Star.
London, England, 1817-01-03 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

By the Mail received this morning we learn, tbat
the whole impression of a work, considered as a libel
against the Bounnozss, has been seized at Brussels.
The author is not believed to be a Belgian, but a
Frenchman. Several actions for libels are going on
'in the Belgian Courts. Never (says one of the
Journals) at any period under any of the Govern-
ments which have prevailed in Belgium, were our
tribunals occupied with such scandalous affairs—they
become so frequent that the organs of justice are
weary of them."-0 Weary I" indeed I Let them
not tit* so soon. The blessing of a free press must
not be thrown away as account of the inconvenience
which, for a time, it may occasion.

Bdi the topic principally interesting to the English
Reader, in the journals brought by this hfail, is what
relates to the proceedings of the
SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES-GENERAL,
lon the concluding discussion of the Law respecting
the Exportation of Corn. The PRESIDENT stated the
question to be ‘ll The discussion of the proposed Law
for the Prohibition of the Exportation of Corn by the
lailfrentierr aj she
It is impossible to gather any thing frons the jour-
nals of the speeches delivered on the question. The
Editors seem quite unequal to a task of this kind,
and all that can be learnt from their Report is, who
agreed with and whet differed from the opinion enter-
tained by the Reporter. The latter, of course, are
mentioned n itbout. encomium, but the former as
speaking with energy—with eloper:a —as uttering ter-
rible oaths on the actual state of the people, Etc. &c.
The debate was long ; and it appears that, when
the Dutch Members, who were generally in favour
of exportation, were delivering their sentiments, the
, audience in the galleries displayed the greatest im.
patience, and uttered loud murmurs of disapproba-
tion, which obliged the President frequently to call
them to order.

The Minister of the Interior, who sets present,
answered the objections of several Members. His
Etalimey gave the Chamber the assurance that his
Majesty has not suffered a single circumstance to
escape his attention, and that he was persuaded that,
if the measure should not produce the desired effect,
his Majesty would hasten to propose another.

The debate being terminated, the President put
the question upon the Law, which was adopted by a
majority of 72 votes to 2.
Thus has the question been decided in favour of an

Wertreiwewt EXperiatiOe Of Core free, all As See-tOrtS
plain proof that in Holland and the Netherlands
there is not only no scarcity of bread corn, but a su.
perabundance., The knowledge of this fact, thus
established, will have an instantaneous effect upon
the prices of Coro in Britain.
The Journalists seem generally to have been eat-

min to an unrestrained Export, and of course they
speak much of the distress that prevails ; and it is
certainly true, that on the Southern frontier the prices
are highs nor could it be otherwise, when it is recol-
lected that the French have, for some time, been
dntwing supplies from the frontier Flemish districts.
Thrt•French Government, if the Flemish accounts
be true, is about to adopt a measure which will ren-
jer the new law nugatory u to the land frontier of
Trance. - The law which prohibits the exportation of
.Corn from Francs is to be repealed, so far as regards
the Netherlands. This it may safely do, for the price
being higher in the former kingdom, the holders of
Corn in France will never think of seeking customers
the Netherlands.

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Thi knowing estracts present every thing else
deserving of the slightest notice :

FRANKFORT, DECEMBER as.
The Diet held to-day its fourteenth Sitting ; after
which, it adjourned to the 13th January. Several
of the Members take advantage of this short vaca-
tion, to make a visit to their respective Cousts.
; A groom of the Prince of Sonderhausen, who had
been sent to England to purchase horses, arrived in
the evening of the 15th November at Liehtenau, near
Paderborn, with four`hones.

The neat morning;
.when the stable wits opened,
two of these horses were found dead, and the other
two mina: their bellies had been ripped np so that
the bowels came out. A fifill horse, of small value,'
was untouched. The author of this act cf tyvaral-
.eled barbarity has just been discovered; he is a rich
few, who usually supplied the Prince with hoists

'and who, by Stunt of a largo bribe, had engaged a
hangman's servant to pot this crime in execution.
The Jew hats been arrested, and thrown into the ri-
son of Sondershansen.