The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-14 00:00:00

the ship Clarendon, of Bristol.—Mr. Peunel, store-
keeper, at the Cape, and family, came passengers irt
the Samarang. She sailed for Woolwich yesterday.
We have accounts from Bermuda to the Bth of
Match; at that time were lying there the Hussar,
46, Capt. E. Boxer, Tyne, 28, Commander Sir R.
Townshend, Acorn, 18, ComlmBa,nder
Edward
Commander
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don,Granat (ndacCtionngt): Columbine,
st, gun-brig Lieut. E. Plaggenborg.
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The Ringdove, 18, Commander Chas. English, was
at Halifax. The Skylark had arrived at Bermuda,
with a mail prom England, after a tedious passage of
82 days. By successive gales of wind, she had so
considerably suffered, as to be reduced, comparatively,
toamere lraend.
cli. The February packet had not
reached the Ivsl

The officers and crew of the Cambrian frigate,
Captain Gawen William Hamilton, C. 8., were con-
veyed, after the loss of that ship, to Malta, in the
Rattlesnake, 28, Honourable Captain Bridgman, and
Zebra, 18, Captain C. Cotton (since dead).. A
Court Martial has been held, to inquire into the oc--
casion of her loss, of which the Honourable Captain'
Crofton, of the Dryad, was President ; the other
members of the Court were, Honourable Captain
Bridgernan, Honourable Captain F. Spencer, cad
Commanders Copeland and Hotham. After Captain
Hamilton's narrative had been read, and evidence
heard upon it, and upon the praiseworthy behaviour
of the ship's company on that trying occasion, the
Courtffi cer s , determined,and
that Captain Hamilton, hi,
were fully exonerated, and fully
officers,
crew,
acquitted of all blame for the loss of the ship.—ln
conveying this sentence, the Court expressed their
commendation, in the highest terms, of the exer-
tions and conduct of the officers, on the occasion;
and Admiral Sir Edward Codrington subsequently
assured the whole of the ship's company, that the
recommendations he had sent to the Lord High
Admiral were such, that the circumstance of their
having been in the Cambrian svoeld ever operate to
their advantage. Captain Hamilton, on having his
sword returned to him, was addressed by the Presi-
dent, in the following 'terms :—" Captain Hamilton,
it is with much and sincere pleasure, that I have to
return you your sword—one that has always been
used with true credit, and to the good service 0C
your country. I cannot at the same time refrain
from expressing to you the regret which this Coat
experiences at the melancholy wind up of your long
and arduous exertions in the Archipelago, performed
so ably and with such advantage to the country, and
I am sure that there is not an officer or man in the
squadron who does not join in this feeling."
Captain Hamilton, after the Court Martial, XIII ';.
charged with despatches for London; but being,
from indisposition, unable to travel with the eequi-
site celerity, he sent them forward from Genoa, nine
der the care of his first Lieutenant, Robert Smarr,
who arrived at the Admiralty on Monday.
The Terror bomb has been hove off the beaeh on
which she was stranded, by the exertions of Captain
Hope and his crew, aided by Mr. Aikbone, Master
of the Pyramus, who went to he: assistance in 8.
transport. She has proceeded to Gibraltar.
A French brig, from Bengal, passed St. Helena
on the 22d of February, having on board the Ame-
rican Consul from Canton, which r ountry he had
been obliged to quit in consequence of the death ter
a Chinese, in a disturbance with some Areeriseo
eeamen. He stated, that in a gale of sviaeA, which
occurred in Madras Roads on the Ist of December,
six English Free Traders were lest, three having
trone down at their anchora,and three driven ashore.
He said the loss of lives on this occasion was be-
tween 4 and 500. The Hope, Security, and Hun-
gerford, were named as the ships lost.
The Wasp, 18, Commander B. Dickinson, sail,,,d
on Tuesday, for the Mediterranean. The Arimy
cutter, Lieut. Brooking, arrived on Thursdsay from a
cruise. Ships at Spithead—Hecha and Badger. In
Harbour—Victory, Asia, Blonde, Clv.anicleer, Icarus.
I The Hon. Company's ship 'Bombay, and the
extra ship Guildford, passed by the isle of Wight,
last night, for the River : they left China on the
25th November, and St. Helena on the 23d Feb.
and bring no news. The Bombay brought the fol-
lowing passengers :—Comte K. S. W. de Bogen.
dorp, Countess C. de Hogendorp, six children,
three servants; Captain A. C. Maclean,- from
Batavia ; Mrs. Ormsby, from Madras ; and Ciauds-
Queiros Esq. from Singapore.
The ;hip Guildford, on the 13th ultimo, fell in
with the bark North Star, in great distress, and.
supplied her with previsions and necessaries, it
appears the North Star sailed from Colombo on the
13th of December, with a cargo of coffee and cinna-
mon, and the following passengers :—Major Logint
and family; Surgeon Goodwin, of the Royals; Roca
pital-Assistant Johnson, Ordnance Clerk Robinson,
Mr. Smyth, a merchant, seventeen invalided soldiers,
and several women and children, besides her crew.
At day-light, on the 19th February, being in sight
of Ascension, and distant from it only six leagues,
she found herself chased by a brig with English
colours flying. The North Star, having no arms on
board of any description, and disliking the appear-
ance of the stranger, set all sail to get away; hut
the brig name up with her so fast, that at eight,
a. m.,she was alongside, and within pistol shot,
having previously fired sevsral gnus. She then hailed,
and desired a boat to tae sent to from the North
Star, who answered that she had none to send ; the
brig then hoisted Buenos Ayrean colours, and im-
mediately fired a broadside of grape-shot into her,
which wounded one man and considerably damaged.
her rigging. On this, a boat, with the second mate,
three seamen, and Mr. Smyth, went on board the
brig, the crew of which compelled Mr. Smyth and
two seamen to quit it. It was sent hack to the-
North Star, for the Captain and his papers.. Wheel
the Captain came alongside, he and his people were
ordered out of the boat, which was manned tsv the
pirates, and who, on getting to the North Star, ran
her into smooth water under the lee of the island,
when a second boat load of plunderers came on
board, and beating and wounding the seamen, com-
pelled them to load the boats with every thing they
could 4,4n01d of—sails, cordage, medicine chest,
live stoand provisions, wines, spirits, &c. From
the passengers they took clothes and money.
They also took the *hip's charts, compasses, chro-
nometers, and log glasses, and scuttled the ship for-
wards, As the day closed in, they compelled all the
males to go below, forwards, and the women in the
after cabin, securing both the hatchways. About.
midnight the women, finding every thing quiet, gw
on deck, and discovering the pirates had potted tin,
out o
ships and that the brigs were
f sight, they re-
leased the men, and on sounding the well six feet andshalf of water was found in the hold. This by g„,„
The pirate took away with her the
captain, tthe exertions,tii.
was
pumped out by six on the morning of
enc. Every shroud and backs
stay had been rut, and an attempt made to cut away
the mainmast; the crew contrived, however, to
secure the mast, and set the foresail, steering to One
northward. Nothing tlte iSth secondß mate, two seamen, and a soldier,
of egiol
in sight, three days afterwards
it was found that the coffee from having I',ten wet,
was heated, and the ship was likely to 1), e on fire; a -
si
011 England may
, (03„tity of cinnamon, and nearly 3QII bags of coffee,
It clieer°:ririi vt a;l thrown 43vtrboard to save the
ship, and tee rest was shifted about to allow the air
were consequently
[ was discovered that some of the beams had started.
Much had the coffee swelled, that it
be daily expected. One
man was killed, and six severely wounded, by tine
pirates beating them with their swords. The brig
was well lammed, and mounted ten guns, with a
large gruff on a swivel; each man that boarded the
North Star was armed with a cutlas, two pistols,
and a large knife.

111 AMES TUNNEL.—The shield was re•en-
entered on Saturday morning by Mr. GRAVATT, one of
Mr. BRUNEI'S assistants. The ground has been found
just as it was at the preceding irruption. Mr. G. was
able to walk through eight frames, from No. 5 to No. 12 ;
but as the lights went out from the fed state of the air, he
was obliged to return. The brick work is not, it appears,
disturbed in the least ; the shield neither, as far as could
be seen. We are happy to add that Mr. 13 nuNvE, jun-, is
iu a vaity fair way of recovery.