The Sun.
London, England, 1830-05-31 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 29.—The Asia, 24, Captain
George Burdett, and Infernal (bomb), Commander Gun-
' ning, arrived on Thursday from the Mediterranean sta-
tion. The Asia left Palmas Bay, in Sardinia, on the
9th of the presenth month. The Britannia, 120, Captain
Johnstone, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Puke/ley
Malcolm ; Revenge. 26, Captain N. Thompson ; and
Melville, '74, Captain Schomberg, were lying there ; the
Gloucester, '74, Captain H. Stuart, was at Smyrna ;
Wellesley, 74, Captain F. Maitland, C. 8., Procris, 10,
Commander Sir T. Pasley, Bart. ; and Weazle, 10, Com-
mander Basden, were at Corfu ; the Musquito, 10, Com-
mander Bentham, was at Malta; the Favourite,
Commander J. Harrison, from Alexandria ; and the
Wasp, 18, Commander B. Popham, from the Archipelago,
were daily expected at Malta. The Rattlesnake, 28,
Captain Bridgman, and the Ferret, 10, Commander
Hastings, were gone to Algiers whh a communication
from Sir Pulteney Malcolm to the French Admiral com-
manding the blockading squadron, called for, it is under-
stood, by the latter having expressed himself hostile,
during the blockade, td men of war of this nation, making
a frequent practice of entering that port. The French
Admiral has, however, from the first, abstained from
having recourse to any measure beyond that of remon-
strance. The Philomel, 10, Commander C. Graham ;
Rapid, 10, Commander Swinburne ; Rifleman, 16, Com-
mander Triscott; and Meteor, Commander Copeland
(surveying), were in the Archipelago; the Mastiff, 10,
Lieutenant Cooling, was on the point of sailing, to cruise
in the Gulf of Arta ; the Samarang, 28, Capt. W.
F. Martin, was daily expected from Gibraltar to join the
Admiral. Four French frigates and four brigs were
cruising off Algiers. Sir Pulteney Malcolm gave a superb
ball and supper on the 12th of April, at the Admiralty
House, at Malta, to three hundred persons. On the 23d,
the officers of the navy and army jointly gave a splendid
ball and supper to the elite of the Island, in honour of kis
Majesty's birth-day. On the 26th, Captain Johnstone, of
the Britannia, and on the 29th, Captain N. Thompson, of
the Revenge, entertained the fashionables of the garrison,
in number 250, on board their respective ships, with
genuine British naval hospitality. The following are the re-
cent promotions and appointments on the station :—Com-
mander C. Wyvill, to the Britannia; Commander Mar-
sham, to the Windsor Castle, vice Haydon, to the Asia;
Commanders B. Popham, to the Wasp, and Gunning, to
'the ?Etna; Lieut. Triscott, to command the Rifleman, vice
Michell, promoted to the rank of Captain ; Hon. Mr.
Pelham (son of Earl Chichester), to be Lieutenant of the
Asia, and since exchanged with Lieutenant Crawford, of
the Ferret ; Lieut. Maxwell, of the Isis, to the Musquito ;
Lieut. Morrison, of the Revenge, to the Isis, vice Cook-
son, to the Revenge ; Lieutenants It. Walker, C. Ricketts,
G. A. Elliott, and G. Kennedy, to the Britannia; Lieut.
Dwyer, R.M.A., to the Revenge; Lieut. Parke, R.M.A.,
to the Britannia; Mr. A. A. Baring, of the Melville, and
Mr. Richard Inman, of the Favorite, to the rank of Lieu-
tenant.—The Asia will come into harbour on Monday or
Tuesday, to be paid off into ordinary.—The Infernal
sailed this morning to Chatham, to be paid off.
The Isis, of 50 guns, Captain Sir Thomas Stainer,
K.C.8., returned on Tuesday last from service in the
Mediterranean, and on the following day she sailed for
Chatham, to be paid off. The Isis left Malta on the '7th
of April, for Tripoli and Tunis; at each of which, places
she remained at anchor fur some days, and received every
attent'on from the governing Deys. The officers were
entertained with Turkish hospitality, and Lady Staines
was permitted at each place to visit the interior of the
harems. The Isis then proceeded :o Algiers; to deliver
a letter from Sir Pulteney Malcolm to the British Consul.
When standing into that port she was requested to heave
to by the French Admiral, in a sixty-gun frigate, who sent
his Captain on board, stating that his (niers from the
French Government were to allow no ship to enter the
port. Sir Thomas Staines replied, that he also had his
orders from his superior officer, and that he came to de-
liver despatches to the British Consul, and these orders be
should obey. The French Captain made his bow, and
returned to his Admiral. The Isis immediately bore up ;
at that time she had the 60-gun ship on one bow, a 50-gun
ship on the opposite side, and two brigs on her quarters.
On her bearing up, a signal was made to one of the brigs
to follow, which did so till site got within range of the
Algetine guns when she hove to. The Isis ran in within
a quarter of a mile of the Mole, and sent her boat ashore,
on the return of which she stood oat, without anchoring
or having further communication with the French squa-
dron. It did not appear that great preparation' were
made to repel the French, though the Dey, from pos-
sessing 40,000,000 dollars, could readily hire troops.
It is suspected he means to abandon the city, and
retire into the interior, whither the French could not
follow him ; he could then cut off all supplies with which
the country people would otherwise readily furnish the
French troops, and he could constantly keep up a har-
nessing warfare. If the city, however, should be de-
stroyed, his return to his government would be exceedingly
problematical ; the exasperated inhabitants would endea-
vour to depose him. The Isis then proceeded to Gi-
braltar, at which place there was no English man-of-war;
and subsequently to Cadiz, which harbour she left on the
10th of May. Cadiz is greatly benefited by having been
made a free port, and the trade of Gibraltar is diminished
in proportion.

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The Tyre, 28, Captain Sir Richard Grant, arrived on
Thursday from Bermuda, in 'nineteen days, after a very
boisterous passage. The Hussar, Captain Boxer, with the
flag of Sir Chiles Ogle, and the Rose, IS, Capt. George
Dewar, were lying there. The former waiting to be re-
lieved by Admiral Colpoys, and the litter waiting for the
Bishop of Nova Scotia, who was expected to re-
turn to Halifax on the 20th. The Champion was at
Halifax, - Eaton, Esq. Chief Justice of Bermuda,
came passenger in the Tyne. She also brought home 25
convicts, to whose rebellious conduct we last week ad-
verted ; three of them had been tried, two of them were
ordered to he hung. The Tyne passed a French frigate
and twelve merchantmen, on their way to Newfoundland.
She also spoke, on the 16th, the Rosalind brig, of Glas-
gow, nineteen days out from Demarara, bound to London ;
and on the 25th the William, Danish brig, bound up
Channel. The Manly was at Newfoundland. The Tyne
came into harbour to-day to be paid off into a state of

ordinary.
The Winchester, Captain Austen, with the flag of Vice-
Admiral G. Colpoys, was at the Havannah on the 15th of
April, in company with the Barham, Captain Sir John
Louis, with the flag of Vice. Admiral Fleming. Both
ships were about to proceed to Nassau. The Shannon,
Ranger, Mersey, Sparrowhawk, Grasshopper, Firefly, and
Minx, are at Trinidad. The Harpy, Icarus, Fairy, Vic-
tor, at Jamaica. The Fairy and Arachne are ordered home.
The Slacey, Hyacinth, Nimble, and Pickle are at Nassau.
The Blossom at St. Domingo. The following promotions
have lately bees made in the squadron :—Mr. F. Bateman,
Second Master of Barham, appointed Master of Grasshop-
per, vice M'Kee, invalided ; John Sinclair, M.D., As-
sistant Surgeon of Barham, Surgeon to Grasshopper, vice
Daniel King, invalided ; Mr. E. M. Denby, Acting Purser
of Mi-rsey, Purser of Barham, vice Mr. Kurcombe, Pur-
ser dismissed by sentence of Court Martial ; Mr. G. Shep-
pard, Acting to Mersey, vice E. M. Denby, confirmed to
Barham.

The Success, 28, Captain Jervoise, is said to have been
lost on Carnac Island, in Cockburn Sound, off the en-
trance of Swan the crew were saved.
We have letters from his Majesty's ship Sybille, Com-
modore Collier, dated from St. Helena, one day later
(March 29) than those reerred to last week. She was
then on the point of sailing to Ascension, from whence she
would immediately proceed home. The total number of
slaves captured by the African squadron, from June, 1819,
to January, 1827 (embracing a period of seven years and
a half) was 9327 ; whereas from June, 1827, to February,
1830 (not more than two years and seven months), the
period during which Commodore Collier has been on tLie
station, the squadron under his command has captured
the extraordinary number of 12,000, of which the Sybille
and her tender alone have captured 6,2lB—affording an
example of zeal and anxicus watchfulness on the part of
this distinguished officer as bright as his success has been
unparallele. His unwearied and indefatigable exertions
in this cause of humanity, unrelaxed as they have been
under the unusual fatality, sufficiently dismaying, amongst
the officers of his squadron, from this baneful climate, are
above all praise. The weak state of the ship's cornpanY
compels the return of the Sybille to England. The Com-
modore, we are happy to say, was well.
We shall shortly hear of some hard blows between the
French and Algerines. The expedition left Toulon on the
afternoon of Tuesday last, with a fair wind, and every ap-
pearance of fine weivh er. The French have taken the
precaution of distributing on the African shore a large
quantity of Proclamations, printed in Arabic, inviting the
inhabitants, in the name of the King of France, to remain
tranquil, and promising to respect their persona and pro-
perty. The effect of these Proclamations has been bene-
ficial, particularly as regards the tributary Chiefs, who
bear with great impatience the yoke of the Dry. The Bey
of Constantine, a pe werful tributary to Algiers, has openly
declared his friendship towards the French, and a com-
munication has been opened with him by the French Com-
mandant. The Bey of Tunis has also sent in his submis-
sion. He had previously been threatened by the Dey of

Algiers, that he would storm his capital if he did not
assist him.

The George IV. steamer, in the river, has been ordered
to proceed with the utmost expedition to Algiers, to watch
the French squadron. She is to be placed under the com-
mand of a Lieutenant.

As a proof that the slave trade proceeds with great
activity, notwithstanding the exertions of our cruisers to
prevent it, we find that, about the 27t6 of February, a
ship with 800 slaves on board got on shore on the rocks
of Santa Cruz, in making the harbour of Rio de Janeiro,
when all would have perished but for the exertions of
Lieut. Maw, of the Voyage frigate, who was first on board
to assist, aided by the boats of the Warspite, and of all the
foreign men-of war in the harbour.
The Galatea, 42, Captain Charles Napier, C. 8., arrived
yesterday from Plymouth.
The 'Etna bomb was paid off on Wednesday, and recom-
missioned as a surveying vessel, for the coast of Africa.
The Curlew, 10, Captain Woolconebe, will leave Wool-
wich, for the Cape of Good Hope station, in a few days.
She hill, most probably, call at Plymouth.
The Dryad, 42, has been commissioned at Plymouth,
for the broad pendant of Captain John Hayes, C. 8., to re-
lieve Commodore Collier, C. 8., on the coast of Africa.
Commander William Turner, and Lieuts. H. V. lluntly,
J. E. Par:by, and T. Creser, Mr. Giles, Master, and Mr.
Brown, Purser, are appointed to her.
The Revenge, '74 guns, Captain Thompson, is ordered
home from Malta, to be paid off. _

From the information we collect from our naval friends
recently returned from the Mediterranean, we are per-
suaded that Sir Pulteney Malcolm has avoided, by every
means in his power, the possibility of giving offence to
the French officers in the execution of the expedition
against Algiers, or to those who conduct the blockade of
that place ; and yet the Paris papers affirm that Admiral
Duperre has written to the Minister of Marine to the
following effect:—" I am tired of the surveillance of the
English in the port of Toulon ; I will act according to
the instruetious I have received, but should the French
flag be insulted, I shall know how to defend it."
At Spithead—Asia and Galatea. In llarboar—St.
Vincent, Royal George, Ganges, Briton, Pallas, Talbot,
Herald, Tyne, Columbine, and /Etas.
The frigate yacht Apollo (in ordinary) has been this
week taken into dock, for examination into her condition.

On Sunday sailed the Raven cutter, for Newhaven.
On Monday arrived the Highflyer cutter, from Newhaven ;
she sailed again yesterday. On Wednesday arrived the
Arrow cutter, from a crunte.

Arrived on Thursday, the Cornelia, a vessel which has
been used as a tender to the Heels, surveying ship on the
coast of Africa. She was formerly a slave vessel, and was
purchased by the late Captain Buteler to assist in his sur-
veys. She is last from St. Michael's, at which place, Mr.
Read, the British Consul, was obliged to take charge of
her in consequence of the derangement of her Commander,
Acting-Lieutenant Megeinson, and send her home under
the superintendence of the Master of a merchant vessel.
Mr. Megsinson has been since removed to Haslar Hospital.
She sailed this afternoon for Chatham.

Arrived on Wednesday, the True Love, Watson, from
Oporto, in ten days; spoke the day before, off the Wight,
the Red Port, Gibbon, from Oporto, bound to London.
The following ships have passed by :—The Orbit, Wisset,
from Para, for London; on Thursday, the Sarah Ward,
Merritt, from St. Vincent, for London, 38 days out; the
Atwick, Young, from Ceylon, sailed from Colombo Ist
February, St. Helena, Va April; the Ganges, Boultbee,
from Bengal and Madras, leis; the former the 6th, the latter
26th January, and Cape 27th AiNch; the Isabella, from
Demerara; and the Barretti Junor, Shannon, from
Bengal and Madras.—Arrived, yester,;ty, the Thomas
Wallace, Pearson, from Sierra Leone, in 4 days ; left
loading, Cato, Anacreon, Mary, Borodina,
Town of Ross, and Champion. The Minerva was loxled,
and ready to sail for Plymouth. His Majesty's ships M-e•-•
dins, Primrose, and Black Joke were lying at Sierra
Leone.—To-day arrived the Orontes, fur the Isle of
France ; bbe will sail to-morrow or Monday.
The William Harris, Lieut. Steerens, arrived this after-
noon, with ordnance stores, &c., and thirty passengers,
from the West Indies ; last from Dominique, in 30 days.
The whole of the islands were healthy.
The Highland Lad transport has arrived at Malta, and
on &livering her cargo, was discharged from the service.—
Hampshire Telegraph.
DivoNroaT, MAT 29.—The Conflict gun-brig, 12,
Lieutenant G. Smithers, sailed yesterday for the Coast of
Africa.

The Leveret, tender, Lieut. Worth, was at the Cove of
Cork on the 21st inst., on her way to the north coast of
Ireland, to ascertain the true position of some rocks, on
which service we understand she is to be relieved by the
Onyx, from Portsmouth.
We hear that the Racehorse sloop will be commissioned
for the East Indies.

The Echo steam-vessel, Lieut. Bissett, arrived late last
evening fro the Mediterranean.

The Dryad, 42, is ordered to be commissioned at this
port for African service ; and we hear that Captain
Hayes, of the Ganges, at Portsmouth, formerly of the
Ordinary here, is to have a broad pendant in the Dryad,
fur that station.

Ilis Majesty's ship Galatea, Capt. Nayler, C. 8., sailed
on Thursday for Portsmouth.
His Majesty's steam- vessel Confiance, Lieut. Richardson,
and Carron, Lieut. Baplin, arrived on Thursday from
their experimental cruise, the result of which we hear is
unfavourable to the Confiance.

Remain in Hamnaze—Caledonia, Kent, Blanche, Clio,
Royalist, Goldfinch, Carron, and Confiauce, steamers.
Barnpool—Undaunted.
At the Island—Vigilant and Bramble.—Devonport
Telegraph.

THE GREAT SUBSCRIPTION MATCH.

The match for a Purse of Sovereigns, given by the
Gentlemen of the Red House Club, took place on SAtur-
day afternoon, by the following six pair of oars, in one
heat, viz. from buoys off the Red House through Kew
Bridge:—

1. Charles Campbell, Westminster, and Wilson Emery, Hun-
gerford.
2. John Harris, Bankside, and Henry Gerrard, Whitehall.
3. James Parish, Strand-lane, and James Dodd, Hungerford.
4. John Mitchell, Strand-lane, and F. Hill, Whitehall.
5. William Noulton, Lambeth, and Cha. Maynard, Lambeth.
6. James Castle, Whitehall, and John Williams, 'Waterloo-
bridge.
The unfavourable state of the weather, and a strong
S. W. breeze, did not deter the amateurs from assembling
at Battersea pretty numerously ; and some time previous
to the start, the Arrow, Leander, Union, and many sizes
fours, pairs, and randans, containing most of the crack
geutlemen of the river, congregated off the Red House.
Coif, of Whitehall, fired a pistol at five o'clock, and the
competitors, who were lying on their oars, immediately
prepared for action by taking their stations in the manner
above described. Every preliminary being now adjusted,
in about twenty minutes Colf gave the signal for starting
—Mitchell and Hill took the lead, and off the College
were full three boats' length in advance ; but in conse-
quence of Hill having for some days previously been in-
disposed, they soon lost the advantage they bad gained.
Noulton and Maynard, in going off, were second;
but Harris and Gerrard went through Battersea
Bridge first, and continued the lead the whole way
up. Between Wandsworth Reach and Hammersmith
an arduous struggle took place for superiority, and Wil-
liams and Castle managed to go through the bridge at the
latter place, in the wake of the leading boat, followed by
Pariah and Dodd, Noulton and Maynard, Mitchell and
Hill, and Campbell and Emery. From Chiswick to the
goal an interesting change took place. Off Barnes, Wil-
liams and Castle, who were second boat, fell suddenly off
work and went in the rear, their place being supplied by
Parish and Dodd. Campbell and Emery, who appeared
abashed at being some distance astern of the whole at Chis-
wick, went at it in a workmanlike manner, and successively
passed Mitchell and Hill, Noulten and Maynard, and
Williams and Castle, and became third. Harris and his
grand
follows
:e_ o
Parish
ar 15 cove.
nd man gallantly continued the lead, and arrived at Kew in
and
DTohiled, other
Campbell five pairant
i
came in
one hour and three minutes from the time of starting, win-
ning
the
a priz
Emery, Noalton and Maynard, Williams and Castle, and
Mitchell and Hill, who received the following sums :
Five sovereigns, three sovereigns, two sovereigns, 11. 10s.,
and one sovereign.

We were glad to ■ee Mr. Osbahlestone so much reco-
vered from his late accident as to he enabled to accompany
the match. Captain RO6B was busily engaged at the Bat-
tersea inclosure during the afternoon, and we understand
had, only a few minutes before he proceeded up with the
match, won 1001. of a celebrated shot in a pigeon-shooting
contest.

A few weeks ago the romantic crag, situated
to the westward of Wemyss harbour, loosened and fell into
the sea with a tremendous crash. Travellers often make
use of that path for despatch and conveniency, but for-
tunately no individual was passing at the time.—Edin-
burgh Evening Courant.

During the thunder-storm on Saturday week,
a female, journeying from Liverpool to Chester, was so
dreadfully frightened by the raging of the elements, that she
expired is a few minutes after she entered the coach at
Eaethsm. --Liverpool Journal.

LORD W. LENAX AND MISS PATON.

The exertions made by the friends of both parties to produce
a reconciliation have totally failed. The lady, as much from a
sense of great injury, long endurance, and oft-broken promise, as
perhaps from a change of affection, is determined to persevere in
demanding a separation ; and we have good reason to believe
that the articles of that separation are in the hands of her legal
adviser. No opposition to the separation is expected on the part
of Lord W. Lennox, although some objections may be taken to
the terms on which it is proposed to take place. Indeed, such is
the nature of the disclosures which an investigation in Doctors'.
commons might elicit, that no very great sacrifice will be made
by consenting to obviate the necessity of such a proceeding.
Lord W. Lennox, although charged with looseness of habits, and
indifference to the pleasures and comforts of domestic life, is yet
neither a gambler nor a spendthrift. On the contrary, he is said
to carry his love of saving even to penuriousness; and he seems to
have been by no means indifferent to the value of the professional
services of his lady, whatever may have been his regard for her
person.
_ .

Shortly after the marriage was made public, and that it became
plain, from Lord W. Lennox accompanying his wife in her pro_
fessional excursions, that he acknowledged the nature of the
connexion between them, the Duke of Wellington, the Colonel
of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), in which Lord W. Lennox
held a commission, intimated to him that it was not consi,tent
with the character of the service for a gentleman holemg an
office of rank, and the son of a Duke, to be employed in escort-
ing a common stage-player through the country, mkt that it
could not be permitted. Lord W. Lennox took the hint, and
being-duly sensible of the pecuniary value of the one service
compared with the other, he obtained permission to sell out, and
having obtained 8,0')0l. for his commission, he invested it, with
some considerable sums, the produce of Lady Lennox's profes-
sional labours, in a proper security. This fund is variously stated
at from 13,0001. to 15,0001. During her professional excursions,
the year before the last, to Edinburgh. Dublin, and various
places in the United Kingdom, Lady Lennox received the snm
of 7,0001. ; and but that she was compelled to decline several
offers from indisposition, it would appear that the calculation of
the profits of the season would have been much above 10,0001.
These and many other large sums Lord W. Lennox has received
in the exercise of his marital rigtta ; and at the very time when
the separation took place he was drawing 201. a night from Lady
Lennox's engagement at Covent-garden Theatre, in addition to
a very large sum accruing from an overflowing benefit. His
Lordship, indeed, regular;), received her salary, and we have
heard that among the many unkind and ungenerous acts now
arrayed in judgment against 112 N, the refusal of an adequate sum
for pocket-money is also to be nirasbered.
Her Ladyship is not living, as it `sad been asserted, either in
Bond-street or its neighbourhood. She is at present with a
friend, a short distance from town ; but she has written to Mr.
Warde, promising the fulfilment of her engagement to sing
with Madame Malibran for his benefit. She has also announced
to the manager of Covent-garden her intention to play in Cin-
derella to-morrow evening, and to perform one other evening in
the course of the week, as well as on the Monday following.
This announcement was made yesterday morning ; and there-
fore, although the bills of the Theatre stated that the part of
Cinderella is to be attempted, for the first time, by Miss Fords,
there can be no question that she will resign it on the re-appear-
ance of its legitimate and original possessor. The theatres will
close in the course of ten days or a fortnight, and it appears,
therefore, from th3.s letter of Lady Lennox, that she purposes to
fulfil scrupulously all the engagements of the season. At their
close she holds other engagements, for music meetings and per-
formances, in the country ; but we apprehend that the possibility
of her complying with them depends much on the nature of the
arrangements which may be made with her husband. We have
as yet abstained from saying anything on the subject of Mr.
Wood, because we believe there is, at present, no inter-
course between them; and it is most solemnly denied that
any thing of a criminal nature has ever been the result
of their interviews. There can he no doubt, however, that
something like an attachment prevails on both sides. It is
even said that Lord William Lennox was aware of this so long
back as the beginning of March ; and that, in defiance of that
knowledge, he still continued to invite Wood to dine and sleep
at his house at West-end, and imprudently afforded opportunities
for the increase of that liking of which he knew the existence.
A course of this kind would impl, great self-confidence or great
indifference, or perhapsboth ; and, although it forms no apology
for any party, it may be mentioned in extenuation of the offence
which although not completed, must at least have been the
inevitable consequence w° this kind of connexion. Lady Lennox
is at present about 28 years of age; Wood is somewhere about
33. There is, therefore, no disparity of age ' • and it is to be re-
gretted in this case, as in many others, that Miss Patois did not
originally either form aco nnexion with some person of her own
rank and profession, or totally abandon the stage, when she
thought proper to accept a husband from a Afferent class of
society. Had it happened so, much of error, perhaps of guilt,—
much of misery, and of repentance, would have been spared her.
—Observer. . . .

There were circumstances in this marriage which almost ne-
cessarily led to this catastrophe. How could a woman look with
any complacency or respect on a husband who, himself without pe-
cuniary means, could consent to live in luxury and splendour on
the income produced by the unremitted and laborious exertions
of his wife? The connexion must have been as offensive to
Lady William as it was to the public generally.