The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-14 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

THE HAGUE, OCT. 10.—Yesterday afternoon
Prince Felix of Schwartzenburg, Major in the s,r-
vice of hiA Majesty the Emperor of Austria, arrived
here. He came la4t from Berlin, and is intrusted
with a mission to his Majesty the King. He is a
relative of the Prince of the same name whose ar-
rival we mentioned some time ago, and who is now
in London.

The Stoats Courant, giving a translation of the
Note communicated on the sth of this month by
the Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Van
Goblet, to the Chamber of Representatives, and
which was presented to the London Conference by
the Belgian Plenipotentiaries on the 28th of Sep-
tember,prefaces it with the following observations:—
" We communicate this document to our readers
without making any observation upon it, except that
it has the usual character of Belgian reports, ming-
ling truth with falsehood, All reason on it on our
part would at present be unreasonable, as it would
be anticipwing the communications of our Govern-
ment respecting still pending negotiations, which
by mutual agreement are still kept secret."
Complaints are made, and not without reason,
that while the parties engaged at London in re-
gulating the affairs of Belgium had agreed to keep
the negotiations serer, the Belgian Government has
violated this agieement by publishing the Note of
its Plenipotentiaries of the 28th of September. It
is supposed there must be important reasons for this
breach of faith, and none can be conceived but a
desire to make it be believed that the obstacles
to the conclusion of a final arrangement must be
ascribed entirely to the Netherlands Government,
with no other view than to sow discord, and to pre-
vent the union of opinions, by which alone all the
hostile projects that are entertained against this
State can be defeated. The Belgian Plenipoten-
tiaries name in their Note the Articles upon which
the parties were agreed, but are silent respecting
those on which they still differed, viz. 9,11,12,13,
and 14, respecting which Russia has made a
reservation, and which relate to the navigation
of the Scheldt. the tolls, the communication
through Maestricht, the road by Sittard, the parti-
tion of the debt, the liquidation of the syndicate,
and the repayment of the interest paid in advance.
Until a definitive agreement is come to on those
points, which will have so much influence on our
future independence, it may be called unjust to ac-
cuse the Dutch Government of having recourse to
employ subterfuges, because it maintains that mat-
ters are not yet sufficiently advanced to ask for the
consent of the German Diet, or of the collateral
branches of the house of Nassau, to the cession of
a part of Luxemburg. It would be more just to
conclude that the very persons who pretend to be
alone desirous of coming to a final agreement, are
those who counteract the conclusion of such an ar-
rangement. Truly the Cabinet of the Hague has
given too many proofs of the desire to restore peace
to the people over whose interests it presides for its
intentions to be sincerely doubted. At the beginning
of the Conference, a'sembted at the request of the
King, to co-operate in suppressing the insurrection
in the kingdom of the Netherlands, and, not-
withstanding this, instead of restoring the former
state of things, it proposed, in the Appendix A
to the 12th Protocol, the bases of a separation
between Belgium and Holland. These bases
were, nevertheless, accepted by the Nether-
lands Government. The accepted arrangements
were afterwards broken by the Conference by the
treaty of the twenty-four Articles. Though this
treaty was much more disadvantageous to Holland,
it endeavoured -to follow the Conference on this
ground, and, thanks to the mediation of the King,
affairs were brought so far that the moment for
the conclusion of an arrangement appeared to be at
hand ; but at that very moment, precisely as after
the acceptance of Appendix A, a new turn was
given,at London to the negotiations by the famous
theme of the English Cabinet, by which the stipula-
tions of the twenty-four Articles were rendered still
more burdensome to Holland. The rejection of the
theme being inevitable, the Cabinet of Berlin, in
concert with Austria and Russia, endeavoured to
renew the negotiations by means of a new project,
which, with some trifling modifications, was ac-
cepted by Holland ; but when our Plenipotentiary
declared that he was ready to conclude a treaty
on this basis within twenty-four hours, the English
Cabinet changed for the fourth time the state of
the negotiations, for reasons which have since been
incontrovertibly refitted by our Minister, Verstolk
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