The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-16 00:00:00

ROYAL NAVY, &c.

zOtass_atog...M.,l2CCt. lia Majesty's ship Leander,
gUns, Captain_Job Hanmer (acting), bearing the flags of
Rear Atinilril thellOn:Sir 11in'ry 1C.C.8.,
arrived on. Welnesdayfroth the East Indies, the Rear Admire
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having • been relieved in the command aid's' Majesty s Ships and
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-vessels bn'that Station, by-ColiiniOdoie Charles flrirrif,-;C-.11., in
his Majesty's ship. LiffeY: :Thd Lender sailetLfromakinco-
snaleton,the 21st pfAuguat,louehed at tlic.Cape of fittodilope,
.andieft_iton the 20th October, aid St. Helena tile Ist Of No-
vember.—The Glasgow, 46 guns, Captain Boyle, saileA from
. .
Trilecoinalee' on the 9th of August, to proceetl-to.Calcutta,
for :the. 'purpose of embarking the Governor Gaterar :and
sujte4T for a passage to England. The -naval establishment at
the- Dock yard At Trincomalee, had been broken up. The
Officers and some of the artificers came hOrne in t'h' Learider ;
as did also Captain Robert Gore, late of the Satellite,sand Lieut.
-Albert Croker, of-the lathe .ship,: imralided.. 4ieut.'l)unlop,
late of the Glasgow, had been promoted-, ;and appointed to the
command of the
.Termagant, a -new 28-gun ship, whic,h was
fitting out to proceed to England, aria was expected to sail
. .
about October. Lieut. M. J; Ctirrie had' been &banned and
appointed to' the -Satellite, vice Captain- fibre. ---Mr.• Grant,
Midshipman of tito, • Liffey,, -had, been, appo'uted,l.4ente-
pant . of the Satellite,. in the room of
,Liautenant ,broker.—
The Heron, .18 gun sloop, .. was at, the . Cap
Hope.. Lieutenant Hamilton. of the Leander, was appoint-
•
ed,Commarider of her, by Sir. H. Blackwood, Capt. Job Han-
mer
mer having been removed to the -Leander in
.the room of Capt.
C, Richardson, C.B. who was left behind in an ill state Of health
at the Cape of Good Hope.—The Leander having blauded
vessel • Nig-Marseilles, bound to, the West Indiesilihe was
placed under quarantine on her arilval,- but was released yes-
' terday, 'and orderedinto Harbour,to be paid:off, and laid up in
ordiftary. •The flag of Rear Aduriral Sir Henry Blackwcod
was struck last evening. .
A letter from Captain Basil Hill,•ofhii Majesty's ship Con-
way, to Commodore Sir J. M. Hardy, Bart., dated Rio-de Ja-
neint,,October 13, 1622, respecting the numerous Ice Islands
wbich. are met with at certain tithes near Cape Horn, has
been 'received, from which we make the following interesting
'extract :••••44 I think it right to mention, that many-vessels
lately arrived here, which, on their Passage round Cape Horn,
had fallen in with Ice Islands, which appear to be spread
over an unusually extensive range ; -and although probably
before any statement can reach Englind in time to put the ships
.of this season on their guard, the danger may have vanished,
yet I venture respectfully to suggest; that essential service
might be rendered to the navigation off Cape Horn, if, before
the circumstance be forgotten, due publicity were given to the
fact, that in some years these formidable dangers may be met
with,"not -as heretofore supposed, far south, and-in small num -
hors, but thickly studding the whole of the sea, immediately off'
and on both sides of the Cape. A ship has recently been
forced back, haying every where met with ice off the Cape.; and
three days ago the. American ship Tea Plant, returneddismast.
. ed. -She had.run stern on in the dark upon an ice island, early
in the morning of the 12th of last month. It was so abrupt, that
. the ship did not strike it till the bowsprit had been fairly thrust
into the ship. -'Phis was in lat. 56. 57. S. and lontitirdel6o W.
In the Conway Ave .fellin with ice, in latitude 57-.. 36.-S. and
long. 65. W. About 50 degrees, however, appear to be the
latitude where the islands were most numerous, and .3 here also
the ice was seen to eiamPatt fields of grearetttent a-little to the
east of the meridian of the Cape."
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. The Briton, 46 guns, was commissioned on Tuesday, and is
to be fitted for Channel service. Lieuts. Jonn Reeve, G. P.
Eyre, J. B. Maxwell, and R. L. Baynes; Mr. T. Terry,
purser, and Mr. Hartley, surgeon, are appointed to her.—
Lieut. Charles English is appointed to the 'Tribune, and Lieut.
James O'Brien to the Gloucester.

' The. Phaeton 46 guns, Capt. H. E. P. Sturt, went out.of har-
-bour on Wednesday, and sailed the same day for Plymouth;
she will be followed on- Sunday by the Valorous, 26 guns, Capt.
Murray, both of which ships are to be placed Under the orders
.of. Sir Edward Owen, who sailed from the Nore iii the Glou-
aster, 74 guns, on Wednesday last, for Plymouth,
'The. wind having become fair on Tuesday last, -did Forte,
46 guns, Capt. Sir Thomas Cochrane, and the Eden, 24 guns,
Capt. John Lawrence, sailed for Plymouth ; the latter to join
the squadron, under the orders of Commodore Sir Edward
Owen. The whole of the outward-bound merchantmen also
'sailed for their respective destinations ; and the Russian frigate
kruizer, for Rio Janeiro.
The ship General Palmer arrived at St. Helena, from Ma-
tires, on he-o way to England, on the 31st of October.
On Tuesday arrived the Pomona, from Riga,,with a.cargo of
timbei for the Dock-yard, at this port,
The Shamrock, surveying vessel, Captain' Martin-White,
arrived on Monday, and came into harbeur to repair some da.
mage sustained in the late gale.
'1 . .
he SparrowhaWk, 13-gun sloop, Captain Edward Boxer,
sailed on Thursday;for Bermuda; to join Rear-Admiral Fahie.
Lieutenant J. O'Brien is appointed to the Gloucester:
Seven Mates and Midshipmen passed their examinations for
Lieutenants on Monday last, at the.ROyal Naval College.
Ship at Spithead—Leander. In Harbour—.Queen. Charlotte,
Ramillies, Albion, Briton, Valorous, Ringdove,
,Shamrock,
Clinker, and Pelter.