Star.
London, England, 1831-01-13 00:00:00

obutg was presented to the Congress. The members handed it to
cu.% other.
A battalion of troops of the line strived yesterday from Ath, and set
~tat this morning for Antwerp. It is said that measures have been taken
re furnish the Chartreuse at Liege and the citadels of Namur, Hoy, and
Vttlect, with provisions for a month.
NATIONAL CONGRESS.
SITTING Or SUNDAY, JAN. 9.
The debate was continued on the section of the Constitution
,clative to the head of the State. Art. 38 was adopted.
Art. 39. " The head of the state is inviolable, his ministers
are etipOllltible," was adopted after a violent discussion, with an amend.
spent of M. Masbourg, so that It now runs :.m.•
" The person of the bead of the state is inviolable.
to. No act of the head of the state is valid unless countersigned by
s Minister, who thereby makes himself responsible.
41. The head of the state names and dismisses his Ministers.
42. Ile fills up the offices in the general administration and foreign
Alations, with the exceptions laid down by the law. He does not ap.
foist to other offices, except by the express enactment of a law. -
Thor three articles are adopted without discussion.

43. He makes the necessary regulations and decrees for the execution
of the laws, without being able to rescind the laws themselves, and to
dispense with the execution of them.
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These regulations and decrees shall be carried into effect
the courts and tribunals, only so far as they are conformable to
the laws." After a long debate, the first paragraph was adopted, and
the consideration of the second adjourned.

SITTING or Dac. 10.
The sections for January were balloted for; N. Sada de Chokier was
again chosen President, and M. Gerleche Vice-President.
The President, standing, mid—Permit me to alms my gratitude
for the honour you have done me, in giving meyour van for the third
time. Heaven grant that this may be the last time that the
Congress will have to choose $ President, and that between
this and the 11th of February, we may have given to the Belgic
nation, the constitution, the laws, and the chief, that it impatiently ex.
peas from us, and that we shall thus have consolidated the happiness
of the country. From all sides bravo, bravo !
The President proposed, that U. Gerlach., reporter of the Committee,
should be heard relative to the request of the Dutch officers confined in
prison at Tourney, This being acceded to, U. Galache brought up
the petition of the Dutch dicers of the garrison of Ghent, who affirm
that they cannot be considered as prisoners of war or as hostages. The
Magistracy of Moos made a declaration in their favour; but the officer
oho commanded at Mons, where they were taken, says that it was in
the midst of hostilities, and conssquendy they are justly kept as pet.
inners of war.

'M. Duval de Beaulieu read a Proclamation of the Belgic Goverro.l
rent. Inviting the Dutch officers to leave the fortress and return home;
thtse did so; but were kept as hostages, when Messrs. Ducpetlaux and
ileminex were arrested by the Dutch, but:they having been mimed
we ought to set these officers at liberty. The Dutch, it is true, respect
reithcr treaties nor the laws of war; but the Belgians ought to oppose
probity to bad faith.
M. Claus, Alember of the Regency of Mons, declared that the Dutch
had not fired on the inhabitants, but that the latter fired first, and when
the combat began there was at most one Dutch officer; all the rest
were Belgians.
M. de Rodenback—lt Is no matter who was the aggressor ;* they
were taken after hostilities commenced.

11. Claus said. not a single Dutchman had fired.

M. Gendebien said, they were justly made prisoners: they were
ready to lay waste Moos with fire and sword, had not the Belgians
prevented them. The Dutch, he said, were unjust and cruel, and always
massacred their prisoners : they had burnt one alive at Bruns* and
another near Maestrieht. The Dutch prisoners have no reason to cont.
plain; they are well treated: their officers have their pay, and can
walk about Brussels all day on their parole.
It was proposed by M. Gerlach., and agreed to, to refer these con.
tradietory statements to the military committee.
An. 44, relative to the head of the state, giving hint power and mar

mod, in the army and navy, to declare war and to conclude masks—
' rd Art. 42. declaring that he sanctions and promulgates the laws,
me adopted.
The Assembly adjourned.— lfruaste Papers,Jan. 12.

CITY, ONE O'CLOCK.

We hare but few arrivals this morning, and no ship letters.
We hear that the French renter come lower from Paris,
61-20.

Consols which left off yesterday at 821-83 for the account,
'Pend at 821 t, at which price they are at present.
In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet.
A report prevailed at Perpignan, that the Duke d'Angon-
leme was to be Generalissimo of the Spanish troops.
We observe, by accounts from Antwerp, that a petition Is
getting ready there, to be presented to the Congress, de-
manding that the Prince of Orange should be appointed to
the Throne of Belgium.

A conspiracy has been detected at Terceira, and twenty
Portuguese have been condemned to die ; some strangers
lalso are implicated, and hare been banished from the island.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
We have no information to communicate, either local or
foreign : all anxiety is expressed for the fate of Poland,
and it may be some days yet before we hear of important
mints. Armies may march in the winter, although the
;cid6 are bad, but the materiel cannot keep pace with the
.mops in the winter.

Consols still continue firm at 82g for the account. In
;he Foreign Market nothing doing. Prices near the same
yesterday.

ARMY.—This afternoon Lord HILL held a Levee at his
Nice, in the Horse-Guards, which was attended by
Major-General Pi is oT:
Captain Ross.
Lieutenant Rosa.
Dr. POLLETT.
Lieutenant RIDGE.
Major NoLLicicss.
Mr. CHARLES BROOK.
Major IRVINE and his two sons, and about twenty other
Officers.
Currency is the life's blood of society. In quantity it
adjusts itself to all other things, just as the blood adjusts
itself in quantity to the functions of the animal system. If
drawn off the animal faints and dies. Nor is it sufficient
that there are pailafull within a few yards, for a single
quart applied locally, and where wanted, effects more than
ten thousand times the quantity thrown over the animal. Is
not inattention to this fact, in regard to our monetary
,ystem, the cause, and perhaps the sole cause, of the dif-
f,reuce between 1821 and 1831 ? Were not
the local is-
of country bankers that local application of the life's
,snood of society, which invigorated the separate functions
our national vitality ?
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when the following Commissioners took leave
It the Court previous to departing for their respective
cestinations—viz. Captain Robert Clifford, Lady Mel-
and Captain James Keith Forbes, Thames, Bengal and
Uttisa*, Captain Richard Glasspoole, Buckinghamshire,
and Captain John Hine, Marquis of Huntley, Bombay and
Captain William Hope was sworn into the com-
'lot' the ship Herefordshire, consigned to Bombay and

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