Portsmouth:

The Carysfort, 26, Captain George H. Seymour, arrived at Spithead March 15, from the Pacific. She sailed from Valparaiso on the 2nd of December in company with the Collingwood, 80, and the Constance, 50, and parted company on the 5th. She arrived at Bahia on the 25th of January, and sailed thence on the 29th direct for England. Affairs at Bahia at this date were very flourishing. Rate of exchange 47žd. per milrei for Government bills. At Bahia she met the Seagull, packet, with the Hon. Mr. Gore, the British Envoy, on board, from Rio.

On Monday, January 25, the Carysfort spoke the barque Duke, in lat. 16° 2' ; 35° 15' W., who desired to be reported at Lloyds. The Carysfort has brought 2,127,681 dollars on merchants` account, which Captain Sayer, wine-merchant and freight-agent, of this port, has the conveyance of to London. She brought no diamonds from Bahia ; her freight is 47 loose bars and 928 boxes of silver. She has brought home Major Delacombe, Commander Parke (on promotion), Mr. Hope (midshipman), and Mr. Quick (carpenter), all of the Constance, and eight invalids from the squadron, together with mails from Valparaiso and Bahia. and despatches from the British Consul for the Home-office, and from Sir George Seymour for the Admiralty.

The Carysfort has been completely round the world since she left this port. She left England on the 12th of March, 1846, with His Excellency Sir Charles Fitz Roy, the Governor of Australia, and family.

She touched on her passage out at Madeira, Cape of Good Hope, landed Sir Charles Fitz Roy at Sydney, New South Wales ; touched at New Zealand, then proceeded to her station, Valparaiso ; thence she sailed to Mexico, St. Blas, Mazatlan and Guyamas (California), returned to Valparaiso, and home. She wants a year longer to complete the usual term of sea service ; and most likely that time, at least, will be got out of her present commission, as she is just now in most perfect man-of-war trim and order ; her crew are thoroughly efficient, and well up to their duties ; the vessel, in short, is fit to be sent to any part of the world. She will come into harbour to-morrow to disembark her treasure, which will be despatched to London by the South Coast Railway via Brighton. She did not see the Asia, 84, Rear Admiral Phipps Hornby, on her passage.

SG & SGTL Vol 5 ; p 184

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