The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-22 00:00:00

THE BATTLE OF NAVARIN.

The following details are from the Plymouth
Journal, received yesterday :—The Genoa arrived
at Plymouth this day week, and from the officers and
others belonging to that ship, the subjoined extremely
interesting memoranda have been obtained :
The Genoa, 74, arrived here on Friday night,
after a passage of twenty-seven days from Malts,
bringing home the remains of her late Captain, the
lamented Walter Bathurst, Esq., who fell nobly at
the battle of Navarin. The Genoa having suffered
more than any other British ship in the action, is in
a very shattered condition, and is under jury-masts,
her mizen being a mere spar. She i 3 commanded by
Captain the Hon. C. L. Irby, late of the Ariadne.
Most of her officers and men being natives or old
residents of this neighbourhood, the announcement
of her arrival caused a very great sensation. At an
early hour on Saturday morning the heights com-
manding a view of the Sound, where she lay, were
covered with people of all ages and conditions, each
individual anxious to get a peep at the vessel which
contained a near relative or friend. Pratique having
been granted, the officers and crew were permitted
to land on Saturday, and many a joyous meeting took
place between relatives or friends, who had so nar-
rowly escaped the doom of perpetual separation, and
many a tear was shed to the memory of thosa• who
had fallen. The late action has, of course, bean the
chief subject of conversation here, since the arrival
of this vessel, and some interesting anecdotes and
particulars have been communicated by the officers
and crew, to their respective friends. The follow-
ing particulars, which have reached us in an authen-
tic manner, and may be received without doubt, we
now lay before our readers—feeling assured, that
even the most trivial circumstances connected with
the subject, will be highly interesting :
THE AD3llRAL.—During the action, Sir Edward
Codrington set a bright example of coolness and
braysyy. He stood the whole time on the poop,
constaully shouting to encourage the brave fellows
about him, apd waving in the air a white hat, which
he wore. His escape is considered quite miracu-
lous, as his situation was the most exposed one he
could have chosen.

CAPTAIN BATButtsT.7This brave officer was
wounded early in the action by a splinter, which
knocked off his hat, and slightly tore his face.
Shortly afterwards a shot took off the skirts of his
coat. The fatal wound was from a grape-shot,
which entered his side, passed through his body, and
lodged in the opposite side of the ship.' He lived
.eleven hours afterwards. About midnight, shortly
before his death, he was visited by the Admiral, who
said, " Well, Wattey, if you die, you die glorious-
ly." " I know I shall die, and that soon," replied
he; " but Codrington, I hope you will remember
my officers." The Admiral having promised to at-
tend to his wish, the dying veteran seemed highly
gratified. He made some other requests—all of
which, except one, will doubtless be complied with.
The request to which we allude was, that he should
be buried at Malta; but the Admiral has thought
it proper to preserve the body fer lionomeisle
burial in England.
Captain Moore, of the Marines, was buried near
Mount Etna, in Sicily.
Captain Bell, of the same Corp.., was consigned
to a watery grave during the action.
Mr. Nickenson, the Captain's Clerk of the Genoa,
died on board a few days before the action. He
had been twenty years a Clerk.
Mr. Frederick Grey, one of the Midshipmen of
the Genoa, had his arm nearly severed from his body
by a shot, and it was found necessary to take it off
at the socket. On reaching the cockpit, he called
out to the surgeon," Bear a hand here, my hearty;
make haste, will you ? The fun is not half over
yet, and I must have another touch at the fellows."
He was not, however, suffered to go on deck again.
When the Turkish Admiral went on board the Asia
after the action, he was heard to say, with as much
carelessness as if it were a mere trivial matter, " My.
heed will pay for this."
The evening before the engagement, one of the
Midshipmen, whose parentalive here, seeing others
engaged in making their wills, he thought himself
of doing something in the same way; but when he
bad taken rip his pen, he recollected that he bad
nothing to leave but his traps. He, however, would
not have it said he would do so unkind a thing as
to go out of the world without at least saying .a
good bye to his parents ; so he wrote a letter, of
which the following is a copy :
" Dear parents—We are going into motion to-
morrow. Perhaps I shall be killed. If so, I shall
be buried at Navarin, and that will save the expence
of John 1-2:quiker, Stoke.* I send you a lock of my
hair. My tins At ill not be sold, but kept for you.
Give my love to my brothers, and believe me your
dutiful son."
We are happy to say that the writer escaped un-
hurt, and is now with his parents in this town.
A seaman having his leg shattered by a ball, un-
derwent amputation with the greatest indifference to
pain. When the limb was taken off, it was of course
immediately thrown overboard, upon which Jack
called out to the man who had performed the last
office for his departed .leg, " curse your eyes, I'll
complain of you to the Captain—although you were
ordered to throw my leg overboard, you had no
right to throw my shoe with it."
A marine of the name of Hill, who was quartered
on the poop of the Genoa, had both his arms shot
off at nearly the same moment. He instantly turned
to Captain Dickenson, the Commander, who stood
near him, and said with the utmost coolness," I hope
you'll allow`, Sir, that I have done my duty." The
poor felbw is now at the Naval Hospital, at Stone-
house, but is not expected to recover.
After the action, an Iriehman, named Phelan, '
who was cook's mate of the Genoa, was observed to
skip about the kitchen with the moat ludicrous ma-
nifestations of joy. On being questioned, he shouted
out, " 004, by the powers I'm se glad the villains
havn't spoilt the coppers—the devil a shot has
touched them."
There were several women on board the Genoa,
anti they afforded very great assistance to the surgeon
in dre,:sing wounds, &e.
During the action, two Greeks, who were chained
to a gun in one of the vessels which blew up,
escaped, and swam to the Genoa, and were taken on
board. They instantly set to work at the guns, and
blhaved bravely. They were afterwards put on
shore at Navarin.
DAMAGE SUSTAINED Z. TIIE GENOA.--On exa-
Initiation of the Genoa after the battle, the damages
sustained by her were found to be as follows : The
main al..ad mizen-roasts nearly. cut in two : main yard
badly wounded in both yard-arms; fore-mast shot
through in two places; two shrouds and spring stay
of the main-roast only standing; all the mi. Len shrouds
gone; shrouds on the foremast gone; the gammon
ins cut in several places ; both catheads shot so as
to be rendered useless ; four boats sunk alongside,
two on the booms very much damaged; several
shot boles between wind ana water; several of the
iron knees and timbers gone, besides other damages;
spare topmast, topsail, and topgallant yards shot ;
many raking jsbot in the hull; hammock :Wettings
much cut up ; two stone shot, one on the lower the
other on the main deck, .each weighing one hundred!
pounds; besides all manner of chain, bar, langrage,
In explanation, it it necessary to stab., that the Rev.
i• Hawker is Curate of Stoke Church, and th:,:d the name
was mentioned in allusion to an anecdote which the youth,
when at home, used to relate with great glee. The follow-
ing is the anecdote :—" On Sunday, two sailors being
together in Stoke Church, one of them asked his messmate
the meaning of the letters on the pulpit- cloth.
a .Y°ll fool; says the other, ' don't you see it stands for
John Hawker, Stoke.' This explanation trite satisfied
Jack ; net so did the sermon, for the parson preached so
long that dinner wail spoiled, and Jack vowed that be never •
would visit that Church again. Some time afterwards,
being at anothterr
t, he went to church, but he had scarcely
taken whr.,he 'my the letters I. Fl. S. on the pulpit-
cloth.Oh dinaay‘ll,..e2 ' John Hawker, Stoke, here
lost one
too—=l've drone be cursed if I lose
another; and with -these word% h.
made a hasty retreat from
nerratulating hirmtis
'li the church? ‘;') ''Pen his lucky escape._