The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-21 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 19.—His Majesty's ship
Forte, 44, Captain Coghlan, C. 8., which arrived on
Sunday last from South America, brings home
1,540,000 dollars, not an ounce of which is on ac-
count of any of our Mining Companies. She left
Valparaiso on the 9th March, and in the short space
of 31 days reached Rio Janeiro. Such a successful
doubling of Cape Hcrn has seldom been equalled,
and certainly never excelled. Indeed, the Forte,
since the increase in the size of her masts and spars,
as suggested by Captain Coghlan, beats every ship
she meets with. She sailed from Rio on the 25th
April, and brings to England Don Pinto, the Em-
peror's Chamberlain, and Don Gomez, the Em-
peror's Secretary. The Warspite was in that har-
bour, as were the Eden, 26, Captain Owen (refitting
for the Pacific), and the Tyrian packet, which had
ion her fore-mast. The Brazilian frigate Princess
Imperial sailed on the 24th April for France, having
on board the Empress's brother; the Algerine, Bri-
tish sloop-of-war, accompanied her as far back as the
Line, and was to take back letters to the Empress;
the Volage, 28, was at Bahia ; Tribune, 42, was
seen by the Forte off Cape Horn ' • Sapphire, 28,
was at Valparaiso, and would leave for England in
May; Thetis, 46, at Callao, and would follow in
Sept.; Alert, 18, at the intermediate ports, and
would come away in 'January. These three ships
would bring silver. The Adventurer, surveying
ship, left Valparaiso for Cape Horn in February,
and would survey as long as the summer would
allow her, and return to England about August.
The Serifigapatam, 46, was gone to the Society
and Friendly Islands, and would return to the
coast in June, when the Hon. Captain Waldegrave
would assume the command in the Pacific. We
regret to find by the Forte, that the political
condition of Chili and Peru is most miserable;
every desperate villain who can command five thou-
sand dollars, engenders a revolution to answer his
own ends; the consequence is that robbery and mur-
der occur daily; all trade is suspended, and even
British property is not safe. The warehouses are
full of goods. The British ships at Valparaiso are
obliged to keep their boats manned and armed every
night, and have signals concerted with the Consulate
and principal merchants, by which immediate assist-
ance can be given if needful, and the ships are an-
chored close to the shore. A fresh revolution is ex-
pected at. Peru, when it is known that all foreigners
will be ordered out of that country. The Thetis
frigate, and Alert sloop of war, are looking to the
British interest in that direction. The French Con-
sul-General and family were lately driven out of St.
Jago, and though plundered and wounded, contrived
, to escape; he has returned to Europe. At the Bra-
zils, oa the contrary, matters were more quiet, and
trade was improving. The mines there were work-
ing profitably, and Captain Lyon, in conjunction
with some of the officers of the Emperor's house-
hold, was about to open some new mines, which
promised to yield abundantly. The Forte sailed on
Thursday for Plymouth, to be paid off.
The Arab transport, Lieutenant. Hyett, R.N.
Agent, was at Valparaiso on the 9th of March.
when the Forte left; during the six weeks the
Arab was at Valparaiso, the place had been in a
most distracted state, the town having been in pos-
session of no less than three different parties. The
Arab was expected to sail shortly for Rio de Ja-
neiro, at which latter place she will embark invalids
and stores for England.
The Fairy, 10, Commander William Molyneux,
arrived on Tuesday from Jamaica, which island she
left on the Ist of May. At the same time the
squadron and islands were very healthy, and the
planters were looking upwards. A considerable
drought had prevailed, but some seasonable rains
fell within a few days prior to the sailing of the
Fairy. The slave trade is now in full vigour in the
• island of Cuba, our cruisers are continually chasing
• them, though not always efficaciously. The Skip-
jack schooner recently carried away her mast in
Chace, and the Pincher schooner ran a vessel ashore
. on the Matanzas, but the slaves escaped.
The Magnificent, 74, Captain H. Smith; Victor, ,
18, Captain R. Keane; and Monkey, 3, Lieutenant
-Cole, were 'at Port Royal.—The Shannon, 46,
Captain Clement, was at the Spanish Main ; the

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Speedwell, 3, Lieutenant Hookey, at Maracaibo ;
Icarus, 10, Capt. Mayne, at St. Jago de Cuba ;
Harpy, 10, Capt. Larcom,• at Chagres ; Slaney, 20,
Captain C. Parker, attending on the Bishop of
Jamaica, who was visiting Honduras and the
Bahama Islands ; Ringer, 28, Captain W.
Walpole, and Hyacinth, 18, Capt. R. Jackson,
at Barbadoes; Mersey, 26, Capt. Courtcn.iy, at
Nassau; Firefly, 3, Lieut. Holland; Minx, 3, Lieut.
Simpson ; Nimble, 3, Lieut. Sherer ; and Pickle, 5,
Lieut. M‘Hardy, were cruising among the Keys.
Commander Blair and Lieut. Lloyd, of the Navy,
came passengers in the Fairy. A Comet was visible
at Jamaica in the whole month of April, in a direc-
tion to the S.E. at an elevation of 25 or 30 degrees.
Wm. James Stevenson, Esq. late Receiver-General
of Jamaica, died at Po►t Royal on the 15th April.
The Fairy boarded the bark Redman off the Western
Islands, from Sierra Leone, with invalids, and in
consequence of the dangerous state of her Surgeon,
llr. Patton, late of the Medina, Mr. G. Mottley,
Assistant-Surgeon, was put on board of her, to give
his assistance till their arrival in England.
The only information we have this week, relative
to the French expedition against Algiers, is that all
the transports, and store-ships, with very few ex-
ceptions, were safe at anchor in Palma Bay on the
11th instant, with two frigates; the rest of the men-
of-war were cruising along the shore, and the whole
would proceed when the weather was favourable.
Vice-Admiral . Sir Pulteney Malcolm, in the
Britannia, returned to Malta on the 23d May, leav-
ing his squadron cruising off Sardinia, but without
in the least interfering with the movements of
the French fleet. The Wasp sloop of war arrived
at Marseilles with despatches on the 7th instant,
and landed Captain No:bone Thompson, who had
invalided from the Revenge, which ship would be com-
manded by the Hon. Captain Bridgeman, of his Ma-
jesty's ship Rattlesnake; Commander Sir Thomas
Pasley was promoted into the Rattlesnake (of whose
state we have heard nothing since she got ashore in
Algiers Bay).
.We much fear, from the various ac-
counts that have reached us, that the whole of the
crews of the two French sloops of war which were
wrecked, with the exception of about twelve, who
have taken refuge with the British Consul, have
been murdered. The Bedouins killed several of the
cress, on their route from the point at which they
were wrecked, to Algiers—upwards of sixty, who
reached that city, were thrown into prison—subse-
quently paraded about, subject to every ignominy,
and then were beheaded on the ramparts, in sight of
the French blockading ships. It appears that the
Dey of Algiers meditates a retreat, as the men at
arms of all descriptions that he can muster amount
to less than 25,000. The inhabitants arc greatly
exasperated against him, and would willingly throw
off the Turkish yoke. It is presumed he means to
go to the Desert, whither he has already sent his
treasure; and he has driven all the cattle into the
interior.

Lettersare received from his Majesty's ship Athol,
dated Sierra Leone, May 3, which state an atrocious
ease of piracy and murder. On that day, the Hon.
Company's schooner St. Helena arrived at Sierra
Leone, on her way to England, with despatches
from Commodore Coiller. She was attacked on the
6th of April. in lat. 1. 30. South, and long. 90.
West, by a piratical felucca under French colours,
and manned with a crew of from forty to fifty men
of all nations, who murdered Captain Harrison, the
chief officer, and twelve of the crew, besides Dr.
Wardle, of the Hon. Company's service; and plun-
dered the vessel of all the money that could be
found on board, a great deal of her cargo, cut away
her masts, scuttled the vessel in order to sink her,
and after they left her fired many shots through her
and abandoned her, not knowing that the carpenter
and five men were left on board concealed, by whose
exertions the vessel has been saved and brought to
Sierra Leone.

On the 15th May, at Malta, the most violent
sirocco wind prevailed. A correspondent says—
" Although it was not so damp and oppressive as
the generality of these winds, yet from the circum-
stance attending it, is of rare occurrence. The
whole atmosphere was thick and cloudy, but round
the horizon, for 20 or 30 degrees high, it appeared
as if this haze was only a covering to an immense
fire,,yet with all this it was extremely dark; in fact,
if your imagination could picture to yourself what
.the last day would .be, it could not be more awful
than the appearance all this day; and with it we
have had an immense quantity of red sand fallen, so
finely pulverised, that you can scarce feel it when
you rub it between your fingers. Our rigging is as
red as if brick-dust had been sprinkled over it.
This dust must be blown all the way from the coast
of Egypt. I once in my life witnessed a similar fall
of sand, when in the Atlantic, nearly at the Line,
and at 600 miles distant from the Coast of Africa."
The Pearl, 18, Commander Blake, bearing the
flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Riga, arrived on
Monday from the Cove of Cork. The temporary
absence of Sir Charles from Cove, we are sorry to
say, arises from the illness of his Noble brother, the
Marquis of Anglesea, to join whom the Rear-Ad•
miral proceeded immediately on landing.

The Marquis of CLEVELAND has purchased
the borough (and representation) of St. Ives, for 57,2001.
A Sunday Paper, after first erroneously stat-
ing that Prince FREDERICK of PRUSSIA., now in London,
is the son of the late Queen of PRUSSIA, proceeds to take
more credit to itself than necessary, by adding that there-
fore he cannot be the son of another lady--the Duchess of
CUMBERLAND. The inference is irresistible, but the fact
is mistaken. The Prince in question is the son of the
Duchess of CUMBERLAND by her first husband Prince
FREDERICK LOUIS, brotl.er of the King of PRUSSIA.
Her Royal Highness has been thrice married—first, to the
King of PRUSSIA'S brother, by whom she had Prince
FREDERICK, who is now in the 36th year of his age;
secondly, to the Prince of SoLms, her son by whom is
also now in London; and, thirdly, to the Duke of CUM-
BERLAND.-- Times.

By the extinction of seven peerages since the
last new creation, the Crown is empowered to grant two
mw patents of nobility—the claimants are said to be Mr.
JAMES DALY, M.P. for the county of Galway, for his
mother, the Lady HARRIET DALY, as Baroness Dunsan-
dale in her own right; Sir CHARLES COOTE, Premier
Baronet of Ireland, and heir collateral of the Earls of
MOUNTRATH, claims a revival of the Mountrath Peerage;
and the Marquis of Tnoatown seeks a new creation of the
Earl of Thomond with remainder (in failure of male heirs
to the Marquisate) to his daughter, the Lady SUSAN
HOTHAM. Should the Marquis and his only brother,
Lord JAMES O'BRIEN, leave no male issue, all the ho-
nours become extinct—save the Barony of Inchiquin,
which devolves on Sir EDWARD O'BRIEN, Bart., of Dro-
mol4nd, county of Clare, lineally descended from the Hon.'
DoNQoas O'BRIEN, third son of MURROUGH, first Baron
Inchiquin.--Dublin Evening Mail.
We understand that the important cause be-
twixt GLENGARY and the Caledonian Canal Commis-
sioners, which has been for some years in the Court of
Session, was decided in favour rd the Commissioners on
Saturday week. The case related to the possession of
Loch Oicb, which is surrounded by lands belonging to
GLENGARY, and for the use of which, in the formation
of the canal, he claimed compensation from the Commis-
sioners. This decision goes to establish what was urged
for the defenders, that an inland loch is the property of the
surrounding proprietors only while it is of no use to the
public, and.that the public have a right to convert such
loch to the public benefit whenever practicable.—Edin-
burgh Evening Courant.

As reports have been prevalent that the vessel
in which Mr. ROGER TIIERRY took his departure last
autumn for New South Wules had been wrecked upon the
African coast, we have much pleasure in being able to in-
form the friends of that gentleman of his arrival at his
destination, after a safe and pleasant voyage, and that he
had entered upon the discharge of the duties of his office
as a Commissioner of the Court of bequests.—. Dublin
Morning Register.
STATE OF TItADE.—HALIFAX.-011 Satur-
day, a considerable quantity of business was done, but the
sales were not equal, in extent, to those effected on the
market preceding. This is accounted fcr, from the fact
that there was not, in the market, a sufficient supply of
the particular description of goods most in request (lastings,
&c.) to meet the demand. As we anticipated, noils and
short wools not only maintain the advance whick we have
noticed in several previous reports, but the demand con-
tinues to improve.-11abfax Chronicle.