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Deatd of Capt. Btngham.-The following are the particulars of the circumstances which led to the death of this officer, then In command of the British ship Thetis:

 It appears that the Thetis being left at the anchorage off the Island of Puma, Capt. Bingham, accompanied by his son and an other midshipman, and Mr. Henry Hall, chaplain, embarked in the boats to proceed up the river to the city, off winch they ar rived on the evening of the 10th. In en- sering tho port Capt. Bingham's boat ran across the hawse of the French brig La fayette, at anchor, it being very dark, and the tide running five or six knots an hour at the time. Being heavily laden with bal last, she stove and sunk mmediately and although the gig was in company, and other boats dashed off to assst them, only five sailors, the midshipman, and Capt. Bing- hams son were saved neither the body of Capt, B. nor Mir. Hall, had been found on the following day, when the news of the sad event left GuayaquiI.

 Capt. B. commanded the sioop Little Belt, in the rencontre with the American ffigate President, Commodore Rodgers.

 