The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-07 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

THE HAGUE, Nov. 2.—The Royal Family sustained,
yesterday evening, a severe loss. His Royal Highness
Prince Frederick William Nicholas Charles, only son of his
Royal Highness Prince, Frederick of the Netherlands, sunk
under a severe attack of illness, with which he was seized
early in the morning of the same day. His Royal High-
ness Prince Frederick, whose consort is at this moment at
Berlin, did not leave the sick bed of his son moment.
The joy which the birth of this child gave to his parents
last year is thus changed into deep affliction.
An officer of the household of his Royal Highness was
immediately sent to Berlin with the melancholy intelligence.
We have already spoken of the decree of the Emperor
of Russia, mitigating or commuting the punishment of the
Polish insurgents excepted from the general amnesty. The
following is the substance of this decree, which was pub-
lished at Warsaw on the 24th of October :
" We, Nicholas 1., by the Grace of God, &c. ; when by
our manifesto of the 20th October (November 1), 1831, we
granted a general amnesty to our subjects in the kingdom of
Poland, we excluded from it only the active instigators of the
rebellion. The Special Criminal Court which was esta-
blished by our ordinance of 13th February, 1832, to try such
state criminals according to the laws, has now completed its
tasli. Having now examined the report made to us by this
Court, as well as the sentence passed on the said criminals,
and considering the intercession which the late Cesare-
sritech—the Grand Duke Constantine Paulowitsch—znade
fotatitti requesting us to let them profit as much as possible
by our clemency, bid at the same time reconciling the duties
of justice and the respect due to the laws with the feelings of
humanity. Lastly, considering the repentance manifested by
these criminals, we have thought fit to moderate the punish--
ments decreed against them by the Tribunal, and order as
follows :
" Art. 1. Five persons sentenced to death are to be sent to
work in the mines in Siberia for 10, 15, 18, and 20 years.
" Art. 2 to 6. The punishment of a number of persons
condemned to imprisonment for different periods is moderated.
" Art. 7. The ex- Lieutenant- Colonel Charles Zelinski, who
was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and hard labour, on
account of his repentance, and of his having remained but a
short time in the service of the insurgents, and having after-
wards delivered himself up to justice, and taken the oath to
the Emperor, is pardoned.
" Art. 8. With respect to the other criminals, who after
the suppression of the rebellion concealed themselves, because
they were accused of crimes which our manifesto excluded
from the amnesty, and who, though summoned to appear by a
certain time before the Court, did not obey the summons, and -
also in consequence of the irrefragable proofs of their guilt,
have been sentenced by the said Court, as stated in the list of
their names, that is, the first 241 to be hanged, 9 to be be-
headed, and 7 to imprisonment and hard labour, with all the
legal consequences which those punishments bring with them,
—we have decreed, that all the rights formerly enjoyed by
each of them shall be forfeited, and that the sentence of death
or imprisonment shall be commuted into perpetual banishment
from the kingdom of Poland, and from all the other states of
our empire. Should any one of those criminals at a future
time, either secretly or openly, returned to the empire or the
kingdom, the sentence passed on them shall be carried into
effect according to all the rigour of military law.
Art. 9. All further investigation respecting the origin of
the rebellion for the discovery of other participators in it, and
all prosecutions of persons suspected of taking part in the po-
litical offences, shall immediately cease, and not be again re-
sumed. The Special Criminal Court is dissolved. The do-
cuments shall be deposited in the proper place, and the steps
necessary to be taken in consequence of this decree are left to
our Governor of the kingdom of Poland."
This decree is dated Zarskojeselo, 4th (16th) September.
Among the persons mentioned in Art. 8, as condemned to
death, now sentenced to perpetual banishment, arc Prince
Adam Czartoryski and Professor Lelewell."—Dutch Papers,
Nov. 4.

PRUSSIAN FUNDS—BERLIN, OCT. 30.
St. Schuld. Sch. 4 per cent.
Prussian English Loan, 1818, 5 per cent -
Ditto 1.22. 5 per cent.... --
Ditto Bonds lB3l 4 per cent.... 953 i 95,6
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.
On Amsterdam, 250 florins, 2 mon, hs 140%
Hamburg 300 francs, 2 months 152
London ll 3 months 6 24%
Paris 3(10 francs, 2 months VON.
Petersburgh...lllo rubles, 3 weeks 30)4
—Prussian State Gazette, Oct. 21.
CRONSTADT, Oct. 16.—0 n the 13th, it was reported a ship
had been seen aground, on the island of Stonescar, probably
the missing ship, the Standard, Captain James Leisk.—St.
.Petersburgh Gazette, Oct 22.
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