The Sun.
London, England, 1813-02-20 00:00:00

tOuRT or co:,oio;4>r PLE,.‘S, FEE. 19.

ASSAULT AND FAT..4E I:,.:IIvit!SONMENT ON TIM
icitTH
' stowAßn v. Yovis6; , •
This ilPas nn aetio.o brought by-the plaintiff, the
First nate of• the LOrd , Eldon EMit laditwtn t),
apinst the defendant, the Captain ofthe ship, fb,
recover damages fir an assault and imprisonment
nn .‘ voyage ta* the East Indies and back',,,
Mr. Con#.ins, the second mate of the Lord El-
don d6posed, that the Defendant was'not pleased
at the plaintiff's being qpninted first mate of the
Dry; the owners, t.ts he wished to appoint
to the situation; thAt he desired the witness
to.i;44in the plaintiff SO, at. Grivesenci, rind ask
Itinitti resign ; he did so, -and the ptfintiff re-
fused ;. that whet; the ship was crossing the Mo-
therbank, And passing the ship Harriet, the plain-
- tiff had the charge of the deck ; and the dekndant,
thinking. he was draWibg too near the Harriet, rap
but of the cabin, and struck him on the bank with
a speaking-trumpet. After this the defendant de.-
sired the witness to ask the plaintiff to -I:ve
the Situation of first officer, as he tilf:.te..;fit he
was,not capable of filling it. The plaintifi" again
,re,red; anti On the witness' infowling ;the
fendant of the answer, he saidi• Avotild he
eiltoiniprison hint tor the rest Of voyage,
which would,beioverC On the wit 110.si as be would.
have the, whole of the management of: they ship: on
on himself, • On the Stith of May, 1t..1 0, the (le-
fendint pat the ph.lintiii tinder 1111..arrnt o ~hort•
time 'aft.erwattls the witness Asked the defendant,
if he had any objection to Mi. Gilbert, a pas Sen-,
ger, doing the duty, cif First-unite ? Ile said he
had not. The defeinlatifasked the witness,..where
the plaintifi mvssed inforaltd lihu in the
caddy ; sald_he !..liould not continue to do 'o,
hut he most mess b*IOW ;- be remained under ar..;.
rest until the: ship arrived in the country ; when
they were aliovt a fortnight on the vov,4:.e
ward, the plaintiff ':wag inUStellitg tri'e crew, the
defendant said, he did not ' see any firemen
mentioned .on the :Muster list ; the plaintiff an
se•ereil, there .never bad ,been any ; the defend,,,it
said, he would h4vit them, and ordered plaintiff
put therm clown, he called Mr. Horn the quarter-
master to do it, hut the defendant would not
al-
I•►w: him, and insisted he shoidd do it Itintaelf.---
Tile plaintiff s'aid, it was the duty. of the ntiarter-
malter, on which the defendant ordered him tinder
arrest. Off S. flelerei, • the,plaintiff had charge
of the ship ; 'she. had got about three mites ii-het
of the convoy ; he backed .the mizen-tali.sail to
let her drop into her station in therear of the cOn- •
voy ; the defendant come on deck, and asked who
did it ? The plaintiff answered, that he.hatt. The
. defendant asked him, if Iv: did not knOw thlt he
bad given, orders to the contrary The plaintiff
said, he-bad heard any :;tich order. The de-
leuda4 said, he. hart .a great mind to put hilts ~in
irons, and ordered him again tinder arrest.
Witness, on his cross.exaruination,inaitt, that
he: had often obeyed orders of, the <Defendant
which he did" not think strictly prnper. ' lie would
not say whether he should or should not have
acted as' the plaintiff did, for he never wto place&
in the same Mtitation. The: plaintiff knew his
duty, bat he did not .eonsider him a smart °their.
Lieut. Darby. 4441-Mr. Hord, -Ouarter-master,
corroborated the testithouy of the last witnums.
Iri defence, it Was contended,. that the (efend-
ant acted; untier the.-imptvise of the ntouient, and,
us be c nee ived, for.the pafety of the ship. •
Mr:. Justice GUM 3 ,tumbled tip the evidence,
and. the Jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff--7-Da-
.
. , ,
wages, 3001. ,

.No. 2931, arawa ilust Thsda
ury: the Prize •of
„e 5,000, tvas sold a Hub of pcNorts; at the
WestEud of the TwWn, ley BR taßcoM, at the
Lucky Office, No. 1, ,ii.)ibinri-bar.;, the corner of
Mid.fte-row: • •

,
On the evening of the tith 'inst. the house of
of Swppitotte, near AslthY4de-la-
,•Zintelt, wits attacked by rt 'gang -Of lire ,161.1ermA.,
'robhertt. They entered it about a qu:tyter past
eight o'olock, .Three of thern-geeured two female
servantli, eu:l proee.;tletl to filtnider the itonw; the
toottuan was unfottatrettely out. Two of the roh-
bets Ce.,tered the dining-ro,Cm, where Miss flake-
tl.as sitting, threutene.4l to. blow her hrains
out, it she tnadethe least noiie,or.rosistance;and
denvitnded her money, plate„iice. She replied, she
had very little money, bat what sh 4 had they
ShOtild have, and :t she andf...nale Servittlt
v;...rea to thertt the plate ,of the +/aim: of near 3001.
They then the house.--A Llow-i-treet Officer.
-Am; scut to Isnidon for, and Pearkes was dig.. -
patched. Printed hills, otfvting' a reward for the
etwnsioll (Cl the rObbeil, woe eireulated tit
Uirmiiighani, and notice sent to-the Police Ma.. •
rates. S amuel D 0
ickins Dimkt Lynn, and ft
.thrco of the. g.i:og, w4.l't-1 nt donsegnenee •
.apprehended at „Birmingham on Saturday, with a
great part of the property stolen from
.shell"s hout,e,in their possession..—William Smith,
and Thomas Cook, two other; of the gang, ieere
opprehendtd early ~On SattOday porn:arty:), atL
u ei-
cter. They have sillee been exarniuo before-a
Magistrate, and committed for farther examina-
tion.

roi TUE SUN

riftl.lnlTor,

Observing in the, Timeg or this day, the I9th
letter tthich stews to be imendmmd to
convee'• to hi.s remuh.rs Of an enormous an-
nual iur.'ome- being received by tile LordCuni-
cellor ;Britain, (elt, as 1 trust every
pan who valnes truth above falsehood iniut feel,
at the iii idiolisiimunner in sthich Vetus bus thought
.froper to tecut,the subject respecting; the question
on the Vice. Ch fSill, now hetore Par-
: for the whOle of' letter is insidi,
6us y couched m that strain of, ironical it, which.
inity indie':e.riminty-persons to read it who tabor-
wit;e, perlutpri, WouldiniveoYerlooked it,and'Vould
have escaped the danger ofheirigniisled. •
It, tilt; exit hail i.ested here, I sliMild not have
been inflow] to offer :iny comments to your no-
tice. ' 'Bat when we see a:writer unjustly attack
. the eh,rracti!r
.oi'.o gi:eat nt,an, (for so will 1 call
the Lord Chaneellor of England, oiie who has
never been exeeeded either it his judicial or rem al
capacity)., it is imperative duty on every one
to eride;ivtiiir•to confute the falsehood.
ceitairily. feel great pleasure in finding
the subject more ably hveulled, to do credit to, to
, justly celebrated a chatmae.ter, and to expose, the
fallatiious manner in which Vetusaftenits" to ifit-
pose upon his antlers, by the supposed'enormous
„income of
,the present Lord Chancellor..on a cal-
onh4tion Avimielm 1:3 fOtitided upon no other basis
titan his own i-ioriiet dictum..
`EXpericnce, S';r, intis.-t_haVe convinced you, that
soncof the welions made use of by the factious
to overturn all order in the State, ix to induce
the l~tii)lic; fe.specially when the burtbens of the
State and the high prices of alt the necessaries of
life priss heavily upon them) to irelieve that
there are many overgrown great men, like the
..drone bees in a hive, who live upon and devour
the labour.. ,;* tiie' industrious, adopting sub-
wltielm not tnore than one man in a lion-
' dee(' can hive the means of detecting the fallacy ;
and this mltilice is daily practised •by every
interested emthunniator of .public Measures. , •
`I therefore, only occupy a short sluice in ,
, , g
your colunms, by statiu the calculations of Veils,
Lola sbuning the fallacy of themn.by incontroverti-
hie facts-,fafmts -which every man in this kingdom
has the means of coming to the knowledge of,
.as welliis myself.
Vetus,lo.bii third paragraph, (for I shall pass
ever the: introdtictory ones, which. eppear only to.
introduce the pretended grind exposition of the
.euormous fees and salary of the Lord Chancellor),
holdy asserts that he receives a fee,of,lsl, from
every iconimission of bankruptcy, over and above
his salary of 1(),0001. per annum, and states the
number of Commissions,last year to haveamOunt-
ed l'n:lBoo,.making income of 'from 40;000/.
50,0001. a-vear. • • •
t'rhether bii is or wrong in his
11'Pa/et of coifonissions; I will not, , dispute at
present; but I 'Will shewtirat,-even if the Lord
Chinceltor received any fees Whatever; (which I
contend. he (lets nma), the largest •possible fee
that could reach his poAet, after all' the, or
of the COtirt.h4d reeeived•theie feeS, paid stamp
duties, parchMent, and the other incidental ex-
pt nws, -could riot eXceed al. upon any coinmis-
sion;, but I Contend he does no: receive one
ISlliiiiei y,
,To prove this • fact, I will litre state, the
wlem.de of the fees in sumr .tint a- corn
Inis‘lon of bminkrupt, to whom they; are .paid,
.ntel to who.a they beheig,L--Which can be.
proved by ,every solicitor in London, or any of
• their cici-ksndeo are in the habit of atteßding this
branch of birsinesS,---and then leave you and
yoer gcitrt,.." to draw your own Conclusions.
The first fee clia:-,,,4-ed; is 'one shilling seta. piing
,for docket; tidy is a fee to time clerks of the of.
tide, ti nice, there are -never lesS than four or,
five ktpt.
The next.ii tlicliond to the-Lord Chancellor,
for Which. thi• It is. of which 20s.
Is paid for -stamp duty, and then there is the
'parchment and clerks Tees for the 'other SOT O.
The uvit fee charged is petition and duty,
.-4d: itrrt CiO'which there• is a•stamp duty of 2s.
. and parchment, Pic. the secretary's fee, and clerks
fees for ingrossing, Ste. • •
'fire next fee charged is the•Seerctriry fee and
iiliit radavit; 11. 25.---this charge sufficiently ex-
plains itself.
The next, and largest of all, is the Commission
and llanaper fee, 5/, 2s. 'Bd. The stamp duty and -
parchment •tiport the commission is at least 75.;;
.the chhit.'s engrossing, and the residue, goes.
to the Clerk 'of the liantieer Office, in Sotiterset.!
place, which is executed bytrs o gentlemen of great
eminence, as trustees, and who also have a tier...
pay and clerk ti) pay, and the sealer and his de-
pity,- a patcot place ; and the last charge of
-et 25. for time flu boX, to gee') the commission in ;
the whole of these fees, imionnting.to ssl, out of
.which (according- to . \Trill/5.3 at:COillit,•01.11Otil 1
WitSt for the jpgcnuitf displayed in this expose,
pronounce tn. be :it son of a sister kingdina) the
Lord Chancellor. receives 151.. !
. •
Now, Sir, sunposingit 'possible that the Lord
Chancent• could receive'any of these fees, which
I by no peaus adinit,:ii,nin4 be evident to every
man, that. all the
llfees-he cold(' posiibly
.receive
could. not exceed 3. upon each Commission. This
dekiction will therefore wipe off' from Vettces
statement about '27,0001. a year; but even sup-
_ posing that by possibility the Chancellor did re
ceive these fee, ~ it could not, by any...account
, whatever, exceed 5,000/, per annum, which, atld7'
ed lrehis 10,000/. etailtry, WOUM amount only to
'13,0001. ; a sem which is very short of forty or
fifty thbusandpounds per,amantn, so erroneously
stated to be the Of time Lord Chancellor.
there is yet, ,mother subject, • and swl:1 11,
arcording- to..VertlS;SOlSilat mode of reasoning,
may also tend to increase the Lord's Cheencellor's
:;;Iteetire,,namely, a land tax of 4s. io•the pound
Which lie pays 'pint his salary 0f,10,0001, a year,
end nu itleolllo..lllX Of tell per.,tieut. which if taken
upon the suppoed 15,0D0L will amount tog-ether.,
`to 3,5001. ;Ind this, I. think, if-I turn tight lit !ny.;
utuabers,Will bring time Lord Chancellor's aceouni.