The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-23 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 20.—His Majesty's ship Nim-
ble arrived at Honduras from Nassau, 2d January.
The following-Midshipmen passed for Lieutenants,
at the Royal Naval 'College, on Tuesday last :
Henry Grainger Backhouse, John Fitzgerald Car-
roll, J. W. Dowers, Henry Newcombe Lawrence,
Fred. Montresor, William Maclean, Augustus C.
May, William Henry Anderson Morshead, Andrew
William Roche.

Commander George Haye, of his Majesty's ship
Raleigh, is promoted to the rank of Captain; and
his First Lieutenant Sir William Dickson, Birt, is
promoted to the rank of Commander, and appointed
to the Raleigh on the Mediterranean station.
The American brig Laura, which put into this
port in distress, in January last, on her voyage from
Copenhagen, having completed her repairs, sailed on
Sunday for Boston.
A tine barque called the Julius Cesar, purchased
by Mr. Pope, shipbuilder, of this port, and intended
for the timber trade, arrived here on Monday from
London.

The cutter Countess of Liverpool, sailed on Fri-
day for Terceira, and the Danish ship Cecrops, on
Sunday for Rio de Janeiro with about 200 of the
Portuguese Refugees ; the Portuguese brigs Indus-
triozo and Felicitie Elysia, are also expected to leave
this port with about 200 more on Friday or Satur-
day; after which there will not be above 400 of
these unfortunates remaining here.
The Rose, sloop of war, Commander Travers,
was to leave Rio de Janiero on the the 20th Dee.
for the Cape of Good Hope, with Commodore C.
M. Schoenberg on board.
The William and Mary, Mills, of this port, ar-
rived at Liverpool from St. Michaels, Bth March.
The Helena, Celo, arrived at Bordeaux from this
port, 27th Feb. The Swallow, Carder, of this port,
arrived at Messina from Leghorn, 10th Feb. The
Bicton, Townsend, arrivel at Palermo from this
port, 31st Jan. -The Jessie, Todd, arrived at Lis-
bon from this port, 18th Feb. The Eliza, Babb,
of this port, arrived at Lisbon from Fayal, 23d
Feb. The Earl Moira Packet, Perrian, of this
port, sailed from the Cove of Cork, for Lisbon,
Bth inst. The Relief, Faulkner, of and from this
port, arrived at Alexandria, Egypt, Jan 27. The
Allies, Hill, arrived at Cadiz, from this port, Feb. 21.
DEVONPORT, MARCH 21.—The Princess Eliza-
beth, hired packet, Lieut. E. Scott, from the Lee-
ward Islands, and the Spey, from Jamaica and Car-
thagena, arrived on Thursday, at Falmouth, where
it is said the Duke of York, another packet from the
Mediterranaan, is a little way to the westward of
that port.
An effort was made on Saturday to raise the
Nightingale schooner, which lately sunk at the en-
trance of the Needle. The Lightning steamer,
which had proceeded to the spot with two sloops
of war, prepared for that purpose, having failed in
the attempt, returned to Portsmouth on Monday.
His Majesty's sloop Nimrod, 20, Commander Rad-
ford, sailed on Monday for the Cove of Cork, being
attached to the Irish station.

The Liverpool and Jamaica, fourth-rate frigates,
which were ordered to be built at this port, are not
to be proceeded with.
A letter has been received in this town, stating
that the Dryad, 42, with Commissioner Ross on
board, sailed from Malta, for England, on the 19th
February.
Twenty-five tubs of spirits were picked up off the
Batten, yesterday, by the Busy cutter, and lodged
in the Custom-house at Plymouth.
The Onyx brig, Lieut. Boteler, attached as a
tender to the Royal George yacht, arrived on
Thursday frotn Portsmouth, with seamen for the
Warspite, and Royal marines for head-quarters.
The Goldfinch packet-brig arrived at Falmouth,
from Buenos Ayres, on Wednesday.
The Royalist, Lieut. Nash, tender to the Bri-
tannia, was towed out of llamoaze into the Sound
by the Meteor steamer, on Thursday.
Lieut. Charles J. Succombe, (1825) of Plymouth,
is appointed to the Britannia, vice Ball, superseded
at his own request.
John Niell, Esq. Surgeon of his Majesty's ship
Victory, has been placed on the retired list of Sur-
geons of the navy, after a period of 30 years' ser-
vice. Mr. Forbes M'Bean Chevers ,is appointed
Surgeon of the Victory, in the room of Mr. Niell.

Died, on the 17thinst., the Right Honour-
able the Earl of CARISAMOTON, aged S 9. His Lordship
was 67 years a Captain in the Navy, having received his
Post rank at the siege of Havannah in 1762. His Lord.
ship's name in 1793 disappeared from the Navy List, on
being appointed a Commissioner of Excise; but within
the last five years had been replaced among the Retired
Captains. His Lordship, when in command of the Charon
of 44 guns, in 1779, with a small force, suddenly attacked
and carried the strong Spanish fortress of St. Fernando
de Omos, in which were found 250 quintals of quicksilver
and three millions of dollars. It was on this occasion that
the following circumstance occurred of a sailer, who singly
scramb'ed over the wall of the foi t, with a cutlass in
each hand. Thus equipped he fell in with a Spanish
officer just rowed from sleep, and who, in the hurry and
confusion, had forgotten his sword. The tar, disdaining to
take advantage of an unarmed foe, and willing to
display his courage in sinLle combat, presented the
officer with one of the cutlasses, telling him " he
scorned any advantage ; you arc now on a footing
with me." The astonishment of the officer, at such an
act of generosity, and the facility with which a friendly
parley took place, when he expected nothing else but (from
the hostile appearance of the foe) to be cut to pieces, could
only be rivalled by the admiration which his relating the
story excited in his countrymen. Upon this circumstance
being mentioned to Sir PETER PARKER, at the return of
the squadron, he appointed the intrepid fellow to be boat-
swain of a sloop-of-war. A few years after, either in a
fit of madness or intoxication, he forgot his situation, and
struck the Lieutenant of the Ferret sloop-of-war, for
which he was tried by a court-martial, condemned to suffer
death, and executed... Hampshire Telegraph,

THE CRIMINAO ORDERED FOR
EXECUTION.
Charles Goodlad, who 422 years of age, was tried for
robbing his master, Mr. Arthur Geddes, a merchant, of
No. 6, Staff rd-row, Buckingham-gate, of different articles
of plate. The prisoner was in Mr. Geddei's service as
footman, where he was engaged on the 19th of Novem-
ber. On the 22d of December Mr. Geddes I•ad a party
to dinner at two o'clock, and the prisoner had received
directions to have the table laid by that hour. At half-
past owe he went into the kitchen, took some lunch, and
then, taking up a pitcher, said he wanted to go and obtain
some water for the cook. Shortly after he left the house,
lie put the pitcher dower at Buckingham-gate, and made
all the haste he could into the park, going in the direction
from Stafford-row. Immediately after, the plate above-
mentioned, which cost Mr. Geddes 1701., was missed.
The prisoner was apprehended by Taunton, the Bow-
street officer, on the 2d of February, at Southwell, in
Nottinghamshire. Taunton asked him what made him leave
Mr. Geddes's situation, but he made no reply. He was
then asked who gave him a character to get Mr. Geddes's
situation ? He replied, that lie got acquainted with some
person in London, who persuaded him to get a written
character, which he sent to his mother at Haverill, near
Chesterfield, and his mother sent it to Mr. Geddes. He
said, that he had sold the clothes which he took away from
Mr. Geddes's house. He then alluded to a charge of
horse-stealing which had been preferred against him, and
said he thought he should he hanged if he were taken up
fer Mr. Geddes's robbery. After the Jury had pro-
nounced the verdict of guilty, the prisoner was recom-
mended to mercy by the prosecutor, on account of the
aversion he bad to take away human life, except for mur-
der and treason, and believing, from inquiries lie had
made, that the prisoner had very bad parents.
Thomas Birmingham, aged 21, Joseph Redgard, aged'
23, and William Kelly, aged 21, were indicted, with
Thomas Langham, for robbing George Monro, on the
King's highway, of a watch, chain, seals, and key, value
50/. The prosecutor, Mr. George Monro, who is a gen-
tleman, and had been in the army, resides at Kirby-street,
Hatton-garden. On the night of the 18th of January,
about half-past twelve or one o'clock, he was coming
home from the King's Arms public-house, Leadenhall-
street, where he had been dining and spending the even-
ing with some friends, and although, he said, he had
taken a few tumblers of punch, he was perfectly
capable of taking care of himself. When lie got
nearly opposite Fleet-market, the prisoner and another
man followed him. They affected to be in liquor, and
took bold of the prosecutor's arm. They followed him
from Fleet-market into Kirby-street, where they surrounded
him, and one of them knocked him down by a blow on
the chest. Some of the gang then held him down while
the others robbed him of his watch, Ecc., and they all, ex-
cept Langham, ran away. Although the prosecutor and
the other witnesses swore to Langham being one of the
party who committed the robbery, the Jury considered
that his not running away was strong evidence of his in-
nocence, and he was acquitted.
On Wednesday night, when the report arrived at New..
gate, the dreadful intelligence was immediately commu-
nicated to the wretched men. Goodlad did not express the
least surprise, and said it was what he expected ; since that
time, however, he has been afflicted with fits, and has been
bled several times.

Birmingham, when informed of his fate, said that his
life had been sworn away, and call, d out to his com-
panions, " What's the use of fretting ? If we are to be
hanged, why we can only die once." lie has, however,
become greatly altered since that time; has confessed
having been concerned in several other robberies, and ex-
pressed his surprise that he has so long escaped punish-
merit. Lie was on Saturday visited by his father : the
poor old man bitterly lamented the sad end of his son, and
said, " Now, I have nothing to do but to chuck myself
into the grave !" Birmingham and his two companions
have, for a long time, formed part of what was called the
" Field-lane gang ;" and, according to Birmingham's con-
fession, they have been engaged in several daring robberies.