The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-08 00:00:00

EDINBURGH.

MR. EDETOII,-1 was much amused this evaning
with your Correspondent Ron Rov's communica-
tion, which I read at the Chapter Coff e-house ;
but not haring seen the Aneknt Chia!dee MAlM-
script, to which I found, from a Gentleman sitting
in. the saute box, Rog ItoY referred, I scot for
IlLicKwooo's Ediuburgh Magazine for October,
but in vain I looked for this precious treasure.
My curiosity being considerably excited, one of
the old customers at the Chapter said be would
lesol tne the first impression of that Number, in
which it was contained, and why it had been
omitted in the second edition of it he could not
tell ! tie attributed it to fear! In a few tninutes

I was furnished with this precious morreau; and
I think Ron llov's opinion ot it is correct, as it is
certainly " oue of the happiest efforts of modern
wit I,* which has appeared for a !Ong, time. My
civil friend not only lent me the at tide,allnded to,
but undertook to point -out to me to WHOM all
the significant passagel referred. Ile repeated a
great many names ; some of them I .had never
heard of, and some ot them Ido not recollect. I
think, aniongst them, were the following ; but
with what justice, or on what foundation he
grounded his no►rtittation of them, he did not

I will not, however, at present, do more
than give you the initials of their names, lest toy
it,f=►rmant !nay not be correct, 10 ascertain which
I have written to a literary friend in North Bri-
tain. The names tr.entioned were --
Ott second thoughts-, I will not send yrut now
even the initials of these statues. It I find they
are right, I will do so in a suo,equent com:nuni-
cation, with further remarks on the controversy
between these parties.
Having recapitulated all the names, my new
acquaintance said, he ought, in justice to the
parties whose conduct, it was supposed, had given
rise to still pmt►ted satire, to present ❑te with the
follolVioc PRI NTED 4tatemeot, which had been
circulated on the subject, so admirably alluded to
by lour new Correspondent, Ron Roy ; but not
until ratter its appearance' in the Magazine : and
as I knowyouir impartiality and love of justice to
be sincere, I lla7ter my,,elf you will readily inset t
this communication and the printed statement in
your excellent Paper.
Sa:urd:iy,Evening,

state.

TIPPF.RIG BROWNIE,
formerly an Edinburgh Graduate.

Dcc. G.

N6TICE OF THE TRANS;CTIONS BETWEEN THE

PUBLISH ER AND FDIToIiS OF THE EDINBU EC; II

17ONTHLY rkIAGAZINE

Inir.ors,ot tine Eli,burgh Magazine, a Nev
Stries of live Scots Mag.azine, lately P;:n;ors at the
.:11ontiily Magazine, having observed in
a Periodical IVork just tinder the title
gat " Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine," certain
le3peeling their
144te transactions with Nrr. William Blackwood,
and their subsequent engagements with Messr,.
CONSTABLE slid Company,—and hearing also that
misrepresentations of these transactions
have been . privately plop gated,—beg leave to
offvr the following statement :

About the beginning of last December, the
Editors hating come to the resolution of attempt-
ing a new Magazine in Edinburgh, and having
sec,:red the support of a very considerable num-
ber of literary contributors, applied to Mr. Black-
wood to act as l',)blisher. After much discussion,
which they need -not at present enter ur), aml
the; refusal on Mr. BlackwOod's part to abide by
a contract completed verbally, after the must ma-
ture deliberation, au agreement was at length
signed, by which the nett profits of the work
were to be equally divided. between Mr. B. and
theinselves. The Editors here beg to state, that
the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine was a project of-
their own, loog previous to their having had com-
munication of any kind with Mr. Blackwood.

The best efforts c( both P.iLlisher and Editors
were accordingly exerted to establish a respect-
aide work ; trod the first number of the Edinburgh
-Monthly Mug,uzine was brought out in April. Mr.
15,,ickwnod's professional ini:rcourse with literary
men was at first of some advantage, but in the
squat his forwardness, illiberality, and offensive-
ne,s of manner, disgusted at least aa many con-
ibntors as his importunity had gained. His pre-
sumption, however, increased in proportion to
the increasing succeis of the work, and his teaz-
in, and insokitt interference with the duties of
the Editors, became at length so intolerable, that
they were obliged seriously to state to him, in .a
note dated 1914 of May, that such conduct would
be no lon::er endured. Enraged at this necessary re-
e•sion of his encroachments, which their former
eouce=sions had not twepared him to expect, Mr.
B ilunediatelyendearfoured to sow dissensions he-
t..yerit the Editors themselves, and to wrest the
copy-right from them both, by a course of ma-
tingtmlent which there is 00 room to describe in
this place ; and in the confidence that he would
succeed in these objects, he himself intimated the
discontinuloce of the Magazine, at the expiration
of three mouths, according to the articles of
agreeMent, in the following letter, witnessed to
Mr. Pringle :

" Edinburgh, June 23, 1817.

" DEAR SIR,-1 have already eAplaiaed to you verbally
the reasons which oblig.e use to put an end to our-agreement
with regard to the Ediu!aglz .311mtlily 31agacine. I segd
you this written notice in order that you may comumuicate
it to Mr. Cleghorn.

" Mr. Pringle.

" I am, Dear Sir,
" Yours tnily,
W. BLACKWOOD.'

The Editors have only to add at present, in re-
gHrd to +heir transactions with Mr Blackwood,
that they have received no rentnneration whatever
As joint Proprietors of the MagwzAte, or for their
labutirs as li,!itors ; and they have hitherto been
unable to bring Mr. B. to any ,e tletnent; thougn
a reference having beeu at oae tune proposed by

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Thursday and Friday last. The following are
Extracts :

" CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES
" SITTING of DEC. 3.
" The Central Committee for the examination
of the Projet of Law respecting the abuses of the
Press, and the Committee of Petitions, again'
assembled to-day. It i, not known with certitinty
whether the Report to the Chathber will be made

:0-morrow.

" DEC. 4 —Conformably with the determina-
tion adopted at the last public Sitting, the Depu-
ties assembled to-day in their respective Bureaux
to examine the l'rojct of Law respecting the re-
cruitment of the Alloy.
" The discfp,siou of the Report concerning the
abuses of the Liberty of Press in the Central Com-

mittee is not yet finished, and it is thought Isere
will not be a public Sitting till Saturday.
" PARIS, Dec. 5.--The Court of Assizes of
Rouen decided, the day before yesterday, that, the
pretended Dauphin, and four of his accomplices,
shall be tried by the Correctional Police, on
charges of vagrancy and swindling.
* " Yesterday, before Mass, the Count hotschou-
bey, Privy Councillor of the Emperor of Russia,
had the honour of being presented to the
" Within these few days M. Wasittenkoff,
Chamberlain of the Emperor of Russia, passed
through Mctz on his way to Paris. There has
also passed through the same place, on his ret ran
from Paris to Russia, the Princ'e Barotinski, Privy
Councillor of the same Sovereign.
" The new trial respecting the assassination of
M. Fualtles will not commence before the Court of
Assizes of Albi, till he .sth February next. It is
.said that Madame Manson will be transferred from
Rhodez to Montpellier, to be tried in the course
of the present month.

The day before yesterday the Ministers Se-
cretaries of State asserribied at two o'clock at
(he Thuilleiies, under the Presidency of h►s Ma-
jesty. The Council sat till five.

" FIVE PER dENTS.

" Wednesday 63f. 75c.
" Thursday 63 f. 30 c.

" VIE.zNNA, 2-I.—The unexpected death of
the Princess Charlotte of England excited here
the greatest sensation. The Princess rat Coburg-
Cohary, sister-in-law to the deceased, recetved
the intelligence b 3 express from Hamburg!).
"'fire latest intelligence limo C•nrStantinople

was of the 24th October. The gland "ee of
Batrarn had conshierably delayed the negocid t
with the Russian 'Ministers. They were, how-
ever, to recommence on the 2d ins ant.

"'!'lie house of Rothschild, which is negociat
ing a Loan for a Foreign Sovereign, has seu

here two clerks upon bu3iness cuutiecteti wit

that object.
" INSPRUCK, Nov. 24.—The Princess of Wales
continues to reside at Pesaro, where she has a nu-

litmus suite.

" ZURICH, Nov. 26.—The Directorial Go-
vernment have commitnica; ed the Note of the
Austrian and French Plenipotentiaries, respecting
the abuses of the liberty of the Press in Switzer-
lain!, to the Cantons, in,
a Circular, in which they
state, that all the Cantons ought to take particu-
lar care to order the Editors of pul,lic Journals to
maintain an extreme reserve in all that concerns,
the relations of States in amity with Switzerland.
The Government likewise recommends the Sur-
veillance of political writings, which may draw
down upon the States of the Confederation
the reproach of revolutionary principles, and
state that the Plenipotentiaries are deceived
in supposing that there are associations in Swit-
zerland for :he disturbance of public tranquillity,
the Government having no knowledge of any such

associations.

" It appears that all the Swiss Governments
arc disposed to conform exactly to the principles
developed in the note.

" BFRLIN, Nov. 25.—The marriage of the
Prince Frederic of Prussia with the Pi incess
helmina Louisa of Anhalt Bernbourg, was cele-
brated the 21st inst. at Ballenstadt.

The Court went into mourning the clay be-
fore yesterday for fourteen days, for the late Prin-
cess Charlotte of England.

" FRANKFORT, Nov. 30. The Sovereign
Princes of Hohenzollern, Lichtenstein, Reuss,
Schawburg-Lippe, Lippe and Waldeck, have on
file invitation of the Emperor of Austria, acceded
to the Holy Alliance.
" HAGUE, Nov. 29.—The retirement of tha
Count de Goetz appears to be confirtned. His
successor, according to accounts, is to be
Gen. Tindal, others say Gen. Dumonceau."

New York Pape's reached us this morning, to
the 14th Nov. :

(From the Commercial Advertiser of Nov. 12.)

" COLUMBIA (S. C.), OCT. 14.—1 t is said that
the Spanish Governor of the Floridas has put into
the hands of file Caddo Chief a commission au-
thorising him to sweep .offevery person found
between the Rio. Honda and the Sabine, but that
Ice dare not attempt it, and denies possessing such
a document. Upwards of 200 families, emigrants
from the United States, are now settled on this
land, in virtue of arrangements made between
General ‘VILKINSON and HERRERA.
(From the New YOrk Evening post of Nov. 12.)
" GENERAL MINA.

NEW ORLEANS, OCT 10.—A letter from a
respectable commercial house in Havanna!), to
another in this city, dated Sept. 23, states, that
the news from Mexico was, that MlsiA had arrived
within a shot t distance of the capital. In order
to obviate the effect which this news might have
on the public mind at Havanna!), the Government
had circulatad a report that he was surrounded,

and must inevitably fall. Tl►e letter adds, ti
in consequence of these reports, all speculati'
in the trade to Vera Cruz and Mexico had CC
at thvannall.

The article which we inserted on Friday
ej
in order to deter our unreflecting young
trymen from being betrayed by their own feeP" ,
and ensnared by artifice, to violate the ProclPllt
lion, and expose themselves to thisappoirttAf
and ruin, has, we find, made a strong impres(4
'on the public. It was copied into several oft,
Morning Papers of Saturday, except The liforo
Chronicle, which is too favourable to the catrit'i
the Insurgents to be impartial, and to admit r
facts injurious to that cause. It is strange_ 11/1.
the Papers alluded to omitted our question, 11'1:
if the manufactured goods which were stitferd,:',
be exported to South America, " should coos''
of instruments of war, what will SPAIN hi
reason to say on the subject ?" The Morninc
indeed copied the article, but, wi b a want all
usual candour, did not acknowledge the sod
final which it was derived, though all otlied:
stated that it was taken from THE SIN. But Nsril
omit the question, as o,position Papers &red
in gent'ral so delicate On pOints relating to CO'
vernment ?

The London Gazette of Saturday contains'
Prod ,intnion hy the PRINCF, REGRNT, rated tr
6+h instant, calling in that part of the current coin
ommonly called the old Tower Halfpence 01
n ning,

This Proclamation being of import'
once to the Public, we have given it at 01
length in our I,st Page. •
GfizetlP likewise cooains Addresses Wee
d.sietier •.1 PKINC;E EGE NT, from the c0,,,0f
L-„ caster, Laucaste('
prrt of Glasgow 'and Ncwark ; Bolton-le-Moorg'
Lalc rster ; NV,dlingtord. Berks ; Boston; We
crstcr ; 13,,r0t of Ayr ; Greenock ; Aberdeen;
Gloucester ; R. adiug ; Presh)lery of Hatnilton;
Universi.iy of St. Andrew's ; Chester ;
Hoek ; Cnilers of Sheffield ; Ruthin ; Hireforal
Lanark ; Borough of DenhiJi ; City of ri,ttbl
Kincardine ; Anglesea ; Sinrey.—Also to Prince
LisopoLo, flow the County of Surrey, Borougk64
of Wdlingford, County of Aberdeen, town
Burton-upon-Trent, and City of Chester.

Tit KING's H ALT H. —aft Saturday, the
QUEEN'S Council assembled at Windsor, to re'
ceive the Monthly Report of the five Doctors'
,which was presented soon after twelve o'cloct'
After the breaking up of the Council, Lord Ai'
DEN dispatched a Messenger to the Qo DI
Bath. Yesterday the following Bulletin was she°
at St..Lones's Pollace.

‘VINDSK CASTLE, DEC. 7.—His Majesty has been to?
fortnly composed throughout the last month, and hag enjofei
good general health, though his Majesty's disorder.ceutitO°
unchanged.

H. HALFORD, "JOHN WILLIS,
" M. BAILLIE, " ROBERT WILLI&
" W. HEBERDEN,
Lord ARDEN aua the Hon. Sir ARTHUR LE
were the Lord and Gt,,not in Waiting.

Sh11:1 NEWS.

DEAL, Dec. 7.—,Arrived, and sailed for Al
River, the Malabar, ASCO'Ugfr, from Bombay;
she sailed the 2611 July, and from the Cape tit€
Ist October. On the 30th Oct. she spoke the

Eliza, from Liverpool to Bengal, 'all well. IA
at Bombay the Vansittart and General Harris.--"'
Came down from the Hirer the Sorar Castle, I'
Bombay; Atalanta, Victoria, and Catharine
Green, for Jamaica ; Golden Fleece, -for the
Cape ; Britannia, for the West Indies ; Loyalist,
for St. Vincent's ; and Perseverance, for Rl°
Janeiro.

PLYMOTITH, DEC. 6.—Arrived the following
outward-bound vessels from London :-;—Alcyone/
Beaufort, Reward,• Jahn Barry, and Syren, for
Jamaica ; George, for Gibraltar ; Agnes anti
Curlew, for Charleston ; Susannah, for Leghorn
.Nautilus, for Grenada ; Favourite, for Cayenne./
Economy and Cossack, for Trieste ; Betsey, for
Madeira; Hercules, for Barcelona ; Helena, for
Montserrat; Clifton, Lord Wellington, Nesbitt/
Mary, and Europa, for the West Indies ; George
Hibbert, for Antigua ; Albion, for Bourdeattic
Bragauza, for, Oporto ; and Charles, for St. Ml'
chael's. The Syren got oft shore in Catwater last
night, and is very leaky—her back is 'supposed to
be broken.

POICTSMOUTH, DEC. 7.—Arrived his Majestyl
ship I'ike from Newfoundlaml.
FALMOUTH, DEC. s.—Arrived the Swiftsnre
packet with a mail from Nvw York, in 24 days;
Tortoise store-ship, from London ; Hof-Thong,
AIAINE, from Copenhagen for 13arcelona ; and ate
following outward-hound vessel) from London .:•"'"
Fort William, for Madras and Bengal ;
Pam, Volusia, London, St. Aims, Prince Gi•orgel
Fortitude, Lady Holland, Mary, and Hanover"
for Jamaica ; West Indian, for Antigua ; Cale:
donia, for Grenada ; Clarkson, Sperillator, 1101
Genet al Harcourt, for Demerara ; William Male
ping and Wiiiiam Lushington, for St. Kitt"
William, for Tobago ; Harvey, for Trinidad
D,)wson, for St. Thomas's ; Cornwall, for ill
Cape ; Ceres, for Africa ; Luita, 801
Alert ,-;;for St. Michael's ; Fame, for Lisbon; 0*
about 20 others, names unknown.

THE PRINCE REGENT.—On Samday,
after one o'clock, the PRINCE REGENT; attentle
by Sir EDMUND NAGLE, the Naval Equerry ri°
leftleftCallum House for Bright...ft.
.07,
Royal aishoess proceeded over Vauxhall Bride'

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ON THE MODERN INNOVATIONS IN THE PRAC-
TICE OF THE 'LAW-1:Y THE EMPLOYMENT OF
CERTIFICATED CONVEYANCERS.

It is not perhaps sAticiently known; that in the
early part of last Session a petition was presented
to the House of Commons, praying for the Le-,
gislatire suppression of' a grievance, which,
though gradual and almost unobserved in its pro-
gress, is fraught with the most serious danger.
The House has been informed, that many U 14..
• edticated and unqualified persons have taken on
themselves the occupation of Conveyancers, to
the great detriment of, the regular practitioners,
and the still greater injury of the community.
As the subject will probably he revived in the
ensuing Session, we feel it a duty to make public
those considerations which occur to us on a cries-
tion so peculiarly interesting.
It appears very strange, that While no man,
without a clerkship office years, and the p.tyment
of -Stamp Duties, and Admission Fees of nearly
one hundred and fifty pounds, can practice as an
Attorney or Solicitor, the .mere entrance into an
Inn of Court, which may be- obtained without
either time or study for a few pounds, shonld
qualify any man for the functions of a Convey-
ancer ;- and; that individuals of the lowest trades
and classes in life, have actually availed themselves
of this oversight of the Law—for we can term it
mottling else ;—and have set up for privileged
a 'Conveyancers, with no other qualifications 'than
-• a desk, an iokborn, and a quire of paper.
Important as this question is to the Solicitors
and Attornies who have qualified themselves for
the Public confidence by an expensive education,

Iv an' exclusive appropriation of their time, by

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anintermitting study, and by a perfect conversance
with tile Laws of Y ROPERTY, we consider it .at ill
more important lOTHEPEpPLR, who are continually
suffering from insecure titles, fraudulent trans-
fers, and ruinous litigation :—since, in a country
like Great Britian, where industry extends such
facilities for the acquirement of wealth, and landed
property offers the main security wherein that
wealth can be invested, vealth must be precarious
it property is insecure, and industry must be hope-
less if wealth is endangered. Upon our Commer-
cial State, the effect of this evil is indeed fear-
ful :—it strikes at the root, of all internal prospe-
rity, lay removing all internal confidence. And
thus mist the grievance* continue, while a mock-
auctioneer, or an old-clothes-man, may determine
upon the investigation of settlements, the descent
of inheritances, the validity of leases, the opera-
tion of contracts, the import of deeds, the con-
struction of and the thousand other points
which are attendant on flue sale and purchase of
larrl, shipping, and other property.
When a respectablebody 'of Solicitors and At.
tarries are interceding with the Legislature to
abolish so serious an. evil, they seem actuated by
a motive directly adverse to the purposes of profit
or monopoly. Did they consider their own ere°-
. lumeet merely,, and neither their own credit nor
the Public Good, they would still acquiesce in the
grievance ; and, leaving our estates and Proper-
, ties to the management of the trading Convey-
' 7ancers, remunerate themselves by that abundant
harvest of litigation which ignorance and error
are sure to produce. The. Conveyancer cannot
remedy his own mistakes; gross as they may be,
and palpably blundering, they must be brought
into the Solicitot's or Attorney's Office for the
reparation of the Law. .
If, however,,theie professional emoluments are
abridged by the' proposed reformation, their re-
apectabiliiy will be increased in at least an equal
satin. 'That '' glorious uncertainty," which has
afforded its fertile source of reproaCh and sarcasm,
will henceforward be ascribed to those done c ho
create it ;. not to those who ARE Lawyers, but to
those who are Nor Lawyers not to the regUlar,
Professors, who enter in at the door, but to the
Intruders, who slip in at the window.. The flaw
is not uncertain ; its rules are founded on princi.
•
andi s prine,ple on justice ; the uncertainty,
which has generated so much complaint and
spread so much ruin, is occasioned by the knaves
who pervert the law, and by the fools who finis-
take it.
We will not lessen the National Importance of
this question, by aey Further reference to the pro-
fessional jet crests of the Soli( hors and Attoreies ,
neither will we narrow it, to individual advantage
or reputation,- while it can be advocated on the
broad ground of -general. utility.' Bur it is essen-
tial to the Public Safety, that respectable mei,
should be induced, by the prospects of emolument
and credit, to devote theimselves to the Public
Service ; and Conveyancing, in country practice
especially, stands very forward aniong the expen-
sive studies-of the Solicitor and Attorney, and his
lucrative compensations.
It is indeed high time that the community
should he-rescuee hom this' evil, that property
bould no longer be endangered' by every illiterate

pretender, who promises cheap work, and sells his
ignorance under price, that the regular Solicitor
and Attornies should no longer be censured for
the mischiefi which they did not create. We
trust farther, that the remedy sought by these re-
spectable individuals will be greatly extended; and
that the Legislature will not only prevent the per-
sons before alluded to from practising as Convey-
ancers, under cover of an admission into some Inn,
of Court, but restrain also . their connecting
themselves with any Solicitor and Attorney, and
doing business under his name. Until this refor-
mation shall he accomplished, until the transfer of
properly shall be taken • out of the hands of Ad-
venturers, whose want of knowledge is almost as
dangerous as, in many instances, their cant of
integrity, the profession of the Law will be de-
graded, and the Law itself will he discredited ;
still worse, litigation will be aggravated and aug-
mented;and the security of property will be sa-
.criiced to ignorance, to presumption, and fre-
quently to dishonesty.
-The first Petition presented to the Legislature
last sitting, was by Mr. ANDERTON,. of
It itubol-
ton, and in the course of the Session other Peti-
tions to the same effect were presented by the Soli
citors and Attornies az the following places ; and
we understand, in consequence of the injury
which has been so very generally sustained by the
profession at large, an application will be made
in the next Session of Parliament, to give rffect
to the REAL intention of the Legislature in pass-
ing the 44 Gen. 111. and to remove the grievance
which they now labour under in that respect
Taunton, Christchurch,
Welliogton, Fordingbri ge,
'W i veli,combe, Ash'ity-de-la-Zouche,
M veri 0 , olverliampr
North Shields, Essex (County)
South Shields, , Dudley, ' _
Want age, Cambridge,
Plymouth, Ely, and adjoining
Plymmith Dock, places,
Stouehoitse, Whitchurchi
Barustaple,aud adjoining Drayton,
places, Went,
Portsmouth, Derby,
Portsoa, Beverley,
Gosport, 11u11,
Warrington, Winchester,
Exeter, Birmingham,
Ringwood, &c. &c. &c.

P 'l' It Y.

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