The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-09 00:00:00

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCt.

Devoroorr, OCT. 2.—Wind W.-=Arrived his Majeity'e ship
Royalist, Lieut. Rohilliard, from a ciuize, hist frim Palmouth, and
anchored within the Island
4th.—Wind N.W.—Sailed his Majesty's ketch Vigilant, Lieut.
Meredith, for Vahnouth.
sth.—Wind N.W.—Ships in Ifs.mosee—Britannia, Windsor
Castle, Forte, Pelorns, and Camelion: Packets fitting, Mutine,
and Sheldraki..
Within the Islantl.Royalist and Bramble.
Mr, Roliett *City, Assistant-surgeon to the Britannia, vice
Btown appointed to the Sheldrake.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 7.. This Month* the Stenter traniport,
Lieut. Burney, alter% *hived at Spahead, in great distress, having
been 28 days at sea, hound to Sierra Leone, anti obliged to put
back to repair damages which she sustained in heavy gales of wind
in the Bay of Biscay. The following narrative, written by an
officer, describes her perilous escape from shipwreck, and the suf-
ferings of those on board
" The Stentor sailed kom Gravetehd on the 14th September,
and on the lath permed the Land's End, On the 28d and 24th,-
we experienced a heavy gale ih lat. 47. long. 13. 19. when the
ship spnurg.a leak, causing the pumps to be at work every half
Hour. On. the 29th, when in lat. 44. 54. it came on to blow one
of the severest hurricanes that ever was experienced ; the Cap-
tain, who had crossed the Atlantic 26 times, said he never saw
the like ; the sea ran considerably higher than our mainmast,
and resembled a complete foam; the wind was W.S.W. with
the sea rolling front the Northward. From 1 a.m. the ship kept
shipping sea after sea—all hands were at the pumps; the guns
were thrown overboard, as well as every thing that could he
got at. Now a scene came on, which beggars description : at
twelve o'clock the Man at the helm gave a signal which was too
well understood...the men rushed to the rigging, clinging to it
in all parts--4 sea appeared which actually darkened the space
between us and the sun ; it came lifting its head, until, with
one horrid rush, it swept our decks, filled the whole of the
after part of the aliip with water, carried away the bulwarks
and dashed into the rigging, our main topsail was split into ten
thousand atoms, and myself, who was in the back stays, bruised
all over, and Capt. Perry, of the Royal African Corps, the-Com-
mending officer on beard, so severely injured, as to be obliged to
be carried into the round-house. The knees of the ship were
started by the violence of the shock. Every passenger on board
was compelled to work at the pumps. We then attempted to put
the ship before the wind, as our only chance of life, which, thank
God, succeeded ; but at 6 p. m. to add to our misery, one of the
pumps cheated, and the gale still continued, nor did it tit all
abate until the next night, having lasted 42 hours. Our perils
were not yet over, as we were all obliged for our safety to work
incessantly at the pump to keep her afloat, and for these last nine
days, we have never had off our wet clothes, our cabin being in-
undated with water, and all our things destroyed. The binnacle
was also washed away, the boats stove in, and, to add to the con-
fusion, an alarm was spread of fire. Yet, amidst all the dangers,
the Captain (Mr. Marshall), and the Agent (Lieutenant Burney),
lost not their presence of mind, and to them our safety is greatly
indebted. We are quite worn out with fatigues and sufferings."
Letters from Cape Coast Castle state that the Brazen, 26, Capt.
George Willem, was lying there, all well, on the 16th of July,
having recently captured La Fortuna, a Portuguese schoener,
with 258 slaves, 45 of whom died on the passage to Sierra
Leone; and on the 6th of July she captured the Brazilian ship
St. Benedict, fitted for a cargo of 690 slaves, but with only 25 on
board. Major Bowen, one of the Commissioners, on his return
from Gambia, comes home in the Brazen, and was shortly to sail
for England. A beautifel brigantine, prize to the ship on% for-
mer cruise, will return to England with her.
The Ann, smuggling lugger, belonging to Flushing, with a
crew of 14 men, has been sent into Newcastle, captured on the
tath ult. off the Yorkshire coast, by the Mermaid, Lieutenant
Robertson, after having thrown a valuable cargo overboard during
the chase, consisting of brandy, geneva, spirits, tobacco, tea,
segars, and cards, forty-eight tubs of which were subsequently
picked up, it gale of wind from the Southward preventing further
looking for the rest. The Ann is a most beautiful vessel, of about
65 tons, nearly new, and exceedingly well found with every de-
scription of stores.
On Tuesday arrived the Thetis frigate, Captain Sir John Phil-
limore, from Rio Janeiro, whither she conveyed the Right lion.
Lord, Ponsonhy, Ambassador to the States of Buenos Ayres, on
his way to the River Plate. Ibis Lordship has been engaged some
time as a mediator in endeavouring to reconcile the exist-
ing differences between the 'Brazilian and the Buenos Ayrean
Governments ; but the Emperor of Brazil is so ill-disposed to
abandon his original designs upon part of that territory, that he
opposes every obstacle to the negociations opened by the Govern-
ment for terminating the war. The expences of the war are very
' great, exceeding, it is calculated, the entire revenue of Rio Janeiro.
Lord Ponsouby, it was understood, intended to proceed to his
ulterior destination, in about ten days, in the Doris frigate, Sir J.
G. Sinclair. It is not correct that the Brazilian frigate Netheroy
had been taken in the River Plate (as was reported), by the
Buenos Ayrean force, but the whole squadron was covered with
disgrace, by its pusillanimous operations under its late Co
mender, Admiral Count Lobo. His squadron consisted of size?*
seven ships of all classes, which the Buenos Ayrean ships, coin•
mended by Admiral Brown (a bold and intrepid man, formerly
a master in the merchant service), constantly attacked, in detail,
d In Cochrane, and beat them most shamefully. Admiral
Lobo was awaiting, at Rio Janeiro, an inquiry into his conduct
for cowardice. It has been discovered, however, that, by the Bra-
zilian laws, no Court can be at present constituted to meet his case,
as the law declares the menthers of such must be officerasuperior
in rank and authority to the accused. The Admiral had, more-
over, found an influential friend in the 'person of the Marchioness
of Santos, who is A favourite at Court. We regret to learn, that
the trade with the River Plite is nearly annihilated by the war
which exists there; the merchants are suffering immense losses,
by their goods perishing. The French and American Com-
manders at Rio have had a spirited expostulatory correspondence
with the Brazilian Government on the subject of the right
of blockade of the River Plate—a question which the Ame-
rican Commander (Captain Elliott) particularly disputes, and
which lie is strongly disposed to put to the severe test of a
forcible breach. He intended to sail thither shortly, with the
Macedonian and Cyane, having sent on the Boston. The
Portuguese line of battle ship, Don John VI. remained 'at Rio,
the Deputation from Portugal not haiiing yet succeeded in
their object.—lt is understood that the Emperor is determined
to Marry his daughter to his brother, Don Miguel !—The Em-
peror has net yet imbibed all the taste for English politic which
we could wish, but which we hope he soon will. The Empress
is decidedly partial to the English, and, on all occasions, extremely
agreeable to them. Muclref her time is passed in the healthful
employment of hunting ; she rides (astride, according to the Aug.. I
trian custom) from,. forty to fifty miles a day.—The case of the
slave vessel, capturOlsy the Redwing, and afterwards taken by a
Brazilian ship of war; under pretence of her being a pirate, was
still undecided. The Brazilian Government had offered to release
the officer (Mr. Faulkner, Mate of the Redwing), anti the'crew,
upon Sir George Eyre undertaking to give them up again, if the
vessel should be condemned, in their Courts, as a pirate. This
the Admiral refused to do, and, consequently, they remain in con-
finement.-.-The Wellesley, 74, (flag-ship), intended to leave Rio
in a few days, on a cruise to the Northward.—The surveying ship.
Adventure, Captain P. P. King, and Beagle, Captain P. Stokes,
had arrived at Rio, from England, and were to sail shortly to
commence their survey of the coasts, beginning in the Straits
of Magellen, anti the coasts and islands of Patagonia.—The
Jasseur, Captain Thomas Martin, had gone round Cape Hon,
to relieve the Eclair. Orders had gone for the Cambridge, Mer-
sey, and Eclair, to return round Cape Horn. The Warspite,
74, Commodore Sir James Brisbane, from India, wan appointed
to take the command there. The Thetis experienced a heavy gale
of wind on the 29th tilt. in crossing the Bay of Biscay;
whilst
laying to, a sea struck one of the guns, and upset it with as much
apparent ease as it would a common spindle ; another washed a
boat off the quarter, into which one of the best seamen in the
ship (named' Paterson) had just got, to secure it, and he was
drowned ; anti a third lifted the fore ports under the fore chan-
nels. The Thetis left Rio Janeiro on Aug. 14. She 'sailed this
p morning for Plymouth, to he paid off, her period of service hav-
ing expired. ,
On Tuesday the Diamond frigate, Capt. Lord Napier, arrived
from Rio Janeiro, Lisbon, and the Western Islands, with his Ex-
cellency Sir Charles Stuart, last from Milford. She is come into
harbour to refit. On Monday the Clio, 10, Captain Aitcheson,
from Chatham, with volunteer seamen, and Sir W. Congreve's
new hie-preserving buoys, for trial at this Port. The Clio sailed
to-day on her return to Chatham. Remain at Spithead—Gida-
tea and Philomel.
The Hussar frigate, Captain George
Harris, C.B. is daily ex-
peca. te. arrive front Vera Crux withboo,ooo dollars, on account
of the Government.
the Minstrel, Arkc 11, for Bombsy, arrived, to em-
bviacrtsk,Pgiaerrltewri'S—oltit)tZ We4nesdaay," sailed he b-lid:a, with con
West Inilizirtien, Which Wales; Mellish, for Madras, and several
putan Saturday
in, last, with contrary
winds.

The Russian sloops of war' and Seniavin
marling from Lzonitadt, bound eravoyage to KL arrived this
Achaiiill"—
fiansphshira Telegraph.
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