The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-28 00:00:00

THE ROYAL NAVY.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 26.—Yesterday arrived the Cato
transport, Lieutenant Cooley, in •thirty days from Quebec,
with the headquarters of the 37th Regiment on board, under
Major Bruce. The remainder of the regiment will return
home in the Romney, 50, Captain N. Lockyer,C.B. which
ship would leave Quebec in a few days after the Cato.—The
79th Regiment, from Cork, relieved the 37th Regiment, in ser.
vice at Canada.

Letters have been received here from the Maidstone frigate,
Commodore Charles BUllen, C. 8., dated the 10th September,
at Prince's Island, at which time the squadron was unusually
healthy. The Maidstone'had recently captured a Dutch slave
ship, with two sets of papers on board. The Dutch Captain
mistook the Maidstone for a French frigate, and unwittingly
produced a set of documents, which will fully condemn him.—
The letter says—" The Dutchman was wonderfully enraged
when he came upon the qaurter-deck, and found that the
Maidstone was an English frigate." The slaves were all in
the most horrible state of confinement.

The Samarang relieved the Ariadne at the Mauritius, on the
22d of August. The Redwing arrived at Sierra Leone on the
11th August, from England. The Albion arrived at Gibraltar
on the 29th October, from Cork. The Liffey and Tees arrived
at Madras on the 15th July; the Sophie at Calcutta. from Ran-
goon, leaky, the 27th of June. • The Tweed sailed froth Fayal
for Halifax, 23d October.

The Rainbow, 28, the• Hon. Captain Rous, for the Cape of
Good Hope, and the Dispatch, 18, Captain Parsons, for the
coast of Africa; the Ganges for Madras and Calcutta; and
about thirty sail of other outward-bound merchant ships are
detained here by contrary winds. The Brazilian frigate Pi-
ranga, Captain Shepherd, will sail for Rio Janeiro in the course
of next week, should the wind prove fair.
The Dotterel, 18, Captain Henry Edwards, is ordered here,
from Woolwich, to take dispatches to Halifax, and join the
North American squadron.
The crew and passengers who arrived from the West Coast
of Africa in the Surrey transport, being perfectly restored to
health, it is expected that this ship will now be, released from
the restraint of quarantine.
Captain Pulkinghorne is appointed to the Sparrowhawk, 18,
at this port.

Captain Newcombe, who paid off the Pyramus, at this port,
a short time tince, presented Captain Luckraft, his late First
Lieutenant of that ship, with a handsome and highly chased
silver cup and salver. W instance
of believe this to be a solitary
of so great a mark of esteem, and it`must prove high and gra-
tifying compliment to the merits of this officer.
PLYMOUTH, NOV. 24.—Arrived the Camelion' 10, Cap-
tain M. Seymour, from Lisbon, last from Falmouth. She left
the Tagus on the sth instant. The Spartiate, 74, was daily
expected there. She was spoke on the 28th September, oft the
Cape de Verds, having on board the Portuguese Diplomatic
Authorities, who went to Rio Janeiro with Sir Charles Stuart,
to negociate the terms of independence for the Brazilian States.
Arrived the Nightingale, from a cruise. The Druid, 46, Cap.
fain Chambers, and Harlequin, 13, Captairi . James Scott,
bound to the East India station, are previously to proceed to
Spithead. Sailed the Nigtingale, of a cruise; Falcon, for Li.
verpool. Arrived the Pike, from Cork. Remain—Britannia,
Genoa, 'Windsor Castle, Druid, Shamrock, Talbot, Pandora,
Nimrod, Harlequin, Victor, Camelion, Dove, Swallow, Pike,
Hound.