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at Stockholm, which ins gale _ _
overboard.
rrocsuoi.x, ■oy. 24.
His Royal Majesty was seized, at Mae o'clock.
with a severe attack of the cramp. and giddiness in
the head ; but. at three o'clock this afterneou. Nis
Majesty felt much better.
soy. 26.
His Majesty continued yesterday tolerably well.
and had some sleep during the night; he is this,
sky fist approaching his complete recovery, yet
feels 'till very weak.—(Stoekkelns Gazette.)
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MADRAS INTELLIGENCE, MAT 27.
On Monday last arrived His Majesty's ship Fort
Captain Hart, from a cruise, accompanied by het
prise, the French ship Caraeint, formerly the Car.'
tier. belonging to the port of Calcutta. The Cara-
saa laden with arrack and sundry other ar.
titles, bound from Surabaya!' to Batavia, when
captured by His Majesty's ship.

TILL' MORT 110. V. JOHN LORD ELDON. LORD
Lucy I?lfAhler-LLOR.

In addressing your Lordship, I think any apo-
logy unnecessary, as the subject of my °later-
ations is one which is immediately referable to the
iprofetsion, of which your Lordship, by the station
. you fill, mutt be considered the head. It is a sub-
.
!
imt which imports considerations of no less too.
r
matt than whether that profession, which has ever
been esteemed lowsourable and liberal, doubtless
bemuse its prole...ors are, or at least are supposed
to be, actuated by sentiments of bosom' and libera-
lity, shall longer con' i out to assostafois premise-
acme of being so charade on
the contrary, it shalt not los 'Arressaktoisime for.
h. feited its preteusiont, bj, tire adoptir,v..arisong iti
rofewors, of a principle .ref anti's, •fessiolid _on
?elfish, illiberal, and ittl'ordltot tymtiOnS. as in-
aossintent with true dimity's- nitoitbey. am hossalo
the ray essence and titi,ititlef seilmecoaiseittleloss.
t Your Lirdthip bas soisfoili. loots ff. c4iifislitte
for the high office of Chisioidlor 'Nome bf tborsost
liberal and eulightened rillsierii. thia'iii tatepk.—
,-, as h— •
If to your Lordship it is jrodyx, rot potable, that
1 you have either s inctioned, or not Prevented, hay-
ing had the power of skiing eases arbitrary system,
erbich woof, have disgraced thi4dayti of tfrloilkish
loseennic, then shall I s‘y, it is truly a.therue of
"saltation, that you have been disappointed in the
attainment of a distinction, of which you would
ham bees throw thy. -
On the very day when the event of
.your contest
for the Chancellorship of Oxfojrl eras yet uncer-
tain, though your oiler:rem ryas a oticipated by many,
who kiica, your Lordship's prismotod the pro-
bable elf. et of the 4. No i:',:yeril-siamour, I non
it .truck me as an omen, esolitiatiompiciows ols the
future prosperity of the theliromityoland, ter the
general advanceinerlt.4l,.SanigTo lit►piiitirw.. in
i. • e
that Court only over "tibias 3 osistreside,-aspbtesrd
posted up in th. se .411;q4,1040, peohifi'„*.
has wasurr,o sea Midi rte' Vitt XiWifillOgallo
shall be admitted to dalptittissi
.4S-40g:hi* is
be called to the Bar." ,:?•,: . ..:, . . • ,
• I have ever been taught !to,,yrfsppiltet k%as.ese of
'the moat distinguishing fetter*, ssfress.‘ree Cowitit
'tution sod Goveroment of EnglanCrlat the path
to honours, in every' profil,loo, said even to the
highest employments of the Siete, was alike open
to all the subjects of the King. It is 'sprawly so
Stated, by ors eminent commentator so our laws;
rbut he wrote before your Lorrlttrip was Chao.
teller.
Now, who are these persons against whom this
.0% eeping interdiction is pronounced? I will sup-
pose new of them to be the younger son of au ho-
toorrable, but sot art opulent parrot; that he is
sent forth upon the world to seek his fortune, with
no other inheritance than his father** blessing, and
the &ilea:stages of a liberal education, perhaps, not
obtained fur bon, without many sacrificm ; I will
auppoor him placed in the metropolis, whe to his
appearance, to gain respect. must Iso alum of a
ir ntleirrio. 14. feels rouscious of his strength, and
1
' .. st ainhitinus of embracing one of the learned pro.
fissions. This law seems to open to him the fairest
,i, propett of success. In his pursue, he has every
elitlicolty to encounter, from the want of that as-
.
• ss.talicc which the rich only can command ; he

puts forth ho. talents, and readers them available
through the medium of those publications. by.
• which the prople, of this country have been more
instructed and illumined, than they could have
beets, or would be. by reading all the law-hooks
that have been, or ever will be written. Well !be
dors this, and he derives from it that fair, honour-
able, and well-earned retvetnieration, 'sleds every
tutu iv entitled to fur his • xertions, whether they are
literary or active, mental or corporeal lli:limprovos
himself, whale he is improving othess;,,he obtains
this-e resources which eittilde • hstri, to putouts his
410111.-.; Nut, at length, when his term of prohatimi
iv nearly expired, :se enters Lincoln'w•ltin HMI. the
Intel habitation, not of rigtij jostice, but of is iopc-!

_ ability—you
becoming a British Minos, in the administration of
theism, but "you have written for hire in the
newspapers, and you cannot be permitted to do
those exercises which are to entitle you to be called
to the bar." Can such things be? Does this pre-
tended rule of law, which restricts the birth-right
of the subject, emanate from the legislature, or from
the Benchers of Lincoln's-Inn, or from your Lord-
ship ? If this principle of exclusion be once admit-
ted, or, rather, presumed to be admitted—if it be
not repressed by your Lordship, or a higher autho-
rity, where will it stop? It is a rule which may be
rendered applicable to an extent that would ex-
clude all talent from the English bar. and bloke
the decisions of Courts of Justice and Equity de-
pend upon the crude reasoning and arguineats of
men who had bean admitted to the privilege of
practising as advocates, and, ultimately, of sitting
in judgment, not because they were men of merit,
bat because, fortunately far theta, it was not in
their power to write a line, fur which the Editors
of Newspapers, who are, generally, pretty accurate
judges of what is good writing, would give even
the value of the paper on which it am written.
I have given a correct .delineation, generally
speaking, of • writer in • newspaper. 1 believe it
_answers the description of those who usually come
under that denomination. There may be ex-
ceptions; there may he persons, in the inferior
departments of Journals, who.comparatively speak-
ing. are as iitsignificant as many of those Bur-
risters who are called, but tint chosen, and to whom
• OW) of common soma would no more entrust
hie cause. than lie would the care of his health, or
the preservation of his life. to an impudent empiric,
arks was ignorant of the first lines of physic. •
Permit me now to present this subject to your
Lordship, in another point of view. I will sup-
r**by a concurrence of events, hardly within
ollitirof probability, that branch of the Legis-
lature. which is presumed to represent the Com-
mons of England, was actnally composed of Se-
news, in every respect independent. Men who
ditalaiiird to court the etudes of Ministers, on the
sue hand, or the amiable and too often
applause of the people, on the other.
I will imagine such a representation, saying,
among themselves, we wish to remain in se pure
a state as we now are, at the moment of
our convention. How is this to be effected ?
ulna), by nut suffering ourselves to be con-
taminated by the presence of lawyers. They
arc a race of men whose days and hours are con-
stantly occupied in the contortion of right into
wrong, and wrong into right—of vice into virtue,
and isomerism into guilt. There are among them
men who, for a few guitteas, will exert their whole
faculties to take away the life of a fellow creature,
by convicting him of an offence they know he has
not committed ; or who will endeavour to retain, in
the possession of a villain, that estate, of which they
are conscious he has despoiled the lawful heir.—
These meth so Isabiturtad, are unfit to be legisla-
tors. They will plead against the cause of
their country. just ea soon as they wenlil
against the cause of justice ; and if our ene-
toles should give them a bribe, in the shape
of a brief and • fee, they will think it in-
cumbent upon them to de the best they can for
their client, and. cousequeutly, to sacrifice the in-
terests of their country. Suppose this to be the
language of an independent Parliament, what
would the lawyers say to it ? they would condemn
it as unjust, partial, and illegal, though perhaps
there might be as much sonad policy, as truth and
good 'ruse, is such • principle of exclusion. I will
not be so uncharitable as to say, this would be a
just picture of modern lawyers ; but certainly the
reason for preventing their introduction to the Le-
gislative Assembly would be as legitimate as any
they or your Lordship can urge fur the exclusion.
frets the English Bar, of a class of men, some of
whom were, without objection, admitted to ii,
Ise-
fore your Lordship was Chancellor, and at this
moment either rank high as advocates, or adini-
. nister justice from the Bench. It would be invi-
dious, after having read such an anathema in your
' Lordship's Court, to wise those to wham I allude.
A very little inquiry will give your Lordship all the
information you can require on the subject. Surely
no man will he the worse lawyer for being a good
writer; if he be a good writer, it is natural he
should be ambitious of writing for the eye of the
public ; and if he write for the public. it is but
reasonable he should be rewarded, without, by his
acceptauceof reward, renileriag himself liable either
to civil or political disabilities.
I will not lengthen my address to your Lordship,
by asking rot, what it is that constitutes the differ-
mace between those who write for hire, and thaw
who speak far hire ? It emus to be a distinction
altogether without a difference ; eseept that, with
regard to the latter. their prostitution of talent is
notorious, and common : verbs et irons ferent. If.
when tour Lordship was at the bar, a client had

FOREIGN INTEIXtEIiViIec 44,1 Pogis and milder genius, nutty; be sees your
p installed aa her representative, and, on
GOTTENWRGEfitkiLI.4Omw-i
swe around him, instead of contemplating those
yltilaists which should adorn a rune, sacred by the
The Lord Nelsen. Packet ii;rjriallid last atgis y4tik, Ameet' of ita dedication, he observes the wall pol-
two mails from England, after 'lrdettg kielftlfittpkr
i•• toted by the dreadful denunciation; the Pekoe
most distressing weather. There:ptaip*lf,AipAsl. 'tekel;“ Thou art weighed in the balinice,and found
horses on board, for His Majesty's Ckai.eftfrose wauting." It is Oise, you may be a roan of consum-
ed Stockholm, which in a gale of wind we;ii'4iown mate ability—you may give promise of one day
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