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LISBON, Dice. 25.—Acting, without doubt, after the
impulse given by the Wellington Administration, our
libelists are determined not to be behindhand with certain
journals of Paris, which are their oracles in politics
Every day these pamphleteers pour forth fresh insults
against the French and their King. In one of the last
publiCations; which is attributed to the Grand Prior of
the order of Christ, which appeared four days ago, the
following are the terms in which the author, after many
imprecations against the French, concludes his essay :
" Everywhere people write and print at full liberty,
and with contempt, against such a revolution ; and only
we Portuguese, because we are a little nation, and the
revolutionists do us the honour not to please that Don Mi-
guel the First, shall be our legitimate sovereign, as he
really is, we must hold our tongues, treml•le, and adore
the late revolution in France, as well as its authors,—
praise them, be polite to them, and even grant them hos-
pitality. ,Whof baseness, indignity, and treason ! Let
us then combat with courage the enemies of our God, of
our King, and of our country. Let us reanimate in the
hearts of the Portuguese the honour, courage, loyalty, and
prudence which have always distinguished them," &c.
Such are the writings by means of which attempts are
made to iaduce the assassination of all the French who are
here, and the more so as they are, composed by superior au-
thority—that is, in the name of our Government. Ac-
cordingly, they produced their fruit. Already the perse-
cution is begun, and care is taken to render it ignominious.
Within these few days Messrs.. Vallon and Sambette,
Frenchmen, who have both been confined for these twt.)
years and a half at Oporto, under the pretext that they
were freemasons, luvebeen brought here in chains, and
led through the city escorted by police officers, who Wok
them on board the French corvette, to be conveyed to
France, because they are banished from Portugal. To.
day another Frenchman is taken on hoard, N. Dupont, a
fencing. master, who has been long kept in prison, and is
likewise driven away as a freemason. M. Bonhomme,
who was arrested in the month of October, has just becn
condemned by a superior authority, to be whipped by the
executioner through the streets of Lisbon, and to be banished
to Africa for ten years.
(Extract of a letter from Basle, Jan. 10.)

This morning, between three and four o'clock, a detach-
ment ofsoopeasants endeavoured to get possession of two of
the gates, but they were repulsed without any killed or
wounded on the side of the inhabitants of Bale. The
insurgents, on the contrary, had several wounded. The
insurgents intercept all the communications with the city,
and suffer neither couriers nor diligences to pass. The
bridges in the environs of the city are all cut down.
Among the citizens, there ate already 10,000 men
equipped and armed, and resolved to defend themselves to
the last extremity. The streets are barricaded, and the
ramparts defended by 30 pieces of cannon. We learn
that at Berne the state of things is likewise very alarming.
It was expected that the peasants would make an attack
upon the city.
TOULOUSE, JAN. B.—The news from the Spanish
frontiers is now very uninteresting. The retrogta e
movement of the troops which had been sent thithtr
some weeks ago, is confirmed ; and it is added, that the
re of the coasts and the frontiers will be with-
drawnc ar
al)ineefrom the Customs to be incorporated with the
troops of the line. If this measure should be carried
into execution, it may he necessary to restore the res-
guard() militar, which was said to have been dismissed
because it was suspected of being connected with the
smugglers.

(From the Gazette de France of SAturday.)

PARIS, JAN. is be ieved that the communica-
tion which wi'l be made to-day to the Chamber of De-
puties relates to the departmental law.
A letter from Madrid, of the 7th of January, informs
us that M. d'llarcourt, the Ambassador of France, had
his solemn audience of the King the Saturday preceding.
Orders have just been given in the citadel of .Amiens,
to make arrangements which may render it fit for a state
pri,on. It is inferred from this, that is intended to re-
move the prisoners thither. We can scarcely believe
that a manufacturing town, in which there are 20,000
men will 1':: chosen as the place of their confinement.
‘tvh:Lettersl.i' Treat Vienna of the 4th of January, announce
tconeternation has been suddenly spread in that ca-
pital at the news that in a neighbouring village several per
sons had died with symptoms of chol. ra-morons. A com-
mittee
.of physicians was immedmately appointed to ascer-
tain. the nature of the malady. The result of their inquiry
was anxiously expected.— Courri,r Francais.

The Diario di Roma announces the arrival of Car
dinal D. d'lssoard at Rome.

Accounts from Candia announce that the troops of the
Pacha of Egypt are masters of the island, and that the
Greeks no longer make any resistance except in the inte-
rior chain of the mountains of Sphakia : the coast, the
towns, the plains, the whole of the cultivated country, are
delivered from the scourge of war.
Candia may again acquire a degree of political im-
portance, which will turn to the advantage of the south of
France.

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BRUSSELS PAPERS.
Mom Le Courrier des Pay Bas, Jan. 12.)

SITTING of the NATIONAL CONGRESS, l►n. 11.
The proceedings commenced at txelve o'clock. The
seats were filled with spectators, amongst whom were se-
veral ladies.

The proses-verbal of the former sitting was read at
adopted.
Fifty inhabitants of
Belgium to France.
A similar request was made by 150 inhabitants of Huns.
Several inhabitants of Dour and Jemappes (Henault,
made an application to the same effect.
hoped that the Belgian nation would not be
united to any other.
These petitions, along with some others, were referred
to the Commission.
A portrait of the Duke of Leuchtenb2rg was presented

deer auded the re-union ol

be completed. The King does not understand what reason
the Congress could have to give the preference to the Duke
.le Leuchtenberg. The prudent Members of the Congress;
who are the great majority, will understand the reasons of
the French Government for desiring that no Prince of the
family of Napoleon shou!d reign at its doors. These
reasons are too evident to make it necessary to detail them.
what, however, is very certain and irrevocably decided is,
that France will never recognise the Duke de Leuchten-
berg as King of the Belgians, and above all, that King
Philip will never give him one of his daughters for his
consort. Of all possible combinations Louis Philip does
not hesitate to declare that to propose the your; Duke of
Leuchtenberg fir the King of Belgium would be the most
disigreeable to France, and the least favourable to the tran-
quillity and independence of the Belgians.'
" Such, S:r, are the wards, which I will answer fur

having exactly reported to you. I also learned from the
same person that the Duke de Nemours, having been told
by the Duke of Orleans that lie had obtained a great
number of suffrages in the sections of the National Con-
gress, replied in a voice sufficiently loud to be heard by all
present, that nothing should induce him to accept a crown
which it would be so difficult to wear."

A letter from M. Blesson to the Diplomatic Committee
was then read, in which he states likewi•e that the Duke
de Leuchtenberg would never be recognised by France as
Sovereign of Belgium.
The President—lt appears to me that the Central Sec-
tion has exceeded its powers if it has permitted itself to
take diplomatic steps.
M. Lebeau justifies the Central Section, saying that it
was himself who, surprised at seeing their choice confined
to a Prince of Bavaria, had drawn up the note which was
sent to Paris, and of which the above communication was
the answer. However, the decision of France cannot be
considered as final. A letter from M. Bresson, and the
conversations related by M. Rogier, do not make a
formal refusal. We must have more positive information
from the French Government.

M. A. Gendehien said that, after the reading of the let-

ter from M. Rogier, be could not omit giving an account
of his mission to Paris. The Dutch evacuated Brussels
on the 27th of September, at three o'clock in the morning.
The Provisional Government, anxious to ascea.min whe-
ther we could depend upon the non-intervention of other
States in the disputes with Holland, and, upon having as-
sistance from foreign Powers, deputed him (M. de Gentle-
hien) to proceed to Paris, %%here he became convinced that
the French Cabinet would prevent any intervention. That
was the object of his mission, and he returned as soon as
it was accomplished. He was again seat to Paris, on the
l6th of October, to negotiate an offensive and defensive

alliance with France, and to know whether the Duke of

Nemours would be recognised as King, in case the Con-
gress,
which was then sitting, thought it prudent to no-
minate him. He was informed at that period that they
would not be able to obtain the appointment of the Duke
of Nemours. Having alm undertaken to negotiates treaty
of commerce between Belgium and France, he obtained
the most favourable information upon that subject. These
were the objects of his first two missions to Paris ; they
were already fully acquainted with the nature of his third
journey to that capital.
M. Blarguies, Member for Henault, spoke in favour of
a re-union of Belgium to France, under the sceptre of
Louis Philip, reserving to Belgium its own Constitution,
and supported the opinion of the central section, recom-
mending that the Commissaries of Congress should r-pair
forthwith to Paris, and offer the Crown to Louis Philip.
M. W rbroek Pieters, Deputy for Antwerp, advocated
the independence of Belgium, and thought some time
ought to be employed in determining upon a future Sove-
reign for the nation.
M. Seron, Member for Philippeville, said that the
choice they were about to make ought to be approved of
by France, and tend to its friendship.
M. Lardinois, Deputy for Verviers, thought that they
ought to unite the country to France, at the same time
establishing a distinct form of Government and Constitu-
tion.

M. Jottran maintained that a re-union with France
would be injurious to both countries.
Al. Haillet was of Opinion that a King who was a minor
would be the desti uction of the country. He alluded to
John of Saxony, as a candidate who had some title to the
throne of Belgium ; and supported the advice of the cen-
tral section relative to sending Commissioners to London

and Paris.
31. Rogier defended the Provisional Government against
suspicions entertained of its advocacy of certain claims
for the throne of Belgium.
M. de Lietel observed that much firmness was re—
quisite to direct the affiirs of Belgium at the present
moment.

M. Labeau said that a Regency always proved injurious
to the State.

M. de Leuze proposed the Archduke Charles of Austria
ss a candidate for the throne of Belgium. This person-
age was the illustrious descendant of 11Iaril Ther,sa, the
mother of the Belgian..
After sons .! furtl er conversation the Assembly prc--
ceeded to the Order of the Day, which was the discus_
sion of the motion of M. Rodenbach, that the Con-
gress i.hould immediately proceed to the choice of a

Sovereign.
On this proposal the Central Section had proposed that
the Congress should choose four Commissioners among its
own Members, two of whom should be sent to London,
and two to Puris, to treat of every thing relative to the
choice of a Sovereign for Belgium, to the limits of its ter-
ritory, to its commercial interest, and it alliances.

SITTING OF THE 12TH.

M. de Chevalier addressed the Congress, and contended
that a native of their own country ought to be elected
as King.
A petitioner requested that the Pope of Itome might be
elected Kind of Belgium —(Laughter.)
N. Robaulx thought that a discussion was premature
at the present moment;—the tune had not ytt arrived for
conferring the Crown of Belgium upon any party.
M. Gendebien said, that it the object of the deputation
was to demand the re-union of Belgium with France, to

In the confusion which now ensued the voice of M. Ro.
denb'ch could be heard, exclaiming- " Ile is an English-
min (M. Madigan) ; he is English ; Le is not a Belgian."
—(o:der.)
President—l know my duty. Do you wise that the
call to order should refer to the proses-verbal 2—(•' Yes,
yes," from all sides.)
M. Alaclagan descended from the tr ibune. .
Upon the application of 11. Maclagan. the President al-
lowed him to address the Assembly. 'like orator main-
tained that the Congress out to review its decision of ex-
clusion, in order to give full liberty to their Commissitii.s.
--(Marks of disapprob 'thin were renewed, anti the or ator
was obligedtoquit the tribune.)

M. Tit. de floogvorst s.iid that if they could select an-
other Prince whose election would be of service to the
country, he should give him hi 4 support, ()the' wise Prince
Otho should have his votes

The AbW De Haeine ob.erved that foreign Monarchs
seemed anxious to dictate to them ; but they ought not to
yield to a diplomatic trick. If they did, their revoluti n
would be tarnished. They had no occoion to go to Paris
or to London to choose a native Prince. It eras far inure
urgent to re commence war against Holland.
Tke list oforators whose Liaison were inscribed was x -
hamited

M. C. Rogier said that the heat thing would be to elect
a native Pt ince who would instantly declare war against
I lolland.—(" Bravo !" partially uttered.)
M. Devaux congratulated the Ccngress on the unanimity
which they showed in rejecting the Prince of Orange.
The conclusion of the discus,ion was adjourned to the
following day.

SITTING OF THE 13TH.

The proces-verbal contained 711) allusion to M. Maellgt
being called to order, and was in the follnwing words :
" M. Maelagan having taken the liberty of speaking of
the Prince of Orange, contrary to the solemn decree f the
National Congress, the President called hint to order."—
( Bravo, bravo !)

A petition from 150 inhabitants of Geniblowc reque.ted
the re-union of Belgium to France.

The discussion upon the choke of a Sovereign was re-
sumed.

M. F. Le Hon spoke in fav:.ur f the Prince of Wait,
son of the Ex-King of Sweden. lie was a Prince in-
structed in the school of misfortune. He should vote for
him if they could not obtain the Duke of Neinour, or the
Duke of Leuchtenberg.
M. De Roy, Member fur Western Flanders, defended
his province against the accusation of want of patrictism.
It filled him with horror to heir M. .11ael,:gan (a De-
puty from the same province) advocate the recall of the
Prince of Orange.
In this sitting M. Filson announced that he withdrew
the motion he had made to order that hostilities should be
renewed against Holland. " 1 have reflected," said he,
" and think that it would he assuming too great a re-
sponsibility to persist in my motion, which, if adoptid,
might lead to a general war."
Count u'Arschot announced, in the name of the Diplo-
matic Committee, that it had received two venal notes,
communicated on the 4th and 6th of this mouth to the
Congress at London, by the Commissioners of Belgium.
VERBAL NOTE.
" London, Jan. 4, 1831.

" The Commissioners delegated by the Government of
Belgium have the honour to declare to Lord Palm( r.ton
that the conduct of the. King of Holland, with respect to
the execution; of the armistice, leaving no doubt of the
intentions of that Prince, they cannot treat on any of the
points to be discuesesl between the two belligerent 'Powers
till one of the essential conditions of jhe zulnist ee,h,,l; have
been fulfilled by the King, who persists in eluding it
after having formally agreed to it. This condition is the
free navigation of the Scheldt, without which the Belgic
Government would never have suspended hostilities against
the Dutch.

" This suspension arid the armistice proved the mode-
ration and good faith of the Belgians, who believing that
the mediating Puwers would not hesitate to require from
the King of Holland the execation of the terms to which
he agreed, interrupted their victorious progress, and, for
the general interest, deprived themselves of all the ad-
vantages of a certain triumph ever the enemy, a great part
of whose ancient territory would he now in the power of
their troops, had not their successes been ;topped by a
tr aty. Our Government of Belgium had faithfully ob-
served all the articlest, but scarcely bad the Dutch armies
bail time to recover, after so many'defeats, when their
Monarch again had recourse to a system of delay, showing
that he considered the armistice not a preliminary of
peace, but as a measure to teeonimence the.war with snore
chance of success. By vain pretexts or false interpreta-
tions he has successively refused to keep all his promises.
The raising of the blockade by sea and land, and the free
navigation of the ocean and the rivers, such were the pm in-
civil conditions of the armistice concluded in November;
the Scheldt still remained closed in the month of January.
Such a state of things c Innot be 'continued.
" The injury done to the commerce and manufactures
of Belgium affect its interests too deeply not to expose it
to internal troubles. The Belgian Government can no
longer restrain the indignation felt by the people and army
at the sight of so manifest a violation of formal engage-
ments. War is imminent. If it breaks out, it the
neighbouring countries, and other parts of Europe tel
the effects of it, the blame will lie with the Prince who
has provoked a patient and generous nation, but which is
too proud to suffer the just and reasonable defi rence which
it has Phown to Sovereign., who offered their friendly
tnediation, to be considered as a sign of weaktte,s.
The Belgian Commissioners repeat, therefore. to
Lard Palmerston, and be ; hint to counnunicate to the
Plenipotentiaries of the five great Powers, the declaration
that Belgium cannot treat on any other point till the
.;-.lt be execu-
tedScheldt is really free—a condition which n. 1.1 I
The Commissioners h the h
by the King of
• Palmerston. the assurance of their rePree,t.
NOTE ON THE LIMITS.
JAN. 6, 1831.—Tbe Belgian Commissioners, tit Leo,
_ewer to present. to Lord
Holland itrunedately.

don, think it their duty to comutunisate to their Excel-
lencies. the Plenipotentiaries of the five great Powers, the
opinion of the Provisional Government of -Belgium on
the luestion of the limits which should be drawn betweee
that independent and the neighbouring countries. Though
so important a question cannot be decided in the last in
stance except by the National Congress, to which alone
this right belongs; the Commissioners are, nevertheless,
chliged to make known the only basis on which a treaty
my be concluded conformable to the real interests of the
country, and to the dignity of the people-who have con-
quered their independence. It is necessary for the balanc,
of Europe that this people should be happy, which it can-
not he unless it retains those parts of its territory, the
possession of which is necessary for its defence and pros-
perity. Several verbal notes delivered at Brussels, by the
Diplomatic Committee, to the dele!ates from the Pleni-
p.itentiaries of London, have explained the rights and the
facts which entitle the Belgian Government to claim
dining the continuation of the armistice, the ancient
Dutch Flanders, illsestricht, and the province of Luxem-
burg. These motives are equally powerful when the final
limit' of the country are to be decided.
" The ci-decant departments united to those of the
Scheldt and of the Lys in 1795, cannot cease to mike
part of East and West Flanders, which answer to those
two departments. Without the possession of the lef
bank of the Scheldt, Belgium would be exposed on that
side, and the free navigation of that river might be an illu-
sory stipulation.
" The Dutch, if masters of the country on that bank,
and consequently of the sluices constructed to drain off the
waters of Austrian Flanders, might inundate at pleasure,
as they have done at former times, the Belgian territory.
" The city of Ghent, which communicates with the
mouth of the Scheldt by the new canal of Teneuze, would
lose all the commercial advantages which it derives from
this communication with the sea.
31s.estricht, which never made part of the Republie
of the United Provinces, but where the States General
exercised certain rights in conjunction with the Prince
Bishop of Liege, is also one of those possessions which
cannot be dispnted with Belgium with any motive of jus-
tice and reason, the more so as the Dutch are in possession
of all the indemnities which were given in exchange.
" The question of Luxemburg has been thoroughly die-
cussed. This province made an integral part of ancient
Belgium. The treaties which have given it a particular
relation with Germany have never deprived it of the cha-
racter of a Belgian province. 'I he Grand Duchy of Lux-
emburg has not formed a State distinct from the kingdom
of the Netherlands. At the same time with the other
Belgian provinces the inhabitants of Luxemburg threw oft
the yoke of Kieg William, who has declared that their re-
presentatives could not sit in the States-General of the
Hague. They have sent their Deputies to the National
Congress with the other Belgians; they have voted tin-
exclusion of the House of Nassau ; they cannot and wilt
not return under the domini,n of that family. —(The
note then oltserves that Holland is sufficiently secured by
its rivers from any attack by Belgium, which ought to be
equallystecured by the fortresses on its side of the rivers.
Besisku it. may appeal to the fraternity which unites it to
North brebank, Whose agricultural and commercial inte-
e`olklik well ais tile religious opinions of almost all its in-
eke opposed to the idea of incorporation with
litaitifi.) The note concludes by representing that the
taititit nature of the circumstances oblige the Commis-
sioners to request a decisive answer, which they may tran-
smit without delay to the representatives of the Belgian
nation.

(Signed) " SYLVAIN VAN DE WEYER.
" H. VILAIN XIV."
The next document read was the following
Sir,—We received, yesterday, your letter of
accompanying the conclusion of the report of the Central
Section. This proposal, with which we are not ac-
quainted, is wholly conformable to the idea which I had
to submit to you—viz., to leave to the Comp ess the diffi.
cult task of choosing a Sovereign. The Congress will
then appoint Commissioners to treat with the five Powers.
I see, in the same project of the Central Section, that the
commissioners of the Congress will be also authorised to
treat of the tel and commercial questions."—The
note expresses the hope that, as the presence of the Com-
missioners in London is no longer necessary, they will soon
he recalled. It then adds—" The Government has doubt-
less reeeived our letters and the note on the limits. Since
then our situation with respect to the Congress is not
changed.
The official ❑ode of communication between it and us
is not yet fixed. All is done through the medium of
Prince Talfeyrand and Lord Palmerston, who had told
us to hold ourselves in readiness. However, there have
been three conferences this week, since the delivery of our
note on the armistice and the raising of the blockade ; but
we were not present at them.
" Yesterday Lord Palmerston read to us, on the part of
the Congress, a protocol on the ob►ervance of the armis-
tice, which protocol, he added, would be forwarded the
aawe night to the Hague and Brussels.
" The Govtrnmeut and the Diplomatic Committee
should know that (except the note of the 4th) we have
not been officially heard or officially consulted on this sub-
ject, and consequently tie contents of the protocol, which
are known to us only by being rapidly read to us, tnust
not be considered as the result of a joint discussion. Ac-
cording to Lord Palmerston, what has hitherto hindered
the Congress from entering into any direct communica-
tion from us is the very question of the Scheldt, first of
all to decide. However, such a state of things cannot
long be continued, and we propose, as we told Lord Pal-
merston yesterday, to ask—
... I. Wien and how the discussion on the note of the
6th may he entered upon ; or,
" ' 2. If the Congress, which has invited us, now thinks
it of no use that we should be heard, as it knows, by our
answer to the protocol of the 20tb, and by our note o!
the 4th, the opinion of the Government.'
•' It is, however, indispensable that the Government
should prepare, as soon as possible, to treat the question
of the debt of the colonies, not to conclude an agreement
with Holland, but to enable itself to discuss what part of
the debt Belgium would take upon itself, and also to offer
pecuniary indemeitivation for Aliestricht, Flanders, and
Luxemburg,—territories which we shall not obtain with-
out sacrifices, and fur the possession of which we have
no territorial indemnities to offer. Either the present
Belgian Commissioners, svho are to remain at London,
or those whom the Congress shall appoint, must be
furnished with positive instructions. The data which I
:.ave arc not sufficient, and, besides, we are ❑ot authoris,d
to propose any thing of the kind. We have learned from
good authority that Holland has alresdy communicated to
the Congress its ideas respecting the debt. It is, there-
fore, absolutely necessary that Belgium should take its re-
solution. Such, Sir, it the state of affairs. The Con-
gress having been engaged the whole week, on the raising
of the blockade, has not been able to take up the question
of the limits. We wait till then to give upon each of the
three points a memorial, explanatory of a note of the 6th,
which we shall deliver to-morrow to the five Plenipoten-
tiaries. You will doubtless find this course of proceeding
very slow, and ill agreeing with the impatience of the na-
tion, but such difficulties cannot be removed in a day.—
Tke Committee and the Government may be convinced that
we do net lose a moment.
(S geed) " SYLVAIN VAN DE WEYER."
" P.S. We have just left Prince Talleyrand, who has
explained to us why the Congress has not yet entered into a
direct communication with us. We are, in this respect, on
the same footing as the Dutch Commissioners. The Con-
gress desires to be provided with all the documents before
it discusses the points in dispute; meantime we shall com-
municate our titles and rights to each of the Plenipoten-