The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-08 00:00:00

;PIPIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The diplomatic note pr,sented to the Confer-
ence on the 28th ult., and read a few days ago
by General Goblet in the Belgic Chambere,
shows more than any previous manoeuvre of the
Cabinet of the Hague, its shuffling policy and
its artful duplicity. It is generally known that
t'or the last three months considerable activity
had prevailed in the Belgic negotiations, and it
was expected that they would soon be brought
to a sati,factory conclusion. After discussing
the same points for three years, and after having
consigned an agreement upon them to a tre dy
with the chief P owers of Europe for about two,
it did not, of course, excite any surprise, that
when the suspended deliberations of the Con-
ference were resumed, they would proceed ra-
eidly to a dose. The territorial question was
.onsidered as already settled, because previous
to the capture of Antwerp the articles of the
treaty of November, 1831, relative to that part
of the arrangement, had met with no opposition
on the part of Holland. An idle misunderstand-
ing, however, which was studiously brought
forward, opened again even this part of the
settlement. For that portion of the Grand
Duchy of Luxemburg which was to be ceded
to Belgium the King of Holland, as its Grand
Duke, was to receive an indemnity in the Belgic
province of Limburg. The artful Dutchman
then raised the question, or rather required
the Conference to solve the question pre-
viously raised, whether the indemnity in Lim-
burg was to be conferred upon him in his qua-
lity of King of Holland, or as Grand Duke of
Luxemburg. The Conference, it would appear,
decided that the kingdom of Holland should
have the benefit of this accession to its territory.
It then became the duty of his Dutch Majesty
to procure the assent of the very august persons
who compose the Diet at Frankfort, and of the
collateral branches of his own family, to this
arrangement, he, as Grand Duke of Luxem-
burg, being both a member of the Germanic
Confederation, and a representative of the Ger-
man Nassau, in exchange for whose German
possessions it was alleged that the Grand Duchy
of Luxemburg had been conferred upon him.
This, of course, was a mere piece of " fudge''
from beginning to end, as the Germanic Diet could
have no objection to a nominal change in t!-.e ter-
ritories of one of its confederates, effected with
the concurrence of all the great Powers which had
originally converted the Belgic province into a
German Grand Duchy, and as the German aAnates
of the Dutch family had neverbeen consulted when
the original arrangement was made at Vienna, or
when in 1816 or 1817 his Dutch Majesty in.
corporated Luxemburg with the kingdom of the
Netherlands, by fixing the indemnity of the
younger branch of his family, entitled to the
German inheritance, on the revenues of territorial
property in Holland. The pretended necessity,
however, of procuring the consent of these par-
ties to the arrangement, was a sufficient excuse
tOr a further delay, and, accordingly, the Con-
terence proceeded with the other articles or mo-
difications of the treaty to allow his Dutch Ma-
jesty time to go through the farce. Without
the same number of protocols as formerly, or
without the same profusion of diplomatic cor-
respondence, most of the remaining articles of
he treaty were examined and adopted by the
Dutch and Belgic Plenipotentiaries. The latter
then, together with the members of the Con-
ference, began to inquire what steps his Dutch
Majesty was taking to procure the superfluous
consent of the august parties in Germany, whose
interests were about as much involved in the
affair as in the late treaty between the Grand
Seignor and the Pacha of Egypt. The answer
was, that no advance had yet been made to these
oarties, and that none would be made, till cer-
tain other points in dispute were settled to the
,atisfaction of his Dutch Majesty. The Cabinet
of the Hague, upon this, neglected to send
instructions to its Plenipotentiaries to settle the
minor points in dispute, so as to be able to
engage in the pretended negotiations with the
German Diet, and refused to engage in the
latter till the former were conceded. Thus the
affair of Luxemburg, which in the earlier part
of the proceedings was not dreamt of as. an
obstacle, has been adroitly employed to give
checkmate to all further progress of the diplo-
matic game ; and thus are the operations of the
Conference suspended during the good pleasure
of the old plotter at the Hague. Are the
Dutch, who desire peace with all the world,
and who are more anxious to be finally separated
Irom the Belgians, on equitable terms, than the
Belgians are from them, such dolts as not to
see the ambitious and anti-national projects of
their Sovereign, and his fixed resolution to
sacrifice their interests to the aggrandizement of
his family, so long as the chapter of accidents
permits him to contemplate the re-conquest of
the Belgic provinces, and the restoration of their
ill-starred union ? Are they such fools as not
to perceive that the people of Holland are the
greatest sufferers ?—that, by compelling their
King to accept of the modified treaty of No-
vember, 1831, they would be put in possession
of a large territory, and participate in an exten-
sive trade, from which they are now exclude.' ?
It must now appear evident, even to the dullest
native of Holland, that their Sovereign is keep.
ing up a numerously expensive army for no
purpose of theirs, and that nothine- can induce
him to abandon his projects of foreign conquest,
but the menace of internal disturbance.—Times.
The Treasury writer who was so unfortunate
as to revive the subject of the annexation of the
stall in Westtninster Abbey to the see of Here-
ford, for the benefit of Lora Grey's brother, does
not seem very well pleased at the light which we
have thrown upon that exalted example of Whig
purity and disinterestedness as to the disposal
of Church patronage. We do not wonder at
it. If the parasite of the "great mod" had not
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certainly the
has writert in
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again dragged the matter officiously before the
public:, we should have allowed it to remain.
where it was—concealment is the best defence
n
of such a transaction, As far as we can un-
derstand
studied Lord'Treasurythe p T.er jur
protocol mystifications in vain, we 'ttollect that
he considers pluralities and sioecures in the
Church to be very bad things, and yet very good
things ; bad as being in themselves positive
abuses, but good as tending " to correct some
of the anondies justly imputed to our Church
establishment." The precise mode wherehyabuses
correct anomalies we are not told, and ho.ve
vet to learn ; but he who undertakes to defend

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the nepotism of Lord Grey must not be nice in
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observing the rules aright reasoning. He will
be very fortunate if absurdity be the must Aeri,
ous offence that can be laid to his charge. T4i,
of Hereford, co!Treasury writer mourns over the inadequate, a
revenues of many the bishop rte,, al.kd
aowing that Westminster ought to con_
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