The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-27 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS

PLYiCTOUTiI, FEB. 2.—011 Sunday List the strack.
Loi•d Vernon, Wkirrt master, bound from ant-
mouth to Swansea, carried away her booth, and
sotsained much damage, during a very severe squal
in Whitsand Bay, a few wiles to the westward of
this port, .where she Was brought to anchor, and
parted her cable almost immediately afttr; being
then on a lee shore, and it blowing a gain, she
drove ashore, and it i 4 feared, from the stormy
weather experieuced 00 this. coast since, that she
has, or in all probabilrty v, ill i;o to pieces. The
crew were saved.

List nOtt and this morning a heavy gale wag ex-
perienced at this nort. A French privateer, cap-
tured and sent into this port a few days since by the
akin Irigate, parted her c2bles, but was fortunately
brought up again without damage.
The Clarence man of war, building in Mr. BLACK..
BUR N'S yard, Turnchapel, within this port, is ex.
pected to be launched in a few weeks.

Gime down the Harbour and anchored in the
Sound, his Majesty's ship Gorgon bound to 111.
Meditvrrancan.

Arrived the Loire f igate from a cruize, and a
trdosport brig from the westward.

Pitt back his M jesty's skips Tonnant and Zrinide.

The Regiments doing duty here at present, are
tie Ist Somerset, 3d Lantashir,-, the Shropshire,
Rosci..iumon, Cheshire, Lid South Gloucester ReiA.
inents cat With a brtg:tde •,t Royal Ariilicry-
drivers, a detat.7!nlent of Eoginetrs, &c.

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DEAL, FEB. 26.--Se,cral of our roiZi-ri were
driven into the Downs I,,st eveniog cile violenct_
of the pie, and ten-lain will) his Aldj,:sly'i ships,
Lady Carrington, Bengal, Glutton, a n
Indiarnen, and a large list of ouiward-hcrinAl.—
Severai of the ships lost an anchor and ce.bie

PORTSMOUTH, FEr.. —Arriveti the Cilmter—
land, Vimgeur, Fawn, and Orion, from St. Liden's
to Spithead.

Sailed the San Domingo, Goshawk, Bustard, and
Sacchvich.

Caine out of the harbour. the Plantagenet and
1p

The Cuml•erland and Vengeur have been struck
by lightning coming from the Mediterranean ; the
former had her mainmast burnt, and twenty men
knocked down on the deck ; the latter had her
mainyard carried away : fortunately no lives are
lost.

YARMOUTH, FEB. 26.—Arrived the BarZ•ara
schooner in the Roads, by stress of weather; and
the Rover from off the Scheldt.
Sailed the British Tar for Leith.

FALMOUTH, FEB. 2'4.--Arrived the. Lady Aratella
packet, from Lisbon, with a mail in seven days; she
sailed on the 17th inst.

NAVAL APPQINTMENTS.—Captain Robert Matrn.
sell has been promote.. to the rank of Post Captain; -Captain
Thomas Alexander to command the Devastation, -at Wool-
wich ; Mr. K. James. Midshipm.an, of the Vi:.tory, to tite
rank of Lieutenant ;. Mr. john Prrnviiie, the Purser of
llercutes, to the-Cornwall-, building • Lieutenant 'l'
to the Osprey ; Lieutenant R.-Nitta) to the Asia; Captairt.
N. Thompson, to the Bombay, in tite Mediterranean ; Lieu—
tenant T. G. I larrington, Irvin tit.: Gibraltar, to_ the 04.ean ;
Captain 1 honias Parker, to ttre Sarpedon, in the room of
Captain Anderson, made

The Adriatic, StiAltp, from the Cape of Good
Hope, has arrived off 'lover.
The Rapid, MILLER, from Yarirvmth to Malta,
was carried into Ramsgate on Tuesday night, with.
the loss of tier rudder, anchors, and cables, haying
been on shore on the Blake Sand, and deserted by
her crew,

The 7 hells, PEARSON, from Sl:ields, for London.
was lost on Tuesday. last near Harwich ; crew
saved.'

Our Letters fronrJamaica, by the last pnket, in-
form us, that his Majesty's sleep Prometheus sailed
on the e3d of December, for Honduras, from
whence she was to cow/it a fleet to England, which
may be expected to arrive in the course of the en-
suing rn nth. Two companies of the 55th regi-,
nrent h id embarked for Great Britain.
A squadron of frigates is ordered from Ports-
mouth, to cruize to the westward.
By the Jamaica Mail, arrived yesterday, we have_
received letters and papers to the 15th inst. A letter
from Guadaloupe slates, 'bat the inhabitants, hav-
ing been ordered to enrol themselves for the new
militia, for the internal defence of the island, retun-
ed, conceiving that they were to be etnpl ,yed in de-
feuding the island from foreign attack, and thA by
so doing they would subject themselves to the for.
tenure of their property in Fiance. A fine of eight
hundred dollars was levied upon the disobedient, and.
farther measures of severity were expected.
A letter dated Kingston, Jamaica, Jan. 10, says
—" The Felicia privateer, which some tittle since
infested our coast, for the purpose of intercepting
the Spanish traders, was appointed to. sad on the
6th instant, from St. Ja;:,o de Cuba, so resume her
former cruising ground,"

The following English travellers are at present
in Sijly :—The of LEINSTER and his bro.
her, Lord SONDES, Lord MALras, Mr. HowARD,
the El-n. Mr. CALTHORP, Mrs. ORBY HUNTER,
and Mr. LAMB.

Lord M--, snn to the Earl of ----, it is
contioaed to be as;:ertcd, has become a Roman Ca-
tholic, at the perstition of a fair S:citian..

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The Queen of SICILY, reepoit says, is mentally
nclisposed 3 Certain it is, at least, that she
utctleres in ttie cot;cerus of State.