The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-14 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, AUG. 13.—The Ariadne, 28, Capt.
F. Maryatt, sailed on Friday for the Western Islands.
The Meteor steam-vessel, Lieut. W. H; Symons,
bearing the flag of Admiral the Earl Northesk,
sailed on Monday morning OM a public visit to the
ports on the western part of the Plymouth station.
She put into Falmouth on the same day, and sailed
from thence on Tuesday for Milford.
The Lord Bentinck transport, Lieut. Gregg,
Agebt, on her way direct to Malta, arrived here
yesterday to take on board Col. Morshead and family
for that island. The transport will sail on Fritlay.
PROMOTlONS.—Lieutenants Hen. Houghton, Vic-
tory ; Thos. Bevis, Prince Regent, to the rank of
Commander.—Lieutenants d. Chiron and J. Rains,
to be Superannuated Commanders.—Mr. Kepel, of
the Tweed, to be Lieutenant.

Lieut. J. Hope, of the Undaunted, is appointed to
be Flag Lieutenant to Admiral Earl Islorthesk.
The Clara, Gillman, which arrived at Jersey on
the Ist inst. from Gambia, was hailed off the
Western Islands by a schooner of 150 tons, under
Portuguese colours, of very suspicious appearance,
with about 60 men on deck.

The Gilmore, Geary, and Nancy Price, having
embarked their passengers, sailed on Monday for the
new colony at Swan River.
His Majesty's ship Kingfisher arrived at Rio de
Janeiro from Falmouth June 3. The Victor and
Speedwell, from Nassau, Harpy from Chagres, and
Slaney from Havannah, arrived at Jamaica previous
to 19th June. The Monkey arrived at Nassau
from a cruise June 20, and sailed again 22d. The
Nimble arrived at Nassau from Cuba June 29. Tlie
Goldfinch, for Halifax, was spoken with, 23d July,
in lat. 43. long. 28. The Galatea sailed from Ma-
deira for Jamaica Sth July.

The Thetis, Gray, arrived at Elsineur from this
port July 23. The Allies, Hill, from this port,
arrived at Cadiz 6th July. The Caroline, Odgers,
of this port, arrived at Cork from Messina, Aug. 4.

NARROW ESCAPE FROM SHIPWRECK.

Extract of a letter from a young gentleman on
board his Majesty's brig Investigator, to his
father in Edinburgh, dated Moray Frith, off Cro-
marty, Wednesday, sth August :
" After leaving Leith on Friday afternoon,
we beat down the length of Largo Bay, ,vhere
we were becalmed till Saturday morning, when a
light breeze sprung up in our favour, and during
the day carried us on as far as Montrose ; here
again we had a calm till Sunday morning, when
we again got a favourable wind, which took us
ten miles north of Buchanness by bed-time. The
breeze freshened during the night, and at five on
Monday morning we were going on merrily,
and within eighty miles of Shetland ; till then
we really had fine weather, and I had every pros-
pect of being at my journey's end early on Tues-
day morning. A very different fate, however,
awaited us ; the wind suddenly veered round to
the north-east, the brig could not keep her course,
and it was resolved to bear away for the Moray
Frith, and, if possible, get into Cromarty har-
bour. All day the wind blew a hurricane, and
the sea made a free breach over us, so that every
thing got quite wet, and even the cabins had half
a foot of water in them, the beds too were as wet
as if they kid been overboard ; in this way we
proceeded during the clay, and at night were all
as uncomfortable as we could be, when all of a
sudden at midnight, there was a cry on deck of
land a -head,' and directly after, breakers
on the lee bow.' The pilot aas steering at this
time, but on hearing the dreadful intelligence,
Captain Thomas ran half naked and half dis-
tracted on deck, and took the helm ; fortunately
the ship obeyed the helm, and wAs wore round on
another tack, but we had not gone half a mile when
a rock appeared not ten yards off. We were
now running eight knots, and had we struck
would have gone to atoms in a moment ; we
however, passed so near that any one could have
leapt from the deck upon the rock, (which was
a sharp pointed one-among breakers, a mile from
the land). We now discovered that we were
between two heads, and the wind blowing a hur-
ricane, and directly upon the land ; and we, of
course, every tack, coining nearer to it, and were
a third time going smack among the breakers,
when, as the last resource, it was fixed to try the
anchors, as it was impossible to weather either of
the heads. One anchor was let go which snapt
immediately ; out went another, and, thank God
it held, otherwise, not a soul on board would
ever have seen the light of another day. The
gale continued—half of the deck was generally
under water—every wave broke over us—and,
half a mile astern, we heard the roar of the sea
on the shore—nothing between us and death but
a single anchor and chain cable. It was now
about two in the morning, pitch dark, and the
arrival of morning light only showed us more
and more our awful situation, as we discovered
that we were very near an iron-bound coast,
ascending about 150 feet perpendicularly from
the sea, so that if we went ashore, we must pe-
rish. A council was held at eight on Tuesday
morning, and they resolved to try to beat out,
or, in the event of being, unable to do so, to en-
deavour to cut away the fore-mast and run the
vessel on shore, at a place a mile off where we
might have been saved, as the coast ran in a
sloping direction into the sea. Providence,
however, again befriended us ; the vessel stayed
well on her first tack, and on the second we
weathered the head, and stood up the Moray
Frith for Cromarty. This tremendous place is
about four miles from Kinnaird's Head, and the
two heads, whose names I shall never forget, are
called Black and Troup Heads.
" Captain Thomas has been 33 years at sea,
and of course has made many escapes, but says
he never was in such a condition, and none of
the men on board ever saw any thing like the
situation in which we were placed, Every body
gave up hope, and when the rock appeared so
near, the men were so paralysed that they could
not work, and had not the Captain himself
taken the helm, and called out My clear brave
fellows, work for your lives, as death stares us
in the face,' which called forth every energy, we
must have gone down. The vessel is a capital
one or she never could have stood it out. Her
main-royal-mast is carried away, and also nearly
all the bulwarks ; all the provisions which were
on deck, and several casks, were washed over-
board ; and all the live stock arc drowned, ex-
cept two or three fowls. To add to our misery
the fresh water was in the hold, and it could not
be opened, the sea was so high ; so fbr about
thirty-eight hours we had neither meat nor even
a drop of water to quench our burning thirst.
Every man is worn out, two are on, the sick list,
but I hope by to-morrow things will be all right
again."—Edinburgh AdvertiEer.

voitihiaegresdacaymine tthoisli,c.eitya•
s:—a
sAergvairnitf.arotma
The following instance of the " march of in-
tellect"
church. Being very appre-
fnrmiotnligngeht be troubled with the visits of some
°hhtolfeni neineshioetvfle'nteth:oleit'aicnatfnadtisjr:hyo edei
acquaintances, whom it is supposed she
wished now to 4' cut," she with the utmost simplicity said
to her mistress, "If any body should come here for me,
Ma'am, will you please to say I'm not at home."—Bath
Chronicle.