The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-04 00:00:00

ROYAL NAVY, &c.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 2.—On Wednesday his Majesty's brig
the Algerine, 10, Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford, arrived
from Genoa, Leghorn, and Gibraltar. She was dispatched to
the two former places from Algiers, with intelligence to the
Consuls there of peace with that Power having been concluded.
The Phaeton frigate,, Capt. Sturt, was left at Gibraltar ; she
is to touch at Lisbon on her way home. General O'Donnell
was carrying on an : exterminating war against all Constitutio.
nalists found in arms, thirty of whom had been shot at Alge.
siras while the Algerine, was in the Bay. The Officers of the
garrison at Gibraltar, going into Spain, were specially ordered
to go in uniform, to ensure their safety. The Algerine passed
the French squadron of thirteen sail, which, since they left Ca.
diz, . had been exercising off' Madeira ; they subsequently
went into Toulon. A large French frigate came through the
Got with the Algerine, and went to Brest. The Hind, Lord
Henry Churchill, was cruising on the coast of Spain, to pro-
tect the British mercantile interests, during the feverish state
of public feeling which prevails throughout that quarter, The
Dutch have one line-of-battle ship and one frigate off Algiers ;
and -they, as well as the Spaniards, are anticipating a quarrel
with those barbarians. Sir Barry Neale was lying. at Malta in
the Revenge.
Yesterday his Majesty's yacht the Herald, Capt. Henry J.
Lleke, returned from St. Petersburgh, whither she took Ed.
ward Michael Ward, Esq. pro tempore, Ambassador to the
Court of Russia, during the absence of the Right Hon. Chas.
I.3figot, who returned to England in the Herald, after a passage
of 17 days. The Russian squadron, of two sail of the line and
three
our frigates,
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weeks circumnavigating the British Isles for a summer's cruize.
new Russian 74, and a frigate, both launched this summer at
Archangel, were at Copenhagen, on their way up to Pronstadt •
and a small Russian frigate, commanded by Capt. Docteroff,
fitted as a store-ship,' was on her way. on a two years' voyage
of Discoveries in Ilhering's Straits. The Danes have only one
'frigate in commission ; she came out of the Baltic with the
Herald, being bound to St. Thomas's and Santa Cruzl, in the.
West Indies.
On Wednesday the Niemen, 20, Captain Wallis, sailed on a

-cruise.—Romain—Thetisi Herald,. Orestes, Champion, Pl'
lades, Algerine.
Capt. Hood Hanway Christian is appointed, with the rank of
Commodore, to succeed Commodore Noufse, in the command
at the Cape of Good Hope. The foll Owing officers are also ap-
pointed to the Owen Glendower :—Lieutenants James S. flare,
'rhos. Richmond, Geo. W. C. Lydiard ; Mr. T. Bull, Master;
Mr. S. Allen, Surgeon ; Mr. John Beal, Purser.
Capt. W. J. Purchas, Lieutenants G. IV. 3latson anir.
Critchell, and Mr. G. Davis, Purser, are appointed to the Esk,
are appointed
fianttidnjg. at Chatham
Efiaithicianmis
afnodr filoirre.igtnv.seorrveicgeo.ry,Lpieuurt.rtFred. Chamier,
to the Scylla, fitting at Plymouth, for foreign service. Lieut.
11. Roche, to be senior Lieutenant of the Harrier, vice Whit.
combe ; Mr. George Waller, Purser, to the Forte.
The Cambrian, 48, Captain Gawen Win. Hamilton, C B.
which has been fitted to return to the Mediterranean station,
has been detained in the harbour the two last days by op* •
trary winds. She will take her final departure for that station,
from Plymouth ; previous to which. Captain Hamilton is to
take under his orders the new sloops of war Champion, Orestes,
anti Pylades, and direct their cruising for a tbrtort,
westward of 'Scilly, for the purpose of ascertaining t leir resp
live eliding qualities.
The Right Hon. Lord Yarborough, the skilful and. most
highly esteemed Commodore of the Royal Yacht squadron, in'
tends, we understand, to go with his friend, Capt. Hamiltpn,
in the Cambrian, as an amateur spectatot of the interestin
naval trial between the Champion, Pylades, and Orestes, for
to
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superior sailing.
DEVOSPORT, SEPT. 30.—Sailed the Dartmouth, 48, lion,:
J. A. Maude, for the West India station ; Harrier, 18, cal,'
G. Gmling, and Pelorus, 18, Capt. Hamley, for the Cork station,
Starling, for Guernsey.—Arrived the Vandeleur and Tl\:el),e,all,
cutters, from Ireland, to refit. The Genoa, 80, Sir T.. 107,
stone, her period of service having expired, is to be paiii
0,
Mr. Singleton, of the Caledonia, is appointed Boatswa I
Bermuda Yard. of Provi.
afull.
By the New Naval Regulation, ftill allowance rti
sions is,to be serVed to soldiers, when embarked in transl),'l.ti.
or men of war, instead of the two-thirds allowance's' ~
foie; and the women and children of soldier' alB 1° 0, •
quarter rations.