Star.
London, England, 1830-05-17 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Agent to Lloyd's at Gibraltar, under date the .26th April,
writes as follows :

•• Accounts received from Algiers, by way of O. an, state that
the Dry, far from being intimidated by the formidable preparatiotis
of the French, is fully prepared to receive them. The Regencies
of Tunis and Tripoli, it is said, have formed an alliance offensive
and defensive against all aggressors. The Dry has promised a
bounty of 20 dollars for every Frenchman slain or taken, and 200
for every gun taken."

The Warrior, Simon, has arrived from Rio Janeiro at Jersey.
The Ilankinsos, from Rio Janeiro, has arrived off Newport.
DLit, MAT 13, Wind S.E. moderate ; and 16, N. to E. and S.
—The Helene and Marie, Russian frigates, from the Mediterra-
nean, passed the back of the Goodwin Sand yesterday.
POILTSMOUTH, MAT 15, Wind S. W. and 16, B.—Arrived off the
port, the Thames, Robertson, from Philadelphia ; Brighton. —,
from New York; and Atlantic, Waldron, from Sicily. Sailed his,
Majesty's ship Galatea, for Plymouth.
Paywoorn, Mar 15.—Wind variable.
FALMOUTH, MAT 14, Wind S. to S.W. light ; and 15, S.W. to
N. W.—Arrived the Marmion, Carnie, from Pernambuco. Off
the port, the Tasmania, Mennell, from Palermo. Sailed the Duke
of Marlborough packet, for Lisbon.
HOLTZIAD. MAT 15.—Arrived off the port, the Monongaisd2,l
from Philadelphia ; and George, Goodwin, from Smyrna.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 15.—Arrived the Higginson, Gillespie, from
Barbadoes ; Chandler, Price ; Balfour, Bee ; Motion, ; and
Agenoria, Brown, from New Orleans; Wm. Penn, Faulk, from
Savannah; Sarah and Caroline, Prince, from Charleston ; Plato,
Dominick, from Virginia; St. George, Taubman ; Britannia, Mar-
shall; and Hamilton, Bank, from New York ; Betsey Blake, Ber-
ryman; Brothers, Sewell; and William and Henry. Betts, from
Gallipoly ; Iris, —, from Malaga ; Hero, Crosby, from Africa ;
and Nymph, Chalmers, from St. Petersburgh.
DAATUOUTII, MAT 15.—Arrived the James Daly, Cullen, from
Jamaica.

PORTSMOUTH—SAT us DAY.

A letter from Malta of the 28th of April states that the Russian
fleet is gone to Cagliari, from whence it is suspected they will pro-
ceed to co-operate with the French expedition against Algiers, while
Admiral de Rigny. with a French squadron, remains in the Archi-
pelago to keep in check any attempt the Turks nay make to send
relief to that and the other Barbary States. From Marseilles on the
4th May we find that Count Bourmont has issued his first bulletin
of the African expedition ; this document asserts that from the
20th to the 25th instant 50,000 Frenchmen (35,000 soldiers and
15,000 seamen) will have landed on the African shore. The
army was to commence embarking on the 10th, and was to get un.
der weigh on the 15th, expecting to reach Algiers and disembark
in five days. Among the defence of the Algcrines is that the Be-
douins had brought down to the emu(' a host of camels, which were
to form a rampart to cover the Algerine soldiers, and receive the''
first fire of the French soldiery. A tolerably strict blockade is
kept up on the coast ; but not so strict but that several vessels dol
push in and out with and for supplies. The Bey of Tunis has re-
fused to render any assistance to the bey of Algiers, under a fear of
French displeasure ; and under fear also of punishment from the
Paella of Egypt, who recently modestly desired the Tunisian Go.
vernor to vacate his seat, and throw his country into an Egyptian
province. This was refused ; but it is strongly suspected that the
Egyptian chief will, ere long, march an army to Tunis, to make a
conquest of that territory.
The French corvette Fleche sailed from Toulon on the Gth May,
with 25,000 t. on board, for Navarino, for the service of Prince Leo-
pold's Government.
lib Majesty's ship St. Vincent, 120, Captain Hyde Parker, and
Galatea, 42, Capt. C. Napier, C.B. arrived on Thursday, from Ply.
mouth ; the former to receive the flag of Admiral Sir T. Foley,
G.C.B. the Commander-in-Chief at this port. To render this meg-
nificent ship of as easy draught as possible, all her heavy ordnance
has been taken out, and she will come into harbour on Thursday, to
take up her moorings. The Commander-in-Chief shifted his flag
from the Ganges to the St. Vincent on the day of the lances
arrival.

CALEDONIAN CHURCH.—Yestorday, long before the
hour at which the public service usually commences, the
doors of this chapel were besieged by an anxious crowd,
eager to obtain a place where they might listen to the
doctrines of the celebrated Dr. CHALMERS, the greatest
ornament of the Scottish Church, who officiated for his
friend and countryman the Rev. EDWARD IRVING,
whilom of great celebrity—as the fashionable world well
knows—in Hatton-Garden. At eleven o'clock the learned
Professor mounted the pulpit, and commenced the service
according to the order prescribed by the Presbyterian
establishment ; suffering, however, some interruption from
the crowd pressing for seats ; but long before the sermon
commenced, the most profound attention and silence per-
vaded the assembled multitude. Want of space prevents
our giving even a feeble outline of the splendid discourse,
delivered in the peculiar style and manner of the Reve-
rend Professor. With great fervour and eloquence, and
with a power of reasoning calculated to awaken a train
of sentiment fraught with storied and scriptural beauty,
the preacher enforced the duties of filial and parental
affection in an earnestness of style seldom listened to
within our metropolitan places of worship. Our readers
are probably aware that the Scottish Church prescribes
no specified formula of prayer..—leaving the preacher to
the exercise of his discretion in the subjects which form
the entreaties to the Throne of Heaven. On this occa-
sion our feelings of loyalty were highly excited as the
Reverend Doctor offered up a prayer for our beloved
So v E FIG N, with a depth of devotion which, engrafted,
on his Scottish dialect, thrilled on the heart-strings with
a feeling of feudal attachment towards the MONARCH
to whom have descended, along with the throne, many
of the chivalrous accomplishments which won for the
&Iv A RTS such an ardour of attachment from the people
of the North. A great many persons of distinction
attended, among whom we observed the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Marquis of Stafford, Sir Robert Peel,
Lord L Gower, Lord Beresford, Mr. Wilberforce, Mr.
Fowel Buxton, and other members of both Houses of
Parliament.