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FLANDERS PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, JAN. 16.
Ina preceding number we have spoken of the Pro-
clamation of his Excellency the Commissioner General
to the inhabitants of Java. The fallowing is a transla-
tion of this document, just published in the Balavian
Gazette of the 6th of October
" In the name. of the King, the Viscount Leonard,
Dubin de Gisignies, Commissary General of the pos-1
sessions of the Netherlands in the East Indies:
" To the People of Java—Two years have passed
since the deplorable war broke out, in consequence of
which so many fine parts of the residences of the Sul-',
tans have been ravaged, and of which so many of your
countrymen have been the victims.
" It is with grief and compassion that we see this war
continue, because we love the Javanese people, and we
desire nothing mote than to live as in the times of our
ancestors in tranquillity and peace. A great part of
you, listening to the voice of a mutinous Priest, have
taken arms against their lawful Prince and Governor.
They cherished the chimerical idea that religious wor-
ship was in question. See what has become of roost of
those unhappy people! They have been obliged to quit
their homes and their domestic relations; driven from
place to place, they wander as fugitives in foreign lands,
where they must procure the necessaries of lite by ra-
pine and pillage, and for the most part die a cruel and
miserable death : their houses are destroyed ; their fields
laid waste. Look, on the other hand: at your country-
men who, submissive to the legitimate authority, have
remained quiet. They have not ceased to enjoy domes-
tic happiness ; they have the protection of the chiefs and
of our warriors; they preserve the entire liberty of their
religious worship ; their plantations of rice are culti-
vated at the regular peijods ; they are in prospeity, and
have abundance. It would not have been difficult for
us, by means of our own force, and it would have been
still less so, supported by the efficacious assistance of
the Great Emperor of Socracaita as of our faithful
Allies the Sultans of MAdura and Sumanah, to reduce
the insurgents and to punish their rebellion ; but we
have spared them, because we love the Javanese people,
and because most of them had been misled by their in-
stigators. It is for that reason, and solely out of love
to the nation, and attachment :to the country whi h
it inhabits, that vet y recently, when a con iderable
force was ready to crush the party of insurgents we,
gave to Krai Modjo, who appeared to have placed • im-
self at their head, an opportunity to make peace, and
to return to obedience, and to spare the lives of to many
unfortunate people ; but it is now notorious, and all the
people of Java ought to know it, that the Priest Krai
Modjo has desired to act, not for the cause of religion,
but It r his own sake,—not for the interest of the Java.,
nese, but of himself,—by making demands which we
never could have granted w ithout humiliating all the
Sultans, the great men, and the Priests of Java, and
violating the precepts of your religion. And as it is
iiefrom us todo or to suffer anything which may injure
•the faith of your ancestors, as well as the honour and
dignity of your Princes, the great men, and the Priests,
e are therefore obliged to recommence the war, and
to punish that rebel. But it is against him alene and
his adherents that the attacks of our troops will be di-
rected. You, too, who have remained under the
ligiti-
mate authority, and you, also, who return to it, as well
as so many others of your countrymen who have ac-
knowledged their errors, and come back to their Prince
and Sovereign,—you will all be considered and treated
as friends and allies, by our troops ; and all those who
shall come to submit to their Prince, and place them.
selves under our standards, may depend upon faithful
and continued protection.
" Thus, then, all you who have at heart the prospe-
rity of your country, the fate of your wives and children,
and the maintenance of your religion, are called upon
to join the banners under which we fight for your
country, your relations, your interests, and the peaceful
maintenance of your religion. And the God of us all—
the God of armies—the God of peace, will second our
efforts.
(Signed) Viscount DUBUS de OISIGNISS.
U Salatiga, Sept. 26, 1847."
FRANKFORT, Jou. 14.
The convocation of the States General of Prussia it
spoken of more than ever. The Provincial Assembly
of Posen having terminated their first Session. all fist
Diets of the Prussian provinces have now met. Privass
letters from Berlin affirm that this subject has boss
again brought befort the Council of Siam... Orisaufk
Papers, January 19.