The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-07-25 00:00:00

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PROCLAMATION.

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We nic It&cured, that tio> names of the Alcmhers of
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at tisturti to their I)oplittai-olis, have
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t•cribed iu the Itrgisti.r which is pest; veil in the,
(take of the Prefer of the Police.—(..futtivtal dj.
Paris.)

Madame Ho' tense, ;sire of Louis Bonaparte, and.;
liadame Souza, have received orders to quit France.
The Juurnal of the Isere say,, that the Prince of
Canino .Ims been apprehended at Burgoin, betiieen ,
Lyons and Genet)le, and CallYtt ed to Turin.
Marshal Jourdan signed, on the 16th of-July, an
armistice with the Swiss troops, that occupy part of
the frontiers of Franche Comte.
LcWI% from Montpelier state, -that on the 12th
an aimistire was conclu'lid bet :teen General Fe-
re‘tier, Condo it.datit rf the atrittnietit of the
Ileratitt, and M. de J-sse, commanding 11-.0 corps
armed in behalf of the King, and stationed at Re-
zieres, and other points of the department.
Oa the evening of the 171 h, the city of Lyons
was at length enabled to give vent to the too long
restrained sentiments which animate the majority of
its inhabitants. The white flag and cockade were
• every where hoisted, amidst reiterated shouts of
Pie: 1 Aloi!

tl.e 16th the white flag was hoisted on all the
puolic edifices of the town of Leon, by command of
We Chevalier langeron, Commandant of that place,
wrho states that the Minister of .War used these ex-
pressions:—" The fortress of Laon must be pre-
served for the King; the Allies must not enter the
town !"

The !fain Juane did not appear yesterday.—
Neither did the ci-devant Patriote de 1789, which
assented the title of And du Prince.

_ We, William, by the Grace of God, King of the
Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau, Grand Duke
of Imiwinburg, &c.
When the government of Belgium was given into
our hands by the high Allied Powers, we had pre-
viously given our formal adhesion to the conditions
of the union. of Belgium with the United Provinces
of the Netherlands, which had been agreed upon at
London by the Plenipotentiaries of the said Powers,
in the month of June, 1811, and of which the fol-
lowing is the teuour :
Art. 1. This Union is to be intimate and com-

plete, so that the two countries shall form one and
the same State, governed by the Constitution al-
ready established in Holland, which shall be modi-
fied by common consent, according to the new state
of things.
4. No innovation shall be made in the articles of

this Constitution, which insure equal favour and pro-
tection lo all forms of worship, and guarantee the
admission of all citizens to public offices and employ-
!mots, whatever be their religious creed.
3. The Belgian Provinces shall be duly repre-
sented in the Assembly of the States General, whose
ordinary sittings in time of peace shall be held
alternately iu a town in Holland and in a town in
Belgium.
4. All the inhabitants of the Netherlands being
thus constitutionally assimilated among each other,
the several Provinces shall equally enjoy all the
commercial and other advantages of which their re.
spective situations are susceptible; nor can any ob-
stacle or restriction be laid upon one to the advantage
. of another.

5. Immediately after the union, the provinces and
towns of Belgium shall be admitted to the commerce
and navigation of the Colonies upon the same foot-
is-g as the provinces and towns of Holland.
6. As the burdens must be in common as well as
the advantages, the debts contracted till the time of
the union, by the Dutch provinces on the one hand,
and by the Belgic provinces on the other, shall be
chargeable to the public treasury of the Netherlands.
7. Conformably to the same principles, the ex-
pences required for the establishment and preserva-
tion of the fortresses on the frontier of the new State,
shall be borne by the public treasury ; as resulting
from an object that interests the safety and indepeu.
dente of all the provinces of the whole nation.
ft. The expence of forming and keeping up the
dykes shall he for the account of the districts more
especially interested in this branch of the public ser-
lice, reserving the obligation of the State in general
to furnish aid in case of extraordinary disasters, all
exactly as has been hitherto practised in Holland.
The Treaty of Vienna having since confirmed upon
the,e same principles, the formal cession of the Bel-
gic Provinces, to form its conjunction with the Visited
Provinces of the Netherlands one kingdom, we have
-hakiened to appoint R Special Committee to examine
what modifieo imts it would be useful or necess:ay to
snake in the Cuastitation already established in fiol-
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.Citizens distingeished by their knowledge, their
patriotism, and their probity, have employed them-
selves on this important work wills a zeal worthy of
the greatest praises.
The project which they Lave just laid before us,
contains honourable distinctions for the Nobility, in-
sore: to all forms of n orship equal favour and ps o.
tection, and guarauters the admission of all citizens
to public offices and employmeuts ; it fi XCS the di; i-
slim of power upon the basis of protect Log institu-
tions, which have been at all times dear to the peo-
ple of Belgium. It recogni,es above all things the
independence of the jneicial power; it reconciles
the integi ity and the strength of the body politic,
with the individual rip,lit of each of its members ;
rind last, it contains the elements of every gradual
improvement, which experience and further study
may show to km necessat
110 waver, before we proceed to introduce the new
fundamental law, we desire to convince ourselves
of the ascent of our subjects to its principal regula-
tions. For this purpose, Deputies (Notables) shall be
assembled frem every arrondissement, in the pro-
portion of one for 2000 inhabitants. NVe have or-
dered that the choice shall be made witli impartiality
among the persons most estimable, and most worthy
of the confidence of their fellow-citizens. But in
order to Se certain that our intentions in this respect
have been fulfilled) and that. those who are going to.