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sores against the press, and the conduct of the ministry, es-
pecially on the occasion of the young men who had lately
been accused of wishing to make a revolution, have hastened
the movement which has just burst out."—Le Constitu_
tionnet.
FRANCE AND BELGIUM.
The precipitate departure of M. de Merode for Brussels,
soused it to be said on Saturday at the 'Change, that an
Orange movement had burst forth in Southern Brabant.
Nothing is more false ; the Nassau party knows its weakness
too well to dare to show itself; eighty pompiers gave them
reason to do so at Ghent last week. As for the departure,
which has been so badly interpreted, it can be easily ex.
plained : the absence of M. Van de Weyer, the journey to
Bruges of M. Vanderlinden, and that of M. Charles Roper
to Liege, had left to M. Gendebien all the weight of the go.
vernment. M. Frederick Merode. who is a member, judged
that his presence at Paris was not indispensible, and went to
Brussels to partake of the labour of his colleague. Besides,
there is no positive news. At Belgium, they remove with
care all idea of a refusal, and thus they begin to believe that
there will be none. It is on Tuesday, at one o'clock, that
Louis-Philippe has decided to receive, in solemn audience,
the members of the deputation from the Congress. Till that
sitting we can know nothing ; the crown will be proposed
officially to the King for the Duke of Nemours ; but it is not
probable that the reply will be given on that day. A second
audience will be necessary. Thus, to the next week !—Le
Constitutionnel.
The Deputies from the Belgian Congress charged to offer
the crown to the Duke of Nemours had, it is said, obtained
that the official audience indicated at first for to-day, then for
to-morrow, was again put off for some days. Warned that
a refusal is prepared for them, they hope that time and re-
flection will inspire the French government with a reply less
afflicting. That which we had foreseen of the consequences
of the refusal has arrived already, although it has not yet
been officially noticed. At the first intelligence of the pre-
sumed intention of our government, all the good which had
been produced by the decision of the Congress was de-
stroyed ; the parties reconciled to be content by the
election of the French Prince, retook their first animosity,
soured still more by new griefs. The Orangists, who are
the Carlists of Belgium. recommence to sow gold and dis-
cord, and their correspondence more active than ever.
reanimate the hopes of the Dutch Government.
The Members of the Congress who bad carried the
election of the Duke de Nemours, are the mark for
cruel reproaches, as the fault is thrown upon them,
which they impute to the French agents, who, they
say, hare deceived them by perfidious assurances.—
Among the people, the French name, saluted not
long ago by unanimous acclamations, is at present
charged with maledictions. Symptoms of anarchy
already are manifest in Brussels ; a Belgian, who
arrived from that City, gave us a most deplorable
picture of the state of minds there. At his depar-
ture the poets were doubled, and the Citizens had taken
their arms ; exp.ctiog all kinds of perils ; they saw the na-
tional independence and the interior peace threatened from
all parts ; they hoped nothing more from France ; some
spoke of calling to the throne Prince Charles of Austria,
others of throwing themselves into the arms of Prussia, others
lin fact of confiding in England ; all these resolves appearing
more honourable, and any of them being preferred rather
than again submit to the yoke of Nassau.
The men of egotist policy still remain insensible to the fate
of a nation so worthy of our friendship ; they would not
that France should compromise her repose and her interests
for the repose and the interests of others. But they should
consider that the evils which menace Belgium may await
us. Their revolution is the consequence of ours ; it has
the same enemies, and must have the same destiny; and if
ever it is lost in anarchy, civil war or foreign occupation,
that signal will be a fatal augury for the French revolution.
dat Commerce.
POLAND.
The last news from Poland received this day at Paris is
dated nine days back. It announces that General Diebitsch
was at the bead of an army of 150,000 men, but that he
found it necessary to canton about 50,000 men in the dif-
ferent districts of Lithuania to keep down the population.
Polish army, assembled on the frontiers to oppose
General Diebitsch, already mustered 70,000 men ; as yet
there has been but partial engagements, and the enthusiasm
of the Poles augments at the approach of danger. Every
instant there arrives crowds from Galacia, the Grand
Duchy of Posen, and even from Lithuania. The patriots
come to unite with their brothers in the defence of liberty
and independence. —Le Constitaticonel.
WARSAW, JAN. 31.—The public spirit of the capita!
and of the nation holds ever the same degree of enthusiasm.
The Poles resemble the French by their susceptibility for all
that which is noble, grand, and fine, bat they resemble the
Spaniards for their perseverance. The fire once illumined
in their hearts, is only extinguished with life : as the volun-
tary gifts are very numerous, and also the new troops who
part for the frontiers. A few weeks have only passed since
the first requisitions of the government, and already there
has been sent from all parts of the country so many bells.
and so large a quantity of copper, that the founds,. have
enough metal to cast a park of one hundred pieces of artil-
lery, or more.— Gazette d'Augsbourg.
The Gazette Universelle d'Augsburg of the 10th of this
month, publishes an article under the title' Russia, Jan. 16,
put forth in the fantastical and arrogant style of the mani-
festoes and proclamations of the Emperor Nicholas and of
Gen. Diebitsch. This article appears to us to have emanated
direct from the Russian Cabinet. In speaking with a tone
of assurance of the quick submission of Poland, it thus ex-
presses itself:—" The Poles have thrown the gauntlet, and
Count Diebitsch is charged by the Emperor to chastise them,
and to stew them that they cannot brave Russia with impunity.
The example of Paris and Brussels will net be lest upon the
-Russian Generals: they will engage in no combats with the
rebels in the streets of the capital. They will content them-
selves with bombarding Warsaw and making that city a heap
of ruins if it resists. They hope that the campaign against
Poland will not be of long duration : it will bring, without
doubt, the best fruits for the rest of Europe. The Russian
army will open the campaign towards the 15th of February;
a decisive battle may then be expected, because it is thus
that the General seeks to terminate the insurrection of
Poland by a single blow.
W A ASA W Feb. 3.—Prince Csartoryski, elected president
of the national government, has declared that he will fulfil
that charge as long as the necessity exists, and under the
condition of not being obliged to sign any ordonnances con-
trary to his conviction. Prince Radaivill returned to War-
saw on the Ist, after having inspected the army stationed at
ffiesesc-Litewski. The National Government has declared
is a proclamation to the Poles, that the desire of
the entire independence and entire prosperity of the
Country directs all its proceedings. The nadmal guard of
Warsaw has just decreed an address to that of Paris. In
another address, they thank Masers Jonsaanowski, Cho-
dzko, and Morawski, fur this care with which they sup-
ported at Paris the interests of the Poles. Count Os-
trowski, Commander of the National Guard, has sent to
General Lafayette the Diploma of Rearrary Member of
the National Guard of Warsaw. The Observatear As.
friciien contains an official circular of the Ist of February,
by which the prohibition of the exportation of horses for
Poland is extended to the free city of Cracow."