The Sun.
London, England, 1825-04-25 00:00:00

ROYAL NAVY, &c.

[room TILE 1.01.301. i GAZETTE OF SATURDAY.]
• . Adntiraltzi-o.oce; April
Vice-Adniiral Sir fiarryNeale has transmitted -to rhis:Office
a letter from Captain Hamilton.,.of the Cambrian, stating, that
two piratical ♦essels, carrying one gun and about 30. men each,
were captured on the. 31st of January last, in the channel of
Negropont, by the boats of his Majesty's ships Cambrian and
Scringapatam, under the 'orders of Lieutenant.Marshani, first
of the Cambrian. •

When these pirates were. first.diseovered, they were in chase
of an lonian vessel; and there being ,reason to suspect (as was
afterwards found to be the fact), that they had shortly before
plundered another vessel under the same flag, Captain Hamil-
ton sent Lieutenant Marsham, in one of ,the Cambrian'4.hoat's,
with a Greek interpreter, to desire-that they would came down
to his Majesty's ships for examination ; but the pirates having
refused to comply with this desire, Lieutenant Marsham was
joined by the other boats of the Cambrian, and by those of
the Seringapatam, sent by Captain Hamilton's orders to his
support.

On the approach of the boats, the pirates commenced firing
upon them from their guns, and with musketry, and persevered
in so doing, notwithstanding the endeavour of Lieutenant
Illarsharn to prevail upon them to desist, who, after exhausting,
even under their fire, every means of .persuasion, was obliged
at last to attack them, and the pirate. ve►sels were then, in the
most gallant Wanner, boarded' and carried, after a desperate
resistance on the part of their crews, of Whom few only could
be taken prisoners, the greater. number being killed or
wounded.

The officers and men of his Illaiesty;s.sliips employed in the
boats acquitted themselves on this occasion f with the utmost
gallantry, and the whole of their'conduct is noticed by Captain
Hamilton in terms of high commendation.
The following is a return of the. killed and wounded in this
affair, tiz.—

Cambrian.—Killed—Daniel A. Lipple, aldeseaman I George
Martin, able seaman; .loseph Bratherwooa, private imirirk.
Wounded--Joseph Griffiths, quarter-rnaster, badly ; Hknry
Scott, able seaman ; William Richards, able seaman, badly ;
William Fletch,er,mble.seainao., ;lightly ; Robert Clarke, psi.:
vate marine, severely.
Seringapatam..,,Killed--William Scott, ordinary seaman ;
William Anderson, ordinary seaman ; David Revan, able
seaman. •

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Wounded—Lieutenant William Worsfold ; Mr. H. N.
Atkinson, mate, badly; Thomas Wilson, quartermaster;
William Stead, able seaman ; Thomas Franks, ordinary sea-
man badly; William 'Hughes' ordinary seaman, badly ; John
Caulfield, landman, slightly ; Robert Try, private marine.
Total-6 killed 413 wounded.

It is a fact not generally known, that the Admiralty Board
have the power of compelling half-pay navy officers to reside
within a certain distance of some seaport.—(Hampshire Tele-
graph.)
PORTSMOUTH, Aril'''. 23.—Yesterday the Sovereign tran-
sport, Lieut. J. T. lielsall, arrived from Barbadoes ; left the
Island on the 18th, and Antigua the 21st ult., bringing Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Young and six officers of the 3d West India
Regiment (disbanded), and other officers and men, invalided.
The Eden and Ringdove were left at Barbadoes.