The inhabitants will purchase fuel, clothing, stuffs, and all the commodities which trade, manufacture, and the necessities of a people require, in England, and wherever they can produce them upon better terms than in the southern provinces, where all these articles will be loaded with duties and restrictions, and will be therefore dearer. Our country will again become the centre and mart of all the productions and riches of the world which are destined for and consumed in Germany and the provinces of France bordering on the Rhine, as well as in many other places which now escape us. The products of our colonies will be no longer carried except to our own ports, to the exclusion of all others, and they will be freed from all the duties and charges with which they are at present burdened, and which our Sovereign has established for the advantage of the Belgians alone. Thus not only the mother country, but the colonies, also, will enjoy the advantage of the separation. The duty of 25 per cent. established at Java in favour of the Belgians will be abolished, and it is thus that, wherever the standard of Holland shall be displayed, liberty, prosperity, and public happiness will prevail; and let no one present to you as a burdensome set-off the debt which will remain to our charge.’” [31] White, v. i, p. 124, &c. [32] A full detail of the state of the kingdom, at the outbreak of the revolution will be found in a volume published by the Baron Keverberg, who had been governor of East Flanders under the King of Holland, _Du Royaume des Pays-Bas, sous la rapport de son origine, de son developement, et de sa crise actuelle, Brussels, 1836_. [33] _Essai historique et critique sur la révolution Belge._ _Par_ M. NOTHCOMB. _Brussels, 1833._ [34] A copy of this singular document, will be found at the end of these volume. [35] Un des plus excellens moyens, et peut-être le seul qui existe aujourd’hui, d’assurer aux jeunes gens une éducation qui réunit tout à la fois l’esprit de la religion et les talens les plus éminens _serait de rétablie les jesuites_ dans la Belgique.--_Memor. art. 8._ [36] This singular manifesto will be found in the appendix at the end of these volumes. [37] Jurer d’observer et de maintenir une loi qui _suppose_ (_!_) que l’église catholique est soumise aux lois d’état, c’est manifestaient s’exposer a coopérer à l’asservissement de l’église.--_Jugement doctrinal_, (Art. 193, see appendix). [38] Page 193. [39] The list of candidates suggested for the throne of Belgium in 1831, contains some names which are rather extraordinary, such as Colonel Murat, La Fayette, Colonel Fabvier the Philhellene, Sebastiani, Châteaubriand, Prince Carignan of Piedmont, M. Rogier, Count de Merode, the present King of Greece, Prince John of Saxony, the Duke of Leuchtenberg, son to Eugene Beauharnais, Louis Philippe, and the Duke de Nemours, who was actually chosen, but declined the honour.