Star.
London, England, 1829-08-17 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Slabs Asanren Tens Dar—Dublin 2—Waterford 2—Guernsey
and Jersey 2—Sweden I—Hamburgb I—Flanders I—France 1
—Holland I—Brazil I—Buenos Ayres 1.
The Hope, Brisbane, from London to the South Seas, was to.
tally lost 23d April, 1828. on the bland of South Georgia.
The Air Balloon, from Sunderland to Chatham, sprung a leak
and sunk, of Scarborough, oo Thursday morning.
Tibustina, of Buenos Ayres, was totally lost of Colons on
the 24 June.
Jenny. Ave. 11.—Arrived the Canopus, Ressignol, and Larch,
Le Geyt, front Rio Janeiro
Diaz, N.N.E.—Arrived the Samuel Crawley,
Hutchinson, from the Mauritius.
Aug. 16.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Robert Sherburne, Ed-
was de. from New York ; Affieck, —, from the West Indies; and
Alchymist. —, front Sierra Leone. Arrived front London the
Emerald, —, tot Quebec.
Poarassourti, Ave. 15.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived his Majesty's
ship Onyx, irom a cruise ; Amphitrite transport, front Dover ;
and Cambria, Champlin, from New York. Sailed the Juliana.
Turbutt, front Calcutta.
Psratorni, Avg. 13.—Wind W.— Arrived the Nile, Esther,
trona Gallipoli. Of port, the Felicity, Carle, from Rio Janeiro ;
and, from London. the Ciaudioe, Hestbron, front New South Wales.
Eacsiousm, Aua. 14.—Arrived the Camden packer, Iron' Buenos
Ares—sailed 9th June, and trout Monte Video 13th ; Kingfisher
packet, from Rio Janeiro—sailed 18th June, from Bahia 2.1 July,
and Pernambuco loth ; also the Archimede, Meru, (rum Smile.
Arm. 15.—Arrived the Halkin, Kilts, front Faro. Sailed the
Spbynx packet, for the Brazils; and Magnet ditto, fur Lisbon.
PORTSMOUTH, Auourr 15.
His Majesty's ship Rainbow. 28, Capt. the Hon. Henry Rous.
arrived on Monday trout the Rest Indies. She lett Trincomalee
on the 30th of April, the Cape on the 15th of June (having re-
mained five days in Sinson's Bay,) St. Helena the 26th of June.
and Ascension on the 24 July. When the Rainbow left Trinco-
malee.AdmiralGage was lying there, with the Java, Crocodile, and
Cochin (tender.) The Pandora was trot-ing to the eastward. Tee
Satellite was expected at Madras, In July, on her return from New
Holland, the Success having gone down to relieve her. The Crui-
zier had not arrived. His Majesty's ship Hind had been sold at
Bombay for 23,500 rupees and the officers and ship's company
turned over to the Andromeda, a new teak 44 gun frigste, espected
to be ready for sea oa the 15th of June. The completing of the
110 gun ship, Calcutta, building, bad been suspended, owing to the
death of her soperinteudant, Mr. Pone:fen, and she was
to be housed over as soon as the rainy weather set in.—
Lieutenant-Colonel Bird, of his Majesty's 16th Regiment, and
Captain Dawson, of the Engineers, died at Colombia in March,
the former front cholera, and the latter owing to dysentery, brought
on by exposure to the weatlea, when employed in surveying
Adam's Bridge, where it is in the contemplation of the Ceylon
Government to improve the navigation for coa.tiug vessel., by
blasting through a reef of rocks. At present weasels are obliged
to land their cargoes, to cross a bar of six feet. The pearl fishery
at Aripn had been let for 40.000 pound• this season, but had been
subsequently abandoned, owing to fever and great mortality among
the natives engaged In it. The utmost tranquillity prevailed
throughout India, and the squadron was healthy. At the Cape his
Majesty's ship Comet left Simuses Bay for Lodi', on the 13th June;
the bark Sir Edward Lounthe, homeward-bound from Bombay,
on the 14th ; and his Majesty's ship Espoir on the 15th, to cruise
off St. Helena and Ascension, in search of a pirate which had been
seen in that quarter. Commodore Schoenberg, in his Majesty's
ship Maidstone, with the Falcon, were about to sail for the MAU.
ritiva, to relieve the Juror, leasing the Tweed, Lord Henry
Churchill, in Simon's Bay. The Challenger and Sulphur had both
gone up Swan River, but not any information had been received
from them, or from the French squadron which had preceded
them on the west coast of Australia. The Company's ship Mait-
land, with part of the 47th Regiment, and the Barossa, from Cal-
cutta, were at St. Ilekna ; the latter sailed in company with the
Rainbow. The transport Henry Porcher, Lieutenant Bin.tead,
Royal Navy, was lying In Ascension Roads, and was to sail on the
25th ultimo, with Lieutenant Bandritt, sat the Royal Engineers,
who by that time would have completed the survey of the island,
and Captain Suckling, invalided worn his Majesty's ship Medina.
The garrison at Ascension were on short allowance of water, having
to supply the transport with twelve tuns. The Rainbow, on het
voyage, tell in with the brig Caroline, outward-bound, in lat. 1.45.
N. long. 23. 6. W. and with a trig in lat. 42. 47. N. long. Si. 48.
W. with her foremast and bowsprit standing, stripped of her rigging
and water-logged. She appeared to be American-built, and about
Itto tons.
The Rainbow has visited every port in India, New Zealand,
Timor, Braila, and has twice gone down to New Holland. She
left Van Dieman's Land on the 11th of November, crossed the
line in 178 deg. East, touchrd at Quam (Ladtones), on the 25th
of December, Manilla on the 10th of January, c-me down the
China Sea to Singapore, Penang, Madras, Trincomalee, Colombo ;
refitted at Bombay the beginning of April ; returned to Trinco-
malee; and front thence home—having run a distance of 27,479
miles in the last nine months, and 81,617 miles since she left this
port, on the 30th of November, 1825, the longest distance on
record. The passengers by her front India are—Lieutenants
Philips and Crosble, ILN: and Ideut. the Hon. H. Keppel, from
the Cape. She came into harbour oa Wednesday, to be paid off.
Letters front his Majesty's ship Madagascar, 46, Captain the
Honourable Robert Spencer, dated Zante, July 21, have been re-
ceived. Captain Spencer had been mach indisposed, but was re-
covered.
It is expected the Hyadntir, 18, at Plymouth, will be speedily
brought forward for commission.
The Champion, 18 guns Captair. Scott, was at Sierra Leone
on the 18th of May ; the idea had been also there, but left on the
21st, oo a short cruise. her crew being very sickly. The Cham-
pion, after leaving Col. Nichols at Fernando Pu, would proceed to
her station, Halifax.
'lke Prince of Baden (son of the Grand Duke) has this week
visited this port, and been received with the customary honours.
His Highness went on board the Victory, and disembarked from
her under royal salutes, and inspected the dock-yard.
. Apartments have been this week engaged at the George inn, in
this town, by the Marquis de Uarbacena and the Comte Cbretien
Samsoe, for the reception of the Empress of Brazils (who is un
her way hither), and the young Queen of Portugal, who will re-
pair to this port front Laleham, on the arrival of ber Royal Step-
mother, to hold an interview with her prier to the Empress leav-
ing Europe to join her Royal Consort at Rio de Janeiro.
Vice. Admiral the Hoo. Sir Henry Blackwood, Batt. K.C.B.
Commander-in-Chief at the Nore. hoisted his flag this afternoon
on board the Melville, 74, Captain Schonberg, prepatatory to his
sitting as a member at the Court Martial, which is expected to
commence on Thursday or Friday nest, un Captain It. Dickinson,
CB. Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir C. Paget. K.C.B. is on his
passage to this port for the same purpose, in the Pearl, 20, Captain
Blake. Several witnesses have also arrived, among whom are
Commissioner Rose, the Hon. Captain Maude, Captains Baynes
Carson, Drake. and Robinson; Admiral Sir E. Cudrington, and
Captain J. A. Omnsanney, will also be in attendance.
The Committee of Naval Officers, consisting sat Vice-Admiral
Sir Lawrence Halstead. Y.C. (Chairman), Rear Admiral Sir
Thomas Hardy, K.C.B, Commodore J. C. White (William and
Mary yacht), Captain Brace, C. 13, Captain William Parker, C.B.
(Prince Regent yacht), and Captain Hayes, C.B. appointed to ar-
range the present rigging warrants, &c. met in a room appropriated
for their reception, at the building in this dock-yard, designed for
the Students of Naval Architecture, on Tuesday, where they have
*see continued their sittings daily.
The Depot of the 90th Regiment marched into Portsmouth
Garrison on Monday front Fort Cumberland, to occupy the quar-
ters vacated by the Depot of the Rifles.
The ship Marquis of Lansdown passed by a few days since, fur
the River, from Van Dientan's Laud, which place she left an the
31st March. Mr. Bethune, Mr. and Mr.. Ranters, Dr. R. Broom
Icy, R. N. Mrs. Walkinshaw, Pitcairn, Parsons, and Mrs. Conner,
came passengers in ber. She spoke the brig Sunbury, from Liver-
pool to Batavia, on the 27th June ; and on the 12th Ally, the brig
James, front Rio Janeiro to Guernsey, and the same day the ship
Warrens, from Otabeite to Loodoo, with 200 tuns of oil on board,
with which she kept company till the 19th, when falling in with a.
shoal of whales, the Warrens began to strike some of then'.
The Helen, Round, which sailed from the Mauritius Bth Fe-
bruary for Madagascar and Cape of Good Hope ; and the Courier,
Reed, which sailed from Zante Bth February, for London, have.
not since been beard of. The Voter Chalooer, Capt. Watt, from
the Bay of Chaleur, for Liverpool, was totally lost off Cape Canso
28th Jane—crew saved. The ship Perseverance, Brawn, from
Liverpool to Calcutta, was totally lost on the night of the 28th Fe-
bruary, ow Narsapoor Point; ber crew and cargo, to the value of
90,000 rupees, were saved by the brig Coringo Swarms.
The ship Sarah, which arrived en Thursday from the River, has
this afternoon taken on board two hundred male convicts from the
hulks in our harbour for Sydney ; they are under the superioten-
dente of Mr. Alexander Osborne, surgeon, with a guard of the
63d Regiment. Four other shim are now fitting in the River for
the same deatinetioaa Government having determined on sending
out this year at least 4,000 of these delinquents. fleshly Sorry,
Kemp, sailed front Spitbead, for Van Dieman's Land, on Monday
last, with 109 of them on board, ander the charge of Dr. Henry
Gordon Brock. R.N.
Wednesday sailed the George, Lang. for Jamaica ; and yeeterdre'
the Winstead, Friend, for the Swan River. with .early 900 set.
tkvs, and a full cargo of necessaries and agricultural implements.
Yesterday. passed by the Sir Thomas Munro, from Maim. ern,
the lethal February ; and today, the Akhrasid, &emu% from
NOM Leona for Lttladaa, le 114 days.