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APPINDIX, No. 4:

" The undersigned Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty the
King of the Netherlands perform an imperious duty in draw.
lig the attention of Lord Palmerston, and through his infiu.
Mee, that of the London conference, to the letter which Lord
Ponsonby wrote to Mr. Lebeau, dated the 27th May hat—
e letter which was communicated to the (so called) Brussels
Congress, published in all the newspapers, and submitted to
the consideration of the said assembly.
" Without alluding to the other painful feelings which
the reading of that paper has given rise to, the under.men.
'lotted will content themselves by objecting in the strongest
way to every thing which the agent of the conference has
thought fit to introduce regarding an eventual cession of the
Grand Duchy of Luxemburg.
By the way in which Lord Ponsonby in this letter has
spoken of the proposed cession, be has arrogated aright that
no person could delegate to him. He has flattered, with a
deceitful hope, the engrossing spirit which has distinguished
the revolt, and has encroached on the unalienable eights of
ti.e King by promises directly opposed to the decisive and
unsettled language of the representatives of his Majesty's
Government here as well as in the Hague.
" The King abides by the act of separation which was pro-
posed by the See Powers, and is accepted by him without re-
servation. By article 2d of that act, the Grand Duchy hex.
'Heady acknowledged as belonging to the House of Nassau.
It is theretofore difficult to comprehend how an idea should
have arisen of any negociation respecting that sovereignty,
which, even after the unconditional acceptance of the grounds
of the separation by Belgium, would have been still subject
to the greatest difficulties, because that duchy was granted in
place of their hereditary possessions to the King and the
Princes of the House, and in his eyes is of inestimable value.
Consequently, the undersigned must protest against that part
of Lad Ponsonby's letter, which they most positively now
do by this—contradicting it entirely, and leaving the conse-
quences of it to the writer.
" They have the honour, &c.
(Signed) " FA LCK.
" H. VAN ZUVLEN VAN N'k'EVELT.
" London, June 6, 1831.
" To his Excellency Lord Palmerston," &e.

APPINDIX, No 3.
Foreign-Office, June 7.
" The undersigned Plenipotentiaries of the Coatis of
Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, have
taken into consideration the note of Messrs. the Plenipoten-
traria of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, dared the
sth inst. communicated through Lord Ponsonby.
" In answer to this note, the undersigned consider it their
duty to inform their Excellencies the Plenipotentiaries of the
King of the Netherlands, that according to information re-
ceived yesterday Porn Brussels, the Belgians have not placed
themselves, by accepting the conditions of separation in the
same .elation to the Five Powers in which his Majesty the
King of the Netherlands, having entirely complied with the
said conditions, is now placed. That Lord Ponsonby is
positively recalled, and that General Bellied had received
orders from his 3lajesty the King of the French to leave
Brussels so soon as Lord Ponsonby had left it ; and that
the Conference were employed in concerting the measures
which their engagements with the King of the Netherlands
may require.
" The undersigned take this opportunity of assuring their
Excellencies Nlessrs. Fslck and Baron Van Zuylen Van
Nyevelt of their distinguished regard.
(Signed) " ESTERH AZY. " BULOW.
" WF.SSENBERO. " LIEVEN.
" TALLEYRAND. " MATUSZEWIC
" PA LMERSTON.
" To their Excellencies Setae Faith, Van Zuylen Van
rilyevelt."

Loudon, Foreigo.otEce, June 7.
" The undersigned Plenipotentiaries of the Courts of
Austria, Prance, Great Britain, Prusais,and Rtuala, hawing
taken into serious consideration the note of the Plenipoten-
fluky of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, dated
the 6th of ibis month, communicated tothem through Lord
Palmerston, and which bad reference to a confidential letter
of Lord Ponsottby, published in the Belgian newspapers,
the conference, its its ignorance of Lord Ponsonby's letter.
cannot do otherwise than refer to the protocol No. 24,dated
21st of May last, which protocol has already been commu•
pleated to the Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty the King of
the Netherlands.
" In that state paper three principles are laid down,
namely, in the tint place, that the arrangements which
might lead to give Belgium the certain possession or so-
vereignty of Luxemburg should be entered into by mutual
consent.

" Secondly, that its poaseuion could not be obtained
otherwise than in exclange for reasonable equivalents._
And in the third place, that the Five Powers should make
no proposition regarding the proposed arrangement, until
the Belgians had submitted to the fundamental conditions
of aeparation which they (the Five Powers) had fixed, and
which the King of the Netherlands had complied with.
" These principles are those of the five Powers, and shall
remain always such. They in no way shackle his Majesty
the King of the Netherlands In acting as he thinks fit regard.
big that object ; and indeed, far from encroaching on his
rights, oat the contrary, they give proof of their respect foe
them, and tend only to accomplish such arrangements as
would promote the interests which the King hu so much at
hem, and likewise to secure that peace, the maintaining of
which corresponds with his interest as much as with that of
the five Power.

The undessteed.gladly take tide opportunity to renew
-le high mod to their MteeZeudev
Nyeyelt.
,AZY. " BULOW.

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