The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-07 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTIT, APRIL 4.—His Majesty's yacht Herald,
Captain E. W. C. Astley, arrived yesterday in thirty-two
days from Jamaica, bringing a mei! up to the let ult.,
and despatches for the Colonial Department, from his
Excellency the EMI of Relmore, Governor of that island,
who, with the Countess &Imre, his Lordship's family
end suite, were landed on the 20th February. The He-
rald left England on the sth of January last, and arrived
at Madeira on the 13th ; sailed on the 20th following for
Barbadoee, and anchored in Carlisle Bay on the 6th
February, where she landed his Excellency Lieutenant-
General Sir James Lyon, K.G.B. &c , the Governor of
that island, and suite; from thence she proceeded to Port
Royal harbour, and arrived on the 19th, making sixty-
four days at sea and twenty-four in harbour; and after
lauding his Excellency the Earl of Belmore, his Lordship's
family, and suite, left that anchorage for England on the
Ist ult., in which time she traversed 9,439 miles. Her
run from the Caycas passage to soundings was only nine-
teen days. When the Herald left Port Royal the island
Ives quite healthy, and the troops in the highest condition,
under the judicious and very able management of Major-
General Sir John Keane. Some few cases of fever had
proved fatal in the Magnificent and Harlequin, in the har-
bour, but otherwise the squadron were doing well. The
crops had been scanty only at Barbadoes and Antigua, at
which islands aidearth of rain had been experienced. The
Barham, bearin the flag of the Hon. Vice-Admiral Fleem-
jag, arrived at Barbadoes on the 12th of February, after
the Herald had quitted that anchorage for Jamaica. It
was the Admiral's intention to visit all the islands within
hie command previous to his return to Jamaica. The
Magnificent, Capt. Dean (acting), the Harlequin, Harpy,
and Espiegle were at Port Royal ; the Harlequin having
just returned from the main land, but without any intelli-
gence of interest. The Espiegle was on the point of pro.
ceeding to the same quarter. The Druid was collecting
specie at Vera Cruz and Tampico, and was to proceed to
the Havannah, and then to England. The Slaney was at
Trinidad : this ship had encountered so severe a gale of
wind on her passaee from Bermuda as to render it neces-
sary to throw some of her guns overboard. The Grass-
hopper bad recently chased two slave vessels near Cuba,
but lost them in the night. The two vessels she had cap-
tured had been condemned at the Havannall, and their
cargoes (892 slaves) given up to the Spanish authorities,
and by thew app4nticed to different trades for seven yearr,
at the expiration of which time they are to to be consi-
dered as freemen.

Letters from Malta to the 16th of February announce
the arrival there from Naples of the Asia, SO, with the
flag of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, Windsor Castle, and Spar-
tiate. The Revenge was at Naples, in attendance on Mr.
Stratford Canning. The Ann and Amelia, hospital ship,
was on her passage to England. An order has been con-
ferred by the King of France on Captains Lyon and Lush.
ington, and that of Legion of Honour on Lieutenants
Luckcraft and Davey, of the Blonde, and Lieutenant Logan,
R.M.A. for the Patras affair.

The Onyx transport, Lieut. Decceurdeaux (agent) ar-
rived on Wednesday from Malta, after a tedious passage,
having sailed thence on the 2d February, with a few inva-
lided soldiers. The passengers by her are General Cara-
scosa, Lieutenant W. Hubbard, R.N., and Messrs. Sidney
Grenfell, Alfred Crayler, George Milner, John Rogers,
Robert Sparehott, and George Bamber, midshipmen, and
Mr. John Basson, assistant-master. The Onyx has also
brought to England nine Greek convicts, wkose lives Ge-
neral Ponsonby had spared, hut who are doomed to suffer
transportation for the remainder of their existence. They
have since been transferred to the York hulk at this port.
The Britomart transport arrived on Wednesday from
Fernando Po, which island she left on the 21st January.
We learn that the clearing of the ground, a step from
which much was hoped, had tended but little to render
less sickly that wretched establishment. The Britomart
has brought home some invalids, and nine pirates' for trial,
who belonged to the Missolonghi schooner, and who it is
clearly ascertained have been guilty of great atrocities.
Two tither prates died oa their passage to England. They
were yesterday sent round to the river in the Lightning
steam •vessel.

The ship Lady Raffles, from Bombay, and the Eliza,
from Penang, passed up Channel yesterday for the river ;
the latter ship left on the 3d November. Admiral Gage,
in the Java, 50, was lying at Penang. On board of this
ship the officers had recently entertained the gentry of that
settlement w:th an amateur play and a grand ball. The
Rainbow, Hon. Captain Roos, was expected to join the
Admiral from Sydney, having been relieved by the
Satellite, Captain Laws. The Success, Captain Jer-
voise, was at 31adras ; the Hind, Captain Furneaux, had
been sent to Singapore and Bombay, and would be laid
up there. Her crew is to bring the new frigate Andromeda, of
40 guns, to England. The Pandora, 18, Commander G&f-
don, had been sent to 3iergui and Amherst, on the Te-
nasserim coast. The whole squadron was healthy, as was
the continent of India generally, though occasionally a
vein of cholera wool i run over a district in so extraordi-
nary a manner as even to reach far out to sea, a fact re-
cently experienced by the ship Abercrombie Robinson,
which in her passage from Bombay to Singapore lost
twenty-seven men in a few days. It was observed that all
who died were seized with the malady while on duty on
deck. From Madras we learn that the nizam's second
son had collected a large body of Pitans, in the city of
Hyderabad, and refused to disband them ; that in conse-
quence the Russell brigade had been called in from Bola-
rum, and the whole of the subsidiary force held in readi-
ness for immediate service, forty rounds of ball cartridges
having been issued to each individual. The author of
this commotion has been in confinement more than once,
and is considered to be of a most turbulent diiposition. On
the 18th of October Calcutta was visited by a smart shock
of an earthquake ; the motion was almost vertical, and
the shock one of the severest that had been felt for many
years.
Rear-Admiral Thomas Baker, C. 8., hoisted his flag at
Plymouth on board the Warspite, 76, on Tuesday last.
The Southampton, 50, with the flag of Rear• Admiral
Sir Edward Owen, K.C.8., arrived on Thursday from
Chatham. Site was paid yesterday, and will proceed to-
morrow to the East Indies, in the command of which sta-
tion Sir Edward will succeed Rear-Admiral Gage. The
Southampton will touch at Fernando Po, and take out
the lady of Capt. Owen, the Governor of that settlement.
The Alligator, 28, Captain Charles Yorke, went out of
harbour yesterday, and will be paid on Monday. She is

placed under the orders a Vice• Admiral the Hon. Beir
Hera). Blackwood, and will proceed on Tuesday to the
North Sea Station.

Ships at SpitheatLLSoutharoptori, Briton, Alligator,
and Herald.

In harbour—Victory, Melville, Galatea, Champion, and
Proeria.

Commander 'William Mudge is appointed to the Royal
Charlotte yacht; Lieut. Grandy to the Fancy revenue
cutter; Mr. Joseph Dallaway, surgeon, to te Hyperion ;
Mr. Peter Ramsay, surgeon, to the Dispatch ; Mr. John
Kidd, surgeon, to the Sybille.

GENERAL JACKSON'S INAUGURAL AD-
DRESS.

(From a Philadelphia Paper of the 7th ult.)

Fellow Citizens,--e-About to undertake the arduous du-
ti,s that I have been appointed to perform by the choice of
' a free people, I avail myself of this customary and solemn
occasion to express the gratitude which their confidence in-
spites, and to acknowledge the accountability which my
situation enjoins. While the magnitude of their interest
convinces me that no thanks can be adequate to the honour
they have conferred, it admonishes me that the hest return
I can make is the zealous dedication of my humble abilities
to their service and their good.
As the instrument of the Federal Constitution, it will
devolve on me, for a stated period, to execute the laws of
the United States; to superintend their foreign and their
confederate relations; to manage their revenue ; to com-
mand their forces; and, by communications to the Legis-
lature, to watch over and to promote their interests gene-
rally. And the principles of action by which I shall en-
deavour to accomplish this circle of duties it is now proper
for me briefly to explain.
In administering the laws of Congress, I shall keep stea-
dily in view the limitations as well as the extent of the exe-
cutive power, trusting thereby to discharge the functions
of my office, without transcending its authority. With
foreign nations it will be my study to preserve peace, and
to cultivate friendship on fair and honourable terms; and,
in the adjustment of any difference that may exist or arise,
to exhibit the forbearance becoming a powerful nation,
rather than the sensibility belonging to a gallant people.
In such measures as I may be called on to pursue in re-
gard to the rights of the separate states, I hope to be ani-
mated by a proper respect for those sovereign members of
our union ; taking care not to confound the powers they
have reserved to themselves, with those they have granted
to the confederacy.
The management of the public revenue—the searching
operation in all Governments, is amongst the most delicate
and important trusts in ours; and it will of course demand
no inconsiderable share of my official solicitude. Under
every respect in which it can be considered, it would appear
that advantage must result from the observance of a strict
and faithful economy. This I shall aim at the more anxi-
ously, both because it will facilitate the extinguishment of
the national debt—the unnecessary duration of which is in-
compatible with real iudependence,—and because it will
counteract that tendency to public and private profligacy,
which a profuse expenditure of money by the Government
is but too apt to engender. Powerful auxiliaries to the
attainment of this desirable end are to be found in the re-
gulations provided by the wisdom of Congress, for the spe-
cific appropriation of public money, and the prompt ac-
countability of public officers.
With regard to a proper selection of the subjects of im-
' post, with a view to revenue, it would seem to me that the
spirit of equity, caution, and compromise, in which the
constitution was formed, requires that the great interests
of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures, should be
equally favoured ; and the only exception to this rule should
consist in the peculiar encouragement of any products of
either of them that may be found essential to our national
independence.
Internal improvement, and the diffusion of information,
so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts
of the federal government, are of high importance.
Considering standing armies as dangerous to free go-
vernments in time of peace, I shall not seek to enlarge our
present establishment, nor disregard that salutary lesson of
political experience which teaches that the military should
be held subordinate to the civil power. The gradual in-
crease of our navy, whose flag has displayed in distant
climes our skill in navigation and our fame in arms ; the
preservation of our forts, arsenals, and dock-yards; and the
introduction of progressive improvements in the discipline
and science of both branches of our military service, are so
plainly prescribed by prudence, that I should be excused
for emitting their mention, sooner than for enlarging upon
their importance. But the bulwark of our defence is
the national militia, which, in the present state of our
intelligence and population, must render us invincible.
As long as our government is adMinistered for the good of
the people, and is regulated by their long as it
secures to us the rights of person and of property, liberty
of conscience and of the press,—it will be worth defending;
and so long as it is worth defending, a patriotic militia
will cover it with an impenetrable cegis. Partial injuries
and occasional mortifications we may be subjected to; but
a million of armed freemen, possessed of the means of war,
can never be conquered by a foreign foe. To any just
system, therefore, calculated to strengthen this natural
safeguard of the country, I shall cheerfully lend all the aid
in my power. _

It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe to •
wards the Indian tribes within our limits, a just and liberal
policy ; and to give that humane and considerate attention
to their rights and their wants which are consistent with
the habits of our government, and the feelings of our people.
The recent demonstration of public sentiment inscribes,
on the list of executive'dtaks, in characters too legible to be
overlooked, the task of reform, which will require parti-
cularly the correction of those abuses that have brought
the patronage of the federal government into conflict with
the freedom of elections, and the counteraction of those
causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appoint-
ment, and have placed or continued power in unfaithful or
incompetent hands.
In the performance of a task thus generally delineated,
I shall endeavour to select men whose diligence and talents
will ensure, in their respective stations, able and faithful
co-operation, depending, for the advancement of the public
service, more on the integrity and zeal of the public officers
than on their numbers.

A diffidence, perhaps too just, in my own qualifications,
will teach me to look with reverence to the example of public
virtue left by my illustrious predecessors, and with venera-
tion to the lights that flow from the mind that founded,
and the mind that reformed, our system. The same diffi-
dence induces me to hope for instruction and aid from the
co-ordinate branches of the Government, and for the indul-
gence and support of nay fellow-citizens generally. And
a firm reliance on the goodness of that Power whose Pro-
vidence mercifully protected our national infancy, and has
since upheld our liberties in various ♦icissitudes, encour-
ages me to offer up my ardent supplications, that he will
continue to make our beloved country the object of his
divine care and gracious benediction.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

EAST INDIA.

The Claudine, Flinn, from Bengal has arrived in the
Downs; sailed from Calcutti, Nov. 6 ; Saugar, Nov. 14 ;
and St. Helena, Jan. 26.

The Augenoria, , from Bengal, in the Downs ;
sailed from thence September 28 ; and the Mauritius,
25th December.

The Warrens, from the South Seas, has arrived in the
Downs.

The John Palmer, from the South Seas, has arrived off
Margate.

Vessels spoken with—The John Bigger, Morley, from
London, for Bengal, Dec• 6 ; the Andromache, Laws, from
ditto, for Bengt!, Feb. 1 ; Runnymede, Wildridge, from
ditto, for Bombay, Feb. 1 ; the Fortune, , from
Liverpool, for Bombay, Jan. 29.

The son of the Common Councilman who
was reported to have declined attending the grand dinner
at the Mansion-house to-morrow, because he could not
6' turn his coat" so soon, has puldished a denial of the ru-
mour. It is true that the above Common Councilman is
one among the number who have announced their inten-
tion not to accept the Lord Mayor's invitation, but we
understand no individual has couched hie answer to his
Lordship in such uncourteous terms.
BROTHERLY LOVE.— A man named MA-
GUIRE was convicted at the Maryborough Assizes of steal-
ing a cheese, the property of his brother, and sentenced to
seven years' transportation. The prosecutor had promised
his parents that he would not swear against his brother;
in return for which lenity they were to give him a flitch of
bacon, to make up for the loss of the cheese. When
he went to Maryborough, however, he swore with such
good effect as to obtain a conviction. Immediately after-
wards be returned to Mounttath, and, telling the old
couple that their son had been acquitted, claimed the
promised reward. They cheerfully complied, and the
scoundrel was carrying off his unr:ghteous booty, when
the boys of the town,. having learned the true version of
the affair, gave chase, and he threw down the flitch and
fled, too well pleased at having saved his own bacon to look
back upon that which hp left behind.