The Arkansas advocate., 1830-12-01


 Higi. and Mighty Lords-Thc ex- traordlpary meeting of your High Nigh illnesses, which this day open, is, by tine pressure of atlilctIng, events, be- come an imperative necessity. In peace and friendship with all the nations Of Europe, the Netherlands saw also the war in the Colonial possessions happily ended. Peacefully 1t fourished-by order, commerce, and industry. crn- pioYed myself with the care of tighten ing the burthens of the people, and in the home department, gradually in bringing into action the improvements which experience had pointed out when suddenly Brussels, and, following her example, several other places of the Kingdom, burst into rebellion, marked by scenes of conhagration and plunder, of which the description to this assem- bly would be too aitlicting formy heart, for the national feeling and for huma- nity.
 s.ln expectation of the cooperation Of your High Mightlnesses, whose as- sembling was my first thought, without delay, every measure dependent on me, was taken to stop the course of the eyil--to protect the good-intentloned from the bad-and to save the Neither lands from civil war.
 sTo enter into the nature aid origin of that which has taken piace-to exa- mine with your High Mlghtinesses it's true character, it's tendency and proba- ble consequenees-are less the interest of our country at this moment, than tU find the means by which the peace and ordefof the Government and laws, may not only be temporarily renewed, but much more durably fixed. Batin the midst of the conflict of opinions, the excitatlon of passions, and the different views and interests which arise, Ii is a very difficult task, High and Mighty Lords, to reconcile my wishes for the happiness of all my subjects, with the obligations which have contracted to- wards ali, and which have conseerated by the obligation of oatns. invoke then all your wisdom-all your delibe- ration-all your hrmness-in orderthat, being strengthened by the consent of the Representatives of the Nation, may take, in concert with them, the mea- sufes which the safety of the country requires.
 ss h more than one quarter an opinion has been manifested that, to attain this object, it would be desirable to proceed to revision of the fundamental law, and even to "a separation of the proyin- l ees which Treaties and the GoitStitu- ton have united.
 'sTbis question, nevertheless, cannot be resolved, except in the forms pre- scribed by the same fundamental laws, which we have solemnly sworn to ob- serve.
 Sit will be the principal object of the deliberation of your High Mighti- nesses. 1 desire that your opinions may be formed, and they may also be mani fested with that calmnesS and perfect freedom which a question of so much importance requires. iormy part, ami Hated above ali other sentiments by a desire to ensure the happiness of the Belgians, whom Providence has conf ded to my care, am ready to concur with this Assembly in any measures likely to lead toit.
 "This meeting has also for it's object to acquaint you, that circumstances i'm periously require that the militia should remain embodied beyond the time dur ing which, by the terms of the funda. mental law, it ought annually to be ex- ercised in arms.
 "The means of providing for the ex- penses which will result from this mea- sure, and many others arising out oi these fatal troubles, will be found for the present in the credit already opened.- It's regulation shall be submitted to your deliberations in the next Ordinary Session.
 Noble and Mighty Lords-I rely upon your fidelity and patriotism. Ex- posed before to-day to the tempest of re. volution, shall neither forget the cou, rage, the attachment, and the fidelity, which threw off the foreign yoke, re- established the national existence, and placed the-sceptrc ln my hands, nor the valor which, upon the field of battle, has secured the Throne and consolidated the independence of the Country.
 @Though entirely disposed to comply