The Sun.
London, England, 1833-02-26 00:00:00

PROJECT, No. 3.

Their Majesties the King of the French and the King of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the one part,
and the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg,
on the other part, having resolved to determine on the follow-
ing articles, have named for their plenipotentiaries—(Here the
names of the plenipotentiaries are to be inserted)—who, being
duly authorized, have agreed on the following articles .
Art. 1. Immediately after the exchange of the ratifications
of the present Convention, orders shall be given by their Ma.
jesties the King of the French and the King of Great Britain,
and also by the King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Lux-
emburg, for the cessation of all the measures of rigour adopted
by either party since the Ist of November, 183'2 ; so that the re.
lations which existed between them before that time, shall be
re.established on the same footing on which they were at that
period. The navigation of the Scheldt shall be in likemanner
re-established on the same footing on which it was before the
Ist of NoveMber,lB33; a►td shall so continue until the conclu.
sion of a definitive arrangement.
Art. '2. The Dutch troops, naval and military, at this moment
detained in France, and which formed the garrisons of the
citadel of Antwerp and its dependent forts, shall immediately
return with their baggage to the territories of his Majesty the
King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxemburg.
Art. 3. Until the relations between Holland and Belgium
shall be completely fixed by a definitive treaty, his Majesty the
King of the Netherlands recognises' the neutrality of Belgium
according to the limits which are guaranteed to it by the treaty
concluded between the five Powers and Belgium on the 15th of
November, 1831; and there shall be during this interval a corn.
plete armistice between the troops of the King of the Nether-
lands and the Belgian troops.
Art. 4. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands engages to
open to commerce, immediately after the ratification of the pre-
sent Convention, the navigation of the Meuse ; and until a defi-
nitive regulation shall be settled relative to this point, the navi.
gation Of the Meuse shalibe subjected to the dispositions of the
Convention signed at Mayence oe the 31st March, 1831, for the
regulation of the navigation of the Rhine, so far as those dispo.
sitions can be applied to the Meuse.
Art. 5. The High Contracting Parties engage to occupy them.
selves without delay, with a definitive treaty which shall fix the
relations between the States of his Majesty the King of the Ne-
therlands and Belgium. They will invite the Courts of Austria
Prussia, and Russia, to concur in it.

Art. 6. The exchange of the ratifications of the present Con-
vention shall take place at London, before the end of ten days
at the latest.

The following has been published as the substance of a Ma.
nifesto said to have been delivered to the Foreign Minister of
the King of the Netherlands by the British Charge d'Affaires
at the Hague. It bears the date of the 10th of February, four
days prior to that of the note which we inserted yesterday

" Art. 1. After having exhausted every means of concilia-
tion, in order to bring about an amicable arrangement between
the Powers (Holland and Belgium), his Britannic Majesty,
with the consent of the King of the French, has resolved, that
if by the 15th of the next month his Dutch Majesty does not
send to the Foreign-office a note, which shall indicate the
principal bases on which the 'Dreaty of Commerce between
the two belligerent Powers is to be founded, the French army,
supported by an English squadron,- shall once more cross
the Belgian territory, and this time shall not return until the
treaty of the 15th of November, 1831, shall be entirely ac-
complished.

" Art. 2. The embargo on Dutch vessels, both of war and
merchantmen, shall be maintained, both in France and Eng-
land, until the accomplishment of the said treaty.
" Art. 3. France and England, before having recourse to
coercive measures, will require that the Dutch Government
abolish the right of toll lately established.
" Art. 4. The Governments of France and England, wishing
to establish the commercial bases of the two Governments on an
amicable footing, and not wishing the Treaty to be entered into
between them to be burdensome to either Power, have endea-
voured to balance the interests of the two belligerent Powers,
so that the Treaty may be signed and ratified at the Hague and
at Brussels in the course of the month of Marah of the pment
year.

" Art. 5. The undersigned Representatives of France and
England conclude by repeating to the Dutch Government what
has already been said in the first article of this note, and hope
that his Dutch Majesty, feeling the necessity of terminating a
question which keeps the commerce of the whole of Europe in
suspense, will cut the gordian knot, and send them propositions
which they can accept.
(Signed) " TALLEYRAND,
" London, 10th February. " PALMERSTON."

LORD SPENCER CHURCHILL.—The lovers
of humour will find an inexhaustable source of mirth in
the sayings and doings of this eccentric naval officer as
detailed in " Whychcotte of St. John's." His MAJESTY
is said to have laughed heartily at Lord SPENCER'S chival-
rous enterprise, and its droll termination.

DREADFUL G A LE.—Wednesday it blew one
of the severest gales from the south-east that we have had
this season. Abeut seven o'clock A. M. a sloop was ob-
served in the roads in a very dangerous plight. At con-
siderable hazard, she was boarded by a pilot-hoe from
Newhaven, when, to the astonishment of the pilots, no
person was found on board. She was fast filling with water,
but her fires were still burning. The pilots could render
no assistance to save the vessel, and had scarcely left her
when she went down. By the name on the stern, she
was discovered to be the Mary Ann, of Perth, and was
laden with coals. A painful uncertainty prevailed for two
days in regard to the fate of the crew, but we are happy
to say that they have now cast up. The Maty Ann had
run foul of another vessel, and having become leaky in
consequence, the crew abandoned her, and having gone on
board of another vessel, were safely landed above the
Ferry. One of the most experienced Newhaven men,
who was out the whole of Wednesday evening in an open
boat, informs us that the gale was most tremendous, and
the escape of himself and crew was the most providential
thing imaginable. Not so the case of many of the others
who were iu the fleet of het ring fishing boats which were
abreast of the island of May, when the gale carne on. '1 be
hurricane came from the SS.E., and the sea which came
along with it was dreadful. The Newhaven boats not
being so well acquainted with the Fife coast, resolved, in
general, to scud before the wind, and we are happy to say
that all of these hardy and industrious men have been ac-
counted for. Our informant, however, states that in their
passage up the Firth, they saw a fishing-boat, keel up,
the crew of which must have found a watery grave. In
addition to this, we have just learned from the Master of
one of the Elie packets, that the loss of lives in that
quarter is most melancholy and heart-rending. Already
it has been ascertained that six boats with crews of five
each have been lost, and not a soul on board survives to
tell the melancholy tale,—Scotsman.

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