Star.
London, England, 1830-08-30 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

We give tie following most important extracts from the Courier des
: 'trliN 80, of which reached us by an extraordinary courier last
:4ht, which it +Till be se;:in that the population of Brussels have'
ag::.r.st the Government, and that conflicts similar to those of
•'a:i, ha:e place betwezn the people and the military assisted by
•-e ne•ss armcs. The tiring had not ceased when the Paper went to
•ress ; but an eye-witness, whose account we insert after that of the
!ourvallst, states that the town was eventually in the hands of the
National Guard. The hotel of the Minister of Justice, Van Maanen,
tcul ken burnt down by the enraged populace, and much property
•}ere, and at the house of the Director of Police and elsewhere, de-
hat, as in Paris, the sanguinary struggle was not disgraced by
Wien our informant left Brussels, the tri-coloured flag was
•:oating on the Hotel de ; 5,000 of the National Guard were then

BLVOLUTION IN BRUSSELS.
FLANDERS.
(From the ('ourrier des Pays Bas of Friday.)

(RY AN EXTRAORDINARY CONVEYANCE.)

811 I: ASELS, AuG. 26.-3 lost serious events are this moment taking
,idsce at Brussels. We shall e'mply confine onrselves to the office of
Iteperte.s. It ie pretty generally known how much the Belgians, of all
classes, sad in all the provinces. are dissatisfied. Our Deputies in the
thambers, and the journals, have frequently adverted to
This fact. The day before yesterday the public read with surprise and
Clagrin an article in the Giza, tte dts l'ays Bax (the official Govern.
nicht Paper), which spoke with emphasis of the happiness which all
Cie Belgians enjoyed, and of the ininzicalion and rejoicings they are
plant:l7d into. This language was the more a 1 icting. as, for some
days past, the puhlic exasperation had been violent, and given rise
:a Ila•C:k uneasiness respecting the disposition of tile public
::end. 1-I,e.terilay evening tie performanze of 1.0 Mrial le de
Portici hail attracted an immense crowd ; the house could not contain
till the visitants, and the crowd had AVM stationed itself on the square
of the Mint. At the conclusion of the play nomerous groups formed
themselves, and proceeded towards the office of Le Rue
Fosse auto hoops. In a nzement the wiattows were smashed, and it
WAS eilt•nipt el to burst opt h dom. A voice exclaimed, " ',cc us go
to Libry !" At these words i.he crowd retraced it: steps and went to
:lie residence ofLibry leignano, to the Polymathic Library, rue tie
31.teldeioe, near the greA coach office. The multitude increased
•eJry inoine:d. The windows wete broken ; the doors were burst in ; all
ie leiniture was demolished, the papers and books were torn, and
`frown nut of the window in tatters. By a lucky accident, L. Bagnano,
"a. principal ethtor 1.1 the No!ioizof, was not Multi' at home. in which
wo, saved. The crowd choked up already the Woad street of
?ea Mailehnew. It wiser cle VC% o'clock at tight, end during this ti rat
effer‘e.seerce the police W.sely from acting: its intervetition
Would telly have proved pernicious. Tie: gendarmes were told--
- Don't act, aid you will be let alone." Towards midnight the crowd
&spersed. One ;,soup went to the Place Royal, preceded by a 114 g corn.
nosed of Ow carentis of Libry Bagnaeo. The ohker of that post carne
titt, and asses what they wanted ? The C:onintander dill,: town came
:inward likewise. Nothing hut confused cries were to be heard et*
Liner.), ! .1 estiee !" A soldier stepped out of the ranis, atal with
yes it; his ey. s sopiriicited Those present to withdraw, seying, " For
~.(11).?: • site di•v.,se, and spare tIS the disgrace of beiag obliged to shed
.ny fieteien blood !" Thews simpk words protleced more etli:et than
she•test rcsisf,nce would have done.

Au :.fito gtoup went by the Rue de I'Letipereur to the street Buys.
s•opped before the Palace of Justice. and is a moment broke all
os of the hall or the Court of Assize, with cites of • Down
‘:it'i Van Maanen ! Long live De Potter ! ' Shortly- after, the ON
.o.tal who commands the town proceeded to the Hotel I ale Ville, and the
horse prods:toes commenced to patrol about in detachments. A more
oufnerons etowil proceeded to the Rue de Berlaimont, to the house of
31. tit motile Ice Director of the Police. It was forcibly entered,
old there, es at the residence of Libry, every thing was broken and de.
t trey...! ; her, there. likewise, not a stogie article was abstracted. One
inelevidual wamtel wary off the cloak of the Director of the Police,
hut he was trampled upon by the people, and the cloak ieself was torn
;nut a tMosaint fragments. The crowd began there already to assume
• mar. serious and violent aspect. The whole town began to be
iftnifted of it. The inhabitants left their houses, anti the troops got
.fol?er toms. ale first musket-roots that were heard were fired
• rr-a-rds cuie of ruck, when the commotion became directly more to-
i.oAtutius and decisive. The crowd ran with great noise towards the
hard ref 31. Van alaanen, the Minister of Justice, situated in the
Petrie du It tit Sablon, opposite rue prison of l'etits Cannes. When
t'ie people were before this residence, the exasoetation scented to
I.ave reached its highest pitch. The doors, being burst in shortly
.urrsvatds, gave tree admittance to the multitude, woo poured in
••ith cries of Ihrten with Van aloartea Furniture and effects
1. every description were demolished. The troops wished to restore
coler, but tiny were too feeble. They were attacked, disarmed, and
obliged to retreat. Alter this first explosion, the multitude seemed
to cotieert measures, awl set lire to the building. The smoke ap.
geared rapidly ; the crowd rushed out, and ranged itself round the hotel,
dedarot that it would nut retire before the building was burnt down
to its very foundAiou. The confiagtation made great progress. The
flames p.re:tvaale already twin atat --the firemen hastened to the
:.pot, wiot toeir engines, towards four o'clock, but they were repulsed
ad toned to rt turn to the Hotel dc Ville. This vast edifice being set
fire served thus as a point of .tssetublage—a great number of work.
ten tan to the spot withodt pillaging. but likewise without retiring.
During the night the gunsmiths had been ecoupelled to deliver up
arms contained in their stores. The people diatriboted them ;
such ats had any guns at home went out with them, and sonic muskets
•vere taken from tin siddiers, or abandoned by them, that they might
•ot have to lire. 11 orkmen were seen to surround an officer near
ti,c Palace of Justice, putting a pistol to his breast and risking
him, on his wertl of honour, that he should not order the people
be tired upon. Towards five o'clock in the moriling, and
when the broad light of day illuminated the moventeuts, the
,nned force di:id:eyed itself more. A buttalioti of Chasseuts and
battalion (if tirentoliers spread themselves in companies through the
,fteeta where the agitation was greatest. It was in the Place du SaMon
,herc, ..bout six o'clock in the morning, an officer todered a platoon
ire, and where the struggle became bloody. Presently the wounded
were seen being carried hottie; men among the. p ople were seen to `all
,!own dezyl, belay struck by the balls of Hue soldiery ; aval gore s,iiitiett
pa•ryt.wift. Tois ...toned force traversed the streets, tiring multiplied
oileys ; it tired sometimes into the air, and sometimes it;, the croho.
re;,....•ed firing of musketry resounded diroogliout the whole town.
%aid sr, coaster:whorl afar. The houses were shut up, and the w itidows
sal a !!‘; w omen end curious people: the streets were ores bed, being
ootnetio).--, invaded and sometimes deseuteel. The inhabitants were arnard
v the anal cudgels; they posted thetnaelv6:h tit the cosset of
• ..e str,•• which g eve so strange an appearotiee to Brussels, that one
might tiv.c suppti.til it to be a town expecting to he taken Icy 'torn).
tromniotion, it will he tel: that it is impossible for
u. t) do:tiled a description as the public has a right to expect.
f;xattnes.. has apihareit to us preferable to ex ,ent. The tire of musketry
eominues ....m.rropted to this moment, which is 10 o'clock in the
-..oriiing. 'nue 11:11.3.: of 31. Schnezmans, the King's Procurator-Gene.
has been US:t.lile6l during the night, and the windows of it have
ft:en brok,..h. stone workmen hate iota 11010 the shops of tl.e Purvey.
', of tee (.curt the Arms of the Royal Family, and many of the trades.
s uusly taken MVO* away. This morning Iwo dead cruses
,:..teoded hear the Iliad d'Angleterre, mid the pavelin nt red.
ror! n i::: tie street De Leuvuth the sehtries of the ;Matta were
..• wi;:elott about ten o'clock, when a child, tell }curs of age,
%••••• Wa., Orr officially desired to declare that, it the arms of
-• 4 CoOl.)!Ol$AUX". were dcpesited in a barrack, it was he.
:of •1.., .:cee Lad tliown that they had not been kept in proper
•i cof-.nn h..vc gents 10 an utider,tanding, aid met. It is
fi•,,• c,:., --• in., public order stall Out be disturbed, that the safety
pre;:,rry should remain invielable, and tranquillity be

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Ti, •• (;•: ill be tom taliately organised.—lt is required as
• • •• :,••• a;or,t, can pretreat great toisfortieues. It will inlet.
••., to ..op disasters, which would soon become ini vi.
' • : pre ;.,:o te.a...fions, it any such should he attempam. All
• ' • r, are invited to proceed to the barracks of the Garde,
; s. A Coo vied is permanently sitting there. They
! ' , uf:. %jib sows, and they will concert measures
' • : at the Ciardes Cotruounaux. Amidst
.; ••• the li.ing ail opinions upon these commotions
owe ver, they indicate one indisputable fact, which we
•.. Tat discontent of the Belgians grew, real, stud in-
• To appease it is 11 duty; to Mlve it must be a 1110 it sad
• ; , -.I t., e.eily it would be the act uf a fool. To the people we
. eel -tail your duty as citizens with zeal, energy, and boy.
••••, . ; •r (1;:'-;:tid your rights, but know also that every offensive,
.: .1 .li.ordeily risiii,z is a fault, a folly, and a crime. Conquer
;•1•• feeler." May the Government open its eyes. It is
10.i,-..f fan., to u well out illusions respecting the disposition of the
.• Cie voice of the Belgians ought and must be Kind. It
• !::L - tif•y to the executive to cause itself to be beloved and re-
: •••••"'• It ""tilt' only require a change of system, and the discarding
• meii, to hee: all boons ! May this general wish. he attended
aid be dune Inr6 widpnit delay and without after-thought ! Peace
item h'Fe..ton.l.l.t rty would unite all parties, and by liberty
, indl 11V1:111. ;Ice would be strengthened. Is it possible that
• : •• r; he ;try lit,iiation, :toy refusal ?
ANOTiiliR ACCOUNT.
(ritom AN EYE-WITNESS.)
: h.., morning, about 10 o'clock, in the Petit Sablon, a party of
• 1.0 were Lotting down some tree*, for the purpose of forming a
•• • across the street leading into the Grand Sablon, were tired
• rarty of the Dutch militia, and two of the people were badly
• : —Almut the saute tinie a regime:a of light infantry drawee
thaitel said° were surrounded by a great mob; and I saw
..: ,iiieers shake hands with various individuals among the crowd,
• t them pledge their word not to order their troops to ere upon
• soldats Beiges les fritternizent le people."
~t i,miture, and all the other moveables, in the hotel of the Cow.

mandant, has been burned before his door 1--every thing burned—not
taken away. About noon yesterday tranquillity was partially restored,
and all the troops mustered in front of the Palace of the King, when,
atter some parley, he agreed to leave the town to the National
Guard, mote than 5,000 of whom have been armed and organised;
and the people generally have become much more calm In consequence.
The house of Al. Kuyff, chef de police, has been gutted, and the entire
contents burnt and destroyed in the public streets. He himself escaped,
and is gone off to Antwerp, having given a stable-keeper 600 francs to
convey him thither. About five o clock the same afternoon I saw his
private carriage burned by the populace in the street opposite the Hotel
de ViUe ; they brought it from his house in the Rue de Bielamont for
that purpose. Many parties of the National Guard are parading the
streets with flags, inscribed " Suretb Libeni," " &nee Publique,"
&c. The National Guard has full possession of all the gates and mili-
tary rusts in the town, without any exception whatever, and also of the
palaces of the Prince of Orange, &e. At half-past ten at night I brought
my luggage to the coach-office, with a guard of four men. In passing
near the Park, more than 100 shots were suddenly fired. I could not learn
by whom, or at what ; but 1 suppose they were fired by persons con.
cealed in the Park, at the soldiers stationed before the King's Palace.
I left the same night, and doting my short stay at Ostend I learned from
the best authority, that.all the troops, Belgians as well as Dutch, had
retired outside the town, or to their barracks, and had left the protection
of the town and palaces to the National Guard. Several manufactories
have been burned, or otherwise damaged, in the neighbourhood--calico.
print works burned, and the machinery in others destroyed. It is said
there will be 10,000 troops from Holland at the gates of Brussels on
Friday, and that in a conflict with the people from 10 to 50 men had
been killed or wounded ;—amongst the killed are two of the new !loyal
Guard. One day, last Saturday or Sunday, a number of placards were
posted on the trees near the park, as follows :

" Aujourdhui feu d'artitice !
Dentain Illumination ! !
Aims domain Itcro!ution ! ! !"

M. de Potter is at Paris, and from thence he w►ote a letter of advice
to the King. wltich letter was printed in the Courtier des Pays Bar of
Sunday the 22d instant. M. de Potter has also written a lettet to the
people, exciting them to strong measures—at least, so it is said. The
letter, it is also said, was printed in Paris, and dropped about thestreets
of lirusstls secretly ; but of ♦ii this I have no personal knowledge, not
having sten one of them.