The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-26 00:00:00

ROYAL NAVY, &c.

Theship Lueitania, Lieut. W. am 010, R.N. Commander.
passed up Channel last week for the River from the South Seas,
Sydney, 'Van Dieman's Land, and Rio Janeiro, having taken
in part of her cargo, of 150 tons elephant at Mac.loarrie
Island (in the South Seas), and completed it with sugar and
coffee at Rio. She left Sydney Ist January last, Derwent 21st
February, andMacquarrie Island 28th of Match, and arrived at
Rio on the 20th of May, having made the passage (about 5,001
miles) round Cape Horn in the short space of 27 days. She
was struck by a heavy sea off the Cape, which broke the two
lower gudgeons of her rudder. She left Rio the 13th of June,
and arrived in the Downs on the 17th of Att.gust, having per-
formed a trading voyage round the world in 14 months and
seven days. The Macclesfield-a Pool, was repairing damages
Rio, which she had sustained in a squall, intending to Gail for
Van Dieman's Land the latter end of June. numbers
of emigrants continued to arrive in our Australasian Colonies ;
but, as very few took out any capital, they. will not do
more by their labour than, obtain a living for same time.—
The increase of respectable settlers during the Oreceding
two years exceeds the whole -number that had arrived in the
preceding 32 years. The total popuiation of Sydney,. Para-
matta, Liverpool, Windsor, Bathurst, Newcastle, and the cur-
rounding districts, was mustered at 84,500;• and, includiag
Van Dieman's Land, the inhabitants cf the territory at large
at 42,000 souls. As a proof of their cenunercial presperity, ten
vessels had left the ports of Australdsii, with cargoes far Eu.
rope, within a very few days. Commodore. Sir Thomas Hardy
was lying at Rio, in the Creole- frigate, as was the American
frigate Constellation, which ship arrived the. day before the
Lusitania sailed from Valparaiso. We regr,:t to hear that
Captain Thontaa Graham, of his Majesty's ship Doris,. died at
Valparaiso in the beginning ofMay. His widow, Mraria
Gral Graham (the celebrated authoress), intended to proceeds. ,toM Eng-
land by the first English ship.
The ship Lady Ridley, Captain. Weir, which arrived last
week at Portsmouth with a cargo of peppersfront Batavia and
the Cape of Good Hope, sailed from the former place on the
13th February, and from the Cape on the 30,1: of A
heavy gale was experienced at the Cape on the 23th and 23:h
of that month, during which his Majesty'x ship Hyperion, Cap-
tain Lillierap, drove and carried away the moorings of a 74_
gun ship, and two Russian ships, bound on voyages of -dis-
covery, parted from their anchors, but brought up, after driving
very near the rocks. The Lady Ridley bed the flukes of her
best bower anchor broken. She called at Porhamouth for ordersi
and to recruit her provisions and water. --

SLAVE TitAni.—The: two_ French yesselsyigilante and

L'Ursule which Were captured by the boats of his Maiestyh4
ships Iphigenia, Sir Robert Mends, and Myrmidon, Captain
Lecke, after. such a severe contest, in the. river Bonny, have
been releasttl, and sailed yesterday for Cherbourg. The ono
which put into Plymouth (La Petite Betsey) is also ordered to
be sent to the same port. It appears to us unaccountable that
these vessels should be restored, after having been captured five
degrees to the Northward of the Line, with several hundred
slaves actually on board, and so trading (as we have always
understood) contrary to express treaties. Now, our Govern-
ment will have to pay to the captors about PM a head as bounty
money for each slave, and, most probably, be obliged. to give
to the owners of the vessels as much money for their cargoes of
human flesh, and souls of men, as they would have realized
for them in the West Indies, had the vessels reached those
islands (which was physically impossible) with every individual
slave on board. The breach of faith in the due observance of
the slave abolition treaties (as they are called), by Franca,
Spain, and Portugal, as well as the abuses so early introduced,
and so fatally generated in the Courts of the Mixed Commis-
sion at Sierra Leone, were fully exposed by the despatches of
Sir George Collier, laid before Parliament in the last session, and.
Which excited the most lively and philanthropic feeling•amorg
all ranks of the Legislature, and produced the memorable de,
cfision and address to the King of the 28th of June last, which
speaks so clearly and manfully, and so firmly, the wishes and
expectations of the country upon the slave cause.-4 Port-
smouth Paper.)
TIIE LUTINE FItIGATE.—An answer has been received
the Underwriters at Lloyd's Coffee-house from the Dutch Go-
vernnient, which has excited some surprise. It regards the
Lutine frigate, which as has been stated in the newspapers,
was long since wrecked on the coast of HoL'and, with half a
million of specie on boao, intended for Prussia. Not a tba =
survived,' nor was it known what had become of the- frigate
until recently, when she was found buried in the sand on the
Dutch. coast. The British Government, which sent the specie
as a subsidy to Prussia-, insured at Lloyd's, and, in due course,
received the money on proof of the loss. The insurers, there--
fore, or such of them as are alive, applied a short time sitice.to
the Dutch Government, for permission to take the specie out
of the wreck of the Lutme. The answer •obtaine.d on• Satu-
rday, though .very courteous, is by no means satisfactory : it is
this•=that as the Lutine was wrecked pending, a war with 110 - -
land, the property of course' became Dutch, and no.restoration
can therdore.'be made. Had the disaster occuered while peace
existed, the::Dutch Government would have been most ready
tv afibrd every facility for the recovery of the specie from the
Wreck. - •

MERCANTILE SHIPPING. •

•
DEAL„ AUG. 25—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived and, -sailecl'for'
the' Ricer the Indian, Urick, from the South Seas Latona.,-
Lovie, Demerara ; Lord Stewart, Benson, Archangel ; Abkrio.'
mack, Roberts, Jamaica; Eliza, PoweliNew SoutlvBhetland.
Came down from- the River and remain with the A.st, .the
holds, BurSall,fcir Lisbon ; Clarkson, Service, Quebec.; Sviitt',•
Walker, Seville ' WoOdman, . Ford, Cork and Newt South
Preston, Wallis, Genoa. Put back the Freileriasten,
&Mien, for St. John's, N. B.
AUGUST 24.--Wind 8.W.--Arrived and - sailed for the
River the IVlellona, Laing, from Rio Janeiro.. : '• •
Pohl-Sawn zn, AUG. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Gene-
ral Kyd, Nairie, from China : the ships Albion and Kings:on
sailed, on • the 3rd of July, with a considerable quantity of
specie on board for the East India Company. On the 20th'
inst. spoke the Eclipse from Madras, &e., who informed then-i,
of the loss of the ship Grace by fire in Table Bay, laden wit.%
wool, -from New South Wales. The Fame, Clark, was Jz•st.
wing out of Table Bay. Purser and some of the passengersdrowned. The Celumbo run ashore going out of tlolunitio, and
was returning in a sinking state :. left the Sophia at Cap( which ship reported having fell in with the Ajax, Scat; ,
Calcutta, but then returning to Calcutta leaky.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 23.—Arrived .he from
Newfoundland. Sailed from Harbour Grace, on the day the:
the crew and passengers of a New York packet ship had a:-
rived at St. John's,Newfoundland, having been saved by Some
fishing boats, and that the packet ship was lost on, the hanks
it is believed to be the new thip•Liverpool. ;
PoitTsasou TII, AUG. 25.—Passed by the Eclipse, Stewart,
from Madras, for London : the Uraule, slave prize, 114 s
back. Sailed the Lady Ridley, Wane, ter P.ottadarn.
PLYMOITT4, 417 G. 24. —Wind S. W.--Arrived the .Williara
and Amelia., Jones, 56 days front St. John's N.B. ; Na tit
•Mitche:ll, from Prince Edward's Island; Juno, Duncan, fret:, •
London; off the port the Iris, Smith, for Now York, 211 days
from Holland. Sailed the Eagle, Bute, for 8:. John's N.B. :
Eliztibeth, Taggart, Aliramichi. ,
FA LMOU T.2i, Auu. 23.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Sue.:
cess, Hicks, from London ; the Duke of Kent Packet, fra•-:-,
Lisbon.

LOSS OF THE MATILDA EAST INDIAMAI4.—Ad7ktzt
were received ytsterday fro• 4 the Cape of Good hope to the
23d Of May, which confirm the lots of the Matilda East lindis, •
man. She .was 'totally wrecked, but the crew saved. The
letters contain most lamentable accounts of the damages sun.
mined by numerous vessels, from leng Ontinued heavy gales
in the East Seas. Several ships have been surveyed ltd.
destined, and others were undergoing complete repairi.