The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-10 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Portsmouth herald of Sunday.)
PonTsistotmt, OCT. S.—The Cygnet, transport, Lieut.
Lester, agent, and his Majesty's steam-vessel Columbia,
Lieut. Robt. Ede, sailed on Wednesday for Leith, with a
part of the 90th Regiment, late from Winchester.
His Majesty's ship Tribune, 42, Captain J. A. Duntze,
arrived on Tuesday evening from Rio Janeiro, having
touched at the Azores on her way to England. She brings
home 1,030,000 dollars, and as passengers, the Hon.
George AMOR Clements, promoted to the rank of Lieute-
nant, and Mr. Bedford, Master, late acting in his Ma-
jesty's ship Seringapatam. She brings also two distressed
British subjects, eight invalids from the squadron, and se-
veral smugglers, whose periods of five years' service in
the Navy (according to their sentence) had expired. The
Tribune left Guayanias, in the gulf of California, on the
28th of February; St. Blas on the 19th of March; Val-
paraiso on the Ist of June ; and Rio Janeiro on the 11th
of August. On the passage between St. Blas and Valpa-
raiso, the Tribune visited Easter Island, in Lit. 26. 35.
S. and long. 109. 37. W. The natives swam off in great
numbers to the ship, which was at anchor upwards of a
mile from the shore, and although it was blowing a fresh
breeze at the time. The natives of this island were
nearly in a complete state of nudity ; the males be-
ing wholly so. They exhibited all the characteristics
of savage life. The men were well made, and stout
and active; the females were above the middle height,
and elegantly proportioned, with interesting countenances;
their skin being of a light copper colour. Both men and
women were fancifully tattoed. The island bore but little
marks of cultivation, and that in scattered spots, here and
there. The natives brought off yams, potatoes, and a few
curiosities to barter for old clothes and other articles, with
the qualities of which they appeared well acquainted. Old
jackets, trousers, &c. were consequently in high requisition ;
scarlet, as might be expected, offering the greatest attrac-
tion and obtaining the best price in exchange, especially
among the fair sex. The main deck for several hours had
a very picturesque appearance, bearing a striking resem-
blance to the animated scenes at Rag-fair. They left the
ship well pleased with their various bargains, and, having
been well entertained on board, they parted company with
great reluctance. After they had landed, they were ob-
served, by the aid of glasses, to display the greatest eager-
ness in selecting and dividing the garments they had ob-
tained on board, and, after a few minutes, surtouts
were seen to be the order of the day with both sexes.
A serious disturbance had taken place in Peru ; the
Vice-President had been obliged to leave Lima. Chili
was in a greater state of tranquillity and prosperity
than it had been for a considerable time. In fact, Val-
paraiso was the only flourishing place which the
Tribune visited on the West Coast. Rio Janeiro was in its
usual dull, unsettled state, in daily expectation of an insur-
rection among the slaves. The Tribune left at Rio,
his Majesty's ship Druid, 46, Captain G. W. Hamilton,
C. B. and Lightning, 18, Commander T. Dickenson
(b) his Majesty's ship Tyne, 28, Captain C. Hope, and
the Adelaide, tender, had sailed for Bahia. His Majesty's
ship Volage, 27, Captain Right Hon. Lord Colchester,
was hourly expected. The indefatigable exertions of
Captain Dickenson, of the Lightning, in endeavouring to
recover the treasure sunk in the Thetis, at Cape Frio,
were about to be resumed. Part of the Tribune's freight
consists of money saved from that wreck. The Tribune
spoke on the 29th of August, in lat. 11. 36. N. long. 25.
33. W. the Sylvia, transport.
His Majesty's steam-vessel Columbia, Lieut. R. Ede
having receivrd on board a party of the 90th regiment;
for conveyance to Leith, proceeded on Wednesday for that
port.

His Majesty's steam vessel Echo, Lieutenant R. Otway,
having towed his Majesty's ship Imogene, to Spithead,
proceeded on Saturday evening to Plymouth, with super-
numeraries, and to have her boilers repaired at that port,
previously to her receiving on board the Mediterranean
November mail.
His Majesty's ship Imogene, 28, Capt. Price Blackwood,
was inspected on Tuesday by Vice-Admiral Sir John
Gore, and will proceed to the East India station, calling at
Rio Janeiro, and the Cape of Good Hope, as soon as the
Court-martial on Commander Belcher, now sitting, shall
have terminated.
His Majesty's ship Curacoa, 24, Capt. D. Dunn, was
towed out of harbour on Wednesday by the Columbia
steam-vessel, and through the inadvertence of the pilot, got
on shore on the Swash Bank, where she remained till the
tide floated her off, when she proceeded to Spithead. She
sailed on Wednesday for the Downs, but is to expected to
return immediately to this port to have her bottom ex-
amined, to ascertain what damage she may have sustained.
The Stentor, transport, Lieut. Barber, agent, arrived
at the Motherbank on Wednesday, from Sierra Leone and
Fernando Po, having on board thirty naval invalids from
the squadron on the coast of Africa, women and chil-
dren, and distressed British subjects, under the charge
of Mr. Robertson, surgeon, late of his Majesty's ship
Athol, who is himself also invalided. The establish-
ment at Sierra Leone having been broken up, this ship
has on board a large quantity of stores, together with
unserviceable stores from Fernando Po. The Stentor
left Sierra Leone an the 14th of May last, for Fer-
nando Po, where she arrived on the 12th of June, remain-
ing there until the 23d of July. On the 24th of June
his Majesty's ship Dryad, 42, Commodore J. Hayes, C. 8.,
with his Majesty's ship Athol, 28, Captain E. Webb
(acting) ; Favourite, 28, Corn. Jos. Harrison ; and
Black Joke (tender to the Dryad), Lieut. Ramsay, ar.
rived at Fernando Po, from a cruise from the Coast and
Bights of Benin. The Black Joke had taken a Spanish
slave vessel, with 450 slaves on board, and sent to Sierra
Leone. The Dryad and Athol left Fernando Po again on
a cruise on the '7th of July, and the Favourite was to sail
on the 24th of July. The ships on this station had not
been unusually sickly, though many had suffered from the
effects of the climate. The crew of the Stentor had,
whilst on the coast, suffered from the fever ; and the
Master (Wright), died, with two of the crew, at Fer-
nando Po, but all symptoms of disease of that kind have
for a long time disappeared on board ; she is, however
still under quarantine.
His Majesty's steam-vessel Confiance, Lieut. 11. F.
Belson, arrived on Saturday, to assist, together with the
Marshal Bennett, transport, Lieut. Ward, agent, to convey
the remainder of the 90th Regiment to Leith.
The Captain Cook, male convict ship, put in on Wed,
nesday, from foul winds, bound to Dublin to receive con.
victs for New South Wales, under the medical superin
tence of Dr. Johnson.

At Spithead—Tribune and Imogene.
In Harbour—Victory, Royal George, Melville, All
gator, /Etna, and Confiance, steam-vessel.

PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, &C.-Com. J. Pulling
is appointed to the Coast Guard Service.—Lieut. H. A.
Bates, of the Coast Guard Service, is appointed to his
Majesty's Revenue cutter Shamrock (on the Irish station),
vice Speck.—Lieut. A. Darby, of the Coast Guard Ser-
vice, is appointed to his Majesty's Revenue cutter Dove
(on the English station), vice Stocker.—Lieut. R. Con-
nor, of the Coast Guard Service, is appointed to his Ma-
jesty's Revenue cutter Skylark (on the Irish station),
vice Hudson.—Lieutenant L. D. Mitchell is appointed
to his Majesty's Rtvenus cutter Greyhound (on the
English station), vice Baillie.—Lieutenant C. Gayton,
of his Majesty's ship Spartia, (Flag-Lieutenant to Admiral
Sir Thomas , Foley G.C.8., Rear-Admiral of the United

Kingdom, and Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth) is
appointed to his Majesty's ship Victory.—Lieut. H. W.
Craufurd, of his Majesty's ship Melville, is appointed Flag
Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Sir J. Gore, K.C.B.—
Lieut. W. S. Thomas is appointed to the Melville, vice
Craufurd.--Lieutenants T. P. P. Barrow, and P. de
Saumarez, are appointed to his Majesty's ship Pelorus.—
Lieut. W. Wood (a) is promoted to the rank of retired
Commander, at 7s. a day.--Dr. G. M'Arthur is ap-
pointed Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Fly ; and Mr. J.
Robertson (c) is appointed Assistant-Surgeon of the same
sloop.—Mr. W. Bell APDonald, Supernumerary Assistant
Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Foudroyant is appointed
Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's steam-vessel Messen-
ger, vice Arnot.—Lieutenaut R. Napper, of the Coast
Guard Service, is appointed to the Cadgwith station,
Falmouth district, vice Lowry, appointed to his Majesty's
Revenue cutter Stork.—Mr. William Gunn is appointed
Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Pelorus.—Mr.
Thomas Butler is appointed Supernumerary Assistant-
Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Foudroyant, vice M'Donald.
—Dr. John Munro is appointed Supernumerary Assistant-
Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Victory.—Mr. J. S.Ferriter

is appointed Purser of his Majesty's ship Alligator.—Mr.
t%lex. Kant, Secretary to Reir-Admiral Sir T. Baker,
K.C.B. is promoted to the rank of Purser.—Mr. John
Page Bailey is appointed Purser of his Majesty's ship
Victory.—Mr. James Carmichael, Assistant-Surgeon of
his Majesty's ship Nautilus, is appointed to his Majesty's
ship Melville.—Mr. H. W. Mahon, Assistant-Surgeon of
the Royal Charlotte yacht, is appointed to his Majesty's
ship Nautilus.-111 r. George Doak, late Assistant-Surgeon
of his Majesty's ship Melville, is appointed to the Royal
Charlotte yacht, vice Mahon.—Mr. Charles J. Tyers is
appointed schoolmaster of his Majesty's ship Melville.—
Mr. Stanway, late Supernumerary Clerk of his Majesty's
ship Alfred, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Imogene.—
Mr. Thomas L. Gulliver, Secretary to Rear-Admiral Sir
Edward Owen, in the East Indies, is promoted to the
rank of Purser.—Mr. E. D. Mark is appointed Secre-
tary's Clerk to %Tice-Admiral Sir John Core,..-Firet Lien-

tenant J. P. Jones, of the Royal Marines, is appointed to
his Majesty's ship Alligator, at this port, vice Miller,
whose appointment has been cancelled. —First Lieutenant
F. S. Hamilton, of the Royal Marines, is appointed to his
Majesty's ship Ariadne, at Plymouth.—Second Lieute-
nant Edward Appleton, of the Portsmouth Division of
Royal Marines, is promoted to the rank of First Lieute-
nant, and appointed to the Woolwich Division.—Lient.
E. B. Davison is appointed Agent for Transports in the
ship Maitland.--Mr. George Cutfield, of Chatham Dock-
yard, formerly of the School of Naval Architecture, is
appointed Foreman of the Yard, at Plymouth, vice Coaker,
deceased.
The following Midshipmen were found duly qualified for
Lieutenants, on being examined in seamanship, on Wed-
nesday, on board his Majesty's ship Spartiate, viz. :—Mr.
Roger Curtis, of his Majesty's ship Nautilus ; Mr. Nelson
E. J. Locker, late:of his Majesty's ship Donegal ; and Mr.
Charles J. Postle, of his Majesty's ship Prince Regent.
Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore, K.C.B. hoisted his flag
(red at the fore), on board his Majesty's ship Melville, on
the Ist inst. as Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies,
which ship is expected to proceed thence about the end of
December next.

His Majesty's ship Victory, 101, was commissioned on
Wednesday, for the fltg of our Commander-in-Chief, Ad-
miral Sir Thomas Foley, G.C.B. by Lieut. C. Garyton,
and on the following day the Admiral's flag was removed
to that ship from his Majesty's ship Spartiate, which latter
ship will be put out of commission in a few days.
The detachments of Royal Marines, belonging to this
division, now on command duty at Tynemouth Castle,
North Shields, and at Woolwich, have been ordered to re-
turn to this division, in consequence of its having been
drained of almost every dispweable man to supply the nu-
merous embarkations which have lately taken place at this
port. The detatchment at present at Woolwich, is to be
relieved by a similar detatchment from the Plymouth divi-
sion, and the latter, we have reason to believe, is to be re-
lieved by a detachment of the line.

The following ships have been taken up at Deptford for
regular transports, viz. : St. George, Recovery, Maitland,
Roslin Castle, City of Edinburgh, Lord Wellington.
His Majesty's ship Alligator was undocked on Friday
last, and on the same day taken into the basin to be refitted.
An accident occurred to one of the gigs of his Majesty's
ship Imogene, lying at Spithead, on Tuesday last, which,
we regret to state, proved fatal to Mr. Morris, the gun-
room steward of that ship. It appears that the gig left
the Imogene a quarter past two, p. m. for the shore, car-
rying a common square•sail with one reef in, it blowing
rather fresh at the time. The boat contained eight per-
sons, viz.—Lieuts. V. Pickey and H. E. Edgell, of that
ship ; Lieut. C. Deshorough, of the Royal Marines; Mr.
Carragan, the Captain's clerk, three sailors and a steward.
When about half-way between Spithead and Portsmouth
a sudden gust of wind took the sail, and at the same mo-
ment a wave came broadside on, and upset the boat.
From what we can learn, we do not understand that
blame attaches to any one. The situation of the parties
was at this time any thing but cheering, as there was no
boat near enough to have seen the accident, and from the
tides meeting just at the spot, the boat, instead of remain-
ing steady with her bottom upwards, rolled round and
round like the paddle of a steamer, from the effects of the
eddy and wind. It was therefore impossible to hold on by
the bo it, and each person had to trust entirely to kis own
exertions. They had scarcely been in the water above
five minutes, when it became evident that Morris, the
steward, was incapable of supporting himself without
assistance, any longer; every effort was used by the others,
but they could only succeed by their united exertions in
keeping his head above water a few minutes, and in ab ut
ten minutes from the time of the accident, he went down
and rose no more. The rest of the party were at different
periods under the boat, which still continued rolling over,
and had not Mr. William Grant, jun. arrived with his
prompt and timely assistance, the whole of them must
have inevitably perished, as they could not have kept
themselves up five minutes longer, being completely ex-
hausted. Lieutenant Edgell, in particular, was nearly
suffocated from his coat being tight about his throat. Mr.
Grant, on seeing the accident, proceeded with all speed to
the spot, and by his prompt exertions succeeded in saving
the whole in the water. We are desired by the survivors I
thus publicly to express their gratitude for his exertions in
their behalf, and to say that they want terms in which to
convey their sense of his kindness on the occasion.