The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-13 00:00:00

MIDSHIPMEN:

Lieutenant COITCII, Royal Navy, presents his
best respects to the EDITOR of THE Sux with
the annexed information ter the benefit of the
Midshipmen who are to become the Commanders
of Fleets forty or fifty years hence.
Some Midshipmen of his Majesty's Fleet have
been imposed on and made to believe, that they
must not learn or acquire the perfections of their
profession, or exhibit any superiority of talent,
for fear they may give umbrage to their superior
Officers ; this is very injurious to the interests of
his Majesty and the Country, and will entirely
ruin this Navy if persisted in ; and is contrary to
the ideas of the late Admiral Sir Edward Hughes
with respect to Sir Richard Strachan ; the late
Admiral Lord Hood with respect to Sir Benjamin
Hollowell ; the late Earl Ilowe with respect to
the late Captain John Elphinston; each of them
having shewn himself superior in seamanship, and
the latter also in astronomical science to his Su,
perior and Patron ; and which superiority has
been the occasion of recommending them to im-
portant and particular commands, stations, and
services; Str Edward Hughes, Earl Howe, and
Lord Hood were above such childish maxims as
to ruin, or retard their promotion, because they
exhibited such talents ; on the contrary, they
recommend them strongly ; but, above all, it is
by the junior Officers improving on the perfec-
tions of the senior Officers that has caused the
British Navy to be superior to the Navy of five
hundred years back ; in one instance, Lieutenant
Couch can cite that the discouraging juniors to
exhibit superior seamanship to superiors is attend-.
ed with the most vital consequences to this King-
dom, in a Captain of Marines, with his coat off,
having taken upon him to reprimand the Captain
of a line-of-battle ship before the foremast men for
not laying his Majesty's ship in a proper manner
in action; and giving the llelm's-men and Quarter-
Master contrary orders to the Captain, First
Lieutenant, and Master.
Cans Fides, et vests, Britannia cum Sorori Georgius Jura
dabant:

With respect to the restoration of Lieutenant
Couch's property in part only, it has been re-
presented that he is desirous to obtain it oil un-
justifiable grounds ; he does not sue in conse-
quence of his having saved four hundred merchant
vessels, worth twenty million of pounds, and two
line-of-battle ships, with the lives of those on
board ; he only sues for a restoration of one
quarter part of the propertyjhe has been deprived
of, and lost in different ways, when supporting
the Crown of Great Britain, and preserving, at
the risk of his own life, the contributions of war
taxes; he does not even ask to be paid for the
means he has furnished this rich kingdom with,
of saving more than one hundred thousand pounds
per annum by a Report of Guard ; and on the
restoration of his property he does not even ask
for a pension, or arrear of pension, for hurts he
received in saving the lives and credit of British
Naval Commanders, after, too, he had subsisted
and clothed both military and naval officers for
two years together, without having been reim-
bursed in the least : In citing the law as touching
the oaths of the Members of the Imperial British
Parliament, with respect to the restoration of this
quarter part of his property, he claims on the
precedent of Lieutenant Home Popham, but on
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Hoop EltY.—.oll Wednesday morning Mr. Wm.
TREAUWELL (one of the Society of Friends), a
cheesemonger, at Kensington, left his house, as
was his custom, about five o'clock, to proceed to
the London markets, leaving every thing safe.
Shohly after his departure, his mother heard a
noise, like the unlocking of the street door ; but
it did not alarm her, as she thought it was the
shopman who had had permission the previous
evening to go to the Theatre, and to sleep with a
friend. When she came down stairs, however,
she found that a tin cash box, which was kept in.
the drawer of a bureau in the parlour, had beers
forced open, and about 801. in cash stolen. Some
silver and papers were strewed. about the floor.
The thief or thieves must have entered the street
door with a false key, as it was found locked.
The box appeared to have been forced with at
small crow-bar.

A t lianham, Gloucestershire, on Monday, a
boy named James Weymouth, about six years old, whilst
running by the side of his father, who was driving a waggon,
fell down in consequence of his foot striking against a stone,.
and before his father could stop the horses, both wheels of the.
waggon had gone over him, and deprived him of life.