Star.
London, England, 1817-07-15 00:00:00

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This morning arrived a Mail from Hambnrgh.

By accounts from Petersburgh, it appears that the
EMPEROR, since his return from England, is intro-
ducing into his capital foot-pavements of fl ag-stones,
as in all out large towns. This improvement is now
executing throughout St. Petersburgh, where, the
streets being ♦ery wide, the foot-pavements are made
of considerable breadth ; but the EstrEaon has im-
proved upon us by separating them from the carriage
way by an iron railing, which has a pleasing and
magnificent effect. The population of Petersburghl
amounts now to 285,500.

The accounts from Stockholm bring the termina-
tion of the inquiry respecting the late pretended con-
spiracy against the CROWN PRINCE ; 'which now ap-
pears to have had no existence but in the imagination
of an old man, proved by the faculty to have been
long labouring under great nervousness. By his
mode of combining circumstances, he 'dad wrought
Olimselt up to the belief of having discovered a deep
laid conspiracy : he communicated the fruits of his
sagacity in confidence to others; of course it got cur-
rency, and at last reached the Police 1

The Journal de la Belgique, in one of its re-
cent Numbers, remarks, with astonishment, that
the STAR " in giving an account of the late com-
imotions in the Netherlands, should have re-
presented them as much more serious •than they
were in fact, and stated that many soldiers lost
their lives, when there • was no foundation whatever
for any such assertion." 4‘ The English
,Journalist
could not," it is added, " have found this tale
in any qf our (Belgic) Papers, which contained
not a single word at the kind."—A spirit of exagge-
ration is, we confidently flatter ourselves, the very

last thing of which our habitual Readers would think
of accusing us ; nor in the present instance are we
conscious of having said a word which can detract

from that character for fidelity of representation which
we have always been most anxious' to maintain.—
The fad is, notwithstanding this Journalist's positive
assertion to the contrary, that the statement which we
gave was in every particular an exact transcript of an
article which really did appear in the Brussels Papers,
under the head of Ostend, of date the 24th of June.
And what besides puts all idea of fabrication on this
side of the water out of the question is, that not the

STAR moire, but most of its contemporaries, JiJ, er
the same .day, give precisely the same account of the
matter.—lf theft has been any exaggeration in the
case, the journalists of Brussels must themselves bear
the blame of it ; nor, when we rev -Meet how famed this
city has been of old for its Ga=eurs, need we be sur-
prised at the cap fitting w:tere it does.

BRUSSELS, JULY 12.

PRIVATE tr.r•rr.k.

The King, accompanied by the Prince of O:arge,
will set out to-morrow on a tour, going first to
Bruges, and Ostend. The most perfect trawl:lathy
now prevails here. All the clamour about the price
of bread is at an end. The prices of articles are
rapidly falling. Hay has come down most astonish-
ingly in the course of the last three days. All ac-
counts concur that there will be a mere bountiful
harvest than has occurred for a series of years past.
There are not many English here at this season.—
Lord Holland has left this for Spa. That distin-
guished advocate of humanity, the Duke of K..nt,
appears to enjoy the best health—may it I,,ng con-
tinue! The famous carriage taken from Bonaparte,
at the Field of Waterloo, a present to the Prince of
Orange, formerly in possession of the King's coach-
maker, is now moved to the King's private coach.
house here.

The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this morning,
from which we subjoin a few extracts:

PARIS, JULY 12.

Madame Regnault de Saint Jean-D'Angely has
received permission to quit the kingdom, and has set
out for the waters of Ais.-la-Chapelle.
Dl.►dame Lavalette, whose arrest has been formerly
announced, has been transferred to the Prisou of the
Prefecture of Police.
BERLIN, JUNE 10.

In spite of all the asscciatio:is which hare been
entered into in Prussia. against the use of English
manufactures, the demand for them still prevails.—
Many persons prefer them on account of their ex-
tremely low price.