The Sun. — London, England, 1841-06-29 00:00:00

EVENING SUN. trinauyeahriteriediton Cap aims Napier and Mounsey, by whom the 1, %ice was, directe. • rmn Captain N a pi er tod Captain Sir R. Laurie of thee Ajax i— s; " H• M. S. Thames, Ponza Harbour, Feb. 27, 1 813. -'ree-Ag the yourdirections I embarked Licutenan - en e 4 Coflin and second battalion of the 10th regimen bonn....tbe.l6th. inst., and arrived off Ponza o . n the . Mel,. the har ,at'tUtexwhich is about a quarter of a mile wide, with a mole teeme end of it, defended by four batteries, mourktiree "n twenty-four and eighteen-pounders and two nine-inc IZOrtars„' cur C°l4 nti Coffin and myself agreed that the shortest and j est road to success was by running both ships into the mo7e, i cto ° Sing the place by assault but the weather ws unfit , ben for such an attack until the morning of tae 26th, w iten the ships bore up in close order with a fine breeze. - " The their enemy were prepared fo r o u r recepti o n, an d op ene d hat re nearly half- an -h our b efore our guns cou l d b ear : the e h „, ss er i" were, however, passed with little injury, the ships .11tring on both sides, and the Thames was anchored aerms .cototnole-head, the Furieuee bringing up a little a tern of her. „,net Colin and the troops landed the same instant, and for the height of a strong tower, in'o which the enemy the s e re Y e ated, and their appearance, with the severe fire fie in lys, induced the Governor to hoist a flag of truce, and ; lee Jo the inclosed capitulation. . . • • " CHARLES NAPIER." `'R 'S TREATMENT OF THE YANKEES UP THE PO TOM .a.C. 1814. tti l D v nr latit u d e now lies in America; but a minute ago it was se,sue Mediterranean' r e fo a 'sailor's life is subject to str a ue ser'm'a,,eses,,,and stranger changes. The landsman who set-way to e t.', a nlenself in his "fine linen a n d p urp l e ," ' little imagines )14 ;n t dire mutations of climate alone, the fleshy f sine of j eze4 Who forms a eo.nposite part of the " Service " is sub region' To -day his orders, perchance, bear him among the on th e ! Hyserborea, and the snow• scenes of the a retie ; soy e. morrow he eery be scorched by the brassy skies that Je ed e t . the Carribees and Martinico : next day the fi esh-blowing after short may fan him, and her blue delight him ; but Porto 'uort .an he is borne away to the is &ler skies f eta? gal, or hurries g next to the untried track , of the New tha t '; ; ; 1 t° fight on Transatlantic shores. One would suppes trotildaving run the course of a.l these, the esseoes st s een of , , ron he no longer bone, but have attained to the intimacy . ‘-'r th e sine - many expeditions up the bays and rivers of the e nih ed States during the last war of 1814, nore equalled in Thi s a "Y of - execution that up the Potomac to Alexandria, the ~'.errice was intrusted to Captain James A. Gerd in, of tair , h m'sei 4G, t a ki ng w i t h hi n th e E urya l us, 42,. Car tetee s pier ; Devastation, Et na , an d M e t eor b om b , Erebus aftezatisrdisp, arid a small t en d er or despatch-boat. ; I was t 'pained by th e F a i ry b r i g o f 16 guns , C apt. B a k er. Wei s h pe 1 7th, at 9h. tom. A. el ., t h e squa d ron got under with .'min the anchorago at the entrance of the Potomac, and, of ,•oet the , aid of pilots, began ascending the intricate channel es_tfi.e river leading to the capital of the United States. On at 7 tit e .i n e th, white passing tho flats of Maryland point, a squall end th e squadro n ; t h e S ea h orse h a d h er m i zen-mast sprung, % stet,: Eur Yalus, just as she hal clewed up her sails to be in t utu too receive it, had lier'bowsi nit and the head of her fere eren.,:"ls sprung, and the heads of all three topmasts fairly boa r e°„ .. "F• Such, however, was the slate of discipline on liers;ifle Such, that in twelve hours the Euryslus had refitted Aft - ' an d was again under weigh, ascendieg the river. Wass e i n r h aring, en their sail up the. Potomast, captured Fort and N g t "! the Americans, recovered a little from their panic, dot‘ strong measures to cppose the return of ti e squadron of euo...the Po-ornac. Commodore Rogers, with a chose.i body Perna,-rnen from the .Guerr:ere at. ishi:eilelphia ; Captains ritfice` er ter, and other distinguished officers a party of that and men !rem the Constellation at Norfolk ; the men troop,, beloeged Commodme Barney's fluti regular sh or e' riemen artideritts and militia, all Reeked to the Thre e ofd he Po'tomac' to ' Punish "the base incendiaries." by c e fire- Potomac, and ' five row-boats were directs d in person spse`muresdre Rogers himself against our ships ; while, in bee s „,`!' the execueon which a prize gun-boat, and a boat Ate e 'g in g to the Eursalus with a howitzer did, to impede the fret s sails in their progress at their works, they nevertheless, sh ot t battery. of eleven guns, with a furnace for heating tki, e oar sodas our 'vessels most vexatiously. Two of our ves tetioT*°unded and became most desperately si•utted, on an- Itits, t ` l their exposure to the fire. This continued, together i 4 ;I: ,ll PP le nlentary annoyance from the firing of the Yankees, the . - 'chided - wcitided creek, al the bt h instant, at noon, when leen'tind coming fair, and every suitable arrangement having ket- s ;, s ,et the Seahor se an d E urya l us anchosee mithin anus the chi ° t the batt er i es , w hil e t h e w h o l e o f t h e prizes an d lee the which lied grounded, passed between the . frigates Ire of st .' l mal• At three p.m., having completely silenced the eat their An ericau battery, the Seahorse and the Lurye us po tti cables, and the whole squadron proceeded to the next oattt:.4 ta ken up by the Yankee troops, who had .here tee s °f •ii " mountin g from fourteen to eighteen guns, on . a range ship s s about a inile in extent, and close under which the tut,.o"iii':'re obligee to pass. It was not intended to make the th e b ` l ' a t ete ning ; but the Erebus grounding within range saki atteries, the frigates and other vessels were nee . !etsarly des edtl t " ction. On dais occasion the fire of the Fairy pro• . *he e :nest derisive effect, as well as that of the Erebus, e the D • . . filth . D evastation, Etna, and Meteor peppered `away ate lAN had "t shells with great precision. By . 8, r.ee, the alit- , nt."t enough of it, and their batteries were comp,ete . y Ent e od °Lii the 6th, at daylight, the British squadron ega n 9th was weigh, and the Yankees, having a belly-fall, saw uth 1 , -411 0 further use in opposing their progress. On the r unl e t , -e soahorse and the Euryalus sailed out of the Potomac, teei g W e ' r . ie to anchor in safety at the spot whence they had tilter,;i` tw ent-three days before. The loss in this daring 14 4 tti se did not exceed on board all the vesse's seven killed. theor mew: five wounded, including Captains Napier and Bar i ( kr 'Me e , ntroits wi.l net allow us to give from the despatch of Sir „ r ssord en e , more than the one extract which follows Preis, ° „,` - aPtain Napier I owe more than I have words to ex ramt, Euryalus lost her bowsprit, the head of her fore the e t , -43ti the heads of all her topmasts, in a tornado which 'flee t emtntered on the 25th, just as her, sails were clewed up, titer and were passing the flats of Marland Point ; aud yet, 'reies" hours' work on her refittal, she was again under 44rancing up the river." Ol ap i tt N . APIER IN LITERATURE. tea retnained on half-pay until his appointment to The Ga :tes4,s at Portsmouth, on which station he was three years, and at.Laeteieoll,laetition, on account o f his wounds (for the Gallant f; s q ° l l4 o s s i tue), an out-pensioner of Greenwich Hospital to the tie ‘• per annum. Let it nut, however, be supposed ,3 0 t f a ,', 4l hat the Gallant Officer is poor, far from it. He fights 4 :it , R z u rtad, but for the deep-seated desire in his heart of i t t)'' ), iu **l tt) y In this view he cannot be extolled et is and flaming with l es ...ell e , is whole being seems consumed t7ett devotedness of a lofty, we had almost said, sub clk't°.lQPahe-tTistn• It is this great feeling which actuates his g, and energizes his every action, and which, like a t ' w 'thin his soul,for ever a spirit-stirring blast, ,trurßes hi_to plays achievement. !ett, ot t hi ed, I T valour and eid be though oweve, by his woun s, he sought now a short h the state of his body demanded quietude and s e a nee, his mind, prone to movement, and comfortless but i, - `, P ten ee e ngaged itself in enlightening the world with his ex -4 itipiauMn matters of naval expenditure and economy. The i4fr ard ee d the sword of' Mars, and in the United Service ' i t t he o j ho :,_ a r r : a s i e . : f er i al B3 p 2 ro , ofs of his literary talents, particularly Vol. 1, wherein are an excellent . series ternen ervations on the Construction and Qualities of th , e , ,nes, and Castor and on Naval Architecture in general. n e'e t wo vessels whose comparative merits much en °fairy htotal attention at the time, the one being built by the ttel,ll!e artier and the other by Captain Symonds. In the course N I Led wen C ommodore Napier shows' that . he . had himself t ltl ''e rnare tne tl±nry and practice of ehip•building, for m h e e_ * t e r a b. t ` - " Your years ago 1 sent to the Admiralty a l e as 2le; I P-it is now in the United Service Museum. She ;P o t* , is t e e e r t e l .. ong, and the same breadth as the Nelson." This is to poi nt% .oguout valuable for many suggestions thrown out kp er 14 question. In the same year's Journal, Vol. 11., e tole 4 he, it ntitled, " R emar k s on Steam V essels, " and a l to at tal ent ensarks on the State o f th e N a vy," a ll from the R d pc , lei PeNr‘ P IER AT PORTSMOUTH. 1832. e• we vexing habits of our hero not allowing him any t11„ 4 3 "tot' find him, in December, 1832, propo,in . g him bete-ett mayeta),nclielate to represent Portsmouth in Parliament. tho and for " said of the staunch addresses delivered from the f tekht, t ums of antiquity, but for genuine manliness o e „ e ted, laconisin of expression, and blunt, hearty,. un nf 01 `,` u nvarnished avowal of his own deeds, there is no *fe e ', ene e '. r Y, from plain Phocion's harangues to bold Cob lre;'° not r a tions, that, being put into parallelism with it, eeef:Raet, b "! by the juxta : position. It is an eccentric, It% t 4 e. e k superlative piece of honesty ; each paragraph rotin,'Oifein"ky water from a pure and potent fountain-head: klalr R 3 a dirt-is as perfect as an unflawed chrysolite, though O tt, Ileeenisencrusted diamond : it is the speech of a . verir- f eteltheie es --not Hercules in the effeminate attire o shinete t :uc 'thuut Herculeß slovenly and tough as when he had tlopee,M d Bt Yrnphalides and brained the Nemean lion. We tee:.own , e 9eurnent so important a portion of the Comr.nn tee:e ,rnd, that to omit it would be equal to an artist s t a feature in his portrait ; and as it furnishes a ef te :Nie sh wand succinct recapitulation of all the events of his tere - , t .Yttehoeh3osove hitherto recounted, it will serve as a held ii'Vorts th' e f ,'t was thus that he spo`.ie to the burgesses i INl t iZena,i o e ur d s e of my canvass (said the Gallant Officer) 1 , 41 ts e who I sin? I will tell you. I am Captain Charles *rnt n t fl•n, tY-five s ago commas - riled the Recruit brig enur: s -fl utes" and who had theehonour of being twenty fretneuder the guns of three French nee of battle ships theePlien British squadron, the nearest of which, with the tto °r ate the Il awkbrig Ilas from five to six miles astern e t edsie et r ! l Part eatnto them, of the ti ' ine I kept flying double-shotted One Of these ships (the Hautpoult) le t e s ter ed by the Pompey and Castor, the ether two 'be ,i" a nd'e e P e rior sailing. Sir Alexander Cochrane, my b 'et e ' o e ge ef - rf a c . l . l i?r, promted me on the spot into her. At ire teeeeed riinique, the 2Eolus, Cleopatr and Recruit St tngorinclotisiee night b t e E t w d e w e n a r d; , Pigeon e Island , , burnt their shipping. At eaylight in the h . ow e , ht allieared to nae that Fort Edward was abandoned ; Itle,, w nh fi v er ' was deubted. I offered to ascertain the fact, Was 'et' lb' e men I landed in open day, scaled the walls, and h ttri nnai s : , Haiou Jack on the ramparts. ' Fortunately I 'll4 l . tir ed '4lll from Fort Bourbon, which stood about I tnt . tf d Yitr is off, and commanded it. On this being te i 'd • a S t , ' eo , In th e Alexander Cochrane, a regiment was i ttei the rught. Fort Edward was taken possession ti e °ri et 'Mette r eet • a l et , s turned against the enemy. lam in pos "ts the er freen Sir A. Cochrane, saying that my con -IPreeege r , A lariZ ean s of saving many lives and shortening the 1: - ' t ! e .' I had once the misfortune of receiving tee ( ree, tr, mg from a French corvette ; the first shot she N it • th e Y thi g h , and e enent a plumper carried away my main- Wa s Ci e Y escaped, but the British flag was not tar tie ter sed tety retur n to England, in eammand of the Jason, 1 1 ' 4 1'. 1' k t i e r,Z S t 1 1 3 11 .7 by a Tory ' Admirals because I had h Ras t e ' With th e could not lead an idle y' life, I served a selesu e ptii se . o ,, e s army in Portugal as a volunteer, when tutu ear l . •" n ur'd• At the battle of Busaco, I hael the ,p i g s ' et off this field my gallant friend and relative, e l ute h l e ' r 's not th °w ne le nae, wile wee shot through the face. ti i was iert o only field where he shed his bleed :at Co let`'"lnds, o n f °'' dead, but, thank God ! he escaped with t . t Na, 'Tiles, i n th mY return to England, I was appointed to de s ,,tits es th e e,Mediterranean ; and if I could bring the that frorn'e,,lPu'itan coast into this room, they would v t i t nee. e l r", I di d r 'aPes to the Faro Point there was not no , , th a se et , ef• h .! ° t, 'eave my mark, and brought off h IN I t ti t ti N I ha d tl " " ri red sell of gun-boats, and mere ant tre!tief: into ti :_ e honour of running the Thames and et'''t 11t der ende r . small mole of Penn, which was t sup ' T a nd before they could recover eZ t k ae e : wen thine' e captured the island without the loss of e a teg t to 1.41 i n . re moved to the Euryalus, and had the good kt N e4 nee, Jsith two French frigates and a schooner. I 5, 4 4 11 4 Passi ng . night close into Calvi, in the island of ; aneucttose under the stern of one, plumperin . g her tb 4*4 4 4'd °I her r' e ' nugli w e were going eight knots, I tried to t h awse onsort, who was a little outside, standing d`d ire i h.e night was dark, the land close, and tie;ioreolsobrecerilolos.sese3tribgt;ileeur,y. but I drove her ashore on the e ;11 : efierwluost brushing wrecked, and her consort d was Y th e su 0 rTeh as E s u h r e y a pa l uss,ewdo.re rTheoun ships * ati P ch ards ascertained to be . armee en flute, mounting 22 eottloer4dertettaZlthe s c hooner 14. From the Mediterranean I Wits- hoer America; and if my Gallant Friend Sir James r no W ould have told .youliorr-I did ray duty on r . , ~..,...„. :,..,______ , ~.,,, ......,..,.. ~,,,„ ~„,, ~ ii ..r.,; „0..,..._ r_,......0.. , ..... , ......_ , that long and arduous scrvice up the Potomac ; he would have told you that in a t:emendous squill the Euryalus lost her bow sprit and all her topmasts, and that in twelve boars she was again ready for work. We brought away a fleet from Alexan dria, were attacked going down the river by batteiies, built close to what was the residence of the Great 'Wa , hington, and .I was again wounded in that action in the neck. On the peace taking place I went on half-pay, where I remained ti'l I was ap pointed to the Galatea, which ship I commanded for three years on this station ; and I hope and trust I have done my duty faithfully, during that period, to my king and country." Despite, however, of this nervous and energetic addre , s, at the close of the poll, the nwnbers stood as follow : Cirter 656 Baring COI Napier ............... The truth is the Captain was new in the field, and his name not sufficiently known or blazoned ; this defeet was re medied by the time of his Greenwich attempt, when, within the minimum of a few, he reckoned as many votes as the most veteran and illustrious of his competitors. NAPIER'S CAPTURE OF THE MIGUELITE FLEET. _ ~~~~ -_-,-.--, .= .~~ forecastle, supported by one or two officers. There I pauied, till several men rushiroo on board,. We rushed aft with a loud cheer, and either passed through drove `party doWn upon the break of the quarter-deck. At thiS, moment I received a. severe blow from a croW-bar, the owner of which did not • escape unscathed ; and poor Macdontingli fell at my side by a musket-ball. Barradas, the ' Captain of the ship, came across me, wounded in the race, and fighting like a tiger. He was a brave man. I saved his life. The secnod captain came next, and made so good-natured a cut at one that I had not heart to hurt him : he also was spared. Barradas took up arms again, and was filially killed in the 'cabin." The Commodore and Captain Chlrles Napier, after driving, a whole host before them, fell, severely wounded, on the quarter deck. The former with difficulty regained his ship; the latter, being stunned, lay some time, until the noise of friends coning to his assistance roused him from his rtupor. The quarter-deck was now gained,'but the slaughter still continued, notwithstanding the endeavour of the officers to stay it. The main and lower decks were yet unsubdued ; .and as the Don Pedro ranged up on the opposite side to board, both ships fired. In a fow minutes all was quiet ; the lower deck gave in, and many of the Portuouese seamen rushed on the quarterdeck for safety, with white canvas on their left arms, having discovered that was the badge worn by our men in boarding." This gallant action was ended by the Commodore's chasing after the fugitive vessels. lie followed the Martin Freitas, and the Villa Flor, which was making of, but by ten she was an his possession. "Thus finished the action of the sth of Ju1y . 1833, leaving in our possession two ships of the line, mounting eighty-six guns each; including four forty-eight pounders for throwing shells, one frigate of fifty-two guns, a fifty-gun ship, and' a corvette of eighteen guns; two corvettes and two brikrs escaped ; the two former arrived safe in Lisbon ; one brig joined the follow ing day, and the other gut to Madeira. 'rho enemy were amply found in every spect:s of warlike stores. and mounted stern-guns in addition to the full complement on their broad sides." The loss of the squadron was about ninety killed andwounded. The enemy lost between two and three hundred. " It is not for me," says Napier, " to comment on this action ; I shall leave that to the world; simply observing, that at no time was a naval action fought with such a disparity of Noce, and in no naval action was there ever so severe a less in so short a time." After so great and crowning a victory, won by the strength of own arm, and the ability of his tactics—having destroyed, or, for a while et least, crushed the, power of that enemy who resorted to every possible intrigue and machination to under mine the stability of the then established throne of his mistress, the foulness of ingratitude was his •ultimate portion, which eventually so disgusted. him as to drive horn from their shores. True, that so long as the sunshine of his recent success flung splendour around him, and even the blackest intriguer at Court could not, being human, refrain from yielding him just praise, seeing that the wave was still wet with the crimson of traitors, and knowing that, at such a period, their attempts to l.i is the •Quaen would he too front ie'and hopeless, they quietly saw him invested with the title of Viacount Cape St. Vincent, and wiih the Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword. But no sooner had the won der of victory in some degree 3ub4ded, than these lurking friends or Don Miguel crept like adders around the thi one, and poured the venom of their black spleen into the ears of the Queen, against the man who had been the means of so firmly , seating her on her long-shaken Orono. The cheek of indig nation becomes red with anger, at the remembrance of such shameless doings. Napier was at last treated with marked in justice, and when, at a subsequent period, the young Queen had her eyes opened, anti she became conscious of the base affronts which had been put upon him, age requested him to retain his honours, and ordered all his demands to be granted, without let or equivocation. The ingratitude of Portugal, however, had made too deep an impression on the Admiral's mind to be easily erased, and the death of Don Pedro severed the last link that bound him to the service of Portugal, and in the November following Admi ral Nap:er returned to England. ~-.,' f S! N, LON_DON, TUEsDAY, JUNE 29, 1841. _O.- --- --------= ~„,,.. ----------- r4 . ,-,-_,, ~-- --- -- - .1. _ - ---- -----___-_-_-- , z= - _- -- 7 - -,-.7 -- -,..--,'.--- )., --'- ';.W-,- '---- .-------- -- - ____:- --- ,e- ,--- _-'--%:-------- -,-!, _-_=-- -- - - Vi ar - -.... -- -_ .-_-_ Th r-,7-_ •_. , ,- ,_... 4r ,_- ------ 1 .____,_ -,t..--...._ = ,._ --,_ _........•-- __ ~~ ~~= -_ ~~~_~ - 4W great good humour and patience. His pithy and characteristic declarations of principle were audible to the friends imme... dia'ely surrounding him, but e ven thi s was too great a privi ledgf4 to be enjoyed—for first mine a lump of mad, and then .a sort of independent firing of stones, till at length a general volley was given. "Pm d—d if we can stand this !" ex claimed the • galant Captain, who turned tail, and - in an in stant the: hustings were cleaned, although the rush down the solitary ladder which led to them was anything but pleasing to those gentlemen who wera not desirous of having their legs broken. On the second day, the gallant Captain, who was not going to allow his Conserveive opponent to carry the battle his own way, brought from the Medea steam-frigate a party of seventy or eighty seamen, under the boatswain, who soon procured for the gallant Captain a fair field and no favour. One of these .Tack tars seated himself on the "top of the pent-house which covered the hustings, waving one of the colours which Captain N. had tak.n from Don Miguel's fleet off Cape St. Vincent. Three sturdy bargemen of the opposite party climbed up the supporters for the purpwe of di s l o d g i n g this ventures )me Napierite. The first that came withi n J ac k's rea-h went down to the ground much sooner than he came up; the next shared the same fate ' • and the third retr ea ti ng l e ft J a ck in undisputed possession of his clevated position. This little adventure, as may be suppo e 3, excited much fun, and was considered as an omen of the Gallant Officer's success. Capta'n Napier is a stout man, with an intelligent face, the head pokes rather forward, and with dark hair, now becoming grey. On the occasion of his election, he appeared in an old blue frock-coat with brass navy buttons; duck trowsers, nut rivalling the snow in whiteness; shoes patched, but very easy ; and white-cotton socks, carefully if not comfortably darnod. On his left brecst dangled a profusion cf orders blazing in ;heir brilliancy, yet serving only to render more striking the tout ensenbleof seediness, which this true "Briti , l Tar" presented to the admiring crowd of the " beauty and fa t.hion" of Greenwich and Deptford. The whole was crowned by a round hat of most manageable brim, of whose colour the only adequate description Must'be given in the language of the Latin poet,— •, 6, Qui c&or - albdt , erat nunc est contraries albo." And there stood the man, pelted by the bargemen at Green wich in a paltry election squibbl,, on whose cool head, ready hanit,.and unflinching heart had depended the destinies of a nation—one who 114 gaiii;d More victories and made more. captures with I..ss, loss of - He than any man had ever done be fore—a man quick to flan, prompt. to execute —whose . very rasl: , ness was a carefulness of consequences, and who, when he struck a b'ow, always weighed how much depended upon that blow being at once decisive. Luekilyf or him he was not re turned for GreenWich, the numbers voted being thus :.--. ‘,..... •••.,.• .v. ,-.. •... •- .. • • .. •.. 7 Att«•ood •.• 1,361 , Barnard 1;192 Napier ..... . ...... 1,153 • So that the dirty denizens of that shore-going vicinity can boast no hero for their Reform representative. The defeat; nevertheless, in this case, was very nearly allied to victory.. • NAPIER AT BEYROUT AND ORNSCHOJOUEN. In 1839 he was appointed to the Powerful, and when she came to Port:nu:nth for her crew, the following characteristic and somewhat prophetic b:11 was issued : " Wanted active seamen for the Powerful. " Captain NAPIER. " The Powerful is a fine slfp;and in the event of a war will be able to take her own part." It was the flag of this fine-built vessel that was now destined to flout the skies of Syria, and to wave triumphantly on the top of Acre's formidable bastions. It would require glowing colours and no feeble painter to describe in adequate and im passioned terms the grand things which were effected by Napier in these Eastern regions. The naval crown which already graced his brow was bright and sparkling, but the gems which he added to it. by his exploits in these parts were yet more brilliant by many degrees. There is a species of chivalry, almost amounting to romance, in the various inci dents that are toll of him in these Oriental combats. It stirs up the heart like a trumpet to read 7 of the camp at Djournie, where Napier is des: r ibed as working in his shirt sleeves, up at six in the morning, encouraging, urging, compelling all to labour at the fortifications, and himself setting the exam ple—of the storming of Sidon, of Jaffa, of Tsour, and of Caiffa. It was at deeds like these in the olden time, that oar streets' blazed with illumination ..., and a rapture like fire ran through the British population : it was at actions like these that the shoe-buckles c f our forefathers cracked asunder through their uncontrellable j o y at the tri umphaney of 3ri tannic arms, and which inve sted the name of England with . so appalling a majesty a s kept the nations in awe, and bowed them into homage. The first affair which redounded to the fame of the Com modore in these parts was the march upon Beyrout. This place, the ancient Barytus, pleasantly situated as Any town in Syria, stood on the verge of a beautiful plain, varied with small hills, and extentiing to the foot of Mount Libanus. The surrounding country was covered with kiosks, and enriched with groves of vines, olives, palms, and orange trees. Its populatio n was estim ated at ten thousand souls, of whom the Turks formed . one-third. It was this place that formed the grand entrepot of the commerce of the D u exported their cot tons and andl es ndsilk t , a l r v o h n ic it ht , cehfeym whence exchangedthegr the corn of Bekar and Ilavarau. Cairo, Damascus, and Aleppo also largely drew • -. = - J..._ - _____ --...... ...,.... \_ -sz--, , , . '•••,' ---.--------------1 4 11 1 r r --.-.- - ---- - s--.--...----- __ ..•^...., -_,,,, _ ~......z...0. ~-----........., • 5.,..... . '^. ^. -'..-, ~ .. :L.- --. _ ,.-•.- '--........-.."- ...---....... ..,-......-, ~,,—^,..._ ~- - -•- - - - ,_ --,-,_ -,' \ . - ~. '--- ------ :- ------ "N ,•'.. ...:k. ____ .._ ____:--_-„, r •---- 'istfta-r -_,=-_-_ ---------------- ~,.... - -3 ----- • -------_7: : . - ______ - _,---.--. -----. . 7 -----,-_—, ---___---- .-.,--. - -icw..a - i m _.—..) i,-- - --- fr - 7 from it in exports. This redoubtable city, wh , ch during the Holy Wars was the scene of the fabled victory of St. George and the Dragon, was again, like its symbolic serpent, destined to fall a second time uncle: the overpowering might of another Knight of Christendom. Napier, on the 9th Oct., having directed the Emir Bechir to join him on the heights of Ornschojouen, arrived at the tenth on their summits, when they found to their surprise that between '2,000 and 3,000 men had planted themselves in a position that appeared unassailable. 'lke at tack began by short skirmishes. Heavy firings succeeded. The hi'l was crowded by our battalions, who, on coming into con tact with the enemy on its top, soon gave the affair a precipitate term:nation, and caused the Egyptians to ground their arms. A second attack was made on the remaining troops, and in less than half an hour it became a total rout, the enemy leaving all their Lav,age, ammunition, and provisions. Night put an end to the pursuit. Ibraham Pacha, who commanded, escaped with a few men, and the rest dispersed, leaving between six and seven hundred pr:sonrrs. March was now made for Beyrout. The late defeat had struck its garrison and inhabitants with terror. It evacuated to the British troops, and this stcut citadel became our prize. The effect of these successes led to the entire dis organization and submission of Soliman Pacha's army, to the amount of nearly 3,000 men, and the whole of his artillery and sores. Napier larnied -at Djournie on the 10th of Sep tember, having made. about 5,000 prisoners, and increased his 'numbers by about 5,000 deserters eho had come over. Immrdiately after receiving the intelligence of the capture of Beyrout, Lord Minto, the first Lod of the Admiralty, paid to the lady of the gallant hero the greatest compliment ever yet received by the wife of a naval officer. This lady, the widow of Lieutenant Edward Elers, R.N., the captain mirried early in life. Lord Minto, o - 1 the above occasion, p , ,sted down to her residence at liorndean, to announce to her that as a testimony of their Lordships' apiwobation of her husband's conduct, they had appointed her son, Captain Charles Napier, to a ship; es well as to convey to her an expression of the obligation of the Gorernment and the gratitude of his sovereign. Napier. No maritime tuehievement was ever more sp l endid than this, which demonstrated to the staggering faith of the politicians of Europe that nothing can withstand British genius and valour. _ _ _ How important is the possession of this fortified citadel, Daniel Clarke, the traveller, has forcibly related. The pos session of Acre, the key-stone of the East, extends the influ ence of its Governor even to Jerusalem. It enables its pos sessor to shut up the country, and keep its inhabitants in sub jection. All the rice, which is the staple food of the people, enters by this avenue. The Lord of Acre may, if it so please him, cause a famine to be felt even over all Syria. Djezzar Pacha used to insist that the key of a public granary is the mightiest engine of military operation, and thus it was that he, an old man pent up in a small tower by the sea-side, pos -sessed so extraordinary an empire. Hence, too, we find Acre to have been the last place from which the Christians were ex pelled from the Holy Land; and hence its tranquil possession, notwithstanding the insignificant figure it makes in the ruap of the great Asiatic Continent, is of more importance than the greatest armies, under .the most victorious loader ever sent for the invasion of the country. Commodore Napier on this memorable occasion headed one of the two divisions, and would not cease his fire till every gun of the enemy was silent. The order of the engagement was thus _ . On the 30th a general order was issued by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, thanking the fleet for their zeal and exertions ; and on the same day a council of war . was held, at which an immediate attack of Acre was d eci d e d on : the same evening the supernumerary marines were em barked, and on the following day about 3,000 Turkish troops, each ship taking a portion according to her s ite, General Sir C. F. Smith accompanying them. In the afte rnoon . the steamers Gorgon, Vesuvius, Stromboli, and Phoe nix started for their destination. Shortly before sunset the whole anchored off the town, the forces then assembled consisted of the following vessels: Princess Charlotte (Flag), Powerful (broad Pendant), Thunderer, Bellerophon, Revenge, Edinburgh, and Benbow of the line, Castor, Pique, Carysfort. and Talbot frigates, Ha.. zard corvette, Wasp brig, and the steam frigates Gorgon, Vesuvius, Stromboli, and Phoenix ; the Austrian frigates, Ci'uerriere, and Medea, and a corvette, and the Turkish Ad miral and cutter tender. At fifty minutes past one, on No vember 1, the Phenix opened her fire • the Powerf u l, c l osely followed by the Princess Charlotte, T hunderer, Bellerophon, and Pique, stood to the northward (it would be as well to state, here, that the town presents two faces to the sea —one to the west and the other to the south), and th en b ore up and anchored off the north-west angle of the town, in the order named before. The Castor, the Carysfort, Talbot, Benbow, Edinburgh, Turkiah Admiral, Hazard, Wasp, and Austrians stood in for the south face. The Reven g e was 4rdered to keep under weigh as a reserve. At a quarter past two o'clock, the batteries to the south opened en the Castor, as she most gallantly, and to the admiration of the whole fleet, took up her station within about 700 yards of the batteries, where she and her consorts opened their fire, as bad also by this time the northern division. The steamers were placed between the two divisions under weigh, and thus the. a action becam e genera l. I t wou ld b e im possible to attempt description of the scene at this moment ; but had those who have heretofore doubted the bravery and constancy of the Egyptians, then witnessed the animated fire kept up by the batteries, they would no longer be sceptical as to their courage and endurance. About three o'clock the Re venge was ordered in by Commodore Napier to support the Pow erful's division, and took up an, admirable position ahead of that ship. At twenty minutes past four, the action being at its height, a terrific explosion took place in the town, which for. a time wholly concealed it and.the southern division from view. t? , appear ance was tru l y awful, and " I can compare i t to nothing ,"- says an eye-witness, " but as if a huge yew-tree bad sudden ly been conjured up from the devoted town ; it hul l. tredmiarg minutes a mighty pall over those hundreds it had u wind, eternity ; and then slowly, owing to the lightness of the drifted to the southward." • It proved to be the exp'osion of the principal . .rivinmagn whole azin e of the place, one -thi r d o f w hi c h i t d es t ro yed; and I regiment having been quartered in a khan . t r ai s rdiately ad joining, it i s su pp ose d f rom 1,500 to 1,7090 .ocks, p erished and in the ruins, b es id es a num b er a camels, h orses , id n bu donkeys. After this fearful event, the fire from onefrom tshteill.sokuotih,terint batteries nearly ceased ; but the wes t ern up with animation, and was answered broadside Shortly rbroadside with redoubled vigour and tremendous effect. before five the Admiral made the signiltsoodtisheeonstrionnuefotrhesoeronegatigmee ment ; but f..om the smoke it co uld by the Powerful's division , wh i ch continued until half-past five to fire at the few remainin g g ot was fired either from the town or tins which still maintained the actin,?, after which not a i fleet. Shortly after a boat ipushedfromleatrhinegCttpottaoinwnof! and Port, to say that the Egyptians were that if a party was landed at the water-gate it would be found open. This was of emirs° immediately don e, sad r 3 O O O s. e ' s r s n k s . and a party of Austrian Marines too k uno pp osed At daylight the rema in der . of the Turkishconsi derable number of Marines troops and a were landed, and quietly marched into the place. 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Th • , ..,,,, - _ - . -- • - ....--,..--- '. -- __•--,_------ 1: - .„."_7 1 6. --- ,______ .. _ . . • •_ ,. ~,:::i l .-•• - • ___., :- , _ ._.__ ..--...-----_____,--- --• ____.... _ -_,.___, _._. _ _~ 1533-36. The war of succession in Portugal now solicits attention, in which the services of Napier as Admiral were more than usually signal. The hero has told the most of these in his own blunt, unsoph'sticated style, and the truthfulness of his unco loured narration would form no ill model for historians. From his letters to the Emperor Don Pedro, and other sources, we condense this heroic period of his life. In 1833 Captain Napier succeeded Admiral Sartorius' in the command of Don Pedro's fleet, and after paying his devoirs to the Emperor of Oporto, he got his fleet off, and shaping his course outside the. rock of Lisbon kept a look out for the Miguelite enemy. Before, however, the grand action came to pass which so greatly sig nalised him, he made, with his party, successful descents on the coast, capturing Beja, Tavira, Othao, and Faro, the capital of the Algarves. But the great event drew nigh, and the famous victory nhich he achiesed over the more numerous and powerful squadron of Don Miguel off Cape St. Vincent, which the Gallant Briton, with his brave followers captured in the course of twelve minutes, by boarding, a la Nelson ! is thus graphically described by himself : " At eight o'clock on the morning of the 3d of July, the officers of the watch reported two sail, then three, then four, and so on until they counted nine. I was surprised, and, as Sir Richard Strachan said, delighted ; but the delight was accom panied with a disagreeable sort of feeling just resembling the sensation of your heart coming up into your mouth, and requiring a tolerable gulp to keep it down. We were standing on the starboard tack under courses and top-gallant sa Is; the enemy were on the larboard, broad on the lee bow under their topsails; one alone, which we took for the fifty-gun ship, had her courses and top-gallant sails set, and sailed bad. They were formed in two lines, having the Don John, bearing a Com modore's pennant to windward, supported by the Raiuha of the line, the Martin Frietas, and Princess Real. The three cor vettes and two brigs formed the lee division opposite the open spaces, all well painted, sails well set, and lines compact. It was a majestic sight, and I turned the hands up to show the crews how well they looked, and to exhort them to pay atten tion to the management of their guns as the surest means of success. I had never been in a general action, and although delighted at the prospect before me, I could not but feel ap palled at their great superiority and the magnitude of the en terprise I was about to undertake. " The breeze was good, the water smooth, not a cloud in the heavens; the enemy looked well and firm, and they were plainly seen training their guns as we approached. It was a trying and awful sighs, and accompanied with a considerable degree of dread (at least I can answer for myself) ; efficers and men were calm and determined, though aware of the dan ger of the enterprise, the success of which mainly depended on the state we should be in after the first broadside. " The enemy kept their line close, and reserved their fire till well witi.in musket shot ; the frigate then threw out a signal, which, we concluded was for permission to fire : the moment was critical, and we all felt it. " The Commodore's answer was hardly at the mast-head ere the frigate opened her broadside, which was instanta neously followed by the whole squadron, w:th the exception of the Dohn John, whose stern and quarter guns could only bear. Poor Raiuha !* I looked up and expected to see every mast tottering ! but the cherub was sitting aloft, and not withitanding the most tremendous fire I ever witnessed, which made the sea bubble like a boding cau dron round her, the smoke clearing away discovered to the asloni , hed N!i guelites the Rainha proudly flowing on the waters of Nelson and St. Vincent, with her masts erect, her rigging and sails only showing the fiery ordeal she bad gone through.. " It was now that the frigate flew to, grazing the Rainha's stern with her flying jib-boom ; the foremost guns were pealed into her, crammed to the muzzle with round and grape ; the helm was then shifted, and we ran alongside of her under a very heavy fire, which struck down my secretary, master, and many men. The ships were lashed with the main sheet, and Ceramodore Wilkinson and Captain Charles Napier, heading the boarders, passed from the bower anchor to her bulwark, driving the menaeross the forecastle, along the larboard gangway. " I had not intended to board, having enough to do to look after the squadron; but the excitement was too great, and ouni myself, without hardly knowing it, on the enemy's Or The chief ship of Napier's squadron NAPIER AT GREENWICH. 1837 Among the eeltcious ruralities of his seat Purbronis, or in the vicinity of florndean,• near Southampton, Na!iier for a while enjoyed the retirement he had so nobly earned. Ins h use wts like a Prince's for lrispite•Thy, for in i:s ball the wearied soldier and sailor found ever a friend arid welcime. The state befittirig an Admiral was also kept up by hitn. combining with . it the hearty bon-hommie of the o ld Loglidi gentleman, while be drove along - the Southamptonshire roads .his four.in-hand with all the spirit, if not the grace of a Wa terford. But again the fire of h's .-blood broke out, and in July, 1837, Captain Napier stood for the borough of Green wich, with Mr. Barnard and Slr. Wolverly Attwood, M.P., the Chairman of the General Steam Navigation Company. From the first there never was tiny doubt as to the return of Mr. - Barnard, and - the contest therefore was in fact between the gallant Captain in the - Liberal interest and Mr. W. Att wood, the new Conservative candidate. At the nomination a scene of most tremendous uproar end confusion took place. • A large party of persons employed by the General Steam Navigation Company crowded round the husti ngs , an d by their vociferations and shouts pteventeA. any body but the* candidate frotn: - bein"g heard. . Captain Napier, when he resented himself -endled the •atornx with NAPIER'S TAKING OF SAIDA. On the 24th September, Admiral Walker, with the Turkish fleet, appeared betore Tyre, summoned and took it, with 1560 captives. On the 26th Commodore Napier appeared before Saida with one line-of-batve-ship, and with the Austrian divi• aim. The Egyptian Commander having refused to surrender, Napier commenced fire. After two hours' cannonade the breach was declared practicable, and 1,000 British, Turks, . and 200 Austrians, marched to the storm and carried the town. Three thousand Egyptians laid dawn their arms : the allies lost 40 killed and 70 wounded. Ihe resu:t was most complete' and speedy. The whole of Lebanon was on fire; the effect on Ibrahim's' tronps 'was electric. The corps of 10,000 men un der him dispersed, and on the news of the taking of Said% GO dffieeri with.4,ooo men went over to Napier. On the 27th September, Ibrahim himself let Baalbeck with a small force and fled to'Pamascus. The four Consuls who left Alexandria joined Napier's fleet. NAPIER AT SIDON. The individual valour of Napier at Sidon is surpassed by no instance in modern times or ancient. • The invincible daring di.played by him on the occasion was most signal and un matchable. The following spirited account of his taking of the town is furnished by the Malta Times of the 15th Oct. : " Off Alexandria, Oct. 5. ' " The smartest afFair is yet to be told you. Charles Napier, on Friday, the 25th, talking with the Admiral, remarked that Sidon was not in our possession, and said to him, " If you like, I will go down and take it, and be baek,again in eight•and forty hours." He started, and was as good as his word. lie had the Thunderer, Cyclops,' Gorgon, and Hydra, with 800 Turks and 500 marines. On their way he fell in with the Stromboli from England, with a detachment of 200 marines: these he took with him, and after tiring shot and shell at the town for a couple of hours, he made a breach, and landed at the bead of his men. It was a sharp struggle ; hut ; after destroying a great number of the enemy, 0 2 u , O p O t e o 4 h: o v r e fi b rt e e e e n n brought m ar marines who neither gave nor would receive quarter, they at last kill-4 the Egyptian Commander, who died grime. was int,st daring —on the tops of the houses With two marines' bayonsts at his breast he refused quarter, u t r he lo w ss ho a l m e ind resisted, sl they fired, and he of course died, when his waving his hat on the point of 11;s sword, and two mates badly wounded, Motley and troops threw down their arms to the amount of 500 ; 1,500 round t..) the fleet at Djourn e; I believe they will be sent to Shears, a . the Wasp; and a mate of the Revenge, with five were afterwartia,eryet,ankoenn., an'lo seamen, one since dead ; and one of the Thunderer's launchers killed. A mar i n e aficer,.who had only that morning arrived in the Stromboli, was kill-d in the breach—his name is Hocken, and he has been serving on the coast of Spain ; hekClici3lelPnee'lrlaui made e n g d h t h iN : ,, e o astP u m Pi ii, 1 i. d ; and I hear an other was wounded. '1 he Castor and Pique took Tyre." • NAPIER'S BOMBARDMENT OF ACRE. Acre the impregnable—the beautified•by the Ptolemies—the s r(rv i - tre ncbed citadel whose towers w i t h stood the two years ' si,)e „f llichard Lion .1-kart arid Philip A ugustus—Acre, that sank i n to the hands of Sultan Serapha by t reac h ery alone— that resisted the storming of Bonaparte, and so long resounded with t he World's Debate— Acre, the stro ng and Imperial buckler of the East, spite of its reputed invincibility, was destined to succumb under the arms and armaments of Stopford and EVENING SUN were taken ; 700 of one regiment, who had evaenateld the town in the night, marched down to the beach with 4rns beating, and quietly laid down their arms. The t teriss were awfully knocked about, many guns upset, an - several burst. Vast quantities of munitions of war and prb1,...4 visions, together with specie to the amount of 6,0004 were found in the town. Mahrnoud Bey, the Governor, effected his escape, but was afterwards taken by the mountain eers . Poetry has crowned the terrific taking of Aare, and the beginning of a carmen tritomphale written on the occasion ' would have served onr Commodore for his threatening war_ song, as well as ever did the " Song of Roland" serve Nor. mandy's chieftain, on the eves of his onsets. Now ye ramparts ! I am near you Strengthening your inviolate town, For the flag of England hastens , Not to save. but smite you dosiu. From a thousand mouths of terror Bolt on bolt shall volley down, Till above the smoky darkness • Napier'a banner crowns the town. ___ We cannot pass by the splendid action of Adin f ral Stopfor —an action which has covered the Admiral with immortal honour. It was Admiral Sir Robert Stopford who left his flag ship for the Phceniz, who directed the attack, who fired the first shot on the devoted fortress, who neared the formidable batteries, and under the bristling cannon (the labours and ac cumulations of ages') stood up with ceolness, daring, unshaken ceurage, and commanded the whole operations. The result cf this grand action was 3,000 prisoners, an im menre quantity of wrrlike stores accumulated for years ies this celebrated fortress, and pcesession of the entire mast of Syria. The fail of Acre will echo and re-echo through the vvorld. The SoYereigits of Europe wal see that the spa it cf Nelson slid lives in the i'ritish navy, that her fleets can yet barter dozen reiglity works deemed by ordinary people impregrable, and that Enela n d is yet the undisputed Mistress cf the Sea. Our description of this greet action is complete as it ap pears above, but the following letter, as if •Int off by the sweep of a sailor': tar-brush, with an hone- t and hearty zee's, presents a rough and spirited sketch of the Sidon and Acre actions. The breve Commodore, figures in it dravely, and it comes from one who accompanied every inch of the bus:nesse— "My dear Father—l have received )our welcome letter, and am happy to hear all oer dear family are well, tie I am at present, although I must ray, since I wrote last to you, we have had some sharp work f.r the eyes, I do assure you. First and firemost, we took Sidon. I was whore with the Royal Marines, whom arc cal jollies, and right jolly fellows, believe me, they are for fighting, as the Eityptians know to their cost ; but. now I settee tell you. as f r as I can learn from the marines, their ers proposed to send out skirmishers to corer their teen while they formed ti.eir 1 ending, and go on in what they call sections or th-ees, or quarter distant eoiunins. But our brave Commod e: e, Mho is called Chsrley--- a rum nee to look at, hut a rare en , to go—severe ho would it. are no " parade nonsense," but would make skirmishers of es all ; so off tie set with the Turks lielteresk-lter, the devil take the hiudmor. I believe our messmates, the Turks, th iught us marl, for the moment one of them shortened sail, or lagged behind, the galltant old Commodore, who was without his jacket, with his shirt-sleeves tucked up, and an old straw hat, let fly a stone at him, with " Bear a hand, messmates: shake a reef out of your trousers." Oh, it was capital fun ! Only a pity they were not our saucy neighbours on the other side of the water, that. we might have tried to take the shine out of them, instead of the miserable half-starved Egyptian recruits, poor rascals, we had to deal with. Poor fellows, I pitied them, but it was no fault of ours. Next we went to St. Jean d'Aere, a mighty strong place, and where we cast anchor at about two o'clock on the after ternoon of the 3d of November, beat to quarters, and away we rattled at the fortifications ; but, alter the fist broadside, the smoke was so thick, devil a thing could we see, but we bladed away at a fine rate: Some of us iiut four shots in the guns at a time, which made the guns kick, and sometimes stranded and carried away the breechine ; but, as we were determined to give them a'goed dose, we did not s and upon trifles. When we had fired away about two hours, a most wicked shell from the Gorgon steam-ship went slap bang into their largest maga zine of powder, blew 1,300 men to atoms, upset their guns. and knocked the carriages to pieces on the ramparts, and killed their artiilerymen dice which, nn wereler that they were . cowed, and would not stand to their guns, and marched out of the place, poor devils. Some mistake was made by souse of the shies Lot taking their roper berths, and the admiral finding one of the ship; ficii , g over into another, hung (nit the segrral to discontinue the action, so they hail after wards nothing to do but look on. We lase taken g:,at many gun , -. dui , tors, and a gnat firLl of eash ; so 1 live,. My dear father, to bring you Kunio some prize money, which is a tare thing in these days. If it had net been Ix 41, blow ing up of the magazine by the Go-gun, as ws bad fired assay almost all oar powder and shot, they say we should have at tempted to storm it next day ; in that ease, I think a great number of us would have lost the number of our mess, which means, being sent to Dary's locker, or if not, to kingdom come, the place was_ so devilish strong. But " All', well that ends well," and we have bd rare good lurk and rare good fie. The Egyptians stuffed begs filled with sand in their port-holes, and so could cot trill their guns fore and aft, and fired very badly. Give my love to all at home. From your loving FOS, " St. Jean d'Acre, November 5. g. J . 111 NAPIER AT ALEXANDRIA. • Commodore Napier's ship " the Powerful," though she had the warmest berth at Acre, was, slrange to sa y, on l y h u l le d twice. Alter the engagement she sai.ed fur Alcsandrie, where the Commodore further crowned his glory, by settling i n six hours, not with treaties and p ro t oco l s , but on the word of honour of a British officer, and under the guns of a British man-of-war—the Egyption question, against which all the dip'omatists in Europe had been knocking their heads fur the last five years, and which shook the Ottoman empire to its centre, and all but involved Europe in the flames of a general war. The short circumstances are these : Commodore Napier having arrived off Alexandria with a reinforcement of several ships, learnt from her Alajesty's Vice-Consul, Mr. Larking, of the transmission of the terms of settlement proposed by Mehemet Ali to Lord Palmerston, through the Government of Malta; namely, that his High ness would restom the Ottoman fleet, withdraw his forces from Sysia, and content himself with the hereditary possession of Egypt alone. Whereupon the Commodore took the Power ful in with her guns double spotted. Twenty-four hours' time was given for the Pacha's ultimatum ; before the expiration of which the Pacha signified his assent, and the treaty was duly s'gned and executed on the 24th inst. A more formal ra tification of the treaty was made by Admiral Stopford shortly after. A Maltese Correspondent, who saw the Gallant Commodore at Alexandria at this time, gives this short but entertaining sketch of him : On the 25th of November he landed at Alexandria, and spent his time in walking through the town in a plain coat without epaulettes, and all the inhabitants, Turk, Arab, and Christian, manifested the most intense desire to see lira. He took up his quarters at the British Consulate, and in the cisurre of the afternoon the principal Consuls called on hint. On the 27th, about noon; he passel through the bazaars in the carriage of Mr. Larking with a great cavalcade to be presented to the Pacha, and I perceived that most of the Orientah gave him a profound salaam. Nobody would have believed that Lord Pal. merston would have entrusted such a delicate negotiation to Commodore Napier, who has always been considered a mere fighting man, but the result shows that his Lordship's prognos tications in this respect have not been deceived. The town was in a perfect state of jubilee, and the old stagers say this is the merriest Bairara they ever saw. NAPIER FOR MARYLEBONE. Bronzed by the sun of Syria, and laden with the laurels of a " hundred battles," the Commodore once more sought the strands of Britain, On his arrival he was elevated by her most gracious Majesty to the , rank of Knight Commander of the Bath, and is now Sir Charles Napier. Sir Charles now aspired to the representation pf Maryle bone, and for this purpose he resigned -his command is the Mediterranean, in order that no obstacle might be thrown in his way, and that he might go in unshackled to support the Administration. Sir Charles Napier's political principles are too well known to the bulk of his fellow-countrymen, and especially to the electors of Mar3labOne, to - render it incum bent on us to dwell upon them here. He isa Radical of the right sort, and as decidedly opposed to the Corn-laws, and other restrictions on trade, as Colonel Thompson himself. The people will find him as unflinching on the floor of St. Stephen's as on the quarter-deck of the Powerful. On Sir Charles's first advance to represent the Reform interest in Marylebone there were two other candidates in the field with himself, viz., Sir Benjamin Hall and Mr. Young ; but as this division of the Reform interest was likely te be in jurious to the C 11132, and likely to let in a Tory, it was mutually agreed that a ballot should take place between Sir Charles Napier and Alr. Young, the weaker whereof was to retire. Accordingly, on Wednesday evening, Juno 16, the ballot was taken, on which occasion the poll stood thus:— Sir C. Napier .. Mr. Young Majority for Sir C. Napier Mr. Young, though defeated by this immense majority, most handsomely came forward in accordance with the pledge he had given, and stated that considering himself to be justified in supposing that he was by the above poll supported by a large body of R e f ormers , h e wou ld now give every support in his power to Sir Charles Napier, and he called on his friends to do the same. MC election of Sir CHARLES for this borough is now beyond doubt, nor does it need any harangue on our part to blazon further the deeds of him who with his good sword has cut his own name upon one of the most prominent pillars of Fame. He who has stormed the fortresses of Syria with such power, will storm with equal tremendous ness and success the fortresses of monopoly, an d endeavour, with the rest of his compatriots, to pour over the face of the earth the blessings o f free trade, promotive of that great interchang e ,which will unite in confraternal links the nations of the universe. Hitherto it has been only abroad, and at far distances from his native home , that he has laboured to g ain g lor y for country, and to wreath her brows with the rich sunlight of renown. How. nobly he has com ported himself in the discharge of this duty, how strenuously he has fought, and how magnifi cently triumphed, the annals of his country will hereafter record, and deliver down his praises to a remote 'futurity. But this point of his history, instead of dieing the end and consummation of his fame, is likely to be but the first step of his )p ascending greatness. He is about to stand before his country at t i s moment of time in a far more noble and heroic point of view than he has ever yet occupied. Lame principles of freedom, and majestic philanthropical efforts, form the proud pedestal on which he at present stands, and the grounds upon which he offers' himself for Membership in St. Stephen's. Thiise patriotic principles of the public good which fie has ever deemed paramount to all others, for which he has throughout the past jeopardied • his life amid warring hosts and annihilating flame-bolts —these, which from the first moment of his career appeared suspended like a radiant orb within his mind's eye, encouraging him in every contest, and inspiriting him in every danger— these, though now turned upon new objects, are still essentially the same towards operation, and will eventually conduct him to the same mighty and magnificent results of triumph in the halls of our Legislature, as they have heretofore done in the battles of our realm, r s 9 s 3 s. d'