The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-31 00:00:00

BRUSSELS AND DUTCH PAPERS.

BaussELs, DEC. 28.—His Majesty will return from
Antwerp to-day. The French Princes, accompanied by
Generals Flahaut, Marbot, and Baudrand, set out from
Paris yesterday. The Prince of Eckmuhl, the Duke of
Istria, the Duke of Bassano (the son), and Count Gerard
arrived here yesterday. They immediately went to visit
the Palace of the Prince of Orange, which is still furnished
as when it was inhabited. General Gentil St. Alphonse,
commanding the heavy cavalry of the French army, left
Grammont the day before yesterday. The two regiments
of cuirassiers had left twenty-four hours earlier. The
carahineers and dragoons follow at two days' interval.
HEAD-QUARTERS, BERCHEM, DEC. 27.—A despatch
from the Duke of Dalmatia arrived yesterday, with orders
for the Army of the North immediately to return to
France, to occupy the same positions as before its entrance
into Belgium, and to communicate with the corps in the
East of France. The Army of the North will remain or-
ganized on its present footing, and wait for events.
BRUSSELS, DEC. 28.—Apartments are preparing for her
Majesty the Queen of the French, her sister-in-law, and
her two sons.

THE HAGUE, DEC. 2S.—The Staats Courant pub-
lishes the fo,lowing documents:—

DESPATCH FROM GENERAL CHASSE TO THE
MINISTER OF WAR.

" HE 413 QUARTERS, CITADEL OF ANTWERP, DEC. 24.
" To His EXCELLET.CY, &C.

" The difficulties which daily increase longer to pre-
serve with honour the post which is confided to me have
compelled me to enter into negotiations with the enemy
yesterday.
" The fatigues and privations which my troops have
undergone for three weeks are not to be described, and
have entirely exhausted the strength of the garrison.
" To this I must add, that in consequence of the draw-
ing off of the water from the moat of the citadel, the
fresh water in the wells have so sunk that it is with the
greatest difficulty that we are able to get as much as was
absolutely necessary ; and, to add to the misfortune, our
two last wells were ruined last night by the enemy's bombs.
" All the places that are bomb-proof are ruined : so
that the soldiers, in the midst of the most terrible bombard-
ment, are so crowded in the posterns, the communications,
and the galleries, that they have scarcely a moment's re-
pose. The bomb-proof hospital, in which are all the
wounded and amputated soldiers who are not in a condi-
tion to he removal, threatens every moment to fall down
and bury the unfortunate inmates in its ruins.
" In the left glacis of the bastion 2 the enemy has
opened a breach of 80 or 100 metres, which has already
nearly half filled up the ditch. The descent to the ditch
has been eff-cted, and the enemy has only to spring his
mine and blow the counterscarp into the ditch to mount
to the assault.

" For all these reasons, seeing it to be impossible to
repel an assault, and that by rashly waiting for it all the
glory hitherto gained might be totally lost, I made over-
tures to Marshal Gerard to grant me a free retreat, and
declared myself ready to evacuate the place as he demanded
on the 30th of November.

" The Marshal having refused, I have, after negotiating
the whole day, concluded, in concert with the Council of
defence, the capitulation, of which I have the honour to
send a copy.
" I offered myself and some of my officers as prisoners
of war on condition that the remainder of the garrison
should be allowed to return to the northern provinces, but
all in vain.

" Yonr Excellency will see by the additional Article
that the flotilla before Antwerp is not included in the ca-
pitulation. This Article was inserted by the desire of
Captain Koopman, of the navy.
" In consequence of this arrangement I agreed with
him that six of the best gun-boats should go down the
Scheldt during the night, and the others be destroyed. It
seems that the first plan could not be effected, for I just
learn that only one gun-boat sailed, and that eleven others
were burnt or sunk by the crews.
" This, then, is the unhappiest day of my life. I would
have wished to end it by a glorious death, but I was not
permitted.
" By the first opportunity I will mention to your Ex-
cellency those who have most distinguished themselves
in this unhappy siege, that their names may be laid be-
fore his Majesty our august Sovereign.

(Signed) " Baron CHASSE.
" General Commander-in-Chief of the Citadel of Ant-
werp, of the Forts dependent on it, and of his
Majesty's Naval Force on the Scheldt."
(Here follows General Chasse's letter to Marshal Ge-
rard, and the capitulation.)
" We, William, &c.,

"Desiring to give to our General of Infantry, Baron
Chasse, on the occasion that having, as Commander-in-
Chief of the citadel of Antwerp, been obliged, after a glo-
rious defence of that fortress against a superior French
army, to surrender it, and in his person to all the officers
and soldiers of this brave garrison, a provisional but public
testimony of our satisfaction and our gratitude for the
courage, perseverance, and patriotism which, notwithstand-
ing the greatest fatigues and privations, they have dis
plated during a long and very vigorous siege, and before re-
ceiving the special reports according to which we intend
to acknowledge and to reeosnpense the merit of the officers
and soldiers who have distinguished themselves,
" Have thought fit to confer, by these presents, on Ge•
neral of Infantry Baron Chasse, Commander of our Military
Order of William, the insignia of Knight Grand Cross of
the same Order.

(Signed) " By his Majesty, WILLIAM.
(Signed) "J. G. DE MEY DE STREEFKERK.
" The Hague, Dec. 25, 1832."
The Minister of War. in his answer toGeneral Chasse, says
in substance that the King does not accept the capitulation
as it has been concluded; that the defence of the citadel
had perfectly answered his Majesty's expectations ; that,
to testify his satisfaction both to the Commander and the
garrison, his Majesty had nominated General Chasse
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of William ; and that
the insignia sent to the General are those worn by the
King himself, who had just taken them off in the Mini-
ster's presence, and which his Majesty had lately worn on
a sol,mn occasion. The Minister announces also that the
King approves the nomination previsionally rustle by the
General of Knight of the 4th Class of that Order. He
concludes by saying that he has sent one of his Aides-de-
Camp to confer at the advanced posts of Groot Zundent
with the French Parliamentaires, and he assures him that
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if the latter are commissioned to demand the evacuation of
forts Lillo and Liefkenshoek, the demand will not by any
means be complied with.—Journal du Commerce
cr Anvers, Dec. 29.
27th, which announces the order sent by Marshal Sault
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The same letter, speaking of the refusal of King
William, says :
" Yestetday evening, at half-past nine o'clock, M. do
Tallenay, Secretary to the French Legation, M. de Palsy,
Aide-de-Camp to the Marshal, and the Aide-de-Camp
of General Chasse, arrived from their mission. lam
officially informed of the result, which is as follows:
" The Cabinet of the Hague has not answered the letter
of those Gentlemen, asking permission to pass the fron-
tier; they are obliged to remain on this side, and sent
General Chasse's Aide-de-Camp to the Hague, desiring him
to require the answer of the Government in the shortest
time possible.
" Yesterday, at half-past three o'clock in the afternoon,
an Aide-de-Camp of the Minister of War at the Hague
arriv:•d with General Chase's Aide-de-Camp. He
answered verbally to Messrs. Tallenay and Passy, Your
Government demands the evacuation of Forts Lillo
and Lief kenshoek ; the _King of the Netherlands never
will consent to it.'

" No further explanation took place; the Gentlemen
merely bowed to each other."
TILE HAGUE, DEc. 26.—A despatch from Major-
General Wildman, Governor of the fortress of Breda,
brought yesterday morning by express to his Excellency
the Minister of War, announcing that Lieutenant Hep•
Legation and a,' officer, had come to the tusens, Aide-de-Cimp of General de Favange, of the gar-
riesconreotay
frthoefcitadcl of
Antwerp, accompanied by a French
Secretary
out-
posts at Groot Yundert, and that directions were asked
respecting the admission of the two latter into our terri-
tory, immediately caused it to be conjectured that im-
portant communications from the Governor of the citadel
might be expected. At one o'clock Lieutenant Heptusens
arrived here, with Lieutenant Van Eude, Aide.de- Camp
of General Wildinan, and, on delivering the letters from
his Excellency Baron Chasse, added verbally, that the
worthy Governor, with great reluctance, but compelled by
circumstances, had been obliged to conclude an honourable
capitulation for the evacuation of the citadel.
[Here follows the General's letter to the Minister of
War, and his note to Marshal Gerard ; the capitulation ;
the Order of William; gad the letter
tt 1111 ee Royald Ocrrdoiensa nocf e giving to the General toe insigna of

of the Minister of War to the General. The Jouinal de
la Hayc observes that the phrase in the Minister's letter,
" the King does not accept the capitulation as it has been
concluded," should be translated, " does not accede to
the capitulation as such."]
The Staats General gives also the very detailed reports
of General Chasse from the 16th to 22d of December.
The Staats Courant of Friday gives the preceding jour-
nal of General Chasse from the 3d to the 15th of Dec.

THE HAGUE, DEC. 15.—An account from Harlingen,
dated the 25th inst., received here, says that news had
been received there from Terschelling that on the after•
noon of the 24th a ship of war, with fitteen nort-holes on
the side, but showing no colours, had run aground on the
Noord Vaarders off that island ; and that another simi-
lar man of war was stranded in the Bennengrunden.
Three sloops had sailed on the 25th from Harlingen to
the spot.
THE HAGUE, DEC. 28.—8 y accounts from Bergen-
op-Zoom, and from his Majesty's fleet in the Scheldt, it
appears that all our countrymen who were wounded in
the defence of the citadel of Antwerp had already arrived
in that fortress, and were treated with the most humane
care in the military hospital at Antwerp, under the pro-
tection of the French. Of the forty four wounded who
suffered amputation in the citadel, or whose wounds made
it impossible to remove them further, thirty-one were still
living on the 2Gth. They were conveyed on litters by
French soldiers on the 25th to one of the military hospi-
tals at Antwerp, where they receive the best treatment,
under the superintendence of the Dutch medical officers,
who are no more considered by the French Marshal as
prisoners of war than the wounded.
Numerous and affecting proofs of esteem have been given
by the French of all ranks to the brave defenders of the
citadel.

Before the firing had wholly ceased four soldiers ven-
tured to show themselves in the batteries, and called,
" Don't fire, don't fire, brave Dutchmen ; it is all over."
A little later a French officer upon one of the batteries
called out to one of our soldiers who was on the parapet,
" Sir, Sir, Captain or Lieutenant is all the same, close
and let me embrace you, brave comrade ;" to which our
countrymen replied, " Why so ?" " Because, said the
Frenchman, " you are such brave men." " Why then
come to attack us ?" to which the Frenchman replied,
with many asseverations, " That be and his commanders
regretted enough having to fight with the Dutch, espe-
cially," as they said, " because the Belgian Jesuits alone
would derive any advantage from it."
The French speak with great contempt of the Belgians,
and vie with each other in expressions of their scorn of
the meanness of the heroes of the steeples of Antwerp,
from which they ventured to watch the proceedings in the
citadel, and return with cowardice and treachery our ge-
nerosity in sparing the city, making signals to the be-
siegers to point out to them when we were employed in
repairing the damage done by their fire. The consequence
was that the fire against those points was continued with
increased violence, so that our workmen were often obliged
to suspend their work. The Belgians have concluded the
melancholy part which they played while the French army
was fighting for them by a trait which would even add to
their disgrace if the measure had not long since been full.
The populace of Antwerp, so generously spared by
Chasse, whom Leopold himself had already consented to
sacrifice—the inhabitants of Antwerp, Belgians, who have
not seen one of their countrymen fall under our attacks—
those cowards ill-treated the crew of a gun-beat which fell
into their hands.

"TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GENERAL OF INFANTRY,
RA:LON CHASSE, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE CI-
TADEL OF ANTWERP.

" THE HAGUE, DEC. 26.

" Yesterday morning I received your Excellency's letter
of the 24th inst., No. 1,784, containing intimation of the
negotiation into which you had entered with the enemy,
and of the reasons which induced you to adopt that course ;
as also, among other annexed documents, a transcript of
the capitulation concluded by your Excellency with the
French Marshal, Gerard.

" I submitted without delay the important documents
to his Majesty the King, and, in consequence, I am com-
manded by his Majesty to make the following communica-
tion to your Excellency:—
" The King does not concur in the capitulation as
such. Nevertheless, his Majesty has now again assigned
to me the agreeable task of repeating to your Excellency
on this occasion the solemn assurance, that the conduct
of your Excellency and of the brave garrison of the citadel
of Antwerp, during the whole defence of that fortress,
far from leaving any thing to be desired by the King, has
won the unqualified satisfaction of his Majesty; that this
defence has entirely fulfilled his Majesty's just expects•
tions ; that during the whole period of the siege, his
Majesty never ceased to contemplate with the most lively
sympathy, the fate of the brave men who were shedding
their blood for the country ; and also that he has with
emotion learned from your last report, how great have
been the privations and efforts patiently submitted to by
the gallant garrison.

"-Wishing at once to give a proof of his Majesty's ap-
probation, as well to your Excellency personally as
through your person to the whole garrison of the citadel,
our venerated King has been pleased to appoint you,
Mynheer General, a Knight Grand Cross of the Military
Order of William. This appointment is made by the de
cree No. 63 of yesterday's date, a copy of which I have
the pleasure of transmitting to you enclosed.
" The value of this high distinction must doubtless be
greatly augmented to your Excellency liy the circutrirance
which I now have the honour to make kieown to you.—
namely, that his Majesty, in my pre•ence, took from his
person his own decoration of this Order, and delivered it
to me, with the riband and jewel worn by him on the last
solemn occasion, in order that these insignia might be
presented to your Excellency in the name of his Majesty at
the same time that you receive this letter.

" I have besides the satisfaction to inform your Excel-
lency, that his Majesty has been pleased to give his itn-
mediate sanction to all the provisional appointments made
by your Excellency of Knights of the 4th Class of the
said Order, as mentioned in your despatch of the 16th
inst., No. 1,776 Lis; and that his Majesty will here-
after decide respecting the other recommendations con-
tained in that letter ; moreover his Majesty will receive
with pleasure such propositions for farther rewards as
circumstances may require your Excellency to make.
" I have farther to observe, that it will be particularly
gratifying to his Majesty if your Excellency can succeed
in causing the wounded to be conveyed thither.
"To conclude, I have the honour to inform your Ex-
cellency, that I have this moment sent my Adjutant,
Captain Verhorst, to the advanced posts at Groot Zundert,
in order to confer rt ith the French officer and the Secre-
tary of Legation, who accompanied Lieutenant-Adjtvaot
they are directed to make. In
tHheeiphilroSpliolSsittCliotnhsaatrpelwacheicihn order to learn from them what
the mean time I can previously assure your Excellency
that if th-ir propositions relate to nothing else than to the
evacuation of the forts of Lillo and Lielkenshoek, they
will by no means be acceded to.

" Your Excellency will be pleased on this important
occasion to accept my sincere good wishes.
" DE EERENS,
" Director-General of the War Department."

AMSTERDAM, DEC. 28.—The Batavian journals to the
28th of August bring intelligence that our troops have
made themselves masters of the whole country of the
Padries of Lintore, on the west coast of Sumatra, and re-
covered all the pieces of cannon that we lost in former years.
Several Dutch ships that were under embargo have al-
AMSTERDAM, DEC. 28.
readAycaturrailvule)deubrilt%Oi
epuroscretpns .ts.
40% to 41%
Amort Syndic, 4% per cent 67%, to 6814
Ditto, ditto, 3!4 per cent.
Voluntary kan, 1831, 6 per cent 96!i to 98%
Ditto, 1832, 5 per Cent.
Exchange on London, one month l2 05 to 12 0714
Ditto, two months
—Dutch rapers, Dec. 29.