The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-05 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Poersaiourir, FIB. 3.—On Monday arrived the Nimble cutter
(tender to the Revenge) from the Mediterranean. She left Malta
on the 12th of December. The latest news then received from
the Archipelago was by the Zebra, which arrived at Malta on the
Sth of December. The struggle between the Greeks and Turks
was most violent near Athens, into which place the Greeks had
succeeded in throwing a reinforcement, and subsequently made a
sally from the Acropolis, in which many Turks were killed, and
their force obliged to retire. The Greeks lost but few men, but
amongst them, their enterprising commander, Goura, upon whose
exertions the Greeks very much depended. It was, notwithstand-
ing, expected that, without some great reverse befal the Turks,
the renowed Athens must fall again. Captain Hastings had ar-
rived at Napoli di Romania, in his steam-boat, the Perseverance,
but from some causes not explained, he was not well received.—
The mechanical works of his vessel were much damaged.—Mr.
Humphreys died at Aguia about the middle of October, supposed
to have been poisoned, in revenge for having published so unpa-
latable an expose of the state of affairs in Greece. The arrival of
Lord Cochrane was most anxiously expected.
The following was the disposition of the squadron :—The Re-
venge (Sir Harry Neale) on her passage from Baia to Marseilles
and Malta, to await the arrival of the Asia, from England. The
Cambrian, Capt. Hamilton, C.B. detached, in the Archipelago,
for the protection of the trade, with the Glasgow, Talbot, Rose,
Parthian, Brisk, and Chanticleer. The Seringapatam, Gannet,
Pelorous, and Raleigh, are employed at Alexandria, and cruising
on the coast of Syria, on a similar service. The Arjadne was to
return to Naples, to take Sir Frederick Adam to Corfu ; the
Zebra and Philomel, to take convoy to Smyrna and the Darda-
nelles; Pelican and Weaale, to the lonian Islands; Mastiff, to
commence surveying in the Archipelago ; Camelion and Alacrity,
waiting at Malta the return of Sir Harry Neale ; and the Medina ,
was waiting at Malta for the trial of the pirate crew of the armed
Greek brig, which she some time sines captured. The Calyspo
yacht had arrived from England; the Jasper was daily expected
from Newfoundland. Sir John Stoddart had arrived at Malta,
and entered upon his office as Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court.
On Monday, his Majesty's ship Mersey, 28, Capt. Ferguson,
returned from South America, having been employed upwards of
three years, on the Pacific side of that station. The presence of a
British squadron of ships there, being no longer necessary, the
Cambridge, Blanche, and Eclair, were under orders to return
home ; the Doris frigate, Sir John Gordon Sinclair, and Jasseur
brig, Capt.' Handfield, were to take the station for the present.—
The Mersey left the Cambridge and Blanche, at Calloa, on the 27th
of July; sailed from Valparaiso on the 7th of September; Co-
quimbo on the 20th ; came round Cape Horn in fifty days, to
Rio Janeiro, and sailed again thence on the 28th of November,
leaving there the Ganges, 84 (Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Waller
Otway), and Doris, the latter being about to sail for the Pacific.
The Ranger and Heron were in the River Plate. The Emperor
of Brasil sailed from Rio, in the Don Pedro, 74, on the 24th of
November, for Rio Grande. The Mersey is come into harbour
to be paid off. She brought about 480,000 dollars, for British
Merchants.

Arrived this morning the Eden transport, Lieutenant Gill,
from the River, for the Mediterranean ; Perseverance, from
Oporto, for London ; Ina, Findlay, for Tobago ; Sisters, Bross,
in 40 days, from Messina, for London; and the Elizabeth, Hen-
derson, from Leghorn, for Newhaven.
This morning arrived the brig Ark, Arkhurst, acting master,
in 70 days, from Sierra Leone, with timber, for London ; her
master, Thomas Caslen, was murdered on the 6th of December,
by a black man named Messina, one of the crew, who, because
he was refused to leave the helm, caught up a knife, and stabbed
Fred. Royston in six places, and then jumped overboard and
drowned himself, uttering, as he sunk, the most horrid oaths.
We are happy to learn, by letters which we have received from
Port Royal, Jamaica, dated the 24th of December, that the squad-
ron on that station was very healthy. The Aurora frigate, Capt.
C. J. Austen, sailed on the 22d for the Barbadocs station, to re-
lieve the Dryad, Capt. Chambers. The ships in Port Royal were
the Isis (flag-ship), Magnificent, Rattlesnake, Bustard, Britomart,
Ferret, and Nimble schooner. The Espiegle was at Havannah ;
Harlequin at St. Domingo ; Druid, Valorous, and Primrose, on
the Leeward station ; Pylades, on a cruise ; Tweed had saileder
Vera Cruz, Havannah, and England. Mr. Arthur, Midshipman,
Isis, was promoted to be Lieutenant of the Valorous ; Mr. Bond,
Aurora, to be Lieutenant of the Pylades ; Mr. Hope, Scylla, to
he Lieutenant of the Ferret ; and Mr. Squires, Second Master of
the Aurora, to be Master of the Magnificent.
On Monday the Parmelia transport, Lieut. Moriarty, arrived
from the Leeward Islands, with the head-quarters of the 21st
Regiment, which hare disembarked and marched to Albany Bar-
racks.

On Thursday morning, Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington,
K.C.B. sailed for the Mediterranean command, in the Asia, 84,
Capt. Edward Curzon, with a fine wind from the

The Orestes transport, Lieut. Garratt, sailed this afternoon,
with troops and stores, for Sierra Leone.
The ships which were hired as transports, to convey the troops
to Portugal, are, as they return home, to he discharged from the
service.

The Starling was paid off on Tuesday, and recommissioned by
Lieut. Richard Stuart.
Rear-Admiral Charles Adam is appointed to succeed Lord
Amelius Beauclerk, as Commander-in-Chief at Lisbon, and on
the coast of Portugal.
Capt. Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen is appointed to the Eden, for a
special service on the Coast of Africa ; Capt. Samuel Burgess, to
the Alert, 18, at Chatham ; Lieut H. Bolton, to the Thetis, vice
C. J. Nash; Mr. B. Loden, to be Purser of the Alert; Mr. W.
Bothwell, to be Assistant-Surgeon of the Alligator; Mr. D.
Barnes, to be Assistant-Surgeon at Plymouth Hospital; Mr. Jas.
Gule, of the Revenge, and Mr. J. J. M'Donnell, of the Cam-
brian, to the rank of Lieutenant ; the former appointed to the
Revenge, vice Lieut. Wm. Dickson, appointed to the Raleigh,
vice Wyndham, deceased ; Lieut. Tomkins, Ariadne, to the
Philornel ; Lieut. Bell, Revenge, to the Ariadne.
On Monday morning, we had four ships of war lying at Spit-
bead (including the Redwing sloop) and three of them bore Ad-
mirals' flags, making four officers of that rank, in command at the
port, via. Admiral Sir George Martin, Vice-Admirals Hon. C.
E. Fleming and Sir Edward Codrington, and Rear-Admiral Sir
Thomas Hardy. Such a circumstance had not before occurred
during nearly a century (we speak of this fact from oral testi-
mony) if it ever did before.—Hampshire Telegraph.