The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-08 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 6.—11 k Majesty's ship
Heron, 18, Commander James Burney, arrived on
Sunday, from Rio de Janeiro, hnving left that port
on the 28th of December last, bringing about
1,000,000 dollars, consigned to different merchants.
The Heron had been at Coquimbo, and previously
at Valparaiso. At Valparaiso, General Pinto had
been elected President; but in consequence of the
Vice-President Vicunia and he not being friends,
General Pinto refused to serve, and had sailed for
Coquimbo, but had not arrived when the Heron
sailed. An insurrection had broken out at Concep-
tion ; which place having declared -itself an inde-
pendent state, three Generals had been appointed
by Congress to head the troops and quell the tu-
mult, but they all refused to act, and were deprived
of their commissions. There was peace between
the Peruvians and Colombians. General Miller,
who went from England itr his Majesty's ship :Serin•
gapatam, was at Buenos Ayres. Dr. Francia, in his
kingdom at Paraguay, if, as recluse as ever; like the
Chinese, he holds no intercourse with any of his
neighbours, nor does hi permit any one to enter his
territories, nor to depart from them. Hostilities
among the Buenos Ayrians had ceased. Rosas was
the Governor; he is described as possessing the
coarsest character, though very friendly towards the
English. The former Governor, who had shot his
predecessor, and hr,d gloried in the act in a procla-
mation, had retiree, to the Banda Oriental. The
interior of the corintry was, however, so disturbed,
and so full of robbers, that no intercourse had
yet been opened over the mountains to Valpa-
raiso. The :Warspite, Rear-Admiral • Baker,
Commander Wigston, acting for Captain Bur-
gess, and the Tribune, Acting Captain J. A. Duntze,
were at Rio a e Janeiro ; as were two large sixty-
gun French ;frigates, each with a Rear-Admiral's
flag on board, and the American Commodore in a
line-of-battle ship. The Lightning, for Rio Plate,
Seringapatarn, for the Pacific, and Algerine, for St.
Catherine's, left Rio three days before the Heron.
The Cadmus was daily expected to refit, and pro-
ceed to England, calling at Bahia for silver. Don
Pedro and all the Royal Family were fast recovering
from the injury !sustained in the upsetting of a car-
riage, but it was feared the young Queen Donna
Maria would lase one of her eyes by the accident.
The exiles from. Lisbon had not arrived at Rio when
the Heron came away. On the 26th September, at
1. 40. p.m., a very heavy shock of an earthquake
was experienced at Valparaiso, and on the same
night two otlaer shocks ; great damage was done in
consequence—scarcely a house uninjured. Casa
Blanca, a village about 30 miles from Valparaiso,
was laid in ruins; and Santiago, the capital, very
much damaged. The French frigate Surveillante
felt the shock half way between the Main and Juan
Fernandet—a distance of near 400 miles. Some
old English residents conceived the first shock more
severe than that of the grand earthquake in 1821.
Distribution of his Majesty's ships on the West
Coast :.—Forte, 44 guns, Captain Coghlan, will be
the next ship from Valparaiso, with silver, for Eng-
land; the Alert, 18, Captain Fitzgerald, will fol-
low—she was at Callao, collecting specie; the Sap-
phire, 28, Captain Dundas, was gone to San Bias,
to collect bullion for the Thetis frigate, which ship
had arrived at Valparaiso, in six weeks from Rio
Plate,'and would return to England after the Alert.
An intercourse is in future to be kept up with our
ships on the west coast of America and the Friendly
Islands. The Seringapatam and the Tribune fri-
gates have been directed to call there; and we be-
lieve the Challenger frigate, from the Indian station,
will visit some of the many islands in the Pacific, to
give countenance and support to our sperm-whale
fishing-ships. The Heron spoke, near Fayal, on the
20th ult., the schooner James Daly, from Fayal to
Glasgow. She came into harbour on Wednesday,
to be paid off.
1 he following is an extract of a letter we have
received from the Cape of Good Hope, dated De-
cember 4th, 1829:—" The British men of war,
now lying in Simon's Bay, are the Maidstone, Espoir,
and Falcon ; the latter lately arrived from the Mau.
ritius. A quarrel is said to have taken place be-
tween the French and the Queen of Madagascar.
The former, without declaring war in the usual man-
ner, had opened a fire upon the castle and town Gf
Tamatave, which levelled both with the ground, and
killed fifty of the inhabitants. The natives of Ma-
dagascar were greatly exasperated -and resolved upon
revenge. The French had landed 250 marines,
under cover of their guns, arid were making a fort
to protect themselves; which they never can do in
the absence of their ships.—The English ship Numa,
Giles Wade, master, has been detained here since
the 13th October, for having five slaves on board;
and the case came on for judgment before the Vice-
Admiralty Court on the 2d instant, when the Judge
declared the slaves forfeited to the King, and fined
the master in penalties to-the amount of 5001., with
all costs, charges, &c. The sum of 1,000/. will not
clear the vessel. The Collector of the Customs,
Mr. Levien, has appealed to England; he considers
the condemnation of the ship as most certain. The
Nunsa was from Goa, bound to Rio, and from a leak
was forced to come into Simon's Bay. His Excel- ,
lency the Governor has just been on a twelve-weeks'
tour through the colony, and has been pleased with '
the attention paid him by every class of functionaries,
of the conduct of whom he has conveyed his warmest
approval. The Jasseur, sloop of war, and the
Tweed frigate, were at the Mauritius on Dec. 1."
The Flora transport, Lieutenant Wentworth,
agent, arrived on Thursday from Fernando-Po and
Ascension. She left the former settlement on the
Bth December, the latter the 9th of January. The
Sybille, 48, Commodore Collier, and Plumper,
Lieutenant Gore, were lying at Fernando Po. The
Hecla, Captain Boteler, had been obliged to put to
sea to get rid of the fever which had prevailed to a
lamentable extent on board of her, having lost nearly
all her officers, and upwards of 40 men; even the
blacks in that charnel house of an island are de-
scribed as dying like rotten sheep. The Black
Joke lugger had lost 16 of her crew—she had re-
cently captured a vessel with 276 slaves on board.
The slave trade was still carried on with the
greatest activity, and nothing but a steam-boat or
two could effectively check this abominable traffic.
The Clinker had lately taken two prizes with 300
slaves on board of each. The boats of the Eden,
under the command of Lieutenant Mercer, had also
captured a fine Brazilian schooner called the
Esmenia, in the River Camaroons, but unfortu-
nately before the slaves, who were waiting on shore,
had been embarked. The Eden was expected to
leave the coast about the 10th of December for Rio
de Janeiro and England. The fever at Fernando
Po had abated, and the colony was comparatively
healthy; the country for six miles inland had been
cleared, and the most strenuous exertions were con•
tinued to effect further improvement. Colonel
Nichols had sailed for St. Helena and Ascension to
renovate his health and strength, which was consi-
derably impaired. Of the forty-five marines who
lately left England for Fernando Po, ten only, with
Captain Morgan, were living when the Flora left.
The Sybille quitted Fernando Po on the 9th, and
captured the same night a vessel with 359 slaves,
making a total of 5,193 slaves captured by her and
her tenders. The officers of the Hecla who had
died were Lieutenants Thomas Tombs and W.
Wilson (b), Mr. Fletcher, Purser, and Mr. Law-
son, Surgeon. The Flora spoke the brig Welling-
ton, of Cork, 17 days out. Acting Lieutenant
Mercer (who had served eight years on the coast,
and is the only surviving officer of those who left
England with Captain Owen in his first expedition
to the coast), and three men, came home in the
Flora as evidence against the crew of a piratical
vessel called the Venus, captured by the Eden.
The ship Triton, James Crear, Master, arrived at
Cowes on Wednesday, from Batavia, which she left
en the 3d of November, the Cape the 24th of De-
cember, St. Helena the 6th of January, and Ascen-
sion the 13th of January; also the English barque
Integrity, A. D. Riddock, Master, from the Isle of
France, left Port Louis the 23d of November; both

His Majesty's frigate Dartmouth, Captain► Sir T.
Fellowes, C. 8., sailed on Monday to Chathatn, to
be paid off.
His Majesty's ship Undaunted, Capt. A. W. J.
Clifford, C. 8., returned to Plymouth from her cruise
in the Western Ocean, on Thursday, having tra-
versed a space of some thousands of miles in pur-
suit of piratical vessels, but without success in
capturing any. She called at St. Michael's on the
10th ult.

The Nightingale brig is ordered to be commis-
sioned at Plymouth, for the Packet service.
The Highland Lad arrived on Thursday, with
Government stores for Gibraltar, Malta, and Corfu.
J. Slight, Esq., lately appointed Naval Storekeeper
and Agent at Gibraltar, embarked from this port in
her. She sailed the same day.
The Wanderer transport, Lieut. Young, arrived
on Thursday, from Woolwich, with two companies
of Royal Artillery (Majors Bastard's and Petty's).
Captain Cruttenden's company here, having been
relieved by Majer Petty's, will embark on Monday for
the Mauritius, on which day she is expected to sail.
The Hope, Lieut. Pritchard, arrived on Thurs-
day, with 22 artificers from Deptford, for this
Dock-yard. She is to convey the reserve compa.
nies of the 95th Regiment to Guernsey. They will
embark on Monday.
The Lord William Bentinck will call at Ports-
mouth, on her way to Ascension, to embark some
Marine Artillery, destined to that settlement.
The Carnatic, 74 guns, will be taken out of Dock
on Monday, and the Leander, of 60 guns, will be
taken into Dock on Tuesday, for the purpose of
being broken up.
Lieutenants Husband, Nicholas, and Stevens,
eight serjeants, and 150 privates of the Plymouth
division of Royal Marines, are under orders to em-
bark at a moment's notice, on the arrival of the
Alban and Comet steamers, at that port, for Wool-
wich, where they are to do duty, in consequence of
the civil watch in that Dock-3 ard and Deptford be-
ing discontinued.
Captain George Rennie has taken the temporary
command of his Majesty's ship Ariadne, vice Capt-
Marryatt, and will convey out a Lieut.-Governor
for the settlement on the River Gambia.—Hamp-
shire Telegraph.
DEVONPORT, MARCH 6.—Yesterday thirty-four
artificers arrived from Deptford in the Comet and
Alban steamers, to join the establishment in this
yard. They consist' of fourteen shipwrights, twelve
sawyers, four caulkers, and three smiths.
We hear by some small craft from Falmouth, that
a frigate was seen on Wednesday standing up Chan-
nel, having a bust figure, which is supposed to be
his Majesty's ship Forte, Captain Coghlan, from
South America.

Mr. leffcott, the new Chief Justice for Sierra
Leone, will take his passage in the Ariadne, 28,
Captain G. Rennie, acting, and we understand that
Col. Findlay moves in her from the Gambia, also to
Sierra Leone, after being relieved by Mr. Kendall.
Commander W. Burnett (1827) is said to be ap-
pointedto the Blanche.

Mr. John Farrier, Assistant-Surgeon of his Ma-
jesty's ship St. Vincent, is appointed to the Hecla
surveying vessel on the coast of Africa; and Mr.
F. Osborne, late Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's
packet Sheldrake, is appointed to the St. Vincent,
in lieu ; Mr. M. Healy is appointed as Supernume-
rary Assistant-Surgeon of the St. Vincent.
Orders have been received here to expedite the
completion of the Racehorse, 18, building in this
Dock-yard.
The crews borne on the shear hulks are to be paid
for their provisions according to established form,
instead of having them issued in kind, as heretofore.
Remain in Hamoaze—St. Vincent, Kent, Druid,
Blanche, Royalist, and Comet and Alban steamers.
In Barnpool—Undaunted.
At the Island—Britomart.
In the Sound—Ariad►►e and Leveret.
In the Catwater—lsaltella Brazilian frigate.
The Reindeer packet, Lieut. H. P. Dicken, sailed
for Falmouth on Wednesday, which day the Bramble
cutter, Lieut. Haswell, also sailed on a cruise to the
west ward.

It Is now understood that his Majesty's ship
Blanche, 46, at this port, commissioned for the

vessels bound to Cowes for orders. The Master of broad pendant of Capt. Farquhar, will relieve the
the Triton reports that the Princess Royal, Sher- Sybille, on the African station.
wood, Master, sailed from Batavia the 12th of Oc- 1 The Nautilus and Carew, of 10 guns each, at
tober, bound to Cowes (I. of W.), also for orders, WoolWich, are to be brought forward for commis,lo,,.
and that she has been spoken with in December off i APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenant Alexander Cotton
the Cape of Good Hope. The Triton left at St. to the Galatea, vice Lieutenant F. V. Cotton, pro-
Helena his Majesty's ship Espoir and Chanticleer, seeding to the West India station, to join the Win-
and the merchant ships Lady M'Naughten, from chester; Mr. John Kirk, Sap. Assistant-Surgeon,
Madras and Mauritius, and Celia from Mauritius, to the Victory ; Mr. A. C. Bell, Assistant-Surgeon,
both bound for London; the Master of the, atter to the Sheldrak.packet.
ship, which arrived at St. Helena the 6th of Ja- Lieutenants H. Stroud and J. G. D'Urban, and
nuary, the day the Triton sailed, reported that he Mr. John Gill, Purser, are appointed to the Blanche.
spoke an American ship off the Cape from China, Mr. H. Woodruff, of his Majesty's yacht Royal
apparently light, and the master seemed very anxious I George, and Mr. G. L. Campbell, of his Majesty's
to communicate to him that an insurrection had taken cutter Swan, are promoted to the rank of Lieu-
place among the Chinese, and that in consequence tenant.
of which the Indiamen had left for Urmston Bay; i . The following gentlemen passed their examination
blowing strong, he could not get further particulars, 1 for Lieutenants' commissions on Wednesday last, on
but from the way it was told he has no doubt of board the St. Vincent flag-ship :—Messrs. C. G. E.
its veracity. Patey, P. H. L. Phillips, and H. A. Gibson, of the
The Board of Admiralty have adopted a regula- St. Vincent ; H. L. Cox, of the Kent ; and
tion which will have the effect of at once reducing I Bott, of the Undaunted.—Devonport Telegraph.
the number of officers in the Navy. This regulation
provides, that no promotion shall in future take place
in either rank until three vacancies shall occur in
that to which an officer is eligible. All officers act-
ing in a rank superior to their own are to be placed
on a list, and be promoted in rotation as such cer-
tain vacancies occur. The patronage of Admirals
on foreign stations is also curtailed. The only pri-
vilege they will in future have, is the promotion of
an officer to the rank vacated. The junior vacancies
are to be filled up from the Admiralty list. Sir G.
Clerk, in the House of Commons, on Monday night,
said the Admiralty were aware that these restric-
tions would act severely upon the officers in the
Navy; but they saw no other course to pursue, the
half-pay list certainly not having been diminished so
fast as the country required and expected.
A new regulation has been issued very recently
from the Admiralty regarding the entry of young
gentlemen into his. Majesty's Naval service. Vo-
lunteers of the first class are hereafter to be received
into the service only by the appointment of the
Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty. The Cap-
tains and Commanders will be allowed to enter Mates,
Midshipmen, Masters, Assistants, and Volunteers of
the second class, as heretofore. No young gentleman
is to be re-admitted into the service until the ap-
proval of the Admiralty is first obtained; if abroad,
the sanction of the Commander-in-Chief is sufficient,
but that Officer must report the requisite particulars
by the first opportunity, to the Secretary of the
Admiralty. Such particulars are—the date of his
original entry in the service, and the cause of his
discharge. Young gentlemen now in the service,
by the approbation or permission of the Admiralty,
may be re-entered on a ship's being re-commissioned,
without the special permission required by this re-
gulation in the other instance. If a Captain or Com-
mander should find it necessary to disrate a young
gentleman, he is, if on a home station, to report it
and the cause to the Admiralty ; if on a foreign sta-
tion, to his Commander-in-Chief, who will do so.
On a ship being ordered to be paid off, the Captain
or Commander is to. report to the Commander-in-
Chief the names of such young gentlemen serving
on board as may have passed their examination for
Lieutenants, and desirous of continuing in the ser-
vice, and unable to procure ratings in any ship. No
one is on any account to be borne as Admiralty
Midshipmen, except by the Admiralty's special au-
thority. A return, quarterly, is to be sent from
every ship, of the Mates, Midshipmen, Masters'
Assistants, Admiralty and College Midshipmen,
College and first and second class Volunteers, serv-
ing on board; and great care is to be taken that, in
these returns, the discharge, entry, or any alterations
in the ratings, since the date of the preceding re-
turn, be reported and accounted for. On no account
whatever is a young gentleman to serve in any other
capacity, or under any other rating, than one of the
before-named.

ESSEX COUNTY ELECTION.

On Saturday the Freeholders of the County of
Essex were put in motion, at a very early hour, in
order to assemble at Chelmsford, to be present at the
nomination of Candidates to fill the vacancy occa-
sioned by the recent death of Admiral Sir Eliab

Harvey.
At ten o'clock the business commenced, and at
that time the crowd round the hustings was so great
that it was with difficulty the candidates and their
friends could make their way up to the hustings.
The High Sheriff, Mr. CAPLE CURE, opened the
business; by. informing, the Freeholders for what pur-
pose they were assembled.
Mr. TUFFNELL rose to propose Mr. Bramstoie,
who, he said, %vas a gentleman of unimpeached
loyalty in his public character, and of untainted in-
tegrity in his private life.

SATILII ONGLEY seconded the nomination.

Mr. BRAMSTONE next came forward, and was re-
ceived with cheers and hisses, but the cheers pre-
dominated. It was a considerable time before he
could obtain a hearing. The people abdut the hust-
ings called out for Mr. Harvey and Mr. Wellesley.
This disturbance appeared to provoke Mr. Conyers,
one of the candidates, who made his debut to the
Meeting, by calling aloud, " Send them to gaol !
I will be heard." Mr. D. W. Harvey, and
other gentlemen on the hustings, begged the
people to give every body a hearing. Mr. Bram-
stone then proceeded. Being conscious of the rec-
titude of his motives, and recollecting the support
he had received from them on former occasions.—
(Uproar; a voice—" Do not let the proceedings of
this day be interrupted by the mountebank tricks and
explanations of a puppet from Copt Hall.")
Mr. TOWER begged the people to hear Mr.
Bramstone ; they ought to hear both sides.

After some time, Mr. BRABISTONE again obtained
a hearing. He could not fail to recollect that on
two former occasions the people of Essex had loudly
called on him, in a way that • was most gratifying to
his feelings, to aspire to that honour to which he did
then aspire. He could not believe that the kindness
they had then expressed for him was now extin-
guished. For his own part, he knew nothing that
had happened which ought to lessen that kindness,
and his claims on it were not diminished. His
public acts and his private life were both before
them, and they might attentively consider them; if
he manifested any merit, the credit due to him was
small. if the freeholders returned him to Parlia-
ment, it would be his duty to devote every hour of•
his life to their service; if they gave the preference
to another, it would be his duty to be content.
They might find a more able Representative, but
they would not find any man who would serve them
with more diligence, more honesty, or more inde-
pendence.—(Cheers.)
Mr. TOWER come forward to propose Mr.
Conyers. He bestowed many eulogiums on Mr.
Bramstone, as a good Magistrate and an active
country gentleman, but they wanted representatives
of sound public principles. Mr. Tower concluded by
proposing Mr. Conyers as one of their representatives.
Mr. CONYERS stepped forward, and began to
square like a boxer, from the waggon, at the people.
—(Great laughter and cheers.)

Mr. LONG WELLESLEY rose to second the nomi-
nation, but it was some time before he could obtain
a hearing. He was received with hisses and shouts,
mingled with cheers. He said he was placed in the
most painful situation a public man could be placed
in. If he knew any thing of the duty of public
men, it consisted principally in making a sacrifice of
self; and never could any man be called upon to
make a greater sacrifice than he had done in
coming forward to second the nomination.—(Great
uproar in the meeting, which 'continued for some
time.)—Mr. Wellesley concluded by seconding the
nomination of Mr. Conyers.
Mr. CONYERS was received with mingled cheers
and laughter. He began in a very loud voice—
County of Essex, give me your support. British
calves attend ! open your ears and hear, while I ad-
dress you in a stiff, formal, and dignified manner.—
(Roars of laughter, mixed with astonishment.)—
We are met here to exercise the greatest right of
Englishmen—that of sending a gentleman to repre-
sent you in Parliament and abuse the Duke of
Wellington, which cannot be done by his nephew.
If you send me, gentlemen, you shall find that I am
a strong hound for a fine fellow like him. My
motto is—(Here some gentleman, Mr. Burgoyne,
we believe, from the windows of the Shire Hall,
above the hustings, called out that he wanted to
ask Mr. Conyers a question; the crowd called out
to Mr. Conyers to answer, and some con-
fusion ensued.)—After a time, Mr. Conyers, in '
continuation, said, my motto is honesty, and truth
must ever triumph over expediency and humbug.—
(Here the Hon. Candidate favoured us with the
following admonition, " Take care you write that
down, Mr. Reporter.")—The Right Hon. It. Peel
ought to have made last year the speech that I make
this day. I know that Right Hon. Gentleman both.
as a private and a public friend.—(Bravo.)—The
Right Hon. Robert Peel was shooting with me last
year, and I have a wood called Orange Wood. My
Right Hon. Friend shot well, as he always does,
and I told my Right Hon. Friend I would call the
spot where he had shot so well Orange Pee).—
(Laughter.)—This year I sent him the same invita-
tion; but he was so busy, being afraid of the hypo-
critical Whigs, that he could not come to shoot.
The Hon. Candidate continued in this strain for some
time, and then said of Catholic Emancipation, that
had he been in the House when it was proposed,
he would have cut off his right arm, rather than
have consented to it ; but that now it was carried,
he would cut off his right arm rather than have it
undone. He did not wish to say anything of a
grave ; but if Mrs. Conyers were in her grave, he
would have no objection to marry and bed with a
Catholic lady.—(A voice, " You ought to have
straight jacket on.")—Lord Petre was pledged to
support his opponent, but his heart was with him
(Mr. Conyers). The Hon. Candidate then alluded
to dye men whom he had lately sent to prison for
deer-stealing, to whom he had given a sovereign.
He was supposed to say that he had seen them at
Mr.. Abdy's, which called forth a denial from that
gentleman, and occasioned considerable confusion.
If he were returned to Parliament (Mr. Conyers
continued), he would do his duty faithfully and to
the best of his abilities. As to reform, the hest part
of
would send
would
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tfoorpar
themselves,
iiame thennt.Hes they
hould
like, at the same time, to see rotten boroughs done
away, and large towns like Manchester represented.
As to tithes, he would give them the same answer
as he had given a butcher in Romford market. The
butcher asked him about tithes ; and, in return he
asked the butcher what he would do if any body
took away a leg of mutton from his stall ? I would
knock him down, said the butcher; then, replied,
Mr. Conyers, if I were q parsou, and von at-

tempted to take my tithes, I would knock you
down.---(Great laughter.)
Sir H. SMITEI said a few words to the Meeting,
explaining that he was opposed to his friend Mr.
Bfamstone, because he disapproved of that Gent's.
conduct on the Catholic Question.- He aso put a
question on this subject to Mr. Conyers, on which
that Gent. had previously and clearly stated his
sentiments.'

Mr. D. Ar. HARVEY, M.P,, came forward, and
was received with great applause'. The Le ►rned
Gent. addressed the people at such length that it is
impossible for us to give even an outline of his
speech, which was frequently cheered—frequently
caused very great laughter, and was very well
received from the beginning to the end. He
expressed his great regret and disappointment at
Mr. Wellesley having resigned, and declared that
he should take no further part in the election.
A show of hands was then called for, and the High
Sheriff declared that the electors had decided in
favor of Mr. Brimstone. Mr. Conyet4 called for
a poll, and the Candidates and their friends pro-
ceeded immediately, it being then two o'clock, to
the poll-books, and polling was instantly begun. It
proceeded with some spirit till a late hour, and by
the last account we have received of the poll, the
numbers were:—

For Mr. Brimstone...soo For Mr. Conyers...73

We understand that it is the general opinion in
Essex that Mr. Bramstone will be successful, and
that Mr. Conyers will not keep open the poll the
whole time allowed by law.