The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-29 00:00:00

''lien of the Deg', liettvfen .ben g in a defenceless
"nnse and in a fortress, provided tvitli all the nieaiis
1 defence. TireDey, informed beforehand of this
410renient, 'sent the Aga to negociate a:delay of
‘"0 (lays (which was agreed to by the Mutineers)
Icigive time for the arrival of troop's from the Bey
°f Oran. The gates were then 'shut, Si'x of the
qiefs were then delivered imp, and decapitated at
Alcazaba. It is obvious that the Governme,“ has
'tted with a severity indispensable to its safety
t)iit-it is feared, that before the new system can be
''3tablished, great disorder's will be comMitted in
this Capital."

Philadelphia Papers to the 30th tilt. and Wash
ington to the 27th; arrived this morning. We ex
tract from the Philadelphia Gazette of the 28t
'lit., the following curious stat'ement :respecting
the alleged disappearance of the Island of St.
lielena. We 'suppose it alludes to the shock of
bh earthquake, of which we had an account softie
tittle since :
" FROM ST. HELVIA.—The ship Palladium,
Which arrived at Salent on Ft inay, Irony Calctota;
irt 124 days, touched at the 'shoot of Ascensioh
.on the Ilth October, and visited the English
rison there, The Essex Register gives as account,
the substance of wh ch is as follo,,vs :—The Set-
tlement consists of five or six bui!dings, in au acre
of about 300 yarns square. ttiis convists or the
governor, Lieutenant-Governor, and 50 seamen,
boys and Marines ;Alley have one tort of 10, and
another of sor 6 guns. Apprehensions were en-
tertained by the Officers that BUONAPARTE •.nd
the Island of St. Helena were swallowed up by
an earthquake. It sterns that the transports, the
Qcean, of London, • and zilexander, tIVe
Isle of France, for England, with part nt
the 12th Regiment, touched at Ascension on
the 27th of September, having on the 19th
sailed from the Island of St. Helena'; but on the
20th, 70 miles N. NV. of the Island, they were
alarmed by several violent shucks of an earthquake,
revealed at short intervals, which threw several
Persons out of their beds. Four days afterwards,
the ship General Graham endeavoured to make the
Likud, but co',ld not find it, though they had
excellent chronometers on board, and had
taken several ,e:s rtf lunar observations.—
The master of the Palladinm was in a ,simi-
lar situation with the General Graham, which
the narration of there suspirious had re.
mholed him of. On the sth of-October they had
a solar observation on the parallel of the South
Tort <tf St. llelema, being then exactly in the lati-
tude 01 ittinei .1.(1%:'11 kiht: port), but not sepiog
t. Helena they bore up for Ascension. It is said
to be uncommon thick tied hazy between the
tropics, so that land cannot be discovered until it
is very neatly.approached,
NOTE—(Reinarks of the Editcr.)—The above
marvellous account, s° far as it respects the swal-
lowing tip of St. Helena by an earthquake is cer-
tainly incorrect. Mr.NENLY,theSopetcargo of the
ship Trident, which arrived at this port, in 102 days
from Calcutta, states, that at 10 o'clock on the
12th of Ott they passed thelsland, distant about
three leagues, and that on the Bth, the following
morning, the Island was visible from the ship's
clerk, but having a fine breeze, they lost sight of
it in half an hour. Mr. N. also informs us that
be did not experience any thing like the shock ol

an earthquake.
(F),,in the National Intelliseneer, of Nov. en)
e have seen t ers from
Fan)/ THE BRAZILS.
dale of September, which
Rio Janeiro to the mi
state, that a tlaVtil expedition was fitting out at
that place, the destinatico of which was iinkilowrs.
Perhaps it is not unreasonable to cookettire, that
its object is to take off the Portuguese troops at
Monte Video. l'erfect traivillity reigned at Rio'
when these leitt rs left.

The British Press of this day contains a lament-
- able complaint on the subject of our Navy, Er„,,,
which we have extracted the following passage
" It becomes our melancholy task this day to
record the humiliation of the British Navy, in the
relinquishment of that proud and distinctive mark
• of superiority which it has so long exercised over
the flags of all other Nations. So far back as
Tuesday last, we mentioned the arrival of the long-
expected Russian squadron from the Baltic, on the
morning of the preceding Sunday, at
This intelligence was given exclusively in The British
Press, and remained unnoticed by the other Jout-
Dals daring the week. The silence was ominous,
but the public have no reason to regret it, as it
• may have been the means of withholding from
them other .accompanying matter of the most un-
welcome nature. We lament to say that no salutes
took place upon the arrival of the Russian squad-
ron, because they insist on an equal number
ul
guns being returned; which, by the present Admi-
. ratty instructions, our ships of war are forbidden to
do to the flag of any nation ; they would he salute,
by two gnus less. On alonday A(irniral Sir EIDW