The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-26 00:00:00

of the Five Powers to consult the wishes, and
respect even the prejudices of an ancient ally,
the Dutch Plenipotentiary was admitted to au-
diences when the Belgian Envoy was kept at the
door. In June or July the treaty of the "18 Ar-
ticles," which the Belgians long resisted, was ac-
cepted by the Belgic Regency ; and in consequence
of its acceptance, the Prince of Saxe Coburg, now
King Leopold, consented to become Sovereign of
Belgium. On this occasion his Royal Highness was
pressed by the Plenipotentiaries of all the Powers
of the Conference to undertake a task which they
regarded as important to the general peace. The
ambitious susceptibility of the House of Nassau was
wounded by the popularity of the new King—an
expedition long preparing invaded Belgium, totally
unprepared, in the beginning of August—the in-
vaders were expelled by a French army—and so
eager were the Allies to prevent the repetition of
such a collision, and to effect a speedy final settle-
ment of differences, that Dutch and Belgic Pleni-
potentiaries were invited immediately to the British
metropolis, to treat with the London Conference on
the terms of independence and peace. The result
of these transactions was the treaty of November
15, 1831, or of " the 20 Articles," agreed to by
all the Members of the Conference—accepted reluc-
tantly by the Belgic Chambers, as injurious to their
interests and offensive to their dignity—ratified with-
out modifications by England and France—rati-
fied, likewise, with some slight changes, by the
three other Powers of the Congress,—and posi-
tively rejected by the King of Holland,—after 11
months' protocols,—after numerous special mis-
sions,—after the transmission of voluminous de-
spatches,—after legislative discussions,—and after
the perfect exhaustion of every reason, pretext, or
argument which the press could supply. It cannot,
therefore, be alleged that the subject has not been
sufficiently discussed,—that the members of the
Confereuce have shown any undue bias against
Holland, which further deliberation would remove,
—or that Belgium, in calling for the execution of
the treaty to which they have all agreed, and in de-
siling to free herself from the enormous expenses of
a military establishment, which entails upon her all
the burdens without the glory of a war, has acted
with violence or precipitation. It is absurd to say
that in enforcing a treaty, agreed to by the stanchest
friends of his Dutch Majesty, and believed by
ourselves to be just and necessary, we are acting
in hostility to Holland or to Dutch interests.
It is worse than absurd, it is calumnious to insi-
nuate that the British people, or British Govern-
ment, act from any selfish or interested motive in
enjoining on " our ancient ally" a regard to modera-
tion, and the abandonment of an ambition which cau
only result in general mischief and cslarnity. It is
childish to imagine that an obstinate old Monarch,
who tasted the pleasures of reigning for 15 years over
7,000,000 of people,—who exalts high his prero-
gative, and still talks of his " rebel subjects" in
ho has been stung to the quick by their
alleged ingratitude,—and who, from the success of
a recent inroad, entertains the hope of an ultimate
reconquest,—will ever surrender the half of his
crown, except at the display of superior force. Let
the factit,us anti-reforming Tories, who have no more
regard for a Dutchman than for a New Zealander,—
except in so far as the former agrees with them in
hostility to their own Government, and in endeavours
to throtv out the present Ministers,—tell us what they
would propose to be done in place of the policy
which they condemn. Would they allow the treaty
agreed to by their Holy Alliance friends, as well as
by us, to lie a dead letter, or would they, by per.
milting a second invasion of Belgium by the Dutch,
afford the French a pretext (which the French
movement party only want) to enter Brussels a
second time, to send King Leopold to Claremont,
and to form the Belgic provinces into the former
nine departments of the Gallic kingdom ? If
they would not go so far in endangering the
immediate conquest of Belgiutn by the French,
would they agree to the closing of the Scheldt,—a
stipulation not only opposed to every principle of
the new code of international law with respect to
such rivers, but calculated to cripple our own com-
merce with Belgium and Germany, and eventually
to bring on troubles in the new state destructive
, of any peace settlement so modified ? Can any
enemy of precipitate counsels allege that the
French and English Governments have been too
hasty in preparing to execute the treaty of Novem-
ber last year, or would any of these friends of deli-
beration propose another three or four months' con-
ferences in Downing-street ? Our advice, there-
fore, is to adopt prompt and decisive measures, not
only as the most efficient, but the most merciful.
The King of Holland, seeing arrayed against him
the forces of two such powerful nations to com-
pel the execution of a European award, cannot be
so mad as to offer any protracted resistance. He
must be aware that the fist shot fired from the vita.
del of Antwerp upon that inoffensive city will can-
cel all the previous arrangements between him and
his rival regarding debt and territory, and that it
will henceforward depend upon the generosity of the
All es whether he receives a single florin from Bel-
gium for his Dutch creditors, or a single acre of the
province of Limburg beyond what Holland pos-
sessed in 1790. We learn that there is a rumour
of a fresh overture, and of a pacific nature, from the
Hague, at the suggestion of Prussia. If such over-
tures have arrived, they can only be regarded as a
new trick to gain time. The only overture of peace
that can be listened to must enclose an order to eva-
cuate the citadel of Antwerp.—Times.

" Records of my Life," by the late JOHN
TAYLOR, Esq., in 2 vols., and the new work of fiction,
entitled, " Our Island," in 3 vols., we are requested to
state were published this day by Mr. BULL, Holles-street,
Cavendish Square. Agents for Scotland, Messrs. BELL
and BRADFUTE, Edinburgh ; and for Ireland, Mr. Joini
CummlNG, Dublin.

LOVE AND SUICIDE.—On Wednesday an in-
quest was held at the London Hospital on the body of
RACHAEL TORRES, a young Jewess, aged nineteen. The
deceased, who was a handsome and we:l-behaved young
woman, lived for some time in the service of Mr. SAMU-
ELs, an umbrella manufacturer in Gulston-street, White-
chapel, where she was visited by a respectable young man
of her own persuasion. The family of the lover, however,
were averse to the connection, and he told her that her
style of dress was not sufficiently respectable to phase his
friend. This operated on her spirits, and she became
so careless of her duties as a servant, that her mistress
cave her warning to leave. On Tuesday evening her
lover called and drank tea with her. Her manner was
then very incoherent, and she asked him and others whe-
ther they would go into mourning and give her a decent
funeral if she died. About twelve at night the family were
awoke by her groans, and on going to her bed she confessed
she had taken arsenic, from the effects of which she died
on the billowing day. Verdict—lnsanity.

On Monday last, Mr. ROBERT WILLSON,
only son of ROBERT SVILT.soN, Eq., of Bedford, met his
death in the following dreadful manner :—The unfortunate
youth, who was in his 19th year, was on a visit at Misley
hall, near Hertford, the seat of his uncle, GEORGE Fla-
mm, E.q. Immediately after breakfast on Monday morn-
ing, he left his uncle's house, with a brace of pointers and
a large retriever, of the setter and Newfoundland breed,
for the purpose of shooting. Scarcely half an hour had
elapsed when the domestics were somewhat surprised at
seeing the latter animal return into the yard by itself.
Little notice was taken of the circumstance at the mo-
ment: alarm was, however, eventually excited by the con-
tinued whining of the dog, which actually pulled several
of the servants by the clothes to induce them to follow
him. On the fact being made known to Mr. FIRMIN, he
determined to fallow the dog, fearing, from its well-
known sagacity, that some accident had oocuried. He
had scarcely proceeded a quarter of a mile from his house,
when he was horror-struck at beholding the lifeless body
of his unfortunate nephew hanging over a high hurdle
fence which skirts a small wood. From the position in
which the body was found, it appears tie deceased had
rested his double-barrelled gun against the bank, on the top
of which the fence is placed, and having succeeded in climb-
ing over himself, was in the act of leaning over to draw
the gun after him, when it is supposed something caught
the trigger, and the gun went off, literally,blowing away
the right side of his head: The unfortunate young gen-
tleman was of a most amiable disposition, and deservedly
beloved by all who knew him.