The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-08 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

" Resolution of the Major-General, President of the
Commission of General Direction of the Grand
Duchy of Luxemburg, in conformity with the
commands which he has received from his Ma-
jesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke
of Luxemburg.
" Article 1. The inhabitants of the said (Grand
Duchy, having an existence as a people independent
of that of the Belgian, and which is confirmed by the
solemn treaties of 1815, and acknowledged by the
protocols of the London Conference, as such must
refrain from taking part in the elections which are to
take place on the 29th of August, and following
days, for the choice of senators and representative...,
intended to form a part of the new Legislature of
Belgium.
" 2. The inhabitants of the city of Luxemburg,
who shall act in defiance of the present proclamation,
and take a part in the said elections, shall be shut
out of the city and never more allowed to enter it.
" Given in Luxemburg, in the Hotel of the Ge-
neral Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxem-
burg, the 21st of August, 1831.
" The Major-General President of the Com-
mission of General Government of the
Grand Duchy.

DE GOEDECKE.
" For the General Government,
" GELLE, Secretary-General."
The Doesbnrg Society, " Tot nut van't Alge-
meen," m " For the good of the Public," has pre-
sented to Colonel Ledel a gold snuff-box, with this
inscription, " To the Lieutenant-Colonel J. Ledel,
Protector of Staats Flanders, 1531." He has shown
great talent in conducting hard service in Flanders,
where he had the command, and mostly Zealand
Burgher Guards under his command—another wise
trait in the conduct of the Government, as those
troops, being accustomed to that climate, are less
subject to the murderous Zealand fever.
Since the late campaign free-will offerings are
coming with new spirit, and the Government mak-
ing every exertion to add to the strength and per.
fection of the army ; the Princes are every where
inspecting.
BERLIN, SEPT. I.—We have no news from Po-
land in our State Gazette to-day, except the follow-
ing short article:—
" According to the latest accounts from the head-
quarters of the Russian Imperial army, they were
still at Nadarzyn on the 23t1, and the outposts were
about four wersts (two one-half English miles) Iron,
Warsaw. Since the late events, nothing farther
had taken place in the army. The first division of
the troops which General Kreutz is bringing to join
the Field-Marshal, had already passel the Vistula."
VIENNA, AUG. 25—We know but little of the
state of affairs in Poland, and as the communications
are wholly cut off, and the accounts from Cracrow
are not only very partial, but rest on mere hearsay,
we are therefore very impatient for authentic ac-
counts of decisive events, which it should seem, from
the measures of Count Paskewitsch, cannot fail to
take place. We learn that Prince Badziwill has
been sent as Plenipotentiary from the Polish Na-
tional Government, to the Russian head-quarters, to
negotiate a peace. On what basis the negotiation
can be carried on is difficult to guess, as the Empe-
ror of Russia in his last proclamation again requires
implicit submission, unless we suppose that Count
Paskewitsch is furnished with special instructions
and unlimited powers to conclude peace. If we be•
heve the assurances of several eminent merchants
who are usually well informed, the Poles require of
the Russian Commander the same terms that
at the commencement of the revolution under
Chlopieki they submitted to the Emperor, and
which were then refused. But it is said that
the present proposals of the Poles differ
from the former so far that they no longer
protest against having Russian troops in the king-
dom, but only require that their number shall b.
equal to that of the Polish national army, adding,
that these Russian troops shall be under the exclu-
sive command of the Russian General, who shall be
subject to a Viceroy, chosen by the Polish nation,
and confirmed by the Emperor, and receive orders
from him. It is difficult, considering allthe circum•
stances, to judge of the probability of the acceptance
of these proposals.
VIENNA, AUG. 2G.—Five per Cent. Metalliques,
78k; Four per Cents., 69; Bank Shares, 926 k.
COBLENTZ, AUG. 31.—News has just been re-
ceived, which, indeed, needs confirmation, that the
Polish Prince Radzivill is appointed Viceroy of Po-
land, under the sovereignty of Russia, and that hos-
tilities are suspended on both sides.
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 4.—An Austrian Cabinet :Mes-
senger passed through this city yesterday. He
brought from Vienna despatches for Paris and
London, from which last place he has again been sent
by Prince E,terhazy, with despatches for Frankfort.
An English Cabinet Messenger also arrived yes-
terday at noon from the Hague, with despatches for
the English Ambassador, and was sent away yester-
day evening with despatches to Antwerp. Another
English Cabinet Messenger arrived here yesterday-
evening with despatches from London, and set out
at two o'clock this morning with despatches for the
Hague. It is affirmed that one of our most able
financiers has been sent by our Government to Paris,
to contract a loan there.

The Moniteur Beige says on this subject,—
"The Journals have been misinformed in announcing
that our Government had given a commission to
contract a loan at Paris. No step of this kind can
have been taken with the assent of the Government."
M. Surlet de Chokier has declared, in a letter ad-
dressed to the Po/Ripe, that he is resolved to with-
draw from the career of politics.
BRUSSELS, SEPT. s.—An English Cabinet Mes-
senger left this city yesterday morning, and another
in the evening, both with despatches for the Hague.
A Belgic Cabinet Messenger set out yesterday
with despatches for London.
M. Sylvan Van de Weyer, our Ambassador at
London, has made an application for all papers and
documents deposited in the archives of the Congress,
relative to the debt, to the boundaries, and to the
budget of the late kingdom of the Netherlands. Se-
veral clerks are employed in it.
In the night of August 30 a robbery of about one
thousand fire-arms was committed at Antwerp in one
of the Cosemates, on the left of the Malines Gate.
It is supposed .that the thieves entered by means of
a ladder at one of the openings that serve to let out
the smoke. All search after the robbers or the ar-
ticles stolen has hitherto be, n in vain.
GHENT, SEPT. 4.—Four pieces of cannon left
Bruges on the Ist, for West Crefelle.
New Clara Polder, containing twelve or thirteen
of the finest farms in the country, from 100 to 150
acres each, was totally inundated yesterday by the
tide at neon, through an opening which the Dutch
have made in the sea-dyke to the east of the Capi-
talen Dam. The damage is incalculable. Fifteen
hundred acres of the finest land in Europe, the har-
vest in the barns, the crop of potatoes—the loss of
which ruins above 100 families—the plantations, the
buildings, all are destroyed. The land will produce
nothing for many years, and enormous expense will
be necessary to stop a breach made between two
creeks, and which will be widened and deepened in
a frightful manner.
CALLOO, AUG. 31.—The Dutch continue to fortify
themselves : it is affirmed that the garrison of hoist
has been reinforced by 700 men.
On the Ist instant the Superintendents of the
Polder sent their people to stop the opening la.ely
made by tl•le Dutch at the Pipe de Tabac. They
had scarcely began when an officer of the gun-boat
came to inform that he had no orders to permit them
to close the opening, and that if they continued they
must be answerable for the consequences.
The Journal of Luxemburg says, there is a
35th
protocol, in one of the clauses, of which it is stated,
that the Belgic Government is to cease all as Pcts of
Government in the Grand Dochy.—Brussea-
pers, Sept. 6.
THE HAGUE, SEPT. 4. The Princess of Orange,
Princess Frederick, and Prince Albert of Prussia,
returned from the camp on Friday evening, Their

Majesties, Princess Vredcrick, and Prince and Prin-
cess Albert, honoured the theatre with their presence
yesterday evening, and were received with the most
enthusiastic marks of attachment. We learn that
in conformity with a Circular from the Minister of
the Interior, the men belonging to the first band of
the militia for this year's levy are to assemble as
speedily as possible at their respective places of ren-
devous to be daily exercised.
AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 5.
Atlna' Debt, ‘2.ly per cent 3413i to 374
Voluntary Loan
Amort Syndic, 4% per cent.....-. 58!4 to 59i,4
Ditto, ditto, 3% per con",

effect—that the Court should petition Parliament to
have a clause inserted in the Reform Bill, giving a
right, in perpetuity, to the Livery of London to
send two Members to Parliament. He considered
thatif a clause to the above effect was not introduced
the consequence would be the ruin of several com-
panies' charities.
Mr. Deputy BROOK seconded the amendment,
and declared that all the city companies were dis-
gusted with the Bill.
This called up an Hon. Member whose name we
did not learn, and who not only flatly denied Deputy
Brooks assertion, but dared him to the proof of it.
Mr. THORNHILL supported the original resolutions
in a very long and spirited address.
After a few words from several other Nimbus,
the Court divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment 5
Against it t lb
A division also took place on the motion of Mr.
Pearson, and the numbers were—
For the motion ll7

Against it
There Ntas great clapping of hands in the Court
at the result.—Adjourned.

The following extracts from the report drawn up by the
City-solicitor, the Remembrancer, and the Town-clerk,
will be read with curiosity. The report is to be discussed
by the Corporation :
" The service of the citizens of London at Coronations
is of the greatest antiquity, and was probably exercised
previous to the Conquest ; for, at the Coronation of King
Richard the First (the earliest Coronation of which any
detailed account is preserved,) the citizens of London per-
formed that service as an ancient service. Rapin, in his
" History of England," vol. i. p. 244, states, on the an-
therity of Hoveden, and Diceto, Dean of S. Paul's (who
were eyewitnesses) that, at the Coronation of King
Richard the First, after the Coronation feast, which was
kept in Westminster-hall", the citizens of London were his
butlers, anti those of Winchester served up the meat.' It
appears, from a very ancient manuscript in the British
Museum (MS. Hail., 3,b04, f. 218) that on this occa-
sion the citizens of Winchester contested the right with the
citizens of London, and that the latter were obliged to pur-
chase justice of the King—a circumstance not uncommon
at that period. It states—' But the citizens of London,
having given to the King a reward of 200 marks, served
of the buttery against the claim of the citizens of Win-
chester ; but the citizens of Winchester served of the
kitchen.' This was the second Coronation of Richard 1.,
and was celebrated at 'Winchester, after his return from
captivity, on the 17th of April, 1194, which probably oc-
casioned the claim of the citizens of Winchester to serve
the office of butter. Matthew Paris shortly mentions the
subject. Gerrard of Dover has preserved a long narrative
of the ceremonies, and Bimpton and Knighton only notice
the event ; but none of these historians give any further
particulars of the service of the citizens of London.
" No entry relative to the citizens of London appears on
record, of the Coronation of King John ; the haste with
which he was crowned, from the disturbed st rte of the
country, probably prevented the usual ceremonies being
observed. _ .

"At the two first Coronations of King Henry 111. it
does not appear that the citizrns of London attended, but
on his grand Coronation with his Queen Eleanor they at•
tended in great state ; and, although their claim to serve
the office of butler was not Awed, it is evident, from all
the accounts, that their right was fully established. The
reason of its not being insisted upon, on this occasion, is
given by Matthew Paris in the following terms:—' Where-
fore, by any contentio❑ arising, the nuptial gladness should
he made gloomy (the right of every one being saved),
many things were borne with for the occasion which were
to be determined at a fit time.'

" The several Coronations of King Edward 1., King
Edward If., and King Edward 111., are mentioned in the
city's records, but no statement of the duties peiformed is
contained therein.

" At the Coronation of King Richard the Second the
citizens of London both claimed and served the office of
butler. The claims on this occasion, and the decisions or
judgments thereon, are fully entered in the city records,
as well as in a manuscript in the British Museum. It
appears, that on this occasion the Recorder of London
claimed this privilege before the Lord Steward by word
of mouth, according to the liberty and custom of the
city, that the Lord Mayor, by reason of his office of
mayoralty, should, in his proper person, serve the
King on the day of his Coronation, as well in the hall
at his dinner as after dinner in the chamber, with a cup
of gold, and when he should retire from the feast should
have for his fee and carry away with him the same cup ;
and that the citizens of London, who should be thereunto
chosen by the aforesaid city, ought on the same (lay to
serve the Noblemen and others, in aid of the Chief Butler,
as well as table at dinner in the hall as after dinner in the
chamber, as the Mayors and citizens of the same city,
their predecessors, had hitherto (as it was asserted) been
accustomed to do. The claim was allowed, and the
entry further states, that the same Mayor and the afore.
said citizens did decently fulfil the aforesaid services, and
the aforesaid Mayor received the cup wherewith he served
the King.
" It is important to remark, that the claim at this
early period states that the citizens Iwho were to assist the
Lord Mayor in the office of Butler were to be chosen by
the aforesaid city, without any reference to any particular
class, or alluding to any particular companies.
" No entry relating to the Coronotion of King Henry
IV. is contained in the city records, but a full entry of
the city's claim, allowance, and service, has been found in
the British Museum. The claim is to the same effect, and
nearly in the same terms, as that made in the preceding
reign of King Richard 11. The citizens who were to
attend the Lord Mayor are stated to be other citizens who
should be thereunto chosen by the city of London, leaving,
as before, the choice without restriction, in the city of
London. In addition to the claim made in the previous
reign, the said Mayor and citizens also claimed that the
Aldermen and citizens of the said city should have their
place and sitting to thinner at the left table set in the hall
of our Lord the King, from the upper part of the said
table to the lower part of the same, as anciently they had
been accustomed to have and occopy. Tills was also
allowed, and the Aldermen and citizens held their pl ice at
the table.
" No entry of the Coronation of King Henry V. is con-
tained in the city records.
" The claim of the Lord Mayor and citizens ai the Co
ronation of Henry VI. is preserved in the city records,
and is in all respects the same as that made at the Co-
ronation of King Henry IV. The citizens to attend the
Lord Mayor are stated to be citizens who shall be chosen
for this (that is, to attend the Lord Mayor) by the afore.
said city.
"At the Coronation of King Edward IV., the Lord
Mayor and citizens of London claimed arid performed their
accustomed office. The form of the chins is contained in
the city records, and states that ' Richard Lee, nowe Mair,
and other citizens of the city aforesai‘ to the said ...ace
~nd service nowe chosen.' In this record are contained
the names of the citizens and the companies to which they
belonged,—viz , two mercers, two fishmongers, two gro-
cers, one gold-smith, one tailor, two cloth-workers, one
skinner, one ironmonger, and one vintner. It is, there-
fore, evident that at this period the practice was not to
choose one from each of the twelve companies, as the citi-
zens were selected from nine companies only. That the
citizens were usually chosen from the superior companies is
not surprising when it is recollected that at this period the
companies had great influence in the city, and contributed
in a great degree to the expense of the Mayoralty and other
charges of the city.
" Four years after, at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth,
the Queen of King Edward IV., the Mayor and citizens
enjoyed the usual privileges. On this occasion eight citi-
zens were appointed by the Court of Common Council to
attend the Lord Mayor, out of the Drapers, Mercers, Gro-
cers, Fishmongers, Skinners, Vintners, Goldsmiths, and
Ironmongers' Companies.
' " King Edward V. was not crowned, but in the suc-
ceeding reign of King Richard 111., the citizens again
claimed' and performed their service. The petition, which
is entered in the city records, states, c that diverse other
citizens that by the said Mayor and citie shall thereunto be
named and chosen.'

•
" No entry respecting the Coronation of King Henry
VII., which took place immediately after the battle of
Bosworth, appears in the city records, but at the Corona-
tion of his Queen, Elizabeth, the Court of Common Coun-
cil assigned eight commoners to assist the chief butler of
England, on the day of the Coronation of the Queen of
England.
,‘ At the Coronation of King Henry VIII, and Queen
Catherine, the Court of Aldermen appointed 12 citizens to
attend the chief butler, but, previous to the Coronation of

, Queen Ann Boleyn, the Court of Common Council
agreed that the Court of Aldermen should name and ap-
point the 12 citizens to wait upon the chief butler o!Eng-
land, and since that period the appointment has remained
with the Court of Aldermen.
" In succeeding reigns the citizens of London were ap;
pointed in a similar manner, until the reign of William
• The Coronation Feast was at Winchester, and not et West-
minster, ea stated by the historian,