Star.
London, England, 1817-05-05 00:00:00

AMSTERDAM, APRIL 29.

There arc here more than ($OO unhappy Swiss and
German families who want to go to America, desti-
tute of every thing; men, women, and children, run
about the streets begging a morsel of bread to keep
them from starving while waiting their departure.
Some of them who were provided with money to pay
their passage, have been deceived and plundered by
a German, who made them believe that he was corn-
miisione.l to receive (on giving them a receipt) part
01 the passage money on account; he promised them
a good vessel, &c. Ile made some of them proceed
to the Helder, the others were to embark here; but
in neither of the two ports was there either vessel or
Captain of the names which he had given them. The
pretended agent vanished last Friday, carrying away
a sum of money which is estimated at several thou-
sand fluritts, leaving his victims in the most deplora-
ble situation. Every measure has been taken to dis-
cover this swindler, but hitherto without avail.
BRUSSELS, MAY 1.

The day before yesterday Mr. Jonan, Editor and
Printer of the Const:tutional Journal, of the province of
Antwerp, was arrested at Antwerp, and iarived yes-
terday in ths city, where he has been put under con-
finement : be will be tried by the Special Extraor-
dinary Court. He is presumed (says the Journal of
the proyince of Antwerp) to be guilty of having writ-
ten or printed the sth Bulletin on 'the Droits de Tol,
which was in his paper of 13th of March last, No. 71.
This article has, doubtless, some patriotic energy,
and when our August Sovereign, acquainted perhaps
by him of the serious inconvenience of the duty, has in
his Royal justice and wisdom, thought fit to exempt his
subjects from it, k seems strange to many people that
it is made a crime to have pleaded the cause of the
Merchants.

While we learn from Amsterdam that there have
lately arrived in that port 135 vessels laden with
wheat and rye, and that fresh arrivals took place
daily, The Mercury of Antwerp of today announces
the arrival of 17 vessels in that port wish similar car-
goes from Holland, besides one from Denmark with
rye. It seems, therefore, that the price of corn must
soon fall consi/erably.

A Mail from Hamborgh arrived last night. The
accounts from Stockholm, which are to the 18th
ultimo, bring nothing new respecting the late conspi-
racy. Indeed, if we except a Mandate, published
on Easter Sunday, at St. Petersburg)), in favour of
converts from Judaism, the Mail brings little else
possessing any interest. The Ukase alluded to is re-
markable for one principle which it promulgates.
Free lands are to be allotted to the Converts—but
they are to belong to them as a body. At any other
time this circumstance might have passed without
any particular notice, but after the promulgation of
the SPgIiCEAN system, it is possible that some may be
inclined to consider this as a practical illustration of
the principle for which the SPENCEANS have con-
tended. There is, however, one great and leading
difference in the features of the two. The lands of
tile Jewish Christians areafree sift, and it will hardly
be questioned that the giver has a right to decide the
terms of tenure ; but the SPENCEANS proposed to tole
the lands from the present owners, and vest them in
the body of parishiuners or inhabitants of districts.