The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-08 00:00:00

PRUSSIAN PAPERS.

rho'm THE FRONTIERS OF POLAND, JULY 27.—We
have no positive news relative to the present situstion of
the Russian army, but so much is certain, that the Russian
troops have already reached Klodawn, on the high road
between Posen and Watst,w7, thst the direct coinmun-
nir,atior. 'Jetiveen these two places is interrupted*.
The head-quarters of Field-Marshal Paskewi'sch are
said to have been at Niessawa the day before yesterday.
The Poles think it is the intention of the Russians to oc-
cupy first the province of Kalese,h, acid to establish in
the chief tt,wn ti Commission for the government of that

province.
ST. PETERSBURGIT, JULY 20.—8 y an Imperial Ukase,
the direction of the department of Foreign Affairs is con-
fided during the aheence of Count Nesse!rode to the Privy
Councillor Diwom, . .

Detittm the tath and the 16th the fi.llowing persons
died here, to the general regret:—Privy Councillor Baum-
garten, General Count Appurnann, and General Count
Langeron. The theatres are shut, to prevent the spreading
of the cholera. Besides the hospitals pt.eviiii.ksly tstablishetl,
we have now five hospitals With 1,000 beds for the re-
ception of cholera of all classes.—Prussian State Gazette,
July 31.
• On this account the two last mails from Warsaw have
not reached us.--P. S. G.

tacit convention may exist from eleven o'clock to-night to
to-morrow morning.
It is generally considered necessary for General Chasse
to summon the city to surrender, before he ought to bom-
bard it t but as I have been told, the garrison of the ci-
tadel; nnt exCeeding t,666 !nen; will prevent him from
hating a conflict*ith A ()estierate poptilation. And besides,
Mitch 0014 and king thirst of vengeance will
Il4d the i-lollanders to burn Antwerp, even against all tile
laces of war.
The neutrality of the city has enabled General Baron
Chasse to diiect his attack this day against the forts which
the Belgians erected on the other side of the citadel, for
the purpose of incommoding it in case a bombardment of
the city took place. During a part of tt c day, and during
the whole of the evening up tpthis hour (twelve at night,)
the cannons of the citadel, and of the cannoniers in the river,
bee been directtil againft those forts, with what succOrs
(with the exception of Nos. 4 and 3) I have not learned:
Thb cannonading rectos now to haire ceased; which; as
the night is dark; leads toe to suppose that the destruction
of th's': forts has hot bceii effected.
About four miles from the great basis, down the river,
and beyond the range- of the Belgian forts, called Du
Nord, there are to he seen the masts of a great number of
vessels; which are called the Dutch fleet, and which are to
nome tip td assist in destroying this town. Their number
is very considerable—even so nian, as thirty; of various
rateS. Some fearftil people; who imagined last night, at
high water, there vessels would attempt to pass the Belgic
forts, and that, consequently, there would arise a conflict
that might lead General Chasse to commence the work of
destruction, have to-night been employed in forming di-.
milar conjectures. But, independent of the dangers aris-
ing from the tielgirn batteries; there is, as I have heard,
nd instance of any merchant ship, even under the care of
the most eatperienced pilot; attempting to pass up through
the Sand banks and shoals of the Scheldt. One mistake
oil the part of a single vessel may expose the ilea to the
utmost danger. The probability of an attempt this night
is, therefore, not very great.
The line of Belgian batteries lying down the river is,
at the nearest point; about a quarter of a league from the
eit,del, being near the great basin or dock of the city.
The first fort, called " the Imperial," has six pieces of 48,
and tato hcatitters. Bentsth this fort, and on a level
with the water, is another, having eight pieces of 12.
The remainder of the line of fortresses, the principal of
which are the Catten Dike and the Fort du Nord, con-
tain about 120 guns of. various calilsre-12, 21, 36, and
IS. in the Fort dim fiord alone there are two ;furnaces

for reddening the balls ; and, as I understand, some expe-
rienced sailors are engaged, in order to do effectual injury
to the ships. The Civic Guard of Brussels, to the num-
ber of 600, hive the care of those fort. They are,re-
katded as most decided enemies of King William: This
evening 800 pr ictiseii artilierythen are stated to have ens
tered those forts as an additional force.
The Dutch, beside the forts at the Tete de Flandre,
immediately opposite to this city, have a line of fortresses
extending in the direction of Lao, and about 200 guns of
vatious dimensions, principally of heavy metal.
The garrison of this consists of several regiments of in-
fantry, and to my surprise I have even seen Chasseurs in
in it. Reinforcements are hourly arriving, principally vo-
lunteers. .Namur, which is a considerable distance, has
already sent ROO, and Luxemburg has sent many more.
The civil Governor of the town, Charles Itogiet, who is
himself an active member of the civic guard, supplies all
applicants with guns and ammunition. The streets and
passages opening on the quays along the river are all har-
t:Waded; as well as those leading to the Esplanade before
the citadel ; and sentinels are stationed at each barricade
to prevent all attack from and on the Dutch. The spirit
of the far greater part of the inhabitants is adverse to
Holland, whom they execrate now as the cause of all their
misfortunes t and should an endeavour be made to enter
the town by a part of the Dutch army, there is no doubt of
their being tut to pieces. Numbers of volunteers arc
now sleeping in the streets with their muskets beside them.
The Belgians complain of, and seem to place but little
confidence in most of the general officers now at their
head. They eulogise the conduct of the King as beyond
all praise; but they say he cannot do every thing. How.
ever, as they have to fight against the Dutch, who carry
on the war here as they formerly did in the colonies, by
devastation, by fire, and sword, they do not doubt of be-
ing ultimately successful. It is thought that guerilla war-
fare will, like the barricades, drive the invaders from the
country ; for the Dutch seem tacitly to admit that they
cannot compete with the blouse men except in the neigh-
bourheod of fortressea, or on board their ships.
There is, however, a party here which almost openly
advocates the necessity of surrendering the town, and
which has already begun to speak of scarcity of provisions,
famine, soc. Many of them are persons who would con-
sent to any political sacrifice in order to save their
property. If the work of pillage be again begun, those
persons will undoubtedly suffer, for through their efforts
rumours most disadvantageous to the Belgians are circu-
lated. Aware of this fact, the civil Governor to-di,y,
published a notice to caution the people from giving credit
to those rumours. Individuals, also, of the Civic Guard
of Antwerp do not exhibit a strong wish to occupy the
posts of danger.
A notice has been given by the Dutch naval comman-
der to the different Consuls in the city, to have the ships
of their nations removed from the basin ; it is now nearly
empty. I walked by it this evening, and saw a solitary
saiior, with a musket, pacing up and down, while he
guarded two fire-engine boats which lay beside the quay,
and which it was feared would be requisite within a short
time.
Among the preventivearrangements of the householders,
I remarked that the doors and windows of the cellars
opening into the streets, were all covered with litter ; and
upon inquiry, I learnt that great apprehensions were en-
tertained lest some of the bombs, on their rebounding on
the pavement, might fall into the cellars, and afterwards
destroy the houses around. Orders have been issued by
the Governor of the town, that the inhabitants should
not only prepare to repel the enemy from entering the
streets, but also to provide their houses with as much
water as they can place in the upper stories. The
G ov etron otrir,eC. magistratesß iigier, ono f Thursday,
Turnhout, addressedialin a proclama-
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recommending them to prepare the best defence for their
country, to take care specially of the wounded soldiers,
and distressed inhabitants, and as this city is particul tray
exposed to the horrors of fire, he recommends the sending
to it all the firemen who can be spared from those towns.
The alarm of the inhabitants was on Wednesday and
Thursday raised to the highest pitch, on seeing the flames
and smoke arising from the farms to which the Dutch
set fire in Calloo and its neighbourhood.
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dictate peace to Belgium. Their exhortations have been
fruitless hitherto in Flanders, and near Ghent they have
no chance of success except by their usual mode of burning
the houses and deluging the country. The peasantry are
of course infuriated b-yond description ; the harvest already
partly collected in the barns they burn, and the remainder
the Dutch seek to destroy by inundation. None can
wonder then to find that no remarkable impression has
hitherto been produced in Flanders. Antwerp cannot be
taken except in ruins.
From Venloo there is no intelligence here. The com-
munication of newspapers and letters, which used to be
kept up with with [lnland by way of Ger‘tnany, has been
stopped for two days ; and the road to Ghent b ing partly
in the hands of the Dutch, the lost to that city, and of
course to Ostend and England, by order of the director of
that establishment, is to go through Brussels, which occa-
sions a delay of 24 hours. The proclamation of the Prince
of Orange, as Commander-in-Chief of the Dutch army,
has been described as stating that he does not invade Bel-
gium, for any other purpose than to obtain a just and
equitable peace for Holland. If such be the principles he
sets out upoa in this war of destruction, be shows more
folly than he has hitherto been supposed capable of, for
he can only hope for peace for Holland through the ami-
cable intervention of the great Powers, as proposed last
week to the King of Belgium and to his father, but which
tire latter has refused. The Belgians will now become
more united than ever, anti they expect not only to drive
the Dutch from Flanders, but even from Maestricht and
North Brabant.
The Dutch army invading the province of Antwerp is
said to be 30,000 strong, one-third being Prussian troops.
They are described as concentrating at Westmael, in the
direction of Herenthals, two-and-a-half leagues from Ma-
lines, in order to attack that city. The Belgians hope to
cut them off; but at eight o'clock in the evening there was
a report here that fiereathals was in their possession.
Two spies were taken yesterday in the riress of the sth in-
fantry.
The head-quarters of the Prince of Orange are reported
to continue at Capefle, within a few leagues of this city.
Those of General Ticken de Terhow, the Commander of
the Belgian army in this province, are about two leagues
and a half from this city, on the road to Turnhout. The
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are still masters of that town. The Dutch soldiers are,
however, proverbially fearful of ambuscades, and of the

Ingic Civic Guard ; they will not hazard theni,cives near
woods or ditches in the country, nor advance to the bar-

ricades in the towns.
King Leopold spent all Thursday night in this city, de-
liberating with his Ministers ; and Generals MM. Lebean,
C: de Brouckere, and General D'Hane, accompanied his
liajesty from Brussels hither. At half-past three o'clock
in the morning his Majesty, necotnpatiied by an aide-de-
camp, Went on foot from the Palace to the Cathedral,
where he ascended the spite, and surveyed the citadel, tl e
fleet, and the country around this city, which is beautifully
cultivated, and where many farm-houses were still
smoking in ruins. His Majesty looked pale and thought-
ful, and stooped considerably, as an obserrer who then met
him, has since told me. At eight o'clock his Majesty milt
to Malines, where he remained for some hours. At half-
past seven o'clock this evening be came on horseback, at-
tcrled by three of his statT, to the Malines-gate, and hav-
ing had tome communication, returnedt it was mid, to
spend the night at the country house of M. Mossehatan, on
the distant tide of Percheni and about two English miles
' froth the gate of this city. M. de Brouckere and General
D'Hane proceeded to Brussels. M. Lebeau remains, I be-
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lieve, near the King.
The number of regular hoops now in this city, exelo-
site of the Civic Girard, is stated ti be 4,000 infantry, a
squadron Of Chassetirs, 160 men, and two companies of
artillery; 220 men. The number of regular troops in the
province within three leagues is estimated at 10,000,
SATURDAY MORNING, AUG. 6, NINE O'CLOCI..
The firing last night, and some this morning, originated
in a sorter made by the Dutch to obtain possession of the
batteries nt ar St. Laurent. The Belgian cannoniers ran
away on seeing their opponents make an attack ; but some
of the B igiart officers rallied their troops, and on their
making an advance, the Mitch retired in confusion.
Great complaints are made of the want of courage exhie
bi'ed by a portion of the Civic Guard of Antwerp, which
seems to shun all danger, and to wish to rest at home in
quiet. The avast of food, of which compliint is affectedly
made, cannot be true; for I saw the markets open this
morning, and numbers of country people selling vegetabli•e,
eggs, bread, &c.
General Bernard arrived here this morning at half-past
two o'clock, and having at four sent a notice to tl.e Go-
vernor of the citadel, was received at five by G. nt rat Clais-e,
with reborn he remained nearly two hours. On his return
into the city he had a conference with Colonel Tabor, the
ntilitary governs rof Antwerp, It is ►upposed that General
Mihail has brought to the commander of the citadel, the
answer of the conference, and that this city has been placed
tinder the protection of the Five Powers.
The following it a copy of the proclamation addressed
by the Prince of Orange to the inhabitants of the pro-
vinces where the troops of his Majesty the King of the
Low Countries have penetrated :
" Having, at the head of the national army, entered
upon your aoh, I wish to explain satisfactorily to the
peaceable inhabitants of there districts the intentions which
preside over this act of hostility. The army and its chief
are not animated either by the spirit of conquett or by-
that of vengeance; on the contrary, the sole object of the
determination of my King and father, on sending me into
those provinces, is to obtain just and equitable conditions
between the provinces that have remained faithful to him,
and those which have withdrawn themselves from his Go-
vernment.
"We do not make war but to obtain within the
shortest period possible a true peace between us.
" I therefore assure to the peaceful inhabitants of the
soil which I have just entered upon protection and secu-
rity, as well as support to all these who are well intentioned.
" If some partial disorders, often inevitable in the midst
of a numerous army, shall take place, the complaints
brought against them in this respect by the inhabitants
will be attended to by the military chiefs, and the facts
being proved, they shall be punished with ail the rigour of
the laws.
(Signed) " The Commander-in-Chief of the Army
of the Low Countries,
" WILHELII, Prince of Orange.
" Head-quarters, Aug. 2.
" To MM., Members of the Government
of the town of Turnhout."
The news of this morning is not favourable to the Bel-
eians, for the Dutch are positively stated to be still at
Turnhout, and General Nichol], who endeavoured to resist
their aggression, has been obliged to retreat to Sandhoven.
Some troops belonging to the Prince of Orange continue
still near Capelle. The Prince of Orange and the Duke
of Saxe-Weimar are stated to be at the head of the army
at Herenthals, which is now moving towards Diest. It
was affirmed that a portion of this army was surrounded,
hut it is not generally believes!.
Some of the Dutch cannoniers and a steam boat have
moved up the Scheldt from Antwerp, and having taken
four or five Belgian plying boats, sailed down the river
again. It is feared that they will attempt landing soon on
the banks of the Scheldt, near Dindermonde, which dis-
trict has been neglected.
MALINES, SATURDAY NOON.
The King arrived here at nine o'clock last night on his
return from Antwerp ; he is in very good health, and has
somewhat recovered from his fatigues. He is himself
Commander-in-Chief of all the armies, and his head-
quarters are stationed at Malines : his activity is very great.
He was dressed and transacting business at four o'clock this

morning.
The crowds on the road from Antwerp to this city do
not hear a resemblance to those of yesterday. It was a
continued stream of refugees. To-day the women and
children are in groups, at itioned in different places. Their
affrighted appearance, awl their inability to procure any
succour from themselves, are calculated to excite pity.
Several regiments are proceeding towards Antwerp, and
preparations are making to defend the bridge at. Walhem.
There is a strong body of the Civic Guard stationed there,
who are cutting trenches on both sides of the bridge. They
have eight field-pieces. The approach of the Dutch from
Lierre was apprehended.
The bustle of this town is very great, on account of ti e
presence of thousands of strangers from Antwerp and its
neighbourhood ; and also from this city being now head-
quarters. The news is circulated that 50,000 Frenchmen
are coming to assist Leopold against the Dutch. This
fact does not afford much satisfaction to many of his sub-
jects ; for the soldiers and Civic Guards are not afraid to
meet the Dutch single handed. If the Prussians come
openly to aid the King of Holland, the presence of the
French may be necessary, but the Belgians now fear them
as friends as well as enemies. " The French," as they
say, " will come easily, but it will not be easy to get rid
of them."

BRUSSELS, SATURDAY, THREE O'CLOCK.
The road from Malines to this city was this day
literally crowded with civic guards, all hastening in the
highest spirits to the armies. The young men of this
city on quitting home for a first campaign had necessarily
many affecting adieus to make; but all has yielded to the
love of independence, and to the strong wish expressed by
all to repel the invaders of their country. The walls of
this city are covered with placards of the General of the
civic guards inviting them to join his standard. They
have flocked around it from ail parts of the country. The
number which left Brussels this morning is 4,000, under
the command of General Van Conkelberg.
The newspapers are loud in their invocations to the Bel-
gians to arm en masse, and men eager for fighting spring
forward in every quarter. Within the last two days,
20,000 guns have been furnished to volunteers alone.
Several citizens of Brussels have proposed a weekly sub-
scription of small sums for the support of the widows and
children of those who may fall in battle.
The King, before his departure for the army, has ex-
pressed a wish for the sanction of the Legislature to a law
to establish a new military order.
From Ghent news has been received, that on the 4th
there was considerable fighting in the neighbourhood of
that city. On the sth they attempted to curly the posts
of Haregras and Houcke, but were repulsed. A spy in-
formed the Burgomaster of Maldeghem that the Dutch
expect 800 sailors; and lie fears that that post will be at-
tacked again to-day. From Assenede the Dutch were
twice forced to retire. Several cannon have been sent to
Bassevelde. The people in the provinces of Flanders are
resolved to defend their territory against the invaders, who
have as yet made no progress there.
The enthusiasm of the province of Liege, excited by the
proclamations of the King and of the Governor, &C. has
already produced 2,000 Civic Guards. More are expected
from Herve and Verviers. 15,000 Dutch have planted
ten pieces of artillery on the frontiers, near Weerdt, to
within two leagues of Venloo. The garrison of Maestricht
made a sortie on the 4th, but were driven back by a de-
tachment under Majors Zantis and Baron.
The attempt of the Dutch army to penetrate into the
centre of Belgium, either to Malines or Louvain, bad, it is
said, implicated it in difficulties out of which it will not
escape with ease. They intended first to take Turnhout
and Venloo, and then Arschot and Meet.
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The following is the letter of General Chasse, in answer
to that sent to hint on Tuesday by the Minister for Foreign
Affairs :

" Cita,l,l of Antwerp, Aug. 4

" The General of Infantry, Baron Chasse, Superior
Commandant of the Citadel of Antwerp, has the honour
to reply to M. de Meulenaere, that it is iu compliance with

the (mitts of his Majesty the King of the Low Countries, I
that he has notified to the superior Commandant of the
city and suburbs of Antwerp, the recommencement of b 0:
tilities, of which the cessation of the convention of the
of November is but the necessary result.
I beg M. de Mettlenaere to accept the assurances
my highest consideration.
(Signed, &e.) " Baron CHASSE."
This note is remarkable, as it strictly avoids all recor
nition of the titles and tank of the Belgian Alinister.

sit o'f2Locg.
The request for the assistance of the French arinYt.°
I have been informed, is the consequence of its being or
contestably proved by the prisoners taken among the,
Dutch be u.; Germans and Prussians. Leopold is, ho°' I
ever, resolved to try his own strength at first, and if he
cannot beat the PrussoAlolland army, to bring the French
forward. I have heard that they are not to be received
into Belgium until further notice.
A Dutch corps is stationed at Diest, where it is forts'
fying its position ; but General Thine is marching on it'
flank and r'ar. The Civic Guards of Louvaine, Tirlr
mont, Leo, and Arschot, are in fr,:nt of the enemy. 6e'
neral Daine and his army is stated to be at Maelen, °Pe
league from Diest, and that a junction has been effect,d
between the Belgian armies of tie Scheldt and Meuse.
SEVEN O'CI,00::
Tie Prince of Orange is said bo be caught in Mee
and its n,tighlrourhwid, at tfiehead of 7,000 men. It
rumoured that he has compelled die inhabitants to holy
cade the streets of the town.
General Belliard arrived this afternoon at head-quarter'l
when it was officially stated that an armistice, until f'.0.:1
ther orders, has been conclude!' between the citadel an
the city of Antwerp, and which armistice is confined 01'11
to those places.