The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-15 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLTGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 13.—Letters we have re.,
ceived front Smyrna, dated 16th December, men-
tion that his Majesty's ships Asia, Wellesley, Me-
teor, Wolfe, Favourite, and Mastiff, were then
lying there. Constant interchanges of civility had
taken place between the Officers of our squadron
and those of the French. Admiral Count de RignY
lives in a splendid style, exhibiting at his entertain-
ments, in which he is most profuse, a superb ser'
vice of silver plate (of the latest Parisian fashion),
and the most costly Sevre china. The wines lie
produces on these occasions are described to be the
choicest that France can produce.
By an over-land letter of the 28th ult., from
Malta, we learn that the Ocean, of 80 guns, and
Spartiate, of 76 guns, had received orders for tlieir
immediate return to England.
The Hon. Admiral Fleeming was at Port Royals
with eleven ships of his squadron, on the 26th De-
ember. The Arachno had arrived there from the
Havannah and the Spanish Main; the Grasshopper
and Speedwell were cruising; the Harlequin, iB,
had been sold as unserviceable for the British navy,
and had realised 6201. A slight shock of an earth-
quake was felt at Jamaica on Christmas-day, but no
damage had ensued.

The Briton frigate, Capt. Hon. W. Gordon, after
touching at Madeira, proceeded with a fair wind to
Barbadoes, where she arrived on the 4th of Decent-
ber last. After completing her water, she was to
proceed to Belize, to land Colonel Dashwood, the
British Consul-General to the Government of Co-
lombia. She would then call at Vera Cruz and the
Havannah, and may be expected home by the
m'ddle of March.

We regret to hear that Captain Shirreff has been
obliged to resign the command of the Warspite, in
South America, from ill-health. Commander Bur-
gess is appointed to the Warspite, vice Shirreff;
Lieutenant C. Fitzgerald to command the Alert,
vice Burgess ; and Mr. T. Strong to the Forte, vice
Fitzgerald.

The Wiricheiter, .52, Captain C. J. Austen, with
the flag of Vice-Admiral Griffith Colpoys, put
back to Spithead on Sunday, owing to the wind
having shifted to the S.W. blowing fresh, with
ruin. She sailed again to-day for Teneriffe, Bar..
badoes, and Jamaica.

The Amphitrite transport, Lieutenant Cooley,
Agent, sailed this morning to Cork, to convey the
depot of the 73d Regiment to Plymouth. From
Plymouth she will afterwards carry to Cork the de-
pot of the 94th Regiment.
The Pandora, 18, Commander Hon.J.T.Gordon,
went into Hatnoaze yesterday se'nnight to be paid
oil into ordinary.

The Speedy cutter, tender to the Semiramis, flag
ship at the Cove, arrived at Plymouth yeste►day
se'nnight.

On-Simday arrived his Majesty's cutter Sparrow,
from Plymouth ; on Monday sailed the Onyx trans-
port, to the Eastward.

The Talavera, 74, Captain Pigct, was to leave
Sheerness yesterday for her station in the Downs :
on her arrival there the Ramifies, 71, will be paid
off, and most probably broken up.
The Snipe cutter, Lieutenant Purcell (tender to
the Victory), yesterday brought in a smuggling
boat, of about 25 tons, with forty tubs of spirits and
four men, which she seized off Shoreham.

Ships in Harbour—Victory, Royal George,
Ganges, Galatea, North Star.

PROMOTION.-Mr. J. C. Prevost, to be Lieut.
of the Grasshopper.

APPouvramwrs.--Commanders James Galloway,
William Love, and Lieut. R. J. Hibbs, to the out-
pension Greenwich Hospital.
Mr. Win. Henwood is appointed Foreman at
Plymouth Dock-yard, vice Lang, appointed Assis-
tant at Deptford.
Two Lieutenants of Marines are ordered to the
West Indies—one to join the Shannon, the other to
some other frigate on that station. They will take
their passage in the North Star.
The following Midshipmen passed their examina-
tion at the Royal Naval College, this week :--
Messrs. Samuel Frederick Short, Vm. Hugh Dob-
bie, Alex. T. Goldie, Wm. Lilley, H. J. It. Mit.
ford, J. A. A. Riddell, J. G. Harrison, R. N. Ha.
mond, E. Stopford, Hon. T. R. Keppel, J. R. Tur-
ner, H. J. Robins, C. H. Hamilton.
On Monday passed the Protector, Waugh, from
Calcutta, for London ; sailed from Madras the 4th
October, Cape of Good Hope the lit, and St. He-
lena the 12th of December. The. Lady M'Naugh-
ten, Faith, was to sail from Madras in about a fort-
night after the Protector, for England. Arrived eta
Monday the Louisa Barbara, Lousen, in 84 days
from Rio de Janeiro, bound to Antwerp; also the
Hudson, Champlin, from New York, in 20 days.
Arrived on Tuesday the Gladstanes, Barton, 85
days from Jamaica; on the .sth instant parted com-
pany with the Bencoolen, Wallace, from Sincapore
for London, in latitude 47 N. long. 17 40 W. Ar-
rived on Wednesday the Kremlin, Hall, from
Charleston, for Antwerp, and passed on to Cowes.
Arrived on Friday the Josephine, Moldenhaur,
from Rio de Janeiro, bound to Antwerp ; also the
Sophia, Barclay, from London, for Jamaica.—
Hampshire Telegraph.
DEVONPORT, FEB. 13.—His Majesty's brig Le-
veret, 10, Lieutenant Worth, tender to the Kent,
78, returned on Thursday evening, from a cruise for
the relief of the homeward bound trade detained at
the entrance of the Channel. When about 150
miles to the south of Cape Clear, the Leveret fell in
with Ithe merchant sloop Catherine' Baker master,
from Baltimore (Ireland), bound to Falmouth, with
a cargo of potatoes in such a state of destitution as to
make it necessary to remove her crew. An officer
and five men from the Leveret were put on board,
and she was with difficulty taken into Cork. The
Leveret met with very severe weather during her
cruise, and had relieved six of the homeward-bound
trade, some of whom were in the greatest distress,
from want of provisions and other necessaries.
APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. James Rose, to be acting
Master of the Arrow cutter ; Mr. J. o.lWWilliam,
Assistant-Surgeon to the Sparrow cutter; Mr.
George Ritchie, to be supernumerary Assistant-Sur..
geon on board the Victory.
The Cephalus sloop, 18, is ordered to be brakett
up, being unfit for service.

A number :of boys were this week drafted from
the Ordinary into the St. Vincent, 120, for sea ser-
vice on the Coast of Ireland. The St. Vincent was
on Wednesday removed to the flag-ship's moorings
off Mount Wise.

In Hamoaze.—St. Vincent, Kent, Druid, Ariadne,
Pandora, Royalist, and Reindeer packet.
Island.—Britotnart and Bramble.
Sound.-,-Leveret and Isabella, Brazilian.—Devanf-
port Tekgraph.

BIRTHS.
On the 11th inst. at the Forhury, Reading, the lady of
the Rev. F. Valpy, of a son.
On the 12th inst. the lady of %V. R. Robinson, Esq.,
of Upper Harley-street, of a daughter.
On the 12th inst. in Gloucester-place, Portruan.squara.
the lady of W. J. Coltman, Esq., of a daughteP.

MARRIED.
On the l Ith inst. at Bristol, Mr. D. Green, of riAhn
street-hill, to Elizabeth, second surviving daughteir pf tlAp
late J. Saunders, Esq. of Plymouth.
On the I 1 th inst. at Islington, W. God, of Hit.
then, Hertfordshire, to Maly, youngert dunilter of Mr.
R. Rood, merchant, London.