The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-07 00:00:00

AINSWORTH.

" Crichton" draws to its conclusion, and, like a
skilful dramatist, Mr. Ainsworth has rendered the
conclusion of his work peculiarly interesting. In
this number the unnatural Catharine de Medicis
reveals to Crichton the secret plot which threatens
the life of King Henry, and in which she, his mother,
is a prime agent, and in which Crichton is to be
chief assassin. We leave the gallant Scot in the
utmost perplexity, anxious to save the King, but
bound by a solemn oath not to reveal the terrible
secret imparted to him. "Le Jardin de la Mort at
Boulogne," by Mrs. White, is a beautiful and tender
reminiscence of the cemetery at Boulogne. Many
will recognise this description of " graves larded all
with sweet flowers, lying amidst the dark green cypress
trees. Some so wrapped up in foliage that the gray
stone scarce shows through, but there is one space,
where no flowers bloom, marked by a solitary
column, on which we read—' Here lie the bodies of
eighty-two of the unfortunate persons wrecked on the
coast of Boulogne, in the,
,English convict-ship Am-
phitrite, the 31st August, 1833.' Mrs. White
also noticed the grave of, some ladies who had
perished in the shipwreck of the Conqueror in
1843, but she looked in vain for the name of one
of the sufferers on that melancholy occasion, Miss
Turton, who has been truly apostrophised as " The
Angel of the Storm." Mrs. White thus feelingly
relates her beautiful and heart-touching history :
" We looked in rain for the grave of one more of
these victims. She who like one already beatified, had
borne up against the terrors of the storm—passing
from group to group of her fellow•sufferers—breathing
hope to one, religion to another—folding like Charity
the trembling children in her robes—rousing fresh
courage in the sailors, and with fair hands assisting to
repair the storm-torn canvass. She who in that
sublime moment—greater than the great Czar himself
(for she conquered self ), beating down the fears of her
sex, in order to animate'the hopes of others! had she no
monument—no graven stone to show where, in a woman's
foim, so much high courage and endurance slumbered?
Alas, no! we threaded the close graves—read one by
one the names and epitaphs—visited the guardian's
cottage, and turned over all the entries in his dismal

ledger that came under the initial we required. ^ Miss
Turton's name was not amongst them. The English
Consul then occurred to us, and through a friend, his
intimate acquaintance, we learned the following par-
ticulars. She had been taken to India by her friends to
avoid a marriage which displeased them, and upon
which she was resolved. Extremely beautiful and ac-
complished, numerous offers of the most advantageous
kind awaited her, but to the mortification of her family,
only to be rejected. She had plighted her faith, and
given her affections to another, and with the force of
character so sublimely exhibited in the last scene of her
life, she refused the temptations which Eastern wealth
and ambition offered her, and in other ways so convinced
her family of the uselessness of detaining her from Eng-
land against her will, that they consented to her return.
Here, then, was the secret of her courage—her con-
tempt of fear; hence the lofty struggle against death,
which set at nought the power of the tempest, and buoyed
her frailness with a giant's strength. Love, stronger
than death, upheld her. And while this dragged her
back to the overwhelming seas, waved her onward to the
shores—so slightly separated from him for whom the
peril was encountered. All know how she perished,
and with the rest of her fellow-sufferers was laid beneath
the roses in the Cimetiire de Boulogne. In consequence,
however, of the application of her lover for the body—an
application, seconded by a requisition from the grand-
father of the unfortunate young lady, the Consul con-
ceived himself authorised to order her disinterment, and
her grave is therefore in England."

NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE.
Must of thti inenahers of the Board of Admiralty have
left town for the Easter holidays, and only Lord John
Hay, Captain Milne, the Honoure.ble W. Cowper, Mr.
Ward, and Captain Eden, the private secretary, are in
town. The First Lord has proceeded to Hampshire,
Admiral Dundee to Somersetshire, Captain Berkeley to
Wales.
Commander James Pickard (June, 1814) died at his
residence, Stoke, Devonport, on the 4th instant. This
officer entered the navy in, 17Q6,-and from that time
until 1814 (with the exception of ten days' leave) was
never absent from duty in sea-going ships. Serving
nearly nine years as midshipman and lieutenant with
one captain, Sir Richard Keats, bang wade a lieute-
nant from the Superb by Lord Nelson ; afterwards
with Sir Thomas Louis in the Catiepus, and lastly as
first-lieutenant of the Tenedos, Captain (the present ad-
miral) Hyde Parker, on the coast of America during the
war, from which ship he was promoted to the rank of
commander. He was engaged in action in the Cano-
hip
pus at the battle of St. Domingo, 1806, in the same
sh
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the the T
passageurkish sciofuathdreoln)abr,dinagnelles and the
destruction
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lieutenant of the Naiad, when engaged witththree;Fserecnonchd
flotilla before Boulogne, in the presence of Napoleon
Bonaparte, when they were beaten back ; served with
the army in Egypt, 1807, at the siege of Rosetta, under
Brigadier the Hon. Sir W. Stewart and Captain Hallo-
well, of her Majesty's ship Tigre (late Sir Benjamin 11.
Carew), by the latter of whom he was appointed to the
command of the gun-boats on the lakes of Aboukir and
darietis. In the performance of the above services, he
was present at and engaged in the capture and destruc-
tion of six line of-battle ships, five frigates, one prasm,
20 privateers, and a considerable number of merchant
vessels. The several officers under whom be served
bear sufficient testimony to his merits ; but like many
others, from want of sufficient interest at the Admiralty,
he was never further tested, his oft-repeated applica-

tions for employment being of no avail.
Commanders Otter and Smith have taken up their
Commissions, at Portsmouth, appointing them to the
Comet, steam-vessel, for surveying service.
Orders have been received at Woolwich for the Black
Eagle, Admiralty steam-yacht, Master-Commander
Cook, to be in readiness, on the 13th instant, to convey
a Board of Admiralty to Sheerness and Chatham.
APPOINTMENTS.— Surgeon—Dr. Edward H. Derri-
man (1845) to the Plumper, screw• sloop, at Portsmouth,
vice Pritchard. Assistant Surgeon—Francis Anderson,
to the Southampton, 50, flag-ship, at the Cape.
PRIZE MONEY FOR THE CAPTURE OF SLAYERS.--. Mr.
Chippendale has given notice to Captain Mansell and
the officers and crew formerly of the Actaeon, 26,.that a
distribution of the net proceeds of the Esperanza, cap-
tured on the 26th December, 1845, will be made at the
office of the agent, No. 10, John-street, Adeiphi, on the
13th of April, 1848, and that the same will be recalled
every Tuesday and Friday, for three months to come:—
Captain, 681. 19s. 2d.; first class, 161. 9s. ld.• second,
9155. 5d.; third, 41. 12s. Bd.; fourth, 31. Is. 91.; fifth,
IL 10s. 10d. ; sixth, 1/. Os. 7d.; seventh, 10s. 3d.
SALVAGE.—Ommanney, Son, and Co., have given no-
tice to Lieutenant Craig, and the officers and crew late
of the Volcano, steam-vessel, in the Mediterranean, that
an account of a sum of money received in lieu of sal-
vage for services rendered by The Volcano to the barque
Niagara, on the 22d July, 1848, will be delivered into
the registry of the High Court of Admiralty on the 15th
instant.
Leander, 50, will be undocked at Portsmouth this day.
The Cleopatra, 26, has been taken up opposite Chat-
ham Dockyard, for the purpose of being prepared for
commission. She has her masts in and will soon be
ready. Captain Peel will not command her, as stated.
The Castor, 36, ordered to be brought forward for
commission at Chatham, as we have before stated, is to
be sent to Sheerness, to be taken .into deck (there not
being one vacant at Chatham) to be coppered to the
load-line, and have her bottom cleaned, after which she
will return to Chatham to be rigged, &c. She will be
docked at Sheerness about the 15th inst., when the Am-
phion' screw frigate, is taken out.
The Sparrow, 6, ketch, has been commissioned for sur-
veying service at Portsmouth, by the master, Mr. Hoskyns,

for COnunander Fraser.
The Mastiff, 2, surveying vessel at Woolwich, is not
to be further employed. She is to be stripped, her
stores are to be returned, and her masts are to be taken
out. The second master in charge is to be paid off.
The Blenheim, 60, screw-steam guard ship, Captain
H. Austin, C. 8., will not be completed by the engineers
at Portsmouth before the end of the month.
The Arrogant, 46, screw-frigate, Captain Robert
Fitzroy, is not yet complete at Portsmouth, and the time
is postponed. She will be out of the hands of
the engineers on the I 1 tb, will be ready to go out of
harbour on the 12th, and will be ready to sail from Spit-
head on the 15th inst.
The Amphion, 36, screw-frigate, will be undocked at
Sheerness on the 15th instant, and will be completed in
about a fortnight after that period.
The Termagant, screw-frigate, will be completed at
Portsmouth by the engineers, as a first-class advanced
steamer, by the 21st inst.
The Gladiator, steam-frigat", will be completed at
Woolwich, in machinery and hull on the 14th. to pro-
ceed to Devonport to be brought forward as a first-class
advanced steam-vessel.
The Plumper, 12, screw-sloop, Commander Nolloth, is
ordered to have a new screw cast for her; she will be in
the hands of the engineers and shipwrights at Ports-
mouth for a month.
The Reynard, 10, screw-sloop, Commander Cracroft,
at Pm t,mouth, is also to have a new screw, and will have
her deft cts made good by the end of the month.
The Colßcebine steam-vessel was commissioned at
Chatham on Thursday afternoon by Commander Short-
land. She is to have a complement of 70 men, and to be
fitted for surveying service.
The convict-ships at Woolwich are to be moored off
the Arsenal, and the marine guard is ordered to be
withdrawn.

Vincent, 120, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier,
Captain Dacres, has strained severely during her passage
from Gibraltar, and will require an extensive survey on
arrival at Portsmouth, for which port she is preparing to
depart. The unfortunate man drowned is named John
Goodband, of Plymouth, A. 8.; he fell from the maintop-
sail yard while reefing in a heavy gale nine days after
leaving the Rock.
Her Majesty's schooner Lark, 2, Lieutenant-Comman-
der Charles O. B. Hall, put back this morning with loss
of topmast, carried away yesterday morning in a heavy
gale from the south-west, the Lizard bearing north-east
ten miles distant. The Lark will probably be repaired
in the Sound, and proceed again as quickly as may be
with her dispatches for the coast of Africa.
Her Majesty's steam-gun vessel Rifleman, Lieutenant.
Commander Stephen S. L. Crofton, came in yesterday
from Sheerness, to wait orders for her destination. She
expects to be sent to Sou h America.
Her Majesty's brig Peterel, 6, Lieutenant-Commander
Thomas Creser, was towed out of Hamoaze on 'Wednes-
day, by her Majesty's steam-tug Confiance, Mr. William
Martin, Master. 'I ha Peterel sailed same day for Fal-
mouth, and the Confiance proceeded to Pembroke with
jury gear for her Majesty's steam-sloop Buzzard.
THE DERELICT GALLIOT HERMANNA.—Her Ma-
jesty's revenue cutter Arrow, Lieutenant Lindon, which
arrived on Tuesday evening from Dartmouth, spoke on
Tuesday afterncon, at half-past two o'clock, the Dove,
Brizhaus trawl-sloop, Captain John Purchase, and
another commanded by Mr. Richard Foreman, having
alongside the masts, spars, rigging and gear of the aban-
doned galliot Hermanna. The two sloops were at
anchor to the eastward of the Start, preparing to take
the wreck on board, as the easterly wind was too strong
to admit of their towing it to Brixham. They fell in
with the rigging at eight o'clock on Monday evening,
the 2d inst.
Wind W.S.W., smart breeze.