Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-07-08

| Some of them who were provided with
| money to pay their passage, have b en-
deceived aud plundered by German,
who made them believe that he was com
mlssioned To receive on giving them Il
| receipt part of the passage money on ac-
| count he promised them a good vessel,
| &c. He made some OF them proceed to
the Iielder, the others were 10 embark.
here ; but III neither of tie Two ports was
there either vessel or captain of the names
which lac had given them.
The pretended agent vanished last
Friday, carrying away sum of money
which IS estimated at several thousand
tlorlns, leaving his victims in the most
depiorabls situation. Every measure has
be taken TO discover this swindler, but
hitherto without avail.
Brussels, lay The day before yester-
day MIR. Joan, Editor 81 Printer. Of the Con-
stitutional Journal. ofthc province OF Ant
werp, was arrested at Antwerp, aud ar
rived yesterday in this city. where he has
been put under confinement he viii be
t.ied by the Special Extraordinary Court
He Is presumed (says the Journa, Of the
province ofAntwerp) TO be guilty Gi ha-
wing written or printed the 18th Bulletin on
the Droits de Toll, which was in bis paper
OF 18Th March last, No. IL. This article
has, doubtless, some patriotic energy,
and when our August Sovereign acquai'n-
eel perhaps by linn of the serious incon-
venience of the duty, has in his royal
justice and wisdom, thought ut 10 ex-
empt his subiee Is from it, itseems strange
TO many people that it is made crime TO
have pleaded the cause oftbe Merchants.
We learn from Amsterdam that there
nave lately arrived IN that port 1876
vessels laden with wheat and rye, and
that fresh arrivals look place daily. The
Mercury OF Antwerp of TO-DAY announ-
ces the arrival of IL vessels in that port
with similar .cargoes from Holland, be-
sides one from Denmark with rye. II
seems, therefore, that the price ofcorn
must soon fall considerably.
Boston, jane %.
The London Gazette contains the per-
mission ofthe Prince Regent to Lord Ex-
mouth 10 wear the insignia ofcertsin Spa
nlsh, SiciIlan, Sandman and Dutch orders
OF knigthood, conferred upon his Lord
ship for the judgement and valor display
ed IN his attack on Algie-e.
From Paris, April 90" The attention
OF political spectators, In which we oh
serve sentiment mixed with apprehen-
81 n, is directed towards the spectacle
which America ispreparing for the world.
- - VaeN ~ perceive, tIdI dnOHp all tic
contradictory reports, the SYST IN ofin-
dependence IS making progress,or will 80
so. The ambitious spirits banished from
EHrope, see here a new career of glory,
and in this respect tie tranquility of,he
Continent seems better scared. Tt is
very remarkable that the exile French
Refugees, who quilted their country with
hostile views and intentions, are now dis
Outraged. and look to America as lie
theatre otnew and extraordinary events,
which seem TO promise them a new po-
litical existence. Thus did man Of some
wit and talent terminate long discus
sion on the affairs of the new and old
world, by announcing that he consider
ed the movement now operating in Anne
RIGA as particularly favorable TO the sys-
fem al present established in Europe.
and that American independence was the
real drain oflegitimacy in the European
States.
&c The rise of the Public Funds and
Bank Actions proves sufficiently the Gre
dit and confidence which are attached TO
the financial operations of the Govern
ment, and every thing announces that the
same moral confidence animates every
part of the kingdom.