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London, England, 1831-06-20 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BiLL'S. SE JUNE 15.—A Belgi in Cabinet messenger set
out yesterday afternoon with dispatches for Loudon.
In the sitting of the Congress yesterday various mea-
sures relative to matters of finance, to the civic guard, &c.
were discussed. The report of the Central Section, on
the proposal of M. Theux, to reduce the number of mem-
bers necessary to enable the Chember to debate from 101
to '7O, announced that the Central Section judged the pro-
posed change dangerous, and advised the Order of the Day.
In this sitting M. Duvivier, Minister of Finance, ad in-
terim, presented a general view of the presumed resources
of the Revenue for 1831, the sum total of which he made
to amount to 44,566,211 florins. _

JUNE !G.-It WA'S reported yesterday in the Congress,
that Prince Leopold had accepted the throne of Belgium,
and that consequently all difficulties respecting the boun-
daries were removed.

A postscript to the Journal of Antwerp says, " We
have positive information that there is no foundation for
the news of a revolution at Amsterdam, given by the
Emancipation and the Beige."
In the sitting of the Congress of the 15th, M. G.
Legrelle proposed that a message should be sent to the
Government, inviting it to take the most effectue mea-
sures to prevent a renewal of hostilities from impeding the
negotiations at London, arid to acquaint the different corps
of the army, by an order of the day, of the decision of the
Congress. After considerable debate the Chamber r, -
solved, by a majority of 63 to 51, that the motion should
be immediately considered and referred to a Committee of
17 members. The Committee immediately withdrew, and
after being absent an hour, returned, when M. Beyts an-
nounced that the Committee had devised, by a majority,
that the proposal was constitutional, since Art. 88 of the
Constitution gives the right of declaring war to the head of
the state alone ; and unanimously, that it disapproved of
the events at Antwerp. The Chamber passed to the
order of the day.
JUNE 17.—A courier, who arrived from England the
evening before yesterday, brought to the Regent letters
from the deputation sent to Prince Leopold. These let-
ters contain nothing positive. They only announce that
all hope of a solution advantageous to Belgium is not lost.
The first number of the Moniteur Beige, avowedly the
Journal of the Alinistry, was published yesterday evening.
It contains the following document :

" LETTER FROM TILE REGENT OF BELGIUM TO MIS KOVAL

DIGIINESS PRINCE LEOPOLD OF SAXE COBURG.

" PatscE,—The Congress has, in the name of the
Belgic people, just decreed the Crown to your Royal High-
ness. By this act of sovereignty, it confides the desti-
nies of the nation to your wisdom, and places the na-
tional honour under the safeguard of the personal honour
of your Royal Highness, which is henceforth inseparable
from the other.
4, The Belgians reckon on your efforts, united, with
those of the Deputies sent to you by the Congress, and
on those of the Commissioners of the Government, t'
obtain from the Plenipotentiaries of the Congress at Lon-
don the recognition of our just rights.
" This is the first pledge we expect of your love for the

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lelgian nation. Tiiis nation, which is misunderstood and
•alumniated abroad, will prove to your• Royal Highness.
tecome its King, that it is worthy of a better fate than
-hit which seemed to be prepared for it, but which it was
`ldly resolved never to submit to, though ready to make.
:or the preservation of general peace, all the sacrifices
compatible with its honour, and with the security of it,
.xistencots an indepent nation.
" I Oink it my duty to inform your Royal Highness,
that on the promptness of the negociations depends th 4
fate of Belgium, and, perhaps, even the tranquillity o'
Europe.
" I am also convinced that it is of the highest impor-
tance that the Congress should carefully avoid driving to
despair a generous nation, which has done every thing to
constitute itself in harmony with the other European Go-
vernment=, and has just given a new Allikf of it by the
election of your Royal Highness.
" I hesitate not to say that if, contrary to all expecta-
tion, and in spite of your efforts, its offers should be re-
ceived disdainfully, or rejected, it would then see no means
of safety but an appeal to its sword.
" It is reserved for your Highness to allay the storm and
to avert from our heads the misfortunes which threaten us,
and which would extend to all Europe.
_ _ .

" Never was Prince placed in a more noble situation
than your's : you arr, by your situation, the arbiter of peace
p*
or war. All now de your effitrts with the Con-
ference' to secure the of the just cause of the
people which has named 1 its King.
'• You will answer, I doubt not, its expectation, and I
adjure you to do so in the name of the country.
" The Regent of Belgium,
"Baron SUBLET de CHOKIER.
" Brussels, June 6, 1831."
We are assured that some Members of the Congress
waited on the Regent yesterday morning to ask for a
change of the Ministry. It seems that the Regent an-
swered, that the Ministry could not retire unless there
was a majority of the Congress against them ; that the
rejection of the Budget, for instance, would be a warning
to them.

General Alillinet arrived at Ostend yesterday.
• ANTWERP, JUNE 16.—1 t is estimated that 10,000 per-
sons have left Antwerp since Sunday, and confidence is far
from being restored. It is affirmed that very strict orders
are come from Brussels to inquiet. into the cause of the en-
gagements, which occur daily without any reason, between
the town and the Dutch ; and in case it shall be proved
that they originated with the Belgians, to punish those
who are the occasion of them.

AwrwERP, JUNE 17.—Yesterday paned over quietly,
the firing of musketry, which alarmed us for several days,
has at length ceased. The Civic Guard does duty at the
port, and suffers no person to approach the quays. Yester •
day and last night patrols traversed the streets. Two
cannon are placed in the Grand Place ; yet the appearance
of the city is still gloomy. The inhabitants who have
left do not think of returning, and many waggons, loaded
with effects, are sent way.--Brussels Papers, June 16.
+ So the Congress at London is now generally called in the
Belgic and French Journals.

DUEL BETWEEN LORD THOMAS CECIL

AND MR. TENNYSON.

These gentlemen met at Wormwood Scruhbs on Satur-
day afternoon, the 18th instant, at six o'clock.
Lord Thomas Cecil was attended by Lord James Fitz-
roy, and Mr. Tennyson by Sir Wm. Ingilby, Hart., M.P.
fur Lincolnshire. After exchanging shots, Sir William
Ingilby expressed himself satisfied on the part of Mr. Ten-
nyson.
Lord James Fitzroy said that Lord Thomas Cecil was
sati-fied ; and thi affair being thus terminated to the ho-
nour of all parties, a conversation ensued, in which Mr.
TennyFon having repeate 1 his regret that any expressions
of his should have been painful to Lord Thomas Cecil's
feelings, and expressed his hope that they would have no
further cause of differenee, he and Lord Thomas Cecil
shook hands, and the parties left the ground with the full
understanding that all points of dispute were finally dis-
posed of.
This rencontre took pl ice in consequence of some ex-
pressions in a speech made at a public dinner at Stamford,
on Tuesday last, by Lord Thomas Cecil, with reference to
the affair between him and Mr. Tennyson detailed in the
newsparers of last week.
The speech in question was reported in the Stamford
Bee, delivered in London on Friday morning, anti the sub-
stance of it also appeared in The Son of Saturday.
On Friday, upon Mr. Tennyson and Colonel 'Moberly
reading this speech in the Bee, each of them considered
the observations of Lord Thomas Cecil with respect to
the former affair as reflecting upon himself, and separately
addressed his Lordship on Friday for an explanation.
Lord Thomas Cecil was not in town when the letters
were delivered at his residence, but arrived in the night.
The following is the correspondence which took place :
No. 1.
MR. TENNYSON TO LORD THOMAS CECIL.

Ordnance Office, June 17, 1531.
MS' LORD,—In the Stamford Bee of this day, I find a report.
of your Lordship's 9peech at a dinner on Tuesday last.
Your Lordship may have a right to contend, that your call
upon me to withdraw the expressions you objected to, or send
my friend to make other arrangements with Colonel Standen,
ought, in your opinion, when 1 adopted the latter alternative, to
have be,ri followed by a meeting between us. But in thus main-
taining what must have been your original impression, it appears
to me that your speech conveys reflections arid imputations upon
my conduct and character as a man of honour.
I trust, therefore, your Lordship will assure me that such
was not your intention. I have the honour to be
Your Lordship's obedient servant,
The Lord Thomas Cecil, &c. &c: CHARLES TENNYSON.

No.:.

COLONEL MAI3ERLI"fO LORD THOMAS CECIL.
Ordnance-Office, June 17th, 1831,

LoßD,—Having read some passages in a speech made by
you at Stamford, as reported in the Bee newspaper, adverting to
the conduct of Mr. Tennyson in a late affair, and of course, as
that gentleman acted wholly by my advice, reflecting indirectly
upon me, I am compelled, very reluctantly, to call upon your
Lordship fur an explanation of them. I have no desire to ques-
tion the views you may be disposed to entertain upon that un-
pleasant transaction ; but I have a right to call upon you to
maintain them in such terms as to cast no stigma upon my cha-
racter, or imply that I did not feel as an honourable man ought
to do on such an occasion. I trust, therefore, you will feel no
difficulty in assuring me, that however different may have been
the conclusions at which we have respectively arrived, no impu-
tation was meant to be thrown on the motives that influenced my
decision ; and that in using those expressions, which seem to bear
the construction I have put upon them, you did not intend any
thing offensive to my feelings, or that could in the least reflect
upon my character as a gentleman.
I remain, my Lord, your most obedient Servant,
W. L. MABERIA.
My address is 4, Cumberland-place, Portman-square.

No. 3.

LORD THOMAS CECIL TO COLONEL MABERLY.
178, Piccadilly ,Friday night, Half-past Twelve.
SIR,—I have this moment arrived at my lodgings, where I
found your note.
I have not the least hesitation whatever in saying that no im-
putation was meant in my speech at Stamford on Tuesday last,
to be thrown on the motives that influenced your decision in the
late affair, and that I did not in the slightest degree intend any.
thing offensive to your feelings, or that in the least reflect on
your character as a gentleman, and am sorry that any thing I said
could be construed by you to have a contrary tendency.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS CECIL
Lieutenant. Colonel Maberly.

No. 4.
LORD THOMAS CECIL TO MR. TENNYSON.
178, Piccadilly, June 18, 1831, One o'clock a.m

Sta,—Your letter has thisinstant reached me, and I am sorry
I cannot give you the assurance you require; but until the for-
mer dispute between us is settled, it is totally out of my power to
give you any further explanation.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
Charles Tennyson, Esq. THOMAS CECIL.

No. 5.
MR. TENNYSON TO LORD THOMAS CECIL.

Ordnance Office, 18th June, 1811.
My Loan,—As your Lordship withholds the explanation I de-
sired, I am under the necessity of requesting you to say with
whom my friend shall communicate under the circumstances in
which I am now placed.
Many reasons render it desirable—indeed necessary—that our
unpleasant difference should be settled to-day, and in this desire
I feel sure of your Lordship's concurrence.
I have the honour to be,
Your Lordship's obedient servant,
To Lord Thomas Cecil. CHARLES TENNYSON.

No. 6.

LORI) THOMAS CECIL TO MR. TENNYSON.
178, Piccadilly, June IS.
Sta,—l find Colonel Standen has left town for Ireland. I will
therefore, without delay, endeavour to procure some other
friend, with whom Colonel Maberly can communicate on the
subject.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
C. Tennyson, Esq. THOS. CECIL.

To explain the substitution of Sir Wm. Ingilby for
Colonel Maberly as Mr. Ti,nnyson'm friend, it is necessary
to state that on Saturday morning Mr. Tennyson wrote to
Colonel Maberly in Cumberland-place, requesting him to
officiate as his second ; but Colonel Moberly felt himself
bound by the advice of Colonel Lindsay, in whose hands
he had placed himself, to decline acting on this occasion,
atter the correspondence which had taken place between
Lord Thomas Cecil and himself as principals, lest it
should be inferred that he retained any vindictive feeling
towards Lord .Thomas Cecil, after the satisfactory ex-
planation he had received from his Lordship in the Jetter
No. 3.

As the parties were leaving the ground, they were all
taken into custody by a body of police, who conveyed
them to the Paddington-station-house, and thence to the
public-cffice, Marylehone, when, as it appeared that the
duel had already taken place, and that the parties were
reconciled, they were not bound over to keep the peace.
but the matter was dismissed.

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