The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-08 00:00:00

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uniform cap, when at sea. Masters.;. Surgeons, Assistant. Su-
rgeons, Pursers, and Secretaries, are to have an established
uniform, there being no present regulation for their dress.
Physicians of the Fleet are to wear lace round the collar only.
Commodbfee to Kern the Rear-I%l4;as' lace round the sleeve.
lon the undress; but the full areas to he that of a Captain, with.
Admiral's lace to the button helesOf the lappels. '
PouTsmoUTll, Nov. G.--The 'Brazen, Captain G. W.
Mlles, arrived front Pernambuco, left Rear-Admiral Sir Geo.
Eyre, in the Spartiate, at Rio, on the 24th of August; the
Tweed was at Pernambuco **die titne of the Brazen sailing
from that port.. She touched at Bahia on. the 7th of Sep-
tember; and arrived at Pernambuco three days before it fell
into the hands of the Brazilian forces. In standing into
the port, the Brazen was fired at several dates by a scheoner:
at anchor there,, and one shot. struck, but did not do much
damage. The Tweed, it was understood, was to cruise
on that station for three months, and then rejoin the Rear.
Admiral, after which they expected to be sent round
Cape Horn. The Cambridge, Briton, Tartar, and Mersey,
-were on the Chilean side of the Continent; the Aurora, it was
thought was coming home with a very large freight ; the Doris,
at Rio de Janeiro, expecting.to be ordered home ; the Eclair
also 14 Rio, and ,the Fly cruising. Lieut. John Markham, of
the Doris, and Mr. John Johnson, carpenter of the Tweed, in.
valided, came passengers In her ; she also brought a small freighi
of silver and precious stones ; and bullion to a considerable
amount on Lord Cochrane's account. The Ganges, 84, Cart..
E, Brace, C. B. was paid off on Monday last, and re-commis-
sioned the following day as a guard-ship, making the fifth now
in Portsmouth Harbour. • _

The Argus, lately arrived here from the Halifax station, is
going into harbour to be paid off into ordinary, She had an
extremely fine passage from Halifax of only 17 days. Rear.
Admiral Lake unfortunately broke his arm by a fail from his
horse on. Oct. 111, but was doing well when the Argus left.—
The Sappho had •arrived there from Quebec, on the 11th ult.,
having landed Mr. Glover, naval storekeeper at Kingston
Varti,, and was to proceed with the Jiipiter to Bermuda
about the middle of this month ; the Dotterel was cruising
in the Bay of Fundy for the suppression of smuggling t
the Menui was to sail with the moil from Halifax to Ber-
muda in a few days; and the Samarung was expected with the
mail from Bermuda; the Rifleman was absent from the station,
having gone from Quebec to Jamaica, with the Naval Store.
keeper removed from Kingston to the latter naval arsenal. —Mr.
Baxter, Master of the Menia, and Mr. Armstrong, Assistant
Surgeon; came home invalided; and the Second Master of the
Jupiter was appointed Acting Master of the Menia.
Commanders the lion. C. Abbot, Jenkin Jones, W. Simp-
son, and W. F. Martin, are promoted to the rank of Captain.
Lieut. Holman and Mr. T. L. Yates, Purser, are appointed to
the Ganges; Mr. Knox, of the Spartiate, to be Lieutenant of
the _Mersey ; Mr. Wm. Crighton, Surgeon,, to the Phaeton.;
Mr. M. Goodsir, Surgeon, to the Athol.
_ _

•
On Wednesdiy the new sloops of war Champion, OreateS,
and Pylades, returned from their experimental cruise. It is
confessedly he beet qualification of a ship of war, that she pos-
seas a weatherly quality, or, what some of our readers will bet-
ter understand us to mean by saying, the best constructed vessel
to sail or make her way, when the wind is foul or blowing
against her. This quality the Champion (built upon Captain
Hayes' new principle) possesses pre-eminently over both the
other ships. In running off or before the wind, there appeared
but little difference in the three ships (neither of them proving
remarkable for velocity ; but if there was any, it was to the ad-
vantage of the Pyladea and Orestes—to the former in smooth wa-
ter only. It was, however, so comparatively trifling, that in a
run of We miles, from Torbay to ,Spithead, they were not a mile
!mat. The Champion also oved the best " sea-boat," stand-
ing etrhheer Orestes,saibetterl
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ter than ad-
vantage
over both the other ships in her capacity of stowage,
being capable of carrying provisions and water for five months :
the Pylades has the least capacity in this respect of the three
Ships. The loss of the
Orestes' tap-masts, in two 'instances,
obliged her to part company ; therefore the trial with that ship
was not so complete as between the Champion and Pylades.
—The return of the ships to port Was occasioned by the
repetition of these disasters, which appeared to be produced
by her bowsprit being too abort,
and not sufficiently supp-
ing the mast. The Orestes and Pylades have since come into
harbour, to have their masts shiftediaind some other alterations
into
made; whilst the Champion is engaged at sea, in making a
trial against the Pandora, a fast sailing 13-gun brig. It is
hoped that the Lords of the Admiralty will direct another trial
to be made, when the Orestes and Pylades arc again read
_y for
sea. It is an important subject, and should be pursued to a
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IRELAND.

CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.
" We are not pleas'd at this sad accident
" That thus bath stalled, and abus'd oust mercy,
" Intended to preserve thee, noble Erin !"

" A fellow that makes religion his stalking horse,
" He breeds a plague !"-
FOR THE SUN., • . .

, Mn. EDITOR—I wish some of your Irish Correspondents to
inform us, on this side of the Channel, on what constitutional
and legal principles THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND
tolerates and allows the Catholic Association in Dublin to hold
Its meetings, and to declare and disseminate, through the me-
dium of the Public Press, Its objects and intentions, (alike
subversive of all toleration and of obedience to the State), and
to levy on the Popish Population of that Kingdom a pe-
cuniary contribution, to enable its members to bid defiance
to the laws, and to resist all legislative measures which may
be considered as essential to the happiness and prosperity of
Ireland—when the Meetings of the Protestants of ALt deno-
minations, and of the Lodges of FREEMASONS in Ireland, are
not allowed to assemble on any pretence whatever, although
His 31.txxsT y is the Grand Patron of the Order, and Their
Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York and. Sussex, and other
branches of the Royal Family, are such distinguished Members
of the Craft ! The recent unconstitutional proceedings of the
Catholic Association demand the immediate attention and
official interference of the Attorney-General for Ireland,
whilst the conduct pursued by several of the Popish
Clergy of distinction and rank in that unhappy kingdom
begins, to ex.cite.much attention and alarm, and to be seriously
felt throughout the various grades of Protestants in this coun-
try ; and unless His Majesty's Government will act with promp.
titude and firmness, and boldly and honestly interfere and de.
stroy all favouritism, both Protestant and Popish, in the Sister.
Island, and place the Catholic Association u4thin the pale of
tlic.Lare, and prohibit its meetings, in like manner, it has done
the Meetings of the Protestants and of the Freet stsons—
it. will create a spirit and feeling of indignation and dissa-
tisfaction 'throughout Great Britain, not easily to be
put down or overcome !—Several recent journies, through-
out England, Scotland, and Wales, enable me to speak with
certainty on this great and interesting question, which the
people at large consider altogether as a political and not a re-
ligious question, His Majesty's Popish Subjects throughout his
dominions enjoying, in common with all their other Fellow-.
citizens, the most perfect and unqualified religious toleration.
A PROTESTANT DISSENTER.
Liverpool, Nov.' 3, 1824.