The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-24 00:00:00

ROYAL NAVY.

PonTSUOUTII, DEC. 22.—0 n Tuesday the Raleigh sloop
of war, Capt. Blackman, arrived from the Jamaica station,
last flora the Havannah, 14th Nov. with 320,000 dollars. The
Tribune frigate, Unit. ilioughby, C. B. bad returned to Port
Royal from Porto Bello, last from Carthagena, bringing thence
45 of the inhabitants, who left the place on its falling into the
hands of the Independants. The Spanish troops had been con-
veyed to Cuba. The Tu'oune had been rather sickly; about
forty of the officers and men were at the linspital.—Lieutenant
Murray died on the Bth of October, and Mr. Finucane, Assist-
ant-Surgeon (who had joined the ship only four days) on the 19th
of October. The Nautilus, Captain Chapman, had sailed for
Savariilla, to obtain the release of two vessels ; and the Survey-
ing-sloop Kangaroo, Mr. De Mayne, master, for Montego-Bay.
The Salisbury packet had arrived at Port Royal, in thirty-four
chip from Falmouth. • A negro woman, named Mary Good.
sail, died in Spanish Town, 20th September, aged 120 years.
The Raleigh sailed to-day for Chatham, to be paid off.
On Tuesday arrived the Ontario sloop of war, Capt. Jed.
rell Leigh, from Port Royal, Jamaica, and the Havannah,
having left the former place on Oct. 24, the latter November
24. She encountered gales of Wind from the Westward, almost
without intermission, from the 6th instant, until her arrival. •
—On the 7th in lat.. 44. 0. N. long. 40. 0. W. by the violence
of the sea, she lost her quarter boats, hammock rails, boards,
&c. had her sheet anchor lifted in-board ; the bolt to which •
it had been secured, being drawn. The Master and three
men were washed overboard, two of the latter of whom
,were unfortunately drowned. As the night approached, and
the wind and sea had increased to a tremendously dangerous
height, and the ship having been all day steered before it tinder •
bare poles, it became necessary to throw the guns overboard, to
prevent her from foundering. In the very severe weather of •
Monday last, she was embayed the greater part of the night
between St. Alban's and St, Catherine's Points. She came into '
the Harbour to be paid off. She was three years on the Jamaica
station, during which she lost only eight men—three by yellow
fever, three from casual causes, and two drowned.
in Havannati, we are intormect, things appeared in a vary
gloomy way. Trade was perfectly at a stand, cads man being
afraid to entrust his nearest relations with his sentiments; all
appeared hushed to foreboding stillness. An insurrection of the
Negroes was projected, headed by sonic priests; it was disco-
vered, however, early in November, just in time to prevent a
recurrence of the St. Domingo seances of butchery. There are
three political parties in Ilavannah—the Cubancse, who want
independence and a republic. • the second are friends of the pre-'
sent system ; the thiru are tor the old regime. These parties
are kept in awe by the Mulattoes and Blacks, who form nearly
two-thirds of the population.
On Monday, his Majesty's store-ship Coromandel, Mr. Jas.
Downie, Master, arrived from New South Wales, last from
Mercury Bay, New Zealand, with a cargo of timber, having
had a pleasant direct passage thence, round Cape orn, of
only fifteen weeks, without a day's foul wino. She is to
conic into the harbour to unload the umber, which is a species
of fir, of similar appearance to the American pitch pine
(called by the natives Cowdie), but it is strong as wed as,
light, and is peculiarly well adapted to top-masts of line-of-
battle ships. A detachment of the 82d Regiment, which
went out to cut the timber, has landed at Fort Cumberland.
The natives of New Zealand behaved with remarkable civi.
lily to the officers and crew of the Coromandel : one of the
officers: and his servant made an excursion of three hundred'
miles into the interior, and was in every part treated with
attention and respect. The natives have made very evident
improvement in the scale of civilization, from their inter-
course with the missionaries; one proof of which was not'
quite so agreeable to our people—they barter in trade now
for value in gold and silver coin, and not for pieces of lead
and copper, and common ornamental trinkets, las they used.
It is a very fine island, and, as the natives entertain just and
honourable notions of the character of British officers, all its
useful productions may be easily obtained. There was no ap-
pearance whatever, at any of the places visited, of eanibalisiii,
or of those disgusting sensual practices which formerly prevailed.
The Coromandel left Port Jackson in July last, when the colony
was most rapidly improving in agriculture, commerce, and even
in many of use refinements of society.
Letters from Bombay mention that the new teak-built ship
Ganges, of 64 guns, was to be commissioned by Captain F. A.
Collier, and all the Officers and men of the Liverpool would be
turned over to her, on the return of that ship from the Persian
Gulf, which was expected in January. The Liverpool will be
broken up. The Ganes may be expected in England inmay.
Balhatchet, Eaq. Secretary to Sir H. Blackwood, had been
appointed Purser of her.—(Hampshire Telegraph.)