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London, England, 1832-10-08 00:00:00

HOLLAND AND BELGIUM.

PROJECT OF A TREATY BETWEEN HOLLAND AND
BELQIUM SUCH AS IT WAS TO BE INSERTED IN
THE TREATY BETWEEN THE FIVE POWERS AND
THE KING OF THE NETHERLANDS.
Articles I , 11., 111., IV., V., VI., and VII. are to be
inserted as they are in the treaty of the 15th of November,
1831.
VlM—Holland is to regulate, in the most suitable
manner, the draining off of the Flemish waters so as to
prevent inundations as much as possible. It consents, in
that view, that a necessary portion of land under its Go-
vernment be employed. The locks which are to be con-
structed to that effect in the Netherlands territory are to
remain under i's sovereignty ; and they are to be con-
structed in no place of its territory which may be pre-
judicial to the defence of its frontiers. Within the term
of a month after the exchange of the ratifications of the
present treaty, Commissioners are to be appointed on each
side, who will be charged to decide on the spots most ap-
propriate for the above locks. They will agree together on
those which are to be subject to a common direction.
IX.—I. The clauses of the Articles 108-11'7 inclu-
sively, of the General Act of the Congress of Vienna, re-
lative to the free navigation of the navigable rivers and
streams, are to be applied to the navigable rivers and
streams which separate or cross the Belgian territory and
the Dutch territory.
2. In what specially concerns the Scheldt, the naviga-
tion of that river in all its course, as well in its eastern as
in its western branch, is to remain free to the trade and
vessels of every nation, and his Majesty the King of the
Netherlands promises to exact from any vessel, whether
they ascend or descend that river, either in going from the
open sea to Belgium, or in going from Belgium to the
open sea, under whatever II ig she may be, only a duty
of tonnage calculated on the capacity of the said ships,
without their being ever, whether in ascending or in de-
scending, or on account of this duty, or under any pre-
text, subjected to any search, or any examination of their

cargo.
3. This duty, which is never in any case to exceed a
florin per :on, the ascent and descent included, is to be
provisionally fixed at 60 cents per ton for the ships which,
from the open sea, ascending the Scheldt, proceed to Bel-
gium by Batz, and at 40 cents for those which, descend-
ing the Scheldt, proceed from Belgium by Batz to the
open sea.
With respect to the vessels proceeding from the open sea
or from Belgium by the Scheldt to the canal of Ternouse,
or vice versa, from the canal of Ternouse into Belgium or
into the open sea, they are to be subjected but to one-half
of the duties fixed above for the ascent and descent.
This tonnage duty will be annually paid by his Majesty
the King of the Belgians to his Majesty the King of the
Netherlands, by means of a sum of 150,000 florins, which
will serve as a receipt for every ship indiscriminately ; and
his Majesty the King of the Belgians will, besides, have
the faculty of liberating himself for ever from this payment
by means of a capitalization.
4. The Government of the Netherlands promises to
fix the pilot fees for the mouths of the Scheldt from the
open sea to Flushing, and from Flushing to Batz, and vice
versa, according to the tariff existing in 1829 ; from the
mouths of the Meuse, from the open sea to Helvoetsluys,
and thence to Rotterdam, in proportion to the distance.
These fees are to be the same for ships of every nation.
The said Government also promises to place lighthouses on
its coast at the mouths of the Scheldt, and to ensure the
preservation of the navigable passes of that river to the
extremity of its territory.
The Belgian Government enters into a similar engage-
ment for those parts of the Scheldt which cross Belgium.
On each side the rate of pilot fees on the Scheldt is to
be published immediately after the ratification of the present
treaty.
It will always be optional for every ship ascending or

9 o,per Con
cseanding the Scheldt to take what pilot she glows ri
t will he advisable no that account for each coontty to \g,
stablish throughout the com se of the Scheldt, and on tlidNn
coasts of the two countries between Ostend and the Isle of 4.!. •
Schonen, the pilot services they may judge necessary
furnish pilots.
i. Each of the two Governments is to appoint
one at Flushing, the other at Antwerp—funetionarieettr
commissioners, who are to be charged to concert all the
measures required for the preservation of the passes of the
Scheldt, and the placing, as well as the keeping up, of the
lighthouses which are to indicate them.
These measure are to be immediately adopted and put
in execution, should there be occasion, by the Netherland
or Belgian functionaries or Commissioners, for the parts
of the territory which concern them respectively.
6. It is agreed that the navigation of the intermediary
waters between the Scheldt and the Rhine to arrive from
Antwerp to the Rhine, and vice versa, is to remain free
to the Belgian trade; and that it will he merely liable to
tolls, which are never to exceed those established for the
navigation of the Rhine, the proportion of the distances
considered. It is, moreover, agreed that the Belgians are
ilways to be admitted to the navigation of the said waters
on the footing of the most favoured nations.
7. Commissioners from each side are to meet at Ant-
werp within a month, so as to agree on a general regula-
tion to complete all that relates to the application of the
Articles 1013-117 of the general act of the Congress at
Vienna, to the navigation of the Meuse, and to include in
that regulation the exercise of the right of fishing, and of
the fishing trade, throughout the extent of the Scheldt, on
the footing of a perfect reciprocity in behalf of the subjects
'if both countries.
In the mean time, and until the said regulation be de-
creed, the navigation of the Meuse and of its branches,
remaining free to the trade of both countries, will he sub-
jected to the disposition of the Convention signed at Mentz
on the 31st of March, 1831, for the navigation of the
Rhine, insomuch as the above dispositions can be applied
to the said river.

X.—The use of the canals which cross the two coun-
tries will continue to be free and common to their inha-
bitants. It is understood that they will reciprocally enjoy
them on the same terms, and that on each side moderate
luties will be imposed on the navigation of the said canals.
Xl.—The commercial communications between Belgium
.tnd Germany, by Limburg, will remain entirely free, and
are to be impeded on no pretext. The use of the roads
which, by crossing the towns of Maestricbt, of Stittard,
and of Venloo, lea I to the frontiers of Germ my, will be
subjected only to the payment of moderate tolls for the
preservation of those roads, so that the trade of transit
..offer no obstacle, and that by means of the above•men-
,iened tolls the roads be kept in good order and frt to
facilitate that trade. _ _

XII.—(As it appears in the treaty of the 15th of No-
vember, 1831, with the exception of the beginning of the
first paragraph,) where from the Ist of July is to be in-
serted instead of the Ist of January.

Xlll.—Holland having made exclusively, from the Ist
of November, 1830, all the advances necessary for the
service of the totality of the public debts of the kingdom
f the Netherlands, it is agreed that the said advances,
calculated from the Ist of November, 1830, to the Ist of
July, 1832, for 20 months; in the proportion of 8,400,000
florins of the Netherlands of annual rente, with which
Belgium remains charged, are to be paid to the Dutch
treasury by tEe Belgian treasury, and that this payment is
!o take place when the settlement of the syndicate of the
sinking fund be completed, and, at the same time, that
Belgium will receive its share of the fund after the settling
of accounts.
The 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22d,
and 23d articles will change their numbers, and will form
the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, and
22d articles of the new project.
XXIII.—(As in the treaty of the 15th of November?
1831,) merely instead of, " of the treaty to intervene be-
tween the two parties," " of the present treaty" is to be
read.
The 25th article of the treaty of the 15th of November
is to lie suppressed.
XX IV.—ln consequence of the stipulations of the pre-
sent treaty, there is to be peace and friendship between
his Majesty the King of the Netherlands on the one band,
and his Majesty the King of the Belgians on the other
hand, their heirs and successors, their States and respective
subjects, for ever.
XXV.—The present treaty is to be ratified, and the
ratifications exchanged in London, within the space of a
month, or sooner if possible ; in faith of which the re-
spective Plenipotentiaries have signed it, and sealed it with
the seal of their arms.
Done at London, in the Year of Grace one thousand
eight hundred and thirty.

'0 THEIR EXCELLENCIES THE PLENIPOTENTI-
ARIES OF AUSTRIA, FRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN,
PRUSSIA, AND RUSSIA, ASSEMBLED IN CONFE-
RENCE AT LONDON.

London, Sept. 20, 1832.
By the protocol of the 27th January, 1831, No. 1';!,
their Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries of Austria, France,
Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, assembled i❑ Confe-
rence in London, fixed the bases destined to establish the
s-paration of Belgium from Holland. They decreed that
the Five Courts unanimously agreed on the same bases,
would communicate them directly to the parties interested,
and that they would concert on the best means to make
them be adopted and executed. The King of the Nether-
lands, having adhered to these bases, considered them since
that adhe,ion as an act determining the reciprocal obliga-
tions between his Majesty and the Five Powers, and
claimed their being put in execution i❑ Belgium, where
t: cy had been rejected.
The Conference at London did not follow up this claim.
On the 24th of October, 1831, it agreed on a new basis

separation io 24 articles, which, as was expected, were
accepted by Belgium. O❑ the 11th of November, 1831,
hey were included in a treaty between the Plenipoten-
tiaries of the Five Courts and Belgium, and ratified at a
later period by the contracting parties, with reserves on
the part of three Powers admitted by the other two. The
King of the Netherlands, without renouncing in any way
?he right acquired by his accession to the basis of the
27th of January, 1831, consented to allow as much as
possible the Conference on the new ground it had chosen ;
and his Majesty, on adopting the disposition of the major
part of the 24 articles, confined himself to claim modifica-

tions in the contents of some of these articles.
The desire of the Dutch Government to co-operate in a
measure likely to strengthen the maintenance of general
peace engaged it to contract successively, in the course of
negotiation, the circle of the modifications claimed.
By a note of the 80th of June, 1832, the undersigned
Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty the King of the Nether-
lands had the honour of presenting to the Conference a
project of treaty, in which his Majesty consented to ob-
viate the difficulties arising from the two questions spe-
cially bound to the rights of the King and the interest of the
nation, that of territory and of the public debt. The
im-
pression made by this project in London seemed layout-
alsle. On some observations made by the Con-
ference at the assembly held at the Foreign Office,
on the 6th of July, and in his note of the 10'h
..f the same month, the undersigned in consequence

of additional instructions from his Court, offered,
in a note of the 25th of July, fresh advantages relative to
the navigation of the inland waters, and to the cotmner-
vial communications with Germany through Limburg.
0 11,-r remarks had been made to him respecting more par-
icularly the drawing up of the Netherland project, with
which at the same time the Conference was occupied.
They also became the subject of a scrupulous examination
at the Hague, where, notwithstanding that several modi-
fications prepared in the terms of the project might be
,ridged to present serious inconveniences, every effort was
made to adopt the major part of it. In consequence of
this desire of overcoming these last obstacles, the under-
signed was moreover authorised to consent, with a trifling
change, to two new paragraphs proposed relative to the
pilotage of the passes, and to erecting light-houses on the
Scheldt ; and to the insertion in the Treaty with the Five
Powers of an article on the consent of the Agnates of the
House of Nassau, and of the Germanic Confederation, to
die territorial arrangements; additions to which it was

announced in London, that only the slightest importance
WBS attached.

In consequence of the conciliatory progress the proposals
fi em the Cabinet of the Hague were, in their principles
and tendency, readily received, and judged fit to bring
about a happy termination. From the 20th day of Ju'y
the diplometw meetings opened in that view, and suc-
ceeded each other assiduously: a result to which the King-
ittached great importance was at first obtained. The
direct treaty between his Majesty and the Five Powers,
the project of which, remitted on the 30th June, had al
ready, in the terms of the answer from their Excellencie,,
dated the 10th July, received mutu tl consent with respect
o its substance, acquired it also wi h respect to its draw-

ng up, and the undersigned congratulated himself
having to transmit to his Court the information of a suc-
cess which, by common consent, replaced the negociation
on the gromnd which it should never have left—viz. that
f mediation.

With respect to the treaty to intervene between
,nd and Belgium, the conferences of the undersignel
with his Britannic 111,1jesty's Principil Secretary of Stat •
for Foreign Affairs, or with his Excellency Baron de Wes •
senherg, were no less successful. Every thing thu•
•eenied to predict, in the first days of August, the tenni •

lution of the negotiation ; and the stipulations respectively
consented to by the Court of the Hague and by the Con-
ference at London, are at present so much agreed upon,
that no consideration seems possible to delay their being
signed. Nevertheless, the King has to regret to see that
hitherto the Conference has adjourned the act so impe-
riously called for in the interest of a general peace.
At the same time the Government of the Netherlands
could not but know a fact, which, though not includeti in
official and diplomatic communications, is no less of pub-
lic notoriety—viz., that revolutionary Belgium, while at
the Hague conciliatory steps were entered into, instead of
Miming that example, has shown itself more averse to
every arraneetnent, has refused every negociation, has
begun to increase its pretensions and to multiply daily
fresh exigencies to such a height as not only to reject what
the Conference has already considered just and equitable,
but even to abandon the very stipulations of the 24 Articles
converted into a treaty between it and the five Powers.

The Cabinet of the Netherlands, without examining
whether this strange phenomenon be owing to the prigr,a-
dial principle of the insurrection which spume f,eorri dia.
order, is afraid of finding in an establishes
it t system, what-
ever may he, the germ of its own destruction, or to
other causes, has not concealed it', itself that a longer
silence on its side would expo''e it to have those sacrifices
attributed to we_a L which have been solely dictated by
its sincere I,,ce of peace.
In tj....15 state of things the undersigned has orders to
e.attu from the Conference at London, in as short a term
as the matter will allow, the signing of the treaty of se.
paration of Holland from Belgium, on the footing of the
Netherland notes of the 30th of June and 26th of July,
and of the modifications in the drawing it up, to which
the undersigned is authorised to agree, and to declare at
the same time, in the name of his august Sovereign, that
his Majesty, not possessing alonesthe means of maintaining
European and public jurisprudence, has been obliged to
submit to the law of necessity by multiplying his offers.
but that the measure of concessions is henceforward full,
and that the King will never swerve, neither respecting
the territorial rights and sovereignty of Holland, nor the
vital principles of the existence of its inhabitants.
Political storms have passed over the head of his Ma
jest}, as they have done over those of his august ferefathera.
Holland, under their auspices, has passed through centu-
ries of crises, of trials, and of glory, and its experience,
dearly purchased, proves that a nation triumphs even over
the greatest misfortunes, as long as it has never failed
towards its own dignity.
The King will take care that the fruits of this experi-
ence be not lost ; and while he confidently awaits the re-
sult of the deliberations of the Conference at London, ac-
cording to the degree of maturity at which the negotia-
tion between it and the Netherland Goverment has arrived,
his Majesty discards all responsibility as to the complica-
tions which fresh delays may occasion, and proclaims
loudly that he will never sacrifice to the revolutionary
phantom the sital interests and rights of Holland ; that
the free people over whose destinies he is called to preside,
confiding in Providence, will be able to resist all that the
enemies of public order and of the independence of nations
may desire to prescribe to it; and th it, if at the last ex-
tremity a cruel destiny should deceive his religious expec-
tation, that fatal issue would, at the same time, carry
away with it the European system and the repose of the
world.

The undersigned profits of this opportunity to reiterate
to their Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries of Austria,
France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, the assurances
of his very great consideration.
(Signed) IL DE ZUYLEN DE NYEVELT.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Messager des Chambres, dated Oct. 6.)

PARIS, OCT. s.—The day before yesterday M. Thiers
was sure of his porteleuille ; yesterday at noon he doubted
of it; to-day at noon be consider,cl that he had lost the
game, and declared that if he was an obstacle to the form-
ing of a Cabinet he would immediately withdraw.

This is good. If all those who may be an obstacle to
the formation of a Ministry would do so themselves with
as good a grace, we may at last come to something that
may he inserted in the Moniteur.

The condition imposed on M. de Broglie is complex.
AI. Guizot must enter into the Council, and M. niers
must not enter in. M. Remusat, it is supposed, would
be in the room of M. Thiers. We were right yesterday
in doubting the acceptance of M. Burnam], though all
were told that it had been seen. It seems that it has not
arrived. On the contrary, it is firmly believed that it will
not arrive. On this account, therefore, recourse is again
bad to M. Louis.

The Doctrinaires intended, when they got into power,
to strike decisive blows both at home and abroad. All
was ready. There is never any want of writings, speeches,
ordinances. The signature alone was waited for ; and,
on the one band the Administration, on the other the
army, all was going to be in motion.
Thus (we may observe by the way) measures of rigour
and war arise to follow the accession to war of a coterie
which is imagined to be always inclined to moderation and
peace. But in the midst of these projects M. de Talley-
rand arrived. Attempts were making to form a Cabinet,
and it was probably going to he made on the basis, and
with the intentions, which we have indicated, when that
statesman arrived, and was immediately consulted. He
was not consulted on the Ministerial combination ; he dues
not meddle wish it, and his opinion on that subject was not
required. But he was spoken to on foreign affairs, and it
then appeared that it was necessary to abate a great deal of
the notion of measures of coercion against Holland, which
remains obstinate, and with so msny opposing Cabinets.
The remonstrances of Messieurs de Werther and d'Ap-
pony have been duly appreciated, and it was felt that it
would be imprudent to go any farther, at 1 east till an an-
swer was had to the explanations that had been required.
This is the state of things this evening. The Cabinet
may be remodelled as much as you please, but the frontier
will not be passed. Such is the watchword, and the return
of the Duke of Orleans is to be understood accordingly.
King William holds out firmly. He does not yield In-
deed, if we are rightly informed, his actual pretensions are
more extensive than those of his former and recent notes.

It is said that he has come back to the following
schemes :—The separation of Holland and Belgium into
two States, but without giving any thing to Leopold ; on
the contrary, that the two States shall be under tie twofold
sceptre of the House of Nassau.
If it be true that this is the ultimatum, we ask where
does our hesitating Government gain any ground, and in
what direction does the Conference of London advance?
The Memorial des Pyrenees says—" Our frontiers
seem likely to become the theatre of very important events.
We are able to affirm that an army of about 30,000 men
is going to be formed on the line of the Western Pyrenees.
We learn that four regiments of infantry, four of cavalry,
and one of artillery have already received orders to march.
General Harispe, who is to command the army, and was
at Lacarre, received orders in the night of the 25th to pro-
ceed immediately to Bayonne."
All the troops now in the tenth and eleventh military
divisions will Le placed under his command.
N. de Billing, Secretary to the French Ambassador at
Madrid, has passed through Bayonne, on his way to Paris,
with despatches relative to the state of Spain.
(From the Papers of Saturday.)
The Moniteur, in its non-official part, announces that
the King has charged Marshal Soult with the formation
of a new Cabinet. We hear that one of his Aides-de-
Camp was sent off last night with a letter addressed to M.
I)upin.
It is said that Baron Louis only learned by the journals
that M. Hoinann had ken called to supersede him as Mi-
nister of the Finances. . _

The King yesterday held two Councils ; one in the
morning, and the other in the evening.
Baron Nagel, the Dutch Minister, is about to leave Paris
for the Hague. It is true that he has for several succes-
sive yt.ars been absent several months on leave obtained
from his Court ; but it may be asked whether, under ex-
isting circumstances, it may not be rather a❑ act of repri-
sal for the return of the Marquis of Dalmatia, and a desire
to render coolness for coolness.—Journal desDebats.
An extraordinary courier arrived yesterday at Paris from
St. Petersburgh, with despatches for the Government.
The Augsburg Gazette of the 2d instant contains the
following :—" According to a letter from Hamburg, of
the 25. h tilt., the exiled King of France has opened for
himself a credit to a large amount with a banking-house
iu t hat city. It is thought that Charles X. would fix his •
residence at Altana, or, at least, protract his stay there for
sonic time. The town of Altona is known for having
been the residence of many French families during the
first revolution. General Durnourier resided there for a
long tin•e."
The Nuremberg Correspondent of the let instant an-
notit.c,s that on the 27th ult. the Chief Magistrate of the
too n if Stuttgard riotifird to the Editors of the Universal
German Gazette the prohibition to publish that paper;
in consequence of which it ceased to appear on the fol-
lowing day.
Letters from Batavia of May 15 announce that an in-
surrection had taken place there, and that appreliensitir.s
were entertained of a renewal of the disturbances which
bad so long desolated the Is'and of Java.
The Nouveliste states that whatever may be the Mini-

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