The Sun.
London, England, 1830-05-08 00:00:00

mouth in the St. Vincent, on their route to their places
of private residence.
in Hatrioaze—Caledonia, St. Vincent, Kent, Ocean,
Blanche, Conflict, Royalist, Goldfinch, Antelope, Carron.
In Barnpool—Undannted.
At the Island—Vigilant.
In the Sound—Galatea, Leveret.
In Catwater--Izabel Brazilian.

APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS. —Capt. Richard
Dickenson, CB., 'Lieuts. George Winsor, Charles W.
Pears, and Mr. John Curtis, are appointed to his Majesty's
ship Talbot, ordered to be fitted at Portsmouth for foreign
service. CoMmander John James Onslow, and Lieut. H.
T. Harris, (from his Majesty's ship Donegal), are ap-
pointed to his Majesty's ship Clio, ordered 'to be fitted at
this port for foreign service. Capt. Hyde Parker, and
Commander 0. Foley, are appointed to his Majesty's skip
St. Vincent, flag-ship at Portsmouth, Lieuts. T. Verno❑
Watkins, W. Calmady 11lowell, and Charles Gayton, from
his Majesty's ship Prince Regent, (flag Lieutenant) are
also appointed to the St. Vincent. Lieutenants W. Carr,
Frederick Henry H. Glasse, and James Mure, from his
Majesty's ship St. Vincent, and Jeffery Reid Amherst,
Herbert J. Jones, and Matthew Foot, from his Majesty's ship
Ocean) flag Lieutenant, are appointed to the Caledonia.—
Mr. John Fillis is appointed Purser to the Caledonia...—
Capt. John Duff Markland, C.B. and Lieuts. Nicholas
Cory, C. W. H. G. Fitzroy, Joseph Francis Stirling
(from his Majesty's ship Prince Regent), and Henry J.
Codrington (from the Prince Regent), are appointed to
his Majesty's ship Briton, which has been recommis-
sioned for channel service. Mr. J Tapson is' ap-
pointed Purser, and the Reverend John Marshall
(from his Majesty's ship Revenge), Chaplain to the
Briton. Lieutenants Charles Hopkins (b), Adam C.
Duncan, and Henry D. Tsvysden, are appointed to his
Majesty's ship Prince Regent, vice Lieutenants Codring-
ton, Gapton, and Stirling. Lieut. George Buchanan is
appointed to be flag Lieutenant of Vice-Admiral the Hon.
Sir H. Blackwood, on beard the Prince Regent, vice Ward.
Commander Henry Baugh is appointed to the Ordinary at
Sheerness, vice Gordon. Commander Joseph Gape, and
Lieut. James llamilton Ward (from the Prince Regent)
are appointed to his Majesty's ship Pelican. Mr. Richard
Roberts, of his Majesty's ship Sybille, is promoted to the
rank of Lieutenant, and appointed to his Majesty's ship
Eden. Mr. Fred. Blair, of his Majesty's ship Warspite,
is promoted-to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed to
that ship vice Henderson, deceased, and Mr. W. M. J. G.
Pascoe is appointed Lieutenant for rank. Mr. J. Marsh,
of his Majesty's ship Warspite, is promoted to the rank of
Lieutenant, and appointed to that ship, vice Cumisy, in.
valided. Mr. F. W. Austen, of his Majesty's ship Blonde,
is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant.—Lieut. Richard
B. Crawford, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Donegal
vice Harris. Mr. Cooke, Chief Mate of the Levia-
than Convict Hulk, is appointed Master to the Racoon
Hospital ship, vice Hall, dismissed.

Lieutenant Washington Carr (1821) is appointed to
the Caledonia, vice A. Sinclair, moved to the Clio.
By the last information from Fernando Po, we hear
that Captain Morgan and four marines were all that re..
mained alive of a detachment of 50 men taken out by that
officer. Colonel Nichols had gone to Ascension for the
recovery of his health. He lost his voice from the effects
of the disease of the climate.

Letters from his Majesty's ship Winchester (with the
flag of Vice-Admiral Griffith Colpoys), bearing date Bar-
badees, March 13, state, that she was to sail on the fol-
lowing day for Jamaica, leaving instructions at Barbadoes
for Vice-Admiral Fleeming, should the Winchester not
fall in with the Barham, to join the former officer at Ja-
maica.

BREAK WATER FOR PORTLAND ROADS.

We are led to make a few brief observations on

this subject, in addition to the arguments we have
already advanced in its favour, and the remarks
which we have made in advocating it, in consequence
of having just seen an early copy of the new edition
of the late Mr. Harvey's Remarks on the subject of
a Breakwater for Portland Roads, with considerable
valuable additional matter by his son, Mr. John
Harvey, of Weymouth. This is a little work which
we strongly recommend, not merely to engineers
and those who feel an interest in works of this kind,
but to the attention of the public in general, for a
subject which has more powerful claims upon that
attention, or which is calculated to prove of more
general importance than the projected Breakwater,
is seldom agitated. The original projector of the
undertaking, the late lamented and talented Mr.
John Harvey, felt a deep and almost absorbing in-
terest in the subject, and up to the period of his
decease, in November, 1829, he entertained the same
opinion
of the feasibility of his plan, its vast impor-
tance in a national point of view, and the claims
which it had upon the patronage and advocacy of all
who felt an interest in the cause of humanity. A
considerable portion of the later period of his life
was devoted to the elucidation of the measure, and
in entleavours to procure its execution ; and no lapse
of time, no untoward circumstances, could avert his
attention from it. His son has also, not only in
the present work,—but equally in the zeal with
which he has long advocated the project, shown the
high sense he entertains of the measure, and the
necessity which exists for its adoption. In the
little publication before us, they have most plainly
and happily given to the public the most cogent
arguments in favour of the practicability of
the undertaking; contending that the best in-
terests, and perhaps the future safety, of Great Bri-
tain, are connected with its speedy adoption. Much
credit is due to the writers for the perspicuity which
they have displayed upon the subject ; and we are
assured that their remarks and zeal have already suc-
ceeded in exciting considerable attention, and in
rendering the importance of the measure gradually
apparent to the public. On perusing the additional
remarks contained in the present pamphlet, the opi-
nion of which we have often expressed as to the
necessity for, the practicability of the work is
much confirmed. As serving to counteract the ef-
forts making by the French at the formidable poft
of Cherbourg----as establishing an asylum not only
for our :merchantmen, but for the British navy,
when distressed by adverse winds or storms—as a
means of preserving human life to an almost incal-
culable extent, by affording a secure haven to vessels
which might otherwise he wrecked on the dangerous
vicinal coast—and as affording a secure and com-
manding rendezvous for our fleets in time of war—

it is well worthy the nation of England, the empress
of the seas, to establish a project would tend so
much to her honour. The work will prove an ad-
mirable companion to the chart which Mr. H. pnb-.
lished some time since, and which has succeeded
fully in explaining the importance of the undertaking
in a national view, as affording that depot to coun- '
teract Cherbourg which is so much wanted between
Plymouth and Portsmouth. We have also seen a
letter on the subject, addressed to Mr. Harvey by
Captain J. Bennett, R.N., in which the benefits to
the cause of humanity which would result from the
measure, by the Breakwater aifording a shelter in
storms, are placed in a'striking point of view. The
important national and social benefit which would
follow the erection of the Breakwater, and the ease,
and comparatively trifling expense, at which it may
be formed, are such that we earnestly hope that the
efforts of the worthy authors of the little work be-
fore us, may be so far successful as to impress the
importance of the measure upon the minds of those
influential personages through whom alene the pro-
ject can be carried into execution.—Dorsei County
Chronicle.

About eleven o'clock on Wednesday fore-
noon, the neighbourhood and passengers along Gray's-
inn-lane-road, were greatly alarmed by the cry of " mad
dog !" and immediately thereafter seeing a dog, evidently
in a rabid state, running towards Battle-bridge, followed
by ten or twelve fellows, hallooing with all their might,
and bawling to the passengers to kill the (log, as he had
bitten two children in Liquorpond street. No one, how-
ever, undertook the dangerous task on that part of the
road. On arriving at Battle-bridge, the dog proceeded
up the New-road, and bit a young man in the leg, but
most fortunately his boots and trousers prevented the teeth
of the animal from penetrating further than breaking the
skis. The young man, however, took the precaution of
proceeding instantly to the nearest surgeon's for advice.—
Immediately aferwards, near the end of Tottenham-court-
road, the enraged animal attacked a fine spaniel, which he
bit in the neck. The rabid dog them proceeded at a quick
rate towards the Southampton Arms, Camden-town, but
he was very fortunately stopped in his career by a spirited
countryman, who felled him to the ground with his walk-
ing-stick, and before the dog could recover from the effects
of the blow he was destroyed.