The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-04 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—I have observed of late that on several occasions
when you have published any important or interesting
news from your Portsmouth correspondent (and which I
find is, generally speaking, correct), that the Ilampshire
Telegraph takes the trouble to contradict it in their fol-
lowing publication. The cases are too numerous to notice
in the crowded state of your columns at this period, and
I would therefore advise the Telegraph to look before it
leaps, and not be under the disagreeable necessity of eat-
ing its own words week after week.
The same Paper lately observed that the fleet now at
Spithead was no longer detained for want of men, an
expression calculated to impel the public to conclude
that the crews of the respective ships were complete. It
!Leeds no stronger proof of the falsity gf this assertion than
to observe the extraordinary activity that has been going
on at the different rendezvous now open for entering sea-
men during the present week. Ido not mean to say that
the ships have not men enough to take them to sea, but
that they are not manned. Contrast the two services—
suppose 10.000 men were wanted for the army, could they
not be found ? Why does this difference, or rather pre-
ference, exist? Because a soldier knows pretty well what
duty he has to perform daily, and in addition to which he
has a certain portion of recreation daily when not on actual
servire. Sailors have no such privilege (I mean those of
the fleet in question). As a proof of this i assert that
I have seen more liberty-men ashore every night in
Portsmouth, when there has been only two or three
frigates at Spithead, than I now see with seven sail
of alp line, and a corresponding number of smaller vessels.
It may be said that soldiers may be met with any where,
and sailors only e,t the sea-ports. Granted; but are any
considerable number eei seamen obtained except at sea-
ports, where men-of-war's min a,;,f.t to be met with ? Do
we see any number worth speaking arri.ie :Tom Liverpool,
Shields, esud such-like ports ? And yet, consider:mg the'
advantage of the K_ing's service over the merchants, this
is rather retnarka.ble. There. can be but one reason for
this distinction, namely, the usage. I will here state the
superiority the V.ing's service possesses —The ships are
better, the provisions ;,.re better, the pay is very good and
certain, and a something to loot forward to when past
service, if it is only GREENWICH. I heard an !;ill and
t able sailor say, " that he would rather occasionally have
two Coen, than to be continually tormented with unne-
cessary diky." It would appear from a conversation that
ensued in the ifinise,e,f
,Commons last week, and which I
have no doubt was proci4e4 by some remarks of your
coFrAspondent, that there is a great the sai!ors'
condition nrbettered, and which is the sincere wa.);,
A SAILOR'S FRIEND.
Portsmouth, July I.

A ridiculous objection is offered to the admis
sior.,_ of gentlemeri, even to the gallery of the Opera-liouM
with white hats. Q few nights pgo a gentleman was told
that he must leave his hat in the .care of one of the door-
keepers, as there was a strong prohibition. Of courAc
the visiter expected to find very respectab'e company in the
gallery; but he had not sat long in the dark and dingy
place when in walked a livery-servant, and sat down next
to him. Sixpence was the price at which care was taken
of the hat. The place of hat-holder must he worth at
that rate 3/. or 4/. a week—a most fraudulent reeulation.
—3l()rits'n4 herald CorrespcndEnt.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PRENCJI PAPERS.

(From the Message,- des Chambres of July 2.)
The most ridiculous reports have been circulated on
'Change. Notwithstanding their evident falsehood, they
were credited by several persons, who on such occasions
are always eager to be made dopes. Nothing is more false
than the pretended departure of M. Appony.
For the refutation of the news from Belgium we have
only to refer to that which we have received to-day from
Brussels. _

—.
No extraordinary courier—no telegraphic despatch—has
been received by the Government : on the contrary, every
thing indicates that the hopes that have been conceived of
a happy and prompt solution of the affairs of Belgium will
be shortly realized.
The King arrived yesterday (the 30th), at two o'clock,
by the outer boulevards, and proceeded immediately to St.
Cloud.
LoNnwv, JUNE 27.—The 42d regiment of Prussian
infantry from Treves is cantoned in the villages on the
Sarre. The Belgian troops in the Grand Duchy of Lux-
embourg amount to 8,000 or 9,000 men ; most of them
are young soldiers. They repair to the villages on the
frontier, and encourage our soldiers to desert. The 13th
regiment, at Longwy, has already lost twenty or twenty-
live men in this manner. One of the persons engaged in
these attempts has been arrested, and conducted to Metz.
He will be brought before the nearest military tribunal.
M. Thouret, editor of the Revolution, was condemned

yesterday by the Court of Assize to a month's imprison-
ment, and a fine of 3,000 francs, for endeavouring to ex-
cite hatred and contempt of the Government. The article
inculpated was in the number of the 3d May, and headed
" On the decoration of July, and the necessity of refus-
ing it."
The Court of Cassation decided yesterday that no
foreigner can acquire the quality of French citizen, and
consequently that of an elector, but by a ten years' resi-
dence in the French territory. He must, besides, obtain
letters of naturalization.

The Gazette de France says that the reports respect

ing Brussels (to which the Messager alludes, without
stating them) were that on the news of the manner of
Prince Leopold's acceptance, an insurrection had broken
out there, and that the Government had been forced to
retire to another town.

(From the Messager des Chambres of yesterday.)
PARIS, JULY I.—An attentive perusal of the articles
agreed to by the Conference of London, upon the subject
of Belgium, leads us to a conviction that they are calcu-
lated to bring this matter to a conclusion at last, by fixing
the fault upon those who wished to render the affair in-
terminable, or bring it to an unfortunate issue. Hol-
land was unwilling to yield in the slightest point;—
perhaps other Cabinets recommended this obstinacy; and
the republican party in Belgium worked in the counter
sense for the same object as Holland—namely, that a ge-
neral war should result from all those difficulties.

The Cabinets of France and England were probably the
only ones which were sincere in their wishes to see Bel-
gium established as a regular State, being no doubt anxious
to dispose of that question, in order t,► attend to the subject
of Poland. Therefore, a series of eighteen articles have
been drawn up, and in them are laid down principles of
peace and justice, which must defeat all malicious and im-
prudent calculations; principles which the other Cabinets
ought to accept, unless they wish to place themselves in
open defiance to France and England.
We encourage a hope that the Belgi in people will adopt
this arrangement, as it can do so with perfect honour, and
that nation will feel assured of the support of England and
France, as long as the strict interpretation of those articles
be adhered to. It is a matter of notoriety in Paris, that
certain agitators are endeavouring to excite the people of
Brussels, for the purpose of intimidating the Congress. We
sincerely hope that such attempts will produce no unplea-
sant results.
We have this day received intimation of a strange and
altogether unexpected event--namely, the breaking out of
the cholera morbus in the city of Archangel, in the lati-
tude of 64 degrees 33 minutes, upon the borders of the
Frozen Ocean. The contagion was borne thither by vessels
descending the river Dwina, and laden with the produce
of the Russian provinces of Wologda and Wiatka, which
have been infected since the autumn of the last year arid
at the commencement of the spring, on reaching the
margin of the Polar reservoir, the disease is 200 leagues
from 'Moscow.

The King arrived at the Palais Royale about half-past
eleven this morning.
A preparatory meeting of the electors of the third arron-
dissement, to the number of 630 out of 1,400 took place
to-day at Menus-Plaisirs. M. I. Lafitte obtained 360
rotes ; M. A. Odier, 250 ; the remaining votes were di-
vided between MM. Drouett and Chignard. This ad-
vantage gained by M. Lafitte cannot be considered as
decisive, as there was not half the electors at the meeting,
and upon the day of the election the electors will probably
attend in greater number.
In a letter from Rome, dated 19th of June, we find the
following :—" The partisans of the E:-King, Charles X.,
have frequent meetings in Rome, at the house of his Emi-
nence, Cardinal Rohan. This Prince feels no hesitation
in styling himself (among this Carlist junta) the Ambas-
eador of the fallen Bourbons, Charles X. and Henry V. Of
(nurse his Eminence only represents the Princes of Holy-
rood in this place until the approaching arrival of M. de
Blacas, titular Ambassador."
Since the Cardinal has evinced this disposition, the
Jesuits, and all the French refugees opposed to the events
of July, besiege his Palace, and have frequent conferences
there. The Cardinal is also in direct communication
with the incumbents of the principal Sees in France, and
whose letters are read in those conventicler. Accounts
prejudicial to Louis Phillipe, and threatening to France,
emanate every day from these pious souls, animated by a
special zeal for religion. To believe them, all the Powers
of Europe are going to declare war against the usurper of
the throne of Charles X., and the disturbances which
agitate the kingdom insure the triumph of the enemies of
France."

The Polish army had attempted a great movement to-
wards Siedlec, with the hope of surprising General Kreutz,
or forcing the General-in-Chief of the enemy to draw off
the divisions of his right from the palatinate of Pluck, and
to cross over to the left bank of the Bug. That expecta-
tion failed. Skrzynecki returned to Praga on the 20th.

We are ignorant of his present plans.
The Russians, masters of the town of Plock, occupy
the right hank of the Vistula with considerable forces,
and are supposed to have the intention of crossing the
river. They continue to receive their provisions from the
Lower Vistula, and the Prussian fortress of Thorn has be-
come for them a magazine.
We have already alluded to the 'evoking partiality of
Prussia towards Russia, in direct opposition to the well
known good wishes of the Prussian nation, who generally
applaud the noble efforts now making by Poland.
It is in vain to disguise that partiality. Russian agents,
purveyors of provisions, and military commissaries, under
the garb of merchants, are now at Thorn, Dantzic, and on
the Russo-Polish frontier, forwarding provisions and mi-
litary stores, which circulate as freely and with more ce-
lerity than in Russia, through the Prussian territory, at
the same time that the Poles cannot procure a musket
nor a barrel of gunpowder, and that the Prussian au-
thorities stop every article likely to be of use to the de-
fenders of Poland.
If, instead of the frontier of Prussia, there were on that
side a barren coast or a desert; or even a country whose
neutrality was real, it would be impossible for the Russian
army to remain at Piock ; they would even:have the greatest
difficulty in maintaining themselves on the Narew, for
General Toll's communications with Russia are com-
pletely cut off by the immense progreos of the Lithuanian
insurrection.

General Toll had no longer a basis for his operations,
and his 40,000 or 50,000 men would be reduced to want
bread and ammunition, should Gielgud take possession of
Wilna.. But Toll has now fur the basis of his operations,
and his point d'uppui the frontiers of Prussia; he derives
from the Lower Vistula all the provisions necessary fur his
army; he has no longer to be uneasy about his communi.
cations with Russia, and he is in a situation to attempt an
operation on the centre.
This induces us tp credit the report of his intended
passage of the Vistula, and advance upon Warsaw. It is
very likely that he has had orders to that effect from St.
Petersburgli. The Russian Government must be anxious
to put an end to the contest. The rage of freedom and
nationality has seiz,d the population of the ancient and
eztensive provinces of Poland. By destroying Warsaw
the Husaiano -,,:.c do.ibt would expect that insurrections, of
which thAt eivitaiis tt-e c7,n;7.•?! Cocos, would fall of them-
' !ielves.
1-1;y: Russian Cabinet will in all likelihood:be deceived
in its expeOaicn, The enemy will sicatilLinebui:ly have.
o Warsaw. The defence of
ad
four months. .he external insur-
those Ily
placessiege to
may ;k ro
lastdii n
realm?, already so powerful, will becOme
.still mere for-
midable, and the insurgents may in tlAir turn be enabled
victoriously to wareh tp the assistance of WarsaW.
It is said that the central PoliA army had returned to
Prega.
To thy South, General Romarino crossed the Vistula at
Pulawy, to join General Chrejanowski at Zarnosc.
The sltuati,n of affairs lia Lithuania is most favourable,

~..

General Gielgud is at the head of 40,000 men, which
may be fairly called the army of Lithuania. His centre
is at Mariampol, alias Staropol; his left iu the maritime
province of S3mogitia ; his right at Lida, on the road
from Slonim to Wilna. He has a bridge on the Niemen,
or Memel, at Olitta, and his future operations are to b

directed against Wilna.
General Chrapowski forms the right of the Lithuanian
army. After leaving the grand Polish army at Drohisira,
o❑ the Bug, he advanced northward towards Bielsk, then
on Wolkovisk, and, finally, on Lida, where he opened
communications with the Genet al-in-Chief Gielgud.
The forces of the Russian empire are considerable, and,
no doubt, yet formidable—and that empire, founded by
conquest, governed by despotism and pride, will attempt a
great deal before it submits to the humiliation of a dis-
memberment. But there is an immense strength in the
endeavours of a nation suddenly recovering its former
energy, when all classes—the people, nobility, clergy,
peasantry, slaves, and the women themselves—are unani-
mous in their resolution to establish their national in le-

pendence.
(From the Journal du Commerce of Saturday.)
PARIS.

There was no Cabinet Council held yesterday at St.
Cloud. The Ministers, who remained in Paris, went in-
dividually to pay their homage to his Majesty. The Coun-
cil in question met to-day, but nothing has transpired on
the nature of the discussions. It was only remarked that
M. Sebastiani had arrived early to the King, and that he
appeared very much agitated. No doubt but the direc-
tion he has imparted to our policy may become the object
of serious accusations, and we think that he is aware of
it himself.

(From the Constitutionnel of Saturday.)
We extract the following from the Journal du Loiret
of June 30.—" The Sth regiment of the line, which was
in garrison in Orleans, received orders, on Monday, to set
nut for Soissons. This circumstance corroborates the re-
port of the formation of an imposing army on the northern
frontier. _ _ .

" P. S. This morning, as the last battalion was going
to depart, orders came to postpone its departure for twenty •
four hours, on account of the number of troops on the
roads."

(From the illessager des Chambres of Friday.)
Reports of the establishment of a c imp of 120,000 men
at Lille, and the breaking off the conference of London,
and finally of immediate war, can only be explained as
stock-jobbing m inceuvres got up on 'Change, or electoral
tactics on the part of the Republican or Ultra Liberal
Opposition. Added to these is a report of a schism in
the Cabinet, and of the resignatio❑ of M. Casimir Perrier.
It is useless to repeat the contradiction which we gave
yesterday evening to all those absurd rumours, particu-
larly after what appeared in the Moniteur of this morn-
ing ; however, it is right to remark their coincidence
with the assembling of the electoral Colleges.

(Flom the Messayer of Saturday.)
Reports of the most absurd description were in circula-
tion to-day upon 'Change. Notwithstanding their ap-
parent falsity, they were credited by several persons
who are always anxious to be dupes upon such occasions.
Nothing could be more devoid of truth than the pretended
departure of M. d'Appony.
[n order to refute the accounts relative to Belgium, we
have only to refer our readers to the intelligence which we
received this morning from Brussels-
Not a single extraordinary courier, no telegraphic de-
spatch, came to the Government ; on the contrary, every
thing announces that the hopes entertained of an imme-
diate and successful settlement of the affairs of Belgium
will be shortly realised.

(From Gulignani's Messenger of Saturday.)
_ _

The accounts respecting the Duchess of Berry's visit to
the Continent are so contradictory, that it is impossible to
form any opinion upon her destin ition or intentions. The
Temps n.entions, after letters from Vienna, that she is
going to Piedmont, with a view to come afterwards to the
South of France. Several accounts say that she is on her
way to Naples. A letter from Frankfort states that she
proposes to take up her residence at Gratz, in Styria; and
again, another letter from Frankfort asserts that it was not
the Duchess of Berry, hut the Queen Hortense, that was
at Mentc
The Duke de Blacas passed through Mentz about a

week ago, on his way from London to Italy.
The Augsburg Gazette contains the following, dated
Odessa, June 9 :-" By the steam-packet we have re-
ceived intelligence from Constantinople to the 6th instant.
The Turkish fleet sailed on the Sd to pass the Dardanelles.
The Sultan himself, after having appointed a Lieute-
tenant-Governor, and vested him with fall powers,
went with Halit Pacha on board a man-of-war. It is
thought, however, that he will accompany the fleet only as
far as G.dlipoli, from whence he will return to the capital."
The Government, we hear, is seriously occupied in
finding employment for the numerous workmen who are
without it. The formation of a company for laying down
an iron rail-road from Paris to Pontoise is talked of,
which hereafter is to be continued to Rouen, and also an.
other from Paris to Orleans. It is likewise rumoured
that a market is to be established in the faubourg Pois-
sonniere ; a street, to he called Rue Louis Philippe, to be
opened from the Louvre to the Hotel de Vine, and the
new bridge over the Seine opposite the Rue des St. Peres.
The greater part of these improvements will, it is said, be
commenced within the next fortnight.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, JULY 1.-Five per Cents. 87f. 80c.
50c. 86f. 50e. 75c. 50c. 60c. 50c. 70c. 86f. 80c. 70c. 50c. 60c. 50c.
160 c. 80c. ; Four per Cents. '74f. ; Three per Cents. 58f. 60c. 58f.
57f. 75c. 58f. 57f 70c. 90c 60c. 586 57e. 50c. 60c. 50c. 40c. 50c. ;
Bank Actions, 1,530 f. ; Rente de Naples, 67f. 30c. 67f. ; Rente
d'Espagne, 12? i ; Royal Spanish Loan, 63 6344 46 II ; Rente
Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 4844 Si X,91 A, 4948%r .74 .46 ;
Haytian Loan, 2756 Exchange on London, one month, paper,
25f. 10c. ; money, 25f. sc. ; three months, paper, 24f. 95c., money
24f. 90c.-Coors Authentique.
FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, JULY 2.-Five per Cents., 86f. 60c.
65c. 75c. 65c. 50c. 40c. 25c. 30c. 10c. 86f. B".f. 95c. 98c. 80c. 50c. 30c.
25c. 20c. 4,,c. 50c. 86f. 566 10c. 15c. 86f. 86f. 15c. 10c. 16f. 86f. 10c.
New Loan, 1831, 86f. 85c. 40c. 20c. ME 90c. 70c. 10c. 30c. 40c.
Three per Cents., 57f. 576 20c. 10c. 20c. 15c. 56f. 90c. 576 56f
60c. 70e. 40c. 5Sf. 56f. 10e. 15c. 4-.oc. 60c. 57f. 56f. 90c. Bank Stock,
1,535 f. Rente de Naples, 666 '7oc. 50c. 65f. 65f. 25c. 656 65f.
85c. 66f. 656 90c. Rente d'Espagne, 131,4 12%. Royal Spanish
Loan, 63. Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 4846 48 4736 1,4 %
47 47yi 44 14. Haytian Loan, 255 E Exchange on London, one
month, paper, 251.10 c. ; money, 25f. 10c. ; three months, paper,
24f. 95c.; money, 21f. 95c.

(From the Morning Herald Private Correspondent)
PARIS, Saturday Evening.
The apprehended and the menaced movements of the people,
on the-14th, 27th, 28th, and 29th of this month, will in all pro.
bability be obviated and neutralised by the measures in progress
and contemplation by Government If not, they will be counter-
acted by the strong arm. It is not easy to penetrate the projected
conservatory designs of the Government, some of which will
appear strange in your eyes; but they promise to be adequate to
their object.
The first in importance is the hostile attitude taken by the
Ministerial candidates for the Chamber of Deputies to the con-
tinuance of an hereditary Peerage. This tends strongly to
confirm the report mentioned in my letter of the 25th ult., that
the speech of the King, on the opening of the Session, this day
three weeks, will announce his Majesty's intention to propose the
counter-mine
abolition of the hereditary Peerage, and thus would the war-
horse ftheposeepumlas in popular party
tob be ecatrhreieldeatlionmg
dueniednesrivtheeompe.ra"tfihme
of the Perier Ministry. The anti-Popery rage of the mob will be
deprecated by the razing of the too-celebrated church ' of St
Germain L'Auxerrois., and by some very ridiculous Pagan
erections in the Pantheon, the ci-devant church of St. Genevieve.
The planting of a tree f liberty in the Place de la Bastille on
the 14th inst. will be taken out of the hands of " the friends' of
the people" by the-authorities, who will, I am assured, perform
that farce themselves. In like manner will be rendered super-
fluous similar ceremonies in the Place du Palais Royal and
Boulevards on the 27th, and on the Place de Greve on the 28th.
The apotheosis of the patriots buried outside the Louvre, in
the Marche des lnnocens, and elsewhere, will be superb,
and at the expense of Government. Even the pious
intention of the Parisian garvies to disinter one of their
companions, in order to obtain for him the benefit of a
:special church service, will be rendered unnecessary by the
performance in all the churches of Paris of solemn
masses for the martyrs of liberty„ Thus far civil mea-
sures of policy. The precautions to enforce order are, perhaps,
better conceived. Although a Republican Newspaper is about
to be prosecuted for announcing it, I am positively assured that
the police are organizing bands of ocuvrers, or of persons who
will appear as such, who, in masses of 100 each, will rush upon,
break up, and with coups de baton, disperse all evil-disposed as-
semblages. I can see no advantage in the use of such a force,
wiltch the employment of troops would not attain, for, if the
plan be put into execution, it will assuredly lead to the necessity
for resortineto military power, at a time, too, when the minds
ai
rnl edse,rasNiaspos said.
nhtp,i:trannrsieuddvniecbtruuiallrnohnucites:
of the people will have become heated by a less deadly contact
with the agents of the police. Nevertheless, the experiment will
be tried. That, however, on which the Government relies for
the preservation of peace—and lam sure properly relies—is the
National Guard. An immense army (troops of the line), some
say to the amount of 40,000 men,will be in Paris and its environs
at the period I speak of; but the Iso,ooo National Guards, who
will be under arms during " the three days," will be more effica-
cious than would twice the number of regular troops. In a word,
there will, be no noise, and there may be riots—but, although
foreigners, are every moment flying from Paris from fear, yet
there will he.no revolution on either of "the three glorious days."
Some of the Paris Journals have been industriously circulating
reports thqt the Duchess of Berry's journey to the Continent had
for ,its object the excitement 'of insurrection in France—one of
their vent ;0 far az ti?
.say. that with two illegitimate daughters
of her late buiband, q.f, A.44ea-de...Carop, Vie Princess was about
to take the field at the head df the Crimian;;.' V can vouch for
the falsehood of these reports. The Duchess has passed into
Mr. Warden,
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that
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or condemned as prizes, between the years 1806 and 1812. For
application WtateneWed Gn the accession of
ir..., i;Grtsui.tieneral in France, demanded reparation of the French
the • Government
long.pending negotiation has at length been brought' to a
of Charles x., and again renewed under that of Louis Philippe.
cTlioles. 'llse 1-4:1;Crl Government has agreed to pay as an indem.
nity to the subjects of the United States, for their loss of property
ab
ove-mentioned, 25,000,000 francs, exactly one million sterling.
The tiriginat sum' olaimed was. 60,000,900 franca-4,400,000i.
sterling.
A paragraph in the Moniteur of Saturday, in an extract, states
that the lis Ften.ch subjects (Corsicans), convicted before the
Roman Tribunals, and senlencr,pi 0 infamous punishments, for
having hailed with enthusiasm the revolution of liprnagna, haws

been set at liberty by the Roman Government, on the application
of M. St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador to that Court.
The Funds fell still further at Paris this day, owing to the con-
tinued uncertainty on the affairs of Belgium.
• It was the bell of this Church which gave the signal fur the
commencement of the massacre of St. Bartholomew.

BRUSSELS PAPERS.
BRUSSELS—SITTING or TUESDAY, JUNE 2S.

After some discussion upon subjects of internal administration,
M. de Gerlache ascended the tribune. He said—Gentlemen,
I should have wished to have some moments' leisure for consi-
deration before making my report to you on the important mis-
sion which vou confided to us, but the very natural impatience
manifested .by the Congress and the public has induced us im-
mediately to communicate to you the documents of which we
are the bearers. It was not till the day before yesterday, be-
tween nine and ten o'clock m the evening, that we had au
audience of the Prince of Saxe Coburg, for the purpose of
presenting to him the solemn Act of the 4th and sth of the
month, which calls him to reign over Belgium. I shall have the
honour to read to you, first, the answer of Isis Royal High-
ness, who accepts the Crown on the terms which will be
communicated to you by the organs of the 'Ministry, who
were sent to negociate with the Congress at London ; and,
secondly, the answer of the Prince to a letter of the Re-
gent. We think it our duty to communicate this answer t.'
you, because his Royal Highness positively announces in it his
intention to come immediately to Belgium, in case the pro-
posals of the Conference shall be accepted by you. With re-
spect to the proposals themselves, as they were not signed till
pretty late in the evening of the day before yesterday, the Mem-
bers of the deputation have scarcely had time to make them-
selves acquainted with them. I regret the involuntary absence
of some of our colleagues, whom fatigue obliges to remain at
home. But on the day which you shall fix for the discussion,
each of them will communicate to you all the information which
he may have collected during his stay at London.
You see, Gentlemen, that if we have hitherto left you in com-
plete ignorance of the results of our mission, it is because we
were ourselves in great ignorance and extreme perplexity up to
the last moment. The only facts with which we have become
acquainted on our arrival, and winch we transmit individually to
some of our colleagues, is the desire of the Prince to accede to
the wish of the Belgians, the warm, the personal interest which
he feels in our welfare, the amiable and estimable qualities
which distinguish him, the exalted capacity which comprehends
the wants of a people who love all kinds of liberty ; all the Mem-
bers of your Commission have been unanimous in this respect.
Before we communicate the Prince's answer, I beg your per-
mission to repeat to you the words addressed to his Royal High-
ness by the President of the Deputation in the name of his
colleagues
SPEECH (IF THE PRESIDENT OF THE DEPUTATION.
" SlR,—The Belgic Revolution which has been accomplished
has been recognised by the great Powers, who have proclaimed
the independence of a nation united against its will to a foreign
nation.
" The Belgians, in constituting themselves as a State, have
had in view to establish among them the liberty which they have
conquered by a courageous struggle, and to show to Europe, by
the choice of a Sovereign destined to guarantee their political
existence, their ardent desire to concur in the preservation of
general peace. Henceforth restored to themselves, invincibly
attached to their country and to the Government ich it has
chosen, they will oppose a formidable barrier to any one who
should attack their rights as a nation, and they will contribute
also to the maintenance of the balance of Europe.
" An extraordinary and noble sight in the annals of nations is
presented by the agreement of four millions of freemen sponta-
neously offering the Crown to a Prince born at a distance from
them, and whom they know only by what report has published
of his eminent qualities. Your Royal Highness is worthy of
this appeal ; worthy to answer to this mark of confidence. The
happiness of Belgium, and perhaps the peace of all Europe,
are actually in your hands. As the reward of a noble reso-
lution, Prince, we do not fear to promise you glory ; the
benedictions of a good and loyal people, always attached to its
sovereigns as long as they have respected its rights, and, lastly, a
memory dear to the most remote posterity. Those Belgians who
have recently had the advantage of approaching the person of
your Itoyal Highness, and of appreciating your enlightened views,
and the firmness of your mind, have thought that a Prince en-
dowed with such eminent qualities would be able to overcome all
obstacles, if he should meet with any, to accomplish his great
destinies.
" In the name and by the orders of the National Congress, the
Belgian Deputation has the honour to present to your Itoyal
Highness a solemn act of the 4th of this mouth, which calls you
to the throne of Belgium.
" The President of the Congress and the Belgic Deputation,
(Signed) " E. C. de GERLACHE."
(Here follow the Decree electing Prince Leopold, and his
Royal Highness's answer to the Address of the Deputation
already published.)
Letter of his Royal Highness the Prince of Saxe-Coburg to
the Regent of Belgium.
" Sin,—lt is with sincere satisfaction that I have received the
letter, dated June 6, which you have written to me. The cir-
cumstances which have delayed my answer are too well known
to you to require an explanation.
" Whatever may be the result of political events with respect
to myself, the flattering confidence which you have placed in me
has made it my duty to make every effort in my power to con-
tribute to bring to a happy conclusion a negociation of such great
importance to the existence of Belgium, and, perhaps, to the
peace of Europe.
" As the form of my acceptance does not permit me to enter
into details I must here add some explanation. As soon as the
Congress shall have adopted the Articles which the Conference
at London proposes to it, I shall consider the difficulties to be
removed as far as I am concerned, and I shall be able immedi-
ately to proceed to Belgium.
" The Congress will now be able to embrace at one view the si-
tuation of affairs; may its decision complete the independence of
the country, and thus furnish me with the means to contribute
to its prosperity. With the most sincere attachments,
• " Be pleased, Sir, to accept, &c.
(Signed), " LEOPOLD.
" London, June 26, 1831."
M. Lebeau ascended the tribune. He recapitulated to the As-
sembly the decree of the :Id of June, authorising the Govern-
ment so negociate for the arrangement of the territorial ques-
tions by pecuniary sacrifices, the decree of the Regent, of the 3d,
appointing Messrs. Devaux and Nothomb, to be Commissioners,
and also the instructions given to these two Deputies.
The Ministers then gave an account of the correspondence
between the Conference, Lord Palmerston, and Messrs. Devaux
and Nothomb.
It appears from their explanations, that on the 26th June,
Lord Palmerston sent to the Belgian Commissioners at London
a note, announcing to them that the Five Powers commissioned
them to deliver a sealed packet from the Conference to M. Le-
beau. M. Lebeau announced that the packet had been trans-
mitted to him by Messrs. Devaux and Nothomb, who wrote to
Lord Palmerston, acknowledging the receipt of it, and promising
to deliver their message; and these letters contain proposals or
articles which may form the preliminaries of a treaty of peace.
The Minister, before reading them, declared that the Confer.
ence means that these proposals shall be also submitted to the
Dutch Government, and that they will be considered as null and
void, if they are rejected either wholly or in part. The 'I reaty is
conceived in the following terms :

"'l"3 M. LEBEAU, AT BRUSSELS.
" The Conference, animated with a desire to remove the
difficulties which still retard the conclusion of the affairs of Bel-
gium, has thought that the following Articles, which might form
the preliminaries of a Treaty of Peace, would contribute to this
end. It was, therefore, resolved to propose them to the two
parties
" Art. 1. The limits of Holland shall comprehend all the ter-
ritories, fortresses, towns, and places which belonged to the for-
mer Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands in the
year 1790
2. Belgium shall be formed of all the other territories which
received the denomination of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in
the treaties of 1815.
"3. The Five Powers will employ their good offices that the
Duchy of Luxembourg may remain in statu quo during the course
of the separate negociations which the Sovereign of Belgium will
open with the King of the Netherlands and with the German
Confederation respecting the Grand Duchy, which negociation
is distinct from the question of the boundaries between Holland
and Belgium.
" It is understood that the fortress of Luxembourg shall pre-
serve a free communication with Germany.
"4. If it is found that the Republic of the United Provinces
of the Netherlands did not exclusively exercise the sovereignty
of Maestricht in 1790, the two parties shall consider of means of
making an amicable arrangement on this subject.
" 5. As it would result from the bases laid down in Articles 1
and 2, that Holland anmS Belgium should possess districts sur-
rounded by the respective territories of each other, such ex-
changes as may be thought useful to both parties shall be ami-
cably made between Holland and Belgium.
" 6. The reciprocal evacuation of the territories, towns, and
fortresses, shall take place independently of the arrangements
relative to the exchanges.
" 7. It is understood that the regulations of Articles 108 and
117, inclusive of the general Act of time Congress of Vienna, re-
lative to the free navigation of the navigable rivers, shall be ap-
plied to those rivers which pass through the territories of Hol-
land and Belgium.
" 8. Dutch and Belgian Commissioners shall meet at Macs-
trict as soon as possible, for the demarcation of the territo.
ries. They shall also discuss the exchanges to be made accord-
ing to Art. 5.
" 9. and to. Belgium shall be a neutral State, but without giv_
ing up the right of defending itself against every aggression.
" 11. The port of Antwerp shall continue to be solely a com-
mercial port, according to article 15 of the Treaty of Paris of
30th Slay, 1814.
" 12. The division of the debt shall be made in such a manner
that the whole of the debts before the Union shall fall upon the
country by which they were contracted ; and those contracted
since the Union shall be divided in just proportion.
• 13. Commissioners shall be immediately appointed to settle
this matter ; so that Belgium may provisionally furnish its por-
tion of the interest of the debt,
" 14. The prisoners of war,on both sides, shall be set at liberty
fifteen days after the adoption of these articles.
" 15. The sequestration of private property, in the two coun-
tries, shall be immediately removed.
" 18. No inhabitant of the territories, towns, and fortresses
reciprocally evacuated shall be molested for his past political
conduct.
" 17. The Five Powers reserve to themselves the right of giv-
ing their good offices, when they shall be required by the par-
ties interested.
" 18. The articles reciprocally adopted shall be converted into
a definite treaty.
(Signed)

" ESTERHAZY.
" TALLEY R A ND.
the treaty of Vienna quoted in them shall " PALMERSTON.
111:11:AelipiU:SN't(rti:EW I C Z
" A true copy. (Signed) " PALMERSTON."
The Congress resolved that all the documents and articles of
M. Lebeau added, 'tThe Commissioners have had, both with
his Highness Prince Leopold and with the Members of the
Conference, communications which it is important for the Con,
gees to know, and which will be laid before it in a secret COM,
mince of the whole Congress, on such a day as the Assembly
shall determine."
Messieurs de Robaulx, Seron, Gendebien, and others, protest
against the Secret Committee. These communications affect too
nearly the interest of the country, for us to act in the dark.
M. Van de Weyer—We may have things to state which ought
not to be communicated in public ; when you are acquainted
with them, you may decide whether you will keep them secret,
or publish them.
It was resolved by 77 to 63 votes, that there should be a Secret
Committee on Thursday.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 29.—The Burgomaster has published the
Prince of Saxe Coburg's answer to the address of the city. His
Royal Highness says, " I haYe received with sincere satisfaction
your letter of the 9th. I beg you to believe; that should political
events soon bring Trio among you; if shall be my constant: care to
prove my solicitude for the weltlire of the inhabitants of Brit's.:
sels."—Brussels Papers, June 30.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 30.—1 n the sitting of the Congress yester.
day, the assembly discussed and agreed to a project of law, by
to-hoicnhettihoenllnu,t3•s'to;nc,F,r,tesucti
for
I,oooths. Coals, the produce of Lel-
coals imported into Belgium is reduced
tgium, are not to pay export duty whatever.
In the Sitting of the Congress yesterday, a proposal was circu.
lated, founded on the omnipotent power of the Congress, recom-
mending the pure and simple acceptance of the 18 articles, which
are an analysis of;be Profee.lt',
An Austrian Cabinet' 'Messenger passed thr.ugh yesterday,
from London, with dispatches for Vicons. ,•
ANTWERP, AttsK 2!1.'-According to the statements of de-
serters, the following is the situation of the citadel :.—•• '
There is a garrison of 5,000 men,twelve officers of engineers,
and a numerous staff: The garrison has not been changed for a
long time. It is very dissatisfied, but is full of confidence_ in
Chasse, who si-rows himself but seldom. He is in good health,
anti the story of his despair is a fabk.
If he were to leave the citadel, it would not hold out, There

are too many symptoms of discontent and desertion. It is
affirmed, that if hostilities should be renewed, Chasse will blow
up the dike of the Tete de Flandres.
The important communications made to the Congress have rc.
duced the Belgic question to the last expression of the will of the
Five Powers. Nobody could reasonably expect the unqualified
adoption of the Belgic ultimatum. The new proposals µill be
discussed by the Congress i and whatever be the anxiety of the
public, we must await the issue of the discussion, to which we
must submit, and which cannot but be conformable to the dignity
and interest of the country. Meantime, the Belgians must be on
their guard against the furious declamations of a party which is
averse to every arrangement—which only dreams of war and its
horrors, and whose triumph would destroy the prosperity and the
political existence of Belgium—Journal d' Anvers.
BRUSSELS, JULY I.—The National Congress, in its sitting
yesterday, agreed to a project of law, by which the Provincial As-
semblies are not to meet this year on the first Tuesday in July.
There are Fri Members ; of whom 130 voted for the law.
. .

The Courier gives the following particulars of the Secret Com-
mittee, yesterday:—
M. Nothomb said, that on the arrival of our Commission at
London, France and Prussia were under the influence of a pro-
posal made by the King of Holland, to make a partition of
Belgium for the advantage of these two Powers ; but our En-
voys were obliged to begin by combatting this plan, as contrary
to the wishes and the interest of Belgium. M. Nothomb en.
tered into long details on the opinions of Prince Leopold, respect.
ing the possibility of some (lay treating with Holland, so as to
obtain most of the advantages which the acts of the Conference
have hitherto denied us.

M. Van de Weyer said, that as soon as the Prince arrived in
Belgium he would endeavour to disengage himself from the in-
fluence of the Congress of London, and follow in all points the
interests of Belgium. He said the Prince especially declared hi.;
intention to insist strongly on Luxembourg.
M. Beyts endeavoured to prove that M. Nothomb had not de.
rived all the advantages that he might have done from our
treaties of 1795, to establish our own rights to Dutch Flanders.
The French Ambassador, who lately arrived from the Hague,
set out yesterday morning for Paris.
A British Cabinet Minister arrived yesterday morning with
despatches from London, and set out again to return last night.
o.morrow (Friday) there will be a public sitting, at eleven
o'clock, to discuss the Treaty proposed by the Conference at
London.

P.S.—(From the Journal de la Belgique.)—To-day (Ist July: a
preliminary motion, to the effect that the Ministers should pro-
pose resolutions on the results of the negotiations, was rejected
by a majority of 129 to 56. Another proposal, tending to accept
the preliminaries of peace proposed by the Conference, was deve-
loped. A third proposal was for indemnities in favour of the in-
habitants of the disputed countries ; it was signed by several
Deputies.—Brussels Papers, July `.4..

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