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London, England, 1832-07-10 00:00:00

PROJECT OF LAW.

BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE NETHER.
LANDS ON ONE PART, AND THE COURTS OF AUS-
TRIA, OF FRANCE, OF ENGLAND, OF PRUSSIA, AND

OF RUSSIA, ON THE OTHER.

His Majesty the King of the Netherlands having
invited the Courts of Austria, of France, of Great
Britain, of Prussia, and of Russia, in their quality of
parties to the treaties of Vienna and Paris, which
have established the kingdom of the Netherlands, to
deliberate of common accord with his Majesty on the
best means of putting an end to the troubles which
have broken out in his kingdom, and the above-named
Courts having assented to this invitation, their
Plenipotentiaries assembled in conference at Lon-
don, having with the Plenipotentiary of his Majesty
taken into consideration the above-named circum-
stances, admitted the necessity of reverting to the
conditions of the Union of Belgium with Holland,
such as these conditions were established by the
Treaty of Vienna of the 31st of March, 1815, and
the Act annexed to it of the 21st of July, 1814,
and the necessity of arranging the conditions of the
separation of these two countries.
For this purpose their Majesties have named as
their Plenipotentiaries, to wit, his Majesty the King
of the Belgians, on the one part, Sieur N.; and on
the other part—

His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, Sieur N.
&c. &c.; who, having exchanged their powers,
found to be in due form, have agreed to the follow-
ing Articles
Art. 1. His Majesty the King of the Nether-
lands is ready, and engages himself to cause to be
concluded, and to sign by his Plenipotentiary, the
treaty mentioned in the following articles, when it
shall be signed by the Representatives of the Five
Powers.

Art. 2. The Five Powers declare that the treaty
mentioned in the preceding articles, which has been
matured in the Conference, which their Representa-
tives constitute at London, contains the dispositiona
which they desired to see carried into effect for the
re-establishment of good understanding and of peace
between the five parties interested, and for the main-
tenance of the peace of Europe, which treaty, guaran-
teed by the said Courts, is of the following tenour
TREATY BETWEEN BELGIUM AND HOLLAND.

Article 1. The Belgic territory shall consist of
the provinces of Brabant south of Liege, of Namur,
Hainanit, Flanders west and east of Antwerp, Lim-
burg, such as they belonged to the kingdom of the
Netherlands, established in 1815, with the excep-
don of the districts of Limburg, designated in ar-
ticle 0.
The Belgian territory shall comprise further the

part of the territory of the Grand Duchv designated
in Article , upon condition of obtaining the con-
sent of which it makes mention.

2. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands,
Grand Duke of Luxemburg, consents, in considera-
tion of the approbation of the male issue of the
House of Nassau, and of the Germanic Confedera-
tion, that the frontiers which shall separate the
Grand Duchy of Luxemburg from the territory
shall be traced as follows :—To commence from
the French frontiers between Rodauge, which will
remain with the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, and
Athus, which will belong to Belgium, there will be,
according to the annexed map, a line drawn,
which, leaving the road of Arlong to Linguy, the
town of Arlong, with its territory, and the road
of Arlong to Bastogne to Belgium, between Me-
sauez, which will remain to Belgium, and Cle-
mency, which remain to the Grand Duchy,
will pass by Steenfurt, which will likewise re
main to the Grand Duchy. From Steenfurt this
line will be prolonged in the direction of Eisohen,
Heebus, Guirsch, Oberpalen, Grend, Nothom, Pa-
ret, and Perle, as far as Martelange, Heebus, Guirsch,
Grend, Nothom, and Parer, will belong to Bel-
gium ; and Eischen, Oherpalen, Perle, and Marte-
lange, to the Grand Duchy ; from Martelange this
line will follow the course of the Sure, the towing-
path of which will serve as a boundary between the
two States, as far as opposite to Tintage, from
whence the line will be prolonged in the most direct
manner possible to the actual limits of the arron-
dissements of Diekirch, and all parts between Sur-
let, Harlange, Jescamps, which it will leave to the
Grand Duchy, and Houville, Livarchamp, and Lou-
termange, which will remain to Belgium. Hence,
in the environs of Doncols and Zoule, which will
remain to the Grand Duchy, touching at the actual
frontier of the arrondissement of Diekirch, the line
will follow it as far as the Prussian territory. All
the territory, all the towns and places situate on the
west of this line, will belong to Belgium, and all the
territory, towns, and places on the last, will con-
tinue to belong to the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg.
It is understood that the Commissioners for fixing
the boundaries alluded to in Art. 4, in drawing the
line, arid conforming themselves as much as possible
to the places above mentioned, and also to the marks
in the chart subjoined to the present Article, will pay
attention to the local situation and to the conveni-
ence of both parties.
His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Grand
Duke of Luxemburg, will make the necessary efforts
to obtain the consent above mentioned.

Art. 3. With a view to the execution of that part
of Art. 1 which regards the provinces of Limburg,
the territories, of which the boundaries are pointed
out below, shall continue to form part of the king-
dom of the Netherlands.

Ist. On the right bank of the Meuse to the Dutch
detached pieces of territory on the said bank in Lim-
burg shall be added the districts of the same pro-
vinces on the same bank which in 1790 belonged to
the States General, so that that part of the present
provinces of Limburg which is situate on the right
bank of the Meuse, and is comprised between that
river on the west, the frontiers of Prussia on the
east, the present boundary of the province of Liege
on the south side, and Dutch Guelderland on the
north, shall henceforth belong to the kingdom of the
Net herlands,

2d. On the left bank of the Meuse, a line, com-
mencing at the most southern point of the Dutch
provinces of North Brabant, shall be drawn accord-
ing to the annexed chart, which from below Was-
sem shall enter that place and Stevenswardt, and
then touch upon the Meuse at the point where on
its left bank the boundaries of the present districts
of Ruremonde and Maestricht join, so that Bege-
rotte, Hambroy, Neer-Heren, Hervoort, and Thorn,
with their territory, as well as all the other places
to the north of that line, shall form part of the
Dutch territory.

The former butch detached pieces of territory in
the province of Limburg, on the left bank of the
Meuse, shall belong to Belgium, with the excep-
tion of the city of Maestricht, which with a suitable
circle of territory of at least 1,200 brasses diameter,
reckoning from the out glacis of the fortress on the
said bank, shall continue to belong, in full sovereignty
and property to his Majesty the King of the Ne-
therlands. The circle thus spoken of shall more-
over be further regulated by the Commissioners of
boundaries mentioned in the following article :
Art. 4. In consequence of the above arrangements
respecting territory, each of the two parties cedes
respectively and for ever all right over all the terri-
tories, towns, places, and cities situate within the
boundaries of the possession of the other party.
The said boundaries shall be marked out by
Dutch and Belgian Commissioners, who shall as-
semble at Maestricht.

Art. 5. Holland will regulate in the most conve-
nient manner the evacuation of the waters of Flan-
ders. It consents even with a view to this object
to use being made of its territory. The sluices
which shall be established for that purpose on the
Dutch territory shall be subject to its authority.
None can be constructed on its territory which may
be injurious to its defence. Within a month after
the exchange of the ratification there shall be ap-
pointed on both sides Commissaries for deciding on
the most suitable places for the establishment of the
said sluices. They will understand with respect to
those which are to be subjected to the common au-
thority.

Art. 7. The arrangement from article 103 to 117
inclusive of the treaty of Vienna shall be applicable
to the waters and navigable rivers, which, where
they flow, separate the Dutch and Belgian terri-
tory. The Dutch Government undertakes to esta-
blish duties and pilotage on the Scheldt, at a mode-
rate rate, and to take care of the preservation of the
embouchere of that river into the sea. These duties
shall be the same both for Belgian and Dutch com-
merce.

The said Government will adopt provisionally
for the Scheldt the Tariffs of the Convention ar.
ranged for the free navigation of the Rhine, signed
March 31, 1830, at Mayense, and also the other ar-
rangements of that Convention, so far as they are
applicable to the Scheldt. But with regard to the
assimilation of the navigation of the Scheldt to that
of the Rhine, it will be necessary, in order to render
it definitive, to have a special Convention. _ _

Art. 8. The use of the canals which traverse both
countries shall continue to be free to the inhabitants
of both. It is understood that this shall be upon
the same conditions, and that both parties can only
establish moderate duties upon these canals.
Art. 9. Paragraph 1. Reckoning from the Ist of
July, 1832, Belgium, on the division of the public
debt of the kingdom of the Netherlands, shall re-
main charged with a annual rente of 8,400,000
florins of the Netherlands. Within fifteen days
after the ratification of the present treaty the Bel-
gian and Dutch Commissioners shall open at Utrecht
negotiations for capitalizing that rente. If, within
two months, these Commissioners cannot agree upon
the capitalization, and if thus the rente remains fixed
at 8,400,000 florins, the reliquats which, in conse-
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entirely discharged from the chief portion of the pub-
lic debt of the kingdom of the Net herlanns.
Paragraph 5. The Commissioners mentioned pa-
tagraph I shall proceed to the liquidation of the
funds of the Sinking Fund, and of the bank of
Brussels, in its character of Cashier-General of the
State.

Paragraph 6. The division of the obligations,
called domain les reinten, shall take place in propor-
tion to the property mortgaged, according as it may
be in the one or the other territory, so that these
domains may be represented by their sale price, not
yet fixed, or they may still remain under mortgage.
Paragraph 7. The Belgian and Dutch Commis-
sioners, in the event of the capitalization not taking
place, shall occupy themselves, besides the said
liquidation, with the transport of capital and rentes
%vhich are to be placed to the charge of Belgium, to
the amount of 8,400,000 florins, as already stated.
They shall proceed to the mutual surrender of
archives, charts, plans, and other documents, which
belong respectively to both parties, or have relation
to their Government.

Art. 10. Holland having alone made all the ad-
vances for the service of the whole public debt of
the kingdom of the Netherlands, reckoning from
the last half year of 1830, it is understood that a
portion of these advances calculated on the basis of
the annual sum of 8,400,000 florins shall be reim-
bursed, with the amount of the general capitalization
of this recite of 8,400,000 florins,if that capitalization
takes place, or shall be paid separately by the Bel.
gian Treasury to the Dutch Treasury, by instal-
ments of 4,200,000 florins; in the latter case the
first instalment shall be paid three months after the
ratifications of the present treaty, and others every
three months.

Upon all these different sums there shall be be-
sides paid to Holland an interest of five per cent.
from the Ist of January, 1832, until their full re-
imbursement.

Art. 11. The port of Antwerp shall continue to
be exclusively a commercial port, conformably to the
Treaties of Paris and Vienna of 1814 and 1815.
Art. 12. The works of general or local utility,
such as canals, roads, &c., which have been con-
structed in whole or in part, at the expense of the
kingdom of the Netherlands, shall remain with their
charges and advantages to the territoiy in which
they are situate.

It is understood that the capitals which have been
borrowed for these constructions, or which are speci.
ally appointed, shall be comprised in the above.men-
tioned charges, in so far as they not yet been reim-
bursed ; or that such reimbursements, if they have
taken place, may become the object of compensation.
Art. 13. The sequestration which for political
causes has been placed in Belgium upon any domains
or patrimonial property shall be taken off without
delay, and the lawful propritor shall be immediately
restored to the possession of the said property and
domains. The present articles is applicable to the
property possessed by the House of Nassau in Bel-
gium. The stock of the King of the Netherlands in
the bulk of Brussels, and his Majesty's annual re-
venue derived from that bank, shall be delivered up
to the order of his Majesty, to be enjoyed according
to the terms of the statutes of the bank.

Art. 14. The inhabitants and proprietors in the
two countries, the separation of which takes place
in consequence of the present articles, shall be
allowed, if they wish to remove their domicile from
one to the other, liberty during two years to dispose
of their property, movable or immovable, as it suits
them, and t,) carry with them the value either in
money or otherwise, without being obliged to pay
any other duties than those now established in the
two countries on the entrance or transit of goods.
It is understood that for the present and in future
the droits d'aubaine shall be reciprocally abandoned
between Holland and Belgium.
Art. 15. There shall be no distinction between
Dutch and Belgian subjects as to the right of pos-
sessing property in Holland and Belgium.
(The articles from 16 to 19 only relate to the
reciprocal rights of the inhabitants of Holland and
Belgium, as to their respective property; the obli-
vion of all political acts relating to the late events,
the respective preservation of the Belgian and Dutch
subjects of pensions and claims on the treasury, the
funds of widows and orphans, depots and consig-
nations, &c.

Art. 20. Immediately after the exchange of the
ratification of the present treaty, the necessary order
shall be given respectively to the military com-
manders of the two armies for the evacuation of
towns, fortresses, and places, of which the domina-
tion is changed.
The civil authorities shall also receive orders to
surrender the towns, fortresses, and places to the
Commissioners respectively appointed to take
possession.

This evacuation and surrender shall take place in a
month, or sooner if possible.

At t. 21. The ratification of the present treaty
shall be exchanged at London in six weeks, or
sooner if possible.

On the signature and ratification of the present
treaty, and that mentioned in Art. 2, taking place,
the wiion which existed between Belgium and Hol-
land, by virtue of the treaty of Vienna of the 3d of
May, 1815, is declared dissolved.
The ratification of the present treaty shall be ex-
changed at London in six weeks, or sooner, if
possible.

SINGULAR AFFAIR.—A few days ago a
young woman named MARY ARMSTRONG, of Cockermouth,
dress-maker, made the following singular statement before
use Magistrates of that town, which she averse to be true,
but refu•es to swear or sign. She stated that having agreed
to be married to a min of the name of Joni.; MARTIN,
of Hatton, in Embleton, they left that place together on
horseback, about one o'clock on Thursday morning, the
25th June, at the request of MARTIN, for the purpose of
going to Bassenthwaite, where an uncle of his resided,
and with whom it was intended she should remain until
the Saturday, the day fixed for their marriage.—On reach-
ing the centre of Ouze bridge, MARTIN pretended the girth
of the saddle was broken, and that it was necessary to dis-
mount in order to adjust it; but atter a few moments spent
in a pretended adjustment of the saddle, he seized the girl
by her legs, and instantly hurled her over the bridge
into the water. The man then instantly remounted the
horse, and galloped off on his return. The height down
which the girl was precipitated is not less than 20 feet ;
and the water being rather high, she was carried some
distance down the river. She remained about five
minutes in the water, when she succeeded in reach-
ing the bank. What adds to the atrocity of the affair,
is the fact of the young woman having been at the
time pregnant by the man. This is the statement made
by the girl, to which, however, she will not swear,
although she believes the man intended to drown her.
MARTIN'S friends have endeavoured. to get the affair hushed
up by joining the parties in marriage; and, what renders
rite thing still more extraordinary, the girl
is herself so
little loath, that the bans were actually published in
Cockermouth Church, on Sunday
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BIRTHS.
On the sth inst. at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, the lady of Sir
George Crewe, Bart., of a son.
On the Bth lust. at Pimlico Lodge, Mrs. John Lettsom Elliot,
of a son.
On the Bth inst. in South Audley.street, the lady of Edward
M. Foxhall, Esq., of a daughter, still-born.
On the 6th inst. at Tranby Park, the lady of John Todd, Esq.,
of a daughter.
HeOnnrythsetitt, hEsti.
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oaf aat Hollowell, Northamptonshire, the lady of

RIED.
On the 9th inst. at St.MAR
Giles's, Reading, the Rev. Charles
Mackenzie, M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford, to Henrietta.
youngest daughter of Henry Simonds, of Reading, Esq.
On the 7th inst. at Abergavenny, Frederick Tanner, Esq.
of
Colleton.crescent, Exeter, to Anna Maria, youngest daughter
of
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DIED.
On the 9th inst. at Guildhall, London, Timothy Tyrrell, Esq.,
emembrancer of the city of London, in his 78th year.
On the 6th inst. at Ivey, Bucks, John Copeland, Esq. aged 79.
On the Ist inst. at Northampton, Miss Katherine Hankey.
On the 7th inst. at Hanwell, the lady of Alexander Young
Spearman, Esq., of a son.

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