The Sun.
London, England, 1813-01-15 00:00:00

' ;..YAt. COUriTs-111A.itTIAL.

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'Aionday a Court-Ilartial was bell at Ports-
- on '.board the G/tidiator, to inquire into
the circumstances attending his INThjetity's ship
Pcmlu grounding at the hack of. the •I* nf,
Wight, near Dannose, on-the r.)6tlt , when
the following letter and narrative were read to the
Court :

"'Phis Majesty's Mhip Pembroke, sit St. Helens,
Dec 29. 1812.

" Sir—Since. the -unfortunate-aceident which
has happened to the Pembroke, I have berth so
entirely occupied in endeavouring to, extricate .her,
that I have not been able to give you an .earlier
.account of the circumstances connected with
having now, however,, the satisfaction to state
to you that those endeavours have at length sue-
, ceeded,
,by her
,safe ieturn to this anchorage, I
,haVe the fionmui to inform you, that at three p.m.
On Sattthlay the 26th inst., We weighed from St.
'!lielens with a moderate breeze from East, the
Weather at that time hazy' and dark ; but after
-passing Bembridge Ledge, we saw distinctly the
S. buoy of the. PrineesSa shoal,
„and passed
outside of it about two' miles and a half. /Wont
four o'clock I went on -the poop, where the Mits.-
t,er was employed in' setting the land, and• (as I
have always been in the habit of doing) sent for
my ehart„and desireththeMaster- to give me his
bearings, which he did as follows, viz. plumose
N. W. and half W. distant about six. or seven,
miles. 1 at that same time looked at the land;
and,. had no doubt of its being Dtinnose : I then
asked him what course•he wished to steer, :.to
which lie answered West. Haring laid the course
at S. W,. by W. and a half W. on the -chart, and
seeing it would take the. ship about six miles (Ileac
of Saint Catherine's, I said it would be .better to
'keep half a point more to the :Southward, that is
W and s half S. to which, he assented,: and that
course was ordered. This was about a quarter..
past four, while the people were at quarters. At
half-past four Dunnose bore N. AV. by N. I then
went to dinner, leaving the Master on deck, and
a man in the chains, Andheard nothing more until
about ten minuets past tiveo'clock, When the Lieu-
tenant of•the watch-came to me, and said that the
'Master wished to steer W. by N. 80iich 1 agreed
to, not doubting the ship had a sufficient offing,
and. having the fullest,eonfidence in the Master,
whose abilities and care had particularly attracted
~ • ,my attention. •At ;twenty minutes past nye.
o'clock, or about five minutes after the change of
course, I felt the ship take the ground.
" The inclosed copy of our front the time
of our. sailing from St. lichens, to our return to
.it this morning, will make you acquainted with
every thing that has taken place during that
'period.
".1' have the honour to be, Sir,
"Nourmost obedient,
" thimble Servant,
(Signed) "E. ButsuANE, Capt.
,"ro Admiral Sir B. Itidectun, Burt." .•

Captain BriAane's Aildros to the Court fnl-
luvree!,_. which 'the 'point, in the above State-
ment were; StrOilgly ClitOrCai iiis:tifetiCt: and
I‘l4l*. Henry, sniartley, rMKstcr of thc_Peintroke,
being tailed tyon to controvert the statements
made by. Capt. Brisbane, iittunetliatcly acioutv-
'edged their accuracy in every point.

Whereupon the Court decided.—That the acci-
dent was occasioned by the ship not being%tecred
fur enough to the southward), considering the
hazy state of the weatheromd the time of day the
ship was gut under way, before the channel course
was shaped; brit no blame therein was impti•
table to Captain Brishaue ; but that blame as
imputable to Mr. Henry Smartley, ,the „Master ;
hot in eousideratiAn of the excellent professional
character gi.en to him, did only.adjudge him to
he most severely reprimanded, audio be admonish-
ed. to be wore careful mid attentive in future. •

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it appears front aboye documents., that the
'course Taut down, by Mr. Smartley for the naviga-
,tion of the Shiß was tl7 sa nt.
fe ,ntthoughduet re,
commended by -Captain Brisbane was More so, as
it- would ,liaoe gained a ,greater offing. The sup,
.posit ion is, and it does not seem the unfortunate
4lirtanustaucc eati.be fully-accounted for upon any
,other considerationthat the' men at ,the
either ignorantly or unintentionally altered the
course of the ship.miknowt) to the .I.la;ter •
Lieut Scott,- of the. Conflict,. .waii last' week
„tried by a Court-Martial, on board the Gladiator,:
for severely beating-two harbour duty men, which
hal been lent from the.. Gladiator to the Coq/el:1.
Theebarge *as proveti, and Lieut. Scott was Nell-
tenced to be dismissed hip 'Majesty's service. .The
Petty Officers, 4eanten, mid marines, of the Con—
have petitiohed.the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty to ,7ciustate Mr. Thomas Scott in
his former situation, or; nut tof the .high esteem
in which they kid him while servinfrasl ieutorant
ill that,

•t. i epptaill 1.10111.101,, of the Northninberlancl,
wbo ti,-.l,troyed the two Freitell frigatei atthe en -
trinKe of L'Orient, that is appointed Captain to
thetfleet %utter ais J., Lt. WARR $5l.

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The amount of King's troops, now sere in in
the East Indies is stated as follows.:7-infantry of
the line, 20,907; civalry, 7,635:
It IS said the Ipelleislc, an 4 Resolution,
at POl'tMllolltll, iAN; to.be cat,down, for the 4ute-
dean station. 'r he reinhrokc and Inelciatfigable
are taken oat of dock and the,lngsses and Ga-
latea are taken in,
Melancholy Accident.--.On lgonday last, a sloop
frorn'Plymouth, bound to Cork, having got ellk
bayed near Slade, in the county .of Wexford, a
bout belonging. to that plitee,-with' seven mea on
board, went.off-,to pilot, her out-of danger. One
of the boatm,tn,, Ryan, seo. went on
board the sloop, and the other Six, continuing in
the boat, took her in tow, when, the boat was
towed under in Bageninnt Bay, and the whole six
uteu web drolxned. l'he names of the itzfre'rer3
~ire Henry Fortune, thigh Maran; Simon Bryan,
Fartune, jtm. Peter Pothole, jun. and'Afich.
ity", jun.. The three former were married men.'
anth have left .three Tit o'ws and ten 'bb en ildr
Mourn their irreparable loss..to