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TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 2.3.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
%V:- Clank" lain PLAT" for his information, which may be useful

L ems develop.. themselves.

As far as our information from Beig:um yet enables us to
ledge, it appears that the people aro there conquered, and the
power of the Government triumphant. Restricted by
their own circumstances, as the French at present think
themselves, not to interfeie either directly or indi-
tectly with the affairs of other States, we are not much
surprised, that the premature movement in Belgium,
with no immediate chance of aid from their neighbours'
should prove unsuccessful ; hut we are not inclined, with
one of our Morning coteniporarics, to argue, that the re-
volutionary party had no grievances to provoke their com-
motions. On the contrary, we believe, were the griev-
ances which produced the unpopularity of the Dutch
t;overnmcie, put into fait competition with the
grievances experienced by the French, under the
liourbon Government, that the former would be found
the most weighty and solid. We are admirers of con-
in:.••nicy ; unit, therefore, we cannot condemn the Belgians,
while we applaud the French ; for we should not like to be
sulieroll of the uug:marous principle of tuadifyinv opinions
arcerdirt7 to their good or ill fortune. We cowic;er revo-
letion—tiott is to say, the violent change of Government—
alktruct:llly in itself, to be avoided for the sake of
proximate evils, which it generally brings on the present
generation, who-c interests it sacrifices to the future unborn;
mid it i. on this aceo:tet, that we condemn the imprudent
acts which bring it on. CILARLLS the TENTH was, in our
eyes, a culpable Rvolutionist—he occasioned a conflict of
opinion, which, we conceive, might, and should have been,
avoided ; he wrought a question for solution, which should
been wetved ; but when once doomed to be solved,
rejoice, with all Europe, that it was solved rightly.
Promising as the late French Revolution may be
cf good, in the eyes of many, we arc still of opinion,
that as far as the present generation is concerned in the
event, them Is more to apprehend from it of evil; although
fully convinced that the principle which it has established is
essential to good in the future. Violent revolutions we con-
sider as always arising from the bungling of Governments

anti I:a. Governments overturned are the real causes of revo-
lution ; for if gradual improvement, which is natural to
man, he not imprudently restrained, no violent revolu-
tions would occur. The truth of these, our princi-
ples, is finds'y illustrated by the political state of our
own country. We consider violent revolution happily not
likely in this country; because gradual improvement is in
constant progress; and gradual improvement is the happy
mode of insuring the well-being of posterity, while we are
not sacrificing our own.
We cannot but consider, that the grievances of the French
under the reign of the Bourbons, were chiefly the foolish,
imprudent, and rash show, of checking the progress of
provement ; and attempting even to retrograde on the grand
subject of popular education. This probably made the Go-
' vernment disliked; but the positive evil inflicted by the
Government on its subjects, or the evil suffered by the
people, was in 'great degree notional; and it is rather
curious to obs!rve, even writers that visited Francs
during the late regime, and gave the most flattering
accounts of the state of the people and country, now
joining in maintaining the real grievances which they
were enduring. If we look for the grievances borne by the
French people under the late Kis° and his brother, shall
we find them in the volumes of English travellers ? Do we
find them in COBEETT'S trips, or in those of his son ?
Quite the contrary—all the scenes depicted are those of a
golden age of peace and plenty.—Now, we hoar of positive
evils: but before all the evils were of home growth: we
were the only aggrieved, oppressed people on the earth.
Bat to return to the 'Belgians.
We are decidedly of opinion, that the Belgians were not
improved in their situation by their Dutch Government. We
believe the KING to be a well-meaning man ; but we
believe him to be a weak conceited man ; and we
know, that much misery has resulted from his Go-
vernment. Car. Lis eulogists deny, that he raid
his Dutch Politicians, have kept tho beautiful, and
amiably populated Island of Java, in a constant state of
werfere and raiser y ?--Can they deny that the finest, most
o lvancing native characters—men who had deserved the
eref.denco, and even been sup-fierily educated by the
British Government, are at this moment confined on board
of ships, or wearing out the remnant of their days, cut
off from all that is dear to them, in Ceylon l
Can they deny that all interests have been sacri-
ficed on that island, to the interests of—what ?—a trading
'monopoly--re-edified at a time when all Europe was ac-
tive fir free trade. Can they deny these facts ?—Can they
deny that the numufecturers of Brabant are idle, with a
market to he supplied at their door ? When they see mis-
government so gross, may they not 'Aim that other acts of
raisgovernment may e::ist rinseee.
A.Ve repeat it again, we believe Tii.ice to be well-
intentioned ; but we believe he is governed by men neither
wise in their generation, nor beyond the most selfish feeling
in their impcilinj motive. Wo condemn the revolutionary
movement ; but once taken place, it should have terminated
by the announcement of a decided spirit of redress ; and
not by force of arras. That will only produco.a short tri-
umph, and prepare evils of greater magnitude.

Bp the Rotterdam Steam Packet, which ►eft that town on
Sunday morning, wo have this day advices from Belgium.
The fate of Brussels is still involved in mystery and confu-
sion. We present to our readers, all that has transpired at
noon this day ; and probably before our hour of going to
press, we may be enabled to giro additional details.—
We have before us, a private letter from Amsterdam,
dated Saturday night, which speaks thus :—" No official
account has yet been promulgated by Government, respiiet-
ing, the surrender of Brussels ; but by private !otters from
that town, just received, it appears that the battle of Thur.-
, day continued raging for seventeen hours. It is confidently
added, that, on Friday, the Dutch troops were victorious,
and succeeded in making themselves masters of the town. It
is likewise understood, that when the fate of Brussels became
known at Louvain, there was there a surrender at discretion."

We have another letter from Antwerp, dated the 25th in-
Etant, in which we find the following passage :—" Business
is quite at a stand here, in consequence of the great uncer-
tainty which prevails with respect to the fate of Brussels.
The KING'S troops are believed to be in quiet possession of
the upper part of the city ; but the people continuo to fight
in the streets of the lower division of the town."

We had written thus far, when another communication
from Rotterdam has been laid before us, written at a
later hour than that which we have just noticed. It speaks
in a plainer manner than any previous communication we
have seen. Its contents are highly important:—" We
have received to-day the official intelligence that the
Royal troops have become masters of Brussels, after
an obstinate resistance on the part of the re-
bels ; who, about ten o'cloek in the morning, having
hid themselves in their houses, recommenced firing from

the windows. The nights of the 23d and 24th had been
passed quietly. The number of killed and wounded, on
both sides, is said to be very considerable. It appears pro-
bable that the rebellion in Belgium will now be brought to
an end ; the rebels having made but little progress, and the
people having become divided."
To this we have to add, that a letter from Dover, just re-
ceived, states, on the authority of information from Calais,
that six thousand of the troops were slain in the desperate
, conflict of Brussels.

In addition to the very ample details we present to our
readers on the following page, on the troubled state of
Continental affairs, we are enabled to give the follow-
ing extracts from private letters, and the Paris papers,
received this afternoon, by express :
Extract of a letter, dated Sunday evening.—" For seve-
ral Sessions there has not been so stormy a debate u that
of yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies. The attack of
M. Alauguin upon the Ministry, bis declaration that it was
at war with the nation, occasioned a burst of indignation on
the part of the Ministers and their partizans. The Members
of the right side alone remained tranquil ; and enjoyed in
silence the agreeable spectacle of the quarrels of their mor-
tal enemies. When we consider that the anger of the Do-

pubes is that of grave greyheaded men, what must we
expect when the Chamber shall have received, in con-
formity with the new law, some hot blood of thirty ?
M. Mauguin is ono of the leaders of the youth • of
the day, and when we consider that his opinions respect-
ing the administration, are those expressed by the
whole of the independent press, that is to say, by all
the papers except the Journal des Debats, the result cannot
be doubtful.

The young mon have proposed to give a public dinner to
M. Maugnin. Five thousand tickets have already been sub-
scribed for ; but, at the request of many persons, the dinner
will bo deferred until tho middlo of November, when
the students of Law and Physic will have returned from the
vacations.

It has been stated by the paper called La Revolution,
that the Duke d'Orleans had signified his intention of as-
sisting at the debates of the Society of the Friends of the
People. This is denied by the Journal des Debats and the
Moniteur ; but the fact is not doubted. The persons hostile
to public meetings for the discussion of public affairs, are
mostly shopkeepers and commercial people, who feel they
would have no chance in such places, with the men of let-
ters, for opponents.'