Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A lokacin tashin hankali na Belgium
a ranar 16 ga Nuwamba, 1830, ya shiga cikin sojojin juyin juya hali, kuma gwamnatin ta ba shi mukamin kanal. Ya shiga siyasa a cikin sabuwar Belgium mai zaman kanta, inda ya zama Ministan Harkokin Waje ("de facto" firaminista) tsakanin 1832 da 1834. Kodayake babu tsarin jam'iyyar da aka kafa a lokacin, amma an dauke shi da 'yanci na siyasa. An nada shi a matsayin babban jami'in kula da sojojin Belgium a 1834.