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London, England, 1831-05-27 00:00:00

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TIC E EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
FRIDAY. MAY 27.

THE THRONE OF BELGIUM.

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PRICK OP STO4 KS AT TWO O'CLOCK.
3 per Ct. Cons. 841 3$ 4 4 per Ct. 1826, 98$
Cons. for Ace. 834 1 Long Ann. Jan.lBoo, 17 16 15.16
3 per Cent. Ilea. 834 44 4 Old Annuities New,
31 per Ct. 1819, 906 BEIOOO Rich. Bills 7 8
34por Ct. KO. 904 i sesoo Ditto 7 8
31. per Cent. New, 921 21 £lOO and £9OO Do. 8 10

FOREIGN STOCKS.
Rut nos Ayres for Acct, 23. Danish, 63 ; for Aect, 621. Russian,
95 . ditto 111, 9S. Spanish, 16 1.5 i. French 5 per Cent, 91f 40e.
fbree per Ct, 651 75e. Exchange, 25f. French &rip, 7 prem.

The Journal du Commerce of Antwerp has been this day
forwarded to us, from which we make the following extract,
without vouching for its authenticity :
" We are informed," says the Journal, " that Prince
LEOPOLD, of Saxe Cobourg, has accepted our crown, on
the following conditions :
" First—That Belgium shall remain as she was in the
year 1790.
"Second—That the KING of HOLLAND shall be in-
demnified for the loss of Luxembourg.
" Third —Maestricht to remain a Prusso-Austrian town.
" Fourth—The King shall be equally indemnified for the
loss of Limbourg, which is to form part of Belgium.
" Fifth—The debt shall remain fixed, as set forth in
the preceding protocols." _ _

This important intelligence is further confirmed, with
some additional particulars, in the following extract, which
we make from the Courrier Francais, now before us :--
" We bad reason to think yesterday, in spite of the assertions
of some Belgian Journals, that Prince LEOPOLD has accepted
the crown. The few details which have arrived to-day,
upon the secret committee of the Congress, leave no doubt
in that respect. The conditions which are made, appear to
be, that the Belgian territory shall extend to all the limits
which it had in 1790, save indemnifying the King of
Holland. Thus, in exchange for Luxembourg, (less the
fortress which will remain to the Germanic confederation,)
the Dutch will receive an annual sum of 800,000 francs;

end in exchange for Limbourg, (less Meistrecht, which will
become a city Prusso-Austrian,) they will touch 400,000
francs per annum. As to the debt nothing is yet definitely
settled. The return of Lord Pox sow at to Brussels will
hasten, without doubt, the result of that combination, to
which France does not appear disposed to put any obstacle ;
so much for the energy and foresight of our diplomacy."

The Belgian Government has decreed the irrevocable
union of Luxemburg!) with the Belgic territory. The five
Powers have decreed, that it shall be an appanage of the
Dutch crown. Of course, the King of Holland assents;
but it so happens, that Belgium directly intervenes between
Luxemburgh and Holland, and that the Luxemburghers
claim to be united to the adjacent country, and not to be
placed under a government, whose intercourse with them
must be either through Belgium, or by a long detour
through Prussian states.

The whole affair is not more absurd, than it would have
been, if the five high and mighty Powers had at once re-
solved to remove the province of Luxemburgh into juxta-
position with Holland. To indulge some political intrigue,
whose object it is to perplex common sense, and put the
world in the wrong, the fine province of Luxemburgh is to
be isolated, and Belgium to have a Dutch Viceroy on one
side, and a Dutch King on the other.
France, of course, has assented ; because so perplexing
au arrangement assures to her the ultimate dominion of
both Belgium and Luxemburgh, and her power over Lux-
emburgh would render the Dutch King her dependant :
while, in the jealousies of such intermingled states, will lie
her political influence over both. Then, as to the Holy-
Alliance mediators, they, of course, promoted any design,
which tended to confuse the partizans of the sovereignty of
the people.

If we suppose Essex, Cambridge, and Suffolk to be Bel-
gium, Norfolk would represent Luxemburgh, as to the rest
of England ; and we should marvel if, in any arrangement,
the independence of Essex, Cambridge and Suffolk were
recognised, but Norfolk assigned to the King of Middlesex
&c. If confusion were not intended, then the statesmen
concerned ought to be the head-men at Gotham ; and if in-
tended, they ought not to be allowed to abuse the name of
mediators.

But the die is cast, and if the Belgians will not submit to
these terms, the kind mediators become enemies; they
withhold further intercourse ; and they place Belgium out of
the Law of Nations—for, forsooth, the other party, the
King of HOLLAND, agrees.
Now if the elections in England have not fallen wholly
upon fox-hunting squires, may we not hope that some con-
siderable portion of the new House of Commons will demand
an explanation of these extraordinary protocols? We have
not the proximate relations of France, and her public policy,
for desiring to extend her territory to the Rhine; and we are
not under the influence of those principles of government
which necessarily influence the other three parties : it will
then be curious to learn, on what grounds the name of the
minister of our liberal government was affixed to the protocols
of January and of May.

A fact, however, has just transpired most creditable to
our Ministers. They have consented to the admission of
the Belgic Flag into our ports. And what is inconceivable,
the Brussels papers, in the face of the last protocol, say
that it is arranged, that Luxemburgh, on certain terms, is to
be united to Belgium. If the concession is money, or an
annual grant, we hope it will be made—since peace can