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GERMAN PAPERS.

THE HAGUE, SEPTEMBER 3.
BITTING OP THE 2d CHAMBER OF THE STATFS.GENVRAL.
" The President this day read a message from the
Secretary of State, communicating that his Majesty
had commanded the Director:General of Convoys
Rnd.Licenses to convey to the Assembly a elan of
law relating to convoys and licenses, together with a
plan of the Tariff of Import add Export Duties.
44 T)re President then appointed a commission of
four Memhersorit. Messrs. Clifford, Repelser, Wezel,
and Paul Maibe, to receive anicondUct the said Di-
rector-General into the Assembly. The Director.
General,• kV. Withers, being introduced, developed
the platitrit speech of considerable length. He said?
that it was his M4jesty's wish to conciliate the wants
of commerce and of 'intern:4l manulactures, for which
purpose he had chosen a middle course, as our fore-
fathers had done in the Ordinance f thenem
relating to convoys and licenses; that f,:r u e prow.
lion of internal nianulactores the plan of l.sw fixed
a proper import Liuty ; that all ohj::,:ts of inlet in-
dustry should be free, while duties should be imposed
on the introduction of toteign-goods in proportion to
the value at which the prolhtee of our own manufac-
tures could be so;d ; and that tie tran..:it &tie.
should be plated tl! 1 a moderate tooting, tto.t corn-
mace might not suff,r; I.e concluded by reading
the plan of law and the tariff of duties.
66 The President then requested the Director Ge-
neral to assure his Majesty that the Chamber %%void
take the plan into their serious consideration."
LETTER ADDRESSED TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE
NETHERLANDS BY THE mimes OF BELGIUM, ON 0C-
• CASION OF THE BRIEF OF MIS HOLINESS TO THE BISHOP
OF GHENT. " Brussels, September 4. ,
Staz—We hasten to lay before your Majesty a'
Brief of his Holiness relative to the affair of the Ca-
tholic Church of your Kingdom. The Sovereign'
Pontiff acquaints us in it with the steps be has already
taken to request your Majesty to be pleased to do all
that depends on you, in order to reconcile the duties
of your Catholic subjects towards yLiar august person
with those which their conscience prescribes them re-
lative to the oath required by the fundamental Law.
64 His Holiness calls on us, and exhorts us to unite
with him, to join our prayers, our lively and respect-
ful-entreat:es to those which he had made to you,
that your Majesty, who undoubtedly place your glory
in being the bere•faccor and the father of each of your
Subjezts, may not leave those. who pi es! the Catho-
lic Religion, and who are faithful to the duties which
it imposes en them in a situation which removes them
entirety from the confiience of their Sovereign, and
necessarily makes them strangers to the defence of
the peat interests of sour kingdor.'.
The wishes of the Head of the Catholic Church
and ours on this head are the more worthy, Sire, of
fix,ng the attention of your M,jeity, as the greatest
number of your subjects are Catholics, as you will
certainly find no more loyal and zealous defenders—
more devoted to the service of their Prince and their
Country—than those who remain inviolably attached
to the principles of their religion; and lastly, because
she applications made by the Sovereign Pontiff it,
your Majesty, and his offer of sending a Legate,
have for their object the maintenance of public tran-
quality, to which he attaches, as well as ourselves,
the highest value.
" Alas! we have been doubtless represented to
your Majesty as having sought to trouble the Iran.
quillity of the State, by decisions which we have been
obliged to publish, to direct the consciences of our
flocks; we have been deeply afflicted by this accuse.
tion. Till this moment we have had no means to
convince you, Sire, that the most sacred, the most
imperious duty, had dictated our proceedings in this
respect; but now that the Sovereign Pontiff, after
having examined, with the greatest care, all the mo-
tives, himself commence the zeal with which we have
defended the rights of Goo and his Church, we trust
that your Majesty will deign to see in this declarasion
of the Head of the Church the justification of our
conduct, and the purity ot. our intentions, which so
many efforts have been made to reader suspected to
our august Sovereign.
,‘ The desire which we have to prove to your Ma-
jesty that we have nothing so much at heart as to
maintain, by every metros in our power, peace, una-
nimity, and concord, in this part of your kingdom,
makes us agree, with real joy, to the means proposed
by tie Sovereign Pontiff to attain this end, so con-
formable in every respect to the sentiments which
must especially animate and characterize the Ministers
of the Catholic Religion.
r• it is under the auspices, end acccrding to the
intentions of our venerable Head, that we address
out selves to your Majesty, to entreat you to be pleased
to adopt the measures of conciliation which he has
Itireself proposed to you, Sire, and to which we en-
- 'hely and heartily agree.
We expect the orders which your Majesty shall
be. pleased to give us, to concur in the most effica-
cious manner in the speedy accomplishment of the
wishes of his Holiness.

s. We are, with the most profound respect,
" Sire, your Majesty's most obedient,
44 Most faithful subjects,
Prince MAURICE of BROGLIO,
Bishop of Ghent.
" FRANCOIS JOs. BARON ItEiitN,
Bit.hop of Tourney.
" CH. FR. JOS. PISOU de Is OAUDE,
balm* of Namur."
SWITZERLAND, AUGUST 27.
The Federal Directory, conformable to the De-
cree of the Diet upon the commercial 'elation' with
France, has delivered to the Minister of that Power
a detailed Memorial epee the obstacles which the
Swiss manufactures expersence, and have at the same
time applied to the King himself, with the confidence
which his virtue inspires.. •
11EIDERBERG, AUGUST t 2.
An event remarkable in its kind happened here on
the 20th:—Charles Witte, (whose name is already,
well known,) who in his thirteenth year was Doctor
of Philosophy, and in his fourteenth Member of the
Literary Society of the Witterau, attained, after two
years' study of jurisprudence, the degree of Doctor
of Laws. He went through the first and most rigid
ccarriination, mama hog wade, andihe went through
OP public disputatiot so brilliantly, that all the-Aca.
demy joined when PrOfessor Zlcharia created him
Doctor, is i speech bietly bonoutabic for );19th.

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