Star.
London, England, 1822-08-23 00:00:00

nection or identity was visibly represented to his MA-
JESTY by the intermixture of the gay regimentals,
and varied tartans of the Nobility and Gentry, with
the grave habits of the Ministers, on presenting the
follow ing—

ADDRESS FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
" Mon Gaacious SOYMION,

We, the Ministers and Faders of the Church of Scotland,
sect as a Commission of the General Assembly, and the Repre-
scatative Body of the whole Church, beg leave, with profound
respect, to approach your Majesty's Throne, and to present to
lour Majesty the strongest and most solemn assurances of our
veneration, affection, and loyalty.
o We most sincerely and most joyfully congratulate your Ma-
jesty on your safe arrival in Scotland; and we congratulate Scot-
land on that most auspicious event—an event in which we feel
the highest exultation, and from which we anticipate the hap-
iest consequences.
'To this day your Majesty's subjects in ScotlsNl have looked
frrward with joy ft.l expectation; 2nd to this day they will look
back as a day of glory to their native land.
" At the annual meetings of our National Church we have
esteemed it a high honour to behold your Majesty's represen-
tative ; and through him to receive your Majesty's most gracious
assurances of maintaining inviolate our rights and privileges as
by law established. But we cannot express what we feel, when,
within the precincts of your ancient kingdom of Scotland, we
behold your Majesty in person :—a King distinguished by every
splendid endowment, and graced by every elegant accomplish-
anent—at once the safeguard of our country and the bulwark
of our Church.

" From the first moment that your Majesty undertook the
charge of public affairs, the Providence of GOD has beamed upon
you with a bright effulgence. lly the wisdom of your Majesty's
counsels and the vigour of your arm; your Majesty was enabled,
by the blessing of ALMIGHTY GOD, to frustrate the formidable
attempts of a gigantic power, which, grasping at universal em.
pine, threatened to destroy the independence of Europe; and
that same PaoviocNer, we trust, will still continue to encom-
yAss your Majesty as with a shield, and over all your ;;lury to
create a defence.

As a portion of your Majesty's subjects, we express our
warmest gratitude for the honour your Nlajesty has done to our
country by most graciously condescending to visit it; and we
trust that when your Majesty returns from your Scottish domi-
nions, you will be able to say, that in this part of the United
Kin;;dom you have seen a people who love their Gov, their
Country, and their King.

“ As the constituted Representatives of the Church of Scot-
laed, we present to your Majesty our heartfelt thanks for the
many signal favours which your Majesty has been pleased to
confer upon us; and, as the best return which we can make for
your Majesty's goodness, we beg leave to assure your Majesty,
that it shall be our study, in our respective districts, to discharge,
with fidelity and zeal, the duty committed to our trust, and to
encourage loyalty and submission to the laws, as equally indis-
pensable to both public and private prosperity.

We will labour to impress upon the people committed to
our care a high sense of the invaluable blessings of our glorious
and happy Constitution. We will teach them to fear Gon, to
honour their King, and connect the principles of religion with a
dutiful obedience to the laws of their country.

" That your Majesty may long sway the regal sceptre over a
great, a free, a loyal, a happy, and an united people; that your
Majesty may long enjoy the blessing of health, and every com-
fort which this world can afford—and that at length your
Majesty may inherit a kingdom which cannot be moved, and a
crown of glory which fadeth not away, are our most sincere and
fervent prayers. (Signed)

" DAVI D LAMONT, Moderator."
To this Address, his MAJESTY returned the fol-
hwing most gracious Answer :

" I thank you for those expressions of loyal attachment, in
the sincerity of which I place implicit confidence. It is with the
annost satisfaction, that I avail myself of this opportunity of
e•Jr.fimiing in person, the assurances I have given, through my
r,rresentative, that I will maintain inviolate those rights and
privileges, to which the Church of Scotland is entitled, by the
niost solemn compacts. In your continued exertions to promote
true religion, and to inculcate loyalty and obedience to the laws,
you may rely on my constant support and protection. I cor-
dially unite with you in grateful acknowledgments to Arzunnvir
Con, for his signal protection of my people in the time of general
peril and calamity, and in an earnest prayer, tliat through his
divine assistance, I may be enabled to protect their liberties, and
to advance their prosperity and happiness."

Yesterday his MAJESTY admitted the Deputation
from the Episcopal Clergy of Scotland, consisting of,
Bishops GLEIG, JOLLY, SANDFORD, TORRY, SKIN-
NER, LOVE Presbyters—Rev. Mr,. AL:SON, Mr.
WALKER, Dr. Rossi-AA., Mr. HORSELEY, Mr. CRUICK-
SHANKS, and Mr. MOREHEAD, when the following
Address was read by the Rev. 11. Hoasuas:

" TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
" MAY IT PLEASII YOU& BIAJIAT-T,

" We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Bishops
and Clergy of the Scottish Episcopal Church, beg leave humbly
to approach your Royal presence, with expressions of our most
beartfelt attachment and loyalty to your Majesty's sacred per-
son and Government.

" So many years have passed away since Scotland was ho-
noured by the presence of its Sovereign, that to behold your
Majesty in the Palace of the long line of our ancient Monarchs.—
your Majesty's Royal ancestors—h, to us, as it must be to every
true Scotchman, a matter of pride and exultation ; and in this
house, more especially, do we feel ourselves prompted by these
emotions to declare, that within the wide compass of your Ma-
jesty's dominions, are nowhere to be found hearts more loyal
than those which beat in the breasts of the Scottish Episcopalians.
" The devoted attachment uniformly displayed by the Mem-
bers of our Church, to him whom they have considered as their
legitimate Sovereign, is so well known to your Majesty, that it
would be waste of time to repeat it here; and is, indeed, amply
vouched by the lowly station which we, her Bishops, now hold
in civil society. Your Majesty likewise knows, that our reli-
gious principles and forms of worship are the same with those of
the Church of England, from which, indeed, we twice derived
our Episcopacy, when it had been lost at home; and whilst we
are sincerely grateful for the toleration of these principles, and
the free exercise of the rites of our worship, we feel that it is to
your Majesty's gracious consideration, and that of your Royal
Father, that our gratitude is in a peculiar manner due.
• We wou►d not occupy too much of your Majesty's time by
protestations of our loyalty; but we must beg leave solemnly to
ieclare, in your Royal presence, that, viewing in your Majesty's
sacred person the lineal descendant of the Royal Family of Scot-
land, and the legitimate possessor of the British Throne, we feel
to your Majesty that devoted attachment which our principles
assure us is due to our rightful Sovereign; and that should evil
d.tys ever come upon your Majesty's Royal House (which may
tloo of his infinite mercy avert) the House of Brunswick will

fii;cl that the Scottish Episcopalians are ready to endure for it a,
much as they have suffered for the House of Stuart, and with
!start and hand to commit the world, that in their breasts •