The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-15 00:00:00

ROYAL NAVY, &c.

POILTSMOUTIT, SEPT. 19.—.S.ear-Atittiral Sir George
K.C.B. K.C.. is expected or* Tuesday next.. It is unders
that dispatches are preparing to be forwarded to Rio janeirci
, by-the Spartiate.
The Seringapatarn, 46, Captain S. Warren, C.B. is ordered
tcr-get ready or a particular service. It is expected she will
take Lord Beresford to Lisbon.
The Glasgow, 40, Capt. B. C. Doyle, will g. out of the her•
bour on Tuesday, and sail about Thursday for Bermuda and
Malta, taking Lieut.-General Sir Wm. Lumley, c;001.
wiaiioner Briggs, and family, tp the former island.
It was his Imperial Majesty's ship Predpriate (Enterprise),
Capt: Kotzebue, from Cronstadt, which arrived on Saturday
evening last. Capt. K. i# going to &bring Straits and the Icy
Cape, tor the purpose of prosecuting the discoveries he so ably
commenced in the Runic. She will sail in a few days, touching
at Rio Janeiro.

The following Officers have been promoted from the MIN
Yachts :--Lieutenants--C. li. Milhourne, Royal George
!lobed Fair, Royal Sovereign; and R. Wilcox, Prince Regent,
to the rank of Commander. Messrs. A. Barclay, John lklac.,
donne(, W. C. Gerrard, of the Royal George ; K. Crozier,
Royal Sovereign ; W. Dickey, Prince Regent, to the rank'of
Lietitenant—Lieuteriant George Pierce (First Lieutenant,
of Sir B. Hallowell's flag ship), and Lieutenant Richard
Douglas, of the Ramillies (son of the Master Attendant at
Sheerness), were promoted to the rank of Commander, in
commemoration of the opening of the new Basin and hooka at
Sheerness.--Captain T. Curtis (nephew of Sir %Villiam Curtis),
is appointed to the Sphynx, 18, at Chatham; Lieut. Philip
Justice to be First Lieutenant of the Royal George Yacht, vice
.Milbourne ; Lieut. W. Coppage, to the lids.—Mr. J. IL Ache.
son to be surgeon of the Thetis, vice Young.
This week, Messrs. Ayling, Bates, and nacres, Midship-
men, have passed their examination for the rank of Lieutenant.
The Cvrnatic, 74, building of teak at this Dock.yasd, Is or.
dercd to be launched on Tuesday the 21st of October next.
Remain at Spithead—Spartiate, Seringapatam, 'Camelion,
and Calliope.
Yesterday sailed the Bowel Merchant Brown, for Bengal,
having embarked here Colonel Knox, Major and Mri. Cot.
Frave, Capt.Walch, and sixteen other passengers. The Ganges,
ord, to embark passengers for Madras and Bengal, and Ole
Herald, Pixie, for Sierra Leone, are daily expected. Sailed
'the (lrpcian, flolbrow, for 'Valparaiso and Lima.
The; Hon. C. Pullen, newly appointed Lord Chief Justice of
India, proceeds to Calcutta direct, in the ship Sit ildward
Paget, John Geary, R.N. Commander, and will embark at
this Port about the end of October.

r atourrt.--Bailed the Thetis, 46, Sir John nalimo_re,
(now under the orders of Sir Alexander Cochrane), for Fal-
mouth; Columbine, Id, Hon. Captain Abbott, for Cork; Sue,
cess cutter for. 1411.11. The Sir Francis Drake steam packet,
which sailed on Tuesday with 90 passengers for Portsmouth,
put back yesterday, owing to the pipes which anpplyai the waterto
the boilers being choked with shavings and ontm ; whether
from accident or design is nut known.
The Quentin Durward steam packet, from Dublin, arr:ved
this day, with a foul wind, in twenty-seven hours limn-Ply-
mouth, whenua she brought part of the passengers of the-4'i.
Francis Drake steam packet, which had been obliged to put
Lack a vcond time, owing to an accident happening in the rria..
chincry. The Sir Francis Drake had ninety passengers for go
place when she started. The Quetuin Durward is intended for
the passage between Brighton and Dieppe. She is of 130toce,
and two engines of 20-horse power each.
A steam packet, of sixty-horse power, to ply twice or three
times a week between this place and the Islands of Guernsay.
and Jeracy, is about to be established, by a •subsetiption of
8,000!.

Communications having been frequently effected between
the land and shipwrecked vessels by a person awimtuit as
shore with the end an vessels,
it must be sitisfectory w
know that, by a very simple contrivance, the limits of.this in.
valuable art are capable of being greatly extended.
experiments made here by Lieut. C. Morton, it appears
that hyy, artificially augmenting the surfaces of the hands, and
feet, the art of swimming is susceptible of being much
mud, The apparatus which Lieut..lilurton has latterly cm.
ployed, and which, from all its use, and .facility and similarity
of application, he demominates " 'Marine propelling Moves
and Slippers," possesses considerable buoyancy, and, theref6re,
while it enables di... wearer to exert his strength to the best tLi.
vantage, as long as he retains any, it would still tend to support
him totally exhausted.