The Sun. — London, England, 1817-12-30 00:00:00

CERTIFICATED CONVEYANCERS. LETTER VI. TO THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF GRAY'S-INN. GENTLEMEN,—A clamour is gone forth against a careless admission of unqualified men into your house ; not as Students fur the Bar, or purchasers of !Chambers, bur the - business of CoNvEy ANr.E as, ...•Allitick to execute _rxecisirtn, require's more study :and judgment . than any other brunch of the • Law.. *The NeWspapers have rung the loud peal of conyl:iint against this lax introduction of ob jectiOnablechai-acters, who convert an abstruse . science- into a trade, wherein they traffic as inc .._ chanics, often to the loss of their employers, and .• always in disgrace to a regular practice. The • . only discovered reason for your conduct in this which is founded in nothing wilfully wrOng, i 3 that a modern revenue act imposed a tax on Attornies, and Draftsmen below the far ; but it was not intended by the Legislature for any other description of men, who have very artfully availed themselves of it, under the coun (et felt natne of Conveyancets at Law, to %Oki „they have no legal title. The Draftsmen below ' tthe Bar havg..ps? other clients titan the Attornics, but these pretenders who assume an equality with them, open their shops to the public, and have • tome an exalted science into pieces. The ex ception of such people does not affect any gen . tletuan of business, whether as Attornies, or as Draftsmen, who are really in the profession, acting with honour and integt ity ; it is only of a people whose flimsy right is under your admis sion, contrary to the caution of the two temples of Lincoln Inn, and a tax certificate, which, like a tax certificate to kill game, gives the holder no qualification, nor exempts him from the penalties. In fact, they are not in the profession, any more than Qauck. Doctors ate Members of the College of Physicians. Were they duly initiated,.they would be wider controul, and protected ; but while they run wild and unacknowledged, your admission of them gives them a false countenance, which calls fur remonstrance ; ~and it is hoped that you will give the subject a full consideration, so that your old respected Society may preserve its dignity, by rejecting hereafter all persons who do not offer t►temselves as Students for the bar, or purchasers of Chambers. Respecting the Tax Certificate, application will be made to Pa,la enet►t either to explain or ar.►entl the Act t;iat imposes it, or pass a hew one, that no►►e but qua lified persons shall be entitled to any ; and to the exclusion of awafity-morigers, money-brokers, auc tioneers, builders, hackney writers, &c. whose iliac tices are an insult to the Law, a scandal to the Attornies and Draftsmen, and injurious to the profession at large. I am, Gentlemen, with great veneration for the Law, 'Your very humble servant, AN OLD BAICRISTER. regret to say, that our respectable Correspondent is mistaken. Tu. Su?: originally started this subject, so in teresting and important to one of the most useful Professions in Society, and has zealously persevered in supporting the cause of its regular Members, but not nue Lod.dine Newspaper, Ministerial or Opposition, has come forward tin the occasion, though it essentially relates to general principles, to justice, equity, the security of property, and the welfare of the community at large. We do not so much pride ourselves in having taken the lead on this most interesting subject, as in regretting that there should be so little real PUBLIC SPIRIT in those 4ournals that profess to act upon PUBLIC PutNcimEs and a regard for tlin nationaHiappi nets. IRELAND. ENNIS, DEC. 24.—'Mondav sennight the fol lowing Magistrates met at Titlla, I-lon. Vesey Fitzgerald, M.P. in the Chair ; James Winne)+, ilrowne, Francis Lloyd, Robert Westropp, John O'Callaghan, Thomas Studdart, Henry Butler, Rev. Sir William Read, Bart. Lich,. Comyn, Steele, and C. Esqrs, Thvy assemhled in consequence of the follow ing letter from Government : " Dublin Castle, Dec. it, 1817. " Strt,—lt appearing from a representation lately received thronat the Commander at the Forces, that on the 19th ult„. a party of tie !, 1 3d regitnent, under the command of Lieut. M'Keozie, was called out from Tonag•ranny, liv Mr. Nloloney, a 1 .114 h Constable, to assist in the execution of a civil service, and that in course of their pro,:ee.l.ngs they were caaipelied to ire in their own defence, by which some lives were unfor tunately hest : I ant commanded by the Lord Lieutenant to observe, that the aid of the troops would seem to have been required by, and granted to a Constable, in the present in stance, eon';rat yto the General Order of the :Bth of Feb., 1817, and that if a Magistrate had attended, he would pro bably have had the discretion to require the assistance of a larger force, which would have prevented, in all probability, any attempt at a rescue. Under these cimunstances, it ppears to be essential that this matter should be most nuns lely investigated, and that it should satisfactorily he asc'eftained why the power of calling upon the troops on 'this occasion was exercised by an individual who did not appear to be entitled to demand such aid. It will, therefore, be very desirable that you should attend a meeting of the Magistrates of your Barony, which is to be held at Tuna, on or about the 15th instant, in order that they may make, in enniunction with the General Officer of the District, or such Field Officer as may he selected for the purpose by Ceorge Beckwith, a strict inquiry into the circumstances comnected with this case, and report the result to Government. " I have the honour to be, fez. " ROBERT PEEL Magistrate." The investigation continued until Thursday evening, when the depositions of the persons ex amined, with a report thereon, were forwarded to Government. Colonel Broluhead, command ing; the garrison of Limerick, attended the meeting. On Monday last, the meeting of the Magistratet , was resumed at Tulla, when the 1118htlion. . Vesey Fitlzerald, M. P. took the chair. General Bronihead attended on- this occasion, as he did on the former investigation, and the business of the daYli,roreeded with great and becoming solem nity. Every Magistrate present appeared actuated by an imperions sense of duty, and evinced the most lively solicitude for the attainment of justice. A number of witnesses were examined, whose de positions, we presume, will be forwarded to Go vernment, as they were not promulgated beyond the meeting.—( Ennis Chronicle.) ,REGISTER. Prrformed Last Night. TIMATRE ItoYAL, DIM itY-LAVE.—The Hypocrite: Doctlr Cantwell, Mr. Dowton ; Charlotte, Mrs. Davison. After which, tlarlequin's Vision. EAT It ItoVA I„ COVENT-GA IMEN.—The Apostate: Malec, Mr. Yount:: Florinda, Miss O'Neill. After which, Harle quin Gulliver. MAILS. AttnivEn- 1 Dtil)lin, 2 Waterford. DITE-1 France, 1 land, I Ilamburgli, 1 Lisbon, 2 Gottenburgb, 1 Guernsey and Jersey. PRICE OF SPOCKS ring 11A Y A r EW Ely!' uCIYCK. ...... ..... .. 3 prr Cent. Red. fll,l K India 80111k......9 , 35 * . 995. pr. 4 prr Cents 98, , ,4 Exch. Bills' l2s. 18s. pr. Batik L. Allll. 30 ,11_ tins. fir Account . Stit lIIGII wATEn AT LONDON BRIDGE 'fO.NIORROW. Morniag, 11 minutel alter 7. Evening, 3G minutes after 7. THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DkCERE FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1817. At a late hour this day we received the Paris Papers of Saturday last. The tollowitig are Ex tracts : "CHAMBER OF PEERS, Dec. '2G. " The Minister presented to the Chamber the Projet adopted by the Chamber of Deputies, for the s provisional collection of six-twelfths of the Taxes. It was, after some discussion, unani- mously agreed to. The Report on the Projet respecting the Journals was ordered to be received to-morrow. " CHANIBF.R OF DEPUTIES, DEc. 26. " The preparatory discussion on the Budget coinnienced to-day in the Bureaux ; it will con tinue for several (lays. " The Committees appointed to make reports on the Projets respecting the Cuncordat and the neeruirment of the Army, also assembled. " The Projet respecting the Press, adopted on Wednesday, has been delivered to his Ma jesty by the President and the four Secretaries. No day is yet nmned for the next Public Sitting. " PARIS, DEC. 27.—Yestereay his Majesty re ceived, at a private audience, Sir Charles Stuart, the EnOish Ambassador, ‘rho de-livercd a letter fron► the Prince Regent of England, in answer to that from his Majesty, written with his own hand, on the occasion of the dead► of the Princess Cha►lotte. " We learn from Marseilles the 17th inst., that a dreadful storm had been experienced at Sardinia, which had extended to the coast of Africa. " Letters from Constantinople state, that a violent shock of an earthquake wits felt a t Smyrna on the 3lst of October. " A dreadful storm was felt in the Gulph of Gascony, the 9th, 10th, and 1 Ith inst. ; a vessel was wrecked on ►he bar of Bayonne ; and the plains of the Adour and the Sive were inundated. At St. Jean de Luz, the dyke which defended the town front the ocean was notch damaged, and the inhabitants seriously alarmed. - " Several communes of the department of Cher are infested by a multitude of wolves, which ravage the sheepfolds and spread terror amongst the inhabitants. Eighteen are frequently seen together at one time. Battues have been ordered. " FIVE PER CENTS. " Friday • C 4 f. l L c. " STOCKHOLM, Nov. 2S.—The German Gazette and French Journals having announced, that the agent of the Paella of Egypt in this country, Is mael Gibraltar, had concluded a Treaty between our Court and the Pacha, who wag desirous of shaking oft the yoke of the Turks, and that in con sequence some of our vessels had been pillaged by the Barbary pirates. Our Gazette has published the following official contradiction of these two farts I-- We arc authorized to declare this article ab solutely false, so far as regsrds Sweden, and that the Agent of the Paella of Egypt has no other bu siness in Sweden than what relates to commerce. As the Paella of Egypt is the subject of the Grand Seignior; there cannot exist between him and the European Powers any relations hostile to the rights of the Sublime Porte as a Sovereign Power. In Sweden there is no intelligence of any vessels having beet, plundered by the Barbary pirates. There may have been probably a Danish vessel suljected to this treatment.' " BERLIN, DEC. 14.—The new Minister of Fi nance, .11.1. de filealtz, appears to be convinced that the state of our finaneel can ugly be ante liorated by th 2 establishment of Provincial States." Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in Trinidad to his Father in Belfast, dated Oct. 27, 1817. " The Independent Party has the upper hand of the Spanish Main, and by a Flechera, which arrived 4 here.yesterday with one of the Patriotic Majors, we have the news of two or three iic tories gained over the Royalists." trait of . a Letter from Antigua, , dated Nov. 6, received in 'fawn this morning. " On the 21st tilt., when we concluded the hurricane season had passed over, St. Lucie was attacked by a dreadful hurricane, in which the Governor, his Lady, and Child, with almost all the Garrison, Officers, and Men, were killed or wounded, and the Island entirely desolated. The same direful event has extended itself to Martinique, Dominica, St. Vintei►ts, Grenada, •and Barbadoes ; but I hope it will turn out not quite so calamitous as at St. Lucie. The two former .Islands we are most alarmed for from their proximity. The three latter are inure out of the way of theihurricane tack. We expect further particulars daily of this dreadful catastrophe, but for the present .you must excuse my writing any more. Dominica is most to be pitied, not having had such a serious misfortune for the last 40 years ; and it will be an immense time before the island is restored to its former state. The sugar crops will, I presume, he entirely ruined for the next year, and the coffee trees will Le some years before they can bear properly. Nov. 2.—Last Tuesday and .Wednesday we were blessed with tl►e finest rains that could fall from the. Heavens, which continued for many hours, and have done great good to the remain- ing clops." Since the above, we learn, that, in addition to the Antelope; all the ships on the Leeward Island station are safe. General SEYMoUR died soon after being taken out of the ruins. Mrs. SEi moult and her children were saved from the ruins. M►ny vessels are on shore. St. Kitt's and Tu bago have ❑ot suffered any damage. The Antelope man of war, Admiral lIARvitT, which was reported to he loot ing the hurrieine in the West Indies, on the 21st October, had ar• rived at St. Kitt's previous w the 12th ult. THE FUNDS.—This morning there was consider able hustle at the Stack Exchange, from an appre hension that the Commissioners would be served the Jump by one Broker. At 12 o'clock the house was crowded, and when the Commissioners appeared in their box to receive the biddings, there appeared a sudden reluctance among the Brokers to come forward ; at length an offer was made to supply them at Sli, which was immediately ac cepted, but a scarcity . of Stock was soon dis cernable ; they were compelled to give 81-1 for the remainder, and were served generally by the Jobbers.—Consols for the Account were 82igi. It seems now to be reported with some degree of confidence, that the Dissolutio►► of Parliament will not take place until after the next Session, but whether in 'the following autumn,•or in the spring of ISI9, is not yet known. It was not to In supposed that the race of Modern Patriots, iu other, and more proper, words, the Jacobins and Levellers, would suffer Mr. HONL's acquittal to pass over without rendering it the oc casion of a,factions Meeting: .Acc'ordingly such a Meeting took place yesterday at the City of London Tavern, -Bishopsgate-street. It is suffi clew to say that Mr. WAITH MAN was in the Chair, and that he, Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, and Mr. WOOLFR, were the principal Speakers, for all the well-disposed people of this Country to form a true estimate of the nature and pur pose of the Meeting. The declared purpose was to raise a subscription for Mr. HONE. but that was a subordinate consideration ; the real purpose was to attack the Government of the Country, and to accuse it of the basest designs against the Liberty of the Press. As a proof that Government had no such designs, it is enough to state the object of the prosecution. Mc. HONE was prosecuted for a blasphemous Perversion of holy if for Sedition ; for if the latter had • been ►he ground of the prosecution, it is hardly possible that he could have been acquitted. Even he, in his defence, stated, that it was not his intention to ridicule Scripture, but to attack the Government. Much has been said in favour of the Juries who acquitted Mr. HONE, but we have reason to believe that he was not acquitted by the Great Jury of his Countrymen at large.— . A vast number of Persons in the Metropolis were astonished, and still are, at the verdicts, and simi lar feelings of surprise, we believe, prevail over the niajotity of the people, THL rttovtticiat, mil be supposed to ex press the opinions and feelings of those among which 04 are chiefly circulated, by no means entertain Ole same opinions as were manifested by the acquit l "' Juries, and theft oratorical admirers at the Me et ' ing of yesterday. We have this day given t be sentinictnts of The Bristol Journal on this subje ct ; and we shall proceed every day to state tho se ° other respectable Provincial Papers. We 10 1 ° W. that Mr. Host: himself declared that he woulk1 1 ; 0t reprint the parodies if he did not feel himself boo nd to do so, in order to render his Trial complete. Without saying whether this 'was an o(6 ' rect mode of advertizing his Trial, it may added that he exhorted people not to adapt such profanations of the scripture any !O r '' . .'Assume a virtue if you have it not."- - A stt : i the Meeting of yesterday it chiefly consistc of a herd of factious spirits, with very few excer tions, and those exceptions were weak, i g nortir deluded men, whose vanity prompted theta attempt to make a figure in public, and to bg life their names recorded in the Newspapers of following day. We regret the necessity of 4.1/.1 cumbering our Paper with the record of such trO b as was tittered on this occasion by the tniscpW vous, 'vain, and silly persons who attended, b u( our vehicle must carry miscellaneous comt»odifies in order to gratify the various tastes of our Ites,' l ' ers, and we have, at least, the satisfaction of f c ' Fleeting, that the not - se., nonsense, and setli(i` tendency of such Meetings are calculated to cite contempt and disgust among the great ti c of our loyal countrymen. We are happy to find that THE PROTEST Of Venerable The Archdeacon of BATti has so 11 311 T/ attracted The Public attention, that it has p21 4°4 into a fourth Edition.--THIS AUGURS the zeal shown by so large a proportion (P l ' Middle Classes of the Laity, in sNpport of 31 ' s1 Establishment, cannot tail to maintain it it) '' ll tree exercise of its genuine Liturgy, and in the possession of its rights and immunities ; at the same time it consolidates and secures I ' l ' 4 ' Protestant Interests in general. The / tri large increase, last year, of the income " of I I ': ' Society for Promoting Christian Knowledg e ' ,, , cannot fail to give pleasure to all the friends true Religion and Civil Liberty. STRATFIELD PAY R.—Much has been said ab': this place, which is an hereditary Estate ing to Lord RIVERS. Considerable progress I, becu made in the ncgociation for the purchase it for the Duke of WELLINGTON, and it apPe' tr to be very probable that the mutter will tettoW satisfactorily to both parties. Mr. GLADsToNE, of Liverpool, is mention . one of the Candidates for the Borough of Std' at the next General Election. NITINDsor,, llsc. 29.—0 n Saturday evenio ' ' ,,is QUEEN had a select Party at the Castle. 'e morning Prince LEOPOLD arrived at the C 21 6., from Claremont, and visited the QUEF.N and rs i 3 O CESSES, Mid afterwart:s returned to Claremool dinner. Friday evening the Doke of Yoax, rtccog l r : . nied by Sir HENRY TORItENS, honoured COv e ':Ar Garden Theatre with his presence, to see the Pantomime. Saturday, about twelve o'clock , Royal Highness, after transacting military b l) ,,e ness with Sir HENRY TORRENS, left York fP u for Windsor. .Yesterday morning, Prince LEor oLD, att e lA cd by Colonel ADDENBROKE, left Claremont coach and four, attended by outriders, for sor, on a visit to the QUEEN and Princesses:, His Royal Highness the Duke of CLAIIPpc left Bath •on Thursday Morniuv, to pass Christmas holidays at the noble seat of Earl V ° l, o LETT, at Hinton St. George, attended bst t 4." Hon, Captain and Mrs. PoULETT, Sir Roo.',z, and Captain BAKER, and Lieut.-Colonel Cooft The Marquis of QUEENSBERRY has been plei v tc r to appoint the Rev. W. WALLER, B. D. Mio i9 i ,if of the Perpetual Chapel of Ingleton, in 1 4, county, one of his Lordship's Domestic ChavP / 1. ) , LAS CASAS, the late Secretary BuoNAPA II „'',% 9 resided some years ago, under the name of LA 9 1 7,4 in the neighbourhood of Dtirham, and publi s at that time a Genealogical Atlas. , IJP Sunday week, his Grace the Lord Arab ° 0 Of YORK, ordained 13 Priests, and 12 Deaccos' his Chapel at Bishopthorpe. • , !e Two new Episcopal Chapels, in a stiperior,tlia of architecture, have lately been built burgh : one of theta is copied from the b: 01 Church of St. Mary's, Beverley, o:pitting_ Q. the square centre tower. Jr RIOT IN :HE BortouGH.—The persons in for the riotous outrages committed on f r ' night last at the Black Lion, (a full accoo;' - f el which we gave yesterday), have a ll be e n orL' c „er to find bail to answer the offence at the Q''''A l :ed Sessions. Mr. Abbot and Mr. Davies, who "„, e o the guns, have also been held to bail. The vs( o ' are believed not to be in danger. ez SUDDEN DEATH.—SaturdAy morning I ,4ft dr' Mrs. ELIZABETH SIMMONS, of flare -street, 4 nal-green, was sitting down, eating her 1 t 1 ",11 6 apparently in good health, she tell back chair, and instantly expired. The same eveesi l „' . l ll ' Coroner's Jury sat on the holy and retur l , l ; verdict of—" Died by the Visitation of Got' t Futz.—Yesterday morning a fire b(okr 011 ,1 ) 1 , the Arsenal at Woolwich, which did conside r ' damages before it was got under. The,inhabitatits of Caine and its vicinity Gi resolved to establish a. pitching wallet fof in that turdi.