The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-24 00:00:00

No. 12,700.)

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, MAY 18.—A letter from the Hague, dated
the 16th, announces that the Prince and Princess of
Orange and their eldest son will shortly go to London.
The Independant now acknowledges that it was led
into an error by a correspondent at Ostend, announcing
the arrival of Lord Durham in that town.

The Dutch have arrested, at the distance of a league
from Maestricht, and conveyed to the prison in that for-
tress-1. M. Jamini, advocate, at Leige, late deputy;
2. M. Hypels, judge at Tongres ; 3. M. Ruys, member
of the same tribunal ; 4. M. Nierstaz, clerk to the same ;
5. M. Vanderstractea, receiver of the customs.
The Journal of Aslon, of the 15th, says, that on the
13th some Prussian Lancers went to two villages three.
qt arters of a league beyond the line of the territory of the
fortress, to see if there were any armed men there. Some
Prussian soldiers also went to Mersch, where there is a
company of Belgian troops. We do not learn that any
obstacle was thrown in their way.

M. Lebrocquy, one of the editors of the Journal du
Commerce, has left Antwerp, being alarmed at the steps
taken by several officers of the garrison to lay hands on Mtn.
BRUSSELS, MAY 19.—The Minister of War set out
yesterday afternoon for Tournay.
The Britannia, English steam-boat, and the Dart
sloop, arrived at Ostend on the 18th, to take on board
200 volunteers for the service of Donna Maria.
M. Jamini and the other gentlemen, whose arrest we
mentioned, having been confined for one night in the
officer's apartment in Fort St. Pierre, near Alaestricht,
were visited the following morning by General Braede and
a company of police, and after a few questions, were
restored to liberty. M. Jamini and the other gentlemen
say that they were treated with every mark of attention
and courtesy by the Dutch officers.
The several Ministerial departments are very busily em-
ployed in preparing the projects of law which are to be
laid before the Chambers. _ _

Monseigneur Barrett, Bishop of Namur, had a private
audience of the King yesterday.
BRUSSELS, MAY 20.—General Toilet, Minister of
FTeign Affairs, is to act as Minister of War during the
absence of General Evain, who has obtained leave of
absence to go to France.
The Independent says, "We are assured that our
Minister residing in the United States of America
has concluded a treaty of commerce in that republic, by
which our tenens will be exclusively exempted from all
import duty.
On the 15th two battalions of the Ilth Regiment of
the line passed through St. 'Proud, on their way to the
environs of Maastricht.

The Government has given orders to repair the road
from Tongus to Maseyck, which passes near the fortifi-
cations of AlaPs.richt.

The Dutch fired on the workmen, and have twice
driven them away. General Huret made the right ad-
vance, and sent to General Delbets to inquire whether this
was done by his order ? He received an answer in the
negative; General Huret declared that his troops should
protect the workmen.
The camp of Cashean was in a great state of for-
wardness.

The accounts from Holland are not important. The
journals speak of the extreme vigilance that is exercised
with respect to strangers, who want to enter Holland.
King William will go the army on the 10th June to
review it.

BRUSSELS, MAY 21.—We have the satisfaction to
state that by the new tariff adopted by the American
Legislature, and which will come into operation on the
Ist Jan. 1334, raw and bleached linens, as well
as table linen, will he wholly exempt from import duties.
We may add, that the exertions of our envoy in the United
States have powerfully contributed to obtain this result,
which will be so advantageous to one of the principal
branches of our manufactures.—Moniteur Beige.
The Government has just been informed that the 114-
gian Consuls at Naples, Leghorn, and Dantzic, have been
recognised by the Neapolitan, Tuscan, and Prussian Go-
vernments respectively.—Brussels Papers, May 22.
ANTWERP, MAY 20.—Yesterday and to-day several
officers have come to our office to demand explanations.
Having found none of the editors, they withdrew without
repeating the odious threats that they uttered before.
We beg these gentlemen to give themselves no farther
trouble, being firmly resolved not to accept their chal-
lenges. As for the acts of violence with which a few of
these gentlemen menace us, we repeat here, without de-
siring to provoke any body, what we told some of them,
that we will repel force by force. We are prepared ; and if,
which we believe impossible, they should come in a body
to attache us, our blood shall not be spilt alone.
It would be difficult to describe the sensation excited at
Antwerp l•y the letter of General 11Iagnom, in reply to the
application' made to him for his protection, by the editors
of the Illessag(r du Gand, in which lie tells them that
he will not affird them protection, that by their con •
tinual atterni is to create rebellion and disobedience to the
King's Government, they have wounded the honour of the
army, that he considers them as the enemies of the
country and the King, that the situation in which they are
placed is of their own seeking, and that he cannot and
will not do anything to change it.
ANTWERP, MAY 21.—What has pissed at Ghent and
Antwerp were only a prelude ; much more serious ex-
cesses have been committed at Brussels ; in the capital,
assassination has already been attempted. M. F. Tournay,
editor of the Knout was waited on on the morning of the
17th, by a person not in uniform, who said he was an
effiz.er of the Guides of the King, sent by all the officers
to order him to cease printing the .Knout, and to give
up the names of the principal editors. M. Tournay
refusing, and saying that he was answerable to the
tribunal, the officer said he would return next
day for further explanation. On the 18th the same
officer and another person meeting him at his own door
asked him to go into the house, which he did, and they
had scarcely entered, when, without asking any questions,
they fell upon him and beat him in a most dreadful man-
ner, they then took his pistols, which were over the tire
place; having recovered a little he got out of the house,
which the assassins perceiving, pursued him across the
street into the house opposite, and into the second st ry,
where they again fell on bim, and left him apparently dead.
M. Tournay says that one of the assassins told him his
name was Captain Lahore. The same persons paid also a
visit to the office of the Lynx, demanding to see the
editors, declaring that if the journal continued to write
against the King and his power, detachments of officers and
subalterns would come, and would attack, assassinate, &c.,
even it' they were to go to the scaffold the next day. About
half an hour afterwards they returned, repeating their
threats, but retired without committing any act of
violence ; one of them, Captain Lahure, said he had just
trea'ed the editor of the K,.out as he deserved. They had
not exercised their threats against the editor of the Lynx.
GHENT, MAY 19.—The garrison of this city has been
changed this morning ; its place has been taken by the
demi-brigade of Colonel Dore. A proclamation has been
issued by the civil and military authorities announcing
measures to preserve the public peace. It is signed by the
Burgomaster, Van Crombrugg-, and General Magnotn.
On the 18th, in the morning, a duel was fought near

Brus.els between M. L. de Borthren, editor of the Po-
pellolk, and Captain Lahure; the latt.-r was wounded in
the shoulder. His pistol missed fire. The seconds of
the editor of ti:e Popellolle declared to the seconds of
Captain Lahure that they considered this duel as inde-
pendent of political opinion., and that they demanded it as
a satisfaction for a personal insult.—Journal of Antwerp,
Ghent, and Brussels, May 22.
Aucsauaa, MAY 16.—The letters from Constantinople
by the post are only to the 25th of April. They mention
Ibrahint's persisting in the demands of Adana. The
Porte, they say, is induced to let matters come to extre-
mities, but gives itself the appearance of hesitating to
which of the European powers it shall trust its tall, though
it is decidedly inclined to Russia. Admiral Roussin, who
has tr,quent conferences with the Turkish ministers, re-
ceives only equivocal answers, which are probably agreed
upon with General Butinieff. The latest offer made by
the admiral, in the name of France, was " to compel
Mehemet Ali, by the blockade of Alexandria, to ac-
cept the last concessions of the Porte, if the Russian
corps suspended its march towards the capital,
and if that power would engage to withdraw all its forces
from the Turkish territory, immediately after the evacu
tion of Natolia by the Egyptians." This proposal was
hall-and-half accepted with seeming gratitude by the Reis
Effendi, while he at the same time requested M. Van