Star.
London, England, 1830-10-15 00:00:00

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 14.

The Bramble, cutter, went out of harbour on Monday.
The Pickle, schooner, was paid off on Tuesday.
The Royalist, 10, went out of harbour on Tuesday.
The Confiance, seam vessel, sailed on Tuesday for Portsmouth.
The eibealtar, 80, at 11Weed, will, it is said, be converted int.)
sham hulk. She was formerly the Phamix, (Spanish) captured i .
1780, by the gallant Lord Rodney.
His Majesty's ship Slsney, 20 guns, in the West Indies, has beget
found so defective that she is ordered to be broken up, and her ofacet
and crew removed into other ships on the station.
It is reported, but we hope without foundation, that the North Star,
28, and a man-of-war brig, on the Jamaica station, ate missing.
The contract for supplying the Victualling- office, Plymouth, sit',
Wheat, was taken on Friday ; 300 quarters, Mr. From, at 416 e. 6d. an
100, Mr. John Clegg, at the same price.
His Majesty's ship Tynan arrived at Halifax, from Falmontb, 10it
September. The Challenger arrived at Bombay, from Trincomalee.
16th April.
His lajesty's ship Shannon, Capt. Clement, arrived on the 24th oi
August, at Bermuda, with Commitmoner Ayscough and family to le
Jamaica.

The transport Stentor is fitting at Deptford, to take stores to rr.
nando Po, and to remove the establishment from Sierra Leone to th.t
Island. A question naturally arises, what becomes of all the alavc.
whom the British government have paid for, emancipated and settled
Regent's Town, and other colonies up the Sierra :Anne River ?
A Committee of Bag officers, consisting of Sir T. Hardy, Sir J.
Gore, and Sir B. Hallowell Carew, have been during the week making
a trial of a new gun inventeddb Lieut. Marshall, of the Royal Navy,
on board the Donegal, 78, it is reported that Sir John Gore :-
about to boast his flag on board the Ganges, 84, Capt. 0. Burdett, a,
Portsmouth, to prove the merits of his invention en a cruise.
An Order in Council, of the 19th July, 1820, entitles every Second
Master, Assistant Surgeon, Gunner, Boatswain, Carpenter, Mate, Mid
Shipman, Master's Assistant, Schoolmaster, Clerk, and Volunteers et
the first or second class, who shall be discharged from the service, for
wounds or hurts received, or permanent sickness or debility contracted
In the service, and who stall be deemed a tit and proper object for re-
lief—a pension either for life, or for a limited period, of not leas than
one /billing, nor more than two shillings and sispenes per diem, accord-
ing to the toddy injury sustained by the party. Petty officers ac.,men,
and marines, are also entitled to a pension, according to their riding an i
claims

The number of officers of different ranks in the Royal Navy, pro.
mottd from the Ist October, 1829, to the Ist October, 1830, are:—
Admirals, 43; Captains, 33; Commanders, 48; Superannuated ditto, 7 :
Lieutenants, 74 ' • Masters, 18; burgeons. 14 • Pursers, 3. The nuin.
be, of deaths tot the same period :—Adinuals, 18 ; Captains, 13 ; Su
perannusted dit:o, 2 ; Commanders, 12 ; Superannuated ditto, 7 :
Lieutenants, b 1 ; Masters, 19 ; Surgeons, 36; Pursers' 16.
The 'Tiede, Newts, from ibis port, passed Elsineur nth Sept. anti
Hope, Rowell, 27th ditto. The lady Emma. Raid, of and from lb.,
port, arrived at length Sept. The Susan, Nicholson, of and from th :.
port, for Quebec, arrived off St. Priors Island, 3th Sept. The Hero.
Jolly, of this port, arrived at Gibraltar, from Liverpool end Cadiz, ISru
Sept. The leeward. Goma, of this port, arrived at Bristol from Malta.
7st inst. The William, Perry, of this port, arrived at Aberdeen, from
Napoli di Romania, 6th Oct. The Elizabeth, Hall, of this port, at.
rind at Gravesend from Gijon, Bth inst. The Richard 11W, Freemar.
of this port, arrived at Dublin, front Archangel, Bth inst.
His Majesty's ship Revenge, 76, Capt. the Hon. Charles 0.
Bridgemsa, sailed from Malta the 24th of August, at which tint
were laying there his Majesty's ship Gloucester, Blonde, Madagascan.
and Rifleman, and a Dutch frigate. She touched at Algiers en tie,
Ist of September, and landed the Consul General's Lady and hind:
from Malta. The French fleet at anchor in the bay. cot:silted of four
litimofthattle ships, ten trigates, one corvette, eight brig., ot:t
schooner, and au American corvette. An intetcharge of salutes
took place between the Revenge and the French Admire!.
The Revenge brought home paasengers Majot Freer, te
the 10th regiment, and Lieut. liPliensie, of the 110th, from (:afar ;
Capt. Peebles, of the Royal Marine', invalided front the Gloucester, ..1
Malta ; Capt. Hill, nephew of the ComAander.in.Chia, and Lint.
Burgess, both of 33d regt. from Gibraltar i also the gunner of the Rat-
tlesnake, eleven invalids from tie squadron, and One serjeant and 04,
corporal belonging to the Rile Corps at Malta. Lieut. Snell, of th
Gloucester, had exchanged with Lieut. Ryley, of the Revenge. Line..
Park, R.M.A. of the Britannia, had ale° eschanged with Lieut. Dwyer,
R.M.A. of ihe Revenge. The Revenge came into harbour on teterday
to be paid of and recommissioned as a guaid.shii, if found de.
PROMOTION. AND APPOINTIOLNTS ••161ellr. ClarlDlSlffearlit :I.
appointed to the Sussex Blockade, vow Harris. Mr. Alex. Boyle, ar
the Pallas, is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. Mr. C. F. Pineme:
is appointed, by Vice-Admiral Colpoys. (acting) Lieut of the Whiehe4.
ter, vice Pilkingtun, promoted to the Rms. Commander Thomas Gil .
of the Sparrowhaerk, is promoted to the rank of (acting) Captain, alto
appointed to the AlagniScent, vice Smith. Commander Dawson Mityl.e.
of the lawn, is appointed hi the Sparrowhawk, vice Gill Linn. Then.
M. Currie, of the Ranger, is promoted to the of (acdos)Common?e• •
and appointed to the lean; v. Mayne. W. Poems, of the Wimimeer, ,
promoted to the rank 44 (acting) Latium:4 and appolond so 0 •
Ranger, vice l'urrie. Mr. R. Miller is proloosoi to the reshot Cutler ,
Lieutenant of .he Hyacinth, vice Stoic tormooloil. I& M. mown, Sc-
pernurnetary Assistant Surgeon of the VS Maim; Is appolmod Assist
ant Surgeon of tl.e Blanche. Lieut. bull. of dr ihmsemee, Is orreitil,
ed to the RevenAe, vice Ryley, who trichmgo. •‘•
TM fallowing polka's passed the monsioislms he Lesseasab r
Wednesday, on board the St Vincent:— R. B. MeV% Ye of the W-
aite,' ; T. R. Lden, of the 84. Vincent ; O. Row, or die Woes s B.
Lincoln. of the %Wks's, i the Hon. lo Pose Tan* of the Pearl, A,
Snap. Hammond, of the hell; H. Cottrell, late of the Bieliese. Ow.
• C. 'remnant, of the Remit : ad R. nerd* Rottiodee, of die /too.

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CHARGES OF HERESY.

mR. SCOTT AND SILL IRVING.

!b'ti.isf 'menhir remablisheil front the Times, a paper on this
I et. at h.citsu to lay before our resclers the disclaimer of Mr.

litheit that it is not you; wish that your paper should be
is Ade i'.e vehfele cf falsebeed or misrepresentation in any case, but ca-
rnal', when the matter of the personal character and professional
: t..iNfr yh f hooch and reputable men. Yet, with all your vigilance, this
cei.,t .1 •net hates be the ease, and. unfortunately. is so to a lamentable ex-
it, our paper of this day : whirr. in the article from a cortespon.
thus on site scottisit Presbytery in London, contains many erroneous
wait -re is. The fist. in these wads.—" The case of the Rev. Mr. Scott,
st• that of the Rev. Edward Irving. each involving a charge of heresy ;"
*tense the truth is, that 31r. Scott was there on no charge at all, but
:;it.ely to complete km trials for ordination, which had been interrupted
t, •it kn..% : and rot myself. 1 am not only not under any such charge,
have to catss tf any kind before the Presbytery. One of my bre-
• hit iu,vint• given notice at a former meeting of a motion concerning one
sK my publications, the question arose—whether this or the comple-
-141.. o Mr. Scott's trials should have the precedency. The
s..inte, that " Mr. Scott anticipated and eluded the decision of the
coati- by asking through me the Pteshytery's permission to address
them. How your correspondent comes to know what the Presbytery's
,enteiiee was to be, he can best tell . • but certainly 1, a member of
Presbytery. know that in all the sederunts of the Presbytery
it was nee. r mooted that Mr. Scott would be prevented from
i.linntion. How, then, he could " anticipate or elude" what
i.ever had been in any way hinted at in the Presbytery itself, is
..00ther solecism into which gratuitous cruelty has betrayed your
orespondent. But that Mt. Scott did what he did to " anti-
( icipate or elude" any sentence of the Presbytery, is evidently
shown to be false (were there not his own solemn declare
:.:ion and every other moral evidence to disprove it,) by the min.
vied sorrow and admiration wits which the Presbytery heard his solemn
eedaration, and their resolution not to take any ate) till they should
bold a loving and brotherly conference with him, if possible to change
Ain mind. The third misstatement is in these words:—" He studiously
observed silence on the sinfulness of CHa is is humanity, no doubt from
deference to Mr. Irving." Tnere are no less than three distinct errors
in these wattle: the first, that "he studiously maintained silence,"
on the subject of which your cm.espondent calls " the sinfulness
of Cultures humanity," while he opened his mind on " more
points than one opposed to the confession of faith." Now the
truth is, that he expressly said that he was satisfied with what the Con-
fession declared upon the subject of our LoaD's humanity, and en-
'icily concurred widi it, and thought it a full and explicit statement of
the truth ; the second, " that he did this no doubt from deference to me,"
which adds to the former untruth the malevolence of endeavouring to
offend another party who was as entirely ignorant of what Mr. Scott was
about to do as any person present ; the third is, the averment that either
Mr. Scott or I hold that our Loan's human nature was sin-
ful, whereas we maintain, with all orthodox men, that it
was " without sin" by the anointing of the Holy Ghost. A news-
paper is not the place for theological discussion, and I ask your indul.
gence for only one word more, which is, to remove the impression con-
veyed by your correspondent, as if Mr. Scott had opposed the West.
liiinster Confession "on more points than one." He declared that the
confession did not fully express his faith upon the universality of the
.itonement, and seemed to bear a contradiction of it ; that it mingled
the two questions—the assurance of faith and personal assurance of sal.'
vatichi ; and that he did not believe that the Church still re.
tamed the power to convey the gifts necessary for the fulfil.
Diem of the offices which that Confession requires in the Chris-
Dian minister. On these accounts, he declared that he could not
sign it as the Confession of his faith. He did not, however, separate
aiuss.lf front the church of Scotland, but only withdrew from his desire
ordination as one of het members.

That this is the true statement of the case. which I draw out for the
nudes sake, I pledge myself to all concerned, by signing my name.
EDWARD IRVING,

Minister of the National Seoich
Church, London.

13, Judd-place, East. Oct. 13.

AURICULTURAL PROSPECTS OF THE NORTH-WEST
COAST OF IRKLAND.

From the DerryJtornal.
We have received from a Correspondent at Ardara the following corn-
it :titivation, which, at this inauspicious season, will be read with no
i'tt!e ;merest by those whose chief dependence is on the state of the
c ups in this neighbourhood :-
•• Business having placed me on the North-West Coast of the County
tainegal, since the end of April, 1829, I have, during all that time,
be.pt a diary, from which I extract the following facts :-On this coast
tits. summer of 1829 was generally cold and mostly wet. High winds
to June and July materially damaged early crops of potatoes ; and the
natural growth of every crop was kept in check by cold and rain. The
storms of wind and rain ot the 17th. 18th, 19th, 26th, and 27th of
August of that year. greatly increased the damage already done by
shaking or shedding extensively every field of grain then in a for-
ward state of ripeness, and destroying the quality of potatoes. There
followed a great deficiency in the quantity ot every crop ; and this, com-
bined with the sales of oats made last winter by such tenants as were
pressed for rent, left the country quite exhausted of food, and drove
numbers who never before had purchased provisions, and had very often
supplied their necessitous neighbours, into the high markets of last
spring and summer.
" The spring of 1830 was, here, generally unfavourable to the pre-
paration of land for, and the sowing and planting of crops. It was so
stormy that much less than the usual quantity of sea-manure (weed)
was procured ; and, owing to the wetness of the soil, many lots of low
Irlossy land could not be sown or planted at all ; and many dales, which
wets. planted late, turned out quite unproductive. lost summer and
tat. present harvest have been much more inclement and boisterous than
those of the preceding year. lit collect that the Ist, 12th, 13th, 14th,
lath, 20th, 24th, and 25th of June were downright storms-and that
the Ist, 7th, Bth, 11th, 12th, lath, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 26th, 27th,
30th, and 31st of July, were still more stormy. The 30th, in particular.
wax distinguished by loud thunder, as well as a down-pouring of the
aqueous element; and the night of the 31st transmitted the tempestu-
ousness of the month of July to its successor. On the Ist, 2d, sth,
27th, 28111, and 31st of August, there blew strong gales, accompanied
with heavy rain-those of the sth and 27th were actual storms which,
in their effects, exceeded the havoc of July and August last year. Sep-
tember, an awful month ! exhibited stormy Sits, which surpassed all
that had preceded them in fury. On the night of the 4tis, on the sth,
llth, 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, and 20th, on the nigh of the 22d, and on
the 23d, there were very heavy storms of wind and rain. That of the
Itith may be truly described as a destructive hurricane, and was fol-
lowed up, at night, by lightning and thunder. The dreadful effects of
that hurricane in shaking the unshorn grain, in scattering and soaking
that which was shorn, and in completing the ruin of the potato crop,
will never be forgotten by those who live near the coast. It may be
observed that the storms of June and July generally blew front the N.
W. N. and N.E. which is not common in that season ; but in July
and August we had hard gales from every point of the compass; so
that, but in few instances, were crops protected by situation from their
fury. Such, altogether, has been the weather, that good judges con.
cider that, in this district, the crops will not average one-half of their
usual produce.

" As another feature in the condition of this district, it ought to be
mentioned that, last summer, very many small farmers had to pawn
their growing crops to keep their families from starving ; and of those
who did so, not a few had been compelled, previous to eie last Assizes,
to dispose of their only stay—their little gardens of early potatoes, to
pay the county rates; and having made that last sacrifice, to resort to
begging. The distress of these poor people lied this additional aggrava-
tion : irons the tempestuousness of the weather they could not engage
in sea-fishing, which used to assist them in paying rent and maintaining
their families.

" 11 to the inclement season of 1029, and the subsequent ill-judged
and improvident export of the grain of Banagh, principally from Billy-
begs, we arc to ascribe the dearth so prevalent here in summer last,
what have we not to dread fonn the far more unpropitious weather of
the present year ? Not only have the produce of last year's crops been
long ago exhausted ; but of the present very deficient crop, altogether
inadequate to the support of the inhabitants, a considerable portion has
been forestalled to satisfy the pressing wants of the small tenants. In
this distressing state of things, landlords and tenants are equally in.
tereated ; and both should most seriously consider how to mutually as-1
%ist each other under such trying and difficult circumstances. Land.
lords cannot live without their rents ; and the poorer class of tenants
Lave not the means of paying rents at the present nine. Such can only
gather the means piecemeal by having forbearance extended to them.
Landlords ought, then, to give the utmost indulgence to their tenants,
and use every possible exertion to Induce them to retain grain and every
kind of food in their hand', and rather to turn ahy other species of pro-1
perty they have into money, than to part with it ; for, most assuredly.'
if the grain be disposed of as it was last year, a famine of unexampled
severity will be the result."
By the accounts from Sligo and Galway, the distress along the w role
western coast will be fully as severe as that experienced on the coast 31
Donegal.

It is customary, and is claimed by the Governors as a
tight, for ilieSenior scholar of Christ's Hospital to address the Sove-
reign In St. Paul's Churchyard on the first visit to the city after the ac-
cession. -1
PItIVATE Ms ntiMPlEs.—The present law regulating the
cart. and trea anent of the insane in the licensed madhouses was passed
for a limited period oul*. Some permanent measure is now required.
We have therefore. Him with pleasure a letter front Mr. R. Gov-
don (with whom thlon humane improvement of law originated) WI
the clerks of tluq peace throughout the kingdom, announcing
hi, intention to briuin a bill " to continue to amend and consolidate"'
the Acts of ath Geo. IV. cap. 41, and 10th Geo. IV. e. 18. and inviting
the suggestions of 'the Magistrates at the ensuing quarter sessions for
in,tnevenients of the present law.-1 imps.

pgiIiEEDINGS AT FELLS-CONFLAGRATION ON THE

COMMON OF LLOYD.

We have received from our corraTposident at Hells an account of fur-
ther proceedings on the Common, in the neighbourhood of that town,
of even a more extraordinary character than those which were noticed
in his previous communications from the same quarter. Our readers
are already aware, that after the naagistrates had deemed it prudent to
liberate the eighteen persons taken into custody : the poor people re-
turned to the Common on Wednesday morning, and busily employed
themselves in the completion of their tumble habitations. The open
unincloeed portion of the Common, upon which the huts were first
erected, was soon found insufllcient to accommodate the numerous
claimants, and, in consequence, they entered upon the remaining part of
the Common, which had been fenced in, and the entire plain, contain-
ing 800 saes at least, was soon laid out for houses, half an acre
being allotted for each family. The miserable people (who are tepee.
seated by our correspondent u in a state of utter destitution) occupied
themselves in this way, without interruption, during Wednesday and
part of Thursday, when it was ascertained that the Marquis of
Headfort again made his appearance in Hells, and it was un-
derstood that he had been in Dublin for the purpose of obtain.
ing legal advice to regulate the course of the corporation, and
also the opinion of government upon his own conduct regarding the
proceedings at Lloyd. On his Lordship's arrival, all the freemen were
summoned to the Sessions House, where they remained in consultation
until about four o'clock, when they proceeded in a body to Lloyd, ac-
companied by a strong detachment of the police, the military remaining
in town. The police stationed themselves at a convenient distance,
whilst some of the corporators attacked the small cabins, and unroofed
the greater part of them, without the slightest opposition having been
offered by the people. The Rev. Mr. Ill'Evoy was on the spot, and
under his advice and direction, they abstained from any act of violence
which the intemperance of the freemen might be calculated to excite.
Determined not to break the peace, they remained passive spectators of
the work of destruction, until the corporator. left the ground, when they
quietly returned to the Common, with the intention of resuming their
employment on the next morning, and repairing the injury sustained in
the best manner they were able. About two o'clock on Friday after-
noon, however, the lan-ms and the police were called—the corporators
assembled and hurried away to Lloyd, escorted by the military and
police, and, on their arrival there, burned all the habitations that bad
been erected. The people did not offer the slightest opposition, or be-
tray any disposition to disturb the peace.
The above facts have been communicated by our correspondent, who
says, It is due to the soldiery and police to state, that they did not in
any manner interfere ; nor should I omit to mention that the Marquis
of Headfort took every possible precaution in having the people re-
moved, lest any of the hapless creatures should perish in the confiagra-
don." On this occasion, our correspondent adds, five or six men were
taken Into custody. Having been handcuffed, they were conveyed into
Hells upon a dray, as it was supposed, for the purpose of being lodged
in Bridewell, until next day, when the Magistrates sitting in Petit Ses-
sions might dispose of their case. They were, however, hurried off in
a moment out of the town, and were sent, escorted by a troop of bea-
ms, to the county gaol, at Trim. It appears that this summary pro-
ceeding excited much surprise, and dissatisfaction. The people, all
through, manifested the most peaceable disposition, and no danger what.
ever could be apprehended from adopting the ordinary course—that of
giving a fair and open hearing of the case before the Magistrates, who,
if they thought it expedient, might accept bail for the appearance of the
pennons charged. The people in the neighbourhood were in a very ex-
cited state, but the Catholic Clergyman, the Rev. Mr. M'Evoy, was
using the most strenuous exertions to preserve good order--to appease
the minds of the people, and induce them to place full confidence in the
law. It is said that the poor people will endeavour to procure a legal
decision of the question.—We have given the facts above detailed with.
out comment. But at most melancholy reflection must arise from a pe-
rusal of them. To what a condition must the country be reduced, when
in a single district no less than one thousand families, the occupants of
the Common, are reduced to such a hopeless stare of destitution, as to
seek for a miserable abode, and the scanty means of supporting exist-
ence, which half an acre of Common could supply, under the perilous
circumstances described by our correspondent. it is not our purpose to
canvass the right of the Corporation of Keller to the possession of the
Common in question, or to defend the course adoped by the peasantry ;
but we cannot, without feelings of the deepest pain, contemplate the ex-
istence of such hopeless misery.—Dublin Morminy Register.