The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-16 00:00:00

A CURIOUS AND UNEXPECTED RESULT

(From a Correspondent of the Times.)
When the late Mr. Tbellusson died, in the year 1797,
his property produced an annual income of about 20,0001.
By his will his property was direved to be ac-
cumulated in the way of compound interest during the
lives of all his descendants living at his death, or born
within nine months afterwards. _ _ _

A main argument used against the validity of the
trusts was, that from the ordinary duration of human life,
when the accumulation ceased the fund would amount to
70,000.0001., and that, if the whole centred in a minor,
he would by the time be attained his full age possess a re-
venue exceeding the civil list, and he would be able by the
mere force of wealth to derange the civil policy of the

country.
These were magnificent dreams, but the waking reality
has proved somewhat different; and so far as the ulti-
mate issue can now be guessed at, there seems no ground
for the alarm above suggested. No descendant of Mr.
Thellusson will be richer than the King, and even if
schedule A had still been in existence, it is to be doubted
if the most judicious application of the Thellusson pro-
perty when full grown would purchase a step in the
Peerage.
In one word, the gross annual proceeds in the year
1801 exceeded 20,0001., as above stated, and the gross
proceeds in the year 1831, after 30 years' accumulation
in the way of compound interest, amounted to 22,0001.
and a fraction. The next sum paid into the accumulat-
ing fund in the year 1928 was 16,000/. and a fraction ;
in the year 1829 it was reduced to 12,0001., and the
addition made to the accumulated fund in the year 1830
had shrunk to 10,5401.
The error of this testator was, that he considered enor-
mous wealth as a positive good, without reference to its
enjoyment, and the fruit of his care and pains has been to
occasion a waste of property altogether unexampled in the
affairs of an individual. His fortune is still completely
locked up, and the accumulation is proceeding at the
snail's pace above noticed, while his descendants are strug-
gling with all the harth.bips which attend narrow circum-
stances. It is well known that the fortune of the present.
Lord Rendlesham (the son of the testator's eldest son) is
perhaps riot more than sufficient for a Frivate gentleman,
and totally inadequate to the support of his rank. His
brothers are still more slend.,rly provided for, while some
of the descendants of another son are actually suffering all
the miseries of destitution.
Is it possible that such a monstrous evil as has been
perpetrated by this testator may be redressed? Is it
just anti right that no one should encroach upon the
corpus of the estates left by the testator till the time
art ives which he fixed for their enjoyment ? But the case
is different as to the thousands which are every year
wasted upon strangers for whom the testator intended
nothing. The unfortunate family of this testator is
placed in a situation altogether peculiar. The enormous
mass of wealth is suspended over them, and will some
day fall into possession, but in the mean time they are
not to touch it. They are doomed to sit in want, and
see this property, which ought to be theirs, made the
prey and the spoil of others, to whom the testator never
gave it. Certainly, if the ordinary tribunals of the
country cannot reach this case, the evil is of such a
description that it seems not merely to warrant but to cal
upon Parliament to yield some redress.

THE MORAVIANs.—The latest statement
of tie Moravian Brethren, makes the whole number (I
'heir seer, disper,ed over the elope, to consist of not mot,
than 16,000 menthe's No•with•tanding this, they main.
lain 127 missions for the conversion of the heath. n, at
an annual expense of 60,000 dollar., about 9,000/.—
Literary Gazette.

OPPOSITE TRADES UNITED.—A Corre-
s,ondent says—" At the Havanna') one of the principal
boarding-houses is
conducted by a Yorkshirern in, wh,
unites woli his care of the living that of the dead, being
.Iso an undertaker, anti li,ving in a loft, or '• upper larner"
as he call it,
vze.s With which he accommodat,s his guests at the
a large supply_ot teatly•xiade coffins of all
)hortest notice."—We could give our correspoodcnt many
instances of the IS awe " union of trades," within thirty miles
of London.