The Sun.
London, England, 1821-03-02 00:00:00

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A BILL to ekplain and amend an ACT of the PARLIA-
MENT of IRELAND, passed in the Seventh Year of the
Reign of his Majesty Ring GEORGII!: the Second, for be:ter
Regulating the PAYMENT of •FEES of ATTORNIES

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and SOLICITORS, and other purposes therein-mentioned.
Whereas by an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland, in
the seventh year of his Majesty King George the Second, inti-
tuled, " An Act for the relief of Mortgagees, and for making
the process in Courts of Equity more effectual against Mort-
" gagors who abscond, and cannot be
_served therewith, and
" against persons who being served refuse to appear; and, also
" for better regulating the Payment of the Fees of Attornies
" and Solicitors ;" it was amongst other things provided, That
no Attorney or Solicitor should commence or maintain any ac-
tion or suit for the recovery of any fees, charges or disburSe-
ments, at law or in equity, until the expiration of one month
or more after such Attorney or Solicitor respectively should
have delivered unto the party or parties to be charged there-
with, or left for him, her, or therq, at his, her, or their dwel-
ling-house, or last place of abode, a bill of such fees, charges,
and. disbursements, written in words at length, except times
and sums.
And whereas the said provision bath been found inconve-
nient ; and it is just and reasonable that the law of Ireland
should, with respect to the mode of writing such Bills of Costs,
be assimilated to the law of England.
Be it therefore enacted, by the King'..; Most Excellent Ma-
jesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiri-
tual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same,. That from and
after it shall and may
be lawful to and for every Attorney, Clerk in Court, and Solici-
tor in Ireland, to write his Bills of Fees, Charges and Disburse-
ments, with such Abbreviations as are now commonly used in
the English language, any thing in any former law to the con-
trary notwithstanding.

Demerara Papers to.a. late date have come to
hand. They contai❑ the triennial Report of
JAMES ROBERTSON, Esq. Slave Registrar for the
United Colonies of Demerara and Essequibo,
made by order of his Excellency the Governor,
of which the following is an extract :
Males. Females.
Africans 24,526
Creoles
Ditto of other Colonies... 2,005

42,989 33,940
Total, males and females, 76,929, which includes the births
during the last three years, amounting to 4817. Since the last
triennial report in 1817, there has been an increase of 763
males and 977 females. The births are reckoned as one to 46.
There are now upon the Island twelves slaves, between the
ages of 90 and 100, and three between 100 and 110.

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ANECDOTE OF JAMES THE FIRST.—When this
Monarch wary on his route from Scotland to
ascend the Throne of England, he passed a day
and night at Lumley Castle, the seat of the
Earl of Scarborough. In the course of the even-
ing his Lordship mentioned his very ancient
genealogy, and dwelt so long on his ancestry,
that the King, finding the subject un peu-eunu-
oant with his wonted dry sarcastic manner,
stopped his Lordship short, by saying, " My
Lord, dinna go any further, for I didna ken be
fore that Adam's surname was Lumley."
MYSTERIOUS CIRCUDISTANCE.—,-ThiS morning,
between six and seven o'clock, as some workmen
were going to their employ in the neighbourhood
of White Conduit House, they discovered- the
bonnet and cloak of a female,' a short dis-
tance from the bank of the canal, between Is-
lington Church and Kingsland-road ; the cloak is,
of a greyish colour, and the bonnet is made of
straw, with light blue ribbons. A note was
pinned to the cloak, with the initials " I. K."—
In the inside the following words were written,
evidently by some female :—" Farewell ; I a-rn
happy."—Nothing has yet transpired to afford
the means of discovering any clue that can lead to
finding out the person to whom they belonged.—
A young woman, in a similar dress, was seen
walking near the spot where they' were found,
on Wednesday evening, between five and six
o'clock, and it is conjectured they must have
belonged to her, but the men that first dis-
covered them are in the habit of passing the
same read every morning, and they did not see
them yesterday, consequently they must have
been placed there in the course of last night.—
The circumstance has created a considerable sen-
sation in that part of the metropolis.
Murtemt.—Robert Humphrey, of •Hinckley,
in this county, was found early on Monday morn-
ing murdered near to the , Harrow Inn. He
had been with a brother-in-law from -Leicester,
with two Grey Hounds, to a Gentleman's house,
near Atherstone, in Warwickshire, and on their
return it appears he was a good deal fatigued, and
repeatedly sat down to lest himself on the road
side ; when near the Harrow Inn his brother left
him and proceeded to that Public House, where
he partook of some ale, and waited for him a con-
siderable time, but not arriving,'he proceeded on
to Hinckley, where he slept on Sunday evening,
and early on Monday morning set off fel. Lei-
cester. In about_ two hours after he reach-
ed his home, a Constable arrived from Hinck-
ley, stating, that the man he was in company
with the day before had been found that morning
in a field near the Harrow Inn, (on the side
nearest to Hinckley) quite dead, and dread-
fully bruised in different parts of his body,
with nothing on but his shirt, which was stript
over his head, and hung to him by his wrists ;
his clothes were scattered in different parts
of the field. The whole of this diaboli-
cal transaction is at present wrapt up in much
mystery. His half-boots, which were missing,
have been traced in the possession of a pri-
vate soldier, on furlough at Hinckley, and who
cannot give any satisfactory information as to how
they came into his possession.—(Leicester Jour.)'