The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-23 00:00:00

NAVAL INT ELLIGENCE

(From the Ilai,pshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 21.----The Waterwitch, 10, Lieutenant
William Austin acting. arrived yesterday front the coast of
Africa, leaving at Ascension, en the 11th of June, her Ma-
jesty's ship Pelican and Rover cutter, all well, and the island
perfectly healthy. The Pylades was in the Bight of Biaffra.
The Scout anti Viper at the Cape. The Lynx and Forester
cruising in the B;ght of Benin. The Waterwitch .eld been
healthy till she sailed from Ascension on the 3(.1 of May last,
when a sudden attack carried off three of the men in one day,
and the whole of the crew (three excepted) experienced vio-
lent and dreadful' attacks of fever. Tne unfortunate Cont-
mender Dickey expired on the 29th of May; the Gunner,
Thomas Stevens, with thirteen men and boys, experienced a
similar fate, and it was only with the greatest exertions of her
present Commander she was enabled again to reach Ascen-
sion, where orders were immediately given to her to proceed
to England. The Waterwitch .epoke, on the 29:h of June,
the ship Paragon, for Liverpool, from Calcutta, out 108 days.
The Dublin, Rainbow, Childers, and Racer, all recently
paid off, are to be again prepared for service.
The Sovereign transport sailed on Thursday for Bermuda,
with 140 convicts from Woolwich, and 60 from this port, to
complete the docks, breakwater, forts, and roads in that island.
Lieut. C. D. Robertson, Royal Engineers, took passage in
the Sovereign for Bermuda.
The ship Portsea, for Sydney, has shipped 240 convicts
from this port ; :she will sail in a few days.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenants the Hon.
George Fowler Hastings and Vernon Anson, to the rank of
Commander; Messrs. Wm. H. Ainslie and Augustus Alger-
non Villiers, to the rank of Lieutenant ; Messrs. Thos. Kidd
(late Assistant Surgeon of the Dublin), Thomas `Wiliam
Jewell ( Assistant Surgeon of the Apollo), Harvey Morris (of
the Royal George), and Mr. Brown, of the Excellent, to the
rank of Surgeon. Commander W. Luckraft, to the Belle.
rophon ; Commander Granville Gower Lock, to the Fly ;
Lieut. Jobn Simpson (a) to command Weazle ; Commander
E. Pilkington, to the Coast Guard at Sheerness ; Lieutenant
Robilliard to command the Seaflower ; Lieuts. J. P. B. Von
Donop, Peter Fisher, and W. S. Wiseman, to be additional
Lieutenants of the 'Wellesley; Lieut. J. H. Bridges, to the
Excellent; Dr. Samuel Irvine, Mr. Micklethwaite, Mate ;
Messrs. J. H. Patterson, Dr. H. H. Turnbull, John M•Leod,
and W. W. Baynes, additional Assistant-Surgeons; Mr. A.
_ Scott, additional Clerk, to the Britannia ; Mr. C. Sparshott,
Mate, to the Edinburgh ; Mr. T. Bowen, Second Master, to
the Herald ; the Rev. John U. Campbell, Chaplain ; Mr. A.
Cumming, Mate; and Mr. Gilbert F. M. Martin, Assistant
Surgeon, to the Hastings; Lieut. E. Herrick, to the Aetrea ;
Messrs. E. H. Derriman, William K`Kinlay, and John
Peters, additional Assistant Surgeon, to the Royal Adelaide ;
Mr. H. S. Dyder, additional Clerk, to the Melville ; Mr.
Edmund Webber, Midshipman, to the Jasseur ; Mr. Wacey,
Midshipman, (late Dublin), to the Herald ; Messrs. Henry
Bailey and Alex. ill`Nighten, Mates, to the Jasseur ; Mr. H.
B. Mottley, Mate, to the Savage ; Mr. H. T. Veitch, Mate,
to the Cornwallis ; Mr. W. Budd, Supernumary Carpenter,
from the Victory, to be Supernumary Carpenter of the San
Josef.

(From the Devonport Independent.)
PLYMOUTH, Jut.y 21.—Captain Tayler took the command
of the San Josef, 120, and the ships in Ordinary, on Sunday
last, from which Rear- Admiral Hancock retires, on his pro-
motion.
The Jaseur, 16, Com. Boultbee, and Savage, 10, Lieut. H.
J. Lacon, went out of Harbour into the Sound on Monday,
were paid advance of wages on Wednesday, and sail ;in a few
days, the former for the Mediterranean, and the latter for the
North Coast of Spain.
The Weazle, 10, Lieut John Simpson, was paid advance
of wages on Sa'urday, and sailed on Monday for Malta, touch-
ing at Gibraltar.
The Rover, 16, Commando'. C. Eden, was paid off on
Monday.
The Steam-transport Messenger, arrived in the Sound on
Monday, on her way to Chatham. with the 11th depot. She
landed some invalids, and then proceeded to her destination.

-Ti; troop-ship Jupiter, R. Easto, Esq , Master-Comman-
der, came into Harbour on Tuesday, to•have her defects made
good.
The Penguin, 10, was undocked yesterday, and is ready
for commission. _ _ _

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The Buzzard is ordered to be commissioned -at this port.
, The Tortoise lighter sailed on Tuesday, with stores to Fal-
mouth.

The sloop Pilot was warped alongside the sheer-hulk on
Friday, to have her masts put on board previous to being put
in commission.

The Skylark arrived on Friday from Falmouth, and came
into harbour the same day to refit.
The Rover, 16, 4 ordered to be brought forward, and fitted
for commission.

In the Sound—Jasseur and:Savage.
In Hamoaze—Royal Adelaide, San Josef, Jupiter, Night-
ingale, and Skylark.
We have received letters from the Malabar, 74, Captain
Harvey, dated Quebec, June 24. The Commander-in-Chief
of the station, Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Charles Paget,
G.C. H., arrived there a few days previous in the Cornwallis,
74, and is expected to remain during the summer months.
Everything relative to the movements of her Majesty's ships
appeared very uncertain. It appears that the American Go-
vernment are willing to co-operate with the British to suppress
the outrages which, from time to time, are occurring on the
frontiers. It is expected that the Malabar will shortly return
to England, as there does not appear at present any reason
for keeping up so large a naval force as is at present lying at
Quebec, viz., Cornwallis, 74, Malabar, 74, Hercules, 74, In-
constant, 36, Ves'al, 28, Andromache, 28, and Medea and
D ce, steamers.

By a letter received from the Island of Ascension, dated the
27. h of May, we regret to learn the death of Mr. Henry
George Garland Harrison, Surgeon of the Viper, who expired
on the previous day. He had taken his passage from England
in the Lynx, to join the Pylades, to which vessel he was ap-
pointed, but while at Prince's Island, the Viper touched there
in a sickly state, and without a medical attendant ; he was
placed on board, and in the arduous duties that devolved on
him in the care of the sick, to whom he was unremitting in his
attention, it is supposed he subjected himself to the attack of
the fatal and insidious disease (fever) which carried him off on
his arrival at Ascension, after a very short illness. He died
beloved and regretted by the officers and companies of every
vessel he had been on board of. The deceased was twenty-
five years of age. His remains were interred at Comfoit
Cove, in a grave adjoining that of his cousin, Mr. Jolley,
Assistant Surgeon, who died on this station, of the same fever,
a short time before him. By other accounts from the same
vessel, we hear that she has lost by the same disease, Mr.
William Bone, Clerk-in-Charge, Mr. Coker, Mate, and five
seamen.
We have received letters and papers from Nassau (New
Providence), to the 15th June. H. M. S. Thunder, Lieut.
Barnett, arrived there on the 6th, from the survey of the shoal
on which the Madagascar struck a short time since, situate on
the Coast of Yucatan ; it has never yet been marked on any
chart, and is named the " Madagascar Shoal." The Thunder
is gone to Bermuda, to replace two anchors which she lost.
Mr. Lawrence proceeds to Exuma in the Lightning tender,
to survey some of the heights on that coast. Vegetation was
in a very backward state at Nassau ; it revived, however, in
consequence of the heavy rain which fostunately set in on the
3d and 4th of June. On the 7th, Lieut.-Governor Cockburn,
attended by his staff opened the House of Assembly. On:the 24th
ult., his Excellency gave a grand ball to the whole of the gar-
rison and staff, in honour of her Majesty's birth-day, which
was attended by all the fashionables of the place. On the 31st
ult. the William Forster, from London, arrived, bringing pas-
senger Mr. Mends (son of M. B. Mends, Esq., Store-Receiver
of this Dock- yard), to join the 2,1 West India Regiment.
The Sappho, 16, Commander T. Fraser, has captured the
brig Carnoens, with 580 slaves on board. The slaves were
landed at New Providence. The Camocns was to call at
13,rmuda, and with the others sail for Sierra Leone for con-
demnation, there being no Portuguese Commissioner at Ha-
vannab. We understand that this vessel was captured on the
Anquila Bank, in 16 feet of water ; only six shots were fired
at her by the Sappho, before she struck, a few days previous
to their arrival at Nassau. On leaving the African coast she
had about 800 of these unfortunate creatures, who, to judge
from the appearance of the vessel, must have been thickly
stowed; soon after their embarkation a mutiny or quarrel had
taken place on board, in consequence of there being two dis •
tinct tribes of them, which ended in the destruction of a great
number.

The Portuguese slave brig Diligent, arrived at Nassau, in
charge of Lieutenant Hawkins, of H. M. S. Pearl, 20, Com-
mander Lord Clareace Paget—this vessel was captured by
the Pearl on the 22d of April, off Cape Antonio ; at the time
of capture she bad 479 slaves on board, since which several
have died.

Two CHILDREN POISONED.—On the morning
of Thursday the sth, as Alexander Ross, mason, was employed on the
premises of a merchant in Inverness, setting a grate in an empty apart-
ment, he observed, in a small pantry adjoining the room, a paper con-
taining a number of little round pills, having the appearance, as he says,
of " damaged carvies" or confections; a conclusion which he the more
readily adopted as the house had been previously occupied by a grocer.
He tasted the pills, and, finding them rather sweet, he put them in his
pocket, and took theM with him when he went to his breakfast. His
wife thought they did not appear very good, but, anticipating no harm,
she gave them to her children after her husband had returned to his
work. Five children partook of the supposed sweetmeats ; the youngest
soon took ill, and the others also became unwell ; the former, an infant,
died on Sunday forenoon ; and another, about six years old, died the
came evening. Strange to say, the unfortunate parents did not think of
calling in medical assistance till the Sunday, when it was too late to save
the deceased children. Of the remainder, one has completely reco-
vered, but the other two are still in a dangerous state. On examination,
it was ascertained that the pills were formed of arsenic, made up with
flour, and were placed in the spot where they were found by a former
occupant of the premises, in order to destroy rats. This melancholy ac-
cident will, we trust, afford a useful, though a dearly.bought, caution
to parents and others, as to the disposal of poison in dwelling-houses.—
Inverness Courier. . _ _

A sinJular discovery has been made at the Dan/ ,
Margate, of an extensive grotto, which appears to have been excavated
about the time of the Saxon heptarchy, and which affords matter for
deep reflection, and will probably throw some light on the habits of our
Saxon ancestors. The Dane is celebrated as the field of a decisive and
terrible engagement fought between the Saxons and Danes. From
time to time objects have been disinterred which show the deadly nature
of the struggle, including numerous human bones, not yet reduced to
dust; and even entire skeletons imbedded in soft chalk, and thus pre-
served, as with a coating of cement, from decomposition. Armour
and warlike weapons of the fashion of that early period have also bet!"
found. The grotto, which has just been laid open, does not appear to
have any reference_ to the battle. It extends to a great distance under
the hil!, and :s laid out in serpentine walks, alcoves, and passages of
considerable extent, the sides being htiiiith.tl with shells, forakd into

eaborate and curious cievict,, and UouLtis t,accuted by torchlight.
The discovery of this remarkable structure vsaa futilely r,c;,idental,
and in consequence of souse excavation made on the spot by the pro
prietor of the land.—Dover Telegraph.