The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-02 00:00:00

PbtitiSCitYPl, FEB. 28.—The Nestor transport,
Lieut. G. N. Wesley, agent, arrived yeSterhy front
LJam'aica and St. Lucia, with invalids, and part of
!'the crew of his Majesty's sloop Harlequin, which
r vessel being found unfit for service, has been appro-
[priated as a receiving ship at Nassau, New Provi-
dence. The Nestor left Port Royal on the 1 eth,
and St. Lucia on the 20th January; at the former
were lying the Barham, Druid, Mersey, Eapierale,
Harpy, arid Fairy. The Victor sailed from Port
' l Royal on the 12th January for Carthagena. The
troops on the Island, and the seamen in the squad-
ron on this station, were more healthy than had been
known for marry years. The passengers by the
Nestor are Lieutenants Stilwell, Harvey, and Gil-
bert, R.N. ; Lieutenant Cock, R.M., Mr. Campbell,
Surgeon, R.N., Mr.- Rca, Master, &c.
By letters received from Rio de Janeiro, dated
14th December, we hear that the Ganges, with the
flag of Sir Robert W. Otway, was then on the
point of proceeding to Rio I'leae. The Sapphire,
28, Captain Pandas, was fitting for the Pacific,
whither the Heron had recently. sailed. The Ad-
venture, Captain King, was engaged in surveying
the Southern coast of that continent, and was. to
leave Rio early in the last month with the Beagle
(which was hourly eipected from Monte Video), to
proceed along the coast of Patagonia, to the Straits
of Magellan, where Captain King would pert
with the Beagle to go round Cape Horn, to New
Holland, and from thence was to return to England.
The Beagle is to work her way through the Straits,
along the West Coast of Valparaiso, then to the
Southward, and afterwards would proceed to Rio
and return horse. The Doris having been con-
demned, Sir John Sinclair, and the officers and
crew of that frigate, were to return home in
two provision-transports. The Cadmus sloop of
war was cruiziag. Commodore Schomberg, in the
Diadem transport, had put into Rio for water., on
"Itia;lpaaaagal to-..the- Cape of Good Hope. The
Sapphire is described as an admirable vessel, and as
sailing remarkably well. On her passage from Rio
de la Plata to Rio de Janeiro, she sailed thirteen
knots an hour for four bows successively. The
French frigate §urveillante, of 90 guns, and 1,800
tons, on that station, is double-banked, and carries
the spars of a second rate. She is built on a new
principle ; her bottom and main wales are planked in
the usual mariner, but the plank of the top sides, in-
stead of being fore and aft, is worked diagonally.
The plan, however, is not found to answer ;well, for
iu her passage round Cape Horn, she worked very
much, sailed ill, and laboured so violently that
several of her guns broke adrift. She is quite new,
and fitted out in the best possible manner. The
Hudson, an immense American frigate of the same
class, between 1800 and 1,900 tons, has just arrived
at Rio. These ships arc deceiving to the eye, being
low in proportion to their length, and great breadth
of beam. Their large mutate and yards also diminish
the effect whicla the size of the hull would create. It
is only when near another ship that any opinion can
be formed of their magnitude.
The most recent accounts received at Valparaiso
from Pitcairn Island, describe that little Colony as
existing in great harmony, and in full contentment
with its produce. That which is now grown upon
it is plantain, bananas, cocoa nuts, bread fruit,
sugar cane, potatoes, g'nger, and a plant-from which
a spirit is distilled. The number of individuals
who landed from the Bounty was nine English-
men ; and of natives from Otaheite and Tabouis,
six men, twelve women, and one child. The po-
pulation now comprises, of English males and their
descendants, thirty-eight, twenty-six females de-
scended front the same nation, and five- females, na-
tives of Otaheite. It is a remarkable fact, that
not one individual who landed with Christian,
not numbered now with the living, met with a
natural death ; each arrived at an untimely end, by
assassination or other violence, the fruits of internal
broils in this little community. The offspring of
Christian are represented to be very handsome,
their features strongly partaking of the English :
the beauty of one of them, a girl named Mary Ann
Christian, for which she is termed " the Maid of
the South Seas," is said to invite the same admira-
tion which is offered to the most favoured of our
own fair country-women. Their habitations, which
are thirty feet in depth and twelve feet wide, are con-
structed with boards. It is computed that the
Island is sufficiently extensive to afford by culture,
maintenance for its inhabitants, allowing for their
increase, for at least one hundred years. An Ame-
rican, the only stranger among them, had landed
lately and settled there. He is a carpenter, and
one likely to be of the greatest utility to them. He
had already begun to teach them to build, and to
enjoin them to acts of industry (a work in which he
had been very successful), and had established a
school for the children. John Adams was in good
health, but rather infirm from age. He expressed a
desire to return to his native land.
The Melville, 74 guns, Captain H. Hill, was paid
off to-day, and immediately re-commissioned by
Captain A. W. Schomberg, as a guard-ship : the
Volage was paid of yesterday, to be laid up in or-
dinary.
The Briton, 46, Hon. Captain Gordon, will go
out of harbour on Monday.
The Pallas, 42, Captain Fitz-Clarence, is ex-
pected to arrive at Plymouth from the Western
Islands.
The Henry Porcher transport, Lieutenant C.
Binstead, agent, is fitting at Deptford, with sup-
plies of stores and provisions for the Island of As-
cension.

At six o'clock this morning his Majesty's ship
Galatea, Captain Charles Napier, C. 8., alongside
the Dock-yard wharf; commenced rigging, and at
six this evening had her royal yards across, .com-
pletely rigged, and her decks cleared up. She is
sixty men short of complement. We were on board
when she commenced, and saw it completed, and
can vouch that she had nothing but her girding
up when she began. We are particular about this,
because it was reported that the topmast rigging
and various other things were aloft. The whole
arrangement was left to Lieut. Collier, an officer of
fifteen years' standing, who was brought up by
Captain Napier, in the Euryalus. •
Commander E. Hoste, of the Weazle, is pro-
moted to the rank of Captain; Lieutenant Basden,
of the Windsor Castle, is promoted to command the
Weazle; Lieut. John Parker, of the Volage,.to the
to the rank of Lieutenant. Commander Richardson
irank p
appointed
nCt oe idn itnot ttrihdee r
;Mr. Guiseppi, of the Wage,
Southampton, of 50 guns ; Corn.
mender Dyer, to the Melville; Lieut. J. T. Talbot,
to the Melville ; Mr. G. Heather, Master, to the
Seringapatam, of 46 guns; Lieut. R. R. Sayer, horn
the Victory to the Seringapatam ; Lieut. W. W.
Eyton, to the Victory.; Lieut. Seymour, to the
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Ferret, vice thur ; Mr. J. H. Cook, Purser, to
the Zebra, 18, viee.Mr. Harding; Messrs, Frederic
William Le Grand and Thomas Fraser,, Assistant.
Surgeons, to the Maidstone.
The brig Golden Grove arrived this evening kohl
Alexandria.
Sixteen deer were brought here this evening to be
conveyed to the new Settlement in the Swan River,
in the Calista, which is hourly expected from the
River, •
The Officers of the Volage gave a splendid parting
dinner, at the Georrgl Inn, to Captain . Seymour,
yesterday, on Ur, ilecaston of that ship being paid off.

MAXDENITEAD.—That rare and beautiful
bird, thu egret, which was shot during the last severe
weather by Mr. Thomas Pile of liollyport. It is now in
the possession of Mr. Woods elk who has had it stuffed.
Buffon describes it as being.: of the crane kind, but only one
species is known in Europe. The present specimen is
about the siv of the erne, and stands three feet high ; the.
head is crested,, and two of the feathers are six inches its
leng„th„ hanging graceful-I,y behind. The elegance of the-
!bird is much increased by the long loose feathers which,
cover and bang over the hack arid rump. There are on!y•
one or tdo instances of their being ,hot in this cianntry.