The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-04-14 00:00:00

TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE INTENDED
EQUITABLE LOAN CORPORATION.

GTXTLEMEW—As men of business and of known talent in all
monied calculations, I presume you are in possession of all the
secrets of the projectors in the above intended Corporation. In
your Prospectus you promise yourselves a mine of wealth, and the
shares, under that impression, are already in the market at a pre-
mium. Your opponents say your necessary expenses will absorb
the whole of the interest you propose to receive upon your loses ;
they offer the inspection of their accounts to prove the profits of the
trade not one moiety of the amount set forth in your Prospectus.
These are very conflicting opinions. I presume you are satisfied
that your system is well organised; that it has matter of fact for its
support, and truth for its guide. It is to be hoped that Gentlemen
of year high integrity would not suffer your names to he published
to promote a scheme that by any possibility may end in fallacy.
Under your betwixt many may be led into the purchase of shares
from so fair a prospect, aho may eventually have cause to repent,
I ask, have you maturely digested the scheme ? Are you made ac-
quainted with the mysteries of the business in all its rarnifiaitions,
so as at a certainty to secure the hoped for profits? Or are you. as
in many similar undertakings, lending your names to a project
merely because It has philanthropy for its title? For I cannot bring
myself to believe you can be actuated by any mercenary motives.
Again, ire you well-informed of the real views of its first pro-
moters ? Can you guarantee that it shall not become another
"South Sea bubble ?" Will you indemnify the Proprietors of your
shares, and undertake they shall not have to apply to Parliament
for remuneration, as was the case in a similar institution some years
sine-? You may see their "Grievous Petition" set forth in
Rapin's Rvo. Edition, vol. 11. page 129, not a farthing of which
shares was ever paid to the ioulders. The original subscribers,
doubtless, took care of themselves. Again, are you, as Directors,
more capable of conducting the intricate business of a pawn-
broker than the Directors of the Golden lane brewery have
I proved to be in the management of their Corporation ? There
are holders of those shares which cost 33 per cent. premium, who
would now be happy to sell at 95 per cent. discount. Are you so sa-
tisfied with the result of your undertaking that you can indemnify
your joint proprietors against such a ruinous loss? If you are in
Crion of facts that will set aside the bold assertions of men who
enthe advantage of practical knowledge, and who are ready to
support their testimony by undoubted evidence, in God's name pro-
claim them to the public. If not—if you have not documents to
justify the measure in every point of view—if you have, from pure
motives (and I do not doubt it), lent your names under the specious
pretext of charity and philanthropy—l say, unless you have hilly
I made mit the position, and you can in conscience proclaim it to the
world, listen to a spiriting voice—retire for your own sake, for the
security of that well-merited reputation you possess—withdraw
your names from the protection of an undertaking (if once carried
into effect) fraught with ccurf,tl Satiary yourselves that its
secret promoters are actuated alone by charitable motives.
Rerol-
lect that charity is a boundless attribute—that it is uniform in its
practice—that it should be a universal good—that self.interest and
caprice are not within its pale,—and also that that is not charity
which, in a doubtful attempt to remove one evil, may hurl thou-
] sands to destruction.

There is one item in your expected pmfits which I know to be
fallacious—die surplus upon unredeemed pledges, having recently
redeemed many pledges fur others who had not the means of doing
it for themselves, and in most cases the same have been disposed of
at a loss! NO PAWNBROKER.
April le, 1824.

A usarut. HINT.—The difference between riding every
morning at six, and at eiFlit, in the course of 40 year*,
amounts to 29,200 hours, or 3 years 121 days and 16 hours,
which are equal to g hours a day for exactly ten years. So
that rising at six will he the same as if to years of life (a
weighty consideration) were added ; wherein we may com-
mand 8 hours every day for the cultivation of our minds
and the despatch of business. This calculation is made
without any regard to bissextile.
FRENCH LANNUAGE.—So vague was the state of the
French language when M.Vatvgelas wrote (between the years
158.5 and I 650) that Burin' his translation of Q. (2yr-hi's,
which occupit Whim for thirty years, it had varied so much
that he was obliged to correct the former part of his work,
to bring it to the sum:aril of the latter. This occasioned
M. Voiture to apply to it the epigram of Martial upon a
barber, who was s slow in his cp 'ration that the hair be-
gan to grow on the first half of the face before he had
rimmed the other.—Literary 01,Aerrer.
The con•mony of the consecration of West Hackney
Church was performed by the Bishop of London on Sa-
turday, in the presence of a respectable, but, owing to the
unfavourable state of the weather, not a very numerous
congregation. The building is capable of containing about
two thousand persons.
LIMERICK, APRIL. T.—Several absentees, e ing
landed properties in this country, to get rid of possessing)
II
and pauper tenants, have directed law proceedings to be!
taken, and on the Sheriff's getting possession of their hold- ;
ings, they are immediately razed to the ground, and thus!
many pow creatures left without an asylum to put their
wretched families in.—Limeri.k Paper.
The beautiful and extensive Highland Barony of
Gl,inelg, in Inverness-shire, was purchas:il last week in'
Edinburgh, liv the Right Honourable Charles Grant,
M.P. at teimool. sterling. A few years since the same'
restate fetched nearly I 0n,0001., and a vast sum has since
been expeudzd in improvements ',on it.—Glusgout Oro-
' neck.

TITHES IN THE. CITT. OF LONDON.
traosi ♦ CORRESPONDENT.)

The following are additional particulars which hare come to Off
knowledge, beyond those which have already appeared in the pub-
lic prints :—Dr. Owen, Rector of St. ()lave. Hart-street, although
defeated at the Mansion-house in his application to the late Lord
Mayor for a warrant for tithes, has filed a bill in the Court of Ex-
chequer for the payment of 2a. Pd. in the pound, under the statute
and decree of the 37th of Henry VIII. which decree hi, parishioners
contend leas never enrolled in the Vourt of Chancery, as expressly
directed by the statute. The Rev. Gentleman means to contend,
that if he is not entitled under the 37th of henry Viii. he is et.
titled under an Act of the 27th of Henry VIII. (although only •
temporary Act, and nearly three centuries since it *as in operatioe),
to the payment of 21. W. in the pound, and the additional sum of
2d. for four offering days; and, If not entitled under either of those
Acts, that be can set up a title by ancient custom to offerings and
oblations, which offerings and oblations amemited, at one time, se-
veral centuries ago, to 41. 2d. in the potmd, and afterwards to
3s. lid. under threat of excommunication upon non-payment. We
also understand that Mr. 31`Dougal, the solicitor, of Lincoln's.
inn, has purchased the lay improyriation of the parish of St. He.
len's, Hispsgate, and that he claims of all the parishioners who
inhabit the new buildings in St. Helen's-place, the sum of 2a. Yd,
in the pound, on the same grounds as those on which Dr. Owen is
now proceeding in the Court of Exchequer. The rest of that parish
is considered exempt from the demand of customary payments. Us
both these cases the ('orperation has been pleased to grant the as,
sistance of the Recorder and Common Sergeant towards the protee.
tion of the eitirens. The object of the resistance is, to have an
equitable support of the clergy ascertained and appointed, and to do
away the present exorbitant and impracticable charges. The eiti.
rens are once more agitated by the revival of these tithes, and mu.
eider that Parliament alone can set this question at rest for espx kip
a general Bill, which of course will operate where local Aline have
not yet been obtained. The interposition of Parliament, with re.
taped to the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, Mot already been
I manifested, in the complete settlement of the rancorous disputes
between the rector and his parishiones, which bed attained a height
not at all likely to improve the relip:ona intercourse which should
always exist between the Minister of the Gospel and those whom
he is bound to teach ; and an Act which will abrogate the 27th sad
37th of Henry VIII, with regard to all other parishes in the city,
is moat earnestly wished for. It is understood that Dr. Owen has,
within the last few years, raised the value of the living of St.
(flare, Hart-street, to about 2,0001. per annune, by taking from the
inhabitants various sums, as he feels incline r 4 upon the emoted
authority of the above-mentioned Acts mentions since abrogated
custom, without any 'egoist rate of assessment at all.
The enormous claims of the clergy and impropriators, to which
it would appear that many of the parishes in this metropolis are en.
deavoured to be rendered liable, must tend greatly to deteriorate
the value of property, and prove heavily burthensome aall clues.
of citizens. The best remedy Deems to be the one pointed rut in the
above statement—a general Act of Parliament repealing those old
and obsolete statutes and customs under which this itionlinate de.
mend is m We. These disputes see bet ill calculated to cement that
union which ought to subsist between a minister of religioo and his
flock, and furnish but a sorry exemplifieadon of the tendency of
those doctrines, which he is bound to hie:ulnae, end which he tells
them should be the rule of their lives. Clergymen then must surely
anxiously join in an application to prevent the fuss 7t occurrence of
what must be as painful to their own feedinp, es it is unseemly to
the world.