The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-12 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 10.—Letters from Vera Cruz, dated
Jan. 15, states that the Tweed, £B, Captain Fred. Hunn, was
detained there at the request of the merchants, and had no expec •
tation of reaching England befi►re the last we‘dc in March or the
first in April. The amount of specie and cochineal she will bring
is uncertain.

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The Aurora frigate, Captain C. J. Austen, arrived at Barba-
does, on January 31, in 21 days from Jamaica, to relieve the
Druid, which ship sailed for Jamaica. The Leeward Islands
were all healthy.
On Wednesday the Kains transport, Lieutenant Rurdwood,
arrived from Jamaica, in L 2 days, with Lieut.-Colonel Castance,
and the head-quarters of the 50th regiment on board. The troops
landed yesterday at Gosport, in perfect order.
An order was received this morning to discharge from his
Majesty's Transport Service all the ships which were hired in
December last, for three months, as transports, to take troops
to Portugal, and which returned to this port, from the Tagus,
last week. _ _ _

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The Romney, 50, Captain N. Lockyer, C.B. will sail in a
few days, for Lisbon, with 150 recruits, to join our army in
Portugal.
Nine men and thirty horses, for the 12th Lancers, will em-
bark next week, in the Edward, Lieut. Hopkins, for Portugal.
Yesterday the experimental ships Challenger, 29, Captain J.
Hayes, C. 8., and Columbine, 18, Captain W. Symonds, went
out of the harbour, and remain at Spithead with the Romney,
Pyramus, and Satellite. In the Harbour—Victory, Melville,
Wellesley, Sybille, Sapphire, Wolf, Redwing, Wear.le, Manly, and
Cracker.
One of the students of Naval Architecture, (Mr. Chatfield), ap-
pointed to accompany the Experimental Squadron on a cruise of
observation, has invented a ” Nauropometer"—an instrument to
measure a ship's inclination, which exhibits the angles of pitching
and rolling, at one view. It consists of two semicircles, placed at
right angles to each other ; the upper edge of one, when a ship
has rotatory motion, constantly works against the lower edge of
the other, and both arcs are graduated sufficiently to meet the most
extreme cases of a ship's oscillation. The smaller semicircle is de-
licately suspended on gunbles, similarly to the mariner's compass,
so that the plane of this semicircle will always hang in a vertical
position. The larger semicircle forms part of the frame of the
instrument, and, being fixed in some convenient part of the ship,
partakes of the ship's movement ; consequently, when a vessel
rolls, the outer semicirele traverses over the balanced one, which,
as it is graduated, slims the degrees of rolling. Should the ves-
sel have-a pitching motion, the larger semicircle will move over
the smaller in a fore-and-aft direction, and the degrees marked on
its lower edge will indicate the angle of pitching.
Captain the Hon, William Gordon is appointed to the Briton
frigate, at Chatham, for foreign service; Lieut. Henry Jenkins,
(late of the Liffey) is appointed first Lieutenant of the Dartmouth,
fitting for the Mediterranean station. Mr. Samuel Irvine, to be
Surgeon ; Lieut. T. Scott and Lieut. C. Scott, R.M. are also
appointed to her. Dr. E. Scott, to be Surgeon of the Briton.
Lients. G. A. St. hill and R. L. Connor, to the Wellesley.
Lieut. T. Edmonds is appointed to the Portsdown telegraph
signal station ; Lieut. John Murray, to the Compton station ;
Lieut. John Wildey, to Haste Hill station, Haslemere.
Colonel Noel Harris (late of this garrison), is appointed brigade
Major to the Inspecting-General of Cavalry, vice Radclyffe,
deceased.
Lieut. W. Davis (1), is appointed Adjutant of this Division of
Royal Marines.—Hampshire Telegraph.

We are sorry to announce the death of two Flag Officers of his
Majesty's fleet, namely, John Mikes, Esq., Admiral of the Blue,
who died at Exeter on the instant, at the age of 83 ; and
Robert Williams, Rear-Admiral of the Blue, who died at Bath a
few days ago, in the 62d year of his age. Neither of these
Officers had ever hoisted his flag.
The Ocean has been paid off at Plymouth, and is to be re-com-
missioned by Captain

His Majesty's ship Asia, 84, arrived at Gibraltar on the Bth
ult. having left Portsmouth on the Ist, performing the run in the
amazing short space of eight days, including the two days which
she remained at anchor in the Tagus. The Lady of Admiral Sir
Edward. Codrington, and family, had landed, and gone to the
house of His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, the wind blow-
"ing a gale, which prevented the Asia from proceeding on her
voyage to Malta. All was well in that ship, and the Dryad
frigate, on the ISth,..—The latter ship remains in Gibraltar Bay,
in attendance on the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of that
Garrison.
The Cadmus, 10, Capt. Charles Hallowell, arrived-on Thurs-
day from the coast of Africa, having landed Colonel Denham
(who went on a mission to the Settlements) at Sierra Leone. ,
The Cadmus left the latter place on the 22d ofJannerY, when the
colony was tolerably healthy. She touched at St. Jago (Cape de
Verd Island), on the Sd Feb., where she found Commodore Bul-
len, in the Maidstone, all well. The Cadmus came into harbour
esterd ay.
In Hamoaze—Britannia, Windsor Castle, Ocean, Alligator,
Harrier, Rifleman, Cadmus, Leveret, Frolic, ingfisher.
At the Island—Bittern, Royalist.
Lieut. C. M. Acherley is appointed to the Ocean, 80, on her
being re-commissioned.
Captain Boxer is appointed to the Husc-ar ; Captain J. B.
Dundas to the Weazle ; Lieut. G. Kennedy, G. A. Elliott, and
S. Hill to the Wellesley ; T. N. Langford, Badger ; Wm. Se-
cole, to the Water Guard at Hayling Island ; Mr. W. H. Bre-
ton, Admiralty Mate of his Majesty's ship Maidstone, to be
Lieutenant of that ship, vice Bedford, invalided ; Mr. T. Dobbin,
Clerk to Commodore Bullets, to be Acting Purser, vice Davis, in-
valided ; Mr. Bensley, to be Master of the Wellealey.—Plymouth
Journal.

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DIRGE SUNG BY THE MOHICAN INDIANS,
OVER THE BODY OF THEIR CHIEF, UNCAS, SLAIN IN AN
EN COUNTER WITH THE H URONS.*

Sti'3 shall set and moons shall rise,
Amber twilight paint the skies,
Rock and glen and mountain ring
With the first sweet voice of spring,
Torrent rage, and whirlwind roar,
He shall hear it never mote.
He, the unforgotten dead,
Ne'er shall see the Sun to bed,
liar the rising moon, on high,
Light her watch-tow'r in the sky,
Nor the cool Savanr.ah glide
Like a snake in stealthy pride,
Nor the deep woods echo shrill
To the hunter on the hill—
He is gone, the young, the gay,
Thus the mighty pass away!
He was true of heart and limb,
Grace and manhood met in him ;
Mild in peace, but fiercer far,
Than the spotted Lynx, in war ;
When the din of arms was loud,
Crash on crash like thunder-cloud,
When the bullets, fierce and fast,
Spoke of murder as they past,
He was there amid the strife,
Scourge of many a Huron wife ;
Awful as a God he stood,
Ruthless as a mountain flood ;
Death, with voice of giant roar,
Moved beside him, veil'd in gore;
Destiny, with lightening glance,
Lit his radiant countenance—
But 'tis done, his hour is past,
And his pride is bowed at last ;
Fast beside his home he lies,
Mute his voice, and closed his eyes;
Shall he burst his slumbers? Never!
Hie, the sleep that lasts for ever.
Hark, the thunder ! 'tis his call,
From his father's airy hall;
Loud the whirlwind roars on high,
'Tis his spirit passing by=
Tremble now, ye Hurons, sorrow
Waits your war-tribes on the morrow ;
the murdered, lie, the brave,
Rising i?loody from his grave,
Claims revenge, his bier to grace,
On your doomed and recreant race—
py your falling streams and floods,
By your 4m-dyed waving woods,
By your rocks, which dark and rude,
Frown in spectral solitude ;
Know, a spirit has gone forth,
Like a whirlwind from the North,
Never—never to repose,
'Till it's destined Huron toes t
Warrior brave, and prophet lone,
Child and parent—all are gone.
A SMALL POET.
4 Vide Cooper's Tale of " The Last of the Mohicans.".
t The Seer who dwells apart from his tribe in hollow ro:le Qr
wands,--Hunter's Captivity.