The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-14 00:00:00

NAVAL INtELLIdENdE

(FROM OUR OWN cofigEsroNDENT. )
In Harbour—the Britannia flag ship, 120,, Victory, 184,
ordinary guard ship; Excellent, gitrmet7 ship, Orestes,4lB, and
Lannyineliou, 16, the twO latter under orders to pay off; the
' and Emerald tenders.
In the Basin-the Terriiagani:
In Doelt-;-the Bbllterophon, 80, the Madagascar, 46, having
been on shore and sustained damage, and the Royal George
yacht.
At Spithead,the Edinburgh, the thatinga, 74, the
Modesto; 18,..L11,,i AtholitrOop ship, the Prince Regent
tratispoft, and Charybdis, 3.
Arrivals and Sailings during the week—On the 7th, came
into Harbour, the Camelion, 10, for paying off. On the Bth,
anchored at pithead, the Edinburgh, 74, from Lisbon, and
the Orestes, 18, from Gibraltar. On the 9th, anchored at
Spithead, the Bellerophon, from Gibraltar, and arrived the
Tartarus steam vessel, ft om the eastward ; went out of harbour
and sailed at once for Canada, the Apollo troop ship, with
600 of the Grenadier Guards on hoard. On the_loth, an.
chored at Spithead, the Madagascar, 46, from the West Indies,
and went out of Harbour the Modeste, IS, towed by the
Tartarus steam vessel ; came into harbour, the Bellerophon,
Madagascar, and Orestes ; and sailed from Spithead for Ca-
nada, the Inconstant, with the remainder of the Grenadier
Guards on board. On the 11th, Madagascar went into Dock,
sailed the Gossamer (tender to the Britannia) with supernu-
meraries for the Ea-tward, and the Tartarus steam vessel with
supernumeraries for Plymouth and the West Indies. On the
12th, went into Dock, the Bellerophon ; and sailed for the
Eastward, to be broken up, having been sold out of the ser-
vice, the Immortalite, formerly the French Frigate Alcmene,
one of the two captured by the Venerable, and rendered re-
markable from the long chase of the Cyane, 26, commanded
by that excellent Officer, Thomas Farrest, Esq., C. 8., who,
by his perseverance, enabled our esteemed Port Admiral, Sir
P. C. H. Durham, whose flag was then in the Venerable to
come up, and give the coup de grace. On the 13th, went out
of harbour, the Athol' troop ship ; and anchored at Spithead,
the Hastings, 74. and Charybdis 3, from the Eastward.
Commodore Sir John Peyton (who we regret to say is very
ill, and confined to his cot) struck his broad pendant in the
Madagascar, agreeably to the etiquette of the service (he
being in the presence of his senior officer, Captain Samuel
Jackson, of the Bellerophon), and on coming into harbour was
hoisted out of the ship into his barge alongside, amid the
deafening cheers of his fine crew.
Commodore Peter John Douglas embarked on board the
Tartarus steam-vessel, and will touch at Plymouth on his way
to Jamaica, where he will hoist his broad pendant in the
Magnificent, and attend to the duties of that station in the
absence of the Commander-in-Chief.

Captain Henry Dundas took the command of the Britannia
on Thursday last, the ship having been paid wages on Monday.
The Coldstream Guards were embarked yesterday from the
Royal Clarence Victualling-yard by the boats of the flag-ship,
and put on board the Atholl, which ship this morning pro-
ceeded to Spithead. To-day the remainder were dispatched
in tenders and lighters to the Edinburgh, at Spithead, and it
is probable that both ships will proceed (weather permitting)
on Sunday for their destination, Canada.

Termagant, a remarkably fine new brig, of the Surveyor's
construction, was commissioned on the 11th by Lieutenant
Williams, as is supposed for the coast of Africa.
The Madagascar, 46, now in dock, appears to have been
very little (if at all) damaged. This arises from her being
built of teak. She is one of the many of our fine East Indian
built ships ; the Belvidcra has sustained infinitely more
damage, but little said of it.