The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.)
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 21.—His Majesty's ship Re-
venge, 76, Capt. H. Mackay, (destined for Lisbon)
sailed yesterday for Plymouth to wait further orders.
Lip uts. Robt. Parrey and E. It. H. Hallett, and
Mr. William White, Second Master, went passenger,
to join his Majesty's ship Asia, also Lieut. Flem-
ming, R.M. to join head-quarters at Plymouth.
His Majesty's gun•brig Charybdis, Lieut. Craw-
ford, arrived on Thursday from the Downs. She
wi I sail this day for the African Coast.
His Majesty's steam-vessel, Confiance, Lieut.
Belson, proceeded on Sunday to Rve, and returned
on Thursday, after an unsuccessful attempt to tow
the Adder watch vessel from thence to Copperas
Gap, which broke adrift (owing to the violence of
the weather off Beachy Head) and drowned one of
the steamer's crew.

The Emerald, tender to the R.,yal George yacht,
sailed on Friday to the westward to cruize within
the Wight, to enforce the quarantine regulations.
His Majesty's cutter Cracker, Lieut. Roepel,
sailed on Friday on a cruize.
Maje•ty's brig Pantaloon, Lieut. Wm. Daw-
son, which was to have gone to Lisbon with dis-
p
atches, has received counter orders, i.nd his Ma-
jesty's ship Revenge, it is understood, has taken
them.

His Majesty's ship Prince Regent, 120, flag-ship
at Lisbon, is ordered home, and Rear-Adm. Parker
will, it is believed, shift his flag to his Majesty's
ship Asia, 84, which ship will remain in the Tagus.
Capt. Hyde Parker is expected to bring home the
Prince Regent. Commander Ellice of the Victor
(late senior officer at Oporto), promoted to the rank
of Captain,•is also expected home in this ship. The
Prince Regent, we understand, has the eresipelas
on board.
The Pelorus sailed from Chatham on Wednesday
lust. She has been restored to an 18-gun brig.
The Layton transport, Lieut. Robinson, agent,
arrived on Friday from Bermuda, with the head-
quarters of the 81st regiment, under the command
of Major Maclean. She left Bermuda on the 4th
inst. She brought passengers, Captain Gabriel, of
his Majesty's ship Magnificent ; Lieut. Allen, of his
Majesty's ship Pallas; Mr. Brown, master of his
Majesty's ship Gannett ; Mr. Johnson, of the Me.
dical Staff, and nine convicts, who have served their
full time. The troops were disembarked yesterday
at Gosport.
The Manlius transport, Lieut. Thomson, Agent,
arrived on Friday from Bermuda, with the re-

mainder of the 81st regiment, under the com-
mand of Capt. Hall. She left Bermuda in company
with the Layton transport, on the 4th inst. She
disembarked her troops yesterday at Gosport.
The Amphitrite, transport, Lieut. Cooley, Agent,
sailed on Monday for Woolwich and Deptford, with
stores for those dock-yards.
His Majesty's surveying vessel /Etna, Commander
Belcher, was towed out of harbour on Monday by
the Pluto steam-vessel, and paid advanced wages
and mustered by the second in command at this port
on Wednesday. She will proceed to the coast of
Africa about Tuesday next, immediately after the
termination of the Court-martial about to be held
on a marine belonging to her.
His Majesty's gun brig Brisk, Lieut. Butterfield,
which put into Yarmouth Roads on Thursday week,
sailed yesterday direct for the Gambia with de-
spatches.
His Majesty's ship Childers, 18, Com. Robert
Deans, arrived on Monday from the Cape of Good
Hope, St. Helena,'and Ascension, having left the
latter place on the 15th of November, and the for-
mer on the 30th of October last. His ;Majesty's
ship Warspite, 76 (bearing the flag of Rear Ad-
miral Sir Thomas Baker, K.C.B. Commander-in-
Chief Of the South American station) Capt. C. Tal-
bot, and Maidstone, 42, Commodore C. M. Schom-
berg, C B. were the only ships at Simon's Bay, and
the former was about to proceed to Rio de Janeiro
in about ten days. It will be recollected that the
Childers sailed from Spithead on the 21st of last
June for Rio, with despatches for the Admiral;
she arrived at her destination on the Ist of
August, but not finding the Admiral there, she pro-
ceeded to the Cape, having made the passage, a
distance of upwards of 3,300 miles, in the remark-
ably short space of seventeen days ; being at the
rate of 200 miles a day nearly. When within ten
m les only of the Cape of Good Hope, the wind
suddenly shifted to the S.E., and after carrying a
heavy press of sail for three days, such was the
force of the current, that she was obliged to run for
Table Bay, a proof of the necessity of ships keep-
ing well to the southward. On the arrival of the
Childers at the Cape, the Admiral had sailed for
Mauritius five days previously, and the Childers's
foremast having sustained some damage, she deli-
vei ed over her dispatches to his Majesty's ship Tal-
bot, 28, Cept. R. Dickinson, C. 8., who immedi-
ately proceeded in pursuit of the Admiral. In four-
teen days afterwards, viz., on the 9th of September,
the Childers sailed for the Mauritius, where she
arrived on the 2d of October, finding there besides
the Warspite and Talbot, his Majesty's ship Un-
daunted, 46, Capt. Edward Harvey, and Curlew,
10, Commander H. D. Trotter; his Majesty's ship
Jasseur, 18, Commander Archibald Sinclair (the
latter having effected an exchange into the Jasseur,
with Commander Francis Harding, who went into
the Warspite), having sailed a few days previously
to Leyschelles. The Childers left the Mauritius
on the sth of October, in company with the
Admiral, arid the Warspite being reputed as a
superior sailer, a trial took place between these
two ships on a wind, in which the Childers
had the advantage, but when going free, the
Warspite was very superior. Both the ships
now made the best of their way to the Cape,
where the Childers arrived in the unusually short
time of fourteen days. The Admiral arrived three
days afterwards in consequence of the Warspite
having kept 80 or 100 miles further South, by which
she was exposed to baffling winds, while the Chil-
ders, by keeping more to the Northward, had the
benefit of the trade wind longer, as well as of the
current on the Hottentot shore. His Majesty's ship
Algerine, 10, Commander the Hon. J. F. F. De
Roos, and Badger, 10, Commander G. F. Stowe,
had sailed some days previously for the Mauritius,
the former with despatches for the Admiral (who
had not then arrived) and the latter to order the
Undaunted to the Cape. The Mauritius at that
period is represented as having been perfectly tran-
quil, rendered so in a great measure by the neigh-
bouring Island of Bourbon having been subjected by
the French Government to the same slave laws as
our colonies. At the Cape of Good Hope, however
great discontent existed in consequence of the late
equalization of the wine duties, and which it was
represented by some would ruin the farmers, but it
was thought that the new arrangement would ulti-
mately be the means of ensuring the manufacture of
wine of a better quality. All were well at the
Islands of St. Helena and Ascension ; at the latter
place his Majesty's ship Favourite, 18, Commander
Joseph Harrison, was lying at anchor quite healthy.
The tenders of his Majesty's ship Dryad, Com-
modore Hayes, C.B. tinder the respective coin-
mantle of Lieuts.Huntley and Ramsay, had taken two
armed slavers, and the capture was represented as
having been a very dashing affair. Lieutenant
Ramsay had something of the same kind previously,
for which it was expected he would be promoted,
and it is to be hoped that Lieutenant Huntley may
also be similarly rewarded. The Childers had
baffling winds on the Line and in the trades, since
which time she has had strong westerly gales. She
boarded, near the Line, the Elizabeth, with convicts,
all well, and subsequently the Prince Lee 800 and
Catherine, merchant ships. Since the Childers left
Spithead in June, being a period of six months, she
has traversed a space equal to the circumference of
the globe, or nearly twenty-one thousand miles.
The Childers came into harbour on Thursday, to be
refitted, and to receive a new foremast, her present
one being sprung badly in two places, and obliged
to be fished at the Cape.
At Spithead—lsis, Charybdis, and aE•na.
In Harbour—Victory, Britannia, Royal George,
Melville, Madagascar, Childers, Raven ; Confiance
and Pluto steamers; Pantaloon tender.
PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, &c.—Captain C.
Builen, C.B. of his Majesty's yacht Royal So-
vereign, is appointed Commissioner of Chatham
dock-yard.—Lieutenants George Caswell of the
Victory, and E. 11. Kenney, arid Mr. George H.
James Clerk, are appointed to his Majesty's ship
Madagascar.—Lieuts. Robert Purvey and E. R. H.
Hallett, and Mr. William White, second master, are
aopoirited to his Majesty's ship Asia.—Mr. R.
King, Clerk, is appointed to his Majesty's
ship Gannet.—Captain Hyde Parker, of his
Nlajesty's ship Asia, Lieutenants J. \V. Purcell,
and T. V. Watkins, and Mr. F. W. n. Sadler,
master, all of the same ship, are appointed to his
Majesty's ship Victory.—The Rev. C. W. Dodd is
appointed Chaplain to his Majesty's ship Made-
gascar.—Mr. R. S. Stokes, Clerk, is appointed to his
Majesty's ship Ocean, flag ship at S!ieerness.—Mr.
J. Bluett, Clerk, is appointed to his Majesty's ship
Alligator.—Mr. D. Quinton, Schoolmaster, is al;-
pointed to his Majesty's ship Isis.—Mr. John Cun-
ningham,
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Surgeon, ti, adDto Majesty's his
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tannia,—Lieut. S
Lieut. Henry Courtenay is appointed to his
Airingeiae.osay—n:s ship Revenge, vice Bellamy to half-pay.
—Mr. T. F. Cottam, and Mr. J. Johnson, Assistant
Surgeons, are appointed to his Majesty's ship Mel-
ville.—Mr. W. Mowbray, to be Secretary's Clerk
to Rear-Admiral Warren, in his Majesty's ship Isis.
—Mr. C. Laing, Master Shipwright's Assistant, at
Deptford Dock-yard, has been superannuated.—Nll.
Backhouse, late Mate of his Majesty's ship .tEtna, is
appointed to his Majesty's yacht Hoye' Charlotte.—
Mr. White (a) late Master of his Majesty's ship
Victory, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Asia.—
Mr. Brown, Master, of his Majesty's ship Caledonia,
is appointed to command the Romney, troop ship,
ordered to be brought forward with all expedition,
at Plymouth.—Corn. C. Wyvell, of his Majesty's
ship Britannia, is appointed to his Majesty's ship
Victory, vice Ellice promoted.
Captain Peter Richards is talked of as likely to
have the Asia, vice Parker. _ .

The following midshipmen have passed their exa
urination in navigation at the Royal Naval College,
viz. ;—Mr. George A. Shire, Mr. Thomas Fisher,
Mr. Thomas Hornby, and Mr. John Ledwick, of
his Majesty's ship Success ; Mr. James Fellows,
Mr. J. S. Christian, Mr. F. C. Singleton, and Mr.
11. J. Harvey, of his Majesty's ship Madagascar ;
Mr% J. M'Dougal, of his Majesty's ship Tribune ;

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