The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-03 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSHOUTH, MARCH I.—On Thursday the
Orestes transport, Lieutenant Garrett, arrived frdm
Rio de Janeiro, which she left on.the 22d Decem-
ber. The Admiral, Sir Robert Waller Otway, had
sailed in the Ganges to the River Plate; to consult
with Lord Ponsonby, on .an arrangement with the
Buenos Ayrean and Monte Videan Govermients,
to prevent the. frequent piracies that occur on the
coast, to the great annoyance and loss .of our trade.
The Heron only was at Rio Janeiro. An English
merchant brig, called the Daphne, laden with arms
for the Brazils, had been taken by a Buenos Ayrean
privateer, but she had been given up by the prize-
master, in hope of a better salvage than his prize-
money would have amounted to. The Orestes
brought condemned stores ; she is now lading with
coopers' stores for Deptford.
His Majesty's ship Tweed, • Captain Lord J.
Churchill called at, St. Jago (one of the Cape tie
Verd Islands), oa her passage out to the Cape of
Good Hope; and during her short stay, fifteen of
her officers and men slept one night on shore, and
immediately •on their return on board, they were
' all seized with a violent fever, 'of which the
following, we regret to say, died in forty-eight hours,
viz. Mr. Napper, Surgeon ; Messrs. Crawford,West,
Oldham, Simpson, and Thornton, Midshipmen;
the schoolmaster, and the. Midshipthen's servant.
The remainder who were attacked recovered. -
Extract of a letter from 'on board his Majesty's ship
Eden; dated Clarence Cone-Maidstone Bay (Isle of
Fernande-Pe),l7tlaiovember, 1827 :—" Vire have
now been here three weeks, clearing away the woods
on a spot of land extending into the
.sea, dividing
the two bays. On the sth we got huts erected for
the reception of three hundred native troops, me-
chanics, and labourers, who resided on shore. The
prepared houses, which we brought from England,
will be ready for the, mixed CommisSion Court,
from Sierra Leone, about May next. The island is
one of the most delightful that I,know of, producing
spices, plantains, yams, and fowls in abundance.
For a piece of old iron hoop, about sirinches long,
we get three fowls, or nearly 50145._ of the finest
yams ; and for, a piece of eight inches long, we get
a sheep. The natives, as far as we can yet judge,
though in the most degraded state of barbarisni; are
to be confided in ; they are a robust, hardy, muteu-
lar race. Their huts are composed of six or eight
poles, driven into the ground, over which is a roof
formed of palm4eaves the sides are all.open. Our
officers go wherever they please, without molesta-
tion, sometimes amusing themselves shooting mon-
keys, which .are very numerous. We have not a
man sick, though scarcely a day has passed without
rain."
The Sapphire, 28, Captain H. Dundas, arrived
this morning from Leith, to be fitted for a foreign
station. The Mersey, '2B, Capt. Branch, will sail to-
.•
morrow for the West Indies.
The Providence, Ford, having undergone the ne-
cessary repairs, went out of the harbour this morn-
ing, and will sail to-morrow for Madras and Calcutta,
. with fifty passengers. •
The free trader Victory, Farquharson,- for Madras
and Calcutta, will call here on Monday, for pas-

sengers. -
On Thursday 190 convicts were embarked in the
Phoenix, now lying at Spithea' d, for New South
Wales.
At a Court Martial, held on Monday last; on board
the Victory, Mr. Mitchell, midshipman of the Badger,
was tried for disrespect to his Commander, when the
charge not being proved, he was acquitted.
By a recent Circular issued to the Lieutenants of
the Navy, on the Greenwich Pension List, they are
informed that their pensions of 50/. per annum will
in future be subject to deductions. The present re-
duction will be eleven per cent.