The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-08 00:00:00

I,h AL NAVY'.

We lately announced the return of the. Royal squadron to
Portsmouth on Wednesday last. After being detained in the
Downs by strong south-west winds nearly a week, the ships put
to sea with rather moderate breezes,• intending;rby the aid of
the tides, to beat their way back to Spithead. On Tuesday
night, whilst thus employed on the coast of Sussex, it being
very dark and stormy, the Royal George was nearly run down
by the Active ; it was the narrowest escape that could possibly
happen. The Royal George yacht, Commodore the Hon. Sir
Charles Paget, came immediately into the Ilv:rbour, to be re-
equipped, and kept in a state of constant readiness to proceed
again to Calais, to convey his Majesty home —The Active, Sir
Jathes Gordon, K.C.B. :and the Liffey, Hon. Henry Duncan,
C.B. came into Harbour 'on Saturday afternoon : the former to
have her defects repaired, and apartments thud up, for the re- •
eeption and conveyance of the Earl of Chatham and suite to
Gibraltar—thp latter to be paid off; and re-commissioned for 1.
the broad pendant of Commodore Charles Grant,. C.B. who
has been appointed to succeed lica-Admiral Sir Henry Black-
wood, K.C.B. in the Ea:;t India command.—Tire lice, Capt.
Stewart Blacker, will proceed to Cork, as soon as the wind is
fair, to bring the Spencer, 74, guard-ship, to Plymouth.
The Iphigenia frigate, Commodore Sir Robert Mends, ar-
rived on Saturday morning at Portsmouth from Plymouth, pre-
paratory to taking her departure for the suppression of the slave
trade on the coast of Africa.

On Tuesday the-Argus, 18, Capt. Arabin, sailed from St.
Helen's for North America.
The Rosario, Capt. Maryatt, sailed on Friday from Ports-
mouth to cruize off Weymouth, for the suppression of smug-
gling. • Last we.::k Lieutenant White, of the .oreventive service
there, made another seizure of 82 casks of spirits and one cask
of tea, and Licit. Sparks creeped up 43 tubs off Portland.
Ships in Ports mouth Harbour—Qtteen-Charlotte,
41hion (guard-ship), Salisbury, LiOev, Active, Euryalus, Se-
miramis, Tees, Icarus, Grecian, and the Royal George yacht.
At Spithead—lphigenia, Phwton, Alli;.;ator, Hind, Lie, and
Ca meleon.

Sir Thomas Livingstone, Bart: is appointed to the Genoa,
74, guard-ship at Sheerness.
On Friday the Alligator, of 28 guns, which was lately bu:lt
at Cochin China, of teak wood, Capt. Wilkie, arrived ava orts-
moUth from Madras, manned with invalids from the squadron
'under Sir Henry Blackwood, with a party of the 73d regiment
doing duty as marines. His Excellency Lieut.-General Sir
Thomas Hislop, G. C. B. Governor of Madras, with Captain
Wood, and Lieut. Van Buerb, came nasaengers. She left Ma_
.. dias on the 2d June, in company with the Leander, 58,-It ear_
• Admiral Sir 11. Blackwood, Capt. C. Richardson, C. B. which
ship parted company • for Penang. The Indian peninsula was
free from internal commotion, and tolerably healthy. No
• political news whatever. The Topaze frigate, Captain Lum-
ley, and Carlew sloop of war, Captain Price •Blackwood,
were in the China seas. The Liverpool frigate, Captain P.A.
Collier, C. 8., had gone •to BoMbay to repair, and to' lit out
the Ganges, a new ship, of 84 guns, lately launched there,
which the crew of the Liverpool will bring to Ensgland. The
Dauntless sloop of war, Captain G. C.' Gambier, had been sent
Eli Lima, for silver for the Chinc.se. market. The Samaran.„7 a
new sloop of war, would be ready to launch at Cochin, in De-
camber. The Alligator- touched at the Mauritius, and left that
island all well. Tne Menai, 24, Capt. F. Moresby, C. 8., was
cruising off; she had lately captured a large brig, with slaves,
from • Madagascar. The Vigo (Rear.. Admiral Lambert),
Brazen, Blossom, Beaver, and Hardy schooner, were lying at
St. Helena, waiting the return of, the 'Heron sloop of war, with
orders from England. The Cygnet was at the Cape of Good
Hope.