The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-08 00:00:00

[THE MORNING HERALD.]

A pettifogger is defined by Dr. Johnson to be'" a petty
small-rate lawyer;" and in common parlance means one
who is a diSgrace to his profession, and ought to be ba-
nished from it. In furtherance of this acceptation, the
Courts profess to set their face against all finch persons,
and there is a Society, to which we lately thew the at-
tention of our readers, whose avowed object is to cleanse
the Augetui stable of the law of those low, wretched in-
terlopers. Now we know of no persons who come more
literally and undeniably within the range of this deseription
and its consequences than such as can be base enough to
institute actions for no other purpOse than merely to put
Costs into their own pockets. Of such persons the Press
has, to its own cost, exhibited lately' one or two; and
though we dare say the Society in question will not, for
very obvious reasons, make them the. objects of its ani-
rnadVersion, we have as little doubt that their practices
have not been lost upon our readers or the public in ge-
neral. Theie diabolical miscreants (for no tertn can be
too strong to apply, to persons who thus prostitute their
offices to the most base and sordid purposes) single out
the Press as the inilch cow from'which they expect to
drain a vile and hateful subsistence, principally because
they know that they will receive an adventitious aid 'from
those who can on such occasions show the innate
hatred they entertain towards free discussion.—
Those who belong to a profession itself full of abuse, de-
test the instrument which is constantly Making known
tho,o abuses to the world; and a pettifogger is no longer
such in the eyes of those whose private malice mid hatred
he the means of gratifying. Fortunately the Press is
in the hands of those who cannot be crashed, however
they may be injured, by elfortS of, this deseription; and,
fortunately Juries. are every day. learning that both liberty
and property are in their keeping. Of this sacred guar-
dianship many Juries have lately given ample.proof that
they know and feel the value and importance ; but the
triumph will never be completely' effected till they show
these pettifoggers that their actions. are not worth so
much as " a farthing," and until' these contests for costs
are thrown upon their instigators. That the Court should
be oeopied in such trumpery actions isc a sad waste of
valuable tithe a and that attorneys should be found to be
principals, and only anxious to obtain a living for them.;
selVes by such vile pursuits, is a disgr;tce to their calling;
but the subject becomes of Much more importance when at-
tplupts are thus Made to break down and subdue the great
' buiWarit a public liberty at the shrine of a rapacious crew,
who would jus,t rodily set fire to the town, could they,
in the tumult, contrive to pososa them Selves of an ample
share of the plunder.

tißlTtSti PRESs.]
The, hustle of the elections having now subsided, curio-
sity secins to be direeted Om steadily to foreign objecti,;
and the almost forgotten subject of arecce occupies once
more a little of the public attention. Lord Cochrane'p
i,tting otit fiir tin. Mediterranean, and the formidable ere,
potations which have been nude to rendiT his
servßes
effectual in fuvoitr of the Greeks, have qiven LIIIOW
imjnilsE
.10 the hopes of the well.wiahery of this great cause, at a
moment ‘ll.litit it seen-wd to be sunk in Irretrioilible
cat lt.-
nifty. As to the. point on which Lord Cochrane is likely,
to. direct his attack~, it is' scarcely possible to say ail
ti'lltg Priaanli and it. is probably not yet fixed even in
his
awn nl,lO, An attack on Alexandria has 'been men-
tioned, as won as a (1,,,t4t,nt, on c,,rete; but his Lord,hil'
will be guided, in all probability, by eiretnstancr:
wikieh 'lf 4' "n't in this country be impposed to be
aware, though WP are eettainly 1111!thled to tbink that
Ins expedition is
not of it random nature, kt-c have
freituently taken occasion on thiS subject, to. point out
the policy of an attack upon Lopt, as the best method

of assisting Greece, in case this country should feel itself
called upon to take a part in the contest. The same rea-
soning will, in some measure, apply in the case of Lord
Cochrane's expedition. His Lordship has an opportunity,
by an attack upon Egypt, of saving two Christian Nations
by a single effort; for such un attack would recall the
Egyptian troops from Greece, and would, at least, be the
means of procuring more favourable laws for the Copts,
With regard to comnn•ree and the internal regulations of
the country. As to the ability of Lord Cochrane to ac-
complish these objects, there caunot be two opinions.
The countries on which he has to operate are countries
peculiarly liable to attaick from a naval force. We can
scarcely venture to hope for an exrdition from the Red
Sea, on the part of the East India Company; but we
cannot but suggest the propriety of a scheme so evidently
practicable in itself, so important to the interests of our

Indian- commerce,. which cannot subsist for any length
of time if a hostile power should gain possession of
Egypt,, and so just, both on account of the assistance
which' would thus be given to the Greeks snd on ac-
count of the ptinishment which might be thus inflicted
upon the Pacha for the unwarrantable 'restrictions which
he has iMposed upon commerce. The Nile, ut all events,
will afford Lord Cochrane an optiortunity, by his gun-
boats, of carrying the war into the Interior of the country,
even without such assistance. On the other hand, ,if he
should direct his attention to the Islands, it is obvions that
his services would be of the highest importance; and still
more 'so, if he were: to attack the Morea itself. All these
countries afford immense facilities for the combined opera--
tion of land and sea forces—a chapter,inthe art of War which
has hitherto been left almost blank, although capable of
leading to residts of the most brilliant description. Pitt
had an idea of this-species of warfare, as appears from his
original method of conducting the war by descentS, withu
view to keeplarge bodies oftroops iu theOrrisons on the coast.
This succeeded to a certain extent; but a country like
France, the coasts of which are comparatively of little ex-
tent, can never be seriously injured by mere descents, with-
out gaining a permanent footing: A narrow country like
Greece can be as. effectually occupied (if we may be allow-
ed so to express onrselyes) by a fleet, with a body of ma-
rines on board, as it could be by a large army. 'Such a
force, in the vicinity of 'a district without fortresses, by
effecting a landing, which they might protect by a field
fortification, could prevent supplies of provisions—could
cut off detachments—and could unite large forces unex-
pectedly upon points which would give them decisive
advantages over the enemy. They co* maintain for-
tresses in spite of all the efforts of a landliorce, by direct-
ing cross fires against the besiegers, and throwing in sup-
plies of provisions. In short, such a scheme of warfare
would prove that Pompey did not mistake, when he as-
serted that the master of the Grecian seas would also
be master of the land. That great General baffled and
defeated his skilful antagonist at Dyrrachimn solely
by the assistance of his ships, which took in flank the
line of circumvallation that Caesar had drawn round
him, and favoured the irruption of legions from the spot
in tvhich they had been. enclosed.. The fault which led

to the defeat- ut Pharsalia was Pompey's impolitic quit-
ting of the coast of Epirus, in order to form a junction
with Scipio. in Thessaly. We have heard some persons
even hint at the probability of an attack on Constanti-
nople itself. That would certainly be the most brilliant
object; and if what is reported of the armament which
has been fitting out be true, we could scarcely despair of
his Lordship's acCOMpliihing it; but we doubt whether it
would be the' most advisable scheme, either in point of
facility or of efficacy. The result of the whole, however,
is merely this—that : Lord Cochrane has the means of
doing great things, and we doubt not that he has
.both
will and power to accomplish any thing which may be
proposed. If he should confine himself to the mere pre-
vention of-farther reinforcements to the Egyptians from
their own country, his services, even in that limited
sphere, would be of the utmost importance ; but we hope
that he will find himself in a situation to engage in more
effective service, and we have good reason to expect that
he will do so. - •

had to come out of a fund, but ody their ordinary costs
when from the parties. After a good many more obser-
vations at the bar to a similar effect to .-what we have
already stated.
The Lord Chancellor, ordered the case to stand over till
Tuesday next, and that then the Registrar might be pre-
pared to inform the Court what the rule was, as to paying
trustees in all cases.

His Lordship hud thought the rule was, that trustees
when brought here, in such cases, were entitled to all
their expenses ; if it were not so, those who took his
advice would never accept of a trust.

Mr. Hart observed that no sensible men did.
His Lordship considered it highly necessary that the
public Should distinctly know the rule of treatment to-
wards trustees. -As to the Bishops—they had a right to
have presented to the living, the moment the former elec-
tion was declared void; it was entirely owing to their own
good nature that they did not, and yet the parties now re-
fused to pay them their expences. The Court did not be-
lieve they would care a farthing about the costs they
.had been to, as they could not amount to much, but it
certainly was not a handsome thing to have made this
objection ; however, his Lordship would dispose of the
"Bishops with the trustees on Tuesday.