The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-18 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSAIOUTR, DEC. o.—The Spartiate, 74, Captain
Frederick \Verret' (fitting for the flag of Lord Amelius
Beauclerk, in the Tagus), is ordered to be manned, proceed
to Spithead, and kept in constant readiness for Ms It is
supposed that the Commander-in-Chief of the troops and
principal officers going to Portugal will embark in this ship.
The transports Layton, Lieutenant Lovitt, Stentor,
Lieutenant Burney, Noma, Lieutenant Lester, and
Heroine, Lieutenant Jefferson,. have been taken from the
services to which they had been specially appointed, and
have sailed for Cork, to take the 10th and 11th Regi-
ments thence to Portugal.
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The ships Edward, Lord Cochrane, Crown,' Three
Crowns, Regulus, and Ellen, are taken up as transports,
and are fitting in this Harbour, to take the 10th and 12th
Dragoons to Lisbon.
The Galatea frigate, Sir Charles. Sullivan, Bart., and
Plumper gen-brig, Lieutenant Matson, were prevented, by
contrary winds, from sailing:from Yarmouth-Roads until
yesterday morning. It is supposed they are gone to Oporto.
Lieut. Bailey, R. N., Agent for Transports at Cowes,
set off on Thursday afternoon (four hours after his ordeis
arrived) for Falmouth, to embark for the Tagust_he being
selected to manage that service on, the coast of Portugal.
Lieutenant T. Williams is appointed, pro tempore, resident
Agent of transports at Cowes.
On Sunday last, the Wellesley, 74, Rear-Admiral Sir
George Eyre, 1C.C.8 (Captain. T. Gordon Falcon) re-
turned from the
South American command, having been
relieved by the Ganges, 84, Rear-Admiral Sir Robert
Wailer Otway, K.C.B. The Wellesley left Rio Janeiro
on the 26th of October. The Doris frigate, Sir John
Gordon Sinclair, had returned from conveying Lord Pon-
sonby from the River Plate, and was refitting,"to go round
Cape Horn. The Heron, 18, Captain Tait,, was under
orders for Bahia 'anti Pernambuco. The Mersey, 2s,
Captain Ferguion, was daily expected at Rio, from Callan
and Valparaiso, on her way to England. Orders had also
been sent to Lime, for the Cambridge, 74, Warspite, 7+,
and Eclair brig,, e return to England. Lord Ponsonby
went up the River Plate to Buenos Ayres, in the Ranger;
28, Lord Henry Thynne. The Ranger afterwards waited
ten days at Maldonado, for his Lordship's despatches. It
is understood that his Lordship is greatly dissatisfied with
his post,-the unorganised state of the public departments
and the general condition of the country being much be-
low his expectations of an infaut Government. The war
between the Buenos Ayreans and the Brazilians was in a
very languishing state. Accounts have been received that
the Brazilian Admiral, Pinto Guedez, had gone to sea in
the Piranga, Captain Shepheard, with three other frigetes•
with a view to intercept a frigate and corvette, which lied
been purchased from the Chilian Government. These
vessels had arrived. at the 'Falkland Islands, where the
Buenos Ayrean Admiral, Brown, had gone to take the
command, and conduct them to thel river Plate. Should
this enterprising officer get into the river, and his ships'
draught of water enable them to pass Maldonado, he will,
it is expected, destroy the Brazilian vessels, commanded
by Captain Norton, in the Netheroy, which are employed
near Buenos Ayres. Captain Grenfell, of the Brazilian
brig Caboclo, was recovering from the wounds which he
received in the last actien with Crown. his arm had
been igen out of the socket. A violent storm was ex-
perienced at Monte Video on the 2d of October, in which
seven vessels were stranded, four upset, and fourteen die-
mastecL Sir George Eyre struck his flag on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the Alligator, 28, Capt. H. D Chads,
arrived from the East India station. She left Madras on
the 17th August ; Trincomalee, Ist Sept.; and the Cape,
2.5 th Oct. The Larne, IS, Capt. Dobson, was to sail for
En lard about the 15th Sept. and the Tamar, 2S, Capt.
J. G. Bremer, C. 13. shortly afterwards. The lait division_
of the troops was not to leave Rangoon until reits were
received to dispatches sent to England. The Varepite,
Tamar, Athol, Volage, Larne, 'and Hind, were at Tellico-
melee; the Champion, at Rangoon; Rainbow and Cyrene,
at Penang; Fly, at New South Wales ; and Pandora, at
Calcutta. The Volage had
sailed _fur New South Wales

to refit, and return to England. Lieuts. Herbert, Cup-
page, Wodehouse, and Blukeftlag), removed from the

Warspite to the Boadicea. The Jwa Inid arrived at the
Cape, .and remained there with the Samarang, when the
Alligator sailed. Captains Kellett and Keele, R.N. and
Col. Godwin, 41st Regiment, came passengers in the Al-
ligator. The Alligator sailed yesterday for Plymouth, to
be paid ofT.

On Thursday, the Menai, 28, Capt. Houston Stewart,
arrived from Halifax, whence she sailed on the 26th ult.
leaving there the Jupiter, Niemen, Orestes, and Grass-
hopper. The Dotterel sailed for Bermuda on the• lath,
and the Contest, for St. John's, N. 8.. on the 21st. Rear.
'Admiral Lake, C.IL and the squadron, were to sail for
Bermuda on the 6th December, for the winter season.
A severe winter was expected at Halifax, the weather
having set in unusually cold in November. The surveying
vessel. Snap, Lieut. Bullock, arrived yesterday from Ha-
lifax ; sailed in company with the Menai. The Menai is
ordered to Woolwich, to be paid: off.
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Yesterday the wind shifted to the S.E., when about SO
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last three weeks, by contrary winlproceeded
(14, on their
respective voyages. The Russian ships of war, Commis.
tine, 74, Commodore Bellinghausen, and Herald 2820141 W
for tho Mediterranean ; the David Scott, Thornhill, for
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the
Madras and Bengal; Joseph Green, transPrt, Lieutenant
Robinson, with stores and provisions for the Coast of
Africa; William Harris, Lieut. Steevens, with supplies for
the Isle of Ascension ; Marshal Bennett, Lieut. Samuel
Spencer, with detachments for Barbadoes ; and the Mir
titter, Nosworthy, for Cork, to embark convicts for New
South Wales.
Ilia majesty*, ship, Melville! 74 guns, Captain Hill,
Went out of harbour this moriung, at ten o'clock. The
wind being light and nearly calm, she was assisted by the
Arrow steam.pcket, belonging to the Portsmouth and
'fly( -
it Onnpany ; when abreast of the Platform, the air
of whid headed her, and the tide being flood, the ship
hong opOii it, and rather drifted to leewardoilien the Lord
Yarborough, anothereteam-packet belonging to the same
COmpany, coming from Ryde with passengers, Went to her
assistance, and being fastened to her on the larboard aids,
and the paddles pot to work, the ship stemmed the tide in
grand style, and was soon ado at anchor at Spithead. The
utility of steam vessels upon such occasions is very great.
Yesterday, the' Blonde frigate was paid off by Lord
Byron, and,laifl up in ordinary. l Hie, Lordship set off-this
morning, for his seat, Clay hill, near Epsoin.—//amphire
Telegraph.