The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-10-09 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH.

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On Tuesday arrived the Thetis frigate, Captain Sir John Philli-
more, from Rio Janeiro, whither she coeveged.the Right Hon.
Lunt Ponsonby, Ambassador to the States of Nana A a his
way to the Rive, Plate. His Lordship less -then en tone
time as • mediator, in endeavouring to reconcile the ax er-
duets between the Brazilian and Buenas Ayiesh Oov t
but the Emperor of Brazil is so ill disposed to eiseedon his ilitiginal
designs upon part of that territory, that he opposes ee
iceialleele ,
to the negotiations opened by the ()overeaten% far term the
war. The expenses of the war are very great, ofeeaging,
culated, the entire revenue of Rio Janeiro. Leas ponsenbmg'
understood, intended to proceed to his ulterior destination in
ten days, in the Dot is frigate, Sir J. 0. Shieleb. It is not camel
that the Brazilian frigate Nether°, had been taken in the Rime
Plate (as was reported) by the Buenos Ayean fora ; but thel
whole squadron was covered with , by Its pusiffenimom ,
operations under its late Commander nal Count .: Hie
squadron consisted of sixty-seven of all clamm,
Buenos Ayrean shim, commend Admiral Brown :LA
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intrepid man, formerly a masts( mestheet
stonily attacked, In detail. aln , sod beat -..r
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shamefully. Admiral hobo ems g, at Rio
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egitti
Inquiry into his conduct for . • It has been ' ,'
vered, however, that, by Lite • laws, DO Cart can ••
present constitnted to meet her oeme es die late
members of such must be efficershCollmilli .. •
city RI the excused. The Admiral Milefthethe „Oa
ential friend in the person of the .
is a favourite nt Court. We regrett eo lads that the •
with the River Plate is nearly annihilated by the war which
there; the merchants are suffering immense losses, by their meth:
perishing. The French anti American Commanders at Rio have
had a spirited expostulatory correspondence with the Brazilian
Government on the subject of the right of blockade of the Riven
Plate, a question which the American Commarder (Capt. Elliott)
particularly disputes, and which be is strongly disposed to put to
the severe test of a forcible breach. lie intended to sail thithe
shortly, with the Macedonian and Cyane, having sent en the Bos-
ton. The Portuguese line-ofbattle ship Don aim VI.
at: Rio the deputation from Portugal not having, yet suc=ro
their object. It is understood that the Em h determined at
many his daughter to his brother, Don he 1 Tee Elegem
has not jet imbibed all the taste for English width we calla ]
wish, but which we hope he soon will. The is decidedly
partial to the English, and, on all occasions, e al
them. Much of her time is passed in the healthful of
hunting; she tides (astride, according to the 'A stem).A
from forty to fifty miles a day. The Awe of the stave-vessel, cap.l
ab 4,
Lured by the Redwing, and afterwaide. taken by a Brazilian err I
war, under pretence of her beng a pirate, was stiff undeeld
The Brazilian Government had offered to release the officer ( te
, Faalknor, mate of the Redwing), and the crew, upon Sir George
Eyre undertaking to give them up again, If the vessel should be
i condemned in their courts as • pirate. This the Admiral refused
to do, and consequently they remained is confinement. The
1 Wellesley, 74 (flag ship), intended to leaps Rio in a few days, on
a cruise to the northward. The surveying !hips Adventure, Capt.
P. P. Kieft, and Beagle, Captain P. iltelms, had wind at Rio,
Ispoil rOgiand, and were to sail shortly to commence the r survey of
the toasts, beginning in the Straits of Magellan, and. the Coasts
and Islands of Patagonia. The Jasaeur, Captain Thomas Martin,
had gone round Cape Horn, to relieve the Pleb. Orders had gone
for the Cambridge, Mersey, awl Eclair, M return round Cape
' Horn. The ll'arspito, 74, Commodore Sir limes Brisbane, flew
['lndia, was appointed to take the command there. The Thetis ex-
perienced a heavy gale of wind en the 2thh edt. in crossing the p.
of Biscay ; whilst laying to, a sea struck one of her guns, and u ,
it ethe as much apparent ease as it would a common spin 1044
another washed a boat off the quarter, Into which one of the betel
seamen in the ship (named Paterson) had jest got, to secure It,
and he wes drowned ; and a third lifted the love ports under the face
channels. The Thetis left' Rio Janeiro on August 14. She sailed
this morning for Plymouth, to be paid oil, her period of service
having expired.
On Tuesday the Diamond frigate. Captain Lord Napier, arrived
from Rio Janeiro, Lisbon, and the Western Islands, with his Ez-
eelitncy Sir Charles Stamm last from Miltord. Site Is come into
' harbour to refit. On Monday the Clio, 10, Capt. Aitcheson, fiom
Chatham, with volunteer seamen, and Sir W. Congress's new Life
Preserving Buoys, for trial at this port. The Clio sailed to-day
'en her return to Chatham. Remain at Spithead, Galatea and
' Philomel.
The Hunter frigate, Capt. Geo. Harris, C.B. is daily await
to arrive from Vera Cruz with 500,000 dollen, on accoont *Lek-
Mexican Government.
- Yesterday the elintittel,Arksoll, fee Bombes. meneed. •ortree-
bark passenger.. On Wedgestirm sailed the Midas, with convicts
for New South Wales e Mellish, for Madras, and several West In.
diamen, which put in on Saturday litet, With contrary winds.
The Russian sloops of war Moller and Seniavin, arrived this
Morning horn Cronstradt, bound on a voyage to Kamschatka.
This morning the Stentor transport, Lieut. Burney, arrived at
Spitheed, in great distress, having been twenty-three days at sea,
bound to Sierra- Leone. and obliged to put back to repair damages
which she sustained in heavy gales of woad, in the flay of Biscay.
The following narrative, written by an officer, describes her perilous
escape from shipwreck, and the suitieings of those on board : 1
The Stentor sailed from Gravesend on the 14th September. and
on the 19th passed the Land's End. On the 234 and 24th, we ex-
perienced a heavy gale in lat. 47. long. 13.19. when theshipeprungl
a leak,
causing the pumps to be at work every half hour. On the
79th, when in at. 45. 54. it came on to blow one of the severesi
hurricanes that ever was experienced ; the Captain, who had
messed the Atlantic thirty-six times, said he never sew the like t
the sea ran considerably higher than our mainmast, and resembled '
a complete foam ; the wind was W.S.W. with the sea rolling)
hom the northward. From 1 a.m. the ship kept shipping sea after
11 sea--all hands were at pile pumps; the guns were thrown over.
as well as every thing. that could be got at. Now a scene
mane on which beggars description ; at twelve o'clock the man at
the helm gave a signal which was too well understooth—the men
rushed to the rigging, clinging to it in all parts—a sea appeared
which actually darkened the space between us and the sun ; it came
lifting its head, until, with one horrid rush, it swept our decks,
filled the whole of the alter part of the ship with water, carried
away the bulwarks and dashed into the rigging; our main topsail'
was split into ten thousand atoms, and myself, who was In the back
stays, bruised all over, and Captain Perry, of the Royal African
corps, the commanding officer on board, so severely injured as to
be obliged to be carried idto the round-house. The knees of the
ship were started by the violence of the shock. Every pamenger
on bean' was compelled to work at the pumps. We then attempted
to put the ship before the wind, as our only chance of life, which,
thank God, succeeded ; but at 6 p.m. to add to our ninety, one of
the pumps choked, and the gale still continuing, nor did it at all
abate until the next night, having lasted 42 home. Our perils were
not yet over, as we were all obliged for our own safety to work in-
cessantly nt the pumps to keep her afloat, and for the lent nine days
we have never had off our wet clothes, our cabin being inundated
with water, and all our things destroyed. The binnacle was also I
washed away, the boats stove in, and, to add to the confusion, an I
alarm was spread of tire, Yet, 'midst all the dangers, the Capteinl
(Mr. Marshall), and the Agent (Lieut. Burney), lost not their
presence of mind, and to them our safety is grainy indebted. We
are quite worn out with fatigues and sufferings.
Letters from Cape Coast Castle state that the Brazen, 28, Captain
George Willes, was lying there, all well, on the 16th of July,
having recently captured IA Fortuna, • Portuguese schooner, With
250 slaves, 45 of whom died on the passage to Sierra Leone; and
on the Pith of July she captured the Brazilian ship St- Benedict,
fitted tor a cargo of 690 slaves, but with only 25 on board.
Major Bowen, one of the Commissioners, on his return from the
Gambia, comes home in the Braun, and was shortly to sail fee
England. A beautiful brigantine, prize to the ship on a former'
cruise, will return to England with her.
The Ann, smuggling lugger, belonging to Flurting. with sei
crew of fourteen men, fits been sent into Newcastle, ca Lured on
the 28th ult. off the Yornshirc coast, by the Mermaid, lieutenant
Robertson, after having thrown a valuable cargo overboard during
the cbase, consisting of brandy, geneva, spirits, tobaceo,' tea. Me
gars, and rids, 48 tubs of which were subsequently picked up, i
gale of wind ?rem the southward preventing further looking fee
the rest. The Ann is a most beautiful vessel of about 65 tone,
nearly new, and exceedingly well found with every deseeiption of
stores.
The Lords of the Admiralty made the following promotions be- 'I
tween the Ist of Jely and the 3ath of September:—
To be Captaino-11. Shannon, C. 11. Fremantle, Lent H. J. S.
Churchill, 31. Seymour, J. Pakenham.
To be Commandeer-H. Gossett, 11. Al. Love, W. Smith (e),
C. Keele, T. Fraser, Hon. 0. J. Cavendish, F. CbanAer, A. F.
Gardiner.
To be Lieutenenti—E. J. Hopkins, J. Suinmers, D. F. temp-
bell, J. 31aidand, P. Haat, J. Waller, G. Wieser. J. Evans, C.
Sergoantson G. F. Westbrook, E. /lonised, G. W. Smith, N.
Dalway, J. 'Mare, S. R. Protheroe, B. Haines, J. Tom, J. N.
Nott, C. C. 13irkett, J. Dalyell, J. Julius Al• Donnell, G. B. Love.
To be plasters—J. Thomas, J. P. !marsh.
To be Assistent Surgeons—S. Whichev, W. Hutchinson, B.
Jenne 51. D., T. Johrison, T. Osborne, J. C. Hamilton.
To be Purser—J. L. Jones.
ted to the Britemart, Cafteln, .
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CaTopbtfiinSuFrgmchngs--Smier.
Sparshott to the Nimrod.
ihslacapkpoeyin,A. Savage.
Lieut.-Colonel Roby, from the retired list of the Royal Marine":
has been allowed to sell his Commission; LintL.Ceiond Imes, of
the Portsmouth division, Is placed cc the sielinthent. Major (1.
Lewis to be Lieut.-Colonel of the Portenthith &him oho Lee.
Major Ball removes from Portsmouth to Plyilleellthe_ellef I/vie.
Brevet-Major G. Jones promoted to Chatham, vise Ma* .C.
Homby, removed to Portsmouth ; Lieut. Laurie to be Capatin of
Chathun divine°.

PLYMOUTH. OCT. d.
Sailed the Cynthia packet, for Falmouth ; Bramble and
Ni.ithtingale, on a cruise.
fne Java, from the East Indies, arrived at `Madeira on the 23d
of August.
Remain—The Britannia, Windsor Castle, Forte, Pdonss, Came-
klutine, and Sheldrako•