The Sun. — London, England, 1820-06-24 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN. 1 - 0 THE MEMBERS OF THE METROPOLITAN LAW SOCIETY. PETTIFOGGERS. GENTLUMEN—There never was a more ho t-towable, or a more necessary, aud, I trust that it will be proved,. a mute useful In stitution than that which you have eats. Wished. To prevent men who leave not been regularly trained for your meritorious Profession, (runt obtaining the management of property, or from drawing legal inttroments, which, front their unskilful construvion, may expose their deluded Clients to ruin, are surely such Laudable purposes as ought to excite the warmest patronage of all iklembers of your iiherai Profession, at, Well si the respect and gratitude of the. Community at large: But there is one essential °hive( which it is proper for you to iticliide within the scope of your valuable and to ..Vlitch I take the li- berry of now draA lug yi-rur atteibilon. it ton ?mullions that there area considerable number of worthless Members of your 'Prot,ssion who de,- rive a base and roost odious •lieelillood, in tiro 'noting law•suite fur the sake of obtaining, pay ment for costs, though 'heir unfortunate Clients should incur dig ace and ruin by the procedure. I therefore presume to suggest that your Society should keep a strict eye upon such woithless Practitioners, and, at its own expence, publish an account of all cases of that kind. Such a state- meta will ()relate as a mainii.g to those ignotane persons who way be ensnared into actions, or &cements, merely to put enoliey into the pockets of the despicable Pettifogger, who, regardless of character, and dead to humanity, can be content to subsist by such unworthy means. The Public journals, indeed, ought lo insert gratuitously, whatever statements your laudable zeal for the honour of your Protession might present to them, for they are often the victims of such artifices as I lie ye now mentioned.— lf, in the hurry of prepariug for publication the various multiplicity of articles which are present ed to the Public Press, a paragraph should be overlooked, which may have a tendency to affect the character of an individual, and the most satis factory explanation had been given, with which that individual is fully contented, yet, if be hap pens to fill into the Lands of any t.udi Horpy of the Low as I have pointed out, he is probably in duced, under the hope of obtaining damages, to go to Low, as the phrase is, and what are the consequences ?—Why, thir the Harpy contrives to get all the tl.ernsges himse:f, and sue poor de -I,ded Client is afraid to demand them, lest he should only dra,r a heavy bill of expenses upon himself, and be plunged in greAter dtfficulties. it h a common practLe of one Paper to copy s front another, and the; efyi e_, if some such paragraph as f have Blinded to sbortld be taken into any other Journal, without any knowledge of the Navies coricrined, and, of coat se, without any malevolent intention, but merely to stale an at tide of oevvg, the Harpy gets scent of the progrt9t of such paragraph, pa sties his game, and extorts a compromise from all the Newspapers that have bten so unlucky as to adroit it., Should not such conduct be fully exposed by your Institution, which has so beneficial a faun dal ion, and which may so eminently contribute to the security of property, the welfare of the pen. op in general, and the purification of a Profession in the highest degree useful to Society ? The Pettifogger would shrink from the exposure of his conduct and character on those occasions, the People in general would be warned against such execs Able Harpies, the respectable Members of your Profession would find more employment ; property and character would be more secure, and the Profession itself would rise above the pro verbial sarcasms by which it is so often assailed, and be ranked,, as it ought to be, among the most useful and honourable orders of the State. VINDEX. P. S. In case any of the Proprietors of Newspapers, from occupation, or unwillingness to wait the uncertain issue of the Law, should compromise the matter with the 1-Lapy, it would be proper to publish the whole proceedings after the settlement with him, and if the Plaintiff should be swindled out of the money received from the Defendant, the latter should be induced to give due information to one of your Body to expose the Harpy, and render him an example of conspicuous infamy. In cases where the Client is not the Dupe but the Confederate of the Pettifogger, the whole transaction should he published, and the names of the parties branded with the ignominy which they may deserve. 1 venture to hope, Gentlemen, that the suggestions which I now offer will induce you to reflect on the subject, and to devise some measures by which such base artifices may be openly disclosed, and it is highly probable that the fear of such exposure before the world will induce even the most hardened and hackneyed Harpy to pay some respect to public opinion, if he is totally callous to the honour of the Profes• s:on. Acting thus as a Moral Tribunal to bring selfish arti fice or confederate villainy to detection and di4race, you will reader your Society more useful to the Country and more bo no:irable to yourselves. LONDON FROM TILE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. [Morning Chronicle ] THE QUEEN. Mr. Brougham stated in his place last night, that he bad been to see her Majestysbefore three o'clock yesterday ; and that eleven o'clock this forenoon was the earliest hour she could fix for receiving the Deputation appointed to com municate to her the Resolutions of the House. He took an opportunity of observing, at the same time, that on Thurs• day evening he had neglected to state to the House, that her Majesty, as soon as she received Me announcing the erasure of her name from the Liturgy, wrote H letter com plaining of this to a Noble Lord in the Ministry, anti that her Majesty had reminded him of that circumstance, in the interriew which he bad recently lead with her. Lord Castle reagh acknowledged the receipt of the letter in question, by a Noble Friend of his, and disclaimed all idea of insinuating that her Majesty herself had not thought of this subject till the conclusion of the late negociations. Her Majesty's letter was written on the IS alt, and received on the 29th of March last. The House is to meet this day, merely for the purpose of re ceiving her !Vloiesty's .Inswer, that they may be in posses sion of it previous to any discussion. We wish to speak with due respect of the [louse, and to do justice to the motives which induced Mr. Wilberforce to interpose as a mediator on this occasion; but assuming, as we have a right to do, that the Queen is innocent of the charges agaiust her, and conse quently that she is an injured woman,.we cannot understand on what principl e of justice the House, instead of exciting its power to induce the party by whom the itijistiee was committed to make reparation, should step forward and say to the suffering party, you hive suffered much on= justly already, but you must consent to suffer more.— The pariy coMmitting the iojustice is powerful, and the other party is an unprotected female ; but surely the defence less situation of the Queen ought not to be a reason with the House of Commons of England for throwing its weight into the scale against her. Much was said by Mr. Canning on the propriety of both parties yislding up something in a com promise. But this is not a case to which the maxim of the Right. Honourable Gentleman properly applies. The Queen Bei:sands nothing, literally nothing, from the King; but sacrifices are demanded from the Queen. Upon the prin ciple of the Right Honourable Gentleman, the greater the encroachment made on the rights of another, the more the party eucroaching ought to benefit from it ; fur the greater the' encroachment the better will such party be enabled to relinquish something, and yet be a gainer. And this is what Mr. Canning calls a fair compromise I—We do not won der, then, that the honest warmth with which the people of this Country have received the Queen, and which they conti nue to display in her favour, should have endeared them to her, and that she should feel unwilling to quit our shores. Here she will at least be safe from the felonious encroach ments of Hanoverian Barons, and the rest of the base brood engendered in the servile Courts of the Continent, and always ready for dark undertakings. If, however, her Ma jesty should consent to relinquish this country, she ought at least to he enabled to quit it without any stain on her honour. We observe that same Dlinisteslet Members who supported the motion of Mr. Wilberforce,. did not hesitate to state that the original omission. of the Queen's near front the Liturgy was most useless and improper. How are we to reconcile this opinion with the vote in favour of the motion ? Do these Members mean, by this vote, to say to the Queen :—Madam, it is true the omission of your name was improper, and con veyed to the world an impression intended to be injurious to your Majesty; hut really any opinion from that quarter ought to snake very little impression on your Majesty; you have our good opinion, and that is much better ?—Our readers will see that Earl Grey has given notice pf a motion founded on the Resolution: of the House of Commons, and w hi c h, as we have no expectation of these Resolutions producing any impression on her Majesty, will no doubt give rise to an im portant discussion.—lt was rumoured last night, that her Majesty is by no means disposed to acquiesce in the Kesolu- Con of time !louse of Commons. [Morning Post ] Her Majesty will this morning receive the Deputation of the Llouse,olCommons which is to present to her the Address voted on Thursday night; and the House will meet this day to receive her Majesty's Answer. It is distinctly understood that this wetting is not to take place for the purpose of deli berating on the merits of the case; but that, being in pos session of the Answer, the House may Ise the better prepared to entertain the question on a subsequent day. It was yes terday reported that her Majesty had been advised not to com ply with the wishes so warmly and sincerely expressed in the laudable Address which she is this day formally to receive.— Great indeed will be our regret should this report unfortu nately prove correct.. We rather hope that her Majesty will be induced duly to appreciate the Tote of nearly four hun dred of the Representatives of the People of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and pay that deference to it which so high and imposing an authority, and the great and peculiar importance of the occasion, require. The only object of the House of Commons is to prevent those disgust ing exposures which would not fail to arise out of the inves tigation of the abhorrent subject, but which most become in evitable in the event of her Majesty setting all wise and prudent advice at defiance, to the unavoidable injury of the public morals, however necessary it may be to the mainte nance of the dignity of the Crown and the honour and cha racter of the Nation. Should matters by pushed to extremity, a short time (with sad and sickened heart we say it) will most lamentably prove, that they are not her Majesty's fiiends, but her greatest, nay her.on/y enemies, who may rashly or foolishly advise her to pursue so ertuneous and un fortunate a course. [New Times.] The debate .of Thursday night, or rather of Friday morn ing, for it was protracted to the late hour of fire o'clock, speaks the sense of the Nation in a way which cannot he mistaken, and which we hope the Queen, above all persons, will fully comprehend. Never, we believe, was there so nu merous a House, so large a majority. Her Majesty, from her foreign birth and residence, may not be quite so compe tent as she otherwise would have been, to appreciate the weight and importance of those circurustanees ; and no doubt very great efforts will be made to pervert her judg ment, and confound her naturally good understanding.— The insidious Press, which has looked for a rich harvest of sedition from the agitation of this distressing question, will no doubt exhaust itself in laboured and artful attempts to rouse her - passions. The ignOrant or ill-intuntiuned advisers, who may intrude into her presence will buoy her up with Imre% of support against the Pariintarnt, from hi it will call the People, but what is in reality the mere Mob. The sound, moral, effective People of England will steadily adhere to the unanimous sentiments of 391 of their ftepresenta tives—sentiments equally marked by a delicate attention to her Majesty's feelings, and an unshaken devotion to the dignity of the Crown, and the moral interests of the Empire. The IPesolutions will be this day laid before her Majesty by a Deputation, at the bead of which is that great and good man Mr. Wilberforce. To him, in particular is due, (we speak it boldly,) her Majesty's wannest. gratitude. He has acted on this flying occasion with a benevolence, which is native to his disposition, with a pure, a zealous, a disinterested zeal for the public good—in short, without for a moment forgetting the respect due to her Majesty, as a Female, or a Queen, he has acted in a manner worthy his high character, as the fit st Philanthropist of the agel—The answer which her Majesty may be advised to make to this communication, will probably be laid on the Table of the House this after noon ; but it is understood that whatever may be its complexion, no discussion whatever can take place on it before Monday, when we devoutly hope we may have to congratulate the nation on a happy tennifiation of all the difficulties of this distressing case. L The Times 1 The.dispute betwe,n the King and Queen rather increases than diminishes in inter , st, of however painful a nature that interest may be, from the recent discussion of the'subjeet in the House of Commons. Our own most since-e desire was, that all differences might have been accommodated by the impartial, kind interference of the House, We will even still not give up the hope, though we may akirehend that the last step 'which has been taken does not lead towards the desired end. The House on the motion of Mr Wilber. force, has been indeced to address the Queerr,litunbly reequest lug if vee may speak summarily, to overlook the erasure pf her name from the Liturgy,. it being well under stood that such concession on her part was for the sake of peace only, and was not to be construed into any ' admission of criminality, or even any fear of her enemies—fear, in the language of Mr. Wilberforce, being as far from her nature as from that of the Duke of Wellington. Now, we can readily conceive a position of affairs, in which such a request from the British House of Commons would liave almost com manded the acquiescence of her Majesty. But we. entreat the nation, and even the House of Camtuons itself, to con sider under what circumstances the House now presents its petition. A recurrence to the green bag would now indeed be laughable enough, and would be laughed at by the whole' nation; but absurdities are not necessari) , im probabilitieb in the land in which we dwell. Would not the- most natural course have been to have first re commended the removal. of the green bag from the table, even if this had been done with some previous understanding from Mr. Brougham, Mr. Denman, and Mr. Williams, that in that caw they would not counsel her Majesty to refuse the request of the House ? And then it might have been reasonable in the public to expect from her Majesty a relin quishment of some of the nice punctilios by which she thinks her honour guilt ded. The proceeding of last night, though brief, was nut without its due degree of interest. Front this it appears, that her Majesty, on the very first ascertaining — and that only by the public journals—that her name was omitted in the Liturgy, though without advisers, without :LC curate knowledge of the meaning, intent, and consequence of such a circumstance, instantly wrote to Ettglan.l to complain atilt erasure.--.We understand that the Deputation of the House Of Commons will wait upon her .`.Majesty this day, at one o'clock. The Members will appear in their Court cos tume. THEATRICAL REGISTER. • Performed Last Night. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.-(4th Time), -David Rizzio: Rizzio, Mr. Braham ; Mary Queen of Scots, Mrs. W. West. After which, Giovanni in I f pn4un. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—The Lord of the Manor. Atter which, a Grand Concer4 and The Libertine. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Communication from Dnblin came too late, and is too long for insertion this day, but shall appear on Monday. li e * For Provincial Journals, and The Colonies, see the Fourth Page. ST JOHN THE BAPTIST.—Huliday at the Bank, Exchequer, East India, aad South Sca Houses. AmulvEb-4 Dublin, ljlolland, I France. Dusa-11 Holland. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Mornitig, 7 wittutcs after t.—Evetiing, sa atitiutes otter I. THE SUN. SOLENI QUIS niteße. eAt.sum - .MEAT ? LONDON, SATURLLIY, JUNE 24, 1820. We received this morning the Paris Papers of Wednesday last. In the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, the Minister for Foreign Affairs pre sented a projet fpr authorising the Minister of Finance to pay seven milli6ns of francs to Algiers, under the Treaty of the 28th of October, 1519, for the discharge of the meats under the Treaty of the 17th of December., 1801, between France and the• Regency of Al giers. The projet was referred for examination on Wednesday. The discussion on the Budget was then resumed. In the article entitled Military Intendances, the Committee hail proposed a reduction of 100,000 francs, and this amendment was, after some debate, cartied upon a scrutiny, 102 to 91. The Budget of the War Department (the General Budget being divided into several smaller Budgets, one for each Department of Ser vice), came next under review, and of this, afer considerable discussion, the consideration was postponed till Wednesday. The following are extracts " Pmus, Jtnn. 21.—The King transacted busi- nes, yesterday vi 411 the Minister fur rweign • fairs, and the Duke de Richelieu. ~ " It has been officially announced in Catalonia► that the disorder which has tri`tsifested at San Severa on the coast of Majorca, is notbin; that can disquiet neighbouring countries ; it not the plague but a species of typhus, arising from the wre►chedness of the inhabitants of the " The Duke de Reggio set out op 'gondol morning for his estate of Jend'heures, in 1 , 0," laine. His Excellency will return about th e middle of August. " The Committee of the Chamber of Peers sembled yesterday, to bear read the draft of di e Report of the Marquess de Fontanes on the VW tion Projet. The Report is expected to be Pre‘ seated to the Chamber this day. " The Count An&s, Prefect of Police, h :zone to the prison in which M. Bftrbier Dufay confined, for the purpose of himself intetrogativg PkVE PER CENTS. Tuesday DP.FERRED STOCK Of the 22d Mardi; 1810 . 92 f lsc. " Nantes, June IG, in the Eveniup " A great mob assembled yesterday evening; il l the place Graslin, and the tumult assumett. 03 the character of sedition. The Mayor tl° the' Civil Power having failed in dispersing 016 rioters, the Military were called in, and 0" obstinate contest took place ; 11,e result w 99 P that sixteen of the most riotous were taken into custody, and the rest were dispersed, though considerable difficulty, as they attacked the troOP 4 with heavy bludgeons. Tranquillity was restored at eleven o'clock.—(Journal de Nantes ) Note in the Journal de Paris.—" We have before us Le" tcrs from Nantes, dated eleven o'clack, the night of the 17t 1 " which state that the day had been perfectly tranquil, anti that there was every reason to beliere that the public tri' ll ' quillity would not be again disturbed." We cannot conceive a more humiliatinr, , spec' tack than that which has taken place this day.'' The Representatives of a great People, and, it ) effect, a great People themselves, waiting nP° ll a Personage whose character is surrounded by th e clouds of obloquy, and who professes anxiety to haVe those clouds dispersed, in order to re' quire of her that, while these clouds rental° . in the same gloomy sta . e, she will consellt that her name should not be entered int o • the Sacred Volume of the National Faith ! !•"" The honour of the Conntry is sn virally concerne d'? in the subject of the charges alleged against v 4 QuERS, that we feel it to be our duty to persever e in offeting our sentiments to the Public. T l ' 6 QuaeN,.by her arrival in this Country, had exeill a ', great agitation among the People, but if she ho d remained quietly here that agitation would 11 0. e subsided. Ministers, it appears, had made eved effort to prevent her Coming, and had offered bet liberal provision for her support abroad. B dt though they bad, as is generally supposed, itit ia. mated to her that if she returned, an exarniti° tion into her conduct would certainly follo' yet if, as we have said, she had remained q uiell here, it is by no means certain that any 9 0 c 1/ examination would have taken place. But Shy braved inquiry . She appealed to Parliament, a n d earneuly required an open trial. Under so b circumstances, Ministers had no alternative•"° They were obliged to con s ent to her requisition' and to bring forward those Charges whirl), in 016 open trial that she had solicited, would lol va proved her guilt, or have established her inn s ' cenee. If the contents of the Green Bag, as " 1 ' leged, ought not to be promulgated, because 114 are of an offensive nature, and calculated to il l :P r6 the.mcirals of the People, it was surely wise-in Mi llig# tors, by all pacitre overtures, to induce the QUEEN 15' remain abroad rather than to be forced to the new cessity of submitting them to the Public; but 0 9 5". boldly insisted on having her conduct fully W es. 4ignted, with the tame-judicious. caution. the) , Pr'' . posed that in the.first itritance the documen ts ill question should be examined by private Com m it' ICC 3 of both Houses of Parliament, for then 1 11 determine on the policy of future proceedings' complying also with the apparent wishes ° f _ ll majority of both Houses, Ministers acted with 111)c; rid candour ; but when THE QUE.EN made ne demands, and I‘linsters were accused of 'W I % collected false Charges, it was incumbent on the! , to proceed at once to a lull investigation, from / li e d sped to THE QUEEN herself, to the Throne , ° co . to the Country. At this point they should 1)5, stopped, not to silence the clamours of °P I) %, Lion, or the uproar of ignorant Mobs, hilt i n i u lice to themselves, to THE QUEEN, to the Throw and to the People, It is an insult to the cbarsc : ' ve 11 I/ ter of the Public, the most upright, as pr thgl the freest on Earth, to suppose that, vObsite v— ,,,,, alleged - guilt-may be, that will lessen their " 14 , rro 00 ° rality which may rather excite their inb t 0 and abliottener. As to THE QUEEN, Sh"