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caple of the Dutch Government established at Java.
The tribute derived from Palembang was part of the

revenues of that Government ; and as the Dutch

might at any time have destroyed this source of re•
venue, or battered it for a compensation, so might
their successors, who stood exactly in their place.
The British Government acted in this manner, and
pledged its faith for the maintenance of the Treaty
it concluded. Can it be pretended for an instant that

the di :severance of the provinces of the Netherlands

from the Imperial Crown of France, revived every
right once enjoyed by Holland, and abrogated every
act performed by the British Government in what

were once Dutch Colonies and Factories? This

pretension, however, if k could have existed, is re-
pelled, not only by the circumstance of the present
kingdom of the Netherlands being al.ogether a new
Power, totally distin:t from the former Republic of

the Seven United Provinces, but, independent of this,
by the implied acknowledgment on the part of the

Government of the Netherlands, of the necessity

of a complete Treaty, by which Great Britain
should surrender certain possessions therein specified.
The very existence of this Treaty proves that, in the
opinion of the Dutch Government, the possession
arid consequent sovereignty of this country was ab-
solute ever those places. It is from this Treaty that
the Dutch derive their sole right : but in the fair
construction of the Treaty, the Dutch cannot possi-
bly derive under it a greater authority in the places
ceded, than was possessed by those %% to make the
surrender. The power of the Dutch in 1818, must
be measured, not by the extent of Dutch influence in

1603, but by the extent of British authority in 1.814.
This country could give no more than it pos.;essed,
and consequently all that we ceded to the Nether-

lands must be accompanied by those restrictions, coin
ditions, and limitations, which it bad been our wil
or policy to impose. Palembang, or rather the tri
bute derived from the Sultan of it, had been given
up to that Sovereign. The British Government had
an undoubted right to surrender it by Treaty, and
as the faith of this country is pledged to maintain
the provisions of that Treaty, it could never have
been imagined by any reasonable mar., eithsn. in
Great Britain or the Netherlands, that the violation
of that Treaty and of the public faith that guarded
it, could have been contemplated by the British Go-.
vernment in signing the subsequent Treaty with the
Netherlands.
If we had not already extended theee remarks so
far, we should now ask why the Dutch Authorities,
whq certainly are not disposed to suffer their rights
to remain dormant, did not take an earlier oppor-
tunity of asserting their claim to Palembang' This
alone affords a presumption of their own conscious-
ness that they did not .possess the right now coittest-
, ed. We shall not observe upon the very unfair im-
putations that arc thrown by the writer of the reply
upon those why in this courtry censure the conduct
of Dutch in the Eastern Seas, and endeavour to
awaken Kiiglishmen to a sense of the dangers that
beset their East Indian Commerce. The trade with
the Archipelago is the most valuable branch ef Orien-
tal
Commerce; but should the Dutch Authorities
in that quarter of the world be permitted, unra-
, strained, to pursue their system of ungrateful and
ungenerous aggressions, we may expect soon to he it
of British vessels being wholly exchnled from any
participation in that lucrative branch of commerce.!
W hat course our Government may think proier to
pursue we cannot pretend to say, but it nin.loabtedly
is due to our national character, on which much of
our power in the East depends, pot to tidsity the
hopes which our solemn promise: may at any time
have excited in the breast of the Native Princes. It
was a strong sense of this honoinehle aed advanta-
geous policy that dictated the Protest ire de by Str
Ti,o:'TAs S. RAFFLES, and by this our Government
must eventually be influenced.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday • and Wednesday ar•
rive,' this forenoon. •
The Chamber of Deputies had a public sitting on
Monday, when the Marquis DEtiSOLLES presented
the Royal Project of Law which had been previously
announced, for granting a national recompense to
the Duke of RIr'iIELIEV. It consists of two articles.
The first proposes, that there shall be established, in
favour of the Duke, as a national recompense, to
attached to his Peerage, and transmissible with his
a majorat of fifteen thousand francs of income.
The second, that the majorat shall be composed of
real property, to be selected by the Knm, out of the
domains assigned to the Civil List, by the law of the
Bth November, 1814. The project was ordered to
be printed and distributed. •
The Niiiii.ter of Finance presented at the same
meeting another Project, of which the public have
been already informed, for the alteration of, the
a:land:A year, which it is proposed shall in future
run from July to July, commencing from 1820, to
suit which the budget for 1810 is to comprehend also
the first six months of 1820. Remitted to the Bureaus.
The next Project of Law, it is said, which will be
presented to the Chambers, will be one upon the Li-
berty of the Press.
By an Order of the Minister, Secret•try of State to
the Department of the Interior, M. CEVIER, Counsel-
lor of State, has been named President of the Com-
mittee of the Interior and of Commerce. •
Count BEAUHARNOIS, the• Ex-Senator, father of
the Grand Duchess of BADEN, died at Paris on
Sunday morning, after a long and painful illness.
He was son of Madame BEAUnAII,NOIS, known in the