Star.
London, England, 1830-10-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE ✓OURNQLS.

CHROXICLE.—We nre inclined to believe that a Prussian army will
not enter Belgium. These are not times for Kings to give way to fits
of caprice and sport with the happiness of their subjects. The Ger.
malts, and more particularly the Prussians, have not yet forgotten their
sufferings when the French were their masters—sufferings brought upon
them by the TrLaty of Pilnitz and the invasion by the Duke of Bruns.
wick. The Germans have more than once experienced to their cost,

Quiegetid delirant Reges. plectrustur Achioi.
If they wish to avoid beink trampled on, they must place themselves
in a state which shall secure them from being used as instruments
for trampling on others. We protest against all interference of States
with the affairs of each other. If the King of the Netherlands can
gain over the people of Belgium. either by force of anus or pee.
suasion, let biota do so in GOD'S name. But let it once be under.
stood that neighbouring States shall be allotted, on any pretext
whatever, to interfere between a King and his subject, and there is
no amount of oppression which will not be thereby sanctioned. To
secure Kings against the revolt of their subjects is to remove the most
powerful check against misgovernment. All interference, therefore,
between the subjects of a particular State and their Ruler, whether on
the pretence that the balance of Europe requires such and such
States to be of a particular magnitude, the tranquillity of Europe
requires that there should be no republics in it, ought to be
rigorously prescribed, as enabling Sovereigns to guarantee
each other against their respective subjects, and making the
interests of nations subsidiary to the convenience or caprice of Princes.
But, fur the sake of the great moral lesson, and waiving the considera-
tion of the reluctance which the Belgians may well be supposed to en.'
tcrtain to a return to theta allegiance to the King of the Netherlands, it
is to be wished for by the people of every country that the Belgians
should remain unconnected with that Sovereiem. This result would
serve to impress on Kings the necessity of never allowing the diecon.
tent of their subjects to reach the extremity which renders it desirable for
them to draw the sword in self-defence. Kings are made for the people and
not the people for Kings ; and when the discontent attains such a height as
to overcome in a people the natural aversion to such an extremity as
armed resistance, it amounts to a proof that the Government boa grossly
miscoralucted itself. Whenever a Sovereign, therefore, attempts to
maintain his sway by the employment of amts against his subjects, he
declares that his sway ought to terminate. To allow a King to as-
sault his own capital, to plough up its streets with gni/se-idiot, and
to slaughter the citizens, without suffering, as the consequence of
failure, the forfeiture of his throne, is to encourage tyranny, and
to nourish in Rulers a brutal disregard of their subjects.—
Wherever, therefore, the people have the power, it is their
duty, for the sake of the example, that Kings may see that there are
limits which they may not exceed with impunity, to exclude for
ever the transgressor from any sovereignty over them. No matter
whether he failed through crime like Charles of France, or a stupid
obstinacy like the King of the Netherlands, the consequences of civil
war are so dreadful, that the punishment of him who causes it ought
to be signal. We therefore have no hesitation in saying, that it a
Sovereign can be obtained between Brussels and Morocco, the head
of the House of Orange cught to be excluded.

HERALD.—The present state of the Netherlands, which deservedly
occupies so much of public attention in this country, as well as on the
Continent, shows how dangerous it is for a Government to attempt to
rule a people without consulting their interests and feelings, and how
utterly hopeless the state of that Government becomes, which breaks
faith with the people. and attempts to carry illegal measures by fraud
sad deceit. It also holds out a warning to arbitrary Governors, and shows
that the slightest cversight may,under particular circumstances,overth row
their whole system olGovemmcnt. Had the King of the Netherlands acted
, with common prudence and good faith on the late emergency, all the
I calamities which are now accumulating on his he d might have
been averted, sod Europe might have been spared the misery of wit-
nessing a commotion, which, but for the most upright and disinterested
conduct of two great powers, may yet excite a general war. His con-
duct in this extraordinary affair completely belies that character for good
sense and fair dealing which be has so long enjoyed. On the disturb.
ante breaking out at Brussels, he, apparently with good faith—And, as
was believed at the time, with the best intentions—summoned en extra.
ordinary meeting of the States-General, and appealed to them for advice
and aesistance.Hie son was sent to Brussels to hear the complaints of the
people. He was received with respect, listened to their grievances, and
promised to lay them before their Sovereign. Affairs were so far amicably
arranged, and the inhabitants, trusting to the hitherto upright conduct
of the King, and the promise of his son, were waiting the decision of
the States-0-meal, when, to their utter astonishment, the King sent a
hostile army against them, and issued a proclamation, threatening ven-
geance on those who had iutroduced a state of things, the consideration
of which he had promised to refer to the representatives of the people. ,
The manner in which this threat was attempted to be carried into edict
was only equalled by the folly and wickedness of the attempt itself. The
troops, instead of blockading the place, which, in all probability, would
have surrendered in a few days—instead of acting with vigour, which
in popular commotions is everything—entered the city with-
out precaution, exposed themselves to the vengeance of a few ring.
leaders, and, after firing some shots, and committing some excesses,
just sufficient to excite universal hatred, retired, before a haudtul of
citizens, in disorder and disgrace. The consequence is, that all the
strong places in the Nethetlands--the strongest, perhaps, in the world,
and which it would require campaigns for the first military power in
Europe to conquer—are falling one after another into the hands of half-
armed citizens. Perhaps there never was an instance in any country of
such gross mismanagement, where so little was necessary to conciliate
the good-will of the great body of the people, ar.d where such
uncalled-for measures were taken to irritate a hole population.
THIEL—Out of the present divisions in the Netherlands, and
anarchy in Belgium, only three results deserving the attention of
other Governments are possible, and in all of them interferer.ce would
be either impolitic or useless. The Belgic provinces may, thee, be
satisfied with the grant of their original demand of separate wind.
nistrations under the same crown ; or, secondly, they may declare
themselves independent under the Prince of Orange ; ot, thirdly, they may
erect themselves into a federative ofeny other republic. It is plain that in
the that case any intervention would be directed, not against Itclgic insur-
gents, hut against the King of the Netherlands himself, who now pro.
poses and is prepared to sanction the separation ; that in the second case
it would endanger the new throne of the Orange family, to be erected in
Brussels; and, in the third ease, that it would bear the odious character
of interposing to resist certain principles oftiovernment ani to dictate to
an enlightened people under what forms of order or kind of institutions
they shall live. But it is said the Belgic provinces, after renouncing the
Government of their present Sovereign, may throw themselves into the
arms of France, and thus, by aggrandizing the territories if
the French Crown, arid giving Franca a new line of for.
tressecs, destroy the existing balance of power in Europe.—
To this our reply is brief and conclusive—that in such circumstances
the interposition of England or of her Aliks would entirely
change its character. It would not be interference with Belgium, but a
war against France, which would be in possession of the formsses be-
fore we could reach them. Our quarrel would then be not with the
Provisional Government of De Potter and Co. for giving their country
up to Franc: but with France for accepting the present,—not with
rebels fur stealing the fairest jewel from the crown of their sovereign to
sell it to a foreign monarch, but with that monarch for making the pur-
chase--in short (to use Old Bailey language),not with the thief,but with
the receiver of the stolen goods. The war in such a case would be as legiti-
anate,according to the code of international policy, a, if France had actu-
ally invaded Belgium and taken the fottreeses by storm. The treachery
or rebellion .of one party can eever be pleaded as an excuse
ter the tunhitious or dangerous aggrandizement of another ;
and France would be as guilty of a breach of fait's towards her allies in
accepting the willing allegiance of the Belgiaes, as in compelling the
reluctant submission of Geneva or Savoy. But we are happy to think
that this latter case may not arise. All the jou:nals of all shades of
opinion in Paris declare against any interference with the Belgic pro.
viners, either on the part of their own Government, or on that of any
other Power. Even the republican papers assure us that they are me
desirous of the accession of Belgium to France, and are to nuttiest as to
allow that the Belgians can govern themselves as well as they could be
governed by the citizen King. 011 the other hand, the inhabitan.a of
the Belgic provinces cannot he very anxious for A com:emu which
would entirely destroy their political importance, by merging their in.
dependence, their name, and their privileges, into a great kingdom, of
which they would only compose, as tormerly, eight or nine departments.

POBT.—Thc extraordinary cxpett,ie the French Government is
about to incur in military preparations will appear still more clearly to
indicate a disposition for war, and the intention also of making that war
'support itself, after the manner of Napoleon, when we reflect upon the
dilapidated state of its actual finances, arising from the total stagnation
of commerce, and the natural eagerness with which the people in many
parts of the kingdom have meiz.iti the benefits of revolution by refusing
' to pay the taxes. It is at least difficult to believe that these new levies
of troops are intended to enforce submission to the Government upon an
overexcited and refractory n Won, inasmuch as the force thus ere-
ated must naturally be expected to participate in the popular feelings.
The occasion of war we lament to perceive is not likely to be want-
ing, if war be, as there seems so much reason to suspect, the adopted
policy of the French Government, It will be seen by our extracis
Mom the French Papers, that De Potter, who has just left the Revo-
lutionary Societies of Paris to be installed in the Provisional Govern-
meat of Belgium, has addressed a Proclamation to the put jects
of every European State, calling upon them
,to identify 'heir:selves
with the glorious cause of revolution—a Ptoclaination which
must forcibly remind every reader of the famous Deer• e by which
the Democrats of France, in the year 1793, drew down unon 0,..,
selves the just Indignation and hostility of Europe; nor as if be

considered as ..ny other than most suspicious cireun:stance,
that this revolutio:!ary ruler has adopted as the vehicle of his incendiary
address the journais which are acknowledged as the organs of that vita.
lent French party which it is most essential that the Governmer. t of
France, with a view to self. ation, should endeavour to Not:ill:VC.
What connection there may reegibeentween the address of the Flen-ash agi-
tator r..nd the intended levy of French :mops, it would at the resent
moment be rash to nounce. If these troops should, however, be
employed to protect ium from the just and natural resentment
which the revo:utionarylnvitation of her new ruler can scarcekg fail to
provoke, we shall then be fully warranted in the conclusion that the :ai-
-1 dress of bl. de Potter, and the threatened decree of the King of nee
French, aught to be viewed in combination. Affairs evidently approach
to a crisis, in which the question of peace or war will speedily he oe•
tumined. It appears certain that Prussia has colleced a for n.:1:1414:
army on the Belgic frontier. The Kink.; of the Netherimais, a 1.... lay
the appointment of his son, the Prince of Orange, as Governor of Bei-
gium, and by the powers he has conferred upon him, has proclahne I in
effect his determination not to abandon without a struggle this unpin tint
portion of his dominions ; and by the reappointment of M. Van 3laineu
to his former office in Holland—.a measure to which the Belgians, now
that the administrative and legislative separation of tl:c two divisions 6:
the kingdom has been conceded to thew.. can no longer have any re.lsa
able pretension to object—he has pronounced in a wanner equally un-
equivocal his resolution to concede no further than he has don, .:.r:
maintain his Royal prerogatives in defiance of any opposition, the
offspring of mean prejudice, insolence, or ill-hull:our.

THE KING'S COURT.

BRIGHTON, OcT. 7

Yesterday the Count and Couute.s uNsri it hid the
honor of dining with the QUEEN.
In the evening, exactly at ten minutes to ten o'clock,
the Kist; arrived at the Pavilion from London, aczons
panied by Sir HERBERT TAYLOR.
This day, Si: ANDREW BARNARD, Sir J.l tuns kt:
NELL, and COLIDCI PRATT, arrived at the Pavilion t4i
visit to their MAJESTIES.

In the afternoon, the Count MurtsrEa had an audienc,
of the KING; after which his MAJESTY and the Qtrryx,
accompinied by the Princess AUGUSTA and Lady BROWN -
Low, rode out in a carriage. Prince GEoRGE of Cat:-
BRIDGE, and his preceptor, Mr. HanvEv, made a pe-
destrian excursion through the town.
The following persons of distinction !eft their names at
the Pavilion in the course of the day :—The Prinoe.A
Linv Err, Sir JOSHUA and Lady FuLELa, the Counts.:;
of EssEx, Le Viscount D'Aucnot,n, Viscountesst•
D'AucuoLD, tae Eurl of CutcliEsTEn, t!.t. Countes:; of
CHICHESTER, Lady and Misses SIIELLLY, Sir Ttiomss
13owsEn., Sir CHARLES and Lady BURRELL, Sir Goat
and Lady OUSLEY, Mr. and Lady HENRY HowAan,
Mr. and Lady HENRIETTA Mintanv, Mr.,. and MiS3
STACE.POOL, Captain TOMKINS, and Mrs. Ltintxtvill:s.