sentation of Liverpool.. In acknowledging that
communication, I cannot resist the impulse which I
-feel' te'iiffer My einem condolence on the prelim-
eholy event whieh has led, to it, In a remote quer-
ter of the,kingdom I have been a fellow-mourner
with you and the public over the. grave of my much-
lamented friend. On the loss which the nation has
sustained, it is not for me to enlarge; but in the
tnidst of the general distrsir you have been called
to reflect on the means of supplying the void occa-
sioned by this calamity, and you have been pleased
to convey to me your request, that I should allow
myself to be nominated as a candidate for the repre-
sentation of the borough of Liverpool.
" For this intimation of your desire I request
you to accept my heartfelt acknowledgments. You
have conferred on me one of the highest honours to
which a public man can aspire—the unbought and
unbiassed .approbation of a most numerous, en-
lightened, and high-minded portion of his fellow-
citizens—an approbation, the result, not of persoind
knowledge, but purely of public principle. That
my public conduct should have attracted the atten-
tion of such a community,—that you, eminent as
you are in that community, should think me in any
degree worthy of a trust deemed but adequately re-
posed in:the hands of Mt. Canning and Mr. tins-
kisson,—that you should call me to a representation,
at all times pry-eminent, in the present crisis of pe-
culiar importance,—these circumstances affect me
with emotions of gratitude, to which I am unable
to give utterance.
" I feel that this honour would be more than
an ample recompense for services infinitely transcend-
ing any which I have ever enjoyed the rapacity or
the opportunity of rendering to my,country ; yet
even with the conviction of my inability to justify
your too indulgent estimate of my humble preten-
sions; I Should, under other circumstances, exult to
avail myself of your kindness, and to attempt, by the
-devotion of my life, to prove my tense of so signal a
mark of confidence.

"In my present situation, however, I must de-
cline the acceptance of the trust so honourably prof-
fered; and I am induced to decline it, you will
readily. believe, by feelings of no ordinary description.
Indeed, gentlemen, they are of no common ,ell -
meter—the. feelings which connect me ;with ~the
county of Inverness. fllghly.as I deem the honour
of representing this great .county, that honour is 'to
me enhanced by consideratiens and circumstances
peculiarly its own. •To my connection with this part
of the British empire, it is mainly awitw that I have
had the opportunity of pursuing that line of condoct-
which 'has been stamped with your approbation.
During a series of years thronghvarions fluctuations'
of fortune, whether in possession of official influence,
or under the frown of Government, I experienced,
from the. friend* with whom .1 am unittids the mine
cordial and unvarying support; and their generous
•zeal hap, in the midst of many and formidable diffi-
calties, achieved for the cause of liberality and hide-
pendenee a triumph, in which my bumble nettle is
'associated with results of great and universal interest.
"1 With support thus uncompromising anti fine-
ceatiful, is joined the remembrance of past
evinced through long years, not, wily towards my-
self, but also ioWards those who are,gone before me.
"'These, gentlemen, are ties which, you will
`agree with me, are not lightly to he severed,—ties
of kindne-s, of affection, and of gratituder—ties of
personal friendship and political independence. Such
a connection 'thus formed, matured, and cherisbett !
thus endeared by mutual good, otliges, ennobled by
lofty principle, sanctified by sacred recollections ,
such a connection, in.the very moment, too, of hard-
earned success, I • feel that I cannot, by any act of
mine, consent to impair, far' less to dissolve.. To
such friends, so long as they please to accept my
services, these services, I am bound to devote. 1
once.more request you to accept the sincere expres-
sion of my thanks.
" I have the honour to rcmaul,. geritien/et', wit"
the -deOest respect' and 'gratitude, Y("4l' 14"1"1
servant,
0 inveratit, Oct. b.'4. " CHARLES (iWiNT,"

"The Provisional Government, Central Committee,
" Considering that it is urgent to tix the mode,
according to which the Deputies of the Nation to the
National Cmigress are to be elected, in the different
provinces of Belgium;
" Considering that it is impOrtant, to publish as
soon as possible a project of a coM.titotioo, to be
submit* to public discussion, before being debated
at the said Congress;.
" Decrees—

" A comtnission for tramingra project of a consti-
tution is appointed, niul in concert with the Centro!
Committee it will imenetliAtely enter upon its furze.
tions,

It will !'.rot of all occupy itself in preparing a
new mode of election, to he as popular as possible.
" It will ptesent a project of a constitution in-
tended to become, after being submitted to the exa-
m 4111001) of the National'Congress, the fundamental
law of Belgium.
The following persons are appoints(' members of
this Committee :--MM. Van Mecum), Governor of
Southern Brabant; de Garinehe, counsellor -of the
Court at Liege ; Tielmana, advocate; Devaux, adve-
cate;• De 13ronchere, gentleman, Fabry, counsellor;
Bailin, advocate; Tonde, advocate ; Thorn; advocate.
" The Committee Centrol rilerves to itself the
power of adding to the commission for framing a:
eonstitation the most distinguished men of all the'
provinces, as soon as it acquires the, information;
which it expects on this subject."
" rtras,eis, Oct a.

" The Central Committee,—considering that it is
its duty to occupy itself exclusively with affairs of
general interest, anti topublish 'acts, which will se-
cure the independence and the prosperity Of Belgium;
" Considering. that the load of petitions which:
pour in from all quarters, and which only relate to
private interests, consume the time of the memberti of
the Provisional Goveimnent, and prevent them from
devoting it exclusively, as it is their duty, to the
most urgent wants of the country;
" Decrees—

" During the whole of the month of October no
petition shall be receivrd by the Central Committee.
" All petitions addressed to the said Committee,
previous to the lit of November, shall be considered
its not having been Sent.
" Every petition must be' directed to the Com-
mittee xvhich it concerns.
" Brufoclq, Oct. 5.
FREE USE OF THE FLEMISH OR FRENCH
LANGUAGE.

The Provisional Governor to the Administrations
of the towns, and to the Burgomasters of t he Pro Vince.
" Gentlemen,—The glorious revolution which has
just taken place, having for its object to put an end
to the oppression which pressed so heavily on the
Belgic nation, and to the numerous restraints which
the Dutch Government imposed on the enjoyment
of our most natural rights, among which was the
imposition of the Dutch language, I have the honour,
gentlemen, to inform you that you now return to the
liberty of employing in your administrative corre-
spondence either the French or Flemish languages
as you think proper, and that in your communica-
tions with the persons over whom you pre4de, it is
important for you to make use of the language which
the parties themselves employ,, or desire to be em-
played.
VAN MEENEN."

What do we understand by federative State ? We
have conquered Holland. The fame 'of that great
event is now spread through Europe.
What shall we do with our victory ? That is a
question still undecided by many persons; it is not
a question with us. From the first moment we
seized ►lte real elements of solution, and arguing from
data which could not he denied, we have laid do►vn
as a fact what will perhaps be it problem.
We must consider Belgium with reference to
Holland, with reference to Europe, and with refe-
rence to itself.

The events of September have separated us for
ever from Holland. To render thin separation not
illusory,—to render it complete,—all our relations
with that country and with its dynasty must from
the present moment be broken. The separation
cannot operate without the concurrence of these two
conditions. We must then renounce' direct com-
merce with the Dutch colonies; for we cannot now
obtain any immediate participation in
.that com-
merce without loading ourselves with a putt of the
Dutch debt. We cannot accept for a Chief a
Prince of the House of Orange, for such a Prince
would have Counsellors at the Hague, end would
be tied down by interests connected withi his family
and country.

With reference to Europe, the principle of non-
interference shackles and assures us at once. It
assures us, because no foreign Power can join with
Holland and the House of Orange to reconquer us.
It shackles us, because we cannot give ourselves to
any other Power, nor call it to our aid. We could
do so neither directly or indirectl7.. For example :
we could not, before being definitively constituted
and acknowledged, choose for a chicle French
Prince; this Prince would be a person interposed,
to use a civil law phrase; the principle of non-inters
ference woehl be indirectly violated.
We have then two first data : Ist, the absolute
separation from Holland and the House of Orange;
and 2dly, the non-interference of Europe directly or
indirectly. That being settled, let us consider 13el-
glum with respect to itself.
Monarchy is with us a foreign importation. We
were .subjected to, under Bonaparte, military des-
potism : under William 1., fiscal and mercantile
despotism. These two regimes lasted together 25
years, and we are for ever disgusted with them. At
the end of the last century we were swallowed up
in the French republic; since which time we have
always been forced to accept conditions imposed on
us by others, and now, for the first time, we can
ourselves make our conditions. Have we a nation-
ality peculiar to ourselves—can we find in ourselves
a particular type of existence.? We do not heti-,
tate to answer in the affirmative. To show what
. we can be, we will state what we have been. Our
`history is ;too little known by foreigners. They
seldom give themselves the trouble of going further
back than our union with France : and they sup-
pose thatvei only date from 1795. Richelieu and
Louis XIV. went beyond the monarchical level in
France, and for more than •a century afterwards
.all nations were silently acted upon by the single
principle of obedience. A great royal establishment
has been created in France, and every thing has been
centralized. The nation is strongly constituted, but,
as the President Hendon tie Pensey used to say,
there is neither city nor province: the national
existence has absorbed every thing. It is not so
with Belgium. During the middle ages each locality
formed its own destinies, and we preserved, up to
1795, this multiplied existence. We remained dis-
engaged from the contest respecting the monarchical
'Principle, which has levelled most of. the States of
Europe. We are proud to 11 teel3el
1011/4n'nadds
somepor
orbei' ,cecoreathstbv eoo,tioSnittrlat tet eor,egsettsah,eurn i
joytt
aeocft
commonmt ulanti
rig; emns,
This form is perfectly
adapted to our babiis' and' manners. We occupy
ourselves very, mnel(With 19cal interests, because the
middling class—the bourgetiiseis murderous; and
eve may, say, Without I:Apes, to anyone, our nobility

has always been honottrably distinguished by some
thing bourgeois from the French nobility. They
have not sought after sinecures and the favours of
Courts ; they have lived amongst us, on their estates
:Ind in our towns; they have never been connected
with the Prince for the purpose of oppressing the
people; but in the time of public danger they have
alwayi made common cause with us, and were al-
ways regarded as a part of the nation.
Twenty years of arnion to France, 15 years of
union to Holland, have not efireed all that. The
creation of a Federative. State will be bur political
restorative.
It will be observed that we do not talk of a com-
plete return to the ancient state of things. No one
will attribute to us the desire of seeing 'feudality re-
established. Great progress has been inade in the
last forty.years, and we, cannet be unmindful of that.
We do not talk of reviving our tholartuds of mi...
totns; common coderarted general law s will strengthen
the ea:level braid, without injury to the provincial
and communal interest. No improvement will be
denied by us, and none of the ideas of the present
age repudiated.
But who will be the chief of the Federative State
of Belgium
This question is entirely personal,. and we will
say something expressly on this head. The choice
'of a elikf might be regmalcd as an indirect violation
of, the principle of non-interference. The funda-
mental law will deli .0 the attributes of the chief of
,the state, and nothing prevents his election, and
61111 the choice of his title being deferred. A corn-
mitodent could discharge his functions. In any etrs.e
--and whatever opiniribs may be held on this sub.:
ject,--it is first of all necessary for us to make a
constitution. It is right that the fundamental law
should precede the chief of the State. If he be a
King, he shrill not be able to say that he has granted
us rights front the impulse of his own pleasure, and
that he has curtailed the privileges of his house.
All negotiation relative to the choice of a chief
appears therefore to us to be premature and even
dangerous. It might besides be maintained, thi*t
the Provisional Government could not, from the na-
ture of their mission, decide on this point. It be-
longs to the national will alone to determine on it.
For the same reason they could tint negotiate with
the house of Orange, and all transactions would be
null. The Princes.of that house are expelled, and
the 'anion alone could, by a new election, render to
either of them their lost rights.

The Prince of Mange wishes to taave Belgium :
Belgium will save herself without him. He pro-
miles the oblivion of faults :..we have. none to re-
proach ourselves with. .Failltserimes--,are all on
the side of Holland, on the side of his dynasty, who
have oppressed us for lif cen yeartr while they pro-
mised us liberty. The events of'September have
decided the question ; the deeisigl► is not to be re.
argued. Conciliatory words will no longer delude.
The Belgians recollect the prorlama,ions of 1815,
and fifteen years of the conduct of William 1.,
which has served them for a cominentary. No more
compacts with the house of Ocange.

(From the Courier dcs Pays Bas, Oct. 9.)

" The military commander of the province of
South Brabant iv named Lieu! errant-General on
actual service.

" An allowance of 10,0001. a year will be grunted
him, as a compensation for his services. A pension
of 5,0001. is secured to his widow by the Belgic
tition.

`.The Belgic Government reserves to itself the
privilege of granting to the Commander, Vsnllalen,
such marks of distinction as his devotion to the
common weal and his services to the Belgic cause
have merited.

"By an order of the Committee of War in
Belgium, dated the 6th instant, M. le Major De-
Indri6re has been invited to assettle, as speedily as
possible, in their respective residences, all the cavalry
of the Ex-Mateeliatise, now the National Gen-
darmerie.

" VANDEVEII, Captain of Getulanneriv."

PR OCL A MATT ON.

" Brave BelgiattsFln quitting the honourable
post to which I Was Called ut the moment whin the
Dutch sword - raised above our. heads was already
anticipating an ignoble triumph;.l feel it necessary
to express to .you, the determination which I feel
for your civic virtues, your courage, and your
devotion.
" The holy alliance of the people is indebted to
you in laurel.. History ►will do justice to your
noble example.
" Inhabitants of Brussels,—Volunteers from the
neighbouring provinces and nations, you hare done
more than the inhabitants of Paris; your actions
prove it. The tithe is come, companions in arms,
in which you ought to have at your head it chief who
belongs to your own army. Persevere in the noble
tusk ►which you have undertaken, and in that union
which constitutes your strength._

"JUAN VAN "'ALEN."

PROCLAMATION.

" \i/c, William, &c.,

• "To all to whom these presents shall come greet-
ing. Faithful to the oath taken to the constitution,
in pursuance of the obligations which we have to
fulfil with regard to our subjects, we have employed
in vain every method of pacifying the armed revolt
which has taken place in the southern provinces.
Finding it impossible, in coosequence of events
which have followed each -other with the greaic.t
rapidity, to protect the loyal inhabitants of those
provinces against the overwhelming force brought
against them (overmvi), we feel that it .is necessary
to turn our undivided attention to that part of our
kingdom whose loyalty to our house and to - the in-
stitutions of a well-organized social condition boa
been displayed in so positive a manner.
" You sea With what rapidity the conduct, to
whielta multitude deservitig pay has been driven,-
has produced terrible disasters. Your prodenecir--
your fidelity to your duties,--your attachmentt to
honour,—and, above all, yourbelief in the existence
of a Grod,, who punishes injostiee,--havu prevented
you from being carried away by the torrent. The
maintenance. of that- iberty which the united Low
Countries have enjoyed during centuries would then
perhaps for ever be impossible, and your ruin- had
been certain.

Inhabitants of the loyal country, your strength
is wanted at present, for the protection of your
country. The situation of the kingdom requires
that a general arming should take place, and that
your energy should be employed in preserving all
that you hold, deur,and sacred.
0 flie -fundamental law declares that in eircum-
stances similar to those in which we now are, it is
one of the firit duties of the inhabitants of the
kingdom to take up arms. This order is in accor-
dance with your wishes. To arms, then, at the
pressing demand of your Sovereign I To arms for
the cause of order and the laws! To arms under
the protection of Almighty Clod, who has so often
saved the Low Countries.and the House of Orange
from the grearest.dangers.
We *hall order the Governors of towns arid
communes to take immediately such measures as
will give the greatest facilities to the speedy equip-
silent of volunteers, in the mode best adapted to
the objects to .'be effected in different localities.
They will shortly receive from us the necessary in-
*tractions.
g' Hague, (let.. 7."
The Prince of .otsuige has 'made *Ai attempt,' st

reemmilito ion. MM. de Merode and Vim de Weyer
have answered it with • becoming firmne4s. 'The
House of Orange has ceased to reign in Belgium
that point was derided in the days of September.
The Prince of Orange cannot avail himself against
that deci,ion either on the pretended pritic'ple of
legitimacy or of his right to the- succe,ision. Ile
violated the pledge vi Web he gave us, and by a
system of tactics, which history will condemn, his
brother was sent to exterminate us, whilst he re-
served to himself, by his silence, the means of re-
appearing among us in case of defeat.
The Belgic provinees will, in future, firm art in-
dependent state. For the formation of that reso-
lution, it was not necessary for the Provisional Go-
vernment to decree it. Will they form it federative
state ? The different colours under which our vo-
lunteers march—the three languages spoken in
different parts of our soil —ancient traditions of
municipal liberty—the opinions which have been
uttered for some days put in foreign countries and
in our own—promise to this first quebtion the an-
merous ellen-era of a solotion in the affirmative,

But another question is already under discussion
—shall we admit into our new C.thstitution, the
principle of hereditary succession to the depositary
of the central executive poster?
We are ready to acknowledge, that in this court-
try, as well as in Framer., every 'body, for the last
three months, hue been inclined to tamper with the
words republic and monarchy, so long us they had
only to consider them as simple denominations, Un-
fortunately, we have not, as they had in Prance, a
man who could induce a Lafayette to say " Accept
him for'King, and .we shall have the.best form of
•
republic.vs
Under such circumstances, it would be possible
for the Belgians, with the most ardent wish to ac
cede to the diplomatic susceptibilities of their
neighbours, and with the most 111 neer* desire: not
to exasperate Lord Wellington and M. de Met-
ternich for an idle word, to declare themselves
republicans.
For our part, we think that the real difficulty is
not to decide whether we shall have a Prince, but
rather to determine who that Prince shall be.

Among the Belgians, properly so called, there is
not a name,—there is not an indirithsal,—who can
come forward as a candidate for the throne. We
could find ten Presidents, perhaps, but not one Most
Serene flightless.

Among foreign Princes, the family of Orange was,
fifteen days ago, that from which, with a free choice,
we could have best selected a Prince. At present
we know not ofany person hold enough to think of
it, much less to propose it formally. There are
crimes, as well as benefits, of which the weight is
attributed entirely to the Royal house. The Here-
ditary Prince of -*Orange, like the Duke de Bor-
deaux, must endure a penalty from which, in the
actual condition of opinion amongst our population,
no human power can save him.- Some politicians
-bare talked of the Duke tit Nemours, one of the
sons of the King of the French. This would be
nothing else hut a donatibn from an interposed 'per-
son, as we said yesterday, and we should have fo-
reign interference as inevitably as if the French
meditated to unite our provinces to their departments.
To look among the fecund dynasties of Germany,
which so plentifully furnish Colonels rind Lieutenants-
General for all the armies of Europe, would be a
ridiculous idea, and the character of which the late
transactions for the sovereignty of Greece have fully
established.

All combinations of this sort being attempted
without auccelopl i1',,091041.q OM. ,of an Arne.
deanPre•itlrttcy, soniething equivalent, may be
made io Belgium,
There are among us some social elethents, which
would tend to soften by a little of aristocracy, what.
ever may be too hsr4t in the Constitution of the,
United States for our Europe. If it is meditate(
to constitute us in the form of a Republic, the prin.
cipal problem to resolve will be not to render the can-
trust too striking between our political simplicity
and the ostentattous diplomacy of the Cabinets
around us. More prudent than M. Roland, we must
perhaps continue for sonw years longer the strings
to the shoes of our Ministers.

(From the Journal de la Be:pique of the 7th, Bth, alai
Oth of October.)
mtussms, OCT. 0.

" PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

" The Central Committee of the Provisions)
Governtnent, considering that the Ditch Govern-
ment is forming commissions at the flague, corn_
posed among eaters of Belgians lately members of
the States-General, to treat of the atLirs of Belgium;
" Referring to its decree of the 4th of October,
1830, on the independence of Belgium :

" Declares to he null and infringing on the inde-
pendence and safety of the State all acts or transec-
tioul which Belgians or others not furnished with
powers from the Provisional Government shall take
on them to sign or to conclude.

" DE POTTER.
" CU. ROGIER.
" S. VANDE\VEYER.
" Count FELIX de MERODE.
" By order,
" .1. VANI)ERLINDEN, Secretary
" Brueseles, Oct. 5, 1880."

The Provisional Government has just appointed
Committee to draw up a Constitution. It consists
of Messrs. Van ?deepen, De Grandly, Tilitiroans,
Devaux, 1)e Brouckere, Mabry, liallin, Londe, and
Thom.

The Central Committee has appointed two not*-
ries and 12 citizens' of Brussels to inspect 41 the
Owes ravaged by the enemy, and to take en account
of the injury done to property, and the acts of vio-
!owe committed against individuals, in, order to
transmit to posterity the proofs of the unheurd-of
ravages committed in the city of Brussels by the
Dutch troops, under the command of Prince Pre-
deriek of the Netherlunds.

The Secretary of the French Legation to the
Court of the Netherlands act out this morning et six
o'clock with despatches for the Hague.
A 'British Cabinet Messenger, twining from the
Hague with despatches for London, passed through
yesterday.

OCTOBER 7.

The troops are in their positions a league beyond
Vilvorde ; the bridge of Eppeghe►n on the Senile is
defended by artillery, beyond which is the ramp.
General Cart Ileiligers has fallen back to Hassel'
and Maestrieht. According to accounts from Ant-
werp, orders have been received there on the 4th to
evacuate that fortress and make the troops full back
to the old Dutch line; but this order had been re-
voked, arid the troops still occupy their positions be-
hind the Neal.

ocTotticit 8.

COMMUNICATION TO OUR PELLOW-OITISBNI.

" A person lent by his Royal Flightless the Prmce
of Orange has desired to apply to us in order to ob-
tain information .on- the state of opiniiin, end on the
means of reoonciling the interests of his Boyal High-
ness, and those of the Belgic nation,
" We heve-deelsired to 'this pereon, Oa we had
no authority to treat with the -Prince on the future
situation of Belgium, that this right belonged to the
Nationtl Congress, which cuss alone decide on the
es the Prince had ex-
future aituetion of the country ; end- that unless we
received a special authority from the. people, we
ittiLrutdesgoiretothtiAtl'it%‘%eetPt euld do. We Mao. ex..

The negotiations for the occupation of the Citadel
have been concluded this morning. The followiUg
are the principal conditioits
" The Dutch troops to leave with arms and beg-
gage, and go by the Government-road to Maeatricht.
The General engages, on his honour, that no ex-
cesses shall be committed.
" The fort shall be given up to 1114jor Lolivier, of
the I ltb division, who has engaged, on his honour,
to keep and command the fort in the name and fOr
the King of the Netherlands during the ten days
that this convention is binding.
" The Du ch ere to leave ell the artillery, Am,
except three fieid-picces.
" The Belgians shall remain in the citadel, and
receive provisions on paying for them
" Those who think themselves bound in honour
to go to Maastricht, are at, liberty to do so.
" No troops to reinforce the citadel during the
Convention."

OCTOOR R 7.
The 1,100 Dutch began their retreat to Mmes.
tricht yesterday afternooe. General Van ilnecop
and Wench) Fitvange and Pestiaux marched ut their
head. They passed in silence between a double
line of our Guards, whose good appearance made it
singular contrast with the disorder and despondency
of the Dutch. Almost all the 1101ditil of the I lilt

division If 111*
gave onequivoex marks o a .cttott.--
Many went to,the citizens and offectioustely shook
hn Ads with them. The soldier* of the, ill+ •
aloft, the whole .of Which departed, almost‘ all, of
them young recruits harttlir knowing how to ear9t TF 51;
their arms, looked at the long. line of Otir.hAttio6ll4
with a, surprise evideutly mingled with terror, .
General I3erlaynour, accompanied by lds,
took leave of General iloecop on the plain of 11,0,..
cone, whither our guard followed the -.retiring
risen. Our 'eitisen soldiers returned into the< oily
at four o'clock, and were received with the liveliest
acclamations.
The troops that left yesterday passed the night at
Tongre, which they were to leave this morning.
The militia of the district of Verviers arrived at
Liege yesterday evening. The number of militia in
the barrack of St. Lawrence is 2,000; the forma-
tion of companies proceeds actively ; in.a few slaps
.4,000 National and I4iegeois militia will be ready to
take the field. The exatnple set by the province of
Liege will doubtless be imitated by the other pro.
vinces.—Politilue.
A letter from Meestricht of the 7th says—
" About 3,000 men, the remains of the army of
General Cort arrived hare the day before
yesterday. With the reinforcement of the troops
from your citadel which are expected this morning,
our garrison will be 6,000 or 7,000 strong.
" The 2d regiment of euirasaiera bats jest sot out
for Bred*: it is wholly composed of Jleiglens. it
is doubtful whether it.will reach its destination.

" A regiment of Belgian dragoon's his been sent
to itsremende; a great many have deserted by the
way."—Politique.

nitENT, OCT. 7.
According to the Allgerneine Nituivs-Blatt, it ii
reposted that M. Van Tots rill be replaced by Ilscon
Roell.

The same paper says—" Antwerp, oar last sup•
port in the eolith, is going to escape from us, The
third division was on the point of coming to blows
with the Burgher Guard, and has been sent out of
the city to prevent great misfortunes." -
PROVINCIAL ESTATRR-4—EXTRAORDINAWIt
MEETINOS.
" We, the undersigned member* of that provinoial
)114 estates of East Flanders, helt.:a. 'mm64.41144 #to.
, „,„.
day in the hall of the Estates)ii "';.;,,Stiltinrilt,
n t 'TfTilbi us to. pity tomige re. the Etats —rim ..
dity•iit tont .M., in the said heti, iit oFtierto contrail
the provifittiq estatifelfittk.tprite diettl in is body of
notables, to consider of mesh to ritiore order and
tranquiliity, and to deliberate on the wants of the
moment in the extraordinary circumstances in which
the-province is placed."

(The signatures, 17 in number.)
,4NTWIIItP, OCT. 7,
To-day, at haltpaitt..one'll*Clock, 'Prince
°tang% reviewed out' communal guard.' This fine
holy of men bid 'a,Perfect military appearance. The
Priem %poke In the most gracious manner to the
officere,:un their zeal and successful efforts in pre.
serving public tranquillity. The Journal of Antwerp
contains a proclamation of King William for a levy
en moue of the inhabitants of Holland this show*
what fears the state of Holland excites in the
reign, and what violent measures he thinks threes-
may to preserve that part of his dOminions, The
same Journal announces that M. Ducpetiaux has been
set at liberty, on his promise not to leave tiewerp4„,,
" We, Prince of Orange, seeing the itoisSi'
decree of the 4th instant, and
.particularly Article 4 of that
decree ; seeing nor proclamation of the sth of that
desiring to surround ourselves with all the informs*Oissi
may enable us to falai the intentions Which we hhilni•
feste.l in that proclamation
" On the report of the Ministers provisionally at 441 1
to our Government, sod by virtue of die powers corinder
to us, have decreed, and do decree—

" Art. I. A Committee of Consultatitm shall propose
to us the measures of conciliation which the state of lirl-
gium calls for.
" Art. 2. This Committee shall he oompatted of ilfaaste,
the Count d'Aerschot, Coast de Celle., J. F. Collet,
Baron Surlet de Chokier, Charles de liroackere, Ilettry
Cords, W. (Mottos, Verannemanf TheOphil44ol4lotinf tie
Ger!ache, and Charles Le Hop, AS fillr as 0.%0;111 con.
ikle:ij to them by, the Itnyod %hetes ,of the ..I.VihiS'ltiouth
shall' permit them. We reserve the feeoltfOf adding other
meinbers to their smatters."

Lula'*avail, OCT. 6.
The magistrates have ordered that rtit person is to apple
in the street* alter tight in the evening withaat a 114 ht•
Fit) men, chiefly reeruits, arrived on Monday, front Tirveir
to reinfot ea the garrison, which is h,OOO men. Chests -
arms arrived with three it pops.
The day before yesterday, the Durgnmaater sort miil-
- published s proilaination, calling in titlita. the putt-
liar situation of the city of !Autoharp aid the
,fiveseloitY
of its abstaining, under present eireurnstsoveit tram ail
public demonstrations, the result of whiilt would he, that
the town would be immediately declared in a Mate of
siege. Some inhabitants of one of the suborbs thought of
hoisilng the Brabant dag, but they have desisted. Thi
proclaination conolutles by inviting the inhabitants to wait
for tlut course of events.
The Provisional Government Lea went a letter to,lit
Wilmer,Governor of the provinre ot Lixemkttg,
him to art in conformity with the deerees of the Plod-
sional Government, and as if the Grand (Duchy Went an
integral part of Belgium,.....that to so say, as far na the rtla.
Conti of the provinces with the Gamma Confederation w ill
allow. •