Star. — 1830-10-21 (London, England)

THE SPEECH OF TILE WING OF THE NETHERLANDS, ON  OPENINO THE SESSION OF THE STATES-GENERAL.  " Noble and mighty Lords,—The zeal which characterised your deliberations during the last Extraordinary Session of the States-General—the wisdom, the prudence, and the patriotism of which you have given proofs upon this occasion, have not been followed by a result which has fulfilled my expectations. I bad reason to expect, particularly after the perfect accord which was manifested between the Sovereign and the Representatives of t►e nation. that an immediate and constituted examination of the desires which have been manifested, would have exercised all the moral influence necessary to re-establish every' where, in the meantime, repose and tranquillity. My expectation has been deceived in a deplorable manner. Up to that period, obedience to the laws, and the preservation of the legal forms, were always the first considerations, and principally favoured those desires and complaints. At a later period, the impetuous passion of a blind and excited multitude were not controlled by reflection—they lighted up a violent rebellion, and the efforts of the army of the State to second the hopes of the well-intentioned were sufficient to put down the revolts.  " Even before their arrival at Brussels, the military forces destined for the protection of the inhabitants had been assailed, although they had previously received a solemn assurance of indulgence and peace ; in that city they experienced the most murderous resistance.  " Since then, the armed opposition against the legal Government has extended more and more in the southern provinces ; and its progress has been so alarming and so rapid that, for the defence of the faithful provinces of the Netherlands, and the security of their commerce, I took the necessary measures with respect to the sea and land forces, declared movable a part of the communal guards, prepared fora levy en masse, and called for a voluntary, arming of the inhabitants of those countries.  " The enthusiasm with which this appea I was recei red and the fresh marks of attachment to my house which I received on that occasion, have afforded some mitigation to the pain with which my heart is afflicted, by the idea that a handful of rebels was able to detach such a favoured and interesting population from a Government, under which they had attained a degree of prosperity and riches before unknown to it, and enjoying, as well in its public and prirste rights, as in its political, civil, and religious liberties, the largest share of protection.  " The expectation that the greater part of that population would, after mature reflection, wish for a return of those benefits, decided me to invest my beloved son, thel Prince of Orange, with the temporary Government of those parts of the Southern Provinces which remained faithful, and to oon fide to him the care of procuring the re-establishment, as far as possible, of legal order, by means of persuasion, in the rebel Provinces.  " In this manner, by an administrative separation, I pre' pared, as much as depended on myself, the developement of the opinion manifested by the States-Gleneral in their last Extraordinary Session ; and by this means I was enabled to devote my attention more exclusively to the Northern Provinces, and to employ their strength and resources solely for their interests. At the same time, I gave to all my subjects, and to the whole of Zurope, a proof that nothing had been neglected to bring back the misguided to a sense of their duty. " Fortified with the deep consciousness of having kept the solemn oath which I took, respecting the fundamental law, and of having unceasingly laboured to co-operate, as fat as was in my power, in the promotion of the prosperity of the people of the Netherlands, I wait with calmness for