The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-22 00:00:00

CERTIFICATED CONVEYANCERS.

FOR THE SUN.

LETTER 111.

The tenderness of a wound is
.known by its
soreness, and those who suffer, whether in body
or soul, naturally complain. It has pleased God
to call up a Gentleman of Barnstaple, to notify
his apprehensions of an intended attack on him
and his compeers in the present Parliament. In
his alarm, he is pleased to oppose his own suffi-
ciency to the ignorance of those sons of Belial,
the Attornies ; and to prove his pretensions, as
well as his title, to practice the law of conveyanc-
ing, he assures us, he took to it by a sort of in-
spiration, when he ceased to be a clerk to some
Property Tax Commissioners.
The Attornies are regulated by STATUTES ; and
they are under the commitl of the Courts of Jos-

rice. Practice, in the prosecution and Lb euce of
suns, is their duty. Law, in the course thereof,
and in sill is braticnes, they are supplied with by
Counsel. They are legitimace characters and as
they act with integrity, a civilized country cannot
do without them. lite reverse of them are sure 10

meet their revvat:t 1-104 reprob
%%That is it -he Attornies legnire ? not to in-

jute arty one, but to prevrnt nil injury to them-
selves. They say, that the scriveneis of com-
nto:-place matters, whien come not within the
pale of law, have diminisued, certain persons

have increa,ed, in the, shape ot Conveyancers,
sere not the name, it being impossible for
them, as men or no learning, but low breeding,

to ialow any thing of the nature, spirit, and el-
fec► of an assurance, or what constitutes a good
ur bait tide to a real or personal estate. They
may have a su►atterin;;, like the repetition of

soundb by a parlor, but they ought not to inter-
fere in the business of those who are qualified for
it. The hrincit they have seized upon, -being, as
they think, detached from t':e employ of at-
tornies and counsel, they have usurped their right,
by paying a tax, or gaining an atimittance into
one of th:• tour law societies. The tax is upon
Attornies anti Draftsmen below tl.e bar, without
the production of any credentials, and the admit-
t,:nce, not for the bar or chambers, but to act as

Convey.ineeri, is careless, and tvi on prnpriety.
In tt,.s •nanner men nt [nark or likelinood, as
SHAKCPEARE has it, sneak hitt) a part of the Attor-

nies' business, anti fatten on its traits.

Ti[le

they have iv, e, an6.questioned as it now is, they
shrink, like perewiokles, under a certificate, or
into a corner in he nooks of Gray's Inn. While

the business of At.oinies .114,1 Counsel is well

known not to be the drudgery ot a hackney wri-
ter, but. vit hi ot sound lawyers, surely it is gross,
presumption in any one to set himself- up in it,
without any knowledge or, 13w whatever. Let
them article themsel• es to the Attornies, or be-
come students in a proper Inn of Court, and when
they e practice ot la.• ilret• will be regn-
lark. bred, and all those who. are so. will sh,die
them by the haul, as b-rotlwrs ot the whole'blood.
'I hese are not. their enemies ; no, do.ihey.con-
tend for monopoly, which they They
only resist vespassers nit a lawful cAllit.g, ann this
is obvious to every impartial eye, as it must be to
!lit. gentleman ot Barnstaple himself, it he %yin
look • iiro,tgli the telescope at tile right end, and
not through a false, prevaricating, or dazzling
Inediutrt.

There may be some sensible men among these
trespassers. who Might shine in trade or commerce,
in munufactUres or agriculture, but in the law of
cunveyancing they are only EMPIRICS, and their
performances only NOSTRUMS, neither counte-
nanced by learned professors of law, or recorded
Attorniesin practice. I prOcul hint. Hence, ye
profane ! Hoc age, and mind what ye do ; that
so ye do what is right by yourselves in an open
calling, without doing wrong to those in a restrict-
ed oue. Sic Were suo, 4c.

AN OLD BARRISTER.

BATH, DEC. 19.—The QUEEN will leave Bath.
at seven o'clock on Monday morning for Wind-'
sor, wht-re she will pass a few days, and then
proceed to the Pavilion at Brighton.
The PRINCE REGENT has not left the Pavilion
at BriOiton since yesterday se'nnigbt, but his
Royal' Highness regularly takes his morning exer...
cise in the grounds, or on horseback in the rid-
ing-house, and is in good health.
hince Lane°Lp has taken a house for his town
residence in Grosvenor-place. Cameiford House
is-to he quitted by his establishment immediately,
and great part of the effects are packed up for
Grosvenor-place. The intention of occupying
Marlborough House is now quite given up.
A Letter from Hanover, dated Dec. 9, says,—.-
" It is believed that an event highly interesting t
this country is likely to take place. It is asserted
that the Duke of Cambridge, our Gekvernor-Ge-
neral, will espouse the youngest daughter of the
Landgrave Frederick of Hesse, tire Princess Au-
gusta Willie'mina Louisa, born on the 25th of
June, 1797."
Mr. Rusk', the new Ambassador from America,
is the son of the celebrated Dr. Rosa—be left
11 Portsmouth for Loudon yesterday morning.