The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-13 00:00:00

BUN GAY.

TO MR. SAMUEL SCOTT and MR. JOHN BOBBIT,
CHURCHWARDENS OF BUNGAY ST. MARY.
Gentlemen,—Your purpose is at length accomplished—
my father was last night arrested in presence of his family at
your suit, the warrant was endorsed with an order to refuse
bail, which was tendered to any amount ; and, in company
with the Rev. Mr. Blackie and a sheriff's officer, he is now
on his way to the County Gaol. What may be the term of
his confinement, I know not ; but I do know, that for refusing
to pay the costs of your public devotions, the father of nine
children, the head of a considerable business, an old-standing
inhabitant of your town, in a state of health more than deli-
cate, is consigned by you to the receptacle of felons and insol-
vent debtors. Such proceedings cannot be taken in the pre-
sent day without exciting the public wonder, and I have
resolved in addressing you, to furnish the materials for the
public judgment.
Except for general information, I need not remind you that
in the year 1813, when the process of the Ecclesiastical Courts
had become abhorrent to the public feeling, an Act was passed
expressly authorizing the recovery of Church Rates under 101.
in amount, by distraint on simple application to two Magis-
trates. The object of the Legislature was evidently to abolish
the jurisdiction of Ecclesiastical Courts in such cases, and to
bring within the reach of common law an issue of so common
a description ; and you have been the first men in the kingdom
to question the verbal construction of this law, to refuse the
simple process it prescribes, to distort the words and violate the
spirit of its benevolent provisions, and to arm your intolerance
with the weapons of darker ages. The spirit which, in days
like these, can ransack the obsolete recesses of the Statute
Book, and revive powers which mankind had conspired to for-
get, claims legitimate descent from that zeal which in by-gone
times pursued its victims with the same means, and lighted the
fires of Smithfield.

When you had thus revived the antiquated process, had
cited my father to the Ecclesisastical Court, and he had ne-
glected to appear, it was competent for you, and would have
been the usual course of practice, to pray and obtain a verdict
for your claim, with a distraint warrant from the Court of
Chancery to enforce its recovery. But this mode was too
summary,—the expenses would have been comparatively
light,—and above all, there would have been no means of con-
signing his person to a gaol. You therefore held your de-
mand in abeyance, that the Court might first deal with him for
contempt, rejoicing, I doubt not, that when the Court had
exerted its power on his body, and fixed its fangs upon his
purse, it would be time enough to proceed with your suit, to
obtain in the same form, and enforce in the same manner, the
judgment which was equally within your reach in the pre-
vious stage.
At the recent parish meeting, when your Curate instanced
a case within his own knowledge, of an aged couple who had
beel committed for similar contempt, and died in prison, you
were at much pains to declare that you were not the prosecu-
tors—that the cause was removed beyond your reach—and
that the Court, in vindication of its power, was now the only
plaintiff. Remarking, as I pass, how little such a plea would
avail a man, who had lighted a train, or hallooed on a blood-
hound, I beg to remind you that although, by your own show-
ing, the attachment had already issued, and the affair was
virtually in the same position as at present, you suffered your
Curate, Mr. Archdeacon Glover, and his deputy, Mr. Cobb,
to call on my father with an offer to withdraw the proceedings
on payment of the claim. If that payment—the satisfaction of
your demand, could have terminated the suit, you were, and
must have been, the plaintiffs ; but if otherwise, if you were
really no parties in the present stage, you ventured far in stul-
tifying your clergymen, and speculated deeply on my father's
simplicity, when you authorized them to propose a settlement
they could not ratify, and entrap him to a submission which
could afford him no protection.
I will not refrain from stating the reason you allege for re-
sorting to the Ecclesiastical Court--namely, that when the
goods of Mr. Morris had been last year distrained, on the civil
process, they were publicly restored to him, with marks of the
popular satisfaction. If the peace of the town, or the lives
and properties of the inhabitants, had been endangered, the
occasion of a similar encounter might have been avoided ; but
as you cannot allege one act of mischief committed, or a whit
beyond the harmless expression of public feeling, you
miserably fail in justifying your appeal to a tribunal, which
your own Curate has declared "most arbitrary and tyran-
nical." Nay, the worthlessness of your subterfuge is demon-
strated by the fact that when your Ecclesiastical suit is com-
plete, and your verdict is obtained, the process of recover),
will be precisely similar to that of last year,—a similar dis-
traint of my father's goods will issue,—and you will occupy
the same position in the cause : the only difference will be,
what I doubt not has furnished the real grounds of your pro-
ceeding, that you have inflicted imprisonment on his person,
and a hundred-fold expense on his estate.
After reviewing all the circumstances and hearing these
your own allegations, I do confidently appeal to the public
and our townsmen, whether you have not been guided by the
suggestions of malignant intolerance. I observe at every step
the same spirit ; abandoning the simple course which an ex-
press enactment had provided,—recurring to the ecclesiastical
code, which had been consigned to neglect by the abhorrence
of mankind,—avoiding the usual and adopting the most vex-
atious course which even that code permitted—and, finally,
sending the Archdeacon Glover to compromise a suit in which
you denied that you were parties, and insulting my father by
the offer of a settlement you had no means of effecting. When
I reflect that my father has for thirty years resided in the
place—that during that period his character has been abso-
lutely without impeachment—that he has discharged every
claim of justice and benevolence—and that the welfare of the
town has been annually promoted by thousands of pounds
which his workmen have distributed, I have difficulty in be-
lieving that r:ci,jhbours could be found to visit, in cold blood,
with the punishment of a felon his can-,eiuntioz:s refusal to
support their Church. Your own characters are deeply im-
plicated, the annals of the town have been disgraced, and I
doubt not the public voice will duly characterize yourselves,
your advisers, and the laws you have employed.
Bungay, May 12th, 1835, CHARLES CHILDS.
" SUFFOLK TO WIT.

" Robert Sayer, Esq., Sheriff of the said County, to the
Keeper of the Gaol of the said County, and also to Robert
Smith and Henry Hopson, my Bailiffs—By virtue of the writ
of our Sovereign Lord the King, to me directed, I command
you, and every of you, jointly and severally, that you, or one
of you, attach John Childs, of Bungay St. Mary, in my
county of Suffolk, printer, by his body, until he shall have
made satisfaction for the contempt in the said writ men-
tioned, in not appearing before the Worshipful William
Younge Clerk, Master of Arts, Vicar General, and
Official Principal of the Episcopal Consistorial Court
of Norwich, his surrogate, or some other competent
judge, in this behalf, on a day and hour now long
past in a certain cause of subtraction of Church Rate, de-
pending in the said Episcopal Consistorial Court of Norwich,
between Samuel Scott and John Bobbit, Churchwardens of
Bungay St. Mary, aforesaid, of the one part, and the said
John Childs of the other part ; and how you shall execute
this warrant make known to me, so that I may notify the same
unto his Majesty, on the twenty-sixth day of May next, where-
soever his Majesty shall then be in England. Herein fail not,
as you will answer at your peril. Given under the Seal of my
Office, this first day of May, in the year of Our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
" BY THE SAME SHERIFF.
" Writ posted the 23d day of April, in the
fifth year of the Reign of King William
the Fourth.
" (Examined, W. G.) " Take no bail."

PORTUGUESE LOANS.—By Authority of
Her Most Faithful Majesty's Government, and in conformity
with the official notice of the 10th of April last, purporting that the
balance of the 3 per Cent. Stock not applied to the conversion of
the 6 per Cent. Loan of 1834 was to be applied to the conversion
and redemption of other portions of the Portuguese Debt, at the
discretion of Her Most Faithful Majesty's Government, the under-
signed hereby gives notice, that there were this day CANCELLED
and DEPOSITED in the Bank of England, in the presence of His
Excellency Christovao Pedro de Moraes Sarmento, Envoy Extra-
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Her Most Faithful
Majesty Donna Maria 11., Queen of Portugal, of Nathan Mayer
Rothschild, Esq., and the undersigned, Her said Majesty's Finan-
cial Agent in London, attended by Mr. John Sise Venn, Public
Notary, 804 BONDS of the PORTUGUESE LOANS of the
years 1831, 1832, and 1833, hereinafter specified, viz. :
Loan of the year 1831.
8 Bonds of Letter A.
13 170 231 571 850 955
F=Csoosterling each
59 Bonds of Letter B.
111 232 234 243 309
391 434 493 562 503
541 542 551 556 566
715 750 761 805 824
1425 1150 1465 1466 1469
1608 16 9 1624 1697 1706
1810 1817 1818 - 1824 1851
IW-6 1989
For £2OO sterling each
247 Bonds of Letter C.
23 27 42 56 75
214 270 503 520 535
651 664 666 678 682
802 842 896 922 938
1129 1036 1040 1211 1123
1160 110 1183 1253 1256
1339 1486 1513 1516 1517
1597 1603 1631 1662 4634
1816 1823 1811 1860 1928
2020 2136 2137 2142 2113
2223 2211 2256 2261 2319
2430 2139 2440 2417 2169
2478 2479 2499 2500 2502
2507 2529 2531 2551 2586
5606 2611 2624 2640 2641
2:53 2751 2755 2821 2875
2922 2923 2928 2931 2932
2955 2957 2967 3351 3552
3566 3567 3568 35'.19 3570
3969 3970 4007 4023 4126
4222 4236 4268 4269 4276
4283 4084 4290 4373 4379
4488 4546 4550 4553 4591
4599 4203 4610 4611 4(112
4040 4641 4711 4714 4717
4820 4825 4828 4874 493:3
5004 5005 5031 5088 5070
5340 5347 5371 5372 5373
5427 51i2 5502 5508 5509
5520 5524 5-,68 5590 5624
5744 5812 5822 58-3 5832
For £lOO sterling each
Loan for the Year 1832
236 Bonds of Letter C.
6148 6165 6196 6218 6258 6296 6304 6345
6359 6375 6376 6469 6470 6471 6472 6473
6471 6475 6182 6484 6528 6534 6545 6548
6.593 6638 6669 6770 6855 6872 6874 6904
6905 6906 69 8 6937 6914 61166 6983 6985
6989 7060 7296 7198 7.50 6201 7202 7214
7229 7930 7232 7281 7299 7300 7301 7353
7354 7369 7370 7404 7409 7410 7481 7484
7485 7486 7493 7532 7533 1535 7552 7555
7556 7557 6558 7589 7598 7599 7622 7623
7646 7666 7670 7735 7738 7754 7791 7792
7793 7794 7795 78.25 7827 7829 7833 7836
7837 7850 7883 7913 8122 8103 8104 8165
8150 8154 8155 8223 8280 8318 8407 841.8
8409 8410 8451 8511 8524 8530 8531 8532
8533 8534 8535 8526 8348 8671 8739 8780
83329 8831 8834 8826 8842 8859 8873 8874
8824 8897 8902 8913 8967 8985 9094 9006
9008 9009 9013 9015 9017 9019 9020 9181
9286 9163 9172 9189 9218 9226 9273 9276
9333 9339 9357 9370 9384 9385 9401 94 3
9412 9441 9547 9551 9554 9555 9595 9620
9662 9680 9733 9788 9834 9840 9841 9842
9915 9913 57163 9961 10019, 10-25 10026 10145
12146 10157 10160 10169 10112 10231 11F81 10411
10451 10494 10530 10537 10538 10563 10604 10621
12871 10876 10882 10936 11111 11112 11113 11114
11115 11116 11117 11118 11119 11129 11131 11141
11149 11211 11212 11213 11214 11461 11500 11567
11575 11740 11802 11804
For £lOO sterling each
Loan of the year 1833.
10 Bonds of Letter A.
2034 2457 2458 2459 2619 3123 3294 3395
3456 3565
For £5OO sterling each
65 Bonds of Letter B.
Nos. 2010 2174 2246 2280 2342 2375 2423 2431
2468 2488 2520 2575 2638 2776 2777 2781
2782 2783 2784 2815 2831 2832 2833 2834
2835 2836 3120 3121 3122 3123 3124 3125
3128 3164 3206 321,7 3208 3209 3210 3250
3276 3277 3218 3279 3311 3366 3367 3427
3428 3434 3527 2530 3621 3697 3698 3699
3846 3849 3850 3937 3954 3955 3956 3957
3958

381
540
68
1363
1551
1791
1970

363
505
5#9
834
1502
1707
1869

364
526
1330
1503
1723
1884

For £2OO sterling each
179 Bonds of Letter C.
Nos. 12628 12193 12233 12321 12312 12326 12392 12393
12394 12559 12568 12748 12946 12956 13326 13333
13338 13339 13310 13341 13373 13378 19379 13458
13481 13482 13483 13484 #2485 13496 13497 13498
13499 1:3500 13655 13763 13764 13765 13854 13855
13856 13850 13860 14007 14060 14110 14213 14,75
14333 14452 14539 14606 14627 14778 14779 14973
15104 15111 15112 15314 15432 15702 15703 15704
15705 15726 15727 15728 15729 15803 15843 15895
15897 1593.7 15909 15958 15961 15996 16003 16069
16168 16170 16190 16193 16223 16268 16280 16296
16297 16309 16354 16366 16388 16390 16401 16404
16405 16426 16427 16432 16433 16440 16441 16443
16446 16459 16460 16477 16494 16495 16578 16579
16595 16730 16835 16845 16861 16871 16879 16880
16905 16906 16907 16908 16909 16910 16911 16912
16925 16927 16928 16929 16930 16931 16932 16933
16934 16935 16936 16949 16950 16981 16983 17044
17045 17111 17125 17126 17127 17128 17129 17222
17224 17226 17227 17229 17230 17232 17234 17225
17318 17336 17337 17338 17422 17423 17424 17425
17539 17543 17545 17738 17819 17842 17843 17845
17910 17911 17929
For.£loosterlingeach

.. £4,000

Zll,BOO

£24,700

~ £23,600

X 5,000

£13,000

Recapitulation.,

~ X 17,900

i 35,900

314 Bonds of the Loan of the year 1831, amounting to the sum of £40,500
236 1832 23,600
254

804 Bonds, amounting to the sum of £lOO,OOO
J. A. Y AIENDIZABAL,
Her Most Faithful Majesty's Financial Agent in London.
London, May 12, 1835.