The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-13 00:00:00

(From the
Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford is appoint to the
Meditrrrane in command. Captain Arthur Fanshawe, of
Stonehouse, is to be his Flag Captain. The Princess Char-
lotte, 110, lying at Pcrtsmouth, is likely to be the dig ship.
It is reported that Mr. Irving, at `present Secretary of Sir
W. H. Gage, at Lisbon, will be Secretary to Sir Robert
Stopford, in the Mediterranean.
His Majesty's Brig Scorpion was warped alongside the
Jetty oa Friday, to be fitted for commission. His Mejesty's
Sloop Sappho, which was launched on the ad instant, is or.
dered to forward brought forw for commission.
The Cracker cutter arrived from Portsmouth with supernu-
meraries for the Talavera and Stag, and will sail in a few days
for Jersey to protect the fisheries.
A complaint hie, ing been preferred against Lieutenant For-
teseue, Commander of His Majesty's Packet Nightingale, of
having exercised undue severity in the punishment of two
Lids blonging to that vessel, a court of inquiry was held on
board her last week, Rear-Admiral Thomas, President, when
Licut Fortescue was fully and honourably acquitted.
Admiral Sir P. C. H. Durham has given 101. to be distrla
huted among the oldest and poorest wherrymen at Portsmouth
and Gosport.
The Stag. Commodore Sullivan, C. 8., is expected to sail
about the end of the week, for Rio, and will take o'at as pas-
sengers Mr. Pentland, his Britannic Majeeta's Consul-Ge-
neral to Bolivia, with his Secretary.
Orders were received at this Dock. yard, on Wednesday last,
1.,) report up-On the state of the ,ata, sails, and stores of the
demonstration ships.
The officers of hip Majesty's ship Excellent gave a parting
lßauer to Comr-eander Franers.D. Hastings on Saturday last,
t-Stial^:ay of their sense of his conduct as a gentleman and
4". chieer whilst acting as First Lieutenant of that ship.
The steamer Firefly arrived at Alexandria from Malta,
Dee. 27. The steamer Medea arrived at Zante from Malta,
January 5. His Majesty's ship Rapid, 10; arrived at Tripoli
from Malta, Jan. 5. His Majesty's ship Harlequin,- 18, ar-
rived at Barcelona from Malta, Jan. 4.
The Buzzard was at Sierra Leone on the 17th of Decem-
ber, having captured within the month the Olympia, Spanish
schooner, with 287 slaves, and the Lizza, a -small vessel, with
only 22 slaves on board, making 3,684 slaves relieved by this
vessel since she has been on the station.
The Wolverine. 16, Honourable Commander Howard, ar-
rived at Gibraltar in eleven days from Plymouth, on the 17th
ultimo.
The Edinburgh, 74, Captain Dacres, was paid off on Wed-
nesday, when William Dufty, and Richard Brown, seamen of
the Edieburgh, each were awarded the 5/. gratuity and medal
for long service arid good conduct. The sum of 61. Bs. was
generously contributed by the ship's company towards the
seamen's hospital ship Dreadnought, in aid of the funds of
which 3al. 2s. was also given from the sick pay fund of the
Edinburg
\Vndnesday the gun-room mess (midshipmen) of the
Britannia gave a farewell dinner to their late excellen, and
respected First Lieutenant, Captain NVatkins,, -whose well_
merited promotion is the cause of the separation ; when the
ward-room officers, his mess-mates in the Victory and Britan-
nia were appointed to meet him. Few men have been so many
years filling such a responsible situation, arid given sueft uni.
versal satisfaction to his superiors, as well as to his subordinates,
as Captain Watkins. He started for Plymouth in the Emerald,
on the following morning, to join the Cornwallis, to which
ship he i 3 appointed ; and, we feel assured, that he has quitted
one post in which he was esteemed and looked up to, only in a
new situation, to add additional value to the creditable estima-
tion in which he is held in the service.
The ship Fort William, from Madras, Oct. 18, passed by
for die river last night; Lieut.-General Sir R. W. O'Cal-
laghan, K. G. 8., late Commander-in-Chief at Madras, is pas-
senger in her, and landed here, having been relieved by Lieut.-
General Sir P.•Maitland, 11. M. S. Winchester, 52, left Madras
at the same time for Trincomalee.
APPOINTMENTS.—Capt. Sir Thomas Fellowes, C 8., to
the Vanguard; Corn. Thomas Bushby, tothe Wanderer, vice
Dilkc, promoted ; Corn. G. St. Vincent King, to the Cham-
pion, vice Fair, promoted ; Corn. \V. G. H. Whish, to the
Gannet, vice Maxwell, promoted ; Lieut. Joseph M. Mottley,
to command the Speedy, vice Millett ; Lieuts. James Hol-
brook and Edmund Keene, to the Coast Guard; Lieut.
‘Vakeham to be First, of the Cornwallis; Dr. John Sinclair
(a) to the Inconstant ; Mr. J. G. Lyall, Assistant Surgeon,
to the San Josef ; Mr. R. Robertson, Mate, to the North
Star; Mr. C. C. Forsyth, Mate, to the Pclorus ; .51r. Lod-
wick, Mate, to be Acting Lieutenant of the Tweed ; Lieut.
Gordon, from the Phoenix, to command the Comet steamer.
Mr. F. T. Coull, late Midshipman of the Scorpion, to
the Russell, at Lisbon. Mr. Charles Poole, Midshipman,
from Cornwallis to RusSell. Lieut. John S. Ellman, Mr.
Brownlow and Henry Paget, Midshipman, to the Cornwallis.
Mr. James Andrews, Master's Assistant, to the Nightingale.
Mr. Trevanion Penrose Coode, College Volunteer, to the
Stag. Mr. Charles F. Stevens Slate of the Thiniderer, to be
Additional Clerk of the Stag. Mr. Thomas Frazer and Mr.
W. T. Rogers, Assistant-Surgeons, Mr. - Walter Kendall,
Mate, and Mr. Charles .L. Hoskin, Extra Mate, to the Corn-
wallis. Captain Fairfax Moresby, takes passage by the Dido
to join Pembroke.. Mr. Charles Henry Young, from, Corn-
wallis to Dido, at Portsmouth, for passage to Rodney. Lieut.
Forrester of the Eclipse to the Lyra, vice St. John, retired.
Mr. James Comic, Supernumerary Carpenter of the San
Josef, to the Tweed, on the North Coast of Spain. Mr. James
Pink, Supernumerary Carpenter of the San Josef, to the
Ceylon, to take passage by the Did°, which is to touch at this
Port on her way to th Mediterranean.
The following Midshipmen this week passed at the Royal
Naval College to serve as Lieutenants :—G. P. Medds, G.
P. Bruce, 11. R. Foot, A. 11. W
Gardner, I. Stephens, V. G.
Deane, C. W. Hallett, and W. S. Turner, Talavera ; R. A.R.
Scott, Excellent • F. Kemble, Stag ; G. R. Moyle, J. F.
Slight, and W. drawford, Excellent ; E. F. Fuge, Trinculo.
(From the llampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY, FEB. i . —The Tartarus steam--
vessel, Lieutenant James, arrived on Tuesday from Malta.
On the day she sailed (14th ult,) the Firefly went into Malta,
from Alexandria and Beyroot, bringing Mr. Fitzjanies, R.N.,
with the mail, from India. The following is front a corre-
spondent, dated Malta, Jan. 14:--
" The British fleet here consists of the Caledonia, . with the
flag of Vice- Admiral Sir Josias Rowley, Bart., G. C. M. G.
K.C. B. ; Ceylon, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Thonsaa
Briggs, G. C. M. G. ; Asia, 80, Bellerophon, 80, Revenge,
Barham, Vernon, 50, Medea and Tartarus steamers, The
Harlequin, 16, Commander Erskine, Rapid, 10, lion. Lieut.
Q. Kinnaird, and Arid yacht, have sailed for Corfu, where
also is the Sapphire. The Tribune is at Smyrna, and the
Portland at Venice. His Majesty's ship Revenge, with the
frigate Barham, arid the brig Raid in company, returned
here from Tripoli, on Sunday moaning last. Captain El-
liot had been directed to remonstrate with the Bashaw of
that Regency, on the injustice and vexation which his Ma-
jesty's, subjects had been suffering there, and particularly
on the difficulties interposed between the trade of the Maltese
residents and the natives of the country. We understand
that the Bashaw gave the strongest assurances that .the evils
complained of should be remedied, and that no further impe-
diment should be allowed to disturb the peaceable traffic of
his Majesty's subjects. The yacht Cynthia left two days"
since fur Civita Vecchia, and the Vanguard sailed on a cruise
on the 4th inst. The American frigate United States,
.Cap-
tain Williamson, is at Athens. The carpenter of the Ocean
has been dismissed that ship by sentence of a court-martial.
Mr. Napier, Master of the Caledonia, is to be appointed to
the Dockyard, vice Mr. Pitt, who is ill, and retires ; and it is
supposed that the Master of tire Bellorophon would succeed
to the file- ship. The whole of the squadron are soon to re..
assemble."
Celond Graydon succeeds Major General Durnford as
Commandant or Engineers in this garrison ; Lieute.nant-
Colonel Read, of the same corps, succeeds as second in
command, vic: Colonel Brown, who is appointed Com-
mandant of Engineers at the lonian Islands. Lieutenant-
Colonel Ty ldee is appointed Commandant at Harwich, vice
Sir G. lleste.

PLYMOUTH, Flip. 9—The Cornwallis. *ill be paid off on
Monday, and re-commissioned on the-following day for the
lion. Sir Charles Paget's flag. Appointments are already
down for Captain Sir Richard Grant ; Commander T. V.
Watkins ; Lieutenants J. B. P. Hay, John B. Cragg, trig
the lion. Keith Stewart ; Mr. Henry Davey, Master ; Mr.
James Fletcher, Purser ; Mr. Edward Ma lard, Secon,i Mas-
ter; Mr. James Fellows (from Minden), and Mr. li. Paget,
Nlidshipmen ; Mr Thomas Frazer and Mr. W.- Rogers, As-
isant-Surgeons ; Mr. G. Rubinson, Boatswain ; Mr. A.
BR-clay, Carpenter. This ship has been ceppered ten ye:4-s.
and on weighing 20 sheets stripped off from each side it was
found that the greatest weight lost on each sheet did not ex-
ceed six ounces, and in some instances barely two ounces.
The sheathing, which is outside a coat of chunarn, and payed
with pitch, appeared like a varnished tea-tray ; it was put on
in Luba.

Report here gives Rear-Admiral Sir R. barrio the Dock-
yard here vice Rear-Admiral John Hayes, to ~et the command
at the Cape. The Canopus, 84, mill be paid
off on the.l6th,
and the Favourite on the 18th.
On Tuesday the Talavera was towed out of harbour into the
Sound by the Messenger steamer. On firing, the signal gun,
which is usually done on King's ships passing clown the bar-
hour, the wadding, unfortunatcly, struck some of the seamen,
on board a lighter, which was employed taking up the ship'ii
moorings, and wounded two of them severely.
Zhu Lightning steam-vessel sailed for Woolvvicit on 'rues_
day, to be repaired.
Ships in Dock—Wellesley, Cornwallis, Druid, Fisbguard,
and Crocodile: the Wellesley and Druid will be. undocked
the next spring tides.
ShipS in the Harbour—Royal Adelaide, San Josef, Ca-
nopus, Cornyvalris, Trinculo, Scylla, Favourit:!, and Messenger.
In tile Sound—Talavera, Inconstant, aia Stag.

The epidemic, although on the wane in the east,
wee., and north of Scotland, is still Very prevalent in the
south, particularly in the town of Annan, where, we believe,
a few deaths have occurred. From the continued badness
of the weather, many persons have suffered more from re-
lapse than the first attack. Such;. at least, is the general
opinion ; and the writer so .far can attest the fact by his
own experience.---Thinifiies
On Monday Morning the family of William Load,
Esq., of 24, Eawardes-square, Kensington. hnd of Great.
Ormond-street, Bloomsbury, were thrown, into a state of
the deepest distress, ,by the discovery.ot the body of the
above higlily-respectable gentleman in4recumbent position,
but quite, dead, in the drawing..room
_of his first.nanied
place of residence. Medical aid was procured;• but
regret to state, ineffectually. An inquest was held On his
remains at the Holland Arms, Kensington,. last evening..
Verdict—" Died by the Visitation of God."