The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-20 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 18.—The Marshal Bennett
transport, Lieutenant Spencer, agent, arrived here
on Tuesday, in thirty-one days from Barbadoes, and
twenty-six days from St. Kitts, with naval and mili-
tary stores and invalids (the latter under the care of
Dr. P. O'Callaghan, of the 27th Regiment), and
ten surgeons from the different medical establish-
ments which have been reduced, in consequence of
the improved state of health of the Islands. The
crops had suffered considerably from a most unusual
drought, scarcely any rain having fallen for the last
nine months. Lieutenant-Gcneral Sir James Lyon
had just returned to Barbadoes from a tour of it.-
speetion, after an absence of two months.
Extract of a letter from Sierra Leone, dated May
12, says—" The rains have just set in with their
usual violence, but I am happy to say, that with one
exception nothing but a few mild cases of fever have
occu►red amongst the resident Europeans with the
change of season. His Majesty's ships Medina,
llecla, and Eden, are lying in the river. The Me-
dina from a cruise, the Ilecla pursuing her survey-
mg engagements, and the Eden for provisions.
Captain Owen, of the Eden, is in good health, and
brought some favourable reports from Fernando Po.
Commodore Collier, in the Sybille, has just sent up
a schooner with 185 slaves on board."

The Pallas, 42, Captain Fitzehuence, sailed on
Wednesday, for Calcutta, with the Earl of Dal-
housie (appointed Commander-in-Chief of the
Forces in the Last Indies) and the Bishop of Cal-
cutta. The Pallas will touch at Madeira, and there
remain for the protection of the British interests,
until the arrival of the Seringapatam, when she will
proceed to her destination. On this service the
Seringapatam will be employed until relieved by
some other man of war. The Briton, 46, Hon.
Capt. Gordon, will, in all probability, relieve her.
The Helicon, 10 guns, has been broken up in the
River; and Captain Talbot, the officers, and crew
of that ship, have been turned over to the Algerine,
10 guns, which sloop will be launched at Chatham
in about three weeks.

The thiyx, 10, Lieut. Boteler, sailed on Thurs-
day, on a cruise. The Lightning steam-vessel pro-
ceeded yesterday to the Eastward.

A Court Martial was yesterday held on board the
Victory (flag ship), in the Harbour, of which Capt.
A. W. Schomberg, of his Majesty's ship Melville,
was President, to try Lieut. Sison, his Officers, and
ship's company, far the loss of his Majesty's packet
Myrtle, on the Ragged Islands, off the coast of
Nova Scotia, on her voyage to Halifax, when the
Court determined that the loss of the Myrtle was
occasioned by an unexpected western current, and
that blame was imputable to Lieut. Sison and Mr.
Nicholas Hill, the Acting Master, in not having
hove the lead, knowing their contiguity to the shore,
and therefore severely reprimanded Lieut. Sison and
the Master. The rest of the crew were acquitted.
APPOINTMENTS.— Commander Shepheard, to the
Barham ; Mr. W. White (3), to be Master of the
Astrea; Mr. Windeycr to be Purser of the Ordi-
nary at Chatham; Mr. Fry, Purser of the William
and Mary yacht, will act as Purser of the ships in
Ordinary in the River Thames.

By virtue of the recent Act passed for the better
regulating and managing the affairs of Greenwich
Hospital, all applications for the refund of unclaimed
shares of prize-money paid into that institution must
-be made to the Treasurer of the Navy; and the
unclaimed and forfeited shares of prize-money, &c.
will in future be paid into his hands, instead of
being added to the funds of the Hospital, as hi-
therto. The books of the prize department, late
of Greenwich Hospital, are now removed to the
Navy Pay Office.

The Plymouth Regatta takes place on Tuesday
and Wednesday next, and that at Torquay on the
Friday following.
It has been stated in the London Papers that a
fraud in the Revenue has been brought to light in
unpacking the cases of which the cargo of the Cam
Brea Castle consisted, and that brick-bats and
other rubbish had been found in some packages
that purported to contain glass and other commo-
dities, on which a heavy drawback is allowed.—
We have made diligent inquiries at our Custom-
house arid of the brokers, and have also seen nearly
the whole of the packages and their conteuts,and
we find that the cases and description exactly cor-
respond with the Manifest, and that their contents
are strictly conformable to the invoices furnished to
the Underwriters ; and that the cargo, in the
whole, is adapted, without collusion, to the Indian
markets.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 18.—The Athol, 28, Captain
A. Gordon, for the coast of Africa, and the Favo-
rite, Captain Harrison, for the Mediterranean, both
at Portsmouth, are expected to be ready to sail
about the end of the present month.

The Portland, 52, double-banked frigate, has
been this week brought down the harbour, and is
expected to be commissioned, to replace the Bar-
ham, lately on shore in the West Indies.
By advices from Curacoa, to the 11th June, we
learn that after several attempts it was found im-
possible to heave down the Barham, to repair her
main keel, which is damaged, but they were to
make another trial.

In Ilamoaze—Britannia, Kent, Triticulo, Nim-
rod, Lightning, Lyra, Reynard, Antelope tender,
and Meteor steam-vessel.

LOCKE.

In our extracts from the Life of Locice, we acci-
dentally omitted the following letter, near the last
that Locke ever wrote. It is addressed to his re-
lative and executor, Peter King, afterwards Lord
Chancellor King :

" Oates, June 1, 1701.

" I have received no letters from you since the
20th. I remember it is the end of a term, a busy
time with you, and you intend to be here speedily,
which is better than writing at a distance. Pray be
sure to order your matters so as to spend all the
next with me; as far as I can impartially guess, it
will be the last week I am ever like to have with
you; for if I mistake not very much, I have very little
time left in the world. This comfortable, and to me
usually restorative season of the year, has no effect
upon me for the better; on the contrary, my short-
ness of breath, and uneasiness, every day increases;
my stomach, without any visible cause, sensibly
decays, so that all appearances concur to warn me
that the dissolution of this cottage is not far off.
Refuse not, therefore, to help me to pass some of
the last hours of my life as easy as may be, in the
conversation of one who is not only the nearest,
but the dearest to me of any man in the world. I
have a great many things to talk to you, which I can
talk to nobody else about. I therefore desire you
again, deny not this to my affection. I know nothing
at such a time so desirable, and se useful, as the
conversation of a friend one loves and relies on. It
is a week free from business, or, if it were not,
perhaps you would have no reason to repent the be-
stowing a day or two upon upon me. Make haste,
therefore, on Saturday, and be here early ; I long
till I see you. I writ to you in my last to bring some
cherries with you, but fear they will be troublesome
to you ; and these things that entertain the senses
have lost with me a great part of their relish; there-
fore give not yourself any trouble about them ; such
desires are usually but the fancy seeking pleasure in
one thing, when it has missed it in another, and seeks
in vain for the delight which the indisposition of the 1
body has put an end to. When I have your corn-
parry I shall forget these kind of things.
" I am, dear cousin, your most affectionate,

" J. LOCKE."

Madame VESTItIS has leturned from Dublin,
having received 7001. for twelve nights' exhibition. Her
engagement, however, was a bad speculation for the
manager; inasmuch as the receipts of the house, for three
nights, amounted to 1551., out of which Madame VESTRIS
received 1501. Her benefit was a bumper, and the Duchess
of NORTHUMBERLAND attended in her own private box.
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