The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-10-22 00:00:00

The Grecian schooner was paid off on Friday.

The Tees, 26, Captain THOMAS Cue, is order-
ed to the East India station, io relieve the Dowd-
ftst. She will sail iii about ten days.
The Winchester, tin, will be shortly launched
at Wootwich.—The Baracouto sloop is kitting there
for foreign service.
The Newcastle, 60, with Rear-Admiral GRIF-
FITH Cot.rovs, from Halifax, is daily expected
to return home.

By means of an in►•eution of Mr. W. FlooKev,
master shipwright's assistant at Woolwich dock-
yard. a man is enabled to work under water, and
the dangerous practice of heeling ships is rendered
unnecessary. The water-pipe anti cock (a consider-
able distance under water) of Ins MAJESTY'S ship
Leven, fitting ut Woolwich, was by this cootri-
•ance shifted on Wednesday.

The industry of the oyster dredgers, on the Sus-
sex coast, promises to be well rewarded. The catch
is plenteous in the extreme. Similar fish four years
ago were -old at 4s. per hundred, which are uow sold
at Bd.

To She EDITOR of the nitITISH PRESS.

BARRISTERS AND ATTORNEYS.

" What say yea, Scarlet and John !"
linAKlrrAitt.

----" If tee lire thus tamely
To be Skis jaded by a piece of scarlet,

Farewell, nobility !^
" 1 pr'ythee, maw. look eheerly ; these old fellows
Have their ingratitude in Mess hereditary." lam.

Si beg through your raper to prrsent to the ....unfit-
deration of Attorneys, an Order of the Beuebers of the Inner
Temple.
_ _

" Bench Table, June 29, 1821.

"Ordered, That no Gentleman be allowed to diue in Com-
mons while he is on the Ito:Is of any Court as an Attar-
oey or Solicitor, provided that this Oi•der shall nut apply to
any Gentleman who is now on the Rolls of any Court as an
Attorney nr Solicitor, and who shall actually have dined in
Commons between the first day of Trinity Term, 1010, and
the first day of this Term."

On referring.to this Order f was surprised to finJ that
when it war passed three silk gownsinen assented to
From what I have heird, 1 thought two of them hail hero
" pipes of different stop," and I give them credit fur more
liberal feelings, and more powerful minds, than their assent
to this Order manifests.

To rinalify for the bar, it is requisite only that a man
should enter as a student, and if he has • certificate of haw-
ing kept debt Terms at an University, and ate diluters tan
days in each week fur twelve Terms (a course of discipline
lasting only three year.), he may then be called to the bar.
and, except as to the fact of having hail his dinners during
that period, no inquiries are made. Any man who has not
• certificate Goon an Uoiversity, mast be a member five
years, and ate dinners fur three years of that time, before
he can be called ; and this, in sober truth, Mr. Editor, is all
that is required previous to a call—for, on the subject of a
student's attainments, there is not any inquiry or care what-
ever. Officers in the army or on half-pay, and clerks he
public offices,or indeei, almost any class of awn, except per-
sons varying 0,, trade, have been and may now he called, en
keeping the requisite member of Terms, without any inter-
,mission of their employ ments,except only Attorneys, to whom
knowledge of law, fur reasons I cannot understand, becomes
an obstacle instead of a recommendation. Before this Order
was made, an attorney could practice his profession while
be kept all the requisite Terms, and ■t any future time he
could be called, on complying with the other formal regula-
tions of the society; but this new Order p to his keeping
Terms till he is first struck off the rolls. This impractica-
ble restriction imposed upon • man, who has only his attain-
ments and his character to recommend him, without any
other resources than those which the practice of a few years
may have supplied him with, raises such a bar against his
becoming a Barrister, that suet, an attempt would reduce him
to insolvency and ruin; and yet the proposer of this Order
(I very much regret to say su) has, by its operation, among
many men, destroyed the most animating hopes, and the most
laudable ambition, by which the profession has ever been dis-
tisguished. If Barristers so disported to crash aspiring talent
in the persons of men educated as Attorneys bad ruled at the
bench table formerly, England would never have known seve-
ral of her greatest lawyers, and among others, Hardwirke,
Kenyon, Redesdale, Grant, Dunning, and &madly. This
fact cannot be denied, for every one of these men, I of
the late, and fire or six of the present Judges, were once em-
ployed at the desks of Cle►ks In Court, or Attorueys, and
among such names are men whose example will animate
others honourably to tread their steps, and who will live is
d dly proud remembrance, when the chief supporter of
this Order, disposed, as be is, to cramp iedustry and cripple
genius, will be despised or forgotten. Can this unjust and
oppressive Order be reconciled by common honesty to com-
mon sense? Or is it fit that this Order should (to the ;Nei's.
dice of the public) prevent attempts at excelleuce io
this age of the world, by blasting the hopes of Attorneys
desirous of going to the bar, and by imposing on them
additional restrictions, and creating petty •nd invidious
distinctions between the members of the different depart-
ments of the profession? The Legislature has lately put the
two departments of the profession on a somewhat similar
footing, and directed that keeping Terms at the Ueiversity
shall supersede two years' service at the desk, and that the
usual attendance by pupils in the chambers of practising Bar.
rioters and Special Pleaders, shall be considered as service
to Attorneys. And thus, while the Parliament of Unit-
ised is endeavouring to create a better understanding
than exists between there at present, the proposer of
this Order furtooth (who, perhaps, owes to Attorneys
almost every professional distinction he possesses that is nut
attributable to his God), is by this Order acing his " brief
and newly-acquired authority" to crush or to tarnish them
as • body, anti to keep alive foolish feelings of pride that
ought never to have existed. I sincerely hope that Attorneys
will at least find unanimity, spirit, and inclination, to resist
this pitiful and uncalled-for attack upon their privilegersaud
take every necessary step to defeat it. In such a cause per-
severance is success. Now fur a golden prophesy, chiefly
scraped from Shalespeare, to the father of this deformed child,
who seems to have turned his wit the seamy side without,
and I advi►e him to take • me f his ow n judgment, for
I see euen's judgments are a parcel of their fortunes, and if
his shall lead him to support and keep this hateful bantliug
by playing on the hollow pipes that gave it breath, which,
knowing their stops, he found to be as easy as lying, why
then, his cloud of dignity is held from falling with so weak
a wind that it will quickly drop, and the Lord Tinton will
be left a naked gull, who flashes now a phcenix—for I can
(ay., and perchance I may) sing and speak 'to him in many
sorts of music. The trust I have is in my innocence—my
robe, and my integrity to Heaven, is all I dare call my uteri
—I would not, if I knew It, hurt the worm I tread on—yet
I am not the man to crook the pregnant hinge* of the knee
where thrift may follow fawning—and I hate ingratitude
more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkeuness,
or any taint of vice.

You shall boar again nest work Goa
'THE BENCHER'S FRIEND:

Yesterday se'nnight Mr. SmsmiDowm was chosen
an Altlemon' of the Corporation of Doncaster, in
the room of 11.HEATON, Esq. deceased.

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A fruiterer of Edinburgh has in his shop three
Scotch pints of fresh ►trawberries, grown in open air.
Mr. CREEPS, the aeronaut, left Brighton a very
considerable loser by his visit; he having lout his
balloon, and very nearly his life, and received by
way of compensation,•about one hundred pounds !
The balloon, we understand, coat him three hundred
pounds.