The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-25 00:00:00

BERMUDA.

The British screw steamship Gladiator has ar-
rived at Liverpool with advices from Bermuda to
the 7th inst.

The captain of the Gladiator, having beard pre-
viously to his departure from Bermuda that Com-
modore Wilkes, of steamship Trent notoriety, in-
tended to capture the Gladiator, obtained the pro-
tection of her Majesty's ship Desperate, which
vessel accompanied him a certain distance from the
port. The vessels had scarcely parted company
when the Gladiator was boarded by a boat's crew
from a Federal man-of7war, and the captain was
ordered to go on board and report himself. The
Desperate being within gunshot, he declined to obey
the order, and was then allowed to proceed. The
Desperate, on seeing the Gladiator boarded, imme-
diately ran out two guns ready for action.
It was currently reported at Bermuda that the
Governor had sent a requisition to Admiral Milne
for a protecting squadron.
The Bermuda Gazette of the 7th of October, under
the heading " The notorious Wilkes," publishes the
following extraordinary statements :
" The arrival of Admiral Wilkes and his squadron
was duly announced in our last, and as a great many
rumours of a highly conflicting, amusing, and in-
correct nature have been flying about the country,
and causing more or less excitement among our
usually phlegmatic people, we now subjoin, for the
information of our readers, a short account of the
proceedings of this well••known gentleman during
his stay in our waters.

" Admiral Wilkes, with his flagship and two gun-
boats, arrived off the Island on Friday, the 26th ult.,
and on the following morning entered the haibour
of St. George, with the Wachusett and the Tiogat
the Sonoma being left outside cruising in the
channel. The Admiral called on his Excellency
the Governor on Saturday afternoon, having, as
we are informed, received the usual official noti-
fication, as laid down in her Majesty's proclama-
tion (already published in our columns) that 24
hours only would be allowed for the stay of the
vessels in his command. We understand that the
object of this visit was to obtain coal, but as the
ships were only four days from Hampton Roads
his supplies could not have run out to any extent
hardly, we think, to incapacitate his return to his
nearest port. The coaling, under some pretext, did
not commence until Monday afternoon, when a few
tons were put on board the Wachusett. The Tioga
did not commence coaling until Tuesday. The coal-
ing of these vessels was completed on Tuesday night
and Wednesday, and then an accident occurring to
the machinery of the flag-ship again delayed the
departure of the t quadron. In the meantime the
Sonoma was engaged in cruising about outside, and
on Wednesday morning she came in to coal and re-
pair a mishap which occurred to her machinery,
how, when, or where we are not in a position to
state. On the Wednesday morning the Tioga went
out and relieved the Sonoma, following the same
course of proceeding as her consort, cruising about
in the channels, and anchoring near the checkered
buoy at night, blocking up the entrance and pre-
venting the ingress and egress of all vessels. The
Wachusett left on Thursday morning, and in the
afternoon the Sonoma went out ; the Admiral bore
away to the eastward, and was out of sight et
night, the two gunboats being left cruising outside
—a piece of recreation which they have since beat
indulging in up to the time of our going to press.
" The ostensible object of obtaining coal is, we
conceive, but a little scheme to see how far it might
be possible for American pluck to drive through
the rules of neutrality laid down by the British
Government. The delaying from Monday to Thurs-
day, the cruising within our waters, the anchoring
in our channels, the landing of armed sentries, the
boarding of British vessels, the taking on board of
unlimited coal, and the subsequent proceedings of
the gunboats evidently prove that there must have
been some peculiar and particularly private reasons
which have given us the honour of thin influx of
United States' heroes.

" The mail steamer was boarded this morning,
and boats have been engaged in sounding the chap'
nels and reefs at the west end.
" We are not anxious for a row, nor do we wish
to come across the pcculiaritieo of Americans ifl
their present excited and perhaps exasperated and
unreasoning condition ; but we do submit whether
these breaches committed in the very teeth of the.
Royal instructions, in the face of justice, right, and
national law, ought not to receive such a check al3
.
to put an end to the chance of that flag which 111
supposed to have braved a thousand years the battle
and the breeze being deliberately and grossly 111'
suited.

" The Roy al mail steamer Merlin, Capt: Sanir
son, when within three miles of the land vesterdaff
morning, was fired at and brought to by one °I
those gunboats, and though the officer in charge
the boat, when he beame aware of the true ebei
racter of the vessel he had stopped, apologised, still
such frequent and unprovoked insults will not be
submitted to.

" Her Majesty's steamer Steady, Captain Grant,
arrived here from Halifax on Friday to have bet:,
machinery perfected. She left Halifax on the 23"
ult., at which time there were in that port 1161
Majesty's ships Immortalite, Melpomene, petrel,
Ariadne, and Spiteful.

" Her Majesty's steamer Melpomene, 51, CaPt'
Ewart, arrived at Halifax from Nassau, New PO;
vidence, on the 21st ult. She has had 16 cases °.;
yellow fever on board, five of which had prove'
fatal. The convalescing had been removed to the
Pyramus receiving ship, lying off the Royal Naval
Hospital.

c, Her Majesty's ship Spiteful arrived at HaNO
on the night of the 22d ult., also from New provii
dente. She has had 22 cases of yellow fever, fo
which eight had proved fatal—viz., in the case of
midshipman, a master's mate, and six seamen. 'llll'
Spitefal was placed in quarantine.
" Admiral Milne left Halifax on the 23d ult., it;
the Nimble, accompanied by the Landrail, Vole!?
Cygnet, Medea, and Nile and Hero, on an expert„
mental trip. All the vessels were to go to SW!:
Harbour, and the Admiral was to return to fie,it,
fax on the 26th. He would afterwards go to
John, New Brunswick, in the Medea.
" The steamship Askelon, from Liverpool, Eng'
land, bound to the West Indies, arrived at Sydael;
Cape Breton, on the 20th ult., for coal, and was t
have proceeded on her voyage that night.
"The British steamer Ovachita got under Nveela
in St. George's Harbour on Sunday, and proceed
to Grassy Bay, for the purpose of trying her en
ci
gines, when one of the American gunboats chasei,
her to the entrance of the north side of the chaOce
,‘We understand that the Admiral, with a let
force, is expected here from Halifax about t'
middle or end of next month. We are, however'
disposed to think that recent occurrences Will e%
pedite the arrival of his squadron."

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