27 NOVEMBER 1830, Page 5

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

THE Belgic Notables have at length determined on the form of Government which they consider to be best suited for the wants and the welfareof the country. They have decided, as France had done, for a limited monarchy, or, as the speakers expressed it, a republican government with a hereditary chief magistrate. The pure Republican party seem to have been extremely weak—they only mustered about ten votes, and did not think it worth while by a division to disturb the unanimity of the arrangement. No division has yet taken place on another important question—the exclusion of the House of Nassau from the monarchy ; but, from the temper of the Notables and of the country, it will probably be carried as unanimously as that of the form of government. The Dutch States-General seem determined to stand by the King. They have agreed to the loan proposed, by a majority of 47 to 3. The armistice proposed by the Allies has been agreed to by his Dutch Majesty ; and the blockade of the coast, which is said to have operated as injuriously against thODOtclia4 ac,airist the Belgians, has been raised. The citadel ofe.9,ntiverp still remains in the hands of the Dutch, and there seems no disposition to give it up. The fire in the ruins of the mercantile depot still continued to smoulder so late as the 20th. • There has been some skirmishing at Ven- loo, but not of importance. Reinforcements of Dutch troops are pouring into the frontier towns ; and the King of Prussia has assembled on the eastern border a force of seventy thou- sand men. The event that has taken place among our- selves during the last fortnight may by this time have cooled the zeal for interference that seems to actuate that mo- narch. Letters from Russia state, that great preparations have been made in that country also, with the same philanthropic view of keeping the peace and the grievances of Europe undisturbed. The Emperor has, it is said, collected a force of one hundred thousand men in Poland, to favour the contemplated interposition of his Prussian Majesty. It seems likely that NICHOLAS as well as WILLIAM of Brandenburg will now pause, and for the same reason—the change in the Cabinet of WILLIAM of England.