The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-10 00:00:00

were wounded. Another was in a dreadful state, and is
not expected to recover, both sides of his face and one of
his eyes being carried away. There were a great number
of passengers, principally to Edinburgh, and most of those
on the United .Kingdom had boarded the Graham when
the accident happened, which was about nine o'clock in
the morning; amongst them were many ladies, all of whom,
however, escaped any serious injury. The poor man who,
was killed has left a wife and six or seven children. His
wife was on the packet, and a subscription was entered
into for her amongst the 'passengers, which athOunted .to
upwards of 10/. The whole of the . passengers were
put on board the United Kingdom, and landed at Hull,
where every attention was paid them. From the confu-
Sion that prevailed a variety of reports were circulated, but
we believe the above account will be found pretty correct,
having been favoured with the particulars by a gentleman
present.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Plymouth Journal.)
A letter has been received here from au officer of his Majesty's
ship Aurora, Captain Austen, on the West India station, giving
an account of the capture of a Spanish slave schooner under
Dutch colours, attended with most horrible circumstances. It
appears that two officers, with a boat's crew, were sent on board
the vessel to examine her papers. The Captain represented her
as at Dutch achooner; laden with sugar, and, after searching a
considerable time, nothing to the contrary was. discovered. Some-
thing, however, having occurred to raise their suspicion, one of
the officers descended into the hold, and, after some search, acci-
dentally perceived the leg of a black man under a curtain, and, on
pulling the curtain aside, more than 24() slaves were found in a
state of dreadful disease and starvation ! They had been at sea,
from the coast of Guinea, 47 days; and sixty, of three hundred
and odd, had died on the passage, together with three others, the
day after the capture. Only one day's provision was left in the
ship ; and on throwing a yam (a vegetable) amongst them, they
fought for it like hungry dogs, and one of them bit another by
the shoulder in a dreadful manner.
The Vigilant ketch arrived -on Sunday, after a abort trial
cruise with the Reynard tender, Lieut. Werth, the Nightingale
cutter (which sailed on Friday) not having joined. The result
is reported to have been in favour of the Vigilant, and alteration
in the rig of that vessel is now considered as a decided
improvement. •
The Vigilant ketch and Nightingale cutter sailed on Monday on
a cruise.
The Reynard tender sailed on Friday with dispatches for Lisbon.
The Cadmus, 10, Captain Hallowell, arrived on Sunday froM
Liverpool, with volunteers. Off Baudsey Island, on the 3d inst.,
she fell in with the Maid of the Mill, a merchant sloop belonging
to Belfast, dismasted, deserted, and with the appearance of having
been plundered.—The Cadmus sailed for Portsmouth on Monday.
The Bramble cutter, sailed on Monday for Falmouth.
The Zephyr transport, Lieut. Williams, Agent, arrived on
T uesday, with troops from Cork, sailed again to the eastward.
The Antelope tender arrived yesterday from the Downs.
The Amelia, Bennett, of and from this port, for Exeter, with
oats and beaus, was run foul of, on Friday, near Salcombe, by the
Minerva, of and from Sunderland, and sunk—crew saved.
In Ilamoase—Britannia, Windsor Castle, and Thetis, and An-
telope tender.
At the IsLnd—Leveret.
Mr. Hately, late Surgeon of the Briton, is appointed to the
Thetis.
Mr. Robert Sholl, of the Adventure (for his intrepid conduct
in giving relief to a Portuguese vessel at St. Jago, and saving most
of the lives of the crew), is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant,
and appointed to the Beagle.
Lieut. William Lugg ie appointed to command the Lady Wel-
lington packet, on the Falmouth station, vice Turner, deceased;
Mr. Peter Duthy, Acting Lieutenaut, to the Dartmouth, vice
.Breedon, Invalided; Mr. Thomas Donald, Assistant-Surgeon of
the Asia, to be Hospital Mate at Malta Bespital ; Mr. A. Neale to
be Surgeon of the Diamond ; Dr. Macintyre is appointed Assist-
ant-Lecturer to the Museum at Hasler Hospital; Rev. James
Maguere, to be Chaplain of the Blonde.
The connoisseurs in naval architecture in this neighbourhood,
are all deeply distressed to learn that the Caledonia, a first-rate '
in ordinary at this port, is to be fitted with a round stern ; for it
is affirmed that she is decidedly the fittest vessel of her clam in the
Britivolt navy, end, in feet, the ne pins ultra of a man-of-war.
launched at ir.riiiiirtotiar :;;;;Itor aifitat.y"treVVolf; 18, aim,
building by Capt. Hayes, and the Columbine, 18, on the plan of
Capt. Symonds, will be launched on the let of December. The
'Sapphire, 28, (of the same tonnage as the Challenger) building
by Professor Inman, is ordered to be completed forthwith for
launching.
Considerable doubt has fieen thrown on the truth of the para-
graph which appeared in oni,lait week's paper, respecting the loss
of his Majesty's ship Mat tin, on her voyage from the Cape of
Good Hope to the East Indies.—lt is said that the Martin fell in
with.the Rainbow at sea, and took her dispatches direct to
Rangoon, in expectation of finding the Commodore thew. The
statement that the Rainbow had arrived at the latter port without
having heard of the Martin since she left that vessel at the Cape,
is therefore unquestionably erroneous; and though there is no in-
telligence from the Martin since she met •the Rainbow at sea,
either the Rainbow had not arrived at Rangoon, or the published
reports from that vessel are not to be depended on.