Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-11-11

lie. as soon as Belgium should DE ueciareu
| independent. This project which many
Dutch families have for a long time desired
to see realized, would reduce the KING oil the
| Netherlands to the simple rank OF Stadthold-
er, tho ONLY title that the Princes OF his iami-
/, held previous 10 the year 1914"
The letters from Germany state that there
is great commercial distress. At Berlin sew
eral failures were announced, and at Leipslc
the interest Of money bad risen to the rate oil
ID per cent. per arnum.
Many German emigrants had arrived at
Rouen on their way 10 America.
The King Of the Netherlands has just is
sued the following articles:
'Art. /. Our well beloved son the Prince oil
Orange is charged, in our name, with the go
vernment of all those parts Of the Southern
Provinces in which legal authority is &C
knowledged.
sArt. 2. He will fix his residence at Ant
werp.
art 8. He will, by conciliatory measures.
second and support, as much as possible. the
efforts of the well intentioned inhabitants TO
re-estabIish order in those parts OF the Prov
inces where it has been disturbed.
ImpoYtant-A mercantile house in this city
has received a letter from his correspondent
in Paris, informing him that he had just re-
ceived accounts from Brussels of the 18th OF
Sept. to this effect. s'The city of Ath, an i'm
portant fortress, was taken yesterday, the
aSth. At the moment we write, eight pieces
of cannon and a mortar from Ath entered
our city. Their artillery men are with them.
They bring 40, 200 cartridges and 200 bar
rels of powder. The Dutch cemmandant
was made prisoner and will be kept Till M.
Spitaels is released. The less Of the Dutch
is computed at 1000 men, many horses and
most Of their artillery. They counted at the
commencement $500. Volunteers are pour
ing into Brussels from all directions, loaded
with arms and provisions. The peasartry
are armiag. Other towns are following the
example. The mercantile interest of Client
and Antwerp have thus far been enabled to
keep down the people; but | apprehcnd that
the victory Of the inhabitants of Brussels,
will act like an electric shock upon ether CT
ties How will all this end, you will ask? Eli
ther in The establishment ola republic o their
own choice, or in their being annexed 10 Hol-
land. There can be bat little doubt, hut that
Prussia, and perhaps Englaad, viii intel fere,
in which case a general war will take place.
France, ia such an event, will ence more
stdhu sibsiG HdHucu dSSiust all huTOJe' Dut
again, in that event you will see all Italy in
arms. They will at once throw off the yoke
OF Austria. Sardinia will do the same. The
Rhenish provinces win of course join France,
and Spain will before long add her strength,
such as it rlay be, TO France. That Europe
is on The ave Of a general war, is admitted
by all here. 1t will be a bloody one. Ii may
be a long ore. but the result will be and must
be e%mincntIy conducive 10 the great interests
ST civil and religious liberty. 1t will be the
war of opinion feretold by Mr. Canning.
" Y. Hvring Post.
The Intelligence brought by the Britannia
decreases TIE interest of the crisis. If the
Relsians have generally revslted from the
government at the Hague, it will be exceed
ingIy dificult, If not impossible, for the House
Of Orange TO reduce them to submission,
without foreign aid; and that would certainly
bring the French 10 tseif assistance. 1t is G.
vident TO us, frsm all that we have seen In
the French and English papers, that the sit
ution Of the new French government had be
cone more and mere preearious. Ne real
authority or soerccive power remained in "a
ny branch of it. The National Guard was
the only instrument Of direct strength. Great
and Just alarm had beea conceived bv the
ministry aud the Ckau.ber of Deputies, al the
organization and proceedings of the Clubs in
Paris. According to the Lendon Morning
Chronicle, of the ooh Sept. the French min
listers would not long hold together.-N. GAz.