The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-09-21 00:00:00

behaviour to the., and the are *hid% he has uni.
fointly taken of his soldiers.
.fley write fronethOuloose that the Spanish Am.
bilisollor left there Int the 9th for Paris, and that
Marshal rerigribn Is also gone for the capital.

- The siege and defence of Longwy it vigorously
pressed. This city appears determined to hold oat-to
the last extremity.
It appears that the Allier♦ have roiled •he siege of
Charlemont, an almost impregnable fortress, anal
that they Will concentrate their force in the siege of
Montnsedy, which is only getrlsonert by six hundred
troops of the line Ind Iwo hundred Nalanai Guard,:
The Castle of Bonnfon is still possessed by the
French. The city is in the power of the Dutch.
troops, whose conduct is good.
The Prefect of the blorbiltan hits given notice, on
the 6th instant, to his district; that Prussian troops
were about to eater the department, and invited
them to be cordial with -these visitors. " The Ad-
ministration," says he, " is in the Magistrates ap.
pointed by the King. No requisi; ions, either in
money, horses, •r apparel, shall be made ; lodging
and rations are all that will be required; wherever
these indispensable requisites have been furnished,
the Prussians have behaved well. If, however, tiers
should he any disturbances, which may arise frog
the misunderstandings occasioned by the difference
of language, the inhabitants are to apply to their
Mayor, who will get justice doue them by the te.
perior.officers."

A Flanders Mail iv arrived, bringing Mitch and
German Papers, which state that fresh detachment,
of British troops and a rrillery are expected at Ostend,
to reinforce the army of the Duke of Wet.t.tmoson;
and report, on the authority of letters from Lein
that English troops are going to occupy Dunkirk,
on the same footing as the conditions on ulkit the
citadel and forts of Calais have been occupied. The
accounts of the arming of the Turks are repeated.
To this circumstance is attributed the retrogrrds
movement of the flossiest troops, under the corn.
mond of COSRt WITTGENSTSIS.
-.Or*

The Remonstrance of the Belgian Bishops Mike
King of the NETHERLANDS (or rather the King of
HOLLAND, as the Brabanters, who shudder at any
other name, style the Sovereign Prince of our making).
is given in our extracts from the German Papers. Oar
Readers already know that the
.new Constitution,
!digested in the conclave of Vienna, and presented
to the inhabitants of the Netherlands by the Prince
of OaAran, has given great dissatisfaction to nutty
of his new subjects. As this Constitution and the
Proclamations of his Dutch Majesty promise equal
favour to all religions, and very liberally Wake
all denominations of persons eligible to Moo
of State, civil or religions, it may be a subject
of wonder, that such toleration should hare bees
regarded with discontent by any class of per.
sons. except bigots, and men of the most narrow
end jealous minds. But the cause of this ditsatit.
fiction has not been dearly explained. It has ill
emistence in political causes, and an enmity, which
this seeming liberality on the part of his Dutch Ma-
jesty, and even ages, will not remove. The truth is,
that without this throwing open of the Constitution
of the Netherland Republic, and making foreigners
eligible for all situations of authority, the Hot-
lenders would have stood beta poor chance of es-
etching their sway over the rich and fertile provisoes
of Brabant, and, of course, of enjoying the opporte-
nity of promoting themselves, and their Sovereign his
favourites, to the chief offices in Church and State in
the stew kingdom, which was at once to be their
reward for their heroic 'sera French