The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-22 00:00:00

BRUSSELS.

" TUESDAY EVENING, FOUR O'CLOCK.
" Marshal Gerard slept last night in Antwerp, at the
hotel St. Antoine. It is said that he has sent to inquire
if the Dutch garrison will respect the city. The division
of the Duke of Orleans, at the head of the vanguard, has
moved on to Breda from Antwerp ; his head-quarters are
to be at Westwezel.

" This city has been, during the day, in continual move.
ment. Several French regiments have arrived, of which
some have passed through towards the scene of operations,
and others are quartered in the town, where, during some
nights, the billets have been distributed by sections.
" An order was issued yesterday to prevent persons
from entering Antwerp without a special authorization
from the Minister of War. Colonel Caradoc, the military
agent of the British Government, left Brussels this morn-
ing at an early hour. He bought, as it is stated, four
horses yesterday for his service.
" Marshal Gerard has stated, as it is asserted on good
authority, that the cannons and troops for enforcing the
summons of the citadel will be ready on the 24th inst.
" The most conflicting rumours have been current
during the day; amongst others, that negotiations are
going forward for the surrender of the citadel, but as yet
there is no ground for this statement.
" The war party, which in the Chamber of Represen.
tatives is supported by some Ex-Ministers, who wish to
regain their portfolios, have this day produced the post-
ponement of the discussion of the address in reply to the
speech from the throne to to-morrow, on the pretence that
the report of the diplomatic negotiations presented last
Wednesday by the Minister for Foreign Affairs was not
printed and distributed to the members, who were bound
to take it into consideration in the discussion of the reply.
" The most extraordinary rumours have been also
scattered,hy the Orangeists, such as that there is no chance
for an assault on the citadel until after ten days. They
state also that the Prussian troops are to come immediately
to join the Dutch army, and to attack both French and
Belgians. The Belgian troops have received instructions
to be ready to repel all attacks in that direction.
" Rumour speaks of the first summons being given to-
day by Marshal Gerard before he breaks ground ; other
persons are of opinion that the works to enforce it will be
first prepared.
" It is stated that in case General Chasse fires on the
city of Antwerp, the Belgian army is to enter Antwerp,
and to attack the citadel from the fortifications of the town.
" The negotiations relative to the liberation of M. Pes-
catore are very active. General Goblet sends a❑ estafette
this evening to Arlon, with instructions on the subject to
General Tabor, and to Colonel Prisse, who was sent on
Sunday on a special mission on the subject. " M."

" TUESDAY NIGHT, 7 O'CLOCK.
" You are of course prepared to expect that a part of
the French force has come before the citadel. The re-
mainder of the army is rapidly advancing towards it, and
it is now said that operations against the garrison will be
commenced by the 24th. I was led to expect that it
would be sooner, but it seems to be a much more difficult
matter to commence operations than to put an army in
motion. When the whole preparations are ready, Marshal
Gerard will give a formal summons to Baron Chasse, after
the answer to which, if it be in the negative, as every hour
becomes more and more probable, the Marshal will ❑ext
demand yes or no, whether the Baron will look upon the
city as neuter in the contest. Should the answer be in the
affirmative, the French will then take the best measures
they can to attack the citadel from their lines, the Belgians
being mere spactators of the strife. Should, however, the
Baron decide upon firing on the citadel, it is said that the
Belgians and French will unite,—that the French army
will enter the city, and take it under the joint protection
of France and England. If delay be (as it has hitherto
been) the object of the Dutch, it is more than probable
that Baron Chasse will have received instructions from his
Government to respect the neutrality of the city, for it is
obvious that his chance of holding out the citadel for any
length of time is much greater when oppo.ed to the French
alone, than when he should have to contend against the
combined efforts of the two Powers, the one intrenched in
fortifications as strong as his own, and having so many
hundred pieces of cannon and mortars brought to bear
upon him.

" Amongst the accounts of what is passing, or said to
be passing, at Antwerp, we have been told by some of the
morning papers here, that the summons to surrender, and
the demand to respect the neutrality of the city, have been
already made by the Marshal, accordimt to one account,
and by the Duke of Orleans, according to another. I can
state that no such demand has yet been made by either.
On the face of it, it would be extremely improbable that a
General should make a demand for the surrender of a
place until he had put himself in a military position to en-
force his demand.

" The whole road between this and Antwerp presents a
scene of the most animated kind. It is covered with
troops of every description ; couriers and military este-
feues moving to and fro with extraordinary baste. A
large body of the French troops is stationed at Mechlin,
half-way between this and Antwerp. A considerable
force is at Berghern, about a mile at this side of the cita-
del. The head-quarters are, it is said, about to he re.
moved to Merxhem, about a league to the north of the
city, as soon as the whole of the troops shall have come
up. Two regiments of the line, a park of artillery, and
some cavalry, marched in here to-day—a large portion of
them have been billetted upon the inhabitants, I suppose
to relieve the inhabitants of the surrounding villages, who
have hitherto borne that burden. They will set forward
towards Mechlin early in the morning.
" The Courrier Beige, a paper of the Orangists, has a
paragraph to-day, in which it represents Marshal Gerard
as having stated publicly that the French police had got
hold of a new conspiracy to unseat King Philip of France,
and in which the chief actors or abettors were no other
than the great northern Powers, and that Holland was to
take a part in it—against France, of course. If I were to
attach any importance to those Orangist paragraph manu•
factuters, I should believe that Marshal Gerard was more
fit to be at the head of a tea-party than of an army going
to bombard a citadel ; for there is not a place through
which he moves that he is not represented as telling some
curious particulars. The fact is, the Marshal, like a good
soldier, is only attending to the nutters which brought him
here, and therefore all the stories thus made for him are
mere inventions to serve the purposes of the Orange fac-
tion. I take notice of this story thus early, for I have no
doubt that in a day or two you will find it in the eo-
lumns of a London morning contemporary, with divers
`additions and amendments, and further particulars.'
The story is another version of the papers said to be found
on the Duchess of Berry. " W."— Times.

HAMBURG PAPERS.

BERLIN, Nov. 12.—(Fitom A LETTER.)—The bubble
with which the English Ministerial papers in particular
have so long amused themselves—namely, the assertion
that Prussia would look on quietly while the French arm)
entered Belgium, has now burst. The official announce-
ment of the assembly of the Prussian Army of Observa-
tion on the AL use has produced an astonishing effect. The
belief in war preponderates, and the consequenees of the
prevalence of such an opinion are incalculable. Persona
acquainted with the spirit of our Cabinet had long since
expected such a decision ; and the correspondence between
tie Prussian General Dumoulin and the Belgian General
Tabor, relative to the arrest of M. Pescatore, indicated
such an issue. Another pretty general error has been dis-
pelled by this declaration, viz., that the Three Powers
placed confidence in the Doctrinnaire Ministry of France.
This is by no means the case. After some reasoning, to
show that the Ministry of the Doctrinnaires coil he of short
duration, the letter proceeds :—What will then happen ?
o.lillon Barrott and War ! But then, France must not
reckon on its alliance with England. The very Convention
of 22d of October has nearly caused the overthrow of the
Grey Administration; the day in which England ventures
the first act of hostility against Holland is the last of Lord
Grey's Administration, and that in which the Opposition
in France gets into power is the last of the alliance be-
tween the two kingdoms. " England (said yesterday an
Englishman of distinction now here) will have no war
with Holland, and the Ministers have acted without
having sufficiently consulted the public mind. Nay, by
calling a French fleet to our coasts, they have given a
death-blow to their alliance." Yesterday, though Sun-
day, the Staats Schuld. Scheine fell 3 per Cent. The
phrase in the Prussian Declaration respecting the tran•
quillity of Germany causes some sensation, as it seems to
have little concern with the measure itself; and this
phrase does not seem adapted to make the public easy,
which seems to be the object of the article. It is re-
ported that a person near the Throne drew up the ar-
ticle—that General Witzleben, though he advised the
measure, voted in the Council against publishing it, and
that Duke Charles of Mecklenburg strongly advocated
the publication, as Prussia's honour required that it should
come forward in a decided manner. The garrison of
Erfurt has already received orders to go to Magdeburg, and
that of Brandenburg to Erfurt; so that all will be as it
was six months ago.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, Nov. 16.-13 11%; two months, 13 101 i.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 9.—Seventy-five days, 14.
BREMEN, Nov. 13.—Two months, 614 613.
—Hamburg Papers, Nov. 17.
WA RWI.WS Noy, IL—The Universal Gazette of War-

saw announces that on the 4th inst. the Prince Field
Marshal announced to the authorities who assembled to
offer their congratulations on the birth of the young
Prince, son of the Emperor, that his Majesty bad resolved
to relieve from all further responsibility the following per-
buns, who are excluded from the amnesty of Nov. I, 1831,
viz., those who, on the 7th September, 1831, had chosen
another bead of the Government—those who formed part
of the Revolutionary Diets of Zakroczym and Plozk, and
who had issued a proclamation to the army, calling on it
to persevere in the contest against its lawful Sovereign.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS—BERLIN, Nov. 15.
St. Schuld Sch. 4 per cent 91,4
Prussian English Loan, 1818, 5 per cent. lo2li
Ditto ditto 182., 5 per cent. 1027i
Ditto ditto, 80nd5.... 1830, 4 percent.
Exchange on London, three months 6 29q,
—Prussian State Gazette, Nov. 16.

HAMBURG, Nov. 16.—BORSEN HALLE, HALF-PAST
Two O'CLOCK.-The arrivals of Wheat during the week
have been somewhat more considerable, but the greater
part was taken for consumption at the quotations:—

Rix-dollars.
Wheat, Anhalt, white
- red 105 to 11,8
Holstein
- Marks 9B to 103
Mecklenburg
- Lower Elbe 75 to 82
During the week 250 lasts of Wheat have been im-
ported, 96 exported, and there remains stock in hand
700 lasts.

Stocks agai❑ declined to-day, owing chiefly to the fur-
ther depression of the Amsterdam Exchang-._

- End of Nov.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent.
Anglo-Russian Loan 94
Hamburg ditto —
Russian inscription, 5 per cent.... ....... .......
Ditto, ditto, 1831 83%
Polish Bonds lO6
Prussian Bonds, 1832
Austrian Bank Shares 1064
Austrian Metalliques
-
New Austrian 4 per cent. 72
—Hamburg Reporter.