The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-16 00:00:00

LAMBETH PARISI!.

A numerous meetingoflthaeis,rav
inhabitants
Kennington,ts or
this
parish took place yesterday,
at tie.Hrn
in consequence of handbills, signed by three of the Overseers,
inviting the parishioners to assemble, for the purpose of ex-
pressing their assent or dissent to the settlement of a bill of
MK, claimed by Mr. Thomas Evans, of Kennington-cross, for
law expences ; the money for which, the handbills stated, he
had obtained upon an ante-dated dishonoured check.
Soon after ten o'clock, Mr. FALL, one of the Overseers, was
requested to take the Chair; which he declined, first, because
the parishioners had not yet had sufficient time to assemble;
and afterwards, because he should have to lay a statement be.
fore the meeting, which he could not regularly do if he were
Chairmar.
Mr. Powts, another Overseer, was then appointed to take
the Chair, which he did; and after reading from We handbill
the purpose for which they were assembled, he requested that
every gentleman should have a patient hearing, and abstain
from personalities.—(Bear !)
Mr. MARTIN Jorms took a preliminary objection. It was
at the annual vestry meeting for auditing the accounts that this
subject ought to be discussed ; anti not a parish meeting like
this, got together for party purposes, by means of an inflamma-
tory, scandalous, and base handbill. There was a board of
Overseers, and a select vestry, to canvas the parish accounts.
The parish had nothing to do with this subject.—( Laughter,
and a reply of " Nothing, only to pay the money.".) -Nothing
at present, he meant. It was quite false that this bill had been
paid illegally : it was paid according to the laws of the perish.
He deprecated these party meetings, as tending only to inter-
rupt the harmony of- the parish. He was himself attached to
no party; hut for the reasons he had stated, he would move
that this meeting do now adjourn.
Mr. BAILEY secoaded this motion.
Mr. M'l4o-eu LEI.; said that this meeting was convened be-
cause the officers had refused to call a vestry meeting upon the
subject.
Mr. ROPHY said that a mass of falsehoods had been sanction-
ed by Mr. Fall, who knew that they were not true.
Mr. FALL said he knew that what was stated respecting this
bill was perfectly correct. Ile opposed the adjournment.
Captain 'rum= contended It had been regularly decid-
ed that the bill should be paid.' At all events, there would
be nit opportunity of objecting to the accounts in vestry.

PRICE SEvENPritCet.

As to the select vestry, he thought it *44 4 curse to the jeariski
—Mead)
The question of adj•eurnment-was then pun and negatived.
A Gentleman pre.eent commenced making eorne observation*
Another Gentleman called out that he was the perish ccal-
merchant, and expressed. hie regret at not haiing filed are in-
formation against him. (We did not exactly understand
amidst the confusion for what.)
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wqout'll'itere were eight overseetit; Of whom three
• • Mr. FALL 'then entered upon a long statement of the parish
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having brought forward this business. -Inquirieri of this kind
then proceeding to
were generally met by a suggestion to postpone OM to Easter
Thereto ; and then the reply was,
'citing to-day, the parish officers are to be elected." (Hear, and
laughtte.)e-The NiforthY Gentlemen' wits
-mtniaintheinanuer in which the audits were conducted, bug
he wits, interrupted by cries of " order," and " to the, point."
lie then
.referred to Air. Evan's bill. It commenced in July,
'lBl7. Now the Overseers hieing mede Select Vestrymen, all
These who been ;in office wince 1137 were, personally re.:
sponsible for payment of this bill, sineo- they had neglected to
Settle it befdre they went out otoffice ; consequently they were
anxious to.have it paid. All he (Mr. Fall) asked, was to have
the consent of tl:p whole parish, iu full vestry, to its being paid.
,At a select vestry at which he attended, Mr. Burgess, the
,churchwarden, agreed with him that the subject should be dis-
cussed at a public meeting of the parish, and wished him to put
'in a requisition, which he did ; but Plr. Barges's, in the mean
time, wrote to the, other churchwardens, and the consequence
was, that on a Meeting of the Churchwardens, the requisition
-was not coMpliati with. It was dated 27th September, and the
Answer of the Churchwardens was dated Bth October.—[Here
there was a call to read the names, accompanied with great cone
'fusion.l—Mr. Fall read the names,- and also the answer to
the requisition, which stated there was no duceseity for calling
the Meeting, us the parishioners might appeal against the ace
counts if they thought proper. Ile then proceeded to state,
that-at w Meetnig of the Select Vestry, the bill—the celebrated
bill of Mr. Evans—was determined to be paid ; but only two or
the overseers would sign the check; the thirst wrote a protest
across it, in consequence of which the bankers refused to pey
it.; The names of three overseers were neeeeeary to sanction the
check ; anti because they could not obtain three overseers, they
endeavoured to make up the weight by getting a Church Warden
to sign it.—( Laughter.)— The Churchwarden's name was in.
sorted at full length, and the check sent in great haste to Mr.
Evans, telling him to hurry to the hankers, or he would lose
the money, as a protest might be sent to stop payment.
Mr. Evans was at dinner when it arrived; and as Louis
XVI. lost his head, so Mr. Evans lost his bill, by stopping to
finish his dinner (great laughter) ; for be (1(r. tall) wrote to
Mr. Sikes, the banker' to say that three overseers were neces-
sary to sign the bills Accordingly, it was refused payment.:—
However, upon Mr. King's return form Ireland, he was induce
ed to sign the old check some days afterwards, and it was then
paid. Its amount was 7271., for which Mr. Evans, in his re-
ceipt, promised them an indemnity against the consequences.
Since then Mr.. Evans had surprised them with another bill of
2001., which they, rut down to 150/. Mr. Fall then referred to
Sir Samuel Shepherd's opinion in 11113, stating that the officers
for the time being could not, without the consent of the Whole
parish, pay a bill contracted in the time of their predecessors,
who were not allowed to go gut ofoilice with accounti unset-
tled. The present Overseers were, therefore justified in ap-
pealing to the parish before they paid this. • therefore,
Evans himself'
was a member of the Select Vestry, and yet his bill contained
regular charges. for attentlence on the gentlemen in committee
as he celled them. One gentleman told him that he hsd shewn
the bill to Mr. Schultz, who pronounced the charges to be ex-
tremely reasonable; but Mr. Schultz denied having ever seen
it. Another gentleman, Mr. Rophy, told him that Mr. Evans's
name smelt so ofrensive in the Select Vestry, that whoever
mentioned it was lined a bottle of wine. •
Mr. Roods, who had repeatedly interrupted Mr. Fall with
the expressions, " 'Tis false," " All lies," &es, here' said,
" "ris another lie."
Mr. FALL continued. The gentleman (Mr. Rophy) oppo-
site reminded hint of the poor African w lei was before the Lord
Mayor some time ago, foal replied " You lie" to every thing that
was said; the reason was, he was master of no note Engheh..--
((heat laughter and Cheers.)—Notwithstunding what Mr. Ito-
phy then told hint; he afterwards put his name to the check.
Only one gentleman at the table knew at the time that it Was.
for more than ,4001. Ile concluded by moving that the ae-
counte of the Overseers be appealed from with respect to Mr.
Evan's Bill.
When Mr. Fall had sat down, some discussion took place as
to whether Mr. Evans had regularly taken out his certificate
during part of the period referred to in the Bill. This point,
however, was not insisted upon.
Mr. SewtJLTz complimented Mr. Full on the manner in
which he discharad his.. duty to the parish on this and every
other occasion. lie then analyzed the 11111, and :anted that in
many of the instances where 6s. Ltd. was charged for an attend-
ance, one of the parish beadles WOnitl Nye answered the pure
pose as well. In short, us he understood that Air. Evans was
about to resign, he would himself ofl'er to undertake the parish
business at a Solar' of 1001. per. annum. -
Mr. Evaies, jun. said his father had already resigned.
on the principles of honesty.s-( Hear and Wlaugh.)—The great
Mr. M. &went said, hewislied this bill to be d4ettssed up-
charge brought against Mr. Evans was, that he had not deli-
relied it at an eaher period. Now the charges in it having been
pronounced by professional men .to be moderate, and the offi-
cers having received funds to Meet it from their predecessors,
was it just to decline paying it, any, more than a butcher's•bill
which was a year memo without being delivered, although the
meat had beim finet'shed at a moderate: price ? Some years ago
the officers refused to pay another bill, which they were obliged
to pay ultimately, after setting the parish in a flame. Ile moved,
as an amendment: that this meeting do now adjourn.
Mr. llbrit e said, that all the charges in the bill, except 1701.
accrued since Lady.alay, 1820. They were most moderate ;
and Mr. Evans wits now willing, although he had the money
in his pocket, to submit the bill to taxation. Ile denied that
he had ever charged for his attendance on the select vestry;
and he was ready, it' doing so in a single iestance, to forfeit
the whole 8001. The parish ought not to refuse to pay their
just debts.
Captain Tu omit said, that if the parishionees would attend
their vestry-meetinge, they would not have these unpleasant
eircunieninees occurring. •
Mr. ilAnzwooD defended the select vestry from the charge
of feasting ut the expense of the parish t and said he was nue
thorized by Mr. Evans to tender his bill, even pow, for tax.a.
tion. AVhen be did so before, the taxation was declined
firs
fear the officer would allow higher charges. Ile supported the
amendment.
After some further confusion and discuseion, fhe amendment.
was negatived, and the motion for en appeal against the ac-
counts carried almost unanimously.

tent this season, in Kent and Sussex, that th
of apples fins failed to such an ex-
mil'irtithie,t cprroilt:e already
higher than last year. averages ninety per vela.
SMUGGLING EXTRAORDINARY.— A bollt five
o'clock on Tuesday evening, four Revenue Officers entered the
Fleet prison,. for the purpose of searching for contraband goods,
that in this prison there are neady a score
ofor smuggling; and the officers got ''in-
formationaantedifienlleow who bad previously followed the same
ltt
kind
of ni
dit:::ra,bl°limen and who d
who had been imprisoned for a similar offence,
that two or three of the imprisoned smugglers carried on
n good trade in the Fleet by their old practices, in stlling
to great advantage various articles of contraband and pro-
hibited goods. When the officers arrived at the prison, they at
first proceeded to a room which turned out not to be that which
belonged to the person suspected ; they then returned to the
gate, and attended by Mr. Brown, the warden, went to the room
of SAMIlfi Prescott, which they originally wished to enter.—
There they found Prescott, a well known smuggler, who had
lost his hand while engaged in that dangerous trade, and know-
ing the determined character of the person with whom the had
had
to deal, the officers being armed with pistols; one was pro bated
'to each ear of the prisoner, with a threat that if they met With
any resistance in the performance of their duty they would fire.
Mr. Brown also repented the same, and Prescott or- course ill-
'ltuntlysubmitted, .let his room were found two trunks, contain-
ing, in addition to his wearing apparel, Bandana bandicercbiels,
and French dresses, to the amount of nearly 200/., wbich'were
instantly carried away by the officer*

FRENCH PAPERS.

( From the Moniteur of Wednesday, Oct. 13. )
OFFICIAL PART.

PARIS, OCT. 12.—T0-day, before mass,. his
'Excellency Viscount Granville, Ambassador Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his
Britannic Majesty to 'his Majesty the King of
the Netherlands, presented to the King, in a
private tindience, a letter from his Sovereign, on
the death of Louis XVIII. and on the accession
of his Majesty Charles X.
Baron, -Uchtritz, Envoy Extraordinaiy from
the King of Saxony, presented to the King, in
a private audience, his new credentials, and a let-
ter of congratulation from his Sovereign on the
accession of his Majesty Charles X.

Baron Spitzemberg, First Aide-de-Camp to the
King of Wirtemburg, presented, in like manner,
a letter from his Sovereign to his Majesty Charles
X. to the same effect.

NON-OFFICIAL 'PAM
SM Y NA, Aug.. 2g.—(From a Private Letter.)
—The French bombarde, the Jeune Rose Melanie,
coming from Salonica, on the 3d of•July,'where she
• . had been for wood, took ou board five Turkish
passengers to convey them to Alexandria. This
vessel, steering towards Rhodes, perceived on
the II th three Albanian pirates,of which one fired
in
her a cannon leaded with ball, and succeeded
. in taking her. The three pirates immediately
-came on board the -French vessel, where they
committed the most cruel excesses. They con-
veyed on board one of the three vessels the five
Turks, an old Greek, and a young sailor, and
took the French vessel near to the •Isle du
• Diable, where they plundered the Captain and
the crew, after having beaten them in the most
cruel manner. • They then confined these unfor-
tunate persons in the hold of the bombarde,
which was scuttled and sunk in the presence of
a Seluvonian, whom the pirates- had ordered to
•see to the execution of this atrocious act. Five
persons who composed the crew perished with
this vessel.—M. Bouis, second Officer of the
Jeune Rose Melanie, alone escaped. This un-
fortunate man was picked up, half dead, by a
fi,herman, who took him .t.o. Scapoli, thence a
Neapolitan 'vessel conveyed him to Syra, and
from that Island Captain Zara, a Sardinian,
-brought him to Smyrna, where he has made iris
• deposition at the office of•Ahe„French- Consul. As
soon as Captain Dronalt, commanding the naval
- division in the-Ltvant, was informed of this
event, he sailed in • pursuit of the pirates, with
the GalaMe frigate and the Amaranth•schooner,
•and to facilitate his search took with him M.
Bouis, to whom he -has afforded all the succour
that his unfortunate situation required.
To uLO NOcr. 4..--q-Private Correspondence.)
• announced to yon the arrival of the squadron
commanded by Admiral Duperre, and you knew
that he had under him two Rear-Admirals,
Barons Roussin and Des Rotours. We learn
that Messrs. Duperre and Roussin set out this
• evening for Paris. 'Of all • the vessels of the
:squadron none remain here .now except the Atna
zon and Juno frigates, the --Zebra brig, and the
Dauphinoise and the F'auvette sloops.; the
'-"Venus, Vestal, "Nympliond the Themis frigates,
sailed un
.the 26th .September, under the com-
mand of Captain - Cuvillier, to take on board
troops to relieve .our garrisons in the Antilles.
On the 28th, Admiral des Retours sailed with
the Trident ship of the line, and the Amphitrite,
Arrnida, and [fermium. frigates.; these four ves- •
sels go to Cadiz, as well as tire Santi Petri, which
.sailed this morning. It seems, that after stop.
~ping a short time ut Catlite, the Santi Petri, the
Ilermione, .and the Trident, will go to Brest,
where they will 'he dismantled, and that the
Juno will be dismantled here.

( From the courier Francais, 0(1;15.)
PAnts, OCT. 12—They continue to perform
at the Polygon of Thoulouse the most interest..
in; experiments on English artillery. 'ft is said
that the Foot Artillery, with new trunnion pieces,
is managed as quickly. The Horse Artillery is
managed after the fashion constructed at Gri-
boval.

It is said that the Spanish Government has re-
.•quested of France a further sojourn of their troops
in that country forsix months after next January,
the time fixed for their departu?e.
We hear from Senegal, dated Aug. 26, that the
7 banished persons from Martinique arrived
there on the 11th. The Governor, M. Roger,
had treated them remarkably well, but they had
been separated from one another. Eleven were
sent to -Goree, and to St. Louis. These per-
sons found no employment, not even enough to
procure themselves subsistence, and.the country
is destitute of resources. ,One of. them, Monde-
sir, died on the passage from St. Louis to Goree.
The remaining ten at Goree are, -Piero Bois,
Saint-Martine, Armand, Charles Desgrotte, Pierre
Fercol, Joseph Balton, Itemi Bussichen, Tite
Taulney, Jean-Pierre Amede, Francois Lacour.
—AtnOng those at Salute Louis are,. Gerenain,
Saint Ande, the son, the person who was
transported far his father, Verdet, J. Cadet, Ed.
Nouille, Jean Michel Dufout, Fred. Muntganier,
Zeune.--'--They were some of the most indus-
trious inhabitants of Martinique. These unfor-
tunate men, who know nothing of what has hap-
pened bittee their departure, and . who are igno-
rant of the speech of the Minister of Marine in
the Tribune,. still count on obtaining justice; but
which they-cannot obtain, unless they acquire an
August protector.
The Journals of Cadiz, announcing the sale of 3,400 fancgat
- of wheat belonging to the French army, contain also the fol-
lowing :—" To be sold a negress, from the Ilavannah, aged 14;
she can sew and wash, is in good health, and without a blemish.
Apply, saipt, Lucie-strect„ No, 0."
A Oan 0 no, Om 9.—Letters from Constantinople, of SW-
Leather la, say, that no diaturbance has taken place in that
capital since the dismissal of the Aga of the Janissaries ; there
have been some serious disturhancesin Syria. The Maselines
of the Pacha of Aleppo have been chased from Lattakia and
from Tripoli, and the Emirof the Druses, as well as Mustapha
Berber, are advancing towards Accra, in order to unite with
the Pacha. But what is still more alarming for the Porte, is
the renewal of hostilities with the Persians. Official.
intelli-
-petace has arrived that.. Prince Mehmet Ali threatens Bagdad,
*ad has taken Sulimani. The Persian. army is more numerous

than ever, and this new attack will add to the embarrassments
of the Turks. The Pacha of Silistria is to be Commander-in-
Chief on the side of Persia.

PARIS, OCT. 13.—0 n the 41h.0f October, a
feast was given at Mayence in honour of Gutten-
berg, the inventor of printing. In the midst of
the supper, thee /onikur of the '3oth of Septem-
ber arrived. Immediately one of the company
arose and proposed the following toast :--" The
health of the King of France, who has restored
to his country the Liberty of the Press." This
was drank with enthusiasm, and tlyi whole room
resounded with cries of " Vise Charles X.," and
very soon, too, the whole town resounded with
the same cries.

FRENCH FUNDS.--:TARIS, OCT. J3.—Five per Cents.
opened at 102. 30. • closed at 102. 50.—Bank Stock, 1970.
Neapolitan Rentes;lq.—.-Spanish ditto, 10. ; Ditto Loan, 59k.
—Exchange on London, one month, 25. 15, ; three months, 25.
( Cour: Authentique.