The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-29 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 27.—The Blossom, 24,
Captain Beeehey, arrived 'yesterday, with 'up‘Vards
of fifteen hundred thousand dollars in specie on
board, on private aceonnt; 600,000 of which is.the
property of old Spaniards, who have been com-
pelled to quit the territory of Mexico, and who
were otiliged in a hurried manner to collect what
property they could; and' ship'it on board the Blos-
som at San Blas. The Doris frigate, Captain !Sir
John Sinclair, is the next ship' that will bring trea-
sure to England ; she leaves Coquimbo on the Ist of
:October. The -Volage frigate, ,Ceptain M. Sey-
mour, will leive the same port for Europe on the Ist
February. The British squadron then' in- the Pacific"
,will be the Forte and sMenai frigates, and the Alert
sloop of war. 'The Blossom left Coquimbo on the
3d- of June, and Rio janeito on the sth of August;
she is consequently .52 days from the Brazils. The.
Ganges, 84,with Sir R.W. Qtway's flag, was the only
ship lying in Rio Janeiro ; the Cadmus sloop-of war
was cruising outside, and
,tlie Sapphire ftigate was
daily expected from Rio Plata with Lord Ponsonby
.on board, who had been appointed 13iltish Minister
at the Uptirt of Brazil, in: the robin of the Right
Hon. Robert, Gordon. The French squadron at
'Rio Janeiro' Consists of the Jean Bart, of 74 guns,
with a Rear-Admiral's flag, two . large frigates, two
corvettes, and a schooner, and two store-ships,
ar»iie enflute ; they had also a large frigate in the
Pacific, with a Renr;Admiral's flag flying, which
was about to .proceed to,Europe, round the world;
and a sloop of war called.the;Bay,onnaise,. was sent
to examine the Matidioly Islands, in search of the
'remains of Perouse's vessels. On the day the
'Blossom left Risli she spOke the Packet from teuenos
Ayres going in, having on bOard the CoMmissioners
from that country, .to settle the Treaty -of Peace be-
tween them and the Brazilians. No doubt was en-
. tertained that on
,the arrival,of there Diplomatists ali
differences would be settled, and peace would speedily
be proclaimed. Mr. Gordon, our late Minister at Rio,
Mr. Nugent, late commissary-General in Peru, Capt.
.C. Gordon,. late Of the,Meriai, and Capt. Tait,late of
the- Wage, are come home passengers in the Bios
som. We regret to find . that that bbautiful portion
of the world;'Peru;iS'again in a state of anarchy and
confusion. A revoltitnni was lately attempted for
the purpose merely of putting the Executive Power
into other hands, withotitiny intention of a change
of system. Three of the ringleaders were shot. At
about the same time General Sucre, in Upper Peru,
who came from Colombia with Bolivar, in attempt-
ing to enforce ' some order among his rabble of
soldiery, excited a mutiny in them, in which he vas
wounded by a musket ball, and had been compelled
to quit his command and-return- to toloinbia.- The,
inhabitants of , Peru, and of all , the West side of
America; Show nO'dispoaition to industry, although
the' =country is capable of producing every thing.
The same disposition to idleness has lately. beenjna-
nifest at the Islands of Otaheite and the Sandwich
Islands. - At the for Mer place so little attention Was
:given tojostrnetion, and to „the example of, itheMis-
sionaries, thht the perso.n who assumes the office 'of
Consul had recently Seat to the'CothinSndindollieer
of. the British ships in thel'acific, iotresting that a '
man-of-war might occasionally appear there,
.as ap-
prehensions Were'entertained that-the natives would
,massacre them. .The internal condition of ;the
Sandwich Islands had retrograded since the,death pf
the King who cane to ..Englaild ; his sugar and
coffee plantations were unattended 'to, 'and ,their
oplycornmoOity ryas salt, which was sent, to Itusaia
and the Sea of Okhoizh. None of the Mines On
either. side:of the; Ciittl i 1 letak:are worked Ici- a- froo t.,
except that in „Brazits„under.: the care .of.capt4in
Lyon, R.N.>'.I4cOISA recent'ly shipped 40,0001dt:41gs
iti:th &Aid* int,- England. •'- frh 6.,- BlossOnilias, been
absent from )England three years and four .months;
during which she has ,sailed over seventy-two thou-
itind'iniles: During' her 'absence =she- his ' iislted
Pitcairn, Society, ,Sandwi4h, gllet) cboolslarnils,
and dkovered several islands in both the North, alid
StYtall'PeCific. In 1826; shralscoVered -4ii :Oral
_islands in the ,Sonth Peeihc,., a slangeropa AtTlii'
.p.clao i ,pnd .in June, 1827 foundgoo!) pf
.tiltind gs - 'Called Islas. 'de Atiobispo, 'which 'Wert fir-
merly Jaid down in.our :tharts,:,but.'whioll had .befo
erased inmodern ones, tmcler
,an impressiOn, tliat
they did not exist. They- eZtend from t'he Voleato
'lslands of ''.Cook to 281' -N. -,!They .. afford , kopd .
anchorage, and abound in turtle. The crew
of the Blosiinn, after leaving 'file Islands eon-
sinned six hundred pounds of -turtle daily for three
weeks. - in September, 1847, she discovered, pier
I3ehring'S Straits, Port Clarence, which offers mist
excellent 'anchorage. ' It. was here that the barge .of
crew of nine men,,while survey-
ingtlte Binlassiiitoomre, with a ,
foundered in a gale of wind,. wken
three 'searnen were drowned; the remainder o
suc-
ceeded in reaching the shore, end were at first un-
molested by the Esquimaux ; others of the latttr,
however, coming down in greater numbers, '.did riot
'
appear so amicably disposed towards them, and but
for the timely arrival of the ship, the crew in ill
probability would have been destroyed. . Whilst :in
Kotzebue's 6ourid, the boat's crew . were subjected
'to a skirmish with' he-Equimaux. '• It arose' fr4ni
an ittteinpt to, rob, our seamen of
.their_hnives„&e..,
whenemployed in obtaining water. Bight sera' II
Were wounded, oni'Esquimaui killed, -and aOcii er
wounded.. y
.The Blossornas at Piteairn's; Flan iin
p ecember, 1825 ; the,colony,eonsted of sixty,fite.
Adams was -alive. They express consideratAe
anxiety, to be transferriditn some: other part of 'ha.
ip?c,,lpd have petitioned the ,Goverpment of t ns
country to grant theta settle spot: in—lsiew So th