The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-17 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

We are deeply concerned to state, that the apprehensions which
have been entertained for his Majesty's sloop Algerine appear to
be well founded.

We have been favoured by an Officer, who has just arrived
overland from the Meditetranean,' iilth A few particulars, which
will be interesting to our'Readers;' and we are led to the conclu-
sion that the whole of thegallant officers and crew of this vessel
have unfortunately perished.
It appears that the Reverie, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral
Sir H. Neale, with the Algerine in company, sailed on the after-
noon of the 9th January from Garden Bay, opposite to the island
of Hydra, on their voyage to Smyrna. Captain Wemyss of the
Algerine dined on that del), with the Commander-in-Chief on
board the Revenge, and left that ship about nine at night for his
own sloop, which was then about half a mile a-stern. Before
ten o'clivk the wind suddenly altered a few points, without any
previous appearance of bad weather, and a squall of the most vio-
lent description ensued, which raged with the utmost fury for
about half an hour.

The'Revenge was thrown over on her beam ends, and every
sail except the fore-top-sail was blown to ribbons, and the fore-
yard and cross-jack-yard were carried away in the slings. After
the violence of the squall was over, the night became fine, but
extremely dark.. No light were seen from the direction it; which
the Algerine was supposed to be, but fears were not then enter-
tained for her safety. As, hgwever, she Was not Visible at day-
light, although the Revenge; tad hove to during the night, and
no account of her was received at Smyrna, the Admiral dispatched
the Gamut into the Bay of .iT:gina to look ont for her, but un-
happily no tidings had been received of her up to the 20th March,
when our informant left Naples. It is therefore impossible' that
any reasonable:hope can be indulged that the Algerine weathered
the fury of the squall. The melancholy f►te of her officers and
crew is greatly deplored; Captain Wemyss was an officer of
much promise, and was highly esteemed by his brother officers.
in. the Mediterranean. He, was the son of General Wemyss, and
brother of Captain James Wemyss, of the Royal Navy, and was
in. the 27th year of his age;.
Mr. Stratford Canning left the Revenge off Tenedos on the 24
of February, and embarked in the Medina for Constantinople.
The' Revenge 'returned to Naples on the 13th March with his
Majesty's ship Sybille in company.

We understand that Vice-Admiral the Hon. Charles EJphin-
*tone Fleeming is to be appointed Commander-in-Chief on the
Jamaica station, vice Sir Lawrence Halsted, whose term has
nearly expired.

Captain Charles Hallowell is appointed to the Cadmus at
Woolwich.

Lieutenant Albert Croker, late First Lieutenant of his Ma-
jesty's ship Cambrian, recently died at Malta Hospital.

On Monday last, Lieutenant Robert Lowe, R. N. landed at
Portsniouth, from Rangoon, Calcutta, and the Cape of Good
Hope, charged with dispatches of gre-r importance from India,
relative to the resumption of hostilities with the Burmese, in the
territory of Ave, and the commencement of a war, of a very for-
midable nature, at Bhurtpore. LieutenautLowe left Commodore
Sir J. Brisbane on the 13th November, at Prome, conducting the
naval part of the operations against the Burmese with the utmost
energy. Ile had armed all the boats of the atinadron, and taken
them up the river; to be employed in co-operation with the
atany Champion, IH, Capt. Stmilert, had arrived with
dispatches front England, as had the 87th Regiment, from
cidetttta, and the Golonda, with a reinforcement of troops
rf
from Madras. Capt. Thoshas Alexander, C.B. of his Majesty's
ship Alligator, died at Prome on. the lith of November, after
a severe illness, produced by fatigue and the-climate. Lieut.
William Duke, Mr. William Ayscough, Purser, :art Assistant-
Surgeon, a' Midshipman, and eleven seamen of. the Boadicea,
had recently diet of the cholera morbus, and 40 seamen. of that
ship had been removed into the Lord Lyudock cuovalescentaltip.
—The Boadicea, in consequence of these casualties, had removed
down the river. Capt. Chadn, of the Arachne, had taken the
command of the Alligator, and Lieut. J. P. Dawson was pri.
rooted to the rank of Gmunander, and appointed to the Arachne,
but was afterwards killed in action with the enemy. Gen. Mor-
rison and Biigadier-Gen. M'Crea had been obliged by ill health
to leave the Arracan division of the army, to retorts to England.
Commodore Hayes (of the Bonthay Marine) was collecting a
flotilla of gun-boats ut. the Sand Heads,' with which he was to
proceed to co-operate with the Arracan army. Lieutenant Lowe
brought accounts from the Cape,of Good Hope to the Bth Feb._._.
Lord Charles Somerset was preparing to return to England; the
Rainboiv :was daily expected from England, with Gen. Bourke,
the Lieut.-Governor. The Owen Glendower (Commodore Chris-
tinu), Martin, and Iltlicon, were at the Cape.
The experiment of is steam-voyage to India, as 'performed by
the packet Enterprise (Johnson), has not answered the expecta-
tion formed of it. The Enterprise arrived in Saugus- Roads, Cal-
cutta, in 42 days, from the. Cape, and 115 days fram Falmouth, ,
80 days of which she was' actually at sea. The Medus4 frigate
(Sir John Gore) performed the distance in 81 days. •
On Wednesday the Vittoria transport, Lieutenant J. C. Grigg,,
arrived from Malta 32 days, bringing .a mail. The Reveret'e, 744
Vice-Admiral Sir Harey Neale, bad left Malta for Naples,
companied by the Sybille; the Naiad had sailed for Corfu, to
take Kady 'Adam to Ancona ; the Cambrian and' Gannet
were in . the Archipelago ; the Rose was , under orders • for
Smyrna; the Chanticleer and Weixle were at Zante.—
A King's Messenger bad ' recently arrived at. Malta, in only 11
days from London, with dispatches for Sir Harry Neale.. He
was nine days reaching Zaote, and the Naiad took bins thence in'
two days to Malta, The arrival.ol the Martinis of Hastings was
daily expected at Malta. 'The 'Sovereign, Cato, and Vihilia
.transports, may be (Wilt expected with ordnance atoreajethil
The:Eggington'arrived at flihraltar on din"
Private letters from Lisbon announce the arrival' of the Falcon
and Lyra sloops, and the sailing of the Aurora for England.'
The Genoa. of 74 guns was expected from Plyinotith;.und our
letters front that port this morning mention her having saig.d. on
the .13th instant.

Captain ItobertTait has commissioned the Heron, IS, at Ports-
mouth,- for the South Amorican station ; and Lieutenant Charles
the Contest, for . the North American station. Lieut.
St.. JohO is .appointed ',to the Dove-packet; Mt% Harder to be
Purser of. the Ordinary at Chatham ; Mr. Corbitt to be 'Boat-
StVain of the Dock-yard at Antigua.
The Speke. transport, 'Lieut. Geo. DeConrdeaux, has arrived
front St. Lucia, with the' let Division of the sth -reginient under
Major' Symeockes, having Completed their 7 years of service in
the West Indies.

The Borodino transport is arrived from the lonian Islands, with
detachments of various Regiments, and the following officers
Captain Cairns, 36th'; Capt. Durk, 12th; Capt. Hawley, 51st;
Lieutenant Skinner, 7th; Lieut. Liardet and Dr. Scott, 36th;
Ensigns Griffin, 32d; Webster, 34th; Dunsmere; 42d.
On Thursday 'one hundred and isixty male convicts were
transhipped' from the hulks at Port.onouth to on board the Earl
St. Vincent, for Van Dieman'S Land. T. SaVage, late a pub-
lican at Milt. ui, tr,nsported for horse-stealing, and, Vigar, a
young medical student, for shoplifting, are among the utunber.
Letters from Gibraltar 'state the arrival there, of the Marquis
runt .Marebioness of Hastings, on the 23d ult., in the Herald
yacht. They untended to Sail the next day for Malta.