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

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Devonport Telegraph.)

DEVONPORT, APRIL 12.—Letters brought by the
Skylark packet, whiCh arrived at Falmouth on
Thursday from Berinuda and Halifax, to the 6th of
March, announce the death of Captain James Kear-
ney White, of his Majesty's ship Tyne, 2S, at Ber-
muda, on the 2d of that month, after a painful ill-
ness of thirteen days. He was interred the next day,
the Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Commissioner Briggs,
and all the Naval and Military Officers at the Island
'mending his remains to the grave. The ships on
the station were all healthy. Provisions at Bermuda
were enormously dear in consequence of the trade
with America being prohibited.
Letters were last night received from the Cape of
Good Hope, dated on board his Majesty's ship
Tweed, Captain Lord Churchill, 19th December
last. A long voyage had reduced the ship's com-
pany to the short allowance of a pint of water and
i'our ounces of bread per day. The Tweed was re-
ported to proceed to the isle of France in a few days.
The Galatea and Ariadne frigates were to bring
home from Malta the officers and crew of the Cam- j
brian, lately lost at Carabusa, as soon as the result
of the Court-martial, which was to be held at Malta,
was known.
Admiral Earl Northesk left Mount Wise on Wed-
oesday for Landon, where he is expected to remain
six weeks.
William Shield, Esq. Commissioner of this dock-
yard, and most of the heads of the naval depart-
ments in the kingdom, have recently been ex-
amined by the Finance Commitee, touching the
subject of reductions. Mr. Shield returned from
London on Tuesday, via Bath.
We regret to state, that not a doubt exists of the
loss of the Midas 'transport, with all -on board, as
stated by us last week. She was commanded by
Lient. Thomas Gill, R.N. (1805), a very zealous
and meritorious officer.;
By a very recent regulation, the artificers in the
Dock-yards are only to work five days of the week,
on ships of every description ; and such officers
whose services can be dispensed with on the day on
which no work is to be done, will have a deduction
of one-sixth part. made from that day's pay.
We understand it has been recently decided that
Plymouth Sound is never, if possible, to be left with-
out one of Ills Majesty's "ships or vessels of war.
In answer to a recent application, it has been in-
timated that, in consequence of new regulations, the
sons of warrant officers of the Navy are no longer
considered eligible to fill vacancies in the Upper
School of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich.
A detachment, consisting of three officers and
twenty-two non-commissioned officers and privates,
from the depot of the Ist Battalion of the Rifle Bri-
gade, are under orders for embarkation, to join the
Service Companies.
A steam-packet, to ply between Bristol, Falmouth,
_and Truro, is about to be established.
(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 12.—Yesterday arrived
from Lisbon, the Gloucester, 74, Captain J. S.
Horton, with the 3d Regiment of Guards; Windsor
Castle, 74, Capt. E. D. King, with the Grenadier
Guards; and Melville, 74, Capt. IL Hill, with the
62d Regiment on board; each ship bringing also a
company of the 4th Regiment of Infantry, the re-
maining companies of which corps having been left
at Lisbon in the Spartiate and Pyramus, waiting the
arrival of a transport from Gibraltar to convey them
to England. The 60th Regiment left the Tagus on
the Ist, in transports, for Cork. These ships sailed
from the Tagus on the 2d instant. The intelligence
brought by them of the present political state of af-
fairs in Portugal, conveys nothing of import-
ance beyond what has been received by let-
ters of the 22d ult. Don Miguel had since performed
no public act more demonstrative of his attempt to
usurp the Crown ; but the opinion that universally
prevailed in Lisbon was, that on the 23d inst. which
is the birth-day of the Queen Mother, some decisive
step would be attempted. All the British forces
have now left Portugal; but Sir Frederick Lamb,
our Ambassador, deeming it advisable to keep a
squadron in the Tagus, for the purpose of ensuring
full protection to English property, Vice-Admiral
Lord A. Beauclerk remains with the Spartiate, 76
guns, Captain Warren; Pyramus, 42 guns, Captain
Sartorius ; Challenger, 28 guns, Capt. Fitz-Clarence;
and the Lyra and Falcon brigs; and, as a security
to the squadron, his Lordship retains possession of
Fort St. Julien. The Melville, Gloucester, and
Windsor Castle having since landed three
companies of the 4th Regiment, will sail as soon as
the wind will permit to the Downs, whence the two
battalions of the Guards, will proceed in steam ves-
sels to London, and the 62d Regiment to do garrison
duty at Dover.

Extract from a letter, dated
" TAGUS, APRIL 2, 1828.—The conflict of feel-
ings here is deplorable; the highest excitation per-
vades all degrees of society-, each party regarding
with the most intense anxiety the effect of the next
measure that may be taken by the Regent to sub-
vert the Constitution, and assume the Monarchy.
In one corner of Lisbon may be observed a party of
Priests, loudly exclaiming in favour of absolute
Monarchy, which they consider will secure them in-
fluence and power ; whilst at the opposite corner is
to be found a group of Constitutionalists, less loud
in their praises of a Representative Government,
but both parties fearful of each other, and still more
afraid to act. The army is divided in opinion, and
that party may reckon upon them from whom they
may have expectation of being the most regularly
paid. A decisive turn of affairs is contemplated on
the 23d inst., that being the birth-day of the great
actress in this scene of conspiracy, the Queen
Mother. No intimation has yet been given of re-
assembling the Representative Chambers in Parlia-
ment, which were dissolved immediately on the ar-
rival of Don Miguel : indeed, the best informed
about the place openly avow that it is not the inten-
tion of the Regent ever again to subject himself to
the controul of such an Assembly.
" General Saldanha will return to England in the
Duke of York Packet, His life, it was considered,
would have been forfeited to the malevolence of Don
Miguel, had he landed. Of the Fort St. Julien, it
is said, Don Miguel has demanded of Lord Amelius
Beauclerk possession, which demand his Lordship
refused. This will doubtless give rise to a curious
question—how far, in the relative political position
of the two countries, such a denial can be given to
the legitimate Government. The British troops
have now quitted these shores."
The Duke of York steam-pa4et arrived on
Thursday, from Lisbon. She sailed thence on the
evening of the 4th instant ; no political occurrence
had transpired, of any interest, since the departure
of the troops, which sailed two days previously.
The Duke of York brought thirty passengers, and a
cargo of black lead, specie, and fruit. Among the
passengers, are General Saldanha; she proceeded to
the river yesterday.
His Majesty's Steam-vessel Meteor, Lieut. Hay,
arrived yesterday front Lisbon. She sailed on the Ist
instant ; but having encountered extremely bad
weather, she was compelled to put into Vigo to refit,
and received on board a fresh supply of coals. Col.
Burgoyne, of the Royal Engineers, and Captain
Clinton, of the Guards, came home passengers in her,
The Samarang, 28, Captain Dunn, arrived on
Wednesday, from the Caps of Good She
left the Cape on the sth of February, and St.
Helena on the 19th, touching at the Isle of Ascen-
sion, where Colonel Nicholls and his garrison were
left in good health. The Owen Glendower, 42,
Commodore Christian, and Tweed, 28, Captain
Lord H. J. S. Churchill, were left in Simon's Bay ;
the Helicon, 10, Commander D. Acland, and Spar-
rowhawk, is, Commander J. Polkinghorne, were on
11. F, Gre-
ville, was at the Mauritius.—At the, Cape,
affairs
were going on satisfactorily : the vintage had been
a cruise; the Espoir, 10, Commander
very good, and the upper settlements had been for
some time undisturbed by the Caffrees. The Same-
rang spoke on the Line the ship Wanstead, bound
to Dieman's Land; and off the Western landh