The Sun.
London, England, 1815-01-03 00:00:00

lIELGIUNT.

[Prow a Brussels Paper]
Vertgin Parisian Journals ta'e a singular plea-.
sure in inserting in their columns articles under
The head of Brussels,' Antwerp, or Glicnt, which
are nothing else but petty forgeries, dictated by
interested or- Malevolent motives. Of this kind
is an article front Antwerp, in the Gazette de
Ranee, of the 15th of December, in which we
remark the following paragraph :—" One union
with Holilud resembles those ill-assorted mar-
riage.; which Princes sometimes enter into from
political reasons, and private individuals from fa-
mily arrangements. There is,' in this instance,
between the two contracting parties; an evident
incompatibility of disposition and of character ;
above all, an incompatibility of interests. It is
agreed on. both side:4, that there is no agreement,
and that the Prince Sovereign is the only one who
has reason to be satisfied with these arrange-
ments." The sum and substance of the whole ar-
ticle is, that the Belgians are anxious again to be-
come French.

Hence, it must be allowed, arc very ridiculous
means employed to lead astray- those who, after
so many 1)6144.81 storms, are still dreaming of
agitations and disturbances.. It is not persons
fortified.by experience who are likely to be
,im-
posed on by these Unmeaning observations : wg
know the tricks. of our -brother journalists of
Paris, and it may not be without its use'to unveil
this contemptible mystery of iniquity. We will
tall them, then, that the articles 'leaded Brussels
or Antwerp vre fabricated in their own offices;
and if the abavo-named veritable Gazette asks by
whom, we will also tell that,with all the frankness,
which characterises Belgians.
It is well knOw that M. Wellemare was for se-
veral year,: Commissary-General of Police at An-
twerp, and that he there served his master Bun-
naparte with great devotedness. This Bellernare,
however, is one of 'the co-proprietors of the.
Gazette de France, and being no longer employed
to deliver in secret reports to the Police, it is pro-
bable enough that lie amuses his leisure howls by
writing; Antwerp articles for his paper, in which
may always be perceived the regret of an Ex-
Commissary of Police at having 1031 his occupa-
tion : such is the secret of the Antwerp articles in
the Gazette de- France.

But pray. Gentlemen, intermeddle a little less
with our affairs ; it is our sincere wish that you.
may be contented and happy ; we do not aspire
to the honour of giving you advice, and you may
therefore spare your's : quite satisfied with having,
for 20 years,: groaned under the arbitrary sway of,
all your Governments, with which you were pleas-
ed to associate us for the expiation of our sins, we-
ask nothing farther of you. Peace, and the cer-
tainty of a happy futurity, present themselves be-
fore us ; soon our national character will again
become what it was in the
_finest period of our
history—a character to which. Cesar paid the
most brilliant testimony ;. but which your Com-
mitt. es of Public Safety, your Directory, your
Consuls, and_ your Emperor, endeavoured to so-
phisticate by their irreligion and frightful•des-
potism.
This subject reminds us of a ,pamphlet of a si-
milar description-, entitled " Letter of a Belgiiin
to his Majesty.Lonis XVIII. ;" in which the au-
thor paints in the most glowing colours, the suf-
ferings to which we haie -been exposed since the
French Government ceased to cover us with its
protecting wings it wants only one thing, and
that is truth. The author closes' the whole with
the ingenuous, antidoubtless very disinterested,
wish of seeing us again in the :noternal arms of
France, which lately hugged us so very tenderly.
We will not outrage our countrymen, ,as well
as common sense, so far as to go about to prove,
that these articles, these letters and pamphlets,
which pretend to coloe from Belgium, are not the
work of Belgians. The most short-sighted can-
not tail to perceive, under the mask with which
these Writers endeavour to conceal themselves,
set of men, strangers to our country, in -senti-
ment as well as birth, and who, of course, felt
very sincere regret at a separation of which one
result was their being compelled to carry back to
old -France those adMinistrative and financial ta-
lents,- of which we were recently the admirers and
the victims. No, they are not Belgians,—the
men who regret that we are no. longer lost in that
incoherent mass formed out of ten different Na-
tions, and which Was lately called France. All
these falsehoods form a part of that system of ly-
ing so frequently put in operation in these latter
times, and of which some people have retained
the incurable habit.

MILITARY.

A squadron of the 14th Light Dragoons
rived at Portsmouth on Saturday, to embark for
America from Weymouth. The 52d regiment
march in for the same purpose this day and to-
morrow. Various other corps are expected.—
There are sufficient transports ready to embark
10„000.

The following Regiments and Corps now-com-
pose the garrison of Halifax, viz. 60th Regiment,
7th battalioU, 64th and 98th Regiments, with de-
tachments of the Royal-- Artillery, Royal Engi-
neers, and Royal Sappers and Miners ; and the
27th Regiment, Ist battalion, just arrived 'front
Quebec.

The lst battalion of the Royal Scots, the Ist
battalion of the Bth," the 100th and 10-Ith Regi-
ments were to leave Upper Canada for Quebec in
November. These regiments are reduced by ser-
vice in that country to
„mere skeletons, and their
loss in Officers has been very great. •
The 29th and 62#1 Regiments are at prrsent quar-
tered at Castint. The 99th Regiment is quarter-
ed at St. Johii's, New Brunswick, and at Moose
Island, in Passamaquoddy Bay.
Major:General Gosswl commands the • troops
at Castine, and Lieutenant-Colonel Guaaitvs at
Moose Island.

A prosecution has. been commenced by his Ma-
jesty's Attorney-General in. the North American
Colonies, against the Printer of the " Arcadian.,"
for libelling; and slandering the character of Sir
GEORGE PikErOST, tile civil Governor of those
Colonies.

MAILS.
ARRIVED-2 Holland, 1 Haniburgh, 9. Guernsey and Jerse,
Gottenikurgb, 1 Dublin, 6 Waterford. DUE,-1 France,
1 Lisbon. •