The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1835

PARIS.-THURSDAY.

fourth vessel promptly rendered assistance and towed
round the Pique's head, so as to put her before the
wind ; she had then been lying some hours in the trough
of the sea, and attempts had in vain been made to get her
into the position desired ; but no sooner had the brig put
her in that position, than the Pique shot-a-head and there-
by frustrated any further assistance from the brig, which
could not keep way with her. To be ready for the worst,
the boats were made as sea worthy as possible ; a quantity
of pork was cooked and coopered up in small casks, as
were also bread, water, and spirits ; and to ease the labour-
ing of the ship, four additional guns were thrown overboard
in the Atlantic. No words can describe the admirable con-
duct of the crew during all this difficulty and danger. She
will be taken into dock on Monday, when the full extent of
the injury she has sustained will be learnt. When Captain
Eden recently left the Brazils, the Admiral on the station,
Sir G. E. Hamond, gave him a written order to deliver the
same, for conveyance from Portsmouth to London, to a par-
ticular individual ; but Captain E. having a friendly feeling
for other parties, transmitted the order to the Admiralty,
and asked if he were compelled to obey it ? The answer
of the Board was in the following terms :—" Their Lord-
ships had yet to learn, that a flab, offieer in America could
give directions to any of his Majesty's ships at Spithead."
A Court Martial will be held on board the Victory, hulk
to the Britannia flag ship, on Monday next, to try Captain
Seymour, the officers and crew of the late frigate Challen-
ger, for the shipwreck on the coast of Chili.
Another Court Martial will be held on Tuesday on board
the same ship, to try the Hon. Capt. Rous and Mr. W.
Hemsley, master, for their conduct relative to that ship's
getting ashore on the coast of Labrador.
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. Henry Cory-
ton is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. Lieut. F. W.
Austen to the Wanderer ; Lieut. Rothery (supernumerary
Lieutenant) to the Blonde ; Lieut. Burnett, Mr. John
Cashman, Mate, and Mr. Woodman, Midshipman, to the
Lark ; Mr. E. L. Hoblyn, extra Mate, to the Nimrod ; Mr.
E. R. Power, extra Mate, to the Pylades ; Messrs. A. S.
Austen and C. Mc. D. Speck, Mates, and Messrs. David
Gordon and G. H. Richards, Midshipmen, to the Sulphur ;
Messrs. Armytage and C. Doyle Kennedy, College Volun-
teers, to the Harrier.; Mr. Laidlow, Purser, Mr. Allen,
Mate, and Mr. Bradley (late of the Dispatch), Clerk, to
the Snake ; Mr. W. M. S. Whitefield is re-appointed extra
Clerk to the Tribune.
The following Mates and Midshipmen passed for Lieute-
nants at the Royal Naval College, on Tuesday last : Messrs.
John Montagu Hayes, Rodney ; W. K. 0. Price, late
Rino.dove ; Arthur Barrow, Spartiate ; Edward Harvey
and Richard Jesse, late Aligator ; Charles Howard James,
Portland ; Charles John Hoffmeister, late Fly ; Algernon
Stewart Austin, Thunderer ; Cam M'Donald Speck, Es-
poir ; William Love Macdonald, late Nimrod ; Arthur C.
Gladstone, late Samarang.

You will recollect that Admiral de Rigny had been des-
patched by the King (a month or two since) to Italy, and that,
having reached Naples, he quitted that city, almost immedi-
ately, and returned to France. The object of his mission was
truly, as you heard at the time, to negotiate a marriage
between the daughter of King Louis Phillippe and the
Prince of Syracuse, brother of the King of Naples, and
as a necessary preliminary, to effect a reconciliation be-
tween those brothers, who bad quarrelled on a subject
which I really know not how to indicate otherwise than
by saying (but not interrogatively that) it was
" What lost Marc Antony the world."
The yoUng Prince had a liaison, which gave his Royal
brother great pain, for it gave great scandal. Remon-
strances and entreaties were resorted to, but failed. For-
tunately for the cause of morality, there are certain pret-
tinesses in the way of Government practicable on the Con-
tinent and its dependencies, which you in England are
debarred. The King, finding gentle means of no avail,
caused the delinquent fair one (a deep brunette by the
way) to be arested at Palermo, the capital of his insular
kingdom of Sicily, and I believe, thrown into a convent.
The Prince became enraged at this proceeding, and one
morning, finding a vessel in the port about to sail for Toulon,
he embarked on board her secretly, and abandoned his Vice-
royalty. So sudden and unprovided had been his departure
that on arriving in Paris he was literally without a sous,
and was obliged to financer ; or, in other words, raise the
wind, to enable him to appear decently. He presented
himself, of course, at the Tuileries, and became—very natu-
rally, for she is a most excellent young woman—deeply
enamoured of the Princess Mary. But it appears that the
Princess Mary was not equally stricken with his Highness.
Nevertheless, as the Queen, her mother, desired the match
anxiously, the Princess Mary, who, as every one knows her
does, adores her mother, consented to marry the Prince of
Syracuse. It is a curious fact—a fact, recollect—that a
negotiation for the union of those identical parties had made
much progress in the beginning of this very year, but was
broken through by Austrian intrigue, but obviously by what
was deemed a very unreasonable stipulation of the King of
Naples, as the guardian of his brother. Austria, in fact,
dreads the introduction into Italy of any influence save her
own, and through her Minister at the Neapolitan Court
(Count Lobenstein) opposed every possible obstacle
to the match ; and, aided by the Prince of Cassaro, Mi-
nister for Foreign Affairs of Naples, a creature and agent
of Austria, succeeded in breaking off the match, by sug-
gesting various demands not likely to be acceded to. One
of these, which the habits of Kint, Louis Phillippe pro-
mised to render efficacious, was a demand that a dower of
six millions of francs (240,0000, instead of two millions,
offered by his Majesty, should accompany the Princess
Mary's hand. The negotiation was then accordingly broken
off, and it was not until the actual arrival of the Prince of
Syracuse in Paris, in the month of July last, that it was again
resumed. Again King Louis Phillippe confined his offer
of a fortune to two million!, stipulating further that the
Viceroyalty of Sicily be secured to the Prince by the King,
his brother, for life. The reply received from Naples was,
that the latter article of the treaty could not be acceded to.
The Prince was obliged, therefore, to depart from Paris
without a wife, and on taking leave of the Kin;, he told
him in the usual language of a suitor, that his happiness
depended on his Majesty, who, melted a little through the
influence of the Queen, assured him he would be generous.
The Prince then took his departure for Italy.
The Queen, mindful of his interests, and still solicitous
that the match should take place, prevailed on the King
to modify his own terms, and approach those of the King
of Naples. Admiral de Rigny was accordingly despatched
to Naples with new conditions. The question of the Vice-
royalty for life was abandoned. The King consented that
the two millions dower should be paid in specie, and the in-
terest of the other four (to make up the six demanded by
the King of Naples) was proposed to be paid during the
life of the parties.
On learning the particulars of this new intended nego-
tiation, the Austrian Minister at Naples renewed his in-
trigues to defeat it ; but the Prince of Cassaro represented
to him that he was precipitate, advised him to wait the ar-
rival of Admiral de Rigny, and that when the negotiation

should have been actually re-opened, he would aid him in
every possible way to traverse the views of France. The
Admiral arrived in Naples, accompanied by the Prince of
Syracuse, and effected a reconciliation between the brothers.
King Ferdieand approved of the new proposition, and, in
spite of the united influence, intrigues, and representations
of the Austrian Minister and his instrument the Prince of
Cassaro, was on the point of signing the marriage contract
of the young people, when a nzal-addresse or blunder of
Admiral de Rigny knocked the whole treaty on the head.
It appears that, after all had been arranged for the mar-
riage, Admiral de Rigny had the hardihood to demand of
the King of Naples that he recognise King Louis Phillippe
as the head of the Bourbon family, to which, as he con-
tended, his Majesty was entitled in his quality of King of
France, including, of course, a requisition that the King
of Naples should pay homage to him. To neither would
his Neapolitan Majesty consent, or even listen—and hav-
ing caused it to be almost instantaneously notified to Ad-
miral de Rigny that his presence at Naples might, were it
to be continued, become disagreeable, the Admiral, after
only a three days' sejour, was obliged to step on board his
steamer and return to France.
The Queen felt sorely hurt at the failure of this mission,
and has been adroitly worked on by M. Thiers (who has an
old grudge to the Admiral), by taunts, sarcasms, and
sneers. M. de Rigny, blamed for his imprudent, unwar-
ranted, and unauthorised demand respecting the acknow-
ledgment of King Louis Phillippe as head of the Bourbons,
defends himself by ascribing it to zeal for his master, and
a desire to support and extend the dignity of his crown and
of France. " The dignity of the crown and of France,"
says Thiers, " of which M. de Rigny speaks, are only his
own niaseries."
Here I take leave of this subject, repeating that I pledge
myself for the accuracy of every word I have written.
Unless I deceive myself, it will be found instructive on
other accounts than as a mere record of Court intrigues.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph).

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 17.—The Pique frigate, Honour-
able Captain Rous, arrived on Tuesday from Quebec, which
city she left on the 17th of September. Lord Aylmer,
the late Governor of the Canadas, recently appointed to
the military command in Ireland, with Lady Aylmer, came
passengers in her, accompanied by Colonel Craig, Captain
Doyle, (both of his personal staff) and Lieutenant Elliot, of
the 79th regiment. The President, 50, with Sir George
Cockburn's- flag, and the Forte, 46, Commodore Pell,
Were lying at Quebec, and would quit for Bermuda in a
few days after the sailing of the Pique. Five days after
the Pique left Quebec she reached the entrance of the
Straits of Belle Isle, having taken that passage from the
force of the southerly winds. On the evening of the 22d,
at half-past ten, Captain Rous saw breakers close to the
ship and a-head. The helm was instantly put down, and
the ship readily answered it, but in doing so she struck
with great violence on the rocks, and, exceping
being lifted by the sea, as the waves came in, she was
immoveable. She was going at about seven knots at the
time, and the weather was thick and foggy, and though
the ship was not fifty yards from the rocky beach, the
land was not discerned till day-break. It was about half
ebb when she struck, but as the tides do not rise or fall
much, she continued to lift and strike, with the ex-
ception of perhaps an hour, until she was hove off on the
following morning at nine. Here the beauty of Captain
Symonds' system was eminent, for had she been a common
flat-floored ship she would have bilged ; but as she is con-
structed, all the mischief was spent on her false keel and
kelson. On her first striking, twenty guns were thrown
overboard, as was the most considerable part of her shot,
and about 100 tons of fresh water were started and pumped
up. In the morning she was hove off with apparent ease,
and subsequently was got into Ance au Loup, or Wolf's
Cove, and by the next morning was put to rights, and went
to sea. On the following Sunday, the wind blowing fresh,
a violent sea struck the rudder, some of the pintles and
gudgeons of which must have been broken while thumping
on the rocks, and tore it from the stern-post. In a short
time, however, a temporary one on Captain Symonds' plan
was got ready, but it was found to strike so violently
against the stern-post and counter, that it was cut away,
and the carpenter soon made a second, on Pakenham's
plan, which was fixed, and the ship was steered by it
for some days, when that was obliged to be cut away,
from the ragged state of the bottom and copper having
chafed, and cut the guys which were led forwards. The
ship was now steered without a rudder for 1,400 miles, and
when she rolled much, made more than three feet of water
an hour ; and from the time of her getting off the rocks
until her arrival in this harbour, never less than twenty
inches. On Sunday evening last, a N.N.W. wind had
driven her over to the coast of France ; but as an excel-
lent reckoning had been kept of her longitude, they made
the Caskets-lights. At nine o'dock that night, she came
to an anchor in 40 fathoms ; and on Monday morning sent
a vessel, which offered her assistance, into Guernsey, for a
steamer. Soon after noon, however, the wind being
southerly, she weighed, and providentially reached St.
Helen's anchorage early on Tuesday morning, steered only
by a cable astern, with a gun-carriage attached to the end
of it. The Pique saw only four French brigs during her
distress ; two of them passed her unheeded—the third,
having hove too near her at a time when the Pique leaked
freely, and without a rudder, it was determined to put
Lord and Lady Aylmer, and the sick, with some soldiers'
wives on board of her, but on the Carpenter going on
board to examine her, and finding her in as leaky and
helpless a state as the Pique, they separated.—The