The Sun. — London, England, 1819-02-25 00:00:00

~ • .iircess. FOR I SUN. OLD BAILEY. - • • ABUSES EXENTPLIFTED IN THE PRACTICE Or AGENTS. OF THE INSOLVENT COURT. c. Mellor est justilia vere' pretteniens vuarn severe pu. ?tens." I\Ir.tDITOR ,—The very liberal manner in which you have heretofore encourag"ed my communica tions upon the general AtiUSES of PRAcTrc - a in the LAW, encourages me to offer some additional instances in proof of my general ()amnions, Which remain Int contnidicted.' The current of Abuses is so rapid in succession, and betrays such an extensive system of Corrup; tion, Extortion, Perjury, and Deception, that it becomes a paramount duty in every one to exert . . hiS utmost tor dereciion and exprisUre, 'in the hope tl:3t prerenlire means may be resorted . to , • On Thursday last, a pet-still of the name of • ---, of ---, offered himself as bail be fore one of the Judges, for a person who was about to take Ms trial for perjury. lie swore . that the house in which be lived was his own freehold, for whiA be had paid ; that be was a tradesman, and worked for private fatuities ; and that be had large sums due to him on bonds and book debts. Having sworn in so positive a manner, the Learn ed Judge ordered him to pass as bail; and he had withdrawn for that purpose.—Th'e Deputy Filater of the Court, however, was present at the exa mityition, and assured the Learned judge that HE had no objection to swear, viva voce, as to his having known the man for about four years; as sort of messenger to the different prisoners con fined in the King's Bendi PrisOn, and requested the 'fipstaves of the Court to be called to confirm the Filazer's statement ; when the Tipstaves de clared, that they hail known him in that charac ter for some considerable time, and that lie bad occasionally acted as an Attorney. On his being recalled, the Learned Judge examined him as to his freehold property, .which turned out be a mere fabrication. He then pegged for mercy, and of feted. to assist in detectiirg others, but the Learned Jude said, " it rvE3s his ditty to commit him to Newt:we," and his commitment was made out accordingly. The following is also another initanee . rif de pravity. Last week a person of the name of-- who, I understand, acts as one of the Agents of the Insolvent Court, called at the Chamhers.of one of the Judges of the king's Bench, far the purpose of swearing to the service of a' notice • upon a detaining Credit& of-one of the Insolvent's al Agent ;"the clerk of the Judge, knowing ,some thing of the individual, refused adrninisteriulq the oath, unless he would go before die Judge for the purpose of being questioned as to the con-tents of his Aldtivit, when it resulted , from his examina- tiori tat he had undertaken to serve the notice in cuesiion at Watford, in Hertfordshire, brink closely inierrot!ated as to the road he took, his answer ro the !pained Judge was, that he went t o v rds the west, being; then asked it he wen! tc► wards Whiterhaptl or by Tyburn Turnpike, his answer was the latter ; he also stated, that he went liming!! Knightsbridge and Hammersmith, and over Hounslow Heath ; upon his nAming the latter place, the Judge interposed and observed, " it that is the road you went you never got to Watford," and therefore I shall not allow you to sg ear to this affidavit, which, as, LISTON says, in the Farce, he would have done had he been Pei rn;ited. • There ire frequent instances of, intention to c^rnn►;r wiljul perjury, for.the purposes ordeeep . - t:,:n and injury ►o Creditors, and although it may he said that.►lie taw has provided remedies against such practices, its power is inadequitte to the at tainment of those ends, for, amongst the vast wimber of persons who pursue practices, diminution of the evils by solitary instances of prosecution cannot sufficiently meet the pnbtic wish. I must take leave to add my tribute of re tipect and gratitude to the chief Officer of one of the Llw Courts for the cases mentioned, and to 10:011i I consider the public also. indebted for the kind frankness (if his colonnnication. , It/ illy jud,izment nothing short of a total prom bition will elect that object. If none but persons duly admi,tted and prop er ly res p ons ibl e , were al lowed to practice in any Court, the Public might 'ook (vit h Slt.iStNC69ll to that responsibility which attaches to the legal 'profession, and which has no tie or check upon the conduct of illegitimate Agvrit.! and daring Adventurers.. I shall continue obt such information as may tend to con nrin these conchtions, and am, Your's, as usual, SCRUTATOR. . • : lIORSE .STEALING., Yesterday Jaws Dwan, a young man of very dandy-like appearance, was capitally indicted fur stealing a mare, value bOl., and a bridirand saddle, the property of George Gwynne. The prisoner said he wanted to purchase the horse. The prosecutor sent his groom with the lt , orse• to a place where the prisoner was lint to be found ; 'bat while waiting there the prisoner came up, took away the horse, and did aot re-, turn with it. The Jury, without much hesitation, pronounced the pri soner f.;uilty—Death. • • . Dui lug this trial, the names of some well-known "Vbaunters of Horses," as they are technically called, were introduced, Who made sure-that the law would not reaclrthetu. At.length, however, they will perceive that the law, although moving %lowly, will he sufficiently effective to crush their peculative. pursuits. MELANCHOLY SUDDEN DRATII.----Yesterder morning PARKER, a respectable draper, ne a r S o m erse t House, Strand, fell down is the street, and almost instantly expired, with-1 out tittering a single word, All possible atten-! tioh w4B . pitid to him, but in vain, and be wasi c , rrie4 home to his afflicted family a lifeleiv it.torpse. FOR VIE SUN. 'ROMAN CATTIOLICg. EDITOR,—So candid and judicious a letter as appeared in your Paper, signed BRITANNICUS, deserves to be reprinted in its first page. 1 ap prehend be has read my history of the same sub ject in your former Numbers, because his striking feature is a fact I touched upon respecting the Protestant Dissenters, who fell off from the Esta blished Church for little or no reason whatever— a fact that . gives birth to their torpid silence, and pethaps secret acquiescence, over the claims of these people, who are deluded with the hopes of Succeeding in the end. Most certainl/ these Dis senters must be dead to the truth, that Roman Catholics, so far from tolerating any scismatic Sect, absOltitely despise it ; holding the union of their Church to be inviolate, and that none other shall be dispensed with. Undoubtedly their altar is the original, from PETER, its Bishop, first of Antioch, then of Rome, and the immediate suc cessor Of CHRIST; and in all the dark ages of Christendom it was universal, until the spell was broken by LutnEii on the Continent, and a King in th . e realm of Old England. Their tyranny over body and soul, and their attemps to engross all the fat of the land, were then defeated. The, gross inconsistency therefore of the Protest Ant Dissenters' silence, is mattifeNt to all ; as they innst know that friends as they are to toleration, and the liberty of conscience, the Roman Ca- tholics to a man are rancorous enemies to both, and were they in ascendancy would deny it in toto to Protestants of all denominations, This calls upon them to oppose the insidious claim of their deceivers, who, should they prevaii, the time might not be distant when our present happy Establishment would be turned into Papal, and ,the slavery of body and soul be the dismal coo seytence ; when the Dissenters would sink in mi sery, and the Protestants of the Church charge them with forwarding, by their silence and ac quiescence, the wishes of the Papists to so in -glorious an encl! The Corporation and Test Acts were passed as :bulwarks, forming a strong tort againSt them in particular ; but if they obtained power, these statuteswould be a dead letter in our law books; the lines of circumvallation would be brokeO, the ,walls of the salient angle be scaled, and every Protestant be put to the sword, unless he prefer .to be fettered in conscience by the chains of 'Popery ! But the Roman Catholics say no ! we will be your kind brethren ! Yes ! say the Protestants, as kind as the whining tears of a crocodile, until it obtains its prey, o r th e atdent lover, nwil hi s Passion is gratified ;- and so will be the Roman Catholics, until their baneful pip pose is answered, when the yielding Protestants will be treated , -just like conunon w-s, First be enjoy'd, and then Icick'd ont of doors. TERR..E FILIUS. FOR THE SUN. ST. PA U L'S. Mn. EDlTOR,—Whenever yon can find room in a corner of your respectable Paper fot' the fol lowing few observations, you will very much oblige a Constant Header, by their insertion Going into St. Paul's the other day, as rny cus tom is once or twice in the year, to take a view Of the interior of that edifice, I visited, among other objects of curiosity, what is seldom shown, unless particularly asked for, the original design for a new Cathedral, as given in by Sir CH RiSIM. PH RR WREN, which stood first in the estimation of that great man, and is cxh!bited in a Model made under his immediate inspetiOn : a Work of exquisite beauty, wheiher cou.tuered only with regard to the model itself, which is upOna very large scale, oy in reference to the noble st r u cture of .which it is a representative in ninimure.— What then will be thought of the taste'of those under %0r05... care this valuable design is placed, When it is known that, from negligence and utter want of attention to so inimitable a deposit, it is rapidly falling into decay ; and, if not, soon re novated, will, in a few years, be crumbled into a heap of ruins. 1 have myself, from ,year to year, witnessed cornices, columns, and other material parts of the building, dropping- one after the ,other ; and, as it seems nobody's business to pay the, least regard to it, this magnificent display of science and genius united, will soon be lost for ever. This is the more to beiminented, as a very moderate expeuce would serve to put it into cum. plete repair, and render it, as it deserVes to be, the admiration of this and future ages. It has been frequently observed of late, both in and out of Parliament, t hat the grand National Monti ment about to be raised in commernoration of our reat 'Victories by Sea and Latta, instead of being raised in the shape of an arch or column', might, More appropriately, asinme the form of 'a Church, where constant 'adoration and thanksgiving xvould be paid to that great Being who is the only Giver 'of all Victories. A rational and pious 'suggestion ; and, as it strikes me, well worthy of encourage ment. If so, % - vhire could be found a more suit able study for such an undertaking than rite noble_ model : , I have mentioned; where simplicity and magnificence, are combined, and which, as long es it,is suffered to - exist, will stand on record as the masterpiece of our great Architect I know not whether this idea of mine prey be thought .worth , notice but sure I am that the shameful inattention and disregard wiLich is slim'' to a, work of thil,natnre„, a work so truly 'e‘stiniable, t reflect,s ,no great credit:on tho4e iyhoi duty it is to 'watch Over, the irecser'vatiOn 'of so 4altable relic. In the hope that the Dean and Chapter may be indticed to take this matter into their con sideration, it fortunately these remarks entail(' meet 'their eye. I remain, Sir, your very obedient Servant. AMIJULATOR, , VtSTAI INSTEft EL EC iOS. TENTEI DAY. The Polling proceeded briskly throngla thE whole of the day, and at four o'clock the numbers were as follow For the non. G. Lamb • • • 2658 Mr. iobhonse • 229 Major Cartwright • • Mr. iloThuotise said, the clay was a had one for Westminster, for niore reasons than one. He was not aware, when be the day before anticipated a majority, that his expectation had been fixed upon a holiday, on which .Government could sent! to the poll the Clerks of all the Public Offices, nOr that the coalition had been so complete against him. He supposed those who constituted the majority of his Opponents were the men called by that Gentleman the Independent Electors, and real friends of freedom—(a cry of Lamb's in a funk ; I see it," raised a great laugh, espe cially from Mr. Lamb himsolt).—Thdt name ap plied to such persons, implied that the body of Electors assembled there were the false friends of freedom, and that their excellent Reptesentative, Sir Francis Butdett, had been returned by then of slavish principles.—(Laughter arid applause.)— Why should those who rescued Westminster from the state of a Cinque Port, to which it was reduced in the days of Fox, be branded with the Dante of tal. , e•triends to that very principle which they had iiitrodoced ? The Whigs had proved themselves wholly unworthy of the confi leiter of the people. What had th . ey dime at the last Election ? At a time when the Court was exerting all its power to return Sir M. Maxwell, what had the Whigs done in the cause of the People ? It might have been expected that they would second the ef forts of the Reformers, for though the Reform Candidate was nor in the - same regiment will; the Whig, he always stood upon th, same s id e of the House with him Th-y did no thing of the kind. Not a finger diet (bey raise against Ministers, but stood in a lazy neutrally to see (as was expressed in their own way) what sort of battle the IVestmiuster Men could make against the Court. He would ask the Wings whe ther, while they were trying to get in one of ih t i r o wn party, theydid not ahstdin altogether front any attempt to keep out the Court Candidate.—(Ct ies in the negative by Air. • Lamb's trieods !) lie was not arrogant enough to say, that the labours of the party were directed against Itirn; they were directed against the paramount question of Reform, and their great object was to pull down'the character of Sir F. Burdett. (Cries of that's the fact)—For that purpose they had meanly employed preveried a who, t r i t i r e ffia p i e ), ol l e tm b l y n the e r , r , n i i n s g e lie lrei: ci r t e c a ( l f' inclinations, and gave the Honourable Candidate an opportunity of declaring that their inestimable Candidate was losing his infiiien , :e. To say nothing of the modesty that must have been posiessed by a young Man, who taunted the El ec t o rs with the fall of their favotirite, he could not help stating, that the person must have been prompted by air ill-advised feeling, who submhted to be the instiument in pulling down a faithful Reprdsentaiiie of 23 years standing.—:(Loud plause.)—Mr. alluded to the regulation, con trary to law and reason, of disfranchising those who had not paid their taxes. It was, he said, compelling the people to return those who aimed at depriving them of one of - their most valuable privileges. taxes should he a directedi,!rtaattliac i that l i ie po w n l;o 6 t i l l i t tl ij n e o re t pay hi s was disfranchisement added, as it the first was not an evil sUfficiently great. Mr. LAMB stood forward.—He begged to know why the Meeting would not give, the Lamb the liberty mof a feords. Did it not appe ar thatsome e tl a rii e sayingfio glrkm w w be i t partiality o th e 'lnd t o refuse listen re thing n t attention to so comparatively insignificant au aoinial as he was. He recollected that Shakspear e , m ho, the Lion was so fond of quoting, had, in One of his plays, thought it necessary to introduce a roar ing lion;, and he remembered there.was a conver sation amongst the players before King Thcieas, as to the man who could roar het, and the part was given to a colder for his tharVellons loud between t hat oy(bsi ceer.vabll hi e ts -In appeared l eat ; )ltit anti this: ie r t l e c i ‘a t : l s t is : r hall t i% lthei . a e s been in aa t v: i g a li ; ye t trying to tear the lamb in close.—(Laughter.)—He hoped he would improve by the next day, and tell them some Odd t h ins. His opponent seemed not exactly at his ease. He had not proved competent to be his own truth= peter, and had therefore chosen an old instru- • ment, on whichplayers of all sides had performed, but never with success, for the metal was un sound, and many of the notes were falso. 7 -- (Laughter at this rub upon Mr. Thelwall.) Sir F. Bokniri said, that after the eloquent address of his friend, he should not detain the meeting long. He could not congratulate them, on the advance they bad made that day in the cause of liberty, but he congratulated the Whig in not appearing in _the unseemly company of a person to whose assistance he had been accus tomed on that plink—(Shouts of " Poor Hunt !") —in the effort to deprive him (Sir F. Buidett) of the good opinion of his.countrymen. He admit led that under a delusion an upright man might for a time lose the good opinion of the Teeple ; : but lie was not to he terrified by such ,an appre hension from adhering to What his conscience told him was light ; aware that truth must prevail at last, and restore him to a brighter eminence in the estimatior, of those by..irborn lie had been mis taken.-(Applause.)-The great abject be had iu presenting himself was to ascertain that tact ; to face any enemy that might oppose him, and an-. swer any question prOposed to him arraigning his, public conduct. He had it also in view to state a few words relative to a Letter from Major Cart wright, which it appeared had been published in The Morning Chronicle, and, was yesterday exbi bited on the hustings by Mr. Bow ie.-7(Cries c,t Bowie is a / Turncom)—Mr. Bowie miglit he a "forncoat, but the Writer of that Letter never was. The lion. Baronet then repeated passages of the Letter, calling on him to state why he had said the Major could not have been elected, &c. &c. He declared be had answered those questions conscien tiondy before, an d aga i n answere d th em bystating, tbat'liti did not . supiwse it haitiver been the Major's Vire are informed, and, we believe, correcti9 that Major Cartwright's friends have.withdrf o6 his name from the poll.—(Times ) LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FE2: 4. LIBEL. LORD HENRY HOWAdD V. MoRRIS. This was an ac ti on to recover damages far false and nOilicions.libel, which the tietentlanl',: Clergy man , pu bli shed, with a view t o hijore fn; honour and character of the Noble Plaintiff. :1 1 libel in questi on a p peale d i n the shape of a !etre.'.. P purpo rt i ng to h e o b servations in answer to IP°c Iloward's Address to the Electors of Gl ot iceste r i when h e d ec li ne d b ecom i ng the Representative (P, that City. In the said letter Lord Howard held out as one whohadforicited his independen ce ' by voting with the Ministry on the qttesfion re ; spec:ring se;tlement on his R o y a l Highness l ire Dkike o f Cl arence . Il e was also desciibed a legacy hunter—one who h a: l b ecome s ubse r r . dent to th e b i t e Duke of No r f o lk, f or the P,:jva. " pose of obt a i n i ng property which ought to II •1,. been a ppli e d to t h e snp ch port o f t h e D u k e ' s e a dren. Til e N o bl e Pl a i nt iff was also contr or with th e l egac y h unters i n the decliniug ggt7 of Greece and hone.---The defendant pleaded AP" ' t ificat ion. Mr. Morris, it a p peare d , had married one "f Duke o f N or f o lk' s oatura l- dau . hters, and h i s en , . ° 4l, had b een to impress upon the Duk e th e ob wl5 under of providing in a suitable m i - iti; tier for his children. The Noble Pl' i i ii n kef who had bt.en most atte nt i ve to the , durin g - his life, received a considerable n leVo at his d eat h . The Testator begeadvd estate o f Graystock the plaitttiffs soo, , ia the pl a i nt iff himself he left four-tenths - a ih4 r siduary p roperty, amon 1 n• g r NOne of t h e D uke ' s 0111:1Z - 1 1() " pew hie iu (' otherwise t h an b y annuity werebot,, is" cou ve l,;, - to some 300/..per annum, and to others less that sum. The defendant, impressed an ideli that Lord Howard had been instrument a l i" the aforesaid disposal of the plope tty, inasmuch 0 °- had led the Duke'i mind away from his children' P ;Ortler to get th e property i n to the Htmardia. IHI , conancted himself with rtalcoess one o' casion to the plaintiff, which produced " 11 " Prl troa - rrel. The libel foll owe d t h e dispute bet""etit the parties. . , The 'lefendant pleaded his own cause, and 1 0 1 6 a long d e f ence, endeavouring to juitity the ; by a statement of the Dul• - .c's partiality es 51 " ic r i t " time befo re hi s d eath for his children, at —re' time be contended the Noble Plaintiff was 111° 1 4 assiduous than ever t o i n d uce t h e D u k e t o him a legacy. - fine Jury, a t - e l even o ' c l oc k at tight, found ft verdict for th e pl a i nt iff, Damages -41/1y :d COAL MA P K ET, FEB n VARY 24. Ships at Market. Ships sold. Prlce' 7 Newcastle 11l RTII. _ Tuecday fast, the Lady of Mr. George Cooper, of l'iccll. dilly, of a sou. DIEP. ht At Bath, on the .24th i ns t., i n th e 37t h vear of hit 3 - 1 1, t ler nfr. Iloultun Hartw e ll, Vi car of Loiters awl Braaji:ar Dorset, and an active Magistrate of the County, only : of viving son of Sir F ranc i s H artwe ll , B art. lite P's Comptroller of his Majesty's Navy. ee tf Alimilav last, at :I , lessrs. Hebe r t aird Mann's, Fleet-ft r Miss M. A. Morgan, after a painful illness of live %%eel's' c On the IGth ina. aged 66, Mr. Drury, of the Piazt°' vent-garden, after a short rfl s ' PROVINCIAL BIRTHS, sNIARIUAGES„ -AN!) DEA',- n ferim • Lately, at Vinters, Ketit, the Lad} of James Esq. of a son. e e nti ni i the.lnth lust: at the Parsonage House, Charing, ,„ the Lade t:f Robert Will ar d .I,4r:ston e , r ; sc . of a dakighte:" 31Milt I K!). /A rt; At Kingston f'hurch, l' ot t sea , on the I , lth instant, Givetiock, Ntts. Qoarl'er-Nlastcr•( , :unerd the ---'" \Vest I)l , triet ,to 'Miss Ma th er, nalig'hi f•t Thom.); Mat ijc rf Esq. His Lordship was It:cc/illy n,arri,•rl g0010,, , t1c• to p, At Edinbur g h, on th e inst. at the house of . 1 1 .° Miss Hamilton, (:halle, Nothrhv, the „ , v - .Navy, 'eldest son Of Sottud,v, l of Sowardstong Essex, to the Hoa..latie Hamilton, thi r d ,daughter of lane ‘Villiatn Lord 13elhavilt aNtl entuti. DIED, On the 1st") ;wt. A t Torquay, Devon, LouiSa Dlaria, w - , of 11 to. Hsu. of Noose, meal . 111,. ° Sussex, and only daughter of Samuel Dtivratit, Esp —4) bet tsbriitg.e. t lie 2111 inst. after a short iih icss , th e R e v. -- e Greg Citrate of Potrhatii, Kant, in - the ti:sth veait of his age• same day, at Si:l:di:ate, Elizakt h, the wite of Mr. Year n —- ~r 1 Lately, I ; it l'embitry, Kent, the Rev. Mr. Hammond, a ft n e d r an illness of half au hour, leavio,o - a disconsolate w a ife ten children. At Ferniiiv, on the 23th ult. Kenneth M'Kenzie, Post most er of that town, a n d t o t e C apta i n an d Adjot an " 1 his Majesty's Cat:h u ue:is Iligillanikts. _ - - LONDON: Printed he .1. B. CARSTAMS, o f No. 29, nre,v Ormond-street, Qu'een-strup:: and published by trN SCRIPPS, of N. 7. Soath Maroo-sfreet, at T 116 ;,',.- 0 Office, No. il2, Strand ; where: Adr e itii el nent3, Citu letturs, (pust-puiti) must Lme athligcicsi. if wish lo be 'a Repteatril'Aiive; Ind :hilt ► B.) had done his duty to the Eiect ors of \Vo l " mincer in saying that Mr. Hoblionse was bore r . adapted to th e oce than any other mat, who presented himself. He regretted that the iVit'P r had not performed a very e,seotial part of duty, by contradicting the writiil;4s of Gobbet' relative to him (Sir F 13.) which the Major kne'Y to be false. The Editor of The. Chronicle bad made a charge against him (Sit F. B ) too, arl d ' said they had eaten salt together. He acknowledr ed he had done one thing in (lie course of his lifo of which he was ashamed—he had once dined with the Elitor of that Paper—(Laughter)" 4 , After several other observations, the Baronet call' ed on the l'..leeting to redouble their exertions.'' He had no doubt of victory, ;Mr. CLEARY biAre testimony to the vile false ... bond of Cobbett's declaration, that Sir F. Bu rr. deft had lifted him at the last election. At rive o'clock the Meeting separated. A very great numb er were present, notwithstanding lb . , unfavourable state o f t h e weather . —M r . 1-10" and Mr. Junes were not on the Hustings dori 4 the day.