The Sun.
London, England, 1823-04-21 00:00:00

THE ROYAL. NAVY.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 19.—The Ranger, 28 guns, Capt.
Fisher, arrived yesterday from Vera Cruz and the Havannah,
47 days from the former, and 29 days from the latter place,
with dispatches, a considerable quantity of cochineal, tuul about
two hundred thousand dollars on merchants' account. From
the intelligence brought by her we' learn that political parties
almost daily rise and fall in the new world. The emperor Jtur.
bide had not vacated his self-assumed dignity when she sailed,
although accounts to that effect had previously reached England.
Vera Cruz had declared itself independent, either of the emperor
or Old Spain. Two of Iturbide's generals in the South had re.
volted. Campeachy and Yucatan were decidedly in favour of the
emperor; however, very little reliance could be placed on eithe':
party, and the accounts must no be implicitly believed. The
Tamar was hourly expected at the Havannah, as was also Sir
Chas. Rowley, in the Sybille, from Jamaica, from whence she
immediately proceeds for England. The Ranger. on leaving
the Havannah, took charge of about twenty sail of vessels, of
all nations, and saw them safe through the Gulf. Such, as
the state of Mexico, that the Americans had recalled their Mi.
nister from that city. The American Consuls at Acapulco,
Campeachy, and Vera Cruz, had thrown up their appointments.
The Hyperion frigate, Captain Lillicrap, was lying at thilla.
vannah. The Grecian cutter, Lieutenant John Crawley; ar.
rived at Vera Cruz while the Ranger was there, from Jamaica.
No recent acts of piracy had taken place in the West Indies.
This morning orders were received to add four companies to
the Portsmouth Division of Royal Marines, which will bring
the following Officers into actual service :—Captains Lemon,
Hole, Hurdle, and Hall. First Lieutenants Bennett, Arden,
Pearce, and Hurdle.—Lieut. Reed is appointed to the Potts.
mouth Division, vice Boker, who is removed to Chatham.

Capt. the Hon. K. C. Spencer, (son of Earl Spencer,) corn.
missioned the Naid, 46-gun frigate, at this port, on Wednesday.
She is to be fitted for home service.

Capt. P. Marryat has taken iii;*command of the Larne, 20-
gun sloop, and Capt. C. Mitchell the Slaney, both titting for
foreign service.
Captain the Hon. Charles Abbott is appointed to the Calm-
bine, 18-gun sloop, ordered to be commissioned at Plymouth.
Apivininients.--Lieutenants Michael Quin, Robert Craigit,,
and Thomas Delke ; Mr. William Smith, Master, and 111 r.
Wm. Bell, Purser, to the Naiad ' • Lieut. John Shepherd, and
Mr. A. Dawson, Purser, to the Rifleman ; Lieut. H. B. 11.
Matthews, to the Slaney ; Mr. Wm. Braund, Purser, to the
Redwing ; and Mr. J. Brydonne, Surgeon of the Royal George
yacht, to be Assistant-surgeon at Deptford.
Lieutenant Frederick Bullock is appointed to relieve Lieut.
Hose, in the Snap surveying vessel, at Newfoundland, and will
go out to that station in the Pelter.
The Rifleman, 18 gun sloop, was commissioned on Tues-
day, by Capt. ames Montagu. She is fitting for Channel
service.

The Briton, 46 gun frigate. Capt. Sir Murray Maxwell,
went out of harbour on Monday, and the Trinculo, 16 gun
sloop, Capt. R. Shannon, on Wednesday. The Briton is fitted
for a foreign station, and the Trinculo is ordered to procezd to
Plymouth.
The Tweed, a ship built to mount 20 guns, was launched
from this Dock-yard, on Monday. The order recently given
for building a number of 10-gun brigs has been cancelled. Se-
veral sloops of war are ordered to be prepartd for commission.
The Seringapatam, 46 guns, Capt. S. Warren, C. B. and
the Starling cutter, Lieut. Turner, sailed on Monday, on a
cruize, and the Clinker, gun-brig, Lieut. Eager, for Falmouth.
The Egeria, 26 guns, Capt. S. Roberts, C.B. is ordered to
this port from Plymouth, to receive on board Vice-Adinini
Sir Charles Hamilton, Bart., Governor and Commander-in-
Chief at Newfoundland, for conveyance to that island.
The Seringapatam frigate is to take out Sir B'njamin
Bloomfield, his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary, and Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Court of Sweden, to Stockholm.
The Borodino transport, Lieut. G. Andrew, came up front
Cowes on Wednesday with a detachment of troops and a
company of Royal Sappers and Miners on board, bound to
Gibraltar.

The Lavinia frigate is ordered to be commissioned at Ply-
mouth.

On Thursday arrived the transport Ark, Denning, front
Malta and Gibraltar, with troops; and Triton Carter, fmm,
Leghorn, with oak timber, for his Majesty's dock-yanis. yes-
terday, the Jane, Smart, and Rollo, Simms, with currants and
fustic, for orders. They are at present under quarantine.
Ships at Spithead—Briton, .Ranger, Pandora, 'rrinculo,
Pelter.—ln harbour—Queen Charktte, RaMillies'
Naiad, Active, Lame, Slaney, Rifleman, Redwing, Parthian,
Cygnet, Arrow.

MEIICANTILM SUIPPING.

DEAL, APRIL 20.—Wind N.N.W.—Came down from th,_l
River last night the Bombay, Hine, for China; Prince, Braith-
waite, Quebec ; also to-day the Magnet, Watkins, for the
Cape; Alert, Chapman, Genoa; and sail with the Warren
Hastings Indiaman, and the whole of the outward-bound, for
their different destinations. Arrived and remain in the Downs
the Hope, Flint, from Bengal and Madras; Governor liar.
court, 'Wilson, from Demerara ; and a whaler, reported to be
the Elizabeth and Ann, from the South Seas; Simeon, Ho.:
berts, from Alexandria.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 19.—Wind W.—Arrived his Ma..
jesty's ship Seringapatara, from a cruise. Sailed the Pyrenees,
Clark, for .Montreal._

Aitut. 20.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed the Borodino trans-
port, for Gibraltar ; George the Fourth and Sir William Cur.
tis, for London.
PLY atotrrtt, ANu L 19.—Wind N.N.W.—Sailed the Fame,
from Naples for London ; Wanderer, from Smyrna for ditto ;
Hotspur, for Hamburgh; Vigilant and Dwarf cutters, for Ca-
diz ; Harriet, Cumming, for Gibraltar; Whitney, Storey, for
St. Andrew's ; and Anglia, for Bay Chaleur.
FaLstou ill, Amts. 10.—Wind W. N.W.—Arrived the
Lady Louisa packet, from America—sailed from New York
the 16th March, and Halifax the 30th ; Lady Wellingtou
packet, from the Mediterranean—sailed fritm Corfu the 10th
January, Malta the 30th, and Gibraltar the 29th March.
A PHIL 19.—Wind N.W._Arrived the Blucher packet,
from Jamaica—sailed the 19th ult. Sailed the Duke of Kent
packet (1), for Lisbon,
CowEs, Aram 20.—Wind N.—Sailed the Prince Regent,
Lamb, for London ; and Sarah, for Batavia.