The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-09 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 7.—The squadron of Capt.
W. Walpole, consisting of the Ranger, 28; Pallas,
42; and Nimrod, 18, are cruising off Terceira, for
the purpose, it appears, of obstructing the landing
on that island, either of the Constitutional troops
which have sailed from Plymouth, or of any armed
force in the interest of Don Miguel, Government
considering, that granting permission for so large a
body of men as composed the former, though un-
armed, to proceed direct from this country, to that
quarter might be construed into an interference on
the part of Great Britain in the question between
the Emperor Pedro and the Usurper. On the 20th
Ult. a small Portuguese squadron from the Tagus,
were warned off, and told they could not be per-
mitted to land the troops they had o}l board; not-
withstanding which, a frigate on the following day
attempted to open a communication with the island,
when the Pallas proceeded in chase of her, but
although she pursued her for 12 hours, 'she could
riot come up with her.
Extract of a letter from Malta, dated Jan. 7:—
On the 28th idr. arrived his Majesty's ship Dryad,
from Pores, with Mr. Canning and suite, French
ship of the line • Breslau, with Count Guilleminot ;
and the Russian frigate Constantine, with M. de
Ribeaupierre; all now performing warar;;;fe; 'they
get pratique on the
s;Titlp.roceed to Naples
a few
,thjit-
t The Tyriaa arrived from Corfu
on the 30th alt, and sailed again for Gibraltar and
England on the 2d inst. On the 31st ult. the Mastiff,
from Hydra and Poros, and this morning the Mos-
quito, from Poros and Corfu.
The Doris, Captain Sir John G. Sinclair, Bait
being condemned is to be broken up at Valparaiso,
she having been surveyed, and found unfit for repair.
From the circumstance of the freight with which
she was charged for England being necessarily trans-
ferred to other ships, a considerable pecuniary loss
will accrue to Sir Jelin.
His Majesty's ships Maidstone, Sparrowhawk, and
Helicon, were at the Mauritius Dec. 1. The Ri-
naldo arrived at Jamaica from Falmouth, on the
25th November, and sailed on the 28th for Vera
Cruz. The Victor arrived at Jamaica from Grand
Catnagres, on the sth December, and sailed from
Chagrea on the 7th. The Espcigle arrived from
Chagres on the 4th December, and sailed for Ha-
vannah on the llth. Harpy arrived at Jamaica from
St. Jago de Cuba on the 13th December, The
Sphynx, from Falmouth, arrived at St. Vincent on

the 91 h December, and Jamaica on the 15th.

The

Harlequin sailed from Jamaica for St. Jago de Cuba
on the 13th Deceniher. The Sapphire arrived at
Rio de Janeiro from Monte Video, on the 27th of
December. The Cadmus sailed from Rio de Ja-
neiro for Monte Video on the 30th November, and
the Heron for Valparaiso, on the lit December.
The Alert arrived at Valparaiso, from Coquimbo,
on the Bth October, and sailed on the 21st for Arica.

The Grasshopper arrived at Ha vannah, from a
cruise, on the 7th December. The Barham, from
Bermuda, and Mersey, from Jamaica, arrived at
Nassau on the 6th December. The Jaseur, bound
to the Cape of Good Hope, was spoken on the sth
December, in lat. 4. 10. N. long. 23. 12. W. The
Britomart, on the Portugal station, was spoken on
the 21st January, all well, six weeks from Gibraltar.
Mr. Thomas Giles is appointed purser of his Ma-
jesty's sloop Cordelia.
It will be in the recollection of our readers that, a
short time since, we stated that R. Blake, Esq. of this
Dock-yard, had projected a how for ships of war,
which, combining great superiority in other points
over that hitherto constructed, t•ould give an ex-
traordinary advantage to vessels in chase. It was
then remarked, that all Naval Officers, of experience
as well scientific individuals, to whom the model

had been submitted, were so sati,fied of its being
an essential improvement in naval architecture, as
to express a conviction that it must be adopted.
The judgment of the Board, we are happy to ob-
serve, accords with the opinion of the profession, an
order having been this week received to fit the Vin-
dictive, 74, now in dock,' with a bow formed from
Mr. Blake's model. By this plan a great deaidera•
turn is obtained—that of enabling vessels of every
class to fire a head on a line with the keel.

The Brig Marthull, John White, Master, arrived
here on Thursday, from Leghorn, laden with grain,
for Southampton : she touched at Gibraltar on the
16th, and obtained a clean hill of health on the 17th
January, but is under quarantine.
The Swedish brig Estatnening, Andreas Woberg,
Master, from Genoa, bound to Amsterdam, has put
in here, received Fatigue, and gone to Cowes, to
remain until the ice is broken up.
The Melville, 74, Capt. Henry Hill, arrived on
Wednesday from Gibraltar, having :ailed thence on
the 19th ult., at which period we have the gratifica-
tion to state perfect health prevailed in the garrison.
The troops had all removed into their barrielts on

le 9th and 12th, from, the camps at Europa and the
neutral ground, and the inhabitants had returned to
their houses and stores. The 16th instant was set
aprt as one of solemn thanksgiving to the Almighty,
for his beneficent interposition in delivering the gar-
rison from the epidemic fever, and to propitiate a
continuance of the divine favour, for which purpose
all places of public worship were opened. The Mel-
ville reached Gibraltar Bay on the 7th ultimo
(in six days' passage), from Plymouth, with detach-
ments of the 23d, 42d, 43d, and 94th regiments,
(four hundred men), mot there remained until her
departure, without any other communication with
the shore than by letter with the Lieutenant-Go-
vernor, excepting in the case of the Chaplain, who,
at his Excellency's request, landed to perform divine
service on the day of thanksgiving. On the 19th,
the detachments were disembarked froth the Mel-
ville and the transports in the Bay, and on that
evening the former quitted for England. As she
passed Tangiers ou the following morning, a com-
munication by signal was made to the Melville
from the Meteor (lying in the bay with the Ores-
tes), that the blockade was taken off. The Dart-
mouth, 42, Captain Sir Thomas Fellowes, C. 8.,
anchored hi Gibraltar Bay, after a passage of thirty
days from Malta, on the 9th ult. under orders from
Sir Pulteney Malcolm, to remain there for a time.
The John Bushman transport, on her way to Eng-
land with invalids from Cork (last from Malta in
26 days), anchored in the Bay on the day the Mel-
ville sailed, owing to contrary winds. She may be
looked for daily. The Amity transport, with detach-
ments of the 12th and 73d (180 men), readied Gib-
raltar from Cork on the 9th tilt., and were landed
with the other troops on the 19th. The Amity was
to be fitted 11K,the conveyance to England of con-
valescents and-Ahe widows of deceased soldiers from
the garrison. The Duke of York packet arrived
from Falmouth on the 17th, and sailed for Malta on
the 19th ult. The homeward packet from the latter
island was hourly expected. The Russian line of
battle ship passed Gibraltar to the Eastward on the
6th ult., and the Russian frigate and two brigs on
the 151 h. The Melville is the .first ship that has
brought a clean bill of health from Gibraltar since the
fever ; this, however, not exempting her from the
performance of quarantine, she was put under that
restraint on her arrival. She received pratique
yesterday, and this morning came into harbour, and
again took up her moorings as a guard-ship at this •
port.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BO W-STR EET.

On Saturday Peter Paul, a native of Zurich, was
brought in custody from St. Martin's watch-house, and
charged before Mr. HALLS, by a Mrs. Rosser, of No. 17,
S.lisbury-stree, Strand, with having defrauded her of 201.
under these circumstances :
Mrs. Rosser stated, that the prisoner called at her house
in the latter end of last December, and hired her first floor,
for which he agreed to pay one guinea and a half a week.
He represented himself as a wine-merchant in extensive
business, and said he was in hourly expectation of receiv-
ing a cargo of wine and other articles of foreign merchan-
dise, which he intended to dispose of in this country. Wit-
n'ss felt quite satisfied, from these representations and the
appearance of the prisoner, that he spoke the truth, and
she accordingly not only let him her first floor, but pro-
vided him from day to day with whatever he wanted. The
prisoner lived so well and saw so many friends, that
at the end of the week his bill amounted to 201. and up-
wards. Being pressed for money to pay her taxes, wit-
ness applied to the prisoner for some money ; but he put
her off for a few days, telling her that his vessel had arrived,
and was about to discharge her cargo in St.: Katherine's
Dock ; but as his agent was unfortunately out of town, he
had no money to pay the necessary fees at the Custom-
house. The prisoner then took from his pocket a bill for
100/., which he said, had but a few days to run, and the
acceptance being that of a man of very great opulence in
the City, the bill was as good as a bank-note. He then
asked her if she could advance him the sum which he re-
quired to enter his goods at the Custom-house, telling her
that he would leave the bill in her hands as security. Wit-
ness declined this offer, saying that she had no money to
lend, and requesting the prisoner to go amongst his city
friends and obtain her the 20/., of which she stood in great
need. The prisoner promised he would do so, and, putting
on Lis hat, the only article in the shape of luggage with
which he was provided, he walked away, and she neither
saw him nor heard of him after until last Friday evening,
when she ascertained that a person answering his descrip-
tion
had been to another lodging house, kept by a widow
lady, in Northumberland-street, from whom he had en-
gaged two parlours at two guineas a week, regretting at
the same time, that the first floor, at four guineas a week,
was not unoccupied. Upon this information witness went
to Northumberland-street, where she saw the prisoner, and
upbraided him with his ungentlemanly conduct in leaving
I.ltki'Z'Writout seithiig his bill. The prisoner replied,
that he had commissioned a friend to settle the matter with
her, but he supposed it had escaped his memory. Wit-
ness then gave the prisoner into custody.
Cuss, a constable, stated, that he searched the prisoner,
and found upon his pernon a memorandum, containing a
list of the several lodging-houses where he had lived for a
short period, and the. various sums of which be had de-
frauded the proprietors. -The list also contained

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uames of other parties whom the prisoner had evidently in-
tended to gull in a similar manner. The constable 'also
found upon the prisoner an agreement between Peter Patti,
Esq., of Zurich, on the .one hand, and a widow lady,
named Millar, on the other, whereby the latter consented
to let her house furnished, situate at No. I, Seymour-street,
Portman-square, to the said Peter Paul, Esq., (the pri-
soner) at the yearly rent of 5001.
Mr. HALLS observed, that the prisoner appeared to have
a penchant fot• widOws.

Mrs. Rosser obsei wed, that such, indeed, appeare 1 to be
the fact, as she herself happened to be a widow also.
ME. HALLS said, that the prisoner was evidently one of
those persons who go about town and live by swindling.—
It was a pity that there was no law to reach this species of
offence; but, unfortunately, the prisoner had obtained cre-
dit; and the amount of the fraud became merely a simple
contract debt. Persons in the situation of Mrs. Rosser
ought to be careful to ascertain the character of those whom
they take. into their houses.

s. Rosser admitted that she had not been sufficiently
c:intions, lint hoped that the case would be publicly noticed
in order that other persons in her situation would be put
upon their guard not to trust the prisoner.
The prisoner, a tall, lusty, fair complexioned man, was
then discharged.