The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-26 00:00:00

EVENING SITTING.

M. Mu lenaere, Minister for Foreign Affairs, ascended
the tribune, and said, " Gentlemen, after having laid
before you, in your sitting yesterday, the course followed
by the Government in the late negociations—after having
shown you its persevering efforts, followed by a result so
unexpected, and so contrary to its wishes, there remains
fin• me now, as well as for my colleagues, who are, like
myself, Counsellors of the Crown, a melancholy and pain-
fill duty to perform. The fulfilment of this duty we
cannot avoid, placed, as we are, under the law of a
necessity which cannot be mistaken, and with which
it is impossible to contend, except by subjecting to
incalculable chances the present and future welfare
of the country, and perhaps by sacrificing the two con-
quests of our revolution, independence, and liberty. The
treaty of peace determined on by the Conference stipu-
lates, in articles two and four,cessiona of territory in favour
of Holland. The Government could not authorise its
Plenipotentiary to sign this treaty ; the 68th article of the
Constitution, which says, " No cession, no change, no act-
dition of territory can take place but by virtue of a law,"
formally opposed this, and at the same time pointed
out to the Government the course it had to follow. It is
to remain faithful to the principles of the Constitution, to
fulfil an obligation which it imposes on us, that we
come, Gentlemen, by the King's orders to submit to your
consideration a project of law authorising the Government
to, consent to the cessions of territory stipulated in the
tteaty of peace, and to conclude financial arrangements.
Amid the painful sentiments which affect it, the Govern-
ment will not le tee you in ignorance of the motives
which have determined it to take on itself the respon-
sibility of the initiative which it now uses.
The nation, whose destinies are now to be de-
finitively fixed, and you gentlemen who represent it
in this place, shall be acquainted with all our thoughts.
If even the courage to speak with frankness was neces-
sary, it is now, in reference to the weighty interests
on which you will have to decide. To he silent or to dis-
semble at such a moment would be, I will not say weak-
ness in a Ministry, but baseness, Yes, gentlemen, tee
question which the project of law raises is so mighty, that
the whole future fate of the country is involved in its so-
lution.

" If at another time proposals like the conditions now
imposed on us had been made to Belgium, the Govern
ment might have shrunk from the task which it now per
forms; it would, perhaps, have said to you, " Reject
these conditions, they are unjust and partial, depend on the
goodness of your cause, on time, if need be on your arms,
to obtain them." But, gentlemen, this language. which
would then have appeared reasonable, because circum-
stances and facts gave it a force which it would not
have derived from itself, is now no longer possible.
Since then time has advanced, and Europe has
witnessed events which by modifying the general
policy could not but influence the question raised by our
revolution. The support which we found in the idea of
our strength, inspired into the Powers by our success in
September, the perhaps more real support which the
heroic resistance of the Poles gave to our cause, has wholly
abandoned us. Poland, that interesting country, which
never had its equal in glory and misfortune after prodigies
of courage, has fallen. Can it be necessary to tell you
the influence that its fail must have had on the policy and
resolutions of a Power all whose motions were embarrassed
by the revolution. But, besides these considerations there
is another which cannot and must not escape you ; it is
that the question which has been in dispute for this year
past is not limited merely to our interests and those of
Holland, but that it affects in many points the interests of
Europe. Our patriotism, our national pride, wounded by
the sentence of the arbitrators, who have just de-
cided between Holland and us, may revolt at
this intervention of Europe. It is, nevertheless, a
fact which we cannot do away with. This fact besides is
not new, it has its sanction, it has precedents in history.
Other people before us have had to submit to the conse-
quences of it. It is not the first time that whether with
or without reason, political expediency, the system of the
balance of Europe, have subjected a people for the general
good, to those sacrifices which are submitted to, only from
a conviction of the inutility of the efforts that might be
made to escape them.
The sacrifice which is required of Belgium is of the
same nature, its whole excuse, its entire justification, for
you who are called on to sanction it by your vote, is in the
necessity, in the circumstances, whose influence in human
affairs is sometimes so powerful that the Statesman cannot
avoid it. The Five Powers agree together to support the
decision which they have made, and which they think
calculated to guarantee at the same time the maintenance
of peace and the European system. This may be
an error arising from the feeling of distrust unduly
excited in them by regenerated Belgium. We be-
lieve it to be so, and you will bear us witness, Gentle-
men, that we have neglected nothing to dispel an error so
fatal to our interests. Our efforts have not had the ex-
pected success, and the determinations of the Five Great
Powers have interposed between our wishes and the hope
of seeing them realised. The Powers (it would be idle to
attempt to dissemble it) act in toncert, and the decisions
of the Conference, as the Note accompanying the Treaty
declares, are final and irrevocable. These words derive
especial force from the circumstances and time necessities
of the moment. The uncertainty which for this year past
has involved the affairs of Europe, in consequence of the
protracted suspense of the Belgian question, cannot be
prolonged without leading to the crisis which it is so
greatly desired to prevent, and which every day's delay
renders imminent.
It is now for you, Gentlemen, to decide whether what
is demanded of us, whether the cessions of territory,
which are the price at which peace is to be offered
to us, can be reconciled, I will not say with the in-
terest of the country (it is partially and violently
injured,)—l will not say with its affections (no regard has
been paid to them), but with its existence as an indepen-
dent nation,—for, gentlemen, how-ever melancholy it may
be, we have now told you the whole truth. The question
is now before you : it is our opinion : it is to be deter-
mined whether we will or not, whether we can or not,
form an independent nation with the territory as it will be
circumscribed by the stipulations of the treaty.
Gentlemen, we have not concealed from ourselves the
objections that may be made against the project of law laid
before you, we have especially foreseen the arguments which
it will be easy to draw from the condition in which those
of our countrymen, of our brethren, will be placed whom
the treaty separates from us. Nobody appreciates better,
or shares more warmly than we do, the regret and the
grief excited in the soul by those forced separations which
tear from our affections,from our sympathy,those who formed
with us only one family, and who so powerfully aided in the
conquest of a patrimony which they ate not to be allowed to
enjoy with us. Far he from us the idea of weakening by
our words a sacrifice, the extent of which we fully com-
prehended. But placed between our affections and the
preponderating interest of the country, having to choose
between time abandonment of some of its members and
the annihilation of the whole family, our choice has not
been free. We have been compelled to enter upon the
course in which you see us, and we may all be allowed to
say, that in acting thus, we have reckoned on your suf-
frages—on the generosity of even those of our brethren,
to whose expatriation we are obliged, unfortunately for our-
selves, to subscribe. 'We said to ourselves, that though
frustrated of the hopes of sharing with us a common
country, they would not, however, from personal motives
desire to draw on Belgium the misfortunes which would
accrue to it from resistance to a decree which must be sub-
mitted to : that they would not wish to see the country
which they quit entirely effaced with them, that there
should be no more a Belgian—a Belgic nation. Can we
lave deceived ourselves, Gentlemen, in ascribing such
-entimeuts to our brethren ? No ; and we defy the

future to refute.our words! If recognising the necessity
which presses,us, you sanction the project of law which
is proposed to you when the fatal day of separation comes,
while they address a painful and sad adieu to this country,
which necessity oblig,s us to abandon, they will form wishes
tor its glory, its prosperity, and its happiness, and confi-
dently relying on its future destiny, they will appeal with
us to time and Providence to reform an injustice which on
our part, allow us, Gentlemen, to repeat it for the last
time, we bitterly deplore.

"Leopold, King of the Belgians, to all pros nt, and to
come greeting :
" By the advice of our Council of Ministers, we have
charged our Minister of Foreign Affairs to present to the
Chambers, in our name, the project of law, the tenor of
which follows ;—Cimsidering that by their acts of the
15th of Oct., the Plenipotentiaries of the Five Great
Powers assembl d in the Conference at London, have
res. Iced on the basis of a separation between Belgium and
Holland, that the tic ity, containing according to the decla-
ration of the plenipotentiaries, the final and irrevocable
conditions as imposed on Belgium and Holland ; seeing
article 68 of the Constitution, we have, with the common
consent ofthe Chambers, decreed and ordained as
" ONLY ARTICLE.-The King is authorised to con-
clude and sign the definitive treaty of separation between
Belgium and Holland, agreed to on the 15th of October,
1831, by the Plenipotentiaries of the F.ve Great Powers
assembled in Conference at London, under such clauses,
condition, and reserves, as his Majesty shall judge neees-
sary and useful to the interest of the country.
(Signed) " LEOPOLD.
" Brussels. Oct. 21, 1831.
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs, War, Justice,
and Finance,
" D. MUELENAERE, " RAIKEIL
" DE BROUCKERE, COGIIEN."
After re tding this project of law, the deepest silence
prevailed for some time in the Assembly.
M. A. Rodenbach—lf the report just made to us by
the Minister were favourable to the interests of Belgium,
I should be of opinion that we should hasten to vote on
the project of law accompanying it. But it is otherwise,
and we must gain time. For this reason I propose that it
should be printed, and referred to the nation,
The President—The proposal being seconded, the pa-
pers will he printed, and examined in the sections.
The Chamber adjourned till to-morrow at noon.
P.S.—OcT. 22.—The printing of the papers leative
to the treaty of peace not being completed, the sitting of
the Chamber of Representatives has been adjourned inde-
finitely.

RIO DE JANEIRO, AUG. 26.—The Diurio c.mtains a
Decree of the Government against the numerous Portu-
guese enemies to. Brazil, who opposed, and even took arms
against its independence, and were yet scandalously con-
sidered by the late Gov,rnment as Brazilian citizens; and
also many others who have since arrived, and have been
allowed all the rights of eitizms, merely because they
have taken the oath to the Constitution : all civil, mill
tary, and ecclesiastical authorities, in whose department
there are Portuguese employed, are strictly to examine
whether they are in fact Brazilian citizen, adopted or
naturalized according to the Constitution.
Another decree orders the dismissal of all foreigners em-
?loyed in the public service, except foreign officers in the
army and navy.

SAILING OF THE FLEET FROM PORTS-

MOUTH, OCT. 25.

A King's messenger arrived here, this day, at ten o'clock
and immediately waited upon Sir James Graham and the
Board of Admiralty now here, and in enut one hour
orders were given for the following ships :—Revenge,
Talavera, Wellington, line of battle ships ; Galatea,
Stay, Curacoa, Tweed, Imogene, frigates ; Recruit,
Charybdis, gun brigs, and Viper, schooner,to proceed with
all possible despatch to the Downs. The we ith?r has bern
so very boisterous that it has not been possible for more
than the four following, viz. :—Strrg, Galatea, Imoyene,
and Viper, to get away this day. To-morrow they will
dep trt severally as soon as ready. The lVellesley will be
off first. Sir E. Codrington struck his flag yesterday,
and immediately left this place. Rear-Admiral Warren
will hoist his flag in the Dosvns in the Revenge. Tar
Tribune will be placed under his command. Captain
Colby, of the Talavera, is at present Commodore.
Nothing is known as to the cause of this sudden and un-
expected order ; but from the circumstance of two three-
deckers being left behind, it is naturally supposed the
ships ordered away are intended to proceed to the Scheldt,
as there is not water enough there for such large ships.

PUBLIC SALES-(THIS DAY.)

AT THE AUCTION 31 4RT.

By MR. MILLS.-A valuable and desir,ble leasehold
property, being No. I, Park-tert ace, Highbury-park (part
of the estate of Mr. George Hadley Simkins, comprising
the whole of Park-terrace, consisting of 25 substantial
residences, the whole of which are to be brought to the
hammer), comprising an excellent family residence, built
in a very substantial manner, with shrubberies, conser-
vatories, offices, carriage-way, &c. The lease was granted
in September last for a term of 93i years, at a ground-
rent of 11/. per annum, and was sold for 5501.
By MESSRS. BROMLEY AND SON.—Two excellent
brick-built messuages, being Nos. 2 and 3, Ebenezer-
street, Kennington-lane, which are let for 421. per annum,
ground-rent and taxes amounting to Si. Is. 6d.—was
knocked down for 1921.

ELECTION OF LORD NIAYOII.
(THIS DAY.)

In consequence of the eceision of the Court of Alder-
men, whia again was adverse to the declared will of the
Livery, as express,4l by a majority on two occasions, a
Common Hall was held this day for the purpose of select-
ing two Aldermen to be returned to that Court, that they
might choose one to serve the office. At one o'clock the
Lord Mayor passed through the Hall, accompanied by the
city officers, and wag most loudly cheered. A few mi-
nutes after the Lord Mayor came on the hustings, attended
by rite usual city officers and Aldermen Waithman, Lucas,
liarebrother, and Winchester.
The Recorder came forward to open the Hall in the
usual form. He was received with great hissing and
hooting.
The Lord Mayor and Aldermen then left the Hall. As
Alderman Farebroth!r passed across the hustings, he was
received with great disapprobation.
Mr. CHARLES PEARSON cause forward and renewed his
protest against the present election, and claimed for the
Livery all the benefits of the first one.
The CommoN SERJEANT felt it is duty to say that
the Livery at present had only to obey the precept is-
sued by the Lord Mayor, their present duty %vas only a
ministerial one, and in no way interfered with the 14w of
the case as raised by Mr. Pearson. He then put up the
names of those Aldermen who have not passed the Chair.
Mr. STEVENS came forward to propose the Lord
Mayor. No man regretted more than he did that the
Livery were under the necessity of again attending to sup-
port their just rights. It was no fault of his or those
who acted with him, that such an inconvenience had
arisen, but the fault lay with in lividuals who arrogated to
themselves the right of controuling the wishes of the
whole of the Liverymen of London. In such a year as
the one about to commence, it was the duty of the Livery
to select a tried Reformer for the Civic Chair, and who
was more fitted fur it than Sir John Key, who had,
during his year, shewn himself a friend to all the rights
of the Livery. The Livery could not now, (after what
had taken place) refuse to go on, or their rights would be
annihilated, would be swallowed up by these 13 or 14
Aldermen.

Mr. PEAttsos spoke on the same subject, after a long
speech he said, he would not second the nomination of
the Lord Mayor, as it might prejudice after proceedings—
be would only say they were determined to go on for
months but they would succeed.
Some gentleman on the hustings then seconded the
❑omination.

A chew of hands was called for, when there appeared for
Sir P. Laurie 3 ; Alderman Farebrother 30 ; and for
the Lord Mayor and Alderman Kelly a forest of bands.
A poll was demanded on behalf of Alderman Farebrother
bylll.lr. Deputy Routh, Mr. Weston, and Alderman Atkins.
The Hall :72, adjourned for an hour, when the polling
was to commence, and continue to lour o'clock.

FoUR O'CLOCK -- (THIS DAY)
Lord Mayor
Alderman Kelly
Alderman Farebrother

Plymouth, whose connection with the Go-
vernment has been of close and long standing, is now in
the very awkward predicament of possessing. two Anti-
Ministerial Members out of office. It present., also, the
singular feature of having for its representatives two Ann-
Reformers in opposition to the known sentiments of nine-
teen-twentieths of its inhabitants! Can a dearer proof
be offered of the anomaly of the present miscalled " re-
presentative" system, and of the strong necessity for a
Reform of that system ?—Plymouth Paper.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, OCT. 25.—Arrived the Margaret and Ann,
Willis, from Antigua. Arrived in the river aad remains,
the Caroline, Few•ou, for Mauritius. His Majesty's ship
Tribune, has arrived from Portsmouth, and sailed for
Chatham.

Po ItT*MOUTH, OCT. 25. —Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the.
sa;led 4th inst. ;
ISlLinr,"Cßen
;aemgpbet'll,3lr7imialSi' from
St.
etilirsl4,ltiirfaexh'; and the 11I,nto
Ha- rison, from Archangel. Sailed his Majesty's ship Ga-
latea, the Stag, Imogene, Curacoi, and nearly all the fleet,
for the Down.

hrerz-s
and F OCT.
d 2 TSI‘IVIanI ldo tWit .p8;c11:: rt, r :tnng 13 ti n s
Ayres, sailed 13th August, from Monte Video the 19th,
and Rio Janeiro the Ist u!t. ; the Spey packet, from Vets
Cruz, sailed Ist ult., and from Havannah on the 23d ;
and the Anl.y, Fall, from Gibraltar.
STA NM:ATE CREEK. OCT. 25.—Arrived the Water
Witch, Martin ; Swiftsure, Barnard ; and Matchless,
Starlinr, from Smyrna.
CowEs, OCT. 25.—Arrived the Volante, Finney, from
Baltimore.

........
DARTMOUTH, OCT. 24.—Arrived off port, the Geor-
giana, Tullis, from Bengal, sailed 15th April, from Ma-
dras 15th June, and St. Helena 2d September.
LIVERYOOL, OCT. 25.—Arrived the William, Firge,
from Bahia ; Margaret. Hurst, som St. Domingo ; Ana-
creon, Lennox, from Virginia ; Hugh Johnston, Nl‘Lay,
from St. John's, N.B. ; and the Sir William Wallace,
Lindsay, from Miramichi.
PLYMOUTH, Ocr. 24 —Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the
Martha, Robson, from Newcastle, for Fernando Po.

The R 'clad, Potter, from Livtr,ool, arrived at Bon:-
bay previous to the 30th May.
Arrived at St. Helena, the Irt, Hoodlesv, from B•ngal ;
Elizabeth, APAlpine, from Bombay; Hector, Richardson,
from Ceylon ; Resource, Shutaleworth, from Madras ;
Paris, Buffington, and Delphos and Frances, from Su-
matra ; and the Daniel, Duncan, from the South Seas.

(From the New York Gazette of the 21st September.)
" There is a story going the rounds of the newspapers.
slid to be copied from the Charlesbury (Pa.) Republi-
can, stating that Captain Henry Gamble, of the British
•hip Lady Sherbrooke, shipwrecked near Cape Ray, by
which 273 lives were lost, had been tried at HaVfax, for
intentionally casting away his vessel. The whole is evi•
dently a contemptible fabrication, for which the author
deserves to be pilloried."
Capt. Gambles left Halifax August 21st, to take the
cm= ind of a ship at Pictou, bound for England.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

A Buenos Ayres mail has arrived, sailed the 13th of
August ; also one from Mexico, sailed from Vera Crue
Sept. 1, which brings dates from Rio of the Ist September.
Posted at the North and South American Coffee-house.
" FALAffiI;TH, OCT. 25.—1 beg to inform you that V e
Sped packet arrived this morning from Mexico with a
freight of 650,000 dollars on merchants' account, and no
passengers."
Buenos Papers have been received at the North and
South American Coffee-house to the 14th August.
(From the Paper of the 13th August.)
We are without news from the interior, at least of any
recent date, which is accounted for by the great scarcity
of horses in the provinces ; the next arrivals will probably
convey intelligence decisive of peace with the province-,
upon which the Unitarian force had retreated, and tie
intentions of its Chief.

The House of Representatives of the province of Buenos
Ayres held a sitting on the Bth inst. The chief busine,s
which came before it was the reading of various notes from
the Government, accompanied with the estimates of the
ordinary service of the province. A motion was made
that Government should appoint a Committee, consisting
sif lawyers and merchants, to revive the Commercial code
upon the basis of the most recent Spanish code.
Exchange on England, 71 to 71.
From Chili they state of the middle of June that the
National Congress was installed on the Ist of June. The
message of the Government thereto says that unanimity
among all classes of citizens had succeeded to the horrors
of civil war ; that the Legislature had found it necessary
to invest the Government with extraordinary powers,
which it had used with moderation, and that
Chili was not only at peace within itself, but with
all nations. France had acknowledged its independency.
Hopes are expressed that the distinguished individual at
the head of affairs in Great Britain would likewise ac.
knowledge the independence of Chili. Our agent in Lon-
don had received instructions to treat with the holders of
Chilian bonds relative to the payment of the dividends.
Gold and silver is collecting at Coquimbo to provide a di-
vidend, and ord.ers have been given to make remittances
as soon as possible.
The private letters from Rio Janeiro are favourable--
all was quiet there. The exchange was 24i ; their
stock 50 to 52.

We hear that the Mexican packet hts brought eighty-
eight thousand dollars, on account of the dividends.
Mexican Papers have been received to the 81st of Au-
gust, but they do not contain any news of importance.