The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-11-08 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, NOV. 5.
His Majesty's ships Warspite, Captain Carroll, C. 8., and Vo-
lage, Captain the Hon. R. S. nitrates, are expected to be ready to
sail for the East Indies about the middle of next month. The
Royal Oak, store and convict ship, for Bermuda, is to sail early
in December, taking out the Governor and Rear-Admiral fable,
who intends residing at Bermuda. The slagnificent, 74, fitting
as a convalescent ship to replace the Serapis, at Port Royal, will
sail in December; Commissioner Shortland will take a passage
in her; she also takes out a company of artillery and several
troops.
His Majesty's sloop Dispatch is intended to convey out to Sierra
Leone and Cape Coast Castle two engineer officers, and also two
Commissioners, who are to make an inquiry into the state of the
Colony, and the nature of the present fortifications.
The Sappho sloop, Captain W. P. Canning (eldest son of the
Right Honourable George Canning), in going into Halifax Har-
bour, struck on the Maiden's Rock. The crew succeeded in
getting her off again, but she was so seriously damaged, that,
upon being surveyed, it was not thought prudent to send her
across the Atlantic for repair, and she has been condemned. Her
officers and crew are expected to be sent to England. The
Orestee, Captain Litchfield, was at Halifax the latter end of Sep-
tember, daily expecting the arrival of Rear-Admiral Lake in the
Juiter.
lhe.Hcrald, Captain Leake, has been directed to prepare with
expedition for further service. It is rumoured that she is to take
out the Marquis of Hastings to his Government at Malta, and is
expected to sail in about ten days.
The officers and crews of his Majesty's ships Wellesley and
Spartiate have exchanged ships, and the Spartiate sailed six days
previous to the %%belts, for Lisbon, with the result of Sir Charles
'Stuart's negotiation with that country, and a copy of the treaty,
from whence she was to proceed on to England, so that her arrival
may be looked for daily.
The Icarus sloop of war, Captain the Honourable Wm. Walde.
grave, having proved too defective, when inspected in dock, to
admit of being again commissioned for another three years' ser-
vice, has been this day paid off; and the whole of her officers and
crew will be turned over to the Procris, of ten guns, at Chat.
ham. The Icarus was the first vessel built by the superior class of
shipwrights.
The winil has blown from the westward since the 28th ult., and
on Wednesday night, and the greater part of Thursday, the ship-
' ping at Spithead and the neighbouring roadsteads (with one ex-
caption) rode out the gale in safety, notwithstanding most of them
drove a little. A small brig, the Mina, of Hamburgh, riding at
the Motherbank, which had just discharged a cargo of timber at
Cowes, drove from her anchors on Thursday, and fell athwart
another ship, which carried away her main-mast; she then drifted
across the Spithead and over the Spitsand, on which she struck,
and hung there for about ten minutes, but ultimately floated again,
and was brought up nearly abreast of the Platform Battery, where
she rude out the gale.—Hampshire Chronicle.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 5.
Never were the ships in ordinary in a finer condition at any port in
England than those at present in Hamoase. The noble and im-
, posing division of the vessels, from the superb first-rate to the
cutter, which rest on the waters of the Tamar, arrest the eye of the
spectator ; and he is not more pleased with the interesting spectacle
at a distance, than when panting in his light hark over the line bay
where they are moored ; he examines each vessel in succession.
There is an air of cleanliness ana discipline about each ship
which cannot fail of being observed by the most inattentive. This
excellent state of the ordinary is only to be well appreciated by
those who are acquainted with foreign ports, and who know the
wretched disorganized state of the marine of every maritime state
in Europe. Every precaution that human ingenuity can suggest
has been adopted, to preserve the numerous ships in Minoan.
Coverings impervious to the sun and the rain are thrown over the
u.pperworks—air is introduced into every part, by the most judi-
cious arrangements—the decks are as clean as the parlour of a
gentleman, and a number of regulations are observed, connected
with the preservation of the ship., that show the interest felt by
Government in the appearance and efficiency of the navy.—Devon-
port Tekgraph.