The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-22 00:00:00

LIEUTENANT COUCH.

Lieutenant JouN Covcu, of the. Ttoynl Navyi
having been arrested for a fictitious debt, and violently as..
saulted at nine o'clock at night, on thd lath inst., !while•quiet
in his house, by anumbeicof.men with bludgeons, who broke
in, at the door of his house leading into the, back garden; and
is now in the Debtor's Pfison, Reading Jail, for want of pe-
cuniary assistance to obtain the Law, and Bail,
.Being thus circumstanced, hp-ht./breed to ask thp Sovereigns
of Europe to be so kind as to grant him some pecuniary benefit
for: the national improvements which he has, from time.to time,
supplied the underwritten Monarchs with, according, to the
subjoined statement.
TO his Imperial ItlaseStV the Emperor of All the Rosales
acknowledged by the Right Hon..Count,Lieven, Ambassatior,
A main topmast storm stay-sail ; a mizen. stnrm-stay, try-sail •
swivel frame-blocks ; water.proof kite and calitic,. tn"-be geed
when :ships are wrecked, where Captain M anby 'a mortars- Marc
not stationed ; venticulian apparatus to render every boat (even
the smallest), a complete life-boat and a safe conveyance through
the most tremendous sutf;a Limbereitain,for merchants' ships
and vessels, approved of by. Sir Robert Seppings.this.Britannie
Majesty's Surveyor of the Navy ; a method for proventinK the
burning of men of war in the manner in which his late AI sty's
ship Queen Charlotte was destroyed; and sot-net:Alter litre: battle
ships at different times under the same eiretirostancek s• a set of
solar tables of the earth's hypallage, centred ‘ in. the sung' a•set
of lunar tables constructed upon, a new system,, which-ensures
correct results; Whereas the system which wasfevery-vehere
' made use of throughout the world, was an acknowledgedaystero
of Tycho's, or Tychonic system,
.setting forth that, although
the stars were fixed they had a motion, theyrosc, passed the
meridian, and set.
• His Majesty the Sovereign of Denmark, The ventleoleart
Apparatus, and a 'method. for fittiora .life.host i t the proper
manner; the before-mentioned water-proof kite anil-esilitsti,N,
Ills Majesty the Sovereign of Sweden, itlaiteloomaauitdirssz
stay-sail mizen storm-stay try-sail s. Limber chain ; and forma
for• constructing astronomical tables, according, tp I,igutenant
Couch's system, answering. to. the. NAW tun tan theory of gravity,
and reducing
.the operations four-fiftlis. and ,aywards, .at the
same time giving more. accurate results, because the formation
of the tables every where in useihroughout'Ettropedid.oot
nit of a correct result. . „ ,

His Majesty the Sovereign of the Netherlands, A Limber
chain: water-proof kite and calit:+a, for which. an often was
scut to Reading, in. January 1819, by the Admiralty cif ,the
Netherlands, in order, it was said by the application inclosed
in the Letter of Credence, to make a 'valuation. ' ,

To Admiral Lord Viscount Keith for the sum a Mi.,.being
the amount of an.original sum added to compound interest at
five per cent. (because Lieutenant Couch was charged nineteen
and a half par cent. on his income by the: Admiral's Secre-
tary), for superintending prizes at the. Cape of Good Hope, ac
cording to Lord Iteith's.written order, .entting.,lnrth>
sum per day which. order was signed-by his Lordship, and
sent to Alr..Couch to copy. This written order was given hint
after Mr. Couch, :as :Midshipman, had remained on heard: his.
Majesty's ship .Darflenr, when he found the niagaisine. nn fjre-,
and a suit of new sails ignited, anti forrning, ono male u Ate ;
and by his constancy in remaining on ,board when: it Was nis
interest to have swam. on .shere and left thootficeta. and crew
to their fate, it.heing a tine night, and after, too. Mr. Coach
had, at the evacuation of Toulon, watched „over Lord Keith's
life, and saved the life of orie of the, Lieutenants, when no
other officer. mould take charge of the chip, in tuth", important
night, when at half cable service,_ with three thousand- super;.
numeraries hoard, (six of whom were trampled,. to death)
abreast fort La Mahfue ; ,Lard Keith raps ,three, tithes .1 x the.
rirfecrooufetethwaeltlchgetbneartanulygbdt.,oianngtisl;sialeariidttmeithip" arnn4siweesreddtt
deny,
and all that night and partof the winning the duty of Lieutenant
of the Watch also.
Debtors' Prison Reading, Sept. . ,

Letters from LagosYrat received in, Now York by' way or
;Philadelphia, announce the arrival trf,:tbe fluseivahip Goode
1,200 tons, and 34 as tit'doo-g• twenty:four
pounders and l 0 earronades), and laden with railitarpelorhing,
stores, arms, and munitions of all kinds, for the Colombian
Government, the whole valued at upwards of one million of
dollars.