The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-12 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 10.—The Lady Mary Pelham
arrived at Fahnouth, on Tuesday hst, from Jamaica,
having left that island on the 25th of November,
leaving there the Harlequin, which had been con-
demned at Bermuda, waiting to be paid off. The
Mersey, 28, sailed for Nassau, New Providence, the
same day, and the Harpy, for St. Jago de Cuba.
The Fairy was at Carthagena; the Shirley and
lii.spiegle at New Providence ; the Druid was
cruising off Cape Maize; the Grasshopper and
Icarus at Barbadoes ; the Barham and Arachne
were expected at Jamaica, from Bertcuda, about the
20th December.

The Procris, 10, Commander Charles Paget,
was to sail on Wednesday, from Cork, for this port,
to be paid off and recommissioned.
The Galatea, 42, Captain Sir Charles Sullivan,
Barr. was paid off on Wednesday, and recommis-
sioned the same day by Captain Charles Napier,
C.B. Mr. Thomas Menzies is appsinted Purser
of her.

A Dutch ship of war avehored at St. Helen's on
Monday, and sailed to the Westward on the follow-

[ig morning.

The Madagascar, 16, Captain Hon. Sir R. C.
Spencer, K.C.H. was brought into the basin yes-
terdav, fully equipped, for the purpose of laying her
in still water, that the arrangements for levelling her
guns sho,i!gl be correct. She went out again to-day.
A 80a,.,' of Admiralty, with Lord Rlelrille, will
pay an Oicial visit to this port on Wednesday.
The Undaunted, 46, Captain Clifford, C. 8., was
towed irit• harbour on Tuesday, for the purpose of
being brought into dock.
Lieutenant Thomas Stuart, late of the Aurora, is
promoted to the rank of Commander : this officer
has had a splendid sword presented to him by the
owners and underwriters of the ship Hannah, for
his perseverance and ability in bringing that ship
into port under very perilous circumstances. For
this service, the ship's company also gave him a
sword and belt when the Aurora was paid off. Lieu-
tenant John Forster, of the Undaunted, is also pro-
moted to the rank of Commander, after 21 years'
active service as a Lieutenant. Assistant-Surgeon
John Mein is promoted to the rank of Surgeon.
The Eliza is fitting in the River, for the con-
veyance of male convicts from Cork to New South
Wales.

The Samuel Whitbread, from Quebec to Loa-
don, aud the Margaret, timber,Thips, have been
driven on shore on the ceast of Galway, and abaft.
cloned by their crews.
The Amityratisport, IV, Lester, agent, with
troops, for f3ibraltar; the Thome, Kehardson,
;ter, with troops, for Jamaica; and the Edward,
11.beit, master, with c,:invie s, for New, South
"ales, sailed on the :id instant from the Cove of
Cork.

The free trader General :Palmer looked into St.
Helen's on Monday, and embarked her passengers
ktr Madras. It is remarkable th this ship has had
on board two otr:ward-bound carves for India, and
one homeward-bound, within the short space of
ten months. The ships Lord William Bentincl,
Mary Ann, John, and Palmyra, will call at this pot t
shortly for their passengers for Madras and Bernal.
Arrived on Tuesday the brig Active, Capt. Hui-
man, from Wexford for London. She put itto this
port in distress, having been ashore on 'Vb-exford Bar,
where she struck heavily, and in the gale of the 4th
inst. Lost two anchors and cables, and disabled her
windlass. Also arrived the barque Wilberforce,
Dodds, master, from Newry, for London, short _of
provisions.

The Sulphur bomb, for the Swan River, in New
South Wales, is hourly expected from the River,
and will remain here a few hours only. The spot
of our intended settlement was unknown to us,
until surveyed by the French navigator Freceynet.—
A FrenA settlement, it is imagined, has already
located there; if this be the case, we have no right
to disturb them. Our next nearest position in that.
-plover is Oyster Harbour, in King George's
Sound, about :$OO miles to the southward of Swan
River, and, by the map, a place much more sheltered,
Some of the London Papers have surmised that
vessels of war have been dispatched to examine
ships outward hound, under American colours, for
the purpose of apprehending Rowland Stephenson,
the late banker. This is not the fact. No right
belongs to this power to search any vessel under
American colours on the high seas. The secret ser-
vice on which our men-of-war have recently sailed
has in all probability reference to Portugal ; and
some of them, we doubt not, are now at anchor in
the Tagus.
The communication between this port and Ame-
rica is much increasing. A regular line of packets
will in future sail between this town and Boston.

The sailing of the first ship, the London packet, is
already announced. The Comet, Ormston, for Ma-
d( ira, will also make regular trips between this port
and that island, and will be bete in a day or two.