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ST. JAMES'S HAY-MARKET. Nov. 23.

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trusses.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25.

This day despatches were received at the Colonial Office,
from Lord STUART DC ROTHSAY, our Ambassador at Paris,
and from Sir CHARLES BAGOT, our Ambassador at the

There are accounts from Berlin this day with respect to
the intentions of Russia, to which we have good reason to
attach credit. It is stated that Field-Marshal DIEBITSCH,
the conqueror of the Turks, and the confidential friend of
the Emperor of Russ' A, is charged by NICHOLAS to urge,
in strong terms, upon the King of PRUSSIA, the necessity
of an armed intervention, in case the Belgians refuse to ac-
cept the Prince of ORANGE, as their Sovereign; and that
he will assist the King of PRUSSIA, on this occasion, with a
force of fifty thousand men.

We observe, by an extract of a communication from the
agent to Lloyds' at Antwerp, dated the 23d instant, that the
Provisional Government published a Bulletin on Sunday
last, of which the following is an official copy :
An armistice has been consented to, by the Belgic Go-
vernment and that of Holland. In the interval, all facility
will be granted to communications, by water and land, to
every part of the kingdom and territory ; and in consequence
thereof, the blockade of all the ports and rivers has ceased,
and the free navigation been provisionally established."
The Belgic Government gave permission on Sunday last,
for the Dutch vessels to leave this port—Antwerp, and the
following have accordingly sailed : Gezenia, Beckkeving,
for London; Wilhelmina Hendrika, De Jong, for London;
Lilla—a Dane—Archland, for Copenhagen.

We think it highly probable, that the affairs of Bel-
gium are not so certain to arrive at an amicable adjustment
as might be inferred, from a portion of the news of to-
day, and from the current impression ; and it becomes a
matter perhaps of little doubt, that the change in the
British Administration, will have a very considerable in-
fluence, on the difficulties which stand in way of such a settle-
ment. We have reason for believing, that the line of interven-
tion, to which the late ministry were determined scrupulously
to adhere, and the preliminary terms, which, under such a
governing determination, the representatives of the great
Powers felt themselves restricted only to propose, were ex-
pressed not quite agreeable to the representative here, of
his Netherland MAJESTY ; and the particular which he
was disappcinted in excluding from the settlement, was
relative to the important city of Antwerp.
The readers of the STAR are well acquainted with
our views, of the relative interests of the Dutch and
Belgians, with regard to the occupation of that im-
portant city. We took occasion, even very soon after
the breaking out of the Belgian revolution, to express
an opinion, which the event has confirmed, that the se-'
paration from Belgium, would be as popular to the maw
of the Dutch people, as to the Belgians ; but we likewise
pointed out, that the commercial interests of the Dutch
were very materially interested, in preventing Antwerp from
belonging to the Belgians, if Belgium were to constitute a
separate State. We then mentioned, that as a rival
to Rotterdam and Amsterdam, even when belonging to one
kingdom, the city of Antwerp was always viewed by the
merchants of Holland, with an inimical jealousy ; and it was
even suspected, we believe unjustly, that the Government
of Holland evinced an imprudent partiality, towards the com-
merce of the Dutch porta. We conceive, if Antwerp were left
as the commercial capital of a new Belgian state, that the
foreign commerce, or that species of it, which is most
agreeable to Dutch spirit—that which consists in cautiously
advancing against the property of other countries, and reap-
ing the unriskful gain of commission in the transaction—
would be very materially reduced ; and this principally from
the natural advantages of the rival ports.
We can, therefore, readily conceive, that the KING of
of the Netherlands would urge on the great European arbi-
ters, as a preliminary to the arrangement of a separatiOn,
that Antwerp should be excluded, and admitted in limine, as
still appertaining to Holland ; and not to be therefore consi-

dered literally subjedice. It is not improbable that the powers
had then expressed, that to determine the fate of Antwerp,
was not literally within the line of their jurisdiction ; but that
it was equally beyond that line to consider it as positively
belonging to Holland. If our Readers will refer to the
course of our late intelligence from Holland—and we do not
hesitate to say, that our information from that quarter is good
—they will perceive, that we communicated two or three
days ago, even in the teeth of a report, that the King of
the Netherlands " had refused the mediation of the five
great powers"—and which report we now know was not
without a temporary foundation—that the councils of his
MAJESTY had taken a different and more amicable
course ;—which, the intelligence we have given above,
now fully confirms. But we are still not inclined
to think, however influencing may have been the arguments
used with the members of the Belgian Congress, and how-
ever acquiescing may be appearances there ,that the difficul-
ties to entire adjustment are yet removed ; and this brings
us to make some remarks on the movements in another
quarter of Europe.

The particulars which we yesterday communicated exclu-
sively, of certain movements in the Russian army, and the
intelligence which we have above given, relative to the same
Power—cannot but forcibly remind us of the ambiguity
which we have:frequently remarked, continues to exist in the
dispositions of that power. We early were impressed
with an opinion, which we conveyed to our Readers, that
Russia had separate objects to pursue, which might
render her not quite sincerely co-operative, in the
line of perfect non-interventional policy, which ap-
peared decidedly the interests of the other great states;
and we oven hinted, months ago, that the affairs of Holland
and Belgium might form no bad pretext, for developments
of rather a discordant nature.

The declaration of perfect
the people of England, made by the new Administration, and
which non-intervention, we think, had not been injuriously
infringed by the last Administration,must prove influential
on the Belgian and Dutch affairs. We are not
inclined, with tho Times, to rate the republican party
of Belgium, as entirely unworthy of consideration in
the contingencies of these affairs ;—and a declaration of per-
fact non-intervention on our part,while it relieves the Belgian
patriots generally from one part of their apprehensions—
may, expose them to gyound for others, in another quarter.

so satisfactory to

We have again this day files of East India and Cape of
Good Hope papers ' • the former to the 12th of July, the
latter to the 12th of September. The Bengal papers com-
municate, by way of Bombay, the intended resignation of
Sir JOHN PETER GRANT, who would, in September,
throw aside the gown. So far back as June 1829, Sir JOHN
GRANT wrote to a friend in England, authorising the tender
of his resignation, in the event of the Ki NG'S not affording
him the protection prayed for in his petition to his MAJES-
TY ; and a declaration on the part of his MAJESTY'S Go-
vernment, of the entire independence of his MAJESTY'S
Judges in India. All these have been denied.
The commercial advice., with respect to the indigo
crop are very unfavourable. Continued rains bad
produced this ; and some factories had been obliged
to stop working altogether, in consequence of obtain-
ing so very little produce. Much and severe sickness
prevailed at the Cape of Good Hope ; and our former state-
ment of emigration from the Swan River to Sydney, is this
day confirmed. Out of 1500 persons, 400 have already left
that settlement. 1