The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-29 00:00:00

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HOLLAND AND BELGIUM.
ANTWERP, JAN. 18.—Strangers continue to come in Brea
number to our city to visit the citadel and the works of the
besiegers. Yesterday morning at ten o'clock some Belgian
workmen were employed in raising the dike of the Polder of
Calloo opposite Liefkenshoek. The fort fired three guns ; two
of ours placed near the spot answered, by firing at the fort,
which-ceased firing after the ninth shot. We fired eight, and
had neither killed nor wounded.
It is reported in the City, that our ministers have notified to
the King of the Netherlands that they will compel him to open
the Scheldt. This may be true, but we suppose that his Majesty
will not attend to such notification unless the embargo is taken
of 1; if even then.—London. Standard.
Le Phare (of Antwerp) says, "We arc informed that an
American ship, bound to Antwerp, is now detained at Flushing
by the Dutch. The captain has repeatedly demanded to be
allowed to proceed to Antwerp; but it seems he has been told
that could not yet be, but he might go to Ostend or any other
port. He has refused, and is said to have protested against the
illegality of the measure."—Brussels papers, Jan. 21.
FoRT Lim,o, Jan. 17.—Our situation here continues the
same, except that we are again surrounded by military posi-
tions occupied by an ignoble enemy. They are strengthening
their posts, and approach nearer the forts, particularly at night.
Yesterday they were at Geslecht; we thought we saw them at
work, but a few shots from Liefkenshoek soon made them take
their usual part. This morning, at eleven o'clock, these heroes
seemed to resume their task, and some twenty pounders were
immediately fired at them. They returned our fire, from six
pounders, and one of their balls fell into bastion No. 3, and
another lodged in the breast work, but did no damage; the
firing soon ceased. The division of gun boats under the com-
mand of Capt. Ketjen, which had taken its winter 'position in
the channel of this fort, has again returned to its former posi-
tion on the Scheldt between Litlo and Liefkenshoek. Nothing
can be 'more admirable than the excellent and. indefatigable
spirit and disposition of the garrison,Uotvvithstanding the haras-
sing service.—llandelsblad (Dutch paper.)
THE HAGUE, Jan.2o.—Accounts from Limburg of the end of
last week say that Hasselt was occupied by 200 Belgian in-
fantry, and Hechtel by two squadrons of light horse.
JAN. 22.—Accounts from Liefkenshoek of the 19th say that
all was quiet there. Great efforts were making to render the
whole of the works as strong as possible. Some movement of
troops had been observed the day before at the Kruys-schaus
(fort La Croix.) The Belgians 'there are very busy pulling
down the houses, and, as it seems, building a block-house. On
the 18th ten of them came to the cut in the dike,_ but were soon
driven away by the musketry of our troops.—The inhabitants
of the Hague have already contributed 8249 florins for the
soldiers who have been taken prisoners iu this campaign. Ad-
ditional donations are daily received.
Lord Palmerston has, up to the present moment, withheld
from the Belgian minister the contents of the last despatches
from Holland. It is, of course, inferred that they are not satis-
factory to the Belgians. We understand, from a respectable
source, that Lord -Palmerston and Prince Talleyrand differ in
opinion as to some of the prospects of the King of Holland;
Lord Palmerston is for accepting them, Talleyrand says they
cannot be accepted by the French ca.binet.—Speetater; Satur-
day, Jan. '26.
BREDA Jan. 21.—We learn from Zealand that the head-
quarter of. General de Kock are to be transferred to Middle-
burg. The ships belonging to the squadron iu the Scheldt are
all in the dock at Flushing, and five gun-boats are in the har-
bour of Viere, where they arc to remain till March, till which
time the men, if they wish, can have furloughs to visit their
familes.—Handelsblud ( Dutch paper.)
The Prussian State Gazette of the 19th contains the following
article
BERLIN, Jan. 18.—The occasion having ceased which in-
duced his Majesty the King, according to the declaration in the
States-General of the Ist Nov. last year, to order the assem-
bling of a corps of observation on the Meuse, His Majesty
has now issued orders for the dissolution of that corps, and the
return of the troops to their garrisons.

GERMAN Y.
. Extract of a letter of the 15th instant. from Carlsrube:—
" There is a political sect in Baden, residing at Hamenstein, to
the south of the Black Forest, towards the Rhine, a province

formerly belonging to Austria, and amounting to 1,200 mem-
bers, calling themselves Saltpetremen. Their communications
are entirely confined to themselves; they take no oaths, they
furnish no recruits, nor do they pay taxes until distrained upon.
In a remonstrance they presented on the 30th of December last
they expressed themselves in the following terms We ack-
nowledge no rights, nor laws, except those imposed upon us by
Prince Ferdinand, with which he transferred us to the Grand
Duke of Baden, with whom we have nothing to do, as we know
no other hereditary Grand Duke than Prince Ferdinand, of the
House of Austria. We cannot submit to the ordinances of the:
States-General, nor to the elections, till they are sanctioned by
the Minister of War of the Emperor of Austria; and unless we
are treated according to the laws of the principality, as above
pointed out, we demand permission to appeal to our Austrian
S'overeign.'"