The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-27 00:00:00

'OR THE SUN:

THE ROYAL NAVY:
ni-ida.7-711aving observed stated in an
Opposition Paper, that the °Meer's Of the Rosa:
Navy are liable to he dis Missed at the pleasUre
•
of the litsG, by the advice ,of his *Ministers,
without any cause being assigned, I begjeave to
acquaint you, that the Writer IS quite mistaken;
Officers of the Navy cannot be dimissed,except for
reasons approved of by the Jaws of the country.
The person who is denominated Major CART-
WRIGIiT, is a Commander in the Royal Navy;
though so exceptionable in his political con-
duct, yet his Majesty has never attempted
to dismiss hint. The present Duke of St.
ALBANS was dismissed the Navy, lint he took
the sense of the twelve Judges; and Mi=

nisters were forced to restore him to his rank,
which he still holds, as Lieutenant-. .In the year
1788, he even was promoted. The present'Ad-
miral Sir S. COFFIN, who is a great Opposer of
:Ministers in the House of Commons, was also dis-
•missed the service ;
.but by the opinion of the
Judges they were forced to restore him -to the
rank he then held, a Post Captain. In the case
of Lord COCIIRANE, and another recent case, the
Officers (whether justly or not) had been con-
victed of conducting themselves in a dishonour-
able and degrading manner, which made it im-
possible to retain them in that high-spirited
service,. and which would have induced •the
inferior. Officers to refuse" - serving under.
them. Lord COCHRANE having been dismiss-
ed the- Order of the Bath, Would' not after-
wards of course remain in the Royal Navy.—
But no Officer in that service has ever been
dismissed for any potitical. opinion, or for any
thing except what would be sanctioned by the lawS
of honour and the Nation. They have their redress,
as the above instances prove. ,As to the Army;
I cannot speak so positively, as I never knew of
any Officer in that service having-thy power to
appeal against the decision of Government. The
regulations of the Army are very different from
those of the Navy. The. Military are placed
more absolutely under the Government. Their
court-Martials cannot promulgate a sentence
until it is approved of ; but in the. Navy the sen-
tence comes out at once. No one has the iiower
to approve or disapprove it ; nor can they be or-
dered to revise a sentence. Respecting the

lßoyal Navy, the. Paper to which I have alluded
should not assert what it is quite ignorant,
For example, in giving the styles of Military
Officers, it ranks them as Generals, Lieutenant-
Generals, and Major-Generals ;but in the Navy
it speaks only of " Admirals," not knowing that

there are iriCe,Admirals and Hear-Admirals
also, and whOse difference of rank is the same as
that in the different grade; of Generals. He may
know something of the Army, but of the Royal
Navy he . appears quite. ignorant. Such asser-
tions as the one I allude to, mislead the Country,
and should be contradicted in the most. public
mapper. I am, Sir, .

Your most obedient Servant,
A CONSTITUTIONALIST.

C II N A.

NOTICE TO-.ALL BRITIza SUBJECTS TO LEAVE

CANTON.

. • .
Whereas the Honourable Court of .Directors of the United
Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East Indies,
.possessing by the Acts of the British Legislature full- powers.
and authority to control all British subjects in China, have de-
clared that the residing of any persons in (''::ins-the whole year,
•is a practice' they will by no means..permit ;. and whereas cer-
tain indentureS having been entered into by the owners or coin-
manders of all-vessels trading to this port from the different.
ports in India,
.wher,i)y. they have covenanted, promised, and
agreed, to-and with the said United Company., their. successors,
and assigns, that no person or persons whomsoever, of or be-
longing to the said §itip or vessel, or who shall go or be carried
in her to China, as a supercargo or passenger, or otherwise, shall
be left at -Canton, or any otherplace in the. empire of .China,
after the said ship shall have come from thence, or beyond the
same season ; but that ail such persons shall return from China
in the saitliship or
_vess.3, or in-some other which shall leave
China. the same season. - .•
_Now, we, the President, .&c. of the Select Committee for
managing all the, affairs of the- English nation inThina, do
hereby give this public notice to all persons, whether Europeans
or. natives
.of • India, corning to this •country,. subject to and
trading under the British .flag, in order that they may act in
conformity to thA terms of the,aforetiaid - indenture. And we.
farther give notice, that in the eventof their not'conforrning
thereto,
.aud. being. proved resident. in China after the 2d of.
April next, that it is our determination-to report such infraction
of the indenture entered into by the -ownr,.-.1 or commanders of
the vessel .that' brought them to Chind,' to -the Goverxiinent of.
• the Presidency from. whence-they sailed, in order fliat- the
nalties thus incurred may be duly And lawfully enforced.. ."
(Signed). .
• JA ES •13. • URMSTON, W. FRASEII.
~ - • JA3I ES 1110 LON , - BOS A SQUE T.
Canton, October 19, 1:.;.:29. . •

ACCIDENTS IN COLLIERIES.

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• ' We have to add three instances tothe mclancholflist Of fa,
tal accidents- to Which the lives of miners are ever exposed: The
first took place at Ebenezer Colliery, near West Bromwich,
wheajohm•Butler, James Nash, Thomas Lawton, John. Cot-
terel, John- Ilicks, and Itowland Morris, were with several'
othe'rS in one-pit;,when a great_qUantity of coal and iron stone,
about thirty tong weight, 'suddenly gave way, and the rockStond
fell upon the sixiinen above named, the first five of whoni were
instantaneously. killed, and the other, Itowlaud 3lorris lilacs.'buta few minutes. Their iodic.(were very much bruised when
taken* front under the stone-,'and ebriveyedtO their respectivii.l
horne,s.;..those.of 'Nash,• liawton; ' and - dotterel, to Darrston ; i
that of Butler .to Wednesbury ; Hicks,
.to West Bromwich.; 1
'and Monis, to Tiptim.--LThe next unfortunate eatastrophe we
have. to -notice, which,though similar in its nature,- was hap- 1
pity not so destructive in its results, oceurred.on the Same stay.
at Grove Land •Volliery, in the parish of Rowley llegis,
when upward.‹-of ten tons weight of coal f :II upon the body
of. .I.isepli Sliclilen, and killed hinaalmoSeliarnadiately.--:
Inquisitions were held on .31onday last, and verdicts. of " Ac
cident:al Death" 'were: returned upon the bodies by die „Turks..
Thi • third accident occurredjin the county of ; Northunitier-
land.' It appears *some .111asons were ernployed•iri repairing or
altering the.chimney_of the engine below in New'nottle colliery,•
p_ntl about half-pait ten o';lock on Wednesday night they com-
plained of want-of air. *Curry, one of the vvastemeri, in order'
to remedy this, inconvenience, broke down a 'stopping, but un-•
fortunatcly,_ by,niista.lie, broke one that lctkitlto an .old. wastq,
the foal air in WhfCh burst into the pit, and ignited, but being,
• wb:t'ls Called a staritliirig- fire, soon- went•out: CArry-wds suf-
-focated On the sot; tile; rest of the men escaped. (~,,, ;of tif&i,
through the „tiro' to the Horton; .of the shaft, thou i.;(11 anicli,
burnt. Ori the wtniiirren- coming di Wn at twelve '^o'elock;.(tlle
"hour of. ehanging),•The.acciclent wia.diseciVer'ecr, and everk..ti.-
I„ertion-..niade; ti,ve 0
to. ~
,urry,,but :withou of
te:et.- 7:Several :Mtn!.
who went into4thedangeroukparts otf. the pit,were•overcome by
"the foblniis'of 'the iiir, and wereg in' consequence, 'unable to, re::
-.turn.- 'On, the:arrival of Zir.'ilill;lhe viewer; id- the pit,. he
frannediateli
allb.dien . I„eY ieoi,.-piiic.c...,,dipg when i-jfeowe; C
...Ace',' w,bo. was
linich iveakerred )41.-:hli • -foinrer descent's, I 1. -•'Mr. Hill.f4ll
(I,lscended with Grorgc Steel,. the'ovcrimi, and
iranutliiittiyia,NOirds, anti" stirs iirritil:outto 'the befit:4ll-'69
, Vii 0,21.4,11 y the otli 4. man,'_t. aslifFht.N.: • state. . iljpxits:p;oiltoi.,
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`'d 6rt'filidaccm'VE: 'to house...neari tbe,i?i.tlng 9t the
pOtettgl; ft in,ki 47 ' rcsivelmsW.be%*.fificueu. frearliisAituhtio4.
the vital spitrkbod.,; flea..
.4..1.1 all, ,sl,ii,,xnen - 4ave„potished, 44,
'titib.; of thttc'etikir.aiilissfeeri
.14velfotllileti,. large fa,pi11ii,...7,

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MRS. 0 VIA SERRES.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)

To the EDITOR of, or. rather to the WAR WICKSIIIRE
W. 44,4 711 r THE 3.IORNING CHRONICLE of yesterday.
• 10, Nel.Bridge-street, Oct. 2'o, 1821,

Sin,,l'shouldhave been more satisfied had you addressed
me,ins wad of the former, under the signature of " A NVar-
Wickshire.Lad," whO, with the lasses,.. as -our immortal Bard,
and your • countryman •Shakespeare,, says, were "'all joyful in
their Passes." -‘ Your county of Warwick has been famed in
ancient fabulous history---first, fbr your any, Earl of Warwick,
who slew the Dun Cow ; and next, your Immortal Bard
Shakespeare, whose magic pen could raise up spirits from the
" vasty deep,"- and whoseinventiVe•genius,has been equalled,
if not excelled by your Wapping Lady-like Countrywoman, i
Miss-Olivia-,Wilmot, born and baptised at Warwick on the 15th
Ofainril, 1772, and :afterwards married to the celebtatedmarine
painter, Mr'.-Setres, whose • exhibition may be seen' at
Strand, and is well worth the notice of the.Virtuosi, and whom
our Heroine deserted, as also one. of her infant daughters, about
lfl• years ago, and with the assistance of her other daughter, has
assumed; by a letter written to me on the 25th Of April, 1820, ,
Royal and Legitimate pretensions, as the daughter of the late
Duke of Cumberland, who, she states, - was privatAy married
to his wife, Miss O.Wilmot, the supposed daughter of Vie Rev.
James Wilmot by a private marriage with the Princess Ponia-
towski, of Poland. The hocus pocus of all this exceeds the his-
tory of Guy Earl of Warwick, or even Jack the Giant Killer,
and as an Englishman, I feel ashamed that it has been allowed
so long to pasa without meeting with that exposure and punish-
ment which-imposture and fraud so imperatively call for, and
I itui .still more for the character of my country,. that
there could be any one in it, much Princes of the Bloodßoyal,
Noblemen, Members of Parliament, Judges and . Cotinsellors,
Clergymen, Ambassadors, Generals, Colonels and Captains,
Who could, either from their indolence or. ieenorance, support
the imposition Of thiS woinan by their corresponding and asso-
ciatingwith her. However, take the earliest leisure moment
to answer 'your letter, and- though I am not aware what reason,
you have for being surprised. " to see my name attached to a
correspondence with the
.soi-ilisante Princess of Cumber- ,
land," .yet I think that the worthy Proprietor " The Morn-
int; Chronicle" might with great propriety have expressed his
surprise at it, as he, in the early part , of my acquaintance with,
here told" me that " all her pretensions were a mere fudge;" but
I did not; indeed,' could not, believe his unexplained assertion,:
•
when opposed' to written documents, said to be signed by the.
late King, as also by his brother the Duke of Ctunberhand, -by
the late Lord Chatham, by Mr. Dunning; by the Earl of War-'
wick, by a- Mr. Addiz, by the Rev. James Wilmot, and hishro-
ther the sign painter, anti by the last but not least important'
signature, the late Duke of Kent, with whose hand-writing I
am well acquainted, having many of his letters in my posses-
sion, in some of which he acknowledges this woman as " his
loving cousin," but no doubt the Royal Duke was imposed upon
-by her. However, I did not alone rest-my faith on the late
Duke of Kent's opinion, but for a while thought the, different
documents to be genuine, from the belief that the woman, Who-
is a very bad English scholar, and a worse writer, did not.
possess the abilities (whatever might be - her inclination) to
.forge them, and in that belief I remained, - until I -received
information that she actually had forged them, and that kV:
a certain preparation • she had made: the scraps of paper,
:or rather rotten blank leaves out of old books, --on which they
all are written, to appear as ancient documents, &c: &c. . Now,
Sir, I will Skew you that I have not: been idle since my suspi-
cions have been awakened. I visited Mr. Thomas Wilmot at
Coventry, who, in the most candid and honourable manner, in-
formed me that he always understood, and firmly believed Mrs.
Olivia. Serres to be his sister, and that his made, the Rev. .Tas.
Wilmot, made his will in in 1802, and diedin•4o7,• leaving-a
small property of about £3,000, the interest of which was to
be paid to his and Mrs.' Serres'a father; 'Robert Wilmot, dur-:1
ing his life, and at his death, to be equallyalisddecl between his I
nephew;, the said Thomas Wilmot, and his niece, .-Mrs: Olivia
Serres,'both described-as such in his wille:and that cin.the
sion of the abovdpaitty sum, she had quarrelled with .hirneand.'
so ill and disgracefully conducted herself, that he had dropped
all correspondence with her, and that she was not to be trusted •
Or l•clievesl in any thing she said or did,jand.that: liewotild:have•
given her 1001. per annum to live on a common or heatb,.where
she could' not injure or annoy any of het neighliouts,, and that
she was suithea firebrand that he-wou'd not, for all the world;
all Ow-her to come within thealdor of his house-on account of his.
family, that he'shoeld,rj,girld if she could grove hi r, rela.
Aionship to any one else, as Ineveished 'to cut all connection 'with
her. ;since then I have examined the Register Of 'St. James'S
Chtirch, Pieadilly, where •lierfather,,l4)bert Wilmot,Was mar+
vied by banns to Anna elfaria on the 12th day of April,
176.4, and it appears that he allerivards-fAled in his huaiiies,s as a.
sign painter, and returned with his fa-tatily cora.;
menced_ baker,
.where our heroine, ttlivia,:. was born a as her
baptisinale register of -St. Nicholas's Calich; in that '.Licti oagh,
dated Aprills,l772;,and; Liatlyethnugit hot tne'leaSt itoportat t
inforination,l'have taken an extract froni the will.afthertinclea
'the key: JAS. tilted .25. th :Oct., 1802.; and-reps-,
tered In the PrprogikiVe. Office of Dottors',COmMeris in 1807;
the year in which he died, apPointing he .15i0her Thomas; 'llia
nephew As Kole :executor;! and I, say it of:the:kreatest
sore, when the Rev. Dt.-Niilnitit declares in his last will, and:,
testament, that Mra. Olivia' Serres was, his 'newel!ithd riatellia;
' granit:claughter; neitber-doeS he inakeanentionka liis marriage
with the Princets of Poland, Orany one- el 4; nor i.tthere7any.
Mention whatever bf the numerous and important documents,
-all of, which-are, said to- have•hcen Written and. aigned
not 'pay_ as- to the, -martibge of her Royaliatlier andnintlier,
whith tends tia'*ve the Duke of Cumberland guilty of bigamy,,
; alst( sangther abominable false document, wift,eh•has been
• shown lb manye, or a ample- 'Marriage' of the late King; and
many other most dangerous and treasonable documents, all
said to.lftive been'signed by this said. Rev. Dr: Wilniot,•and wit;
nessed by, otheepersons,particularly Lord War. Wick; who seems
to' have played '.High band. in tins game of. fabricating, docu:
music; -whose will I have also searched at Dcztors' Com-Mons,
.which .wag signed arid executed June, 1812, -aridproved
2lat.October,.llll6, in-which rot one
,wordis Mentioned our
heroine; the scii,disante PrineeSs ;. neithei• has the S'oCk. Earl
mentioned one Tiord of .tjlezhirge hum of-money whitY•al:e exe-'
cutors have allowed this woman; to prove against theestate.; and.
she could impose .upon my friend Mr. Diekinion, who was
the Earl's sole acting executor, how much more easily upon use,
Whowas • 'fibt as u:united with any of their-handwritings, • ex--
. .
eepting. the late -plik:e of Ken t'S.?
NoW, Mr. "'Warwickshire Wag," or faad, which' ever you
may be, I .trust :Tau. will no longaaebe sinpraied at 11-1:4 who
stand alone, -andthinconnected with all party and faction,-being
liable to be-imposed upon by her.
e • I am;-Sir, Your most obedient, '
• • _ •• -•-• J. W. PARKINS. .

• COAL-MARKET, OCT. 26. •,•
`Shipd ai..Marleeto. Ships sold
. 27. •Newcastl•4 • - -35 s 6:1 to 44s (.M.
a Sunderland.. - .
.. 3 - ' 39s lid t 40,-; :':1