Star.
London, England, 1830-11-19 00:00:00

To the Members of the Provisional Gammons,.

" Gentlemen,—For some days past we have been discussing the
question of the resignation to be tendered to the National Congress.
4. Sure, you said, if being confirmed, you desired, in offering to
%tire. to prove, to the Congress and to the country, your disinte-
rerxiness.

Besides other serious accusations, you accused me of ambition;
because, as you pretended I seemed determined to retain the power,
even in spite of the Representatives of the nation.
6. You are mistaken, Gentlemen, and I now prove, in my own way,
really retiring without any hope of being confirmed.
" My inotives are, that I consider the National Congress to be a
purely constituted body, exclusively summoned by the Provisional Go.
rernment, to found a new social order, and to institute the definitive an-1
thority which will preside over the destinies of Belgium. The Provi-
sional Government was, in my opinion, a power anterior to the Con-
gress, distinct from the Congress, and necessarily neuter between the
people and the National Representation; a power which, in this quality.
Lead convoked the Congress Itself, mending to the manner which it had
determined, and of which the existence of the Congress was the result;
a power, in short, whose task it was to execute the decisions of the ma-
jority of that Assembly, keeping itself, nevertheless, and above all
things, entirely Independent of it. It was necessary that this power
thould remain entire until the definitive power should take its place for
.hem, and only then its functions would cease, but then they would
cease by right.
" Whenever a Sovereign Assembly finds itself alone opposed to the
minority, nothing is more easy for the latter, if it does but seek sup-
port without, and in the masses of the population, to overturn the
majority, and with that the Assembly itself ; from that moment a re-
volution begins. and a terrible revolution. It passes through all the,
phrases of anarchy—it brings in its train despotism, and what is wont.,
counter-revolution.

" This is the history of the National Convention of France, of the
French empire, and of the restoration of the Bourbons.
I wish It may not be that of the Belgic revolution.
" As a Member of the Central Committee, I felt myself called upon
extrcisc a power nunlerating the Congress (pouroir raoderateur du
Ciongres) to defend the Congress, against the Congress itself.
" These, gentlemen, as you know, were the principal arrangements
thick I made use of to hinder you from committing a fault which ap-
peared to me to be irreparable, and which the country, perhaps, and
history undoubtedly, would reproach us for some day.
" You thought tit to proceed. Ido not complain of this, and I leave
to you the responsibility of your decision. Now, hear mine—it is irre-
rocable.

" I did not receive my authority from the National Congress ; there-
:ore, I ought not, end could not, resign it into its hands. This au-
thority became null, in my opinion, the moment that you invested the
Congress, as you have just done by your resignation, with all powers
united and confounded. I beg you to accept mitre, as well as the assur-
ance of my distinguished consideration.
" Brussels, Nov. 10. (Signed) DE POTTER.

LETTER FROM N. MOOOTORST.
" Gentirmen,--.Whan our brave men fought to hinder our enemies
Iron entering the city, Brussels was without any authorities, and with-
oat any centre of action. Some citizens, of whom I was one, offered to
torn: a Provisional:Administration. We were received by those brays
mer. and this was our only commission, which was soon confirmed by
.111: all Belgium.

Now that the nati, n has regular organs assembled, the Gove►n-
mtnt ham found itself eallsd upon to deliver into their hands its provi-
ional power, which it held only from circumstances; the National
Congress, doing justice to out intentions, has expressed a desire that the
Provisional Government should retain the Executive power. We are
happy and proud of this confidence. Having been hindered, by absence
from affixing my signature to the communications made to the Congress
tty the Provisional Government, I declare that I acquiesced in the rem-
lutioa taken by my colleagues.
(Signed) " VAI/DEULINDEN D'HOOOVORIT.
" Brussels, Nov. 13."

On the motion of the President. the Assembly resolved to pass to the
order of the day on the letter of M. de Pottet, and to give to M. Hoog.
wst an acknowledgment of his declaration.
The Assembly then discussed the remaining articles of the regula.
uons, after which two proposals were read, ono of M. Constantine Ro.
denbach, " That the Congress shall decide what shall be the nature of
ti,e Government." In :consequence of some observations, the word
hubtri was altered to form ! The other motion of N. Phion, " That
tee l'ungrocs shall determine whether the Government shall be Repub.
bean or Monarchical," was judged unneary, as being included in
that of M. Rodenbach, which was referred to the sections.
M. V. Peters made a proposal that the Assembly should declare, lit,
That the members of the Congress are inviolable ; 2d, That they cannot
k prosecuted or molested for the opinions delivered by them in the
Assembly.

PROTOCOL or TAN CONTILNIPICZ HELD AT Till FOREIGN
rimer, LONDON, NOT. 4, 1890.
Present—The Plenipotentiaries of Austria, France, Great Britain,
Prussia. and it Wttlia•
His !Majesty the Ring of the Netherlands having invited the Courts
of Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, as parties to the
'tomes of Pais and Vienna, which constituted the kingdom of the Ne-
"lerisnds, to deliberate in council with him on the best means of put-
!'ng an end to the troubles which have broken out in his dominions,
and the courts above-mentioned having felt, even before they received
.n:s invitation, a lively desire to stop, with the least possible delay, the
.aorder and effusion of blond, have, through their ambassadors and nil.
!,,ttrs at the Court of London, agreed on the following resolutions :
"1. According to Section IV. of their Protocol of Nov. 15, 1818, they
live invited the Ambassador of his Majesty the King of the Nether-
lands to join in their deliberations.
2. To accomplish these resolutions to stop the effusion of blood,
!",Y are of opinion that there must be an entire cessation of hostilities
01 both sides.
" The conditions of this armistice, which would prejudge nothing re-
lative to the questions the solution of which the five Courts will have to
facilitate would be as follow :

_ •
" Hostilities on both sides shall entirely cease.
The respective troor will have to retire reciprocally behind the
line which, previously to the treaty of 30tb May, 1814, eeparated the
I,omiesAions of the Prince Sovereign'of the United Provinces from those
%Lich were added to his territory to form the kingdom of the Nether-
Lr.is by the said treaty of Paria,and by those of Paris and Vienna of 181 b.

,r" The respective troops shall evacuate the place% and the territory
which they actually occupy beyond the said line, in the term of ten
days.
This armistice shall be proposed to his :viajzsty 1112 King of the
Ncthcrl...nds, through his Ambassador present at the deliberations.
• The terms of this armistice shall be communicated in Belgium, in
the name of the five Courts.

(Signed) " ESTERHAET.
" TAILLEIMAND.
" ABERDEEN.

" BuLow,

46 MATIIIICREIIITZ."
ANSWER MADE IT THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT Of sec•

GIUM-CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
The Provisional Government of Belgium has had the honour to re-
ceive a protocol of the conference held at the Foreign-office, on the 4th
of November, 1830, signed Esterhasy, Talleyrand, Aberdeen, Bulow,
and Matuschewitz, as respective plenipotentiaries of Austria France,
Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia.
The Members of the Provisional Government feel pleasure in belie,.
ing that every natural feeling of sympathy for the sufferings of Belgium
have led to the wholly philanthropic mission of the plenipotentiaries of
the:five great powers.

Full of this hope, the provisional government wishing, besides, to re-
concile the independence of the Belgic nation with respect for the rights of
hntuanity, thanks the five powers for having taken the first steps to check
the effusion of blood by an entire cessation of the hostilities between
Belgium and Holland. In consequence, the Government engages to
give orders to take manures,

" 1. That all hostilities on the part
.of Belgium against Holland
shall cease.

"2. That the Belgian troops shall retire to this side of the line,
which, before the Treaty of Paris of 30th May, 1814, separated the pan-
sessions of the Prince Sovereign of the United Provinces from those
which were added to his territory to form the kingdom of the Nether-
lands by the said Treaty of Paris, and by those of Paris and Vienna of
1315.

" On this occasion the provisional government of Belgium is called
upon by good faith to observe, that it understands by this line the limits
which, eonfotmably to ankle 2of the fundamental law of the Nether-
lands, separated the Northern Provinces from the Southern Provinces
of this country, including the whole left bank of the Scheldt.
" 3. That the Belgian troops evacuate the places and territory which
they occupy beyond the line above laid down, within the term of 10
days._ _ _

.." The whole on condition of reciprocity on the part of Holland, in
the same time, by sea and land.
(Signed) " DE POTTEI,
" COunt FELIX DX ME/ODE,
" CIL ROGIER,
"‘ ALEX. GENDEZEIX.
" J. VATIDEIILINDEX,
" F. DE COPPIN,
(A True Copy) (Signed) " F. DE Coertx.
" Brunelle, Nov. 10."