Star.
London, England, 1830-10-05 00:00:00

FORZJCW INTELLIGENCL

BELGIUM.

From the Courrier des Pays Bas.
We are looking for an act which shall express in a few words a whole
cystem, and effect with the least shock possible the fromthe
ancient to the new regime. The following appear to uPsalitnee the proper
bases of this act :

" I. The Belgian nation separates itself from Holland, to form a free
Confederate State.

"2. Henceforth it will only treat with other States, and particularly
with Holland, u from power to power. It recognizes none of the debts
placed at its charge in 1815 by foreign force.
"3. It resumes the possession of its territory. The national Bag
shall be hoisted in all the communes.

" 4. The Province of Luxemburg forms pert of Belgium, notwith-
standing its relations with Germany, which shall be respected, and
'hall form the object of diplomatic negotiations. According to the
terms of the Acts of the Diet, the Confederate Garrison shall con-
fine itself to occupy and guard the fortress of Luxemburg; the siege
of this town without the consent of the Belgian Government; all
display of force without the bounds of the territory of the fortress,
and every participation in the civil administration of the province,
should be considered an act contrary to the principle of noninter-
vention, and authorising, if necessary, an appeal to foreign powers.
" 5. The Dutch troops, henceforth considered as enemies, shall
evacuate Belgium • and, in case of resistance, shall be expelled by force.
"6. All the Belgian citizens are called to arms. They shall be di-
vided into two classes; the one, under the name of Garde Nagonak,
shall take upon themselves the special defence of the communes, and
shall, in cue Ste-arena are wanting, be armed with pikes by the local
authorities ; the other shall form the active army. The citizens, from
the age of 18 to 40 years, who are not married, only sons, functionaries,
or Indispensable to the culture of land, are specially called to form a
re:the active army; and the volunteers of this class shall repair to
Mons, and Brussels, where they will be incorporated.
" 7. The population shall rise in a mass, without distinction of age
and sex, wherever it may be necessary to repel the enemy.
" 8. A Commission shall be appointed to draw up a new fundamental
law. The Belgian Deputies to the States General being in a state of
complete captivity at the Hague ; and, moreover, the war having broken
all our bondswith Holland, their mission for Belgium is st an end.
"0. The Provincial States are maintained as administrative bodies,
and shall be convoked forthwith.

" 10. The Provincial and Communal Authorities shall continue to
exercise their functions, unless they voluntarily resign, or are revoked
by the Government. The notable inhabitants shall provide temporarily
for the administration of the communes of which the authorities may
have retired, or may refuse to execute the orders of the Government.
"IL All the Dutch who occupy public °Sees in Belgium are dis-
missed. The Local Administrations, or, in their absence, the Notables,
shall provide temporarily for filling up the place of such of them u are
charged with receiving money, or other functions indispensable to pub-
lic order, after having caused an account to be rendered of the public
money, and having examined the papers of the said functionaries.
"12. All taxes shall be collected in behalf of the Belgian Govern-
ment, and pro Scampers in virtue of the existing laws. Nevertheless
the tax on slaughtering cattle is abolished from this day. All minutes
of infraction, drawn up upon this subject, and all condemnations that
have been pronounced, are considered null and void.
" Justice shall be rendered in the name of the Provisional Go-
vernment ; the formula of the judicial acts shall be modified in con-
formity thereto."

Letter its ths lio-eniag Chronicle.
" Blll7lllliLe, OCT. 1.
" my last communication I undertook to send you a de.
tailed and an authentic account of the numerous atrocities committed on
English residents here by the Dutch troops in their recent attack of this
city. In this letter you will find that promise fulfilled. Now that the
Belgians have nobly delivered their country from the tyranny of the
Dutch, we rest assured that the letters of the English will no longer be
opened and stopped, as they have hitherto been, to afford information to
a feeble and suspicious government.
" The Belgian Papers will have informed you that an army, com-
posed of nearly 90,000 men, the 'elite' of the Dutch troops, with an ex.
tensive train of artillery, most completely appointed, quitted Holland
only a few days since, for the conquest of the Belgic territory; that this
army appeared suddenly on the boulevards of Brussels; and without the
usual form of summoning a besieged town, at once employed every
horrid implement of war against this open' and almost defence.
less city, many of whose inhabitants were asleep at the com-
mencement of the moult ; that, during four days of con.
tinued bombardment with heavy artillery, mortars, Congreve rockets,
and other projectiles, the Dutch officers set an example to their men of
all that has ever been related in history, or can be conceived by the
imagination, as most barbarous and atrocious—pillage, essassinations,
incendiarism, violation—an example of crimes of which no horde of
savages has ever been known to be guilty, even against ha deadliest foes
—crimes, not only sanctioned, but positively ' justified' (wan English.
man) by the Priam Frederic, whose first campaign has opened with the
massacre of his father's subjects ! There has been an insanity in these
bloody excesses of the Dutch.
" Providence, however, has willed that citizens, hastily assembled—
irregularly; armed—without military) chiefs—without any combined
plan of operation deprived of almost all means of defence by the
treachery of several of the upper classes of the Bourgeols—coofotutded
by alarming reports, industriously circulated by traitors, who had been
bought by the King with Belgic gold—that these citizens, thus unpre.
pared and defenceless, should, after four days of heroic resistance, have
driven their cruel enemies into an ignominious flight, diminished In
numbers, disgraced in reputation, and thoroughly demoralised, too
fortunate if they ever reach the turbid waters of Holland in their re-
treat. They carry back to his Majesty of Holland the bloody &alba
fifteen years' misrule ova this noble people. They will be tbeberalds
of his just dethronement, as they have been the sanguinary instruments
of his vindictive obstinacy.
" Thus, however,has it plowed Almighty floc, by whom thip•opk
rule to prosper the righteous cause, and to avenge the injuries,. long,
so loudly, and so vainly complained of by an enlightened and generous
Nation ! While the Monarch of Holland shall be recorded on the pap
of History, as the Barbarous Butcher of the Belgians, it will be said in
after ages, that the brave Belgic race displayed not less of mercy and
generosity towards their wounded enemies and prisoners, than they had
evinced resolution and heroism in driving the invaders from their Ma
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