The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-21 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 19,--On Sunday arrived
his Majesty's ship Owen Glendower, Commodore
Christian, from the Cape of Good Hope station
having been relieved by the Maidstone, Commodere
Skipsey. She sailed from Simon's Ba.y on the 15th
of May, and touched at St. Helenai which she left
on the 28th of May, leaving there his Majesty's
yacht, Herald, Commander Astley, with the late
Governor of India and family on board, on his pas-
to England. The late Governor of the

Mauritius, his Excellency the Hon; Sire G: Lowry
Cole, G.C.B. and family Were expected at the Caper
to assume the reins of Government in June, in his
Majesty's ship Tweed, Lord John Chttrthill. New-
lands, one of the country scats of the late Governor
of the Cape, had come to the hammer by order: of
the Government ; and great retrenchments. in some
of the public departments, especially in the minor
situations, had taken place, and his Honour the
Deputy-Governor, Lieutenant-General Burke, was
pursuing a system of the • strictest, economy. A
Constitution of the most satisfactory nature -had
been announced to the Colonists. Trial by Jury
had been established; Magistrates appointed on the
footing of English Magistrate's ; and things generally
began to assume a more pleasing aspect. Bank-
ruptcy had'not been so general In the Colony as
was the case for some months previously. Several
respectable merchants had felt Cape Town, to locate
on the fertile banks of the Kowie River, in pic-
turesque appearance, to the extent of :Graham's
'Town, equal to the boasted parks- of tinglatal,
without any artificial aid to assist nature, aoounding
with game and wild packs of hounds that often delight
the localities in chase of titer. Gaika, King of the
Caffres, had a numerous army. On the frontiers, and
remained on the most friendly footing with our troops
quartered there, and settlers were constantly inlet.,
changing civilities with him. The sable:Kieg Chas*,
of the country from Port Natal nearly to Delagoa.
Bay on Orte Eastern CoaSt of Africa .on the one
hand, to Caffre country on the other, had an army
about him of fifteen thousand men, freqhentlY Skir-
mishing in the interior of the country to attack and
subdue other tribes, carrying devastation before
him ; they are a most powerful and warlike set of
Blacks. Our enterprising Countryman, Lieut. Fare.
',sell, R.N., who located among them at Port Natal
a few years ago, trafficking with .beads and other
trifles for elephants' and hippOpotanius' teeth and
gold dust, had been treated with the greatest kind-
ness and civility-by Chace, who is a consummate
tyrant over his own subjects, causing, in some in-
stances, 50 of them to be put to death in the course
of a week. Since the massacre by King Cappel of
the Portuguese Governor, faMily, and troops, at
these settlements, on the banks of the English
River Delagoa Bay, the new Governor IV= Nilo-
sambique has been treated very friendly, not only by,
him, but by Macasama and Samba, and other neigh-
bouring Kings of the extensive Bay of Delagoa, and
the banks 'of the River. It was in this river that
his Majesty's ship Andromache anchered in the
year 1825. His Majesty's ship Sparrowhawk,
Commander POlkinghorne, was at Madagascar;
Radama, King of that country, was at his chief city
in the island, with a force of about at least twele
thousand men, enjoying repose after his Conquest of
Banbalooka and the Chiefs of the South and North
ends of the Island, Radama, fOr some pecuniary
consideration from England, has nearlyabolished the
Slave Trade with the coast of Africa aid Ziniabar.
The Upton Castle and- Sesostris (hornevisod
bound), from Bombay, arrived at Table.Balsibii-tbe
Ist of April, and an the 25th 'the Alexander, Adam,
from Rio de Janeiro. On the 7th .May arrived the
Kerswell, from the DoWns, and the lodra.,. from Syd-
ney; and on the Bth the Sir Edward Paget- from
Calcutta. The Owen Glendower sailed ou Titesday
to the Eastward, to be paid off. -
-On Thursday night arrived his Majesty's steam-
vessel Echo, Lieut. Bullock, from -Lisbon,, which
place she left on the .11th instant, having on board
Prince- Pigzzatelli Ruff, rho an Charge d'Af,
faires, and - Chevalier de Zantiow, the SwediSh
Charge d'Affaires, and families. The only Ambas-
sador left was the -Sardinian, who was merely waiting'
for an opportunity to embark. The- Echo bronght
despatches from Captain Sartorius, of the Pyramuss:
and from our Consulate there. It was. understood
that Don-Miguel's coronation :would take plirce,on:,
Tuesday. -.A meeting'ofthe British-merchants,was
held on board the Pyramus frigate,. Captain Sarto.
rius (notice of which wasposted on the ExChange,.
and which has caused much excitement), to consider-
the best means to he adopted for their safety, 'when
they decided to remain on' shore, provided' the Bri
tish naval- force was still retained at Lisbon. They
complained very much--of the-depression of the:mar,
kets and the state of trade, no business havingbeen
done for the last three months, nor was -there- the
least likelihood ola revival. - Sir J. M. Doyle (now
under confinement) had been demanded by-the Com-
modore (Captain Sartorius), and the answer had
been received in- a peremptory refusal. There was
no apparent cause- for supposing his life to be in im-
mediate jeopardy.
On account of a very serious 'disturbance at an
Opera,-no British _Officer was allowed on shore after
sum-set.- There were patrols night and day in the
streets, but everything:was-my quiet. The Badger
of 10 guns,. Captain:Crowdyswith five of: the Por-
tuguese Junta,- -and a •eonsiderible.artimber of re
fugees, had left there -three siaya,.before the Echo,
and may. be hourly. expected. A large double-bank
French frigate was entering as the Echo quitted. the.
Tagus. The Pyrsuants-,.Galatea, Alligator, Harrier,,
Vigilant,-aud Bramble, .whiehswere filled with Por-
tuguese-refugees,. were lying there. The iVledina
had sailed-for the toastotAfrica,.the -day:preceding
the departure-of the, Echo. -The-Echo'brought to
at one o'clock; her Commander (Lieut. Bullock)
started at three withdespatehes,' and arrived at the

Admiralty at half-past ten.
immediately held.
Letters from his Majesty's ship Tyne, dated St.
John's, Newfoundland, June 1.1,, state that she
would proceed on the :20th for the coast of Labra-
dor, and there remain until the latter end of Octo-
ber, previously calling at the several ports and towns
on the coast of Newfoundland, by the Governor's
order, for the purpose of vaccinating generally, and
to allay the apprehension of the small-pox spreading,
which had broke, out at St. John's, and committed
great ravages. No tidings had been heard of his
Majesty's ships Acorn and Contest, up to the date
of these letters.
My a letter from•an officer on board hts,Majesty's
ship Asia, at Corfu, we learn that Sir Edward
Codrington received, on the 22d of June, by a me,.
stinger overland,' a letter announcing his recal. It
was expected he would come home 'in the Warspite:
All was well with 'the fleet. •
The Amphitrite transport, Murray, master, and the"
Carron, Government steamer, were :this afternoon
ordered to proceed with the , greatest despatch to
Oporto.
His Majesty's ship Sapphire, from England, ar-
rived at Rio de Janeiro, Nth-May: The Mersey
arrived at Barbadoes the 22d May, and sailed the
21th for Jamaica.
The Boyne, 9S, in ordinary, is ordered to be cut
down to a second rate.
The Comet, Navy Board steam yacht, 'with the
Comptroller and Surveyor of. the Navy on board,
left this on Thursday for Plymouth, to precede the
arrival there of the Lord High Admiral. •
Captain F. Huhn, R.N. is appointed- -Harbour
Master at Malta.
The Lord High Admiral in the kindest Manner
promoted Lieut. Campbell Lock, of his Majesty's
ship Victory, on Wednesday, to the rank of Com-
mander. This officer was made Lieutenant in 1811,
and is a son of Admiral Lock, of Ryde, who, forty-
six years since, when sailing in the Warwick, on the
coast of America, was Lieutenant of the watch, of
which his Royal Highness was Midshipman. He
vas afterwards a mestniate of his Royal .Highness,
in the Hebe frigate, white- commanded by Sir
Edward Thornborough. Hie Royal Highness has
Iso promoted Lieutenant W Turner ,of the Sybille,

A Cabinet Council was

to the rank of Commander, for the gallantry he
evinced in his late action With the . Spanish pirate
brig, on the cotst or:Arri&-;- and M. Harvey,
Master's Stkte or the same ship, hai- been promoted
to Lieutenant. 'The hitter was the -officer' who was
detained on bO'ard the pirate; and whose detention
brought on the action. MI-. John Harris, of the
Challenger, is also proMoted to a Lieutenant.
.Lieut. George Flower Herbert, first of the Java,
flag-ship in Ilia, is promoted to the rank of Com-
mander.

On Thursday morning passed by the River, the
Charles, Butcher, Southsea Whaler, frdm Otaheite,
with 2,000 barrels of oil; she left that island on the
26th February; she spoke the John and Henry, of
Liverpool, off the River Plate; -and at St. Cathae
rise's, the Portsea, South-seaman; and the Ganges,
80, Admiral Sir Robert Otway. ' The Charles has
brought home the Captain (W. Blickle) and crew
of the ship Daniel the Fourth, which, with a full
cargo of oil, foundered at sea, after a toilsome
absence of nearly four years, to the southward of the
Georgian Islands, in lat. 25, S. long. 150, W.
His Majesty's ships Maidstone and Undaunted
have arrived at the Cape of Good Hope from Ports-
mouth April 19.