The Sun. — London, England, 1817-12-24 00:00:00

CERTIFICATED CONVEYANCERS. FOR THE SUN. LETTER IV. MR. EDITOR,—It has been said that the At tornies and Students are under Regulations ; and for malfeasance liable to censure and punishment. The former are supposed to be present in the Court, in which they are admitted, and they are privileged from arrests. For.gross practices they may be imprisoned, and struck off the Rolls.— The latter may be rejected by the Law Society in which they entered ; but the swarm of self dew:initiated Conveyancers, who, of late years, have started on the Public, like impostors, to make a profit of honest credulity, are under no re gulation, nor are they acknowledged by the Prt;- fession, or noticed by the Courts, which have no other contraill over them than as parties in ac- Lions of t►espass, or trespass on the case ; yet these Freebooters openly encroach on the practice of accredited Lawyers, solemnly constituted, and on the Attornies, who are as solemnly authorised to pursue their business. They pretend that they are sanctioned by a Tax Certificate, svhich they pty for, and thi- is all ! As well may they say that a Tax Certificate procured by a spurtsmari sofficiently tralifies !►iru for killing game ! No such (Meg ; (bey are mongrels, lurcl►ers, setters, .&c. Any person who kills game without being qualified by law, is liable to its- penalties, in deli . ance of his Certificate, which is only fora tax en those tvho are. Looking upon them as Seri- . Tellers or Scribblers, they are nut objects of a certified tax, which only extends to-Attornies and •those who are Draftsmen, fit for, or in progress to, the Bar ; and the payment of it gives them no right to practice as either. If it be asked, Would they, as Scriveners, be considered equally as liable with the Attornies and Draftsmen under the Bar ?. The fair answer would be so !—Why because Scriveners were not in the contemplation of the Legislature when it was imposed ; nor were any to be found, and, if found, who .were they ? Poor Curates, starving upon fat benefices, petty School- masters, Parish Clerks, Sextons, Church-yard Poer, Hacks, who wrote by the dozen, or Sta tioners, who were able, by means of the Attor ney's Pocket Manuel, to write acquittances, on tices, fill up common leases anti bonds, printed with blanks, make distresses for rent, or copy out a will ; and thence sow mistakes, errors, and all the mischiefs in Pandora's box, for the Law, sooner or later, to correct. Sometimes they put out money at interest for one pers.m, or borrowed it for another ; or they wrote letters, and settled sln books. If, perchance, they were re quired to draw and prepare a deed of assurance, the aobject whereof was beyond their ken, they properly applied to counsel, learned in the Law, for assistance, who raised an ample edifice for them, as Architects well studied in all the Or ders, leaving them to their more homely hovels, as hewers of wool and drawers of water ! . Now, as Bays says in the Relicarsal, let us have a dAnce. Of the farce we have seen much ; yet a peel► behind the curtain may inform, though it cannot please us. These Strollers charge for their actings and doings, comic and tragic, what they please, from the Clown in a Pantomime, to a Scrub in a ['lay. Their Bills are not taxable, consequently they are out of all rule, and exorbi tant in the extreme, with which they generally blister the back of those who are least able to bear it. For example, one of the tribe or troop received a bill of FORTY Pounds, for what an ho nest Attorney would have done for FIFTEEN ; and another positively received THREE Pounds for the copy of a Deed of a single skin. They are indeed subject to the voice of justice, but to which, adders, they often turn a deaf ear. If a bill their abominations should be refused payment, and they dared bring is action for it, a Court ant Jury would clarify it of its impurities ; or if, af. to paying it to themselves, beg a deduction from consideration money, an action, brought against them for so much of it as was unjust, received to the plaintiff's use, would oblige them to disgorge it ; but distress they make their friend, and the lamb is too weak for the paws of the devouring wolf, in the clothing of these pseudo Convey- auccrs, auder the trenches of Tax Certificates. AN OLD BARRISTER. I'. S.—Lt=ER V. (with a word or ttvo W the I! wow able Society of Gray's Ion) shortly. PARISH RELIEF.-Yesterday one of the Over seers of St. Luke's, Old -street, was surnmoned'to Worship-street Office for refusing to grant relief to two paupers. They consisted of a man and his w!fe, who lodged in a garret, at 2s. lid. per week, while destitute of the commonest necessaries of life, without bedding, fire, and even fijod. Able bodied men the Overseer thought might obtain bread ; but the Magistrate (11r. DICKENSON) dif fcred from him, because employment was some tMies unattainable, and because, in such cases, the poor were not absolutely to perish. This he most consider a strong case. Relief was ordered to bit given by the parish. CEYLON. The following Statement appears it The Morn ing Chronicle of this day, from which Paper we , extract it. We have no information with regard to the alleged facts, but merely give them as pub lished : " Extract of a Letter from Ceylon, dated July 1 , 1817. " I dare say you will _Lave heard front °diet quarters, before this reaches -you, of the misun derstanding which has arise') between the Gover nor and the two Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature of this Colony, and as it is understood that Sir ROBERT BROWNRIGG has represented the circumstance to Ministers, we expect that some decisive measure will be the result. " I some time ago informed yon, that the .Go eerntor, tvitl► a view of setting an example in the present distressed state of the Parent Country, had voluntarily surrendered the while of the co lonial allowances, amounting to 15001. sterling a-year, which he drew as Commander of the forces ; allowances, which 1 believe are still drawn by the Officers,commanding at the Cape of Good Hope and at the Isle of France, under the denomination of forage fur horses, coals, and saddle money, &c. - " A short time ago his Excellency, with a fur ther view to the same object, reduced the allow ances of the Civil and Military Servants of• the Island, so that the only department which le maitre& rinc:lipped, was that which, in the opinion of every imphrtial person, was the most suscep. title of reduction " It is understood that in laying beforetheConn cil of the Colony a statement of - the reduction he has felt it.to be his duty to make, the Governor ob served that he should propose making a trifling modification, not in the salaries, but in the emo lument of the Judges, inasmuch as that• the per sonal epences of their Lordships, when on a cir emit, should thenceforward cease to be a charge aLtainst public i„.4‘ proposal, which he felt no difficulty or delicacy it submitting, since he had invariably paid ''from iris private purse his own travelling expenses, while on official circuit as Governor ;' but the proposition, moderate and reasonable as it appears, was received most un graciously, and a strong determination was ex pressed on the part of the Judges, to preserve their emoluments from the profane touch of the Governor's pruning knife "This is a mere outline of the quarrel ; but I can very honestly assure you, that there is not a British subject here, who is not indignant at the mantrous. establishment of the Court, which is swallowing up a very large proportion of the co lonial revenue. ' The Chief Justice receives 6,0001. sterling a-year as such, and an additional 1,0001.. ster ling as Admiralty Judge, 'an office, which in time of peace, nay, I might almost say, in time of ‘var, is a mere sinecure ; these allowances his Lordship touches in hard star paw/this. while all others (the Governor included) receive theirs, ball in the sadly depreciated paper of this island, ' and half in bills on England, at a rate con siderably above pat ; so that, for instance, while the process of converting the Governor's parer money into pounds- sterling reduces his 10,000/. a-year to.about.B,sool. sterling, the Cnief Jus tice, by in the first place availing himself of the exchange between Madras and this island. and then purchasing Government bills on England, turns his. salary of 7,0001. a-year into nearly 9,0001. sterling; so that, if you add to this latter sum his table and travelling expenses when on circuit, there can be no doubt that his Lordship receives a larger yearly •income than the Go- vernor. " The ‘vhole of the judicial est Ahlishment at the Cve of Good Ilope does not cost the Crown 4000/. sterling a-year, Ivhile here it will he found, I believe, to amount to neat:y ten times that sum !" IRELAND. DUBLIN, DEC. 19.—The Catholic Board me yesterday at three o'clock, OwEs Esq in the Chair. THE RILEIMISH NOTES. Mr. O'CONNRLL moved, that further time be granted to the Committee, appointed to prepare a disavowal of the bigoted and intolerant doctrines contained in the Notes to the Rheimish Bible.— The Members of the Committee, he said, had been heretofore prevented by their private occu pations from performing the duty they hail un dertaken, but they would be able to present their Report to the next Meeting of the Board. H e wished to take the opportunity of saying, the form of the denunciation was of little conse quence. The object was to have it as direct, as explicit, as positive, and as complete as possible. As a Meeting of Catholics was to be held at the house of Randall M`Donnell, on Tuesday next, upon the subject of the Catholic Claims, Its should move, at the rising of the Board, an ad journment to Saturday se'nnight, that their pro ceedings might not interfere with those of the Meetisig at Mr. M‘Donnell's, and as he had al ready stated_ the Itheimish Committee would then be ready to report the Disavowal. Leave was given to the Committee to sit again, until Satur. day se'nnr4lit. MR. HAYES'S MISSION-DPBT TO THAT HEY. OBN- TLEMAN. Mr. O'CoNNELL stated, that at the next Meet ing of the Board he should submit a plan for the liquidation of the balance of the expellees incur red by the Rev. Mr. Hayes, in the discharge of his Mission to the See of Rome—and he moved that the Secretary be requested to transmit to that Rev. Gentleman the vote of thanks passed to him by the last mee:ing of the Board. • This Resolution was adopted, ENEAs M'DoN NELL, Esq. was called to the chair, thanks were voted to Mr. O'CoNok, and the Board adjourned to Saturday se'unight. We are extremely happy to state, that the Countess TAL,BoT is so completely convalescent, that the usual Bulletins have been discontinued. All the 'Menibers of his Excellency the Loin LIEUTENANT'S Family, lately indisposed, have almost completely recovered. Sir CHARLES VuRNON yesterday had the honour of entertaining at dinner his Excellency the Loan LIEUTENANT, a Select Party of the N , )bility, and other distinguished personages. The dinner was given At Sir Charles's tasteful and beautiful cot tage, Phoenix Park. • THEATRICAL REGISTER. • Performed Last 'THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—(2d time), Richard, Duke of York : Principal Characters by Mr. Kean and Mrs. Glover. After which, No Son No Supper. I'tIEATRERoYAL., Covetsyr-GanneN.•GuyMaunering: Henry Bertram, Mr. Britian); Lucy Bertram, Miss Stephens. After which, Husbands and ‘Vises. EARATUNt.—In the Theatrical Article yesterday, instead o, " rustic Performers," read " Reforniers."' MAILS. ARRIVED-1 Dublin. DuE-1 Lisbon, I Hamburgb, I Got , tenburgb, 2 Gutrnsey and Jersey, 3 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY A'r TWELVE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Red......... 80iii India 80nd5......995. 975. pr 4 per Cents •.. 98h Exch. Bills l6s. 225. pr Bank L. Ann..... 20 1L- IGths Cons.forAccount....Bl4 fl HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW: Morning, 16 minutes after 3. I Evening, 41 minutes after S. Tl3L•' SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FAI.WM A UDEAT ? LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1817, The Paris Papers of Sunday last, which were due this morning, have not come to hand. There is a report in the City, that disputes had arisen between the English and American Com missioners employed in pinning the boundary line in Upper Canada. On inquiry, we find that the report was brought by private letters from Quebec to the 22.11 ult. received yesterday. The Commissioners are stated to have sent dispatches on the subject to their respective Governments. We have given in our last page the Letters from LAS CASAS; which are stated to be copies of the originals written from memory. They are so unimportant in themselves as not to entitle them to insertion in our Paper, if there were •not a strong curiosity in the Public to hear something about BUONAPARTR and his followers. As the Writer, for bad conduct, was removed from St. Helena, it, is proper to distrust every thing that lie says, and therefore we doubt not that the whole of his narrative consists of gross exaggerations, if not absolute falsehoods. British Officers are not likely to act in the manner of which he com plains, and whatever, measures respecting his papers have taken place, were no doubt fully jus tified- by his own previous conduct. CORN-EXCHANGE, DEC. 24.—We have but few fresh Arrivals this morning, but there was plenty lett over (ruin Monday for the demand ; fine Samples of Wheat as well as Oats sold at Mon day's prices ; fine Barley is full as dear, but ordinary is very dull ; in Peas and Beans there is no alteration. Yesterday the French Ambassador had a long interview with Viscount CASTLEREAGH, at his Office in Downing -street. His Excellency had afterwards a long interview with Earl BATH URST. The Noble Secretaries at the conclusion had a long consultation together. The Gazette of last night is nearly filled with Addresses of Condolence to the PRLNCE REGENT and Prince LEOPOLD. The house taken by the agents of Prince Lao- FOLD, in Grosvenor-place, is only a temporary residence for two mouths : it was principally for the purpose of containing the furniture in Camel ford House, which has been removed within these few days, so that possession of Camelford House may be given up very shortly. On Monday a Gentleman arrived in Downing street with dispatches from Mr. Data at Frank fort. The Duke of WELLINGTOWS sons are arrived in town from East Sheen, near Richmond, where they were at school. It is not yet known whether they will proceed to France to pass the holidays with the illustrious Duke, or remain at the house in PiccatAilly, with the Duchess. The 38th regiment, who have had the Royal duty at Bath, during her MAJESTY'S and Princess ELIZABETH'S visit to that City, have received orders to march to Plymouth Barrack., to re lieve the 64th regiment, about to embark for Gibraltar. THE LATR LION. CHARLES MAITLAND.-Lord HOLLAND first received the melancholy intelli gence of the demise of this amiable young man. His Lordship proceeded to Warren's Hotel, and in as delicate a way as possible, communicated to the Earl of Lauderdale the distressing news.— The feelings of the fattier, for the loss of his fa vourite son, vords cannot convey an adequate idea of : he Jost the use of speech for twenty-tour hours. The shock was the greater, in consequence of the previous health of the deceased, which was uninterruptedly good. Government sent off an Admiralty messenger to Portsmouth, to prevent the sailing of the Magnificent, of 74 guns, com manded by the Honourable A. Alaitland, which bad on board Lord Maitland, the Earl's eldest son. The Magnificent was about to sail for Malta, of which Sir T. Maitland is the Governor, to bring home the Couotess of Lauderdale, and the other branches of the family. j SHIP NEWS. Extract of a Letter jrom Cuxhaven, dated Dec, " The Light Vessel has resumed her station; but I am of opinion it would be better if s he w e ' altogether away ; and Masters of British Shipri ng cannot be too cautious on the approaching t in/ light which they may suppose to be the Floaci 6 Light at the entrance of the Elbe." PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 23.—Arrived the Fa° l° ' PAGET, from Lisbon ; sailed the sth Deceolb cf ` in company with the General Phipps, for Liv er ' pool. Also arrived the Cleveland, Davis, fr Ofti ' Jamaica ; sailed the 3d November—left there IP Earl Moira and Segar. The Neva, ADAMS, std l4 for London the 2d Nov. The Cleveland e%K. rienced cou:inual gales of wind, in which bC r bulwarks, &c. were carried away. Put back 0° Trent transport. Sailed the Two Brothers, GO' CHRIST, for Antwerp, and Royal Charlotte, vg` Say, for Jamaica. DOVER, DEC. 23. —The Alnwicit Pacitefi ADAMS, which was on shore near St. Margarci l3 Bay, has been got off and brought in here, b with very considerable damage. HOLYHEAD, Dec. 22.—The London Packet , CUNNINGHAM, has been got off, and' brought here, but the extent of her damage is not yet at` certained. FALMOUTH, Dec. 2l.—Arrived the Volkinder shain, VISSER, from Amsterdam for BourdeauS' leaky, and damaged ; and the John, from Londe for the :Mediterranean. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 22.—Arrived the Bi.defOr 6 BUTTERS, and Success,WAYGOOD, from St. John'fi New Brunswick ; Isabella , NICOL, from Arai' angel. Sailed the Retrieve, HAGUE, for Rio Jr neiro, and the Agnes, SHAD:, for Charante. DEAL, Dec. 23.—Sailed the General Pile) CRIIDEFORD, for Ramsgate. HARWICII, DEC. 23. Put back the 'flied/ packet, with a mail for GottenbUrgh,. with loss o► boats, and other damage. Ships sailed from Gratesend the 23d Dec.—Catv ning, W. Patterson, for India and China ; Duke of York, H. Campbell, for India and China Marquis of Huntley, D. McLeod, for India at,' China ; Thomas Coutts, W. Majgribanks, for India and China ; Commercial Packet, W. King, for Ostend ; IVakefield, John Aaron, for Ant mere ; Jouge Hendrick, A. Hazeivrinkle, for Names of Ships that passed Gravesend the 23i Dec.—William, Hatfield, from Hambuigh (22d); Henry, Kitson, front - Hamburgh ; Gallant,'' Blythe, from Hamburg!' ; Swift, Mitchell, fro* Gottenburgh ; Mercury, Dixon, 'from (often- burgh ; Choice, Horny, from Christian; Rising Sun, Thursty, from Dantzi-c ; Friendship, Ban wood, from Rotterdani ; Providence, Bennet * from Rotterdam; Good Hope, Klock, front Rotterdam. HULL, Dec. 22.—The Alexander, BUNNEYv from St. Petersburg, arrived here on Tuesday. He left Cronstadt on the 26th ultimo. The win. ter had set in, and the Gulph was frozen over, several clays previous, insomuch that with dif- , ficulty and by cutting the ice, the Lord Welling ton, BROWN, from this port, and Platoff, HORN, from London, with bale goods, reached the Molt head on the 25th. On the 26th, Mr. BUNNBY corn menced his voyage, and with great exertions suc— ceeded in getting down about 5 miles that day ; the Oxenhope, WARD, and Brutus, FuosT, followed,. and in the evening die forin:2r was about a mils, and a half, and the latter two miles and a LAI a-stern. The ice was very strong, and evendej beyond the limits of vision from the mast-head„, so that it appeared impossible to proceed : on the 27th, a heavy snow fell, and the frost was intense- In the morning of the 25th, it blew a gale, with snow, from the East, and when day-light app peared, the Alexander had drove away in the &id of ice, five miles to the Westward of Toll Beacon. the wind then at N. E. He got sail upon the. ship, and forced her through it , but continuea to be much incommoded heavy field. of ice, as low as Bork Island. The Oxen. hope had changed her position on the morning of the 28th, but Mr. B. thinks it woold be almost impossible for her to get away, On the sth inst. the Alexander reached the Sound, and next day a heavy gale came on, during which several vessels drove, and lost anchors.—The \Voodhall, SMITH, of this port, for Petersburgh, with bale goods. put into Reval on the 2Sth ult. as did two brigs with similar cargoes from London, for Peters burgh. Thls intelligence was brought to Ills Sound by the Jessie, of London, from Reval. IMPORTANT TO SEAM it the dreadful storm. on Monday night last, a flue new brig, about 200 tons, called the Elizabeth, of Barmouth, EvANt Johns, master, frotn Cork to London, lack n with provi,ions, was driven on shore upon the flat sand, between the Bar of Hayle and Garlick Wen Point, it a; ,11, 1 A n cha tt s , , t iti ) 1 , J4l