16 FEBRUARY 1833, Page 2

'The King of Holland promulgated a decree at Flushing on

the 7th instant, imposing a toll and scale of duties on the navigation of the Scheldt. The duties are oppressive, and the mode in which they are to be collected is in the highest degree annoying. We presume that this new attempt to create trouble will be resisted. The political state of Europe must indeed be unprecedented, and the balance of power more effectually preserved than ever, when a fourth-rate sovereign can thus insult with impunity two such powerful nations as England and France. All the monarchs of Europe stand evidently in great awe of each other.