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London, England, 1831-07-25 00:00:00

Just published, in One Vol., price 6s. in cloth,
THE HISTORY OF POLAND. Being
vol. XX. of Dr. LARDNER'S CABINET CY.
CLONEDIA.

"An impartial and a well-informed work. History is
history, and the truth must be told : we believe it to be
told in this vo!ue.,e, and we are moreover sure that it is
pointed in no unfriendly manner against the Poles. We
see nothing in it t.► excite the bile of the most acrid tem-
perament."—Spectator.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

WARSAW, JULY 12.—The Warsaw State Gazette
says,__" Our troops have occupied Nasielak, Pultusk, and
Witzogrod ; the Russians have collected their whole army
on the Vistula, and are cantoned about Plozk and Lisrn:t.
Field-Marshal Paskewitsch is very hold in his manoeuvres,
and does not follow the ordinary rules of military tactics.
Against the Persians and Turks he succeeded : he has now
discovered his whole line of communication. The ques-
tion is, whether he will be able to cross the Vistula : he
was at Pkzk the day before yesterday."
The Warsaw Courier says,--" The enemy has changed
his position within these few days. Accounts received yes-
terday say, that Prince illetternich, with the Guards, is at
Mlawa, and the Field-Marshal, with a large body of troops
and artillery, has entered Plozk, to which place pontoons
have been sent. It is said that the enemy has planter
cannon on the heights about Plozk, and fires on everything
that shows itself on the other bank. General Rudiger,
with his corps, is going farther from the Wiepiz, and is
approaching Siedlec, intending, perhaps, to try to join
the main army. We heard the evening before yesterday
that Prince Michael had been at Plozk to view the prepa-
rations making in laying a bridge over the river, and has
returned to Mlawa. General Witt is also at Plozk. A
considerable division of the Polish army, under General
Turno, has followed the enemy. It was sail there had
been a considerable action on the 9th, near Modlin, but
this report seems not to be confirmed. There is a nume-
rous body of the Landwehr on, the left bank of the Vistula,
opposite Pink. It is said more than ten persons were
arrested the night before last in Warsaw, who are suspected
of being partisans of the enemy. The patriotic association
deliberated yesterday on the means of encouraging all citi-
zens to join in the contest."
The Polish Gazette says--" Plozk and the environs
are again occupied by the Russians in greater numbers
than before. The main army, consisting. of the corps of
Prince Schakowski and General Witt, with which the
Field-Marshal is in person, marched from Pultusk by way
of Garnowo and Shzegoin. This first corps is said to
consist of ten regiments of infantry, six of Cuirassiers, six
of Hussars, and 72 pieces of cannon. General Witt's
corps has 8,000 cavalry, and cannon. Count Pahlen and
Prince Souchin, with 12,000 men and 16 cannon, have
marched from Golymin in the same direction, and his
whole army is between Plousk and Ciechsnowicz. The
Guards have marched from Makow to Mlawa. 3,000
Cossacks were at Szlubow. Lieut:-Colonel Pihcuszynski
has sent a report, dated the 9th, stating that a Russian
surgeon, who had been taken prison, said, that Count
Paskewitsch, Prince Michael, and General Witt, with
60,000 men, were at Plozk, and in the night of the Sth a
constant firing was directed by the enemy against our side
of the river, so that the Commander of the Landwehr was
obliged to destroy the boats on the river, and retire a little
further back, when he was too much exposed to the fire.
General Chi zanowski has the command of our whole
right wing. Generals Rybinski, Romarino, and Jagmin
commanded under hint."

FROM THE POLISH FRONTIER, JULY 13.—Aceounta
from Warsaw dated yesterday evening say, that the Rus-
sian army, 60,000 strong, crossed the Vistula at Ploak en
the 11 th of this month. General Skraynecki with a body
of chosen troops has passed the Narew. Warsaw is to be
defended.

KONIGSBERG, JULY 14.—News has just been received
here from Memel by express, that General Gielgud with
2,000 men has arrived at Sahangasten, near Langone% and
begs to be received in the Prussian territory. The batta-
lion stationed at Memel was immediately sent to that place
to surround and disarm his corps.

BERLIN, JU LY 1,6. —Amu n ts frotnTeterbburgh say, that
news from Moscow of 24th of June stated that soma cases
of cholera had lately occurred there.

At Riga, in four days, July 3d, 4th, bill, and 6th, there
were 203 new cases ; 246 recovered, and 52 deaths.—
Prussian State Gazelle, July 17.
Buussims, JULY 22.—The Brussels papers are almost
wholly taken up with long descriptions of the ceremonies
and proceedings relatiVe to the inauguration of the King.
After the King and the procession had arrived ut Brussels,
and proceeded to the platform where the Congress was
ready to receive him, according to the programme Wine
published, the President of the Congress havix,g caused the
acclamations of the multitude to ce?,se, declared the sitting
opened, and, addressing the said

Sire,—We are r;.et to receive the oath prescribed by
the Constitution. I shall first invite the Regent to speak,
who will remign his authority into the hands of the Congress."
The Regent then rose, and turning towards the King,
delivered the following speech (which has been already
publisheel.) M. de Gerlache, standing opposite to M. S.
de Chokier, replied to him in the following terms :
`• Sir, the Regent,—When I told you, five kti4uihs ago,
in the midst of the Congress that electe,r; the temporary
head of the nation, your notnkratk.a was ratified by the
unanimous acclamations a your former colleagues, and of
the whole BOgi.„-, nation, that this spontaneous elevation
*was a, tribute paid to your virtues by your equals, a testi-
mony of profound gratitude for the services ;bat you have
rendered to the country, and au appeal to new ser-
vices, we could easily presage, front your precedine
conduct, whit line you would follow in the elevated
situation to which your colleagues and the whole nation
raisod you.

" To have enjoyed great power without having for a
moment abused it,—to have remained always the same
under the most trying circumstances,—is a fact that!will
appear quite rational to those who know yoti,r Qitaracter:
I merely repeat what everybody sa7;4, History will one
day relate the conciliatoty 107,3 ;bat you have acted amidst
divergent opiniejls e'.;d tartnenting parties. It will say,
that the .7.,a40rtal assembly, desiring to place in the hands
ei an individual powers till then too much divided, uunght
for one who should displease nobody, wht,„:,itould have the
esteem and confidence of all, and /,,,? willing to devote.him-
self for.his country. Iccstt; isie, were the man. History
will say that this man, having exercised a part of tho
pl4,rogative during a revolution of five month; has
not lost a single friend, or made a single enttow.
" It is in the name of the Congresa and of the nation
that I thank you, and I venture to say that you have ful-
filled our expectationA which you have just resigned to
this assembly."

Loud acclarnations followed this speech ; after which
the Constitution basin& bee., read by M. Ch. Vilaiu XIV.

ind the King having taken the attia, and signed the proses
verbal, the President, &c., also signed it, dui ing which
time the King took his seat on the throne.
The nine seats which were in front of the throne were
removed, an•] the King was alone, on the upper platform.
The Regent was below. To the right and left of the King
were the Generals and Ministers, who were at first be-
`,ind his arm-chair. The mgmbers of the bureau placed
hemselvcs on the right and left of the throne ; the mem-
bers of the Congress were randing, and attentive. The
*scene was entirely changed, and the new coup d'ceil greatly
•truck the crowd, whose acclamations redoubled. Silence
!wing proclaimed, his Majesty delivered the following
speech :
" Gentlemen,—The solemn act which has just been
performed completes the social edifice commenced by the
patriotism of the nation and its representatives. The
State is definitively constituted in the form prescribed by
..he Constitution itself. This Constitution emanates en-
tirely from you, and this circumstance, owing to the
situation in which the country has been placed, seems to
me to be firtunate. It prevents collisions which might
arise between the different Powers, and impair the har-
mony that ought to prevail between them.
" The promptness with which I have repaired to Bel-
gium must have convinced you that, faithful to my word,
I have delayed corning among you only till the obstacles
which opposed my accession to the throne could be re-
tnoved by yourselves.
" The. various considerations which have been adduced
in tie important discussion which produced this result will
be the subject of my most serious attention.
" I have received from my entrance on the Belgic terri-
tory marks of affecting. good will, for which I still feel
equal emotion and gratitude.
" At the eight of the population ratifying by their ac-
clamations the act of the national re.,resentation, I could
nut but be convinced that I was called by the wish of the
country, and I felt all the duties that ouch a reception int-
poses= me.

" A Belgian by your adoption, I shall also make it my
duty to be so always by my policy.
" I have also been received with extreme kindness in
that part of the French territory through which I passed,
and I have consa red these testimonies, of goal will,
which I highly happy presage of the relations of
confidence and friendship which ought to subsist between
the two countries.

" The result of every political commotion is to affect
for a time the welfare of the people. -I sin too sensible
of its importance not to direct my immediate attention and
most active solicitude to revive commerce and manufac-
tures, which are the vivifying principles of national pro-
sperity. The relations which I have formed in the
countries which are our neighbours will second, I hope,
the efforts which I shall immediately make to attain this
end; but I take pleasure in believing that the Belgian
people, so remarkable both for gocd sense and resignation,
will give credit to the Government for the difficulties of a
position connected with a state of distress which at this
moment affects almost all Europe.
" I intend to avail myself of every kind of information
to encourage all the means of amelioration ; and it is in
the places themselves that I have already begun to do so ;
and that I intend to collect the information which is the
beet calculated to guide the course of the Government in
this respect.

" G;ntlemen, I have accepted the Crown which you
offered me only with a view to perform a task equally
noble and useful—that of consolidating -the institutions
of a generous people, and to maintain its independence.
My heart knows no other ambition that that of seeing
you happy.

" On 140 affecting a solemnity I must also express to you
one of my most ardent wishes. The nation issues from A
violent crisis ; may this day efface all hatred, stifle all re-
sentments, may only one thought animate all the Belgians
—that of a frank and sincere union.
" I shalt esteem myself happy to concur in this mble
result, which has been so welt prepared by the wisdom
of the venerable man who has devoted himself with so
much patriotism to the salvation of the country.
" Gentlemen, I hope to be a pledge of peace and tran-
quillity to Belgium ; but the expectations of men are not
infallible. If, notwithstanding all sacrifices to preserve
peace, we should be threatened with war, I should not he-
sitate to appeal to the Belgian people, and I hope that it
will, without exceptittn, rally itself round its Sovereign foe
the defence of the country and the national independence."
It is impossible to describe the transports and aeclas
mations that hailed the King's speech. His last words in
particular, which were e+gerly listened to, made a deep
impression on those who heard them ; language so noble,
so patriotic, could not produce a less effect on men who
esteem above every thing the honour of the Belgian name.
The Pres;dent declared the sitting closed, ;and the pro-
' cession set out to return to the Palace. His Maje,ty
would not again mount his horse, but proceeded to his
Palace on foot, amidst the acclamatfons of the crowd.
After the inauguration the Deputies met at the Palace
of the nation. M. de Gerlarhe announced that the King
would receive the Deputies (those of one province at a
time), at five o'clock, and that the Congress is invited to
he present at a Te Deem at St. Gartule, to-morrow, at
noon.

M. Notbomb read the proces verbal of the inauguration,
observing that the Bureaux had adopted the mode followed
at the inauguration of Louis Philip.
M. Piquet, in the name of the Committee appointed to
present to the Regent the decree, declaring that he has de-
served well of his country, that a medal shall be struck
in his honour, and which confers an him a pension of
10,000 florins, reported the proceed:.ngs of the Committee.
The Regent wished thekt the decree had ❑ot contained the
latter article.

M. Van de Weyer announced that every member of the
Congress will reeeive a silver and a bronze medal, struck in
coramemorttion. of the solemnity of to-day.
M. de Gerlache, the President, rose and delivered a long
speech, in which, having congratulated the assembly on the
noble spectacle they had just witnessed, he said it was from
his error in not recognizing the nationality of the Belgians,
that the late Sovereign lost his throne. Instead of becom-
ing himself a Belgian, lie wanted to make us Dutchmen.
To govern Belgium well, its Sovereign must know and
love it as Philip the Good, Charles V., Albert and Isa
bella, and Maria Theresa did. lts laws, its manners, its
ant icnt recollections, its peculiar and indelible character,
must be respected. What free institutions are there more
ancient than the powerful communities of Flanders, Bra.
bent, and Liege ? Where can any titles to absolute power
be found among us? The reciprocal contract between the
Sovereign an.tl the (nation was so well laid down m our
ancient charters, that in the time of the joyeuse entree the
Sovereign consented that his subjects:should refuse to serve
hint so long as the grievances were not redressed.
M. de Gerlache gave an encouraging picture of the
prospects now opened to the country, congratulated the
Members of the 'Congress on the satisfaction they must
f el on returning to their homes, conscious of having wil-
lingly fulfilled their minas, and declared that he was
himself proud of baying been President of such an As-
sembly; that if he should in future be called upon wholly
to sacrifice bicaself for the country, he should-feel that he
had Alre4dy been too well paid fur it. In conclusion he
said, "In the name of the iseigic people I declare that
the National Congress is adjourned, conformably with the
decree of the 2111 of this month."—(Prolonged applause.
The Asseantily broke up at half-past three.
At five o'clock the Congress again went to the Royal
Palace. The Deputies were arranged according to pro-
vinces, to be successively presented to the Kink
To the Deputies. uf Antwerp he said, that he hoped that
the commerce of tkat city would soon recover its former
splendour, That that city, was in a position which would
enable it to rival the prosperity of Lubeck, Bremen, and
' Hamburg. "The evacuation of the citadel by the Dutch,"
he added, "is indispensable to the prosperity and safety of
Antwerp. Peat we have reason to hope that the evactiaa
tion qal soon be effected. The • King of Holland has
indeed hitherto made souse difficulties about agreeing with
us ; but I presume he has acted thus only to deter nut
from accepting the throne you have offered me. Now, as
he knows that I have. accepted it, and that I ant firmly
resolved to reside among yuu, there is reason to believe tie
will change his conduct. Meantime I shall noglect 730•••
thing in my power to terntinate all these queations as noun
as possible."

To the Doputka for Limburg the Kirg said GerAktuen,—Limburg has suffered much; it is an
itripailant province. The King of Holland seems to in-
sist strongly on the rights. which he is acknowledged to
have to that province neeording to the limits of 1790. He
thinks, perhaps, also, of disputing with us the enclaves
(detached, portions), which are recognized as ours in Hol-
land, But there is reason to hope that by well-conduct d
negociations we shall succeed in surmounting the diffi -
culties in that quarter.'
The Kind spoke very kindly to M. Ch. de Broucker,,,
Depttty of Limburg. He expressed to him a desire to see
him often, knowing him to he well acquainted with the
country and its interests,

To the Deputies of Luxemburg the King said—" We
are in possession of the whole territory of your province,
except the wpital. We shall retain possession of it. Your
country is easy to be defended, and I doubt not that in
case of need you will yourselves take the lead in doing so.
Besides
.it is the interest of our neighbours not to trouble
us or Luxemburg."
the King conversed with ti. Deputies of the other pro.,