The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-02 00:00:00

ROYAL NAVY, &c.

PORTSMOUTH, NgVEMBER 30.

Last night the ship Henry Porcher passed by for the Rivers
landing here several passengers and a mail of about 7,000
letters. She left Bengal June 4, Madras 17th July, and this
Cape of Good Hope Oct. 3. The passengers by her are,
from Bengal, Messrs. Stockwell, Forster, Durant, Hanning-,
ton, and Gastin ; from Madras, Messrs. Smart, Bliukensop,
Williams, and Mrs. Lowry ; from the Cape, Mr. Rivers, of
the Royal Engineers. The ship General Palmer was at
Madras, loaded, and would sail for England about the 12th
of August; the ship Mellish had left Bengal for Madras ; the
ship Commerce was at St. Helena, for England ; the General
Hewitt and another Indiaman, with the 16th Regiment of
Lancers on board, for India, had arrived at the Cape after 15
weeks' passage. The Hon. Sir H. Blackwood had left Ma-
dras in the Leander, 60, Capt. Baker, for Trincomalee, in
order to meet Commodore Grant, in the Liffey. The Admiral
intended to leave the Indian command on the I2th of August.
The GlasgOit,frigate,.,capt. Doyle, had gone toralcutta, to
bring home the Marquis of Hastings. IntelligeneC, has been
received at Madras of a dreadful inundation of the Ganges, by
which all the crops, and 100,000 people had been destroyed,
principally inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Patna and
Moorshedebad. The indigo crop had previously been de-.
stroyed by the rains, and that article of commerce had risen-to
a much higher price than it can possibly realize in Europe.
No other event of importance had occurred in our Eastern pos- •
sessions at the sailing of the above ship.
Major-General Bernell, who went from this port in the
Glasgow, to assume the post of Second-in-Command at Bona.
bay, has been appointed to the command of the Second Field
Army at Meerut, in the Upper .Provinces of Bengal.
Last night arrived the Intrepid transport, Lieut. S. P. Pritch.
ard, agent, from the Mediterranean, having three companies of
Royal Artillery on board, 9 officers of the Army, 180 privates,
10 invalids, 53 women, 62 children, and 5 prisoners, taken on
board at Zante, Corfu, Malta, and Gibraltar; they left Malta
Oct. 17, and Gibraltar Nov. 12. The following Officers are pass
sengers:—Lieuts. Wyatt, Tweedie, Lawrence, Knowles, Poole,
Assist. Surgeon Cooke, Artillery ; Captain Kelly and Lieut.
Easton, 28th Regiment ; Capt. Peacocke, 36th Regiment ;
Lieut. Greene, R.N. to jo'n the William and Mary Dublin
yacht ; Lieut. Barlow, R.N. The Intrepid has brought homi
naval ordnance, and victualling stores: she is under quarantine.,
That able Officer, Commodore Sir Edward Owen, K.C.8.,
it is said, is to sail With a squadron of ships, on a special ser-
vice.—The Gloucester, 74, guard.ship at Chatham, was on
Monday last ordered to be equipped for active service, taking a_
compliment of 600 men. The Phaeton frigate, Capt. Sturt ;
Forte, Sir Thomas Cochrane; Valorious, 26, Capt. Jas. Mur-
ray ; Bellette, 18, 'Capt. Leith ; and Helicon, 16, Capt. Daw-
kins, are to be fitted for foreign service; the Tribune frigate, at
Chatham ; the Briton frigate, and Ringdove sloop of war, are
to be commissioned for foreign service.
The Shamrock, surveying vessel, Capt. M. White, went out
a harbour on 'Wednesday, and will sail in a day or two for Ply-
mouth, whence she is to proceed tusurvey the N. E. coast of
Ireland.

Lieut. J. B. L. hay is appointed to the Gloucester ; and
Lieut. J. V. Baker, to the Ramillies. Lieut. H. Savage, of
the Royal Marine Artillery, has embarked onboard the Phaeton,
vice Lieut. Purdy, gone on half-pay.
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Rowley has, it is said, expressed
a desire to relinquish the naval command at Jamaica, and Lord
Colville, who at present commands cm the Irish station; has
been spoken of as likely to be appointed to succeed him.
The Camelion, 10 gun sloop, Lieut. Witham, sailed on Sun
day, on a cruize ; and cn Tuesday, the Calliope, Lieut. Justice.
arrived from the Westward. _ _

Ships at Spithcad.—Forte, Shamrock, and Calliope; also
the Russian frigate Kruizer, and a store-ship. In Harbour—,
Queen Charlotte, Ramillies, Albion, Phaeton, Valorous,
Clinker, and Pelter.

DON FRANCISCO ANTONIO ZEA.

An account was received from Bath in the
course of Friday, of the death of Don FRANCISCO ANTONIO
ZEA, the Colombian Minister, on Thursday evening, at the
York House, in that city, where he had been staying for a few
days. His disorder was dropsy which had increased upon
him latterly so much that his legs, thighs, and body were
swelled to an enormous size. He had the satisfaction in his
last moments of having his family (from whom during many
years of his life he had been necessarily separated) with
him, Madame and Miss Zea having arrived a few weeks since
from Faris to join M. Zea. M.-Zea was between 50 and 64J
years of age. He was a native of the province of Antioquia,
in New Granada, now part of the Republic of Colombia.—
Great part of his life had been spent in Europe. Under -the
former Government of Spain, and previous to the Revolution
breaking out in South America, he held at different times several
offices under the Spanish Government. The Revolution in his
own country drew him to the side of Bolivar, whose constant
companion and assistant in the great work of liberating his
country he was for many years., until his mission to Europe in
1820. At the time of his quitting Colombia he was Vice-Pre-
sident of the Republic, and he had the satisfaction, before
taking his departure, of presenting to the Congress the projet
of the Constitution of his country, which was afterwards
adopted in all its leading particulars. M. Zea was a man
of considerable talent, and of scientifiic and literary attainments
of a very respectable class. Ile possessed great natural acuteness,
and a countenance into which he could at all times infuse a de-
gree of penetration that few could escape. In his address to
the Congress o£ Colombia, shortly before his leaving that coun-
try for England, he has left a memorial of eloquence of no or-
dinary cast. His manners were those of a gentleman, which,
together with the personal consideration due to him on all ac-
counts, procured for him the society and the attentions of some
of our most distinguished Nobility. Ills Government and his
countrymen cannot but have been flattered with the distin-
guished mark of attention paid to 31. Zea at the public
dinner given to him on the Bth July last at the City of
London Tavern, at which the most eminent men of all
parties joined in spewing the cordial satisfaction with which
the establishment of another temple of freedom, in a beautiful,
a rich, and an interesting part of the Universe, is viewed in this
land of constitutional liberty. M. Zea's address to the company
I on that occasion was marked by discretion, modesty, and good
sense. There were no bitter railings against Spain—n o assumption
of arrogant expectations from others. As to Spain, he said, his
country was ready to forget and to forgive—and as to other
nations, they merely claimed to he treated with the common
rights of civilized society. M. Zea's financial operations have
of late been much the subject of discussion. The last time
that we noticed this question. we took occasion to say that it
appeared to us, that if 411. Zea had exceeded in any respect
his instructions, it was rather a question between him and his
Government than. between the Government and the British
public ; but, without professing.to know more about the mat-
ter
than - appears before the public, we cannot shut our eyes
to the circumstance that he, at all events, in a short
space of time raised the credit of his country to a very high
point, and it has been remarked that many years elapsed atter
the establishment of the independence of the United States be-
fore any Minister of that Government could raise a Loan at
near the terms that M. Zea raised his. Until a new Minister
shall arrive to represent Colombia, the urging her claim to re-
cognition on the part of the British Government will necessarily
have no official advocate; but as the right to this recognition
rests on grounds which need neither argument to demonstrate
their propriety nor solicitation to induce compliance, we trust
it will, notwithstanding, receive that attention which its grave
and urgent character demands at the hands of the Government
of this country: We understand that the funeral of Don F. A-.
Zea is fixed to take place at Bath, on Wednesday next, at the-
Roman Catholic Chapel in that city...—( Mor/iing Chronicle.)