The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-21 00:00:00

promulgating, should be immediately given, through
the only efficient instrument of prevention—the
public press. In order to show the course
at present pursued 13y Ady, it would be necessary
to read one of the circulars which that person
transmitted and directed in handwriting very different
from his own, to reverend gentlemen through the
country, when he referred to the very persons who had
ten the greatest palm to make him feel the dis-
agreeable effects of public justice. The following is
a copy which was received by an English clergyman
at Amsterdam, and was transmitted to the Mansion-
house from that city, accompanied by the note ap-
pended :
" Value 1001. and upwards, yearly and for ever.
" No. 1848, page 56.

" Rev. Sir,—The undersigned is able to inform you
of something to your advantage (long overlooked) on
receipt of 20s. for his costs and trouble, by order on
post office in Whitecha pel, London.
" The Right Honour able Sir Herbert Jenner Fust,
the Judge of the Prerogative Court, London, and
therefore the first Judge on the earth, attended to my
notice, and received 10,0001, which neither himself
nor his heirs other wise ever would, partly as the heir
(-.1. Mr. Fust, whose n anae he took, as directed by the
will. Your case is similar, only not so much money.
"As I am at great expense to obtain information,
particularly the new list of unclaimed dividends of
1848, and other sources, amounting to 158 million
pounds, I require to be franked from all expenses.
Be pleased to quote the above reference, otherwise I
cannot refer; and should you find cause to complain,
my voluntary referee, the Right Honourable Sir Peter
Laurie, Knight, perpetual Deputy Lord Mayor, will
see justice done you without any charge whatever
(except postage), which you must pay both ways.
Should a stranger' bring the fee he will only have a
receipt, as to prevent friaud I must insist upon send-
ing the information by tt,e post, as does the Bank in
similar cases.

" The following persons or lawful representatives
may each receive 1,0001. on payment of the 20s. fee :
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York ; the two
late Archbishops of Canterbury and York ; the
Bishops of London, Durham, and Winchester; the
Deans of Canterbury, Manchester, and Chichester ;
Archdeacons Hale, Harrison, Wigan, and Jones ; the
Rev. J. G. Brett, A. M. Campbell, W. Dakins, D.D.,
G. Elliott, M.A., and J. D. Glennie ; John Jennings,
M.A., W. H. Mill, D.D., and the Right Honourable
J. G. B. Ponsonby.
" Respectfully,
" JOSEPH AD; Accountant,
" 105, Fenchurch-street, a freeman of London,
and personally known to the Aldermen, who
will testify the same."
" Amsterdam, August 14, 1849,
"My Lord,—lf lam not mistaken you and your
predecessors have been greatly instrumental in check-
ing the speculating propensities, and in restraining
the impudence of the individual who now, for the
second time, has made me pay foreign postage, as the
price of his universal benevolence.
" I fear, as he can continually change the hand-
writing in the address, that there is no escape for the
foreign chaplains, or others whom he may thus honour ;
however, as the inclosed is the most recent of his
productions, and the liberties taken with various
names in London are as bold as ever, I send it to
your Lordship that you may act therewith as you
may deem right. . .

" I have the honour to be,
" Your Lordship's faithful servant,
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In other of Ady's circulars the names of Dukes,
Marquises, and Earls, Judges, are used in pre-
cisely a similar manner.
In answer to a question from the Lord Mayor,
Mr. Goodman, (the Chief Clerk) said that Ady had
paid the whole amount of the demands made upon
him by the authorities of the Post-office for returned
letters.

The following letter from a vicar in Yorkshire,
which was received by Sir Peter Laurie, and by him
transmitted to the Lord Mayor, will be read with
curiosity :

" August 15, 1849.
" Sir,—l take the liberty of applying to you rela-
tive to Joseph Ady. A few days ago he wrote to me
to say that he would inform me of 1001. per annum
due to me (referring me to yourself, Sir, as his re-
feree), provided I would send him a sovereign. Upon
which I wrote in reply to say that I would either
deposit the money with you, or allow him Si. per
annum for life if he would give the information
previously. In the former case requesting you to
pay it over when he had given the information.
Again, in answer, he wrote that he could inform me
of two several sums due, but if I would send him the
205., he would inform me of the 1001. per
annum, leaving the other to my generosity.
Overcome by such deliberate assertions, thinking he
would never dare to lie repeatedly after this
rate, I sent the money, and received, by return, a few
extracts from the Tithe Act, which had as much re-
lation to any acquisition as to the Mayoralty of
London, adding at the bottom, that he knew of money
left to me by a relative, for which he required another
fee. I immediately wrote to demand back my sove-
reign, threatening him with an exposure to you, and
in the public papers, but have not had one word in
reply. I take the liberty, Sir, of asking your advice
as to this bird of prey. His first letter was litho-
graphed ; his second was in his own handwriting. I
should gratefully receive any suggestion from you as
to the best mode of proceeding with this hoary sinner,
who, in his 75th year, as he writes, can thus, by
enormous lying, aim to maintain his miserable exist-
ence.

" And I have the honour to remain,
" To Sir Peter Laurie." &c., &c.
His LORDSHIP considered that the publication of
the above-mentioned letters and statement would do
more towards cramping the successful exertions of
Ady than any other mode which could be adopted,
under existing circumstances, and expressed a hope
that foreign newspapers would not be silent upon the
subject.