The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-08 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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The
Paiit..paPers.-of Wedueschiv.have. been =edited. The
Xen ite u r gives the addregs9f.the diplomatic body to.the:King.
Count d'Appony, (in the .abaence of. Ptitive..Pozzo di Borgo,)
was the speaker. Th e address is a security for peace. It was
as follows
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`.! StuE,HTlie diploMatic bodv, of which I have ta-ilay the
hopinir.of being. the organ, aliVays embraces with eagerness all
pceasions.to Offer to your ,Maiesty .the homage. of its respects,
and to address to you the wishes of the august -Savereighs whom
it has•the.h9tmw to.represent..
" These wishes, Sire, are, yours; ,for, their oltje,ct is the main-
tenance of peace, and a, certainty, .ef future tranquillity, order,
'and internal prosperity for..Francß.,
".re.rinit Sire on the iiiferestiAg occasion of the return of a
new year, our. homage. to be blended with the, happy presenti-
ment that these important results will he obtained..\Are are
happy to be cert4gt that they wilt liq so; the union which exists
between all the courtS,and the,p,ersonal sentiments of your Ma-
jesty ofler in this respect all, de*Mble Securities.
"impressed with this confidence, the diPloruatic body begs
your l`thijegty to be Pli.4sed to accept the expression of it, and
accompanies it with the homage of its sincere and respectful
Wi'shes," -

The King replied— .
" Gentlemen, I receive With.indeti satisfaction this new tes-
timony of the, sentiments of The. diplomatic body on the occa,
sion of- the, ifew,year. I rejoice to see how much the,wishes. of
the sovereigns whom you represent agree with mine, to preserve
peaee and to secure to Europe, as well as to France, a long..cou-
tinuance of that.repose and tranquillity. which is so necessary
to the, good orderor all the,states, and. to .the increase of their
prospelity.., hope
.that the Dew year which is now opening
berme us will addsnew. security to those that. we have already
obtained, to causolidate the good understanding which.so hap-
pily subsi4s between all the powers., You know that all my
efforts tend to preserve it. and I thank. .yop for the confidence
you testify; to me, personally, in This ,respeet.' ; .
Baron Pasquier. presented the address of the peeri. The
King iii reply said- -7 . .
"The success„which. onr,.nrins Bake. justanained under the
walls of Antwerp- isa.neAir pledge .forthepaintenancA of peace.
was to Obtaiinfhe, eecntion, .of . treaties, to he. faithful to our
engagements abroad, as well as to our oath at home, that.the
expedition Antwerp,wasqndertalsen. Its object was to pre•
vent a general collision..., The valour of our army has insured
its success. I am happy in the p:irts my sons took hi its la-
bours, its dangers, hopc,, its glory s. ,
M. Dupin, sehior„defiyered the
,address pf the. Deputies. The
fOiloviing,wap the remarkable,patt of the King's,answer—
"The object pf the expedition to Antwerp was twofold—to
ensure the execution..pf. ;treaties, and .to. guarantee France
against the danger tp which. a,bostile policy.bad.cxposed it, by
a concentration of, forces, too nearito pukgrnntkrs,.iyhich might
threaten it. I ani happy,in the share which giy.sons, have had
in the labbiirs and. the perils of our young soldiers, and I ven-
ture to say also
.in the glory which our bra. 4.6 army has just
added, Udder the walls of Antwerp; to all that which has al-
ready distinguished.the French name."

HOLLAND AND BELGIUM.
AN TwER P, Monday.l.v..ening, Dec. 31.-The last scene of the
siege of the citadel of Antywip .tivo o'cloe.k: the.
French soldiers quilted- it, and this day, the last of h,34,
been the, first, on.Fhi,ch thia,celebratedfortress beca,nre.the pos-
sessiOn Of the ,4plgianss as ;aitree.ialld i44.1361i1ic,nt people., .
The apPearance,6f, the citriact",itself a heap of rurns; all
the buildings aredestroye-d4ry „the
.Shells.and.,by the results of
the gairlson's.departure., 'l'o,manyrt was., during laSt wep/i,P
oWee.t of interest, vet (.9,,,me it was moAt so when the Belgians
entered . wasp_resqnt,and saw themigpter into possession.
The gromi4.n4"the rimpartswern plongh.cd'np,; broken
cannon-balls, and,wrecks of iiiitises were scattergd
4evastate'd by, Yet 4.49.provisiou store, thuipgh winch
pa-isecT to Chasse's ijiditment, liad received ,} uge
There several hundre .13rcqd in abund-
ance , Ana the puilips the easements, were, gntouchea; „The
eh4'el is' a striking
,ruini notfirpg there,is : one remirk-
ablenbject was the, brAen„hpadles.%statnie .of Don .Fernanda
de Solis, erected over his grave in Spanish times. The inserip-
tioti vet remains in that language..
The apartment in whi,chGeppral Chasse lately lived was at
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one end of, a, casemate- frpntiong the south,. and ,not.
much to the, fire 'of the French. It is.situate,at the end of. the
provision-store,,„apd near, a pninp,. conside;ablyilower than .the.
other parts of the citadel. It is in the l,irectio9,pf, the hkii..(iog_
.Duque,. and near the Scheldt. , There was.nothing
sonic re-
maining, yet persons, in their teggeygess, squkhf.. eye u a
slight memorial of the spot. in which the, old General heard so
Many' thousand shells bursting around him, I, saw at the gale
by the river, rose to the f ort du Kiel,..thc:l4t divisio.n of the
Dutch talce then; departure yesterday porning at eight, o'clock,
from the simile of their exploit. They lopked in general strong
healthful young men, of about 22 ana..25, intermixed with some
old soldiers. The sailors taken in the'fete de, Flandres, after
the burning:of their gin-boats, followed singing ship ditties..
After an interval of an hetur, the few.
.trunks of
.Gen. Chasse
and, of hissfair were brought out, arid. placed in three carriages;
then cane the old , General himself,
.with his officers: Ihe
French Guards stationed where the coaches were waiting' near
the gate inStantly, presented arms. Another party drove away
abbut EX) spectators. The carriages passed on through the vil-
lage of St. Laurent. In the first, an old-fashioned postchaise,
sat General Chasse and Colonel de Boer • it
passedclose to
where I stood. I saw the old General calm and serene; his
age, his intrepidity,_ and. his fidelity created for him respect in
my eves. I took off my hat; an Ernglishinan in my company
did the Same; the old man saw us, and returned the salutation,
the. only one I saw him receive from the spectators. The pri-
soners and he passed to. Burcht, and from thence to sleep a
league .on this side of Ghent. Captain Koopman,.who is now
treated as the other prisoners, accompanied him in another
cars iage. , „
The- French are all to quit this neighbourhood to-morrow.
General Sebastiani's division is to be replaced in Doel, by six
battalions of Belgians. . The Dutch troops in Liefkenshock,
and the sailors on board the ships there, are expected to make
an immediate attempt to cut the dykes therein order to inun-
date that district. This most produce a collision.
A Belgian division under General Daine, the General who
ran away last year from Haielt, is to take the position on the
right bank of the Scheldt, now occupied by the french General
Achard.

As yet nothing indicates peace : on the contrary, a move-
ment seems apprehended by the Prince of Orange.
TUESDAY, January L 1833.—There is a cannonade going on
towards Doel, where the Belgians are taking their positions.
Two Belgian regirnents have arrived in Antwerp. They are
better looking than the French or Dutch, clean and comfort-
ably clad, and well equipped. They have made a long march
fiom Louvain and Wavrc to-day.

MORE PROTOCOLLING-NEW CONVENTION.
We are enabled; we bclieVe, exclusiVely, to coinniuniaate the
following important news.
The new projeet"of a conventionproPbSedlO Holland b. 7 Lord
Palmerston and Prince Tall6v.raucc.is dated.December'oo, and
contains nine articles, of which the folloWing are brief abstracts :
"1. The forts of-Lill° and Liefkciisheek-tO be surrendered to
the Belgian'troops within tend4s.after.ratifiCatioii:
"2.° The navigation of the MOS& tUbe subjected to the same
regulations as those recently established for the
"3. Thenavioatiori of the. Schaal°. be entirely free till-the
conclusion of tniallreaty between Belgloth and Holland.
"4. The' transit' of Bergiail .to Germany to be
free, with the exception of moderate tolls for supfairt of 'road's,
&e.
"5. Irhplinigrfot all political offences in Venloo'and Luxein:
burr. .
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"6. Evacuation of Venloo and the Dutch portion. of Luxein-
burg_lly the Belgian troops. . .
"7. IleduCtion of Dutch army to peace establishment.
"8. Reduction of Belgian army to peace establishment.
`.`9. Restitution to legal owners of Dutch property confiscated
by English'and French governments."—Albion, London Even-
ing paper.

Ststat-5 .Cotwants.ontains a list of promotions in the army.
It also gives a list of the officers and privates of the garrisons,of
Lillo and Lielkenshoek. killed, wounded, and missing on, the
21st and 23rd December. , They are, stated at 5 miss-
ing,;and 16. wounded.. On board the 'Eurydice there were 13
sligk tly and two severely. wounded.. ,

SPAIN.
The Morning Herald's private letters,frOM mention
the cohtinueddliness of king 'Ferdinand, and that a Spanish 7
army of 15,000 men had been ordered to be assembled. on the
Portuguese frontier. Sir Stratford canuing.,passed through
Bayonne, on his-way to Madrid', on the 27th ult: •

POLAND. r,
• By the.. advice& from Warsaw, it- appears that many- regi-
ments stationed in that, province had been ordered to Bessa-
rabia. The linssian army in Poland •continued to receive
reinforcements, which arrived_ Jinni all quarters,, and were in-
corporated with the other regiments. The effective force in
Poland .61 the present. tithe is said --to be 11),000 men; and it
would be raised.to 200,000, of ..which 150,0(X) was to be a dis-
posable force, and 50,000 in garrison.