Star.
London, England, 1821-01-06 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Monday, upwards of 300 men of the Honourable
East India Company's Artillery and Infantry, marched
from Chatham to Gravesend, under the command of
Major SOMERVILLE, to embark for India, as also a
detachment of the 65th Regiment.
Last week, detachments of the 2 tth, 59th, and 37th
Regiments, arrived at Chatham from the Isle of Wight.

Detachments of the 46th, 47th, 66th, and 67th
Regiments, and 11th and 13th Dragoons, marched
to Gravesend last week, to embark for India.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at
Constantinople, dated the 25th of November, 182 f :
" On the 12th inst. it blew a hurricane from the S.W. aces m.
panied with large hailstones, which did a good deal of dam ge
to the shipping, and some lives were lost. No accidents Ii ye
been heard of, either above or below.—Eight British vesstlee
laden with tallow, for England, sailed from Odessa in November.
The East India Company's ships Royal George, Tritstims ; In-
glis, BoitaAnait.E; Repulse, PATERSON ; and Marquis Camden,
LaaciNs, left Gravesend on Thursday, bound for China.
The —, FALK, from Istadt to Stockholm, having been on
shore, put into Klinto on the west side of Gethiand, on the 7th
ult. to repair; and the Stjernam, Asst.svitom, from Bergen to
Stockholm, was driven on shore the 9th ult. near the same place.
About 50 or 60 vessels (names unknown) were at Scilly on
the 30th ult.—wind E. by N.
The Anna Maria, Cove, from London for Copenhagen, put
into Leith on Tuesday, in distress.
The John and Sally, Swszysnowsis, from Southampton for
Waterford, put into Falmouth on Tuesday, leaky.
PLYMOCTII, Jautraar 4.—Arrived at St. Michael's, on the
17th November, the Three Brothers, DUGDALE, from Dart-
mouth; on the i3d, the Bustler, MUDGE, from Topsham; on
the sth of December, the Whitehall, Cease; on the 7th of
December, the Nassau, TOXISATNIC ; and on the 12th December
the Christian, GADIT, all from Plymouth ; also on the 12th of
December, the William, from Exeter : on the 15th, the Lovely
Cruiser, Lama" from Dartmouth ; and on the 14th, the
-Friendship, Weiss, from Exeter.
DOTER, JAN. s.—Arrived the Mars, HALL, from Baltimore
for Amsterdam, with loss of anchor, and windlass damaged;
having been riding under Dungeness or ten days.
Wiltrar, Jax.3.—The Mariner, Thomsen, of North Shields,
in attempting to get to sea, was driven by the wind against the
north picr and on the ground, by which she has received much'
damage in her bottom.
DEAL, Jay. s.—Wind E. by N. blows fresh.—Ne arrivals
or sailings.
MARGATE, JAIL s.—The Union, Plummer, from London for
Bideford, was got a a lee shore yesterday, by some boatmen
from this place, and carried up to Whitstable, with loss of anchor
and cable.

SHSIRWESS, JAN. s.—Arrived the Lard Duncan, Walnut,
from London for Shields, with lou of an anchor and chain
cable. The Bideford, CIWIII2IIII, and Kingston, STILVTVIELL,
from London for Hull, have received slight damage, by being
run foul of.
Amman—At Hull, the Providence, Gardner, from Riga. At
Belfast, Sarah and Ann, from hliramichi ; Ann, Hill,
from Rotterdam; Regina, Anderson, from Trinidad; Hope,
Middleton, from Quebec ; and Pelican, Lacey, from New York.
Currost-Ilorst, Jaw. s.—Ships Entered Inwards : The Isa-
bella, from Genoa. Entered Outwards : Briton, for Jamaica;
Robert and Sarah, for Hamburgh ; Sirene, for Calais; Sisters,
for Jamaica ; Salacia, for Trieste ; Plaudia, for the Cape of Good
Hope. Cleared Outwards : Active, for Bahia ; Jane, for
Jamaica ; Cordelia, for Dublin.

LIBEL ON THE DUKE OF YORK.—Westminster Ses-
sions.—Yesterday, after hearing one or two unin-
teresting cases, Hanbury Price, convicted of having
published a libel against his Royal Highness the
Duke of York, was brought up to receive the judg-
ment of the Court, which was delivered by the
Chairman, F. Conn, Esq. He informed the de-
fendant, in an impressive manner, that he had been
found guilty of uttering a most gross libel against
his Royal Highness; but on the nature of the of-
fence it. was unnecessary for him to expatiate—so
much had been already said upon the matter, on a
former occasion, and so much adduced to satisfy the
minds of those who had found him (the prisoner)
guilty of the offence wherewith he stood charged.
He, it was true, professed to appear in the character
of a bill-sticker only, whereas he was described in
the indictment as the distributer of the hand-bills
that contained the libel in question. And this latter
occupation might be open to a thousand excuses :
ignorance of his employers—a want of information
upon the contents of the bills—an erroneous opi-
nion as to their evil tendency, or otherwise. So fat
however, from any such defence being available to
the prisoner, he had not only by the tenour of his ac-
knowledgments professed himself guilty of the libel,
but had even ventured to justify it, and to talk as if
he were glad of standing in the situation where he
now appeared. In that defence he had adduced a
manuscript pamphlet, fraught with references to the
most objectionable passages contained in the bills in
which the libel appeared ; thus manifesting a desire
that the mischievous tendency of his offence—far
from being confined to those printed papers on which
he had been convicted—should be disseminated as
widely as possible by means of the public Press.—
The Court, in maturely considering the nature of his
crime, thought that the life of the prisoner could
hardly atone for the mischief which he had intended
1 to do; but fortunately he was now to be sentenced
only for what he had done; and it therefore sen-
tenced him to twelve months imprisonment, and to
, find sureties in the sum of it:so, for his good behaviour.