The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-22 00:00:00

ROYAL .NAVY, &d 4

PORTiktftnli, SEVT: 20.....-Last evening sailed the Spar-
tiate, 74, Rear-Admiial Sir George Eyre,.K.C.Bi, Capt.' Thos.
Gordon Falcon, 'for the South AMerican command ; Glasgow,
46, Capt. B. C. Doyle, for BeimUda and Malta ; and the Naiad;
46, Capt. Hon. It. C. Spehcei, with sealed orderit....supposed
to be for. Lisbon and Madeira. General Sir William and Lady
Lumley, with Commissioner and Mrs. Briggs, and family, are
passengers to Bermuda, in The Glasgow ; which ship will take
Commissioner Lewes and family from that Island to Malta,
and then return home.
The Seringapatam, 411, Capt. S. Warren, CB., remains at
Spithead, in constant readiness for sea.
The Dauntless, 24, (:aptain Geo. C. Gambier, arrived from
the East India station, to be paid off, having been' nearly five
years in commission—She left Trincomalee April 16, the
Cape On the 6th, and St. Helena the 22d July.—The squadron
in the East Indies was thus stationed;—Liffey. (Commodore
C. Grant, C. 8.) and Tees, sailed for Penang ; Alligator, at
Trincomalee ; Sophie, in the Persian Gulph ; Satellite, at
New South Wales.—Captain Lord Henry Thynne, R.N.
Lieut. G. Daniell, Captain Fletcher, R.M. and Mr. Kerrigan,
Purser of the Tees, came passengers.—The Dauntless is come
into harbour.

On Tuesday arrived the new teak-built frigate Madagascar,
Capt. Evan Nepean, from Trincomalee 19th, 'and Madras the
30th March, Cape of Good Hope the 16th, and St. Helena 31st
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women, and five children. The Madagascar brought no news,i
owing to a very protracted voyage, which was occasioned by
the severity of the weather she met with off the Cape of Good
Hope. The passengers by her ere—J. Bellingall, Esq., store.
keeper, and .'ll r. Biddleeomb, clerk, from Trincomalee ; Mr.
Pollextin, of the school of naval architecture, front superin-
tending the building of ships of war at Cochin ; Major Fox ;
Lieut. Carey, in command of the invalid troops ; and Lieut.
Cameron, of the Company's service, from the Indies; and
Capt. Kemp, front the Cape.
We learn by letters from Algae Bay, dated June 29, 1022,
that the Leven, 28, Captain W. F. Owen, and Barracouta,
Captain Vidal, had just completed their provisions, and were
about to sail for Dclagoa Bay, to resume their Survey of the
Rivers of Southern and Eastern Africa. Lieut. Brown, Mr. ,
Forbes, Botanist, and Mr. Kirkpatrick, who are going on the
difficult and dangerous Sena Expedition, were on board the
Barracouta. They are to be landed at Quilamune, whence they
are to make their way into the unknown interior, and if possible
reach the Cape of Good Hope. They are remarkably fine
young men, and are in all respects qualified for the arduous
task. The Barracouta, it' she can pass the bar at the entrance
of the Quilamane, will survey that river as far as the town,
where the Portuguese have a settlement. The Barracouta mill
then survey the Inyamban River, from the shore of which are
exported great numbers of eleoants" teeth.
On Wednesday arrived at Spithead, the ship Princess Char-
lotte, Capt. Lamb,'from Ittnigoon 16th Aped, Madras, May 8,
and St. Helens, July 27 ; spoke the Dutch ship Louisa, in the
chops of the Channel, from Surinam bound to Rotterdam, which
ship had spoken the Faith, 'l4 days previously, from St. Kitts,
for London. The Princess Charlotte has brought a cargo of
teak plank on Government account.
The Charlotte, Stevenson, from Hamburgh, for Bombay, is
-arrived here for orders. •
The schooner Success, of Quebec, David Rae, master, from
Matanzas for New, Providence, was taken by a Cuba pirate on
the' 6th !'larch last, and Captain Rae, M. Dcnathan, a partner
in the respectable house of Gordon, Thomas, &Co. of Quebec,
(who has a wife and child in England), and Mr. Samson, son
of the Adjutant of' the 70th regiment, were inhumanly mur.
dered by them.
On Sunday arrived his Imperial Majesty's Russian frigate
the Swift, Cnpt. Titofl'e, from a cruise of exercise off Iceland,
the Feroc Islands, and round the West Coast of Ireland. She
is a very fine ship, of a French model, mounts 48 guns, and has
400 men on board. - She sailed this morning for Cronstadt.
This afternoon sailed the Russian ship of war Enterprise,
Captain Kotzebue, on a voyage of Discoveries round the
World.
Captain Thomas Pettman, of the Ordinary at Sheerness, is
promoted to the rank of Post-Captain (on the occasion of open.
ing the new Basin and Docks ihere.)'—Lieut. the Hon. lt. S.
Dundas (son of Viscount Melville, K.G.), Lieut. A. Nor.'
rell, of the Tartar, and Lieut. G. F. Ryves, of the Alligator,
are promoted to the rank of Commander ;-31essra. Gambier;
Liffey ; and W. V. Read, Prince Regent, to the rank of
Lieutenant, Captain Hon. R. S. Dundas is appointed to the
Sparrowhawk, vice_ Boxer, promoted ; Captain G. F. Ityves to
the Sophie, vice French, promoted ; Lieut. Dawson, Roche-
fort, to command the Dispatch, pro tempore ; Lieut. Lowcay
to the Cambridge; Mr. James Dennis to be purser of the Doris ;
Mr. J. O'Brien to be purser of the 'Amor; Mr. Alexander
Osborn, to be Surgeon of the Isis; Mr. George Seeds, to be
Assistant-Surgeon to the Seringapatam.
Sir Thomas liyam Martin, the Hon. Commissioner Comte-
nay Doyle, and Surveyor ir Robert Seppings, arc expected
here next were, to make an inspection of the Doc.k.yard.
Five of the senior Students of the School of Naval Architec-
ture, are ordered to sea to make observations on the working
of the Hull, and on the working and sailing of ships • two in
the Genoa, the other three in the Naiad, Sybille, and Thetis.
Experience obtained at sea, combined with the instruction they
have received in the practice and theory of ship-building, will
produce, no doubt, for the service, must useful Officers in the
Dock-yards. .
The Scourge cutter, Lieut. D. Weld, chased a small lugger
on the Dorset coast, and compelled her to throw over her cargo,
part of which she has taken up, consisting of Ib2 casks of fo-
reign brandy and genera, and delivered them into the Custom-
house at Weymouth. This Officer (who has been upwards of
25 years a Lieutenant) has been a most successful enemy to
the smugglers.
A Court Martial was held on Thursday, on Lieutenant Bag-
well, R.N. upon a charge of ill-using John Brand, a private
marine • when, upon a review of all the circumstances, he was
adjudged to be reprimanded. Captain Edward Brace, C. B.
President.
. PLYstouTst.—Arrivett the Thetis, 46, Captain Sir .lohn
Phillirnore, C. 8.• front Falmouth ; and the Nimble cutter from
Fowey. In liamoase--Britannia,. Superb, Windsor Castle,
Bulwark, Harlequin, and Eclipse, and Hound and Sprightly
Revenue others. Between Island and Main—Falcon. In the
Sound—Thetis, Partridge. •