Star.
London, England, 1830-10-20 00:00:00

STATE OF HOLLAND.

The folios ing later is from se Englishman, long settle:l in arse ni
the principal towns of Holland: --
-• In Holland there is only one party—.all equally Dutch, and the..
:11Vc had almost ell the loaves and fishes among them. In Belgium
there are three parties—aa liberal party. a Catholic party. and a Fiends
party, for the few interested persons that arc for the t I (--tts-... of Orange
do rot deserve the name of a party. Now it happened that the interest
id' the Dutch was to keep all, and dun. of the Belgians to hare their
,h re. } *firefly the Government managed to throw dissension among
:hose parties in Belgium which kept all for the moment qutte ; 'out the
Catholics finding reason to hi dissatisfied, joined the other two parties,
who weir naturally always so; thus the Government could not any more
command a majority in their State.., which made the one party very dere
ink;, and the others very severe. Things remained thus tor some
time, prosecution upon prusecutioa took place in Brabant, far libels, or
what they chose to call such, and imprisonments and banishments were
our a tune the order of the day; till the turn o' affair:: in France lilac!?
the people more hardy, which being at first crowned with sue.
Bess, threw all into confusion. Dutchman like, the Government
took a month to consider of a thing that did not require a day,
which affnrded the Brahanters thee to prepare ; and the event has hen
what might have been expected, when a parcel or lubberly cowards set
to fight with strong active men, who were dctermived to conquer or die.
•' Think of four or five dr-p blaosly fighting, in which the troops (ff-
teen thousand) outabone all that was infer hefore heard of (gip, OM
()agate) ; losing in killed, woutided, artl taken prisoners, five or six
hundred nice," and all being driven oat c.f the town, and front theie
tiositiou, by a parcel of mechaaiat : Why, one regiment ought to have
:cat as many or more, if they had any pluck attiring them. Our lyric^
here yo on very ili ; twenty farina (a paltry iiU:ll indeed) hare Is: rat
offered tor volunteers, but it has tio great effect ; eel as to Dutch pa.
abets, the min g dots rot seem to belong to their present language. Ves,
they 1011 drink gin and smoke themselves into courage—then, indeed,
tiny will dare sing their national song, and talk big; but, when the in.
spiration is gone, and they have conic to therr.elvies, their courege,
their waters, remains ie peace. This is no cat leattre—lt is s real pie-.
tur.'. The disgrace which they have already suffered bas made them
as tame se possiH. Some talk of England as their natural ally
some look to Prussia, connected as it is in bleed, but mere ie
feeliecT hut Inc greater part seem afraid for their own homes,
in which the Government seems to juin, for they are put-
ting all their; old Dutch frontier towns in a state of defence. As to
the intentions of England, we (the English here) teost devoutly wish
that you will ltava us to our late; if yeti have been Lots enough to
throw away your money, do rot commit a greater fully b_y thro
away more in Wile TOY eec :levee expect to get back. The Dutch. lea-•.
ideally epaaking, can land you nu assistaner, and their firesaces are t:t
a very 'and state and, ie eitasequence, are suffering most severely
here. If, within n v,ey s'teet time, urea...area ere no: taken to relic,:
us, you will hear also t.t a rising at Au:ter:len:. 'fbere are many
disaffected people anii•tig us, and as commerce and e:.etidenee are gine.
the number will increase rapidly. You mar not L. aware of what is
going on in his l'iussian !tfajesty's dothinions. Wel4 then, I eels
tell you, that notwithstanding the tilitll.:l4o army that these tyrants
have got, to keep down and oppress these poor Rhenish Prussians,
there have been several risings in many different places, which they have
put down, it is true, but it is only for a while. The first French tit;
that you hear of being planted on the Rhine will be the signal for age.
neral revolt. Ifs separation takes place between Ilollaaa and Belgium,
of which there is now very little doubt, our scale of dati:s in Holland
mustolcoursa be very materially altered, for we have no tnaeutsetar.e•.'
—Scofenurri.