The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-07 00:00:00

GERMANY.

FRANKFORT, SEPT. I.—The Russians still continue " the
beats and boars" of the day in the south of Germany. The
Bavarian Papers especially are full of the exterior part of their
exploits, and of the different agreeable modes in which the
Czar " surprises" his lady and others, in order to be surprised
in return, for " surprise" there must be wherever Nicholas
makes his appearance. The wretched town of Kreuth and
its environs, now the hotbed of intrigues, would, by the ac-
counts of the " good Press," almost appear a sort of modew
Arcadia, where the gods are sojourning to shower down their
costly favours upon the lucky mortals who cannot offer too
much incense and adoration. That their Russian Majesties
are completely worshipped, not only by those well-paid
writers, but also by a host of other people of all ranks, hardly
can be doubted, but the reason is easily to be found in the
quantity of ducats, rings, snuff-boxes, and trinkets of all
kinds, orders, stars, S:c. &c., that are scattered about by
them. Intrigues are uncommonly busy, and their suc-
cess, I fear, will be greater than at first was imagined.
How much there may bo true of these rumours I will not take
upon myself to say; but that the stay of the Russians in Mu-
nich, and the ground they visibly are gaining there, forebode
a still greater decline of the independence of th;, German
States, everybody must perceive. The two Grand DuZ'hesses
Maria and Olga arc already on their route from Petersburg
to Berlin ; and though their hearts surely will remain in the
Emperor's Cabinet, their hands probably will soon be fastened
upon German, if not Bavarian Princes. For the Bavarian
army no less than eight Russian orders are said to be in readi-
ness for distribution at the ensuing field exercises near Augs-
burg, where, by the end of this week, about 18,000 troops
will be assembled and encamp for a fortnight. Nicholas,
of course, is to be there, and so is his brother-in-law, the Crown
Prince of Prussia, with sundry other personages, who partly havo
already arrived in Bavaria. What has been agreed upon at
Toplitz with regard to the Belgian question does not yet ap-
pear clearly ; still I must attract your notice to the fact, that
within. the last few weeks, in several of the German papers,
King William's policy and the Dutch pretensions are pretty
sharply attacked, while the cause of the Belgians is more than
indirectly advocated even in the semi-official Munich Gazette,
and a couple of Rhenish Papers under Prussian censorship.
This is a circumstance which ought not to be lost sight of,
though it
,may, to the less informed appear of little consequence.
Indeed, Cserreany, especially its whole west, has no reason
whatever to complain of the Belgians; on the contrary, we
feel ourselves much indebted to them for having in a great
manner put an end to the oppressive Dutch monopoly on the
Lower Rhine, and opened to us the sea, which the Nether-
lands Government never would have done voluntarily. Our
commercial intercourse with Belgium has greatly improved
and extended our trade, which, until 1830, was lamentably
kept down by various Dutch measures, and more especially by
the want of a free p:ssage to the sea. Public opinion begins
to express itself pretty plainly on the subject, and the longer
the status quo continues the safer Luxemburg will ultimately
be to the Belgians. If the Prussinns, as it would seem, insti-
gat d by religious fanaticism, are attempting separate bargains
with Holland, the same as formerly they betrayed Germany by
a separate peace with France at Basle, the consequence will
s,iil be upon their heads.-11forning Chronicle.