The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-20 00:00:00

POR THE SUN.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.
Mn. EnPrort—Your Extracts from the Lon.
don and Provincial Journals form a very inte-
resting feature in your Paper ; but you do not
seem to be aware that some of the Provincial
Journals copy from Weekly London Papers,
which you probably do not see, what is styled
the Leading Article, without acknowledgement ;
atl thus impose upon their Country Readers
their arguments and opinions, as if they were the
effusions of their own observations and judgment.
This practice is uncandid and unjust, and when-
ever it is detected, can only expose the Provincial
Editor to contempt, and bring disgrace upon his
Journal. A Country Journalist must be tota!ly
•unfit for his situation if he is incapable of forming
opinions ,!.f his own, on subjects of general interest
and importance, and mean indeed to usurp a re-
putation upon false claims to political sagacity,
and original observation.
Eirmingham, Sept. 14. DETECTOR.
*.* We ha-:e observed the practice to which our Corrz-
spondent alludes, and have even seen leading articles taken
from TarE Strx, inserted as original articles in tivo or three
Provincial Journals, but as we were conscious of the justness cif
our remarizs, we could have no ob.iection to the difrusion of
that ',!:ough other channels.

URT ol' REQUESTS, SEPT. 19.

ASATGYEES OF MOLONY V. JOHN ATK:rS, TSQ.
An unusual degree of interest was excited at this Office ref=
the singular circumstance of a warrant being obtained against
so respectable and well known an individual as the defenciant,
and when the case was called or. much curiosity was manifested
tq hear the nature of it. The Commissioners, after waiting
some little time for the appearance of the defendant, were in by a Gentleman that he attended on behalf of Alderman
ATKINS, to state that that Gentleman was not in town, and to
request that the case might stand over till his return. This, how-
ever, wvs opposed by 111 r. JOHN ATKINSON, one of the
Assignees, who requested permission to state a few facts, which
he said he had no doubt would induce the Commissioners to
issue their order, directing the small sum in question to be im-
mediately paid, instead of postponing the case. The debt, he
observed, was contracted in Sept. 1816, and was for work done
to the Alderman's carriage, by painting, ecc., to repair an ac-
cident which occurred at the Hanover-square Concert Rooms ;
• that in consequence of the Bankrupt having built the carriage,
and the injury it had sustained having arisen from accident,
the charge had been reduced from 91. (the usual trade price -to
the present demand of 51. ; that every pains had been taken to
obtain the debt, and every delicacy observed which the appli-
cants conceived the respectable situation in life of the defendant
demanded, and, that in short, no trouble had been spared by.
both the Assignees, and the persons employed by duns, in de-
livering the account at various times, and causing inmunerable
applications to be made, to refresh the memory of the worthy
Alderman ; but it had been without effect, and they had now
no other resource in justice, but to bring the case to that Court
for their decision, for small and paltry as the debt was, they
deemed it their duty, as Assignees, not to relinquish the china
without resorting to these means of obtaining it, and that they
were therefore provided with the attendance of the person who
did the work, who would satisfactorily prove the propriety and
justice of the demand.
The Commissioners said, that every credit was due to the
Assignees for their forbearance and patience in this very singu-
lar case, a patience, which they should themselves, perhaps,
have preserved, but that, under all circumstances, and particu-
larly the respectable character of the defendant, they thought it
right that he should have an opportunity of knowing that a
summons had been issued against bins ; but, that if the matter
was not settled before Wednesday, 3d October next, they would
then rehear the case and give their judgment upon it.