The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-18 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Ilampshire Telegraph. )
PORTSNIOUTII, JUNE 16. —The Cornwallis, 72, Captain
Sir Richard Grant, arrived on Sunday from Bermuda, hav-
ing been despatched home with the Ilonourable Lady
Paget and family, by the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Tho-
mas Harvey, the moment the Vice-Admiral reached that
Island from England, in the Inconstant frigate. Lady
Paget and family disembarked.on Monday afternoon, and
the Cor nry allis proceed on Wednesday to Plymouth, to be
paid oil' into ordinary.
A beautiful brig, of about 170 tons burthen, arrived here
on ►Monday, under the charge of Lieut. Rowlett, late of the
Dolphin, detained in the Bight of Benin by the Saracen, 10,
Lieut. H. W. Hill. This vessel is known to have conveyed
more than one cargo of slaves across the;Atlantic ; but from
her superior sailing has several times eluded our cruisers;
nor would she have been taken now but that the Saracen
caught her in an almost land-locked situation. The great
novelty about her is that she carries a Russian flag, and the
Captain says she is a Russian vessel ; but there is not a
single Russian on board, the crew being wholly Spanish.
The captain is a Florentine, calling himself Bennados, and
latterly has asserted that she is the property of a Spanish
merchant at the Hayannah• To support her Russian title
she exhibits clearance papers from the port of Odessa, but
they are six years old ; the later papers would evidence
that she has been to Barcelona, and cleared thence for
Bahia ; her name is the Golupehick, and she has the usual
fittings of a slaver. The mized Commission Court, at
Sierra Leone, would uet•adjudicate upon her case, as there
was no Russian Commissioner on the coast, and it was ne-
cessary she should be sent to England for condemnation.
The Saracen had captured two other slavers, one of which
had 290 stases on board; the other was empty—both were
condemned. The Termagant had captured the Spanish
slaver Braeanz 1, direct from Corunna, completely fitted
for Saving, but had none on board ; she had, however, 330
gold doubloons in her to pay for a cargo of them. The
Acorn, 16, had arrived on the coast from the Cape ; the
Forrester, Termagant, Saracen, and Wolverine, were all
well; the latter vessel had captured a slave vessel.
The Hercules, 72, arrived at Plymouth on the 7th in-
stant, from the West Indies; and the Rolla, on Sunday,
from the North Coast of Spain. The Hercules, is refit-
ting, in the Sound, and is ordered to be ready fcr sea this
day week.
We have letters and papers from Jamaica to the 2d of
May. The Edinburgh, 72, sailed thence on that day for
Bermuda. On the 30th of April the Vestal, 28, arrived
at Jamaica, from Vera Cruz, with 300,000 dollars, and the
Serpent, 16, from Barbadoes ; the Pilot, 18, sailed on the
same day for Carthagena, and tht Sappho, 18, on a cruise.
The Tartarus steamer arrived on the 17th of April from St.
Thomas's, and the Skipjack, on the 23d from St. Jago de
Cub-a. The Dee steamer sailed on the Bth for St.
Thomas's ; the Rover, 16, on the 9th, on a cruise; the
Pickle, for Bermuda ; and on the 20th, the Hornet steamer
for Chagres.

The Majestic, which left Sheerness on the Bth of Octo.
ber last with female convicts, arrived at Van Diemen's
Land. on the 18th of January last. The Gilmore,
with 278 convicts, which left Portsmouth on the sth
of Octuber, arrived at the same place on the 23d of Jan.
The Pique, Andromache, and Wanderer, having on
board the Bth Regiment for Jamaica, arrived at Halifax on
the Bth of May ; the Medea steam frigate arrived at Hali.
`'ax on the sth from Bermuda; the Cleopatra, 28, arrived
at Halifax on the 11th of May.
The President, 52, was at Callao on the 15th of J.
nuary, about to proceed on a cruise.

The I3enbow, 72, Captain Houston Stewart, dropped
do.vn to St. Helen's to-day and will sail to-morrow for the
Downs from thence she will proceed to the Forth (and
not to the Clyde as stated last week), to complete the few
men she wants for her complement. She will have a
Sheerness tender with her, and will return to this port.
The Childers, 18, Commander Halsted, went out of
harbour on Sunday, and sailed on Tuesday to Plymouth,
to complete her crew, and then proceed to the East Indies.
The Lightning steamer, Lieut. Williams, arrived here
yesterday (Friday) for the purpose of convoying his High-
ness the Duke Ferdinand of Saxe Cobourg to Lisbon, on
a visit to his son, the Consort of the Queen of Portugal.
His Highness is uncle to the Queen of England, and will
arrive here on Monday.

The Powerful, 84, Captain Napier, has completed her
complement of men within twenty-five, but she had been
unsuccessful in raising one hundred supernumeraries for
general service, which she had been directed to do.—The
Gossamer tender, in a three week's cruise along the coast,
only raised one man as a supernumerary.—On the sth, a
French corvette transport, the Giraffe, put into Cork in
want of water and provisions ; she had been fifty-six days
from Martinique, for Brest, and had only three days' pro-
vi;'ons on board when she arrived at Cork, which port
she was to leave about Wednesday last.—lt was under-
stood the Powerful would return to Spithead prior to going
foreign.
The Modeste, 18, had returned to Bermuda from Nor-
folk, in the United States, prior to the sailing of the
Cornwallis.

The Lily, 16, it is expected, will return. for the third
time, to her old station, the Cape of Good Hope.
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The John Bull, from China on Sunday, and the Mary
mAnainls, fromhere
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end Neldoeund stye, landed London.
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The British Queen steamer to leave the Clyde to-day
for London. She will exhibit herself at Liverpool and Dub-
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ht of July.
,
IN HARBOUR..—The Britannia, Victory, Reven
ge Ex-
cellent, Royal George, Lily, Clio, Lightning and Mes-
senger steamers.
AT SPITHEAD—The Hastings and Hydra (steam frigate.)
PRONIOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Asti;tant Surgeon,
James Lambert, of the Cornwallis, to be Surgeon. Gonl-
mander .1. C. Fitzgerald to the Magnificent (not Com-
mander Wallis, as stated last week.) Lieutenant Samuel
George Hunt, to the Clio. Master Jonathan Ayien, to the
Hastings, vice Giles superseded on account of ill health.
Mate Frederick E. Rose, to the Clio.