The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-16 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOITTA, APRIL 14.—0 n Wednesday arrived the
ship Caroline, Capt. Kidson, from Calcutta, bound to Lon.
don, having on board the remainder of the Invalids (the
first division arrived here in November last, by the Zenobia
and Catharine Stewart Forbes) of the 67th, 59th, and
14th regiments. She left the Cape on the 2d, and As-.
cension on the 20th February, on which day the William
Harris transport arrived there from England, with stores
and provisions for the Island.
We may probably have to announce the arrival of his
Majesty's ship Tweed, Capt. Frederick Hunn, from the
Gulf of Mexico, in our next paper. She had to call at
Tampico, to embark 40,000/. in specie, for the Mexican
Government ; but as Tampico is a bar harbour, and a
strong north-westerly gale set in before she could have

reached that place, we are quite satisfied that Capt. Hann
would not attempt to enter it until a return of favourable
weather. This circumstance most satisfactorily accounts
(to those who have any knowledge in these local subjects)
for the Tweed not having yet reached England with her va-
luable shipments. The precautionary means taken by Sir
Lawrence Halstead to warn Capt. Hunn of a possible dan-
ger, arising from our affairs with Spain, though highly
prudent in that excellent Chief, yet, as it must be well
known, cannot attach itself whatever to the delay ascribed
to that ship's arrival.
On Sunday last the Slaney, 18, Captain Samuel Thornton,
sailed for Woolwich, to be paid off. We learn by the
arrival of this ship (in addition to the information con-
tained in our last Paper), that it was the intention of Rear-
Admiral
Gage, on the arrival of his flag-ship, the Java,
from England, to proceed immediately in that ship, from
Boadicea
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Eng-
land by the treaty of peace made with the King of :Iva.
and
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squadron detached to suppress the Wahabee pirates, in
the Gulph of Persia, was not expected to return thither
until May, when the Tamar would return to England...__
the officers of our squadron in India, now the war is happily
over, are, we are pleased to sex, amusing themselves at
Trincomalee with that rational and appropriate recreation,
naval Regattas, in humble imitation, as they observe, of
those interesting naval spectacles at Portsmouth and Ply-
mouth. The first " Trincomalee Regatta" took place on
the 24th of November last. Among the subscribers were
Rear-Admiral Gage, Captains. Honourable J. G. 110113,
Furneaux, and Thornton ; Lieutenants Talbot, Stow,
Stroud, and Hall; Messrs. Broadhead, Brock, Holman,
Lowe, Curxenwant.and O'Neil, with their cutters, huggers,
hermtulians, schooners, sliding-gunterx, and fancy's, named
Captain Bock, Centipede, Quiz, Iris, Pett, Fawn, Do It,
Dongella, Flirt, Snow Ball, Black Joke, &c. The first
prize was won by the Hon. Captain Rous's Centipede, beat-
ing Captain Thornton's Pett. The silver cup (given by
the Hon Capt. Rous) was won by Lieutenant Talbot's Iris. '
The third priza was won by Captain Rous's Dongella. The
day, we are informed, was heavenly, and a prettier sight
was never witnessed.

We are happy to find that letters from Rio Janeiro,
dated Feb. 7, state the araival of the Forte, 46, Capt. J.
Coghlan, C. 13. in 48 days from Bpithead, with his Excel-
lency Chev. Von Neuman, and the Austrian Embassy to
the Court of Brazils. The Ranger and Heron were lying
there ; the Cambridge, Blanche, and Eclair, were shortly
expected from the Pacific, on their return to England.
The Sy-I)We, 48, Commodore Francis R. Collier, C.B.
went out of harbour this morning, fitted for the command
on the western coast of Africa. She will sail next week.

On Wednesday last, the Maria Dutch smuggling lugger,
belonging to Middleburg, was taken into Newcastle, cap-
tured off the Yorkshire coast, on the preceding day, by the
Mermaid, Lieut. Robertson, with her crew of eleven men,
having thrown her cargo over board during a chase of
seven hours. The Maria is a very fine vessel of about 70
tons, well found with every description of stores, and is a
similar vessel to the Anne, brought in there by the Mer-
maid last September.
The Defence cutter, Lieut. 11. S. Perkins, has captured
and taken into North Yarmouth, the Eliza Julianna, of
Flushing, with 200 tubs of foreign spirits, and a crew of
four men.—Hampshire Telegraph.

COACH RACING.—The fines of this illegal
and dangerous practice being usually paid by numerous
bodies of proprietors, in support of their drivers, and being,
in consequence, almost inoperative, the Magistrates have
taken the opinio❑ of Mr. Starkie, the barrister, who ad-
vises that the drivers i-hould be held to bail, to answer an
indictment at common law.—Doncaster Gazette.
cruising
we til in with a vessel,
officer of his Majesty's sloop Pelican, relates to a gallant
The following extract from a letter from
noted
pain.
attack made on a Turkish pirate, in which Lents. N.
Smith and Daniel F. Grant (son of Thomas Grant, Esq.,
being calm, we sent away two boats, of Portsmouth) were unfortunately wounded. But we are
happy to hear that letters of 10 days more recent date,
them in sight for some time, when
state that Lieut. Grant was doing well :—" Maacn S.—
Onrato theof 2thdoofo thisame
omonth,whilefciiepr tti,
armed and full of men, off the island of Ithaca, and at nine
man-
nedin the
andarmed, morning,
a breeze springing up, we made all sail after the vessel,
and about twelve at noon, got her within range of our
great guns, when Lieutenant Grant manned and armed the
large cutter, and went in chase, the water getting too shoal
for the ship to approach nearer the shore, when the vessel
commenced a heavy fire of round and grape on our• three
and kept
boats ; we, in return, commenced firing on board the ship
to ccver the boats. There was now a running fight with
the vessel and our boats for two hours each, going at the
rate of four miles an hour. We in the ship covered our
boats with round shot from our great guns : at about three
p. ni. the boats got hold of the stern boat of the enemy ;
the breeze then sprung up, and the vessel got more head
way, when we found our boats drop, and the enemy run on
shore. The boats returned with the First Lieutenant
wounded in the hand dangerously; Second Lieutenant
wounded in the shoulder, and his collar-bone broke
through ; the shots in both cases remain, as they cannot be
got at. The carpenter, Mr. Case, was shot through the
fleshy part of his right arm ; two marines and two seamen
killed ; two dangerously wounded, and not expected to live,
and others slightly. We then found that the vessel had
barricaded herself so with planks, &c., that we could do
nothing further with the boats. We came to an anchor,
and fired at her for a mark, and after amusing them in
that way for about ten minutes, they made signs for us to
send our boat. We did so, well manned and armed on all
points. Our boats boarded her, and found her to be a
Turkish man-of-war of four guns, and 50 men. We had
killed the Captain and six men before we had got alongside.
After heaving the dead overboard, we took the Turks on
board our boats, and set fire to the vessel, as sine was shot
to pieces, and unable to float. We then made for the har-
bour—the Turks, 16 in number, are now on board the
Pelican, and we expect to take them to Smyrna, to-he
given up tb the Turkish Government—Hampshire Tele-
graph.