The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-24 00:00:00

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 23.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,-1 am sorry to say we are disappointed in the re-
ductions that were expected to take place in all depart-
ments, particularly in the salaries of public officers. I
would humbly propose the following deductions to be
made in all officei of every description under Government,
which can well be spared, considering our present distress
all over the country :
On all over 1,5001. per annum, a deduction to be made
of 30 per cent. ; from 1,000/. to 1,5001. 20 per cent. ;
from 500/. to 1,000/.8 per cent. ; from 300/. to 5001.
5 per cent. ; from 150/. to 300/. 2i per cent.
Then no pensioner, or retired Ambassador, or other
public officer, could grumble at being reduced in the
same ratio. Sinecures, with a few exceptions, to die off
with the present holders—in the meantime the same de-
duction to he made from them.

These, Mr. Editor, are submitted by
A CONSTANT READER OF " THE SUN.

DOVER, APRIL 22.

Arrived from Calais, the Duke of Wellington st(iim
packet, Capt. Bushell, with his Excellency Lord Gran
'rifle, Lady Granville, and 'u'te.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans pr,iposes to
arrive hers about the 10th of /11-iy.

COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.

OXENDON V. DUFACX.

The Court proceeded to hear the renewed arguments
and evidence read in this case. It was an appeal from a
judgment of his Honour the Master of the Rolls.

Mr. Oxendon was an under-graduate at Cambridge,
and the heir-apparent to his father's estates, a Kentish
Baronet worth about 5,000/. a year. About the year
1624, he heard of the late Mr. Dufaur, a money agent,
and he applied to him to procure for him advances of
money. This was done to a great extent, and these
transactions went on for several years. Mr. Dufaur
held two bonds, one for 1,927/, and the other for 9661.,
from a Mr. Watkins, a clergyman in Northamptonshire.
He parted with or sold those bonds to the plaintiff, and
took his securities for the re-payment of the amount, with
interest, &c. Before the bonds were payable Mr. Watkins
absconded, and his property was sequestrated by other
creditors. It was contended, on the one band,
that be went off in consequence of pecuniary
embarrassments, and, on the other, not only be-
cause of his embarrassments, but because he had an
improper intrigue with a game-keeper's daughter
in the neighbourhood. It turned out that the bonds were
taken from Mr. Watkins, by Mr. Dufaur, under the most
pressing circumstances, and when he was most deeply em-
barrassed ; and the proposition submitted by the Counsel,
for the plaintiff, was, that Mr. Oxendon was not liable
upon his securities for the remnants of the bonds, on these
grounds, that Mr. Dufaur knew him to be an heir expectant,
that Mr. Dufaur was his trusted agent, and lastly, that
Mr. Dufaur had concealed from him the nature of the
Bonds, the pressing circumstances under which they were
given, and Mr. Dufaur's knowledge of the obligations and
embarrassments at the moruent the Bonds were executed.
Mr. Knight, Mr. Jacob, and Mr. Montague, were for the
plaintiff; and Sir Edward Sugden, Mr. Cooper, and Mr.
Crawford, for the defendant.

VICE-CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.

His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR took cause peti-
tions to-day ; but in consequence of the indisposition of
Sir Edward Sugden, who was counsel in almost every
petition, his Honour heard only a very few of the peti-
tions, and rose before eleven o'clock.