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London, England, 1830-10-02 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

We subjoin some further extracts from the French Papers
of the 29th. We published on Thursday the Letter of the
Count de Kergorlay, which is the subject of the following
able attack upon the new Ministers and the new Charter :
(From the Gasetts de Proses et Wednesday, Sept. 29.)

PARIS, SEPT. 28.—A prosecution is to be instituted against us for
having published the explanations of a Noble Peer respecting his re.
fusel to take the oath t an explanation the evident object of which was
to make known to his country the reasons for the political deprivation
which he thought himself obliged to incur. We did not resolve on pub-
fishing them till after having carefully examined the principles of the
new Constitution which governs us, and which requires the free publi.
cation of all opinions as an element necessary to the formation of that
national will, which, according to these principles, has become the le-
gitimate Sovereign of France. If there were a single opinion, the pub.
lication and discussion of which were prohibited, we should be ander
the Government of arbitrary power, and the new Charter would no
longer be a truth.

Respect for all opinions is the sentiment which rodomlnates in
France. This is the most remarkable difference that exists between the
Revolution of 1830 and that of 89. At all the banquets in all the toasts
this sentiment has found organs to express and to applaud it.

We await with confidence the issue of a lawsuit, which, better than
all Proclamations, will give all the French an opportunity of knowing
under what regime they are placed.
TO TEI EDITOR. " PAW, Sept. 28.

" Sta—l have lust read in the Meehan of this morning • strange
piece of news. You and the Quotidian** are to be prosecuted, the
latter for having published a letter from AL de Kergolay to the Presi-
dent of the Chamber of Peen t you for having repeated it. I confess to
you that lam confounded at this. Whore are we then ? is what Re-
public do sec five, if the liberty which the victorious party grants you
consists in mentioning nothing contrary to ha opinions or its interests
If history itself become seditious when it relates facts, which the party
would have arranged otherwise if it had been in its power. For this is
history ;itis a fact which you have recorded. dd. de Kergolay, called
upon by the new law to take an oath within a certain fixed time, re-
fused this oath. The same reason which orders the Journalists to no.
dee the acts of assent, doubtless orders them also to keep an account of
the refusals, and the same reasons which require the publication of the
reasons for which some assent requires also the publication of the names
for which others refuse. These reasons are inseparable from the feet;
they are the fact itself, since it derives from than its morality sin it is
determined by them. And, besides, what will be gained by sup.
pressing the motives of the fact remains. Do not all the persons
who refuse the oath declare by that alone that they are not con-
vinced of the legitimacy of the order of things for which that oath is re-
quired ? 11.de Hergolay expresses eloquent' in two pages what se-
veral of his colleagues have amusedenerget y Ins single word : this
Is the oho]. difference. Butt make a reflection—the Quota:mute and
the Gazette are not the only Journals which contain testimonies con.
tasty to the established regime. The Afasiteur is as guilty as they
are. The Monitestr, which publishes this very morning the refusal of
the Duke of Narbonne, the Duke of Uses, and the Marquis de la Soh.
If these Gentlemen refuse the oath, it is appsraidy because they
reject the principle on which the oath Is founded. But why men.
tion the Moniteur f Has not the proem sorbs' of the Chrmber of
Deputies equally incurred a legal prossendoo ? Is it not seditious
like the Mont:our ? You may read in this proem verbal a recent
letter of 11. de Fannon; which, laconic as it is, says at least as much
as M. de Kergolay. Here is plenty of work cut out for the King's
Attorney-General. M. de Broglie certainly did not reelect that this
prosecution of facts tends to nothing less than to dry up the sonnies at
truth, and to annihilate history. For a Minister of Public Insulted°a
this is passing strange.

The following letter Is from a Belgian Gentleman of stadon, judg.
rnent, and constitutional feeling, whose disposition is pacific. He feels
eery indignant at the manner in which his countrymen are calumniated
day after day in the Papers of this metropolis, subject to the influence of
Government. The people of Brussels have, we think, proved that they
arc not a rabble, but a set of as brave men se ever existed; and the
manner in which the people throughout Belgium have sympathised with
them, sulliciently refutes the statements of which this gentleman cam.
plains. No man who has understanding to connect two propositions
can now be the dupe of the misrepresentations in which too many
of our Contemporaries indulged; for if the population of Bras.
Ms had not been united, they could never have resisted 16,000 well ap.
pointed regulars. We were told day after day by some of our Conlon.
poultice, that the middle classes were all eager for the appearance of the
King's troops, that they might protect themselves against the rabble.
Now It appears, that in the put of Brussels occupied by the more
wealthy inhabitants, the soldiers were assailed from every house. When
• disturbance takes place in any of our manufacturing towns, the pa
pnlace are easily dispersed, because the houses in the principal streets
are shut against them, and they have no shelter from the soldiery cw
civil force. But we proceed to the letter, the occasional foreign idioms
of which we leave unaltered s—Chronicle.

ANTWERP, ilwrr.'2ll.
Sett—At this moment I know your attention will be more than ever
directed to my unfortunate country, and as your public press often
represents matters in a light as it is most convenient to its views, I think
myself called upon to give u a few statements of the unfortunate
overthrow of our government In the southerly provinces.
The conduct of the inhabitants of Brussels wUI now convince the
world that they are not that drunken rabble which the bigotted part
of the English press endeavoured to represent them ; but that, if
courage is a virtue, as it undoubtedly is, they are the noblest and
the most virtuous people of the world, history not furnishing us
with an example of a braver act. It mast be said that the heroes
of Brussels must have considered themselves strong by a sense
of justice of their cause, more than ever a people considered
itself as such. It proves that it is not the act of a bigotted priesthood,
as The Courier represents It; but of an enlightened, liberal class of
people joining in one cause, no matter what religious feelings, In the
cause of freedom, and to have redress of the grievances of which the go.
vernment itself has acknowledged the existence. Theo wspapers will
have informed you, that after a contest with an army of from lb to
20,000 well disciplined and devoted troops, in the very interior of the
town of Brussels, the inhabitants have forced the soldiers to leave
them unmolested ; the loss of, the latter being twenty to one of the
Burghers. This without any assistance of the interior or southerly
pan of the country, with which the town bad no communicatioo.
The King might have spared himself the best of Ms troops, and a
part of the finest town of his dominions, which have fallen in the contest,
if be had uttered openly and readily one word towards making those con.
cessions which it was in his power to grant. In redressing what the
Ministers had done against the fundamental law, he might have made
himself the most popular Kiog of Europe. He might have promised
to distribute offices equally—not to have interfered with religious mat-
ters, nor with the Press, all of which the Constitution grants, without
calling the Assembly of the States. General, and the people of the whole
of the southerly provinces would have cried out " Vive le aoL° But
Counsels have been listened to, the English press in particular. The
above-mentioned paper and The Times have represented the people of
Brussels in a most illiberal and foul manner; the King to have acted se
he ought to have done, and of course been the cause of all that has
happened ; they have by their impolitic, short-sighted views, destroyed
the barrier for which their countrymen have spent their money,
and shed their blood ; and what remains to be done now /
In my opinion, to show the Government of this country
that under the present state of the spirit of Europe, and pine.
pally the most neighbouring country, that under the present govern.
meat of France there is only one way of preserving Belgium as a
barrier against France, and which we are sore may still be accomplished ;
and that the only way to obtain this is that the claims of the Bel-
gians (which the last accounts from Brussels seem. even after their
complete victory, to confine themselves to the fair execution of the fon.
&mental laws) should be graciously granted; that England there.
fore, should use all its influence, at the Hague, and silence the
voice of these blood-thirsty representatives of e northern pro-
vinces—these Donkey Curtiuses and Consorts. The party that
ever desired to belong to France is very small, but It would be
to • man, if concessions are not made immediately, and troops
should be called in : foreign interference would, now the Bel-
gians have shown their decision and their power, induce France
to enter one part of the country as soon as the Prussians would
enter the other. France would now, less than ever, suffer the principle
of non-interference to be endangered, nor suffer her own existence to be
menaced, by seeing assembled upon her frontiers SO army of Prussians,
English, or Cossacks ; nor would these be certain of success in de.
pressing the most just of causes, in irritating any longer a nation where
a woman has become a man and a soldier. How very irritating it was
for the Belgians to see one day the King accept the dismission of the
odious Minister of Justice, Mr. Van Maanen, and t o see the same man
rise • few days after to be the supreme judge of the two nations. This,
again, may be attributed to the English bigotted Those and Cattier,
Aforship Peet and Ca and beaker niftier, and Cowes* in Holland.
Could you make use of this in favour of our country and to re-establish
peace between all parties, you would render a peat service not only to
your own, but our King and country. Venn truly, Friend.
We bop you will not fail in publishing either this or your own
sentiments on this subject, and widen the English public
against many accounts which are seated by the enemies of re.
estsblisbing peace, and ego even to say that the betel of the
British Anabassidoe is fire by the mob; while it is drew.
Wing, the troops have dens so; but we believe both equally false.
Wbat Is notorious is, that the mob at Brussels, almost without a
Iliad, have not plundered • single bows.

NRW SOUTH irrAz.ss.

The unprecedented drought under which the colony had so severely
suffered, ended in October, 1829, since which the rain has been so
abundant as to set all the rivers again a flowing in their wonted depth of
current, and make the pastures assume their former verdant hue. The
wheat of the last year amounted to barely a third of our average
early maize bad generally failed ; the late maize turned out a fair amp,
while the millet, whet cultivation is fast extending, promised a most
abundant produce. The tobacco crop has been but hateable, but the
one hundred and ninety acres reported in cultivation to the Government,
will be quite sufficient for the supply of colonial wants, thereby saving
a yearly sum of from 20,0001. to 30,0001 to the colony in the purchase
of that commodity from foreign countries. The situation of a very large
proportion of the settlers who have taken their grants within
the last six years is any thing but flattering. Calculating on a continu-
ants of the favourable seasons which the colony has long enjoyed, and
on the continuance of stock at high prices, they unwittingly contracted
debts in the purchase of the latter on credit, and for the improving of
their farms, which the repeated failure of crops, and the immense fall in
the value of stock, have rather increased than diminished, and must
eventually involve a considerable number of them in ruin. This sudden
and immense fall in the price of stocks has been occasioned by the
failure of the crops, causing a sudden glut of stock In the market, in
order to purchase grain from other countries; the exportation of the
specie for the above purpose, and consequent diminution in the circu-
lating medium ; the alteration of the currency ; and, lastly and chiefly,
the great increase of stock in comparison to the decrease. From these
combined causes, all coming into operation at once, fine wooled
ewes, which sold three years ago at from three to five pounds,
now barely realise as many shillings at the auction ales; fat wethers 8s
to lOs formerly sold at 965. fat bullocks 2 to 3L formerly sold at 81 and
snitch cows lie. to 30e. formerly disposed of at from 10 to 161. Beef is
consequently now supOith to tbn Government ate little more than one
penny per pound, and is sold in the market at from lid to 9d while mut-
ton averages about the same price. A singular state of things bar
arisen out of this : a calf, now bringing a price equal to that of a cow,
while three legs of mutton may be purchased for the price of a duck.
Eggs, poultry and fish, are high ; fresh butter 10d per lb. salt do Bd.
and cheese 4d to 6d of superior quality. A few years ago Irish salt
butter, and English cheese, soap and candles, were imported in large
quantities. Now, however, this is at an end, from all these articles
being produced cheaper, and of equal quality in the colony. Until of
late years, stock paid so well that the principal attention of the settlers
was directed towards the basses thereof, to the neglect of almost
every other agricultural commodity ; but the great fall in the price
of this has very naturally directed the greatest attention ot the
Colonists to the raising of other commodides, and hence the rapid
advance, daring the. last four years, In the production et cheese, but-
ter, soap,
thereofmin-
no longer necessary. In fact, although late
=Twill ruin many, it will eventually prove of great benefit to
the Colthy, by stimulating the production of new commodities, and
particularly such as are suited to the clime, by checking the long
prevailing extravagance, and by throwing the Colony more on Its own
resources. The commerce of New South Wales is inereseng, notwith-
standing all the late disasters, the ships Sovereign, Percy, Asia, Dane an
Castle, Gilmore, Australia, and several others, have been all furnished
with valuable cargoes in the space of a few months, averaging
about 20,0001. in value each, that of the Ads being at least 30,0001.
wool, sperm, and black whale oil, whalebone, spennaced, seal
and bullock skins, bores, New Zealand Sae, trans* blue gum, and
cede, form the principal part of the arg The Beak of Australia,
by ha liberality, has saved a coadderable pardon of the colonists from
ruin, and is in such a flourishing condition as to divide 21 per cent.
on the original share, which now sell at 60 per cent. premium. Money
kegs, at present, an interest of from twelve to twenty per cent. and
difficult even of being procured at that, while the demand for labourers
is so great that upwards of 2,000_ application for convict servants are
now lying in the bureaux of the land Board, which cannot be complied
with. The high interest of money, and the great demand for labourers,
are heontestibli proofs of the flourishing condition of the Colony, not-
withstanding the late unpropitious sessoos. Artificers are even in
demand than agricultural servants, so much so, that many new
Ceirdeings, lately projected, cannot be proceeded with for the want of
them, while the whaling trade equally suffers on account of the scarcity
of coopers. Masons, plasterers, Wlcklayers, agonies, blacksmiths,
:7:s4ffic. are eagerly engaged at even sLhoillte per day, upwards,
make more than double that sum by work, twhile provi-
sions being generally less than half the pries, it is evident
bow much labouring artificers would gain by a removal to
Sydney. The high amount of postage money (301. to 4014 be.
tweet England and New South Wales, has hitherto retarded the
emigration of individuals of this class, but were masters of
ships authorised to dispose of their services for • fixed time, like
that of the American redemptionles, the Colony as well as the arti-
ficers in question would be materially benefitted. A good mechanic,
at even common day wages, would cancel his passage debt in less
than 12 months at tbe fartheet, and by job work might do so in half
that time; while, after this point was attained, if he did not qitikvlr.l4
realise a handsome property for the station of life in which he moved,
it must be his own fault. I do not know an instance of a common ar.
dfices in Sydney of regular habits who is not either a proprietor of
houses or land. The majority of those individuals have been naturally
primers, but even a considerable portion of them, with all their impro.
vitiate habits, speedily acquire a decent independence. In consequence of
the low price of-wool In England, and the low price of stock in the Colony,
the Colonial capital has been recently diverted into Channels where
a higher amount of interest may be anticipated. Formerly the
whole of the surplus capital was directed towards the purchase of
ine.woolled sheep, and of land for the maintenance thereof; now, how.
ever, it is mainly investedl in the purchase of building allotments, and
in building speculations in Sydney and the other rising towns through.
out the colony. In three years the whale vessels have been trebled,
while the price of building allotments has risen from five to six hundred
per oent with rents still on the rise, notwithstanding the number of
Wean erected, all of which dnd ready occupants. Sydney having no
main springs or constantly running streams in its vicinity to supply it
with water, has been hitherto dependent upon wells dug in the and.
stone rock, and through the porous pipe-clay strata, and on the tanks
hollowed out in the sandstone bed of the rivulet passing through it
(which runs only after a fall of rain), for a supply of that essential com-
modity. The tunnel now excavating,to lead the water of the Botany Bay
marshes Into the town from a two miles' distance, will, when corn.
' plated, afford a certain and abundant supply at every period of the year
for twice the amount of the population at prawn contained in the
town. The water is collected in these marshes from the dripping of
the sandhilh surrounding them, which imbibe every drop of rain that
falls, and allow it to oose gradually down into the marshy reservoirs at
their base. This tunnel being carried through a seriesof slaty and sand.
stone beds, consequently no brick arching is required, its temple-
d= being anticipated by the middle of 1831, and at half the esti-
mated cost, which was 18,0801. Mr. Busby, the mineral surveyor
who superintends it, has been most successful in his proceed.
bp, all the audits having been hitherto joined, and scarcely a
foot difference in the line of boring. By repeated observations also the
projected level has been found to be correct. A considerable scientific
tact war:displayed by Mr. B. on entering a bed of loose sand la the
course of his excavation. Perceiving the great expense that would be
incurred by constructing a brick arch through it, he judiciously dived
down into the herd stratum below, and carrying the tunnel under the
sand-bed, rose up again beyond it, well knowing that, water always find-
ing its original level, this partial sinking of the bed would be no impe-
diment to the course of the water along the tunnel. It is understood that
Governer Darling, in order to facilitate as well as ensure the communica-
tion between Sydney and the penal settlements (a communication at all
times tedious and frequently uncertain, by means of sailing-vessels,)
has applied to the Home Government for a steam engine, and
the requisite machinery, with the view of constructing a steam-
boat to ply between Sydney and these settlements, which have been put
to severe trials at times, by reason of the failure of supplies through the
tedious passages made to and fro by the sailing vessels, while these
tedious passages have admitted of conspiracies being hatched among the
felons on board of them, which in some instances have ended in their
capture. Governor Darlin, in fact, perceives that communication will
not only be quicker, but thmpw by atoms of steam than by means of
sailing yawls, as one steam vessel would be able to perform the whole
of the duty of the presenteaffing vessels, allot which might consequently
be sold of. The immense impulse given to the commercial and sgri.
cultural prosperity of England by steam navigation, sufficiently points
out the incalculable benefits that must accrue to the colony by ha intro-
duction there. That stock will rise in the whiny, with the return
of the usual favourable seasons, Is no more than what may be
fairly andcipated,:although there is no probability of its ever attaining
beyond half the value of former years—value infinitely too high fur
every purpose connected with colonial prosperity. While benefitthig
the present residents possessed of large Sochi and herds, it injured the
colony generally, by deterring emigration, and consequently checking
the !name of population. An emigrant may now see himself down
upon his giant at a foutb of the expense of former years, on account of
the present cheapness of stock; and as long, therefore, as stock and
agricultural produce in general do not fall below the prices at which he
originally purchased, be must be so far a gainer by the change, acquir.
ing, as he does, an equal amount of substantial wealth for the 1001.
that tour hundred would barely have purchased some three yews ago.
From all I have observed, however, I conceive the opinion of Mr. Cob.
beet as applicable to New South Wales as AmMat, that it Is better
Ise endgrants of capital to purchase land in an already settled neigh.
losudessi, than to take a grant that may even cast them nothing in
a port of the Colony alike remote from society, and an immediately
politaids market for what they may reduce. &vend lal-anired
agailmti ballooned on this plat' ; finding, as they ier that often
anodes thereby a property, the improvements en Wait ass *the
while of the sum actually paid, a boon reedy to ssesiveindr
modest-buildings, cleared isnd, and found potadados silent Ise all
the purposes of a oar seder, which it would have relied years of
pgdeat -labour to attain, without reference to the soprise yaks of the
hihd by reason of tho shore condensed ponied= oroood, sea the sip
pail society thereby acquired. A new line et read is now
to apnoea the old settled portion, of the early with Tort Maagiasele
and other bertha% settlement. about to be opened to endrants,

while woad is now in progress to the southward; with the like bale.
fiatl views. jniprovements, solid and ustful, seem to be the aim of
Governor Darling's Administration; and in no way has he benefitted
the colony more, than in the construction of roads to facilitate can.
mutilation between the capital and the distant settlements. A firm,
unbending honesty of purpae with a determination to do what be
sees will be positively beneficW, without reference to what may prove
dazzling and popular, ram to be the views that guide his conduct
and, continuing in this course, he need not fear of justice being done
to him by posterity, however much the cavillers of the present day
may rail against him.

tit We beg to apologise to our cotemporaries of the Chronicle and He-
rald, for not having given reference to their papas, for some articles,
for which we were indebted to them, in yesterday's paper. It is al
ways our wish to be particular in such acknowledgments; and it is
only by accident that such reference is omitted.