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LNTTER Till•: SIXTH TOOK VII: CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF STAMPS, TO TILE BIGHT HON. T. WALLACE. A: my Report upon the system of management at the Swap Office In Edinburgh involved charges of actions im port sgainst the principal Officers of that department, it was but reasonable to require that my statement should be corroborated. In acceding, then fure, to the request, whether of Lord Melville or of the Lord Advocate, that another Commission of Inquiry slionld be sent down to Scotlaud, the Lords of the Treasury acted in the spirit of equity. It was but fairness to Mr. Bvmner, who has been suspended, and to others whom my Report involved, that they should have the benefit of a full and fair revision of the charges alleged against them, that it might appear whether they were made upon such sufficient grounds, as 'right warrant the judgment which, if true, they appeared to call for. Through what influence this second Commis siou of Inquiry—in itself unoi‘j,cionable--consisting of Svlies. Mr. Forbes, and Mr. Campbell, wu obtained, may be collected from the following mange, in a letter from the Head Distributor in Edinburgh (Mr. Hepburne), to the Board :- 0 The Lend Adeotive informed me, that the Treamry are about to send three gentlemen to mate a emend inquiry into this depart. mew, and to mate a Report thrtrapon to his Majesty's Dram- Lent. This will be very satisfatory testae u d what I have at we. wet its tale the liberty to suggest to the Board is, to postpone doing say thing (briber, in regard to the apixnpurtnt of new e...tb-diari boors, email the arrival of thou Covintissi , wers." It was not. difficult to perceive from the tenor of this let ter, that the Officers in &hinburgh felt satisfied that they had nothing to fear from the inquisitorial visit which they were about to receive, and it will be seen that their pro phecy was amply fulfilled. The Reports, however, that were drawn up by Messrs. Sykes and Forbes (far they were not signed by Mr. Campbell), which were laid before the Lords of the Treasury as the result of their inquiries, were, in the same spirit of equity in which the Commission Itself bad been acceded to, transmitted by their Lordships to:he Commissioners of Stamps, for any observations upon them which they might think it nee:ssary to sugg.st to their Lordships consideration. It was in cens-quenee of the Reports being thus transmitted, that the following re marks were offered upon ditto : Stamp 9fF!..e. Feb. 13, 1632. SIT Lotinv —As the information whirl; i olveined when coot ,o.„i.nee by w eir beed.hipe in the year 1818, to inquire into the eort.!tact of 51r. Bremner, the Seßei or of Stamps, and into the ge. nee ; ree e n eelicet of thee 1/tpertment. has, in the opinion of my given me peculiar meet:. of f or ming a judgment on many reticular , adverted to ha the Repvt of the Cotntui.sioner. of 'equity, they hey: expressed a wish (an intimated to your Lord ships) that 1 alunild euhmit such remat'es us may occur to me in a Irtat.ll/ 4 I:e;ant. If in so doing I appear to go a little nut of the eatrennr. ceeee, ynelf Lordships will ascribe it to a oil:harries% n o my rent, Ceti sere ebscrvetions which 1 may make shined go be fore Fue r l e t e hthi e s without they weight which the collective ali; te. tune of the Board would swell to them. and that they may appear so 'he julginent Or your lordship. unsupported by any other au thneny 111:ol they may derive from dint besting on the facts or vestments to v.leeh they relate. If I have frequent occasion to le opinion from the eistnnaisaionem of !Moir!. your Lord- Mies sill do me the jaeldee to recollect, that I was deputed. as far es it respects the S diePor'e Ikpartment, to iestitute the same erre , : inv.ntigatioo. and that me statements stand diametrically S i temcl to !horse which are presented to your Lordships; and it el, le be expeethl by the present Commintosere them-e.ters that I etaleeveMeo satiety your lordships, that the nreount 1 had jewSred was s erranted by inquiry, and supported by facie. Their Veer; is in i're nature of a public document. If the offizial chi. inter of Mr. Bremner, as there pronmmced upon, be correct, th e 11-e;aion which I Live exereesed on the same subject must be wholly founded. I have no w'hal that any unfavourable report of mine, tinter nt Mr. Bremner or nt his Department, shoeld prove to be tree, but I art ;metered is tbas, having it undeservedly rimed to the sue iicion of being lapse. That I mai arid extending those observathins to a greater Irr.gth that is absolutely necessary, I have confined them to curse precirulare to which it appears most essential to direct your Ltd. ships' considerarion, retracting from the Report the passages WI. tr , ....:iati•ky referred to:— •• Frost the examination of the pentane employed in this depart ment. and of the documents produced, as also from the concurrent nn.nion of penone to WilOfft Mr. Bremner has been very well rent , . we believe that he has executed the duties of his °Mee Pith wee integrity, end that no charge can be made against him, either of r AtO7:Wn or dislioneety." I would here submit to your I.nniehips, that it is not by the te m.'s:tattoo of the pentane employed in the department itself that it yr: be eepected to ascertain whether the business of that depart. teem nos been well or ill COOdUCtell. It is not to be supposed that either the principals or clerks will give evidence against themselves; i. is obviously their interest to represent every thing in the beet mil to emend all mismanagement. The Commiseinners of ricuiry state, that they examined the documents produced, but fop n.abe no mention of what these documents were; and they state fueser, thet they lama their optnion of the integrity of .Ir. Brent arr's official tanduct from the concurrent opinion of persons to whom !it. Bermeer has been very long known ; but they wholly omit to sums the name of any person from whom such testimony was ob. need. Neither your Lordship, therefore, roe the Coatd of '" l . ll Ps, mitt jnlge of the weight which any such opinions nay de. arne, and still less in any inquiry, whether the Solicitor of the Steep office bad faithfully discharged his official duty ! ...Be came this can alone appear from in examination into the manage. tent of hi i`t a question of filelity o titness, and efficiency, n 5 a public ei!leef, add all testimony to private character Is hire _ _ . ..... It putt ee l eilr occur to your I.lrlmhips that the persons who t`e hrtt in.al.a of judging. and from nhom alone any practical 7. al-r, ounded opinion could W ointi ,, cd on this head, were u.: Goont.irdollers of Stamps, who, I Mubniit, ought to have been rsernna tint consulted t r lTut Mini whom no ;pinion has been ‘l, nor a alngle inquiry made. . _. . If by Integrity is here meant upric'dncsa and accuracy in official pecuniary transactions, the artmim:lon which the Commissioners . a:e themaeres as compelled to make certainly fur..ishca no cr"u•:d for that opinion. The Board can only judge whether a cf!ic - r is a man of integri:y by hie fairly eccountior for the• . . _ .. . 9);1” 0 , money h_ front time to time receives, and by finding that 3 . n%lllne entry is made by him of all owns received, and of all 11 ""is paid, and that the vouchers pretelred of 11.'01 receipt and 7endii ors will, any time. show the exact balance in hand a lien . weotint is nil 11 tor. But how iota the owe stand wil respect Mr. Bremner? ••• We lee rtimpelted to sly that his accounts have not been, and mrde, mewing in July, MI& fur prosecutions on the Attorneys' Corti& cite Duties, and amounts to no less a sum than 2,1771• Theme duties were at that time very generally evaded; and very liege arrears being due, it was thought right by the Solicitor, with th.: andmba iol of the Lord Ad VOVIte, to enforce the p3ymeo: or them, which could omy be effeeted hy raking provecuttons fur them accordingly Intel) prosecutions about five hundred and twenty in number, were rake I." Hod inquiry beta made into the origin and conduct of this mass of prosecution, it would have led to the disclosure of • syhtein of managen , en• that would have sufficiently shown in what manner the public btitiirc.a aria conducted in Mr. ttremner's office; it would have appeared that ibese 520 proweutions were actually In. stituted agaiost Writers of the Signet in Edinburgh, filasow, Aberdeen. and elsewhere, wi:hout previously ascertaining whether they had Takeo out their certificates annually, or not; but they were all pr.accuted 4,i being ua , :yrtificated from taw lint year of their realrective adiniesion, and they were left to clear thennselves aet they could. This is panifest bum the docu ment limit, which contains these oro.ccutions, as well au front tie? following copies of aii.wee, received to a circular letter, forwarded since the present Report of the Coninde.imers of Inquiry was We livered. for the purpnee of ascertaining certain particulars connected with the above piosecntions. Dere tollow ueveral letters of complaint, confirmatory of the above, from different Writers to the Signet, which, as they run to mine 1-ngth, are omitted.] of are not the only feelers recelved, stating the came grounds of annplaint. It will naturally occur to your Isordeltips to inquire, how it could happen, that ratios should be prosecuted by the Soli. citor of Stamps, as having aced without cerifitates, when cereifi cotes have been regularly taken out; and (what is toil more eves. urdiaary), how it could happen that the Lord Advocate should have awarded penalties, in cases where the offences charged had never been committed, and ClNtsomently eteoil never 'rave been proved. This. is a mode of cooducung the pulelic profteutiona, that demanded examination on the spit:, since, whatever course of pro. carding led to so uojastitiabte a result, it was of importance that such tuesettres should be adopted. its mignt protect the mblia against suer unauthorized proaasations he Notre. Them keit hero( importio.ce. which is not noticed in the port ; bat leo:kb, being in the knowledge of the Cointrobisionste, ought to nave been pa-ticutarly adv wted to, which is the extra ordinary fact, of newly 9.0t0/. being awarded by thedlret Lord Advocate, on thew poesecuttotte, iu the year 18114 to be recovered from the reapective defaulters. It win surely essential to inquire w'iy such a sues' of arrears wag permitted to accumulate, as to make it neoessary for him to prosecute to the member of 329 Writers to the Signe., and that, too, for ac iig ten, fiacea, and even in ROM, instanen twenty years togeassively, without taking out certi ficates ? And fur her, haw much of this 9,0001. was to be con sidered as arrears of duty, and how much as penalty ? Whether any part of this suer !Is% been amounted fur as arrear of duty, and has the CroiMbell 1110 i% ty of the petialtis been paid over to the pro per officer ? Aid further, if only 2,0.101. liar been recovered, w hit. steps have been taken. since 1815, to re:over the oulatarteling ulcers of 6,011111, and it can steps have been taken for thie purpose, on what ;pounds has the recovery of them been ebandoned ? With respect tn 3lr. Bremner', having thus suffered these of fences against the stamp Aces to acettonulair, for which the prose cutions in the year lair, were instituted, it may be thus accounted for. Mr. Bohan, his predecessor, and whose Deputy he had been foe many years, died in 1813. Mr. Bremner was appointed to sue owed NM in 1814. And in 1313 these prosecutions are co timeoced, for the recovery of penalties incurred yew after year, long previ oust, to Mr. Buchan'edeaffi, but foe which, had they been then pro socce.•ed, the duty, penalties, and costa recovere I must have been ac counted for to hint ; but tile ofFenotes were euffered to accumulate, till Mr. 11r:inner became hinoolf Solicitor. area hence proceed thew prosecutions in 1813. which, under one head of ditty alone, created a 11111 of Costs amounting to 2.1771. la the Appendix to the 112:port is Inserted an account of Mr. Breinner's bills, from the 10th June, 1818, to the 11th Decem ber, 1818; in this account, as your Lordship, will perceive, the amount of the bill for pr lacerations ia the Attorney's Certificate Duty, is 2,1771. Us. 41., the amount tented to have been received by Mr. Bremner is 231301. 10s., and the balance which is stated ss due from hint is 6331. fit. lid. ; whereas the real fast is, and l) this fact I would direct the scrims attention of your Lordships, that the whole of this stint of 2,113111. 10s. so recovered under those pro. secutious, is at this moment due Iran Mr. Bremner, he not being entitled to deduct from it a single shilling of thle bill of 2.1771. Os. 4tl. The Act imposing the Certificate Duty directs that penalties shall be recovered with full costs of suit, and the Board, moreover, gate him specific dieections on this very point, as will appear by the following extract from their Secretary's letter, dotted Nov. El, 1815: •• The Catnitoissioners approve of your having taken measures tor eafereing payme .. t of the duties on .I!lorsteys Certyleates, and desire you will do the same with regard to the Attorneys' Man dates; they also eestre, that the defeu;ters may be made to pay the coals of the actions In on A qat against than, and that the outallies may not be semitted without the knowledge and sanction of the Board." Now. in utter disregard of the provision of the Act, which ape cities, that the pen shies shall be recorded with full costs of suit. the cams were privately referred to the Lord Advocate, and the penalties reinteal or tetLuc‘d, without the knowledise or sanctioned the Board ; ant Mt. firtrinTEr. ' , About the slightest claim of right, takes the whole amount of the arrears of ditty recovered, together wiih the whole of the penalties, amounting to this mum of 2.3110/., width ought to have been paid over to the Consolidated Fund, in payment of thane very costs which it was his duty to Bute recovered against the penalties, and for which at this moment he stands accountable. It would hate been of advantage, had the Commissioners of In quiry, Messrs. &tykes and Forbes, 5u,.. - grsted what steps it might be proper to pursue in order to compel a faithful account to be de livered of nil duties, compositions, and penalties received, and of vouchers for the due payment of the shares of penalties awarded to the different in funned in each persecution. I most far her observe, that it was not only the Attorneys' Cer ihcate Duty, which had thus suffered to get into arrear, but every other branch of Duty, the Mandate Duty, the Attorneys' Ado ission Duty, the Duties on Inventories ( which in England Is the Probate Duty). the Legacy Duty. the Duty on Nam, on License, on Patent Medicines. the Pamphlet Duty, every other de scription of Duty, was in the same stite, notwithstanding the abundant reports of arnetra in etti.h were regularly . transmitted br the Inspector to Mr. Bremner, for prosecution, without effect. 'I he Commissioners might have obtained evidence of this. The Inspector's Reports, and the Inspector himself, would have af forded informs ion sufficiently conclusive, and the examination of the Mirth/. Solicitor, during Mr. Bremner's suspension, would have prodiseed ample untimely to the same effect. There is a circumstance connected with Mr. Bremner's neglect in delivering his bills of costs, which scents to all for &Zola nation on the part of the Boleti, hr-esuse the Ilepirt Inys much stress upon it as exculpatory of 31r. Bremner's delay; it relates to the bill of costs from June, 1813, to July, 1014 Title account, an delivered to the Comptroller, was exa mined by him, and forwarded to London, for the approbation of the Board, on the 12,111 June, MB . and rettuned by the Board to the solicitor in August, 111111, with a direction to lay it and the subsequent &mutat bet.re eve Deputy Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer. and the Auditor of the Court of Session." This bill bti•ig detained so long by the Boa-d, seems, in the opinion of the Comm'ssioncrs of Inquiry, to acquit Mr. Bremner of all subsequent neglect I With reprel to the subsequent bills, re do not think any on• doe delay is bopetable to Mr. Arenvirr, for w!t.'lz the first remained with the Cominisrioners ucsett!cd, wh. n he might be looking for a statement of it, which would thus ascertain the correctness of the charges made by him, and Ir^ a rule for makiog out the subsequent bills, it wan natural for him to wait the auditin g of the first bill before he furnished any other." This apology on the behalf of Mr. Bremner is quite inadmis sible; Mr. Brern”er was bound to deliver hii bills annually, and the pretext fur disregarding this rule of office—that he waited for the first bill being audited, before lie fumished any subsequent bill—is quite unfounded. It was clearly Mr. Bremner's duly to . . . . • tage of the public service, if he were invested with more simple power in his awn department than he is permitted to exetelse at present. He ought to be allowed to institute prosecutions in such eases as he considers proper, without the necessity of always ap plying to the Board for advice, as it is due opinion that a local knowledge of circumstances, to be acquired only on the spot, is often of inurh int por•ance in determining nn the propriety of Insti tuting, or abstaining from institutim: pmsrcu•ions. ' IVostr, with regard to the power which the Solicitor poesesecs, it Is folly adequate to every exigenor in which it can be made avail. able to the public service. If a Solicitor of Stomps in Scotland possess a due share of legal knowledge, combined with vigilant superintendence and sound integrity, he possesses already as much power as will enable him to exercise all these dualities to time ut most. That he ougl.l to he allowed to institute Fov . rotirtav in such eases as lit conside:s proper, without the neeemisiir t.r :always applying to the Board. is an opicion from which we (firer tnrta mentally. The irregularity which has been found to prevail to such an extent in the Solietor's department, would certaii.ly not induce the Board to place met department more beyond its control, by giving him more ample power, but quite the reverse; and there fore it was, that, by a ►ecent order, no prosecutions were pernimted to be instituted but under the Boird's direction— in the brat place. that the public might not be harassed by prosceutions in improper or trivial case? • and in the next place, that they might know the actual number of prosecutions instituted, the penalties awarded in each, the shores payable to informers ; and further, to prevent all compromises, which, in prosecutions commencer! without the Board's authority, might be concluded Without their know ledge. It is the more remarkable that this increase of power t eliould he recommended by the Cummit,mioncrs of Inquiry to be given to the Solicitor, because, in a former part of this very Report, they state Obit— _ . Until July or Angus!, 1819. soon after Nlt..llremnt is re-in statement. the Solicitor always proceeded at his own iliserelion, taking occasioaally the Of the Crown's Coen.el in cases or difficulty ; Jie wiw, however, by express direction of the 800 lays ell cases before them, and institutes no proceeding without their authority." it war. clearly in be inferred from this. that the abuses which the Maid pereetvid might he pratoised by suffering a solicitor to ins:i• tote prosecutions unknown to Mini, and at his 'ova discretion, hied led them to adopt the tenuity adverted to. Instead, tberefoot, of extending the power to the solicitor, and re-investing him with that authority to institute prosecutions which they had so recently with- drawn, the Board would Lao rather disposed to consider by what means the Solicitot'a Department in Scotland mild he brought un tier its still more intnicaliate superintendence, and whether regula tions might not be devhied which should make it impasaible that the Solicitor should materially neglect the duties of hie office with out it being perceived, or commeice or conipromise prosecutionl, without its being known, or recover the public money in any share, without the Board having the means of bringing lam promptly and explicitly toacconnt. Mestere. Sykes and Forbes recommend that the offices of Soli citor of Stamps and Legacy Duties rhould be consolidated. As it must be well known to them that the Marti had but very recently separated these two offices, from a conviction that the pub. lie duties of each would be more effectually discharged, and the public revenue much better collected, it could hardly be expected that this proposal could meek their concurrence; indeed, the oploio itself must be considered as soniewhed premature, inasmuch as it was formed and reported by Aleuts. Sykealand hurbep, before they had made any inquiry into what were the duties of the Legacy Ddpartmenc, and before the arrival of Mr. Campbell had a:fooled them any opportunity of coast:king with him upon the subject. The Commissioners of loquiry report it as their opinkm_. " That a superior oflicer . to any at present in the department j would be useful; but it would be chiefly as a check or control over the Solicitor, or as an adviser with hint in the business of his departtn: nt.' Thera seems no ground to consider the proposed new appoint me It as in any manner necessary. It seems obvious that a Solicitor of Stamps in Edinburgh can require no such check AT control as is here suggested, but upon the supposition of his dishonesty; add with this presumption against his character, he is unfit for the office; nor can he require an adviser with him in the business of his department, but on the ritrinsitinn of his incompetency, in which case he is not qualified fur it. To recommend, more over, the appointment of an oiE er as a check or controul over tie Solicitor, or as an adviser with him in the business of his department, appears somewhat contradictory. If he is to act as a Comptroller, it cannot be 11:s office to advise, nor as an adviser to control ; and if the superior officer to be appointed may act indifferently in either capscity, it is quite manifest that such an appointment must be superfluous. Indeed, it seems Mivicus, that the result of it would be, either wholly to sunersede the authority of the Board in London, or greatly to impede the exerzise of it ; and by :moving the responsibility from where it might. to rest, defeat the intention of the Legislature, and embarrass the public service. I has: the honour to be. my Lords, Your Lordships' mist obedient lanant, JAMES SEDI WICK, ClLdronts. To the Right lion. the Lords CammissiJiiers of his Majesty's Treastio. BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL. TII Vlt SDAY,OCT. 6. Saint Philip's Church was this morning crowded at the early hour of ten o'clock ; hundreds were sent back from the doors, yet the nave, the galleries, the staircase, and indeed every part—however inconvenient for sight or sound—were thronged even to suffocation. The great object of attraction was the " Messiah," which, though far from a novelty to Etigli,ll ears, is yet the most popular oratorio ever composed. Mr. Brahani opened the morn ing's performances with the recitative, " Comfort ye, cm fort ye, my people;" and if yesterday we spoke rather slightingly of one or two of his most ambitious attempts, we can on this occasion afford him unqualified praise. Per haps it may be with singing (though comparatively a me chanical experiment), as it is with genius in other depart ments of mind, namely, that it is restless, uncertain, and full of inequalities ; if so, Mr. Brabane stands proudly ac quitted of undue negligence on the one day, or of unex pected excellence on the other. The chorus which foi -1 lowed his air, " And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed," was solemnly appropriate, terminating in a full swell of majestic harmony, that, to adopt the striking language of Milton, was enough to " create a soul under the ribs of death." Mr. Bellamy sung " Thus saith the Lord of Hosts," very creditably, hut the part should have been assigned to Braliam. Mr. Phillips, in the spirited recitative, " For behold darkness shall cover the earth," threw an air of grandeur into his voice, more particularly ' when he pronounced the word " darkness," exactly con fcernable to the spirit of Handel's conception. Indeed, with the exception of Braliam in one or two of his choicest bravuras, Mr. Phillips is the most dramatic vocalist we have—the Kcan of song! " There were shepherds abiding in the fields, " was assigned to Miss Stephens, tyliile Miss Paton war bled " Rejoice greatly, oh daughter of Zion'!" in a manner that thrilled to the hearts of all who heard her. Perhaps we might object to the rather boisterous manner in which she gave the word " shout," applied to the daughter of Jerusalem ; but we are in no humour to find fault, especially with the recollection of such delight yet lingering vividly on our minds. Miss Travis sang " Then shall the eyes of the blind be open ed," in a quiet impressive manner, with a subdued I I LECTrRES ON THE On Monday, Mr. Canis, Aurist to his Majesty, eoltil meneed his interesting Course of Lectures on the Anatonsv, Physiology, and Pathology of the Ear, at the Royal Dii pensary for Disease of the Ear, Deanerreet, Soho-seuare. The Lecturer began by remarking the emu improve ments that had taken place oe late years in medicine and surgery, and then observed that these improvements had nut ex tended to one important branch, A... Lonnie Surgery. the diseases of every other crgan are well understood, as well as the Hodes of repairing their defects, which he instanced in imperfections of the eye, &c., the diseases of the I.ear, from ill unfortunate prejudice in this coentsy, being adjudged ineenthle, have been little regarded by tim-it, afflicted: hence Ethan this ine..ention have arisen the most serious consequence's, often ending in affections agile heed, not unfrequently proalucing incurable chronic disease. terminating in death. The Lecturer also remarked that Peiente iv-rd often afraid cf applying for relief, fretn the fear of being made wester; but i.e had to observe, that from the time he had been engaged tie this exclusive line of practice he bad sin n his aevice amid areistaece to upwards of 10,000 appli cants, not one of whom, who had followed his it , •ructions, . Lail ever complained ; on the contrary, he had reason every day to be more and more satisfied that diseases of the Ea, like diseases of mire organs, will yield to proper treatment. Before leaving the Inetitentoe be related several singular caws of cure,* aboweel a !seat variety of Auatcinicel Pre parations, pointed out the extent ne iieury from neeleeted d:seese,and likewise exhibited s..veral new Acoustic lnstre mews from the Continent. Thee? cases will be round detailed by Mr. Curtis in his lasi Treatise oa the Physiology and Diseases of the Lisr. NEIrM.4RKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING (coycLt:n::o). NLWMAIUET, TIIICRIbAT EVEgIIIII. Immediately cr the conclustun of this day's races, beutg the last, the visitors, with the exception of those who re main in the neighbourhood for pheasant shooting, departed. —the Marquis of Titelifield, fur Cavendish-square; Lord and the Hon. Colonel Anson, for-Gillman-street ; Sir John Shelley; fur St. James's-street ; the Hon. T. Duncombe. for Queen-street, Gros error-square; &c. &c. His Grua the Duke of Grafton does rot lesve the country till No vember. The week's sport has been very fair, but has produced rsu!ts totally •unettieeted by the moat knowing of the knowing; with scarcely any exception, - thb favourites, the flyers, the invincibles, have been defeated, and those who, in their ignorance, have trusted more to private opinan: titan public running - , have nibbled to great effect. The Duke of Grafton's horses, in particular, have disappointed. general expectation ; they have been beaten by any thing —Rufus has been ahem of his laurels, sisd must &gem. rate into the numerous class of reep".tabits. The U yad ham horses have, save the winner of the Derby, kept lak their reputation by running well; but, take the majority dF the horses who have appeared this week, we do not think Ith y have done any thing to take them out of the common. The Races to-day bt ing of considerable importance, eve add further particulars of them. J e Town Pimp. Betting 13 to 8 on Capdoii,indii to 2 2r;ft Dervish Lapdog, who won the Derby, and folowed up his suceass by winning at Brighton, was the pet of the race—was tO win, snJ no• hing else—in fact, few would venture to take the odds, although Devise atquired some celebrity by winning the 2,000 guineas stakes. Ihcy went oil' in 471 e, Hobgohlin in front, making Ifs ray beat alms to pay his respects Brat to Mr. Clarke, the judge, but, though ghostly himself, and of a glinstly breed, the others were not so easily frightened, for at the turn a the lands the Lapdog came up and ba:ked a ; hut it was only a bark, for at the Duke'. Stand he gave place to Demise, who et:ur:red to shove his fore. quarters in front, and was the first to say " How eve do? ' to the jt,dge. The first three made a beautiful race, but Pranks was best off a long way front house. Tne winner rode by Buckle ' Lapdog by Annul!. Hobgoblin by Robinson, and Pranks by G. Edwards. .latch-100 D. M. Rufus and Fawn. Betting 5 to 4 on •Rufes, Who took the lead and kept it, and woes in a canter. itmie by Buckle, sswu by iidwgzei. Match, 160... y. I. 'l. Tirailleur and Saracen. Betting-5 to 4on Tircißeta. Saracen made all the inintitag until near the cords, where Tired. Icur began his bolting tricks, and very near lost the race when he was winning in a canter. Saracen then got in front, and was neat winning but being a rank coward, he fairly stopped, Mus givirg George Dockeray, who had by good joekeyship brought Tirailleur into straight running, an opportunity of recovering his lost ground, and whaling by a neck The ' vile" Saracen was jackeyed by Buckle. Match—Vivian Grey and Whalebone filly. Betting-6 to 4on the filly. Vivian Grey cans off with a slight lead, both making seve running, and *finishing a fine slashing race by a neck in favour of Mr. Greville's filly, who was rode by Goodisoo, Vivian Grey by James Robinson. ------- The Mrtg's Plate of PTO p. R.C. Betting-7 to 4 and 2tol on Stumps. Stumps came oll' at a brisk pace for so great a distance, closely followed by Rufus. but when hull irty the latter began blosing, aid it was obvious that he had no chance. Stump' kept in from. *i , ll the race in hand. and won very easy by three lengths. Rode by Arnull, Rufus by his old friend Buckle. The Second Octm.er Meeting emumenees on Monday week. The Stakes, Plates, and Matches arc numerous, as alas are the mess. DOVER, OCT. 5. Yesterelsy our races took place, the first that have been here for several years. The day was good, and a vast coo. course of people were collected on the ground, which was particularly well suited for the spectatbrs, as the whole Course was capable of being seen from any part of the hill. that completely surround it. The first race started with three horses for the Town Plate. One of the horses ran out of the Course, and was drawn in the first beat; another which followed it, was brought back, and just saved its distance. The race was won easily in two heats by Capt. Hamilton's gray horse, after a good race. The second race, the Visitors' Plate, for which four horses started, was won in three heats, by Mr. Palmer's . bay horse, IVildboy. Mr. Rack's horse, which ran out in the first race, started, and ran out again. Another of am! • horses broke down at the end of the first heat, and the last beat was well contested. _ _ To-day a match and a handicap were run for, but there seas a great decrease of company. The match between Mr. Back's Kent and Captain Lyon's horse was decided in ' -n C , erec. , arCntai to atty , tit“ toa a%%-aura on•a nt , .cc..• a”ti oiii—is q ui.. 000mooeo• ..,. was r4C...7 4141. MU...Mg n *tut, bss , • •••••“••••, ••••• ---..---- — •••••P Mr. MICK a Mein anu vaptaur sryou a norm was ticeldeu ire are tot, kept with that order. distinctness. and accuracy, which deliver In the whole of his bills, that the Board mi g ht be en a bled 1 into and correct wham', r abuses might be i'ound to exist in the feeling of exultation—if we may ;:pply . *uch a."---;t; the first heat, by Kent running out and being distanced. ettont to be observed by a public officer. 'There is no book show- to ascertain the ealanee that wee either due to hin t o r due iron, Stomp Department in Scotland, to report the description of the ~, hetO r o sty l e and manner of execution—that wou ld have is .^.. • at one view the state of the prosecutions, nor is there any regu. him. There being an table of fees to govern the charge, the cost 1 duties of the Solicitor's chive, as gtven by the Solicitor and his The handicap was won by Captain Hamilton's gray horse, in three beats, b , .ating three horses, after an excellent race. ;2' rash.hook ; the receipts of money ate merely noted in the mar- of each case could only be rego!tt 7 d by Inc own circumstances. and , Assistants, nut only contributes not.tiew triyartis effecting the oh. been perfect, had she not marred it alittlebythe husky so ef the varier, relating to any particular prosecution ; and It a charge allowed or disallowed, as it might appear warranted or ' jcvt intended, but leaves it wholly ormatramed. ft iwwot what-the in distinctness of her tone towards the close. The se- Ott the whole, the race of to-day far surpassed yesterday's I r• cud be very difSeult for any totem, except the person making otherwise. ' coati part commenced with the weinknown chorus, " Be- duties of the Office are that in the subject of investigation; but how sports. As the races were got up hurriedly, the arrange- Or entries, to draw from them *limper 13th of Costs. It Is abso. It is therefore no justification to say, that M r. Bremner naturally are those duties practically discharged, and Irina foundation does held the Lamb of God," after which Mr. W. Knvvett at- meets were not completed in the usual manner, with re- eoriy neccrei 7 that a very different system of keeping those ae- waited rOT the first bill, that it might be a ruts foe ma ki n g ou t th e there exist for charges of mistnanagentent ! No sei vice can be teonpted . Lhe touching air, ". He was despised and rejected Bard to assemblies. Cotrt.shntild he adopted." suletequent bills. It might, with much more reason, have been rendered to the revenue, but by tracing out the abuses to be re: At our regatta a dispute occurred about two hosts going Now. I would antouto to your Lordship', that when a public urged as a ground for requiring all the bills due to be furnished be- formed, and by . suggesting the readiest and most e ff ectual entree. of men ,we say attempted, because none but a mind of I. ' :car, like Mr. Bremner, to the receipt of vast sums or the public fore any one was audited, that the Board would then be en a bled to done. This minute enumeration of the duties of his office, as the very keenest sensibility can do justice to the straits, out ef the course, and the first prize was given to the ' iroi.ey, in the Are of dudes, c mnpositions, and Wellies, has guide their judgment In the allowance of particular charges, by the here tenoned, being received from Me. Bremner himself; I should which conveys as strong an idea of afflicted Deity as the third boat. The party spirit whic h the late election has l• tauter, sinee his appointment to Mike, made soy more, M any book profit of the Solicitor's department, talon on a fair average, and have oflOred no observation upon it : bat there is o ne part of this de - human mind can conceive. Miss Travis executed "He l e nt to t for the purpose, of the sums so received, and by this means which average enu:tl not be estimated till the whole bills were de. tail which 1 think should have arrested the attention 01 . the Commis- amongst us, is mined up with every thing that is done, e , - , and as the winning boat belonged to an opposite party to • outs it mar :he power rat the Board, to whom he should reader his livered in. The circumstances, however, or this bill of costs re- sinners , as leading to important particulars of inquiry. It is de- was . CUI Off . ," „ with the requisite tenderness, as also . . the . su . that of which the Committre consisted , another party now V , btlerernts, to discover either what sums have actually Caine to his mauling with the Board from June li:13 to A ugus t 11pd, w hi c h seribetlas a port of the duty of Mr. Bremner and his assistant . cording air But thou theist not leave his Gout i n nett, upbraids them with gross partiality, and has set on foot a W haola. or what %hare has been paid to the informer in cacti case, or is considered by the cotrunisitioners or I nqu i r y as removing a ll st To attend daily at the office, front between nine and ten in the which, however, appeared a failure. Mr. Brahatn, in the sub *ption to make up the sum which they consider the that balance is due to the C rown; such proceeding is not only blame from M r. Bremner, and front which your Lordshi; , a are left forenoon till three in site ancrooon, and from six to nine or later noble recitative " He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh Loeer ineoncilable with professional integnty in the conduct o r to Infer that t h e d e l a y imputed to him by the Board originated in the evening ;to giv • legal advice in all legal matters as to stamps, t h em -to scorn," men who came first in were entitled to. gave unutterable energy to the word t•t oe.ic-e t h :tt i s guilty of it, but raises a strung opposite pre. with the Board itself. Is capable of the clearest explanation. to answer the very !mince:me (frcquently twenty) daily inquiries Stamps necessary for various rostra- " laugh ;" the effete was electrical—instantanccus—and ruination. In the begining of 1818, I was commissioned by your Lordships made as to the appropri ate . When the Commiasioners here stale that they are compelled us to inquite into the conduct and management of his of fi ce. Bom a mews, a nd t o a nswer letters from the country upon the same sub- shows the magic of the human voice , when heightened and say that Mr. ilremner's accounts are net kept with that order, dia. in Edinburgh, I tie/Ted the delivery ot his built of costs. I returned ject." directed by judgment, taste, and sensibility. '1 Ise Oratorio EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—On Monday l as t M r . Joseph firmness, and m o n o y, wi t ted ought to be observed by a Public to London on the 2lth May, 1818 ; and in June, 1813 to , this bill of If Mr. Brecon r memo it to be understood that his °ince it at all was closed by that grandest of all choruses a Hallelujah ! c li a r r i r s y to:e bt r i t:r , :iir p l t i o V e !g , h i e n e, sl 4d n e i rtt re f . o rtet wager on t oftevr, they oLviously so expressed IhtllladVel4, al to have It CO5Ol, from 1813 to 1814 (the first year of his appointment), wa s Open to th e public of an evening for despatch of business, he states for the Lord God Omnipotent reigned'," which was given his shoulders, without resting (being one mile in anti one ti-d a rst oo d t h a t hi s accounts are kept with a certain degree of order, sent up to the Board, and the bills for the subsequent years were what a very little inquiry would have disproved ; but if it he true daily applications frosts persons in Edit). w ith a noble burst of melody, that rolled like a peal of tulle out), and completed his arduous task with great ease ..t%nnetnei , s, and lucency, though not with so much as ought to be stated to be preparing for delivery, and the Board were, of that he has nearly twenty ieerted by a IV:ealtl in his official situation. But I would ask m ime, desirous to get in the remainder of the bills (esp:eially the burgh atone, b es ides letters of application from the country to distant thunder t h roat h the church, till gallery, nave, and in the short space of two hours and 33 minutes. Ile is , eitether they found any accounts that were not the complete re. next bill for th e year 1813,) as they could not, with any propriety. inquire what are the appropriate St 3 H , E 3 for particular instru- aisle seemed litera lly bursting with the full volume of; erne of mottling to which the terms order, distinctness, and pay a balance that might be made to arpear, on the first year's bill meats, your Lordships cannot but be tist'-ciltlY struck with the sound. The close, eary, could attach?—whether an y p a p ers deserving even the of costs, since the subsequent bills might show a balance to be due expense and trouble that must be occasioned to the public in " King of Kings, and Lord of Lords," only 19 y ears o f age , an d we i g h s n i ne stone; his load tr weighed 661 b. He received refreshments at stated period*. nam e of accounts were roduced to diem, or which contained tiny to tile Reventie. as in every c u te judgment has been given for Edinburgh and throughout Scotland, by the necessity of thus re- sung by the whole assembled orchestra, put the seal to this on the road, with his load on his shoulders. her than loose di jointed memorandums of penal t ies awarded on duties, as well as penalties , and Mr. Bremner had got the whole curving perpetually to the Solicitor, before they con till up an sell of enchantment ; and long after the last echoes had vas and that prowentioo, for the receipt of which there was no without account, instrument, to know what is the proper stamp they should affix cement, the feelings of the spectators, as if fascinated by Tut: POET SCIIILLER.—We copy from 1 Frankfort • ' voucher, and cf the appropriation of whi c h th ere wits no eridence ? The settlement of this year's bill was still mnre strongly pre - t o it. All this is a proof of a ticket somewhere , and of a de- some talismanic power, remained hushed in breathless Paper a most remarkable article. A more singular eere- , lt Is said there is no regular cash-book kept by Mr, Bremner; but chided, by the discovery which occurred in the case of a Mr. Fyfe, feet calling intuit imperiously to be remedied. The expense of the silence. In a short time, however, this state of excite- mony than that here il •cribcd, of a son depositing the • was • cash-book of any kind Produced? The fact is, that there is Toe case was this: Mr. Bremner had, on his own authority, and parties must be considerable, since for every one of _ thes_ e co , TI : skull his " 11) ' w. do • - her to have met with : of father in a public t to.y, e not remete t'oe only no reirtda" cash-book kept, but no easb.book whatever. without the knowledge of the Board , compromised a prosecution sultations Mr. Bremner charges the InquWer ils. &I. Of 1351. dth v in is e i n to t r w s :s sobered ; Nature resumed her usual sway ; the group by group, departed ; and the church was When. moreover. it is suggested, that a different sy s t e m o f keeping against Mr. Fyfe for 50/. ; the informer and his agent had long np- and sometimes more ; a nd it eltould be remembered that the addl- . the accounts ought to be adopted, it is obviously g lea m to be in- plied ineffectually to Mr. Bremner for their share of the penalty, atonal schedules to th e Scotch Stamp Acta were framed by Mr. E 131.111, SEPT. l9 .—The day before yesterday the bust of once again as quiet, as the dead that slumbered beneath it. oao serse.--"---er•e._ a noted that there Is a system of book-keeping, though a defective but were always sent away with being told, by Mr. Bremner, that Bremner himself, who was sent forte Lo n don to assist the then Schiller, a masterpiece of Darusiker's, was placed with great so- .. one; whereas, there neither is, nor ever has been, say A pron of he had applied frequently to the Board upon the subject, and had Chairman, Mr. No*, with that local and professional know- .. r , Rwaril.r t e t for which had !enmity in the Dram! Ducal Library. ThIS fete, the preparations look-keeping in Mr. Brnitineeg Office , nor any means, from e ither forwarded their Petitions, but could obtain no answer. When ledge which he wi th su pposed to posters; and if they were so am- long since been in;:de, was deferred till th e au ival of Mexican Charge.d' ffaires, has just received the official al. E rnest e hook, eonehent, or reeved, of discovering whother Mr. Breniner Mr. Benny, on time suspension of Mr. Bremner, was made interact biguous sod unintelligible as this daily MOM° him for instructions m it can state urn authority, that M. chiller, RPM of the „eat pr et. sad oneof the J u d ge , hoes, or dots not. account faithfully foe the sums or mon e y whi c h, Solicitor, the parties r: newel their solicitation on the subject,; and wirers them to b e , your Lordships will perceive the necessity of intelligence that MAW dollars were lying, all ready in the Court vet'Appeal at Cologue. On the same day, the son if icy virtue of hisoffice, are paid into his hands. o n Mr. Renny a applying, in their behalf, to the lloar.l, respecting their being as soon as possible revised, for the purpose or rendering por e d, at Vera Cruz ; and also that his Governm e nt ad- the poet, in the name it o i f s tl p ic ht . u c t e i i i i ted ins f i a d m e i i i ,f ies th o e r Schiller t e w O hD •o i,c i l i herare: . Lris. , • 1 preceed next to draw the attention of your Lordships to the the facts, it turned out, that not one of the many Petitions which than explicit and effective. vise him that a further remittance was preparing, and a solemnly deposited the skull of his father in the Wand marital of the protteeutions for &news of Certificate loity instit u t e d the s e p a rties had given to Mr. Bremner to be transmitted to the The Commissioners of Inquiry cis earess it as their opinion, tha t . he in time to catch the brary at Weimar. • bow. Bremner in 1814, anal adverted to in page 14 of the Report. Board had ever been forwarded. although he had constantly an. the power which should be. exer by the Solicitor is tuts mush e o the marble host of Schiller, which is al admirable likenesa. The frigate ; at all events. not less than 300,000 would be snit I cere mony Throe is one of the Solicitor's bills upon which it may ire ex- altered their sul;citatinaF, by affirming thet be had submitted sliest limited. met of which would very probably was terminated by a discourse minable to the oreatioa, • ' , Med we s h ou ld eseke some obeervations. It is the bill cons. regularly , but without e l e ct; and, what is of more immediate on- "We must say that we do think that i: would he fur the silvan by the above convelanee. delivered io :! - .e Chancellor )I. Volt 3.1,e11er." . ~ . . -, . . . . ._,-. .. - - • 'PIiC BAITISii PRESS. portitnee to the present inflect, ft Was found, on looking lobo the bill of coats above alluded to, and whit& embraced the period when the :SOL was received, it did not credit the payment, nor contain any entry respecting It. This circumstance auffieiertly shows the necessity of waiting the arrival of the remainder of the bids before the balance claimed on this year's hill was discharged. In the . December of 1818, Mr. Breliner wan suspended from of fi ce. and re rcinsinctl till 224 July, 1819., When he we , replaced. On the very day of his restorivion to office, the following Letter you forwarded to him by the Se. crater, t " July 22. 1819. " I am directed by the Commissioners to &tire you will imme diately melte out and send up to this Baird, without loss of time. your bills of costs to the end of iast year. " 1 am, &c. " WM. KAPPEX." This application produced no efflct. Tot Board waived in vain for twelve iimaths, and at length the following letter was forwarded to Mr. Bremner, by their Secretary "July 12, 1820. " I am directed by the Commissioners to desire that you will in. form them. by return of post. in what state of forwardness your bills of costs now ate, that r:rre called for lam July. " I am, &c. " Wm. }Corvette." Finding it was wholly witless to make farther • ntleavoues to pro core any eurther bills ' the Board. in the following mouth, August, 1923, sent the will of 1814 en the Deputy Remenihraieer, in Scot. land, to whom they furl= directed the remaining b:!14 to be re ferred. After this statnnent, it wmild be superfluous to observe, that it furnishes the revers: of any thing like a justification of 31r. Brem ner's neglect is delivering in his subs• quent bills, Is arising nut of ant. apparent neglect on the part of the Board, as to his bill of The next circumstance adverted to by the Comm i,si• o t e r, of In. einiry, in defence of Mr. lfrentner's delsy, in delivering his bills of costs. is quite untintuded. " TLIe Autliun of the Coast of Session Ins reipested. that Ma Illinois of the bill of July. 1814, and do delivery to him of the subsequent ones, may be delayed until be saall have audited a similar bill of Alr. Renny's, who was the grneral Solicitor during Mr. Bremm is suspensim anti is now the Solicitor of the Legacy D.martment, whose bill is open to Pie mime °Nee - lions ns ir:re mode by the Dsputy flernembranmr to Mr. Bremnrr's Bill, and until the question as to Pic proprrtn of allincing Vic miscellaneous charges be determined, it seems clear that none of Mac accounts can be sett! , d." _ . The objection on the part of the Auditor, as it respected certain charges in Mr. Bremner's bill, was this—that as Mr. Bremner IC ceivctl a fixed salary of lOW. a year for rolecelloneous businesa, he thought him no; entitled to make charges which that salary, in his opinion, was meant to include. So fir as respected Mr. Brenmer's bill, the objection wan well founded, but the Control:emitters of in quiry are not correct in stating, that the bill of Mr. Benny, the interim Solicitor, is open to the same objection, because, to his bill the objectio i Roes not apply. Me Really receives no such salary. On toe contrary, we discovered to our great sur prise. that the Head Distributor, Mr. Ilatiburne, without the knowledge of the Board, paid Mr. Bremner this salary during his 'suspension, and that the Coirptmller, Mr. Lender, knowing the sa lary bill to contain such payment, signed it as con eta. At this fact was known to the Commissioners of Inquiry, how can we account for their urging the necessity of first deciding on the propriety of allowing the miscellaneous charge,' in Mr. Renny'a bill of costa, before Mr. Bremner's account could be settled I think, more over, that this unauthorised payment of the public money, witheut any previous communication with the Board, deserved their severest animadversion; as showing the utter disregard of authority, and the absence of ail official - control with which the public business In the Stamp Office in Ediaborgh was conducted ; but ihe Corn. nibritioners not only pass it over without remark, but, referring to this fixed salary of lON. for mieeellanious business, they metal it as their opinion, that it is insufficieri, and that he has a just claim to extra remuneration. On this point, it need only be observed, that the emolument of Mr. Bremner's situation, as Solicitor of Stamps, cannot be much below 2,09/. a year exclusive of this an nual salary of 100/. ; and that the manner In which Mr. Bremner has conducted the duties of it (of which neither Mr. Sykes nor Mr. Forbes can have any knowledge) has been emit, as so tar from au thorising this auggerion of increased reward, would have justified a very different recommendation. The Commissioners of Inquiry, in flintier palliation of Mr. Bremner's delay, in not rendering his accounts, represent the Board of Stamps as not having urged him to deliver theist " From the terms of our instructions, we should suppose that repeated orders had been given to Mr. Iltemner by the Camniis 'tonere, to render his acc mots ; we do not, however, find any such onler previous to the delivery of the first account, on the 23th of February. 1818. .We hove examined all the letters from the Com missioners of Stamps, handed to Ira* Mr. Bremner, since Febru ary 1014, and the first, relating to the bills, appe iris to he one from the Secretary to Mr. Bremner. dated 22d July, 1019 desiring him immetlately to make out and send up to the Board, without loss of time, his bill of costa to the end of last year." If, from the terms of their instriietiins, the Commiesioners of Inquiry had reason to suppose that orders had been repeatedly given by the Board to Mr. Bremner to deliver in likaccounts, in proceed ing to ascertain the fact, May shoot,' not have tiottented themselves with the sight of such 'letters from he Troiiil alt might please Mr. Breniner to show them, but have requested the Board itself to fur nish them with copies of such letters (if say) in which such appli cation was made. The following application to Mr. Bremner, from the Secretary, on this head, will be found sufficient testimony of his tidier disre gard of the Board's authority, and will show that rere,tcit ,:irec tions had been given to him to deliver in his accounts, and that when the Board desisted from further application, it was because they found all application " 17th March, 1817• " The Board also feel themselves called tipori to insist upon jour making out your bills of costs in arrear forthwith, and upon your delivering your bills annetill:, , in future. And the Board, preguni lag that your bills in arrear must be already is some degree ct' for wardness, desire to be ittfortned vriseetahey may exrect to hear of their being delivered to the Comptroller fur examination. " I am, &c. " War. KAPPEW." " April 22, 1817. SlR.—The Commissioners rot having heard from you, in an leer to my letters of the 17th and 31st of March, on the subj-ct of your bills of costs, and of the legacy duties payable out of the estate of John Ballantine, dcceastd, I am directed to desire that you wilt inform the Beard whAter the letters came to your hands, and what has preventi.d your making some communication thereon. " I ant, &c. " Wax. KAPPEN." [Extract of a Letter:l " 24th May, 1817. " Sin,—l am further directed to advert again to toy letters of the I7th and 3lit March, on the subject of your bills of costs, sod of the legacy Duties payable out of the caste of 31r. John4lal lantine, and to express the surprise of the Board at your long ne glect in not acknowletl . 4ing the receipt of thous letters, and giving some answers to them.-1 am, &c. " KaPPEN." [Extract of a Letter.l " 18th July, 1817. " am further directed to take this nppottutrity of inform ing you, that the Ccnituissioners are. highly dissatisted that you have not thought proper to answer their letters of the 17th and 31st March laat.—l um, &c. " Wat. HAPPEN." I have no wish to do more than to show that the Board actually did all in their power to obtain those bills of costs from M. Brem ner, and that no reliance was to he placed on soy information re ceived exclusively from him. I therefore pass Irmo this subject without further observation. A detailed &scrip:inn is given by the Commissioners of Inquiry of the duties of Mr. Bremner's office; but as this Commission could only be ihstituted by your Lordships with a view to examine • '• be found to exist in the