Star.
London, England, 1822-05-15 00:00:00

ANOTHER LETTER-SAME DATE,

Eighto'Clock, P.m.--The Rob Roy steam packet has
just arrived with five carriages and luggage belong-
ing to their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Prin-
cess of DENMARK, who are on board the ROYAL So•
YEREIGN Yacht, and within a short distance of this
' harbour. Oa their arrival a salute of twenty-one
guns will be fired from the Heights and Custom-
house at the same time. A Guard of Honour from
the 3d Buffs, under the command of Sir Cummas
SMITH, is in attendance. The greatest enthusiasm
pervades the whole town, and the Pier is crowded
with spectators.

Yesterday the Duke of Yonx transacted military
business with the KsNO.
Yesterday the Duke of Yoax held a Levee, as Com-
mander in Chief, at his Office in the Horse Guards,
which was attended by the Duke of ATtroct., the
Marquis of WINCHESTER, Lord SHEFFIELD, Lord
ERSKINE, General Sir JAMES STUART, Major-Gene-
ral GORDON, Mr. ERSKINE, Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND,
and Mr. HUGH CAMPBELL. There were also present
Generals and other Military Officers, amounting to
upwards of fifty.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
CLARENCe, and part of :their suite, will leave Bushy
Park to-morrow, or on Friday, for Walmer Castle,
where their Royal Highnesses intend to pass a few
weeks preparatory to their embarkation for the Con-
tinent, where they intend to pass the remainder of the
summer and ensuing winter.
The Ball for the benefit of the Caledonian Asylum,
at ALMACK'S, on Monday night, was one of the most
splendid of the season: there were present 1,200 per-
sons, among whom were the Duke and Duchess of
NORTHUMBERLAND,. the Duchess of BEAUFORT, the
Foreign Princes and Ambassadors, the Marquis and
Marchioness of LOTHIAN, Marchioness of LONDON-
DERRY—in short, all the first people in the United
"Kingdom. Every Lady was attired in a rich fancy
dress ; and the Gentlemen were either in the Highland
garb. or were in military or naval uniforms.
Monday sennight, in commemoration of the
birth-day of THOMAS WM. COKE, Esq. 50 Gentlemen
dined together, at the Fleece Inn, Wells, Mr. E. H.
Gums was in the Chair, with Mr. Youso as Vice-
President. Mr. Coxes natal day was also celebrated
by a numerous party of his friends at the Crown Inn,
Attleborough, and several other places in Norfolk.
The -publication of the Life of Lord Byron is sus-
pended for a few days.
The new Edition of eg The Etonian," is at length
published, and excites considerable interest. The
writers, whose literary reputation it has so pre-emi-
nently established, are—
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Mr. W. M. Praed, Mr. W. S. Walker, the Hon. William
Ashley, Mr. E. Beaks, Mr. Crichton, Mr. R. N. Coleridge,
the Han. Francis Curzon, Mr. IL Durnford, Mr. Fursdon, Mr.
Moultrie, Mr. Neech, Mr. W. H. Ord, Mr. T. P. Outrun,
Mr. .1. I. Petit, and Mr. Trower.

Yesterday Mr. MAcKENztr., a King's Messenger of
the Colonial Department, arrived in Downing-street
with dispatches from his MAJESTY'S Lord High Com-
missioner of the lonian Islands.

A very numerous and respectable Meeting of the
Licensed Victuallers of the Metropolis, was held yes-
terday at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-
street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, for the purpose of peti-
tioning Parliament against opening the Trade, and
also praying that no Publican should be deprived of
his License without Trial by Jury. The meeting was
very numerously and respectably attended. Mr.
JACKSON having been called to the Chair, a long dis-
cussion took place, after which the Petition was
agreed to unanimously.
The latest Papers from New York give a lament-
able picture of the inconsistency which prevails in the
United States, where the slave trade is still sanc-
tioned by a Government which boasts of its love of
liberty. One of these papers says--" We have been
told that during the festivities which marked the late
National Festival in this city (New York), while our
orators were thundering forth the memorable words,
We hold those truths to be self-evident, that ALL
men are created razz and EQUAL; and while our
bells were ringing the merry peals of Liberty—a poor
negro was seized near the Park, by one from another
State, who claimed him as a slave. He protested that
he was free—but to no purpose. A cord was pro-
duced, and he was pinioned, and dragged away with-
out opposition from those around, who would doubt-
less instantly have joined in tarring and feathering
any one who should have uttered a word against Li-
berty and Equality r
An article from Mount Pleasant, in the State of
Ohio, says—" I understand that a large number of
slaves have been taken down the Ohio nver since the
ice broke up. One man from Wheeling, or near it,
ii is said, took down sixty. Among the number was
his old nurse, the woman who nursed him in his in-
fancy. Now, in her old age, she is carried off to be
exposed to sale in the New Orleans market I"
In Maryland, a Negro woman being informed that
she bad been sold to the Negro-buyers, first destroyed
her child, and then herself. Such are the accounts
given by the Americans themselves, of that most dia-
bolical of all species of commerce, the infamous traffic
in human beings.

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. .
THE ,ARMY.
•
• The Provisional Battalion, nodes the command of CA Hatx4
=itaggarrison ditty in Portsmouth, was addressed by its Com:
°fifteen Sunday evening, after bring mustered on the
pan &on behalf of the melancholy ear of the poor e, a Lind ;
wild* en its bring premised to tarn to wthsenhe one day's pay
toward. their relief, every man cheerfully fell in with the pro.
position. This battalion is composed of the depots of several
k regiments at present on ftireign Service, and consists of nearly
1000 men, whose eonduet sidee tbey, have been stationed at Ports:
mouth has been very szeinpiary, and en the present occasion is
• worthy of imitation by every soldier in the United Kingdom.
Yesterday the remainder of the 72d Regiment, under the corn.
mind of Major Cum', cohiprising the Staff, Scc. embarked
from Portsmouth for Plymouth. •
The last division of dm 10th Regiment elf Foot have left Mr-
mouth, for
The last gttrtci the Stith Regiment are on their march front
Gosport for Chatham.
A division of the 111th Lancers marched into Tenni On Men.
day sennight, from Dublin, on their way to aillinrobe, to rt.
place the Ist Dragoon Guards.
The 10th Hussars, destined for Ireland, will be succeeded a
the Cavalry Barracks, Brighton, by the 9th Lauer..