The Sun.
London, England, 1822-02-26 00:00:00

AiEIt.CA'NTILE SHIPPING, &c.

DEAL, FEB. 25.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed the Richard',
Williamson, for the River. Came down from the River and,
remain the Brissett, Holder, for Dominica; Salus, Crickmay,
for Gibraltar, illarquis Wellesley, Richter, for Grenada ;
Orpheus, Cristall, for Ancona and Venice ; Orion, Smith, for.
Bourdeaux • 3/atilda, Moore, for Lisbon ; Sarah, Carrington,.
for Teneride ; Stetta, Simpson, for the Mediterranean; Edward,
Germain, for Jamaica ; and Augusta, Culrins, for Havre.
GUERNSEY, FEB. 20.—Arrived the Rose, Pearce, from
Rio Janeiro, in 81 days ; she brings the Master and 16 of the
crew of the ship British Army, Stevens., from St. John's,
N. 8., which, on the 6th inst., in lat. 48. 43, long. 26, while
scudding in a heavy gale, was struck by a sea, stove in her.
stern, tore away the bulwarks, &c., washed one man over,
board, and broke the leg of another: ship so leaky that the
pumps could not keep her free, and she Soon became water-
logged,
,when the crew were obliged to take to the tops, where
they remained with only a small quantity of bread and water
till the 11th, when they were taken off by the Rose, the
Carpenter having died the day before with fatigue, and mast of
the others frost bit and ric.ch hurt.

YARMOUTH, FEB. 2e:.—A lugger, with 89 kegs of spirits,
was brought in here by the Tartar Revenue cutter.
COWES, FEB. 25.---Put back the General Palmer for.
Madras.

GRAVESEND, FEB. 25.—Sailed the Buckinghamshire,
Adams ; and Castle Huntly, Drummond, for India and China.
HARWICH, FEB. 25.—Arrived the Leicester packet, from
Holland ; and Princess Charlotte, ditto, from Cuxhaven, each
with a mail. Sailed the Prince Oscar, ditto, with a mail for
Gottenburgh.
PORTSMOUTH, FED. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Twee,
Gebroedus. Unrah, from Riga for Cadiz, and the following
outward-bound: Richard Reynolds, Roberts; Cecrops, Lang-
don ; and Somersetshire, l'arrant, for Jamaica; Melanthos,
Parry ; and Vittoria, Tate, for Trinidad ; London
Packet,
Tracey, for Boston ; Traveller, Anderson, for Grenada ; and
Marshal Wellington, Hair, for New York.
FALMOUTH, FEB. 24 —Wind W. S W.—Arrived the
Factor, Connell, from London for Belfast. Sailed the Friend.
ship, IVceks, for St. Michael's.

Twelve :Midshipmen passed their examination for the rank
of Lieutenant, at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, on
the 16th inst.

Yesterday the dispatches were closed at the east India House
and delivered to the Pursers of the following ships, viz.:—
Castle Hunt'y, Capt. H. A. Drummond, and Buckingham-
shire, Capt. F. Adams, for Bombay and China.

DARING ATTACKS ITPON THE COAST BLOCKADE

SERVICE.—A SMUGGLER SHOT.
HasTxxcis, FEB. 23.—At half past two, A. 51, Feb. 23d, a
company of nearly 300 smugglers, armed with clubs, assem-
bled on the beach near the Alartello Tower, No. -52, (Pevensey
Sluice), and attacked two of the blockade sentinels on duty,
near that station. A large smuggling boat, cutter rigged, was
observed at the same time making for the shore. The smug-
glers succeeded in disarming one of the sentinels, after beating
him severely, but not before he had fired his pistol to give the
alarm. In their attempt to disarm and secure the other sen-
tinel, they were not so fortunate ; they had, however, nearly
overpowered him, after inflicting two very severe wounds on
his head ; they had already wrenched his cutlass from him,
(and in doing this they wounded him in several places), and they
were endeavouring to gag him, one of the most powerful of
the smugglers grasping him by the throat, when he was obliged
to fire his pistol, and the leader of the garg was killed on the
spot. The smugglers then dispersed, without having succeeded
in working a single tub ; one of them has been apprehended.
The smuggling boat, from its size, is supposed to have con.
tained from 400 to 500 tubs. She was close to the beach when
this rencontre took place, waiting for the issue, but this being
unfavourable to the smugglers, she bore away for the opposite
coast.