The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-25 00:00:00

SXTHF,RF,AS by a DECREE of the HIGEI
V COURT of CHANCERY, made In the Cause GIST
v. FOWKE, and PEARKES v. PEARKES, "it is referred to
JAMES STEPHEN, Esq. <MI of the Masters of the said
::.ourt.to enquire and state to the Court who are or is the
Persons or Person entitled to the Legacy or Sun) of 5,000,
and the Interest and Accumulations thereon, by the Will of
SAMUEL GIST, Esq. the Testator, in the Pleadings of the
said Causes mentioned, given upon trust, fur all and every
his Paternal and Maternal Relations, who should be living at
the time of his Decease, of the let, 2d, Sd, and 4th degrees
of the Kindred; the Paternal and Maternal Relations of the
saii Samuel Gist, late of Gower-street, in the Parish of St.
Giles in the Fields, in the County of Middlesex, of the afore-
said degrees of Kindred, and living at the Death of said
Testator, who died on or about the 16th day of January, 1815,
are forthwith to come in before the said Master, and make out
their Kindred, or, in default thereof, they will be excluded
the 13enat of the said Decree.

THOMAS ALLAN, Solicitor,
Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.

WH EREAS by an, ORDER of 111 e HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, Y, made in aCause " Gist
Fowke" it was amongst other things ordered, that it should
he referred to JAMES STEPHEN, Esq. one of the Masters
of the said Court, to inquire and state whether JAMES GIST,
named in the Will of SAMUEL GIST, deceased, the Testa-
tor in the said Order named, be Living or Dead, and if
Dead, whether lie left any Issue Male, lawfully begotten,
and born of an European Woman, or whether he kit any
Child or Children living at the time of the Death of the said
Testator, the said James Gist, who went upwards of Forty
Years ago to India, as a Private Soldier, in the Honourable
East India Company's Service, and passed, as is supposed,
under the name of 'Guest, if liting, is forthwith to come iu
before the said Master, at his Chambers, in Southampton-
bnildings, Chancery-lane, London, and prove his identity ;
and if the said James Gist be Dead, the Issue \lale of the
said James Gist, lawfully begotten, and born of an Euro-
pean Woman, and also the Child or Children of the said
James Gist,.living at the time of the Death of the said Tes-
tator, Samuel Gist, who died on or about the 16th Day of
January, 1815, are, or is forthwith, to come in before the
said Master, at his said Chambers, and prove his, her, or
their Identity and Relationship, as aforesaid, to the said
James Gist ; and any person who can girt information re•
specting the said James Gist, or his Child or Children, ate
requested forthwith to give such information to the said Mas-
ter, at his Chambers aforesaid.
THOMAS ALLAN, Solicitor,
FrederiOi'mvlace, Old Jewry.

ference to the case of L-ord Lonsdale, the conduct
of Mr. Brougham exhibited, by his own account
of it, a violation of every form of procedure, and
every maxim of Parliamentary decorum, when,
after the dissolution of Parliament, and the con-
sequent expiration of his Own delegated power, he
dared still to continue the exercise of it, and
under cover of a certain incredible forbearance to-
wards his rival, to usurp authority over the le-
cords of a Committee, not only suspended but ex-
tinguished. By this strange assumption of power,
fur which he has taken so much credit to himself,
he may have guarded the contest in West mot eland
against the inconsiderable bias, which the publica-
tion of the evidence, in all the precision of its
palpable unfairness, might have produced ; but
every one must see, that by this course, he also
lent to the struggle, the deep infection of
whispered calumny, of indefinite suspicion, and
boundless misrepresentation.
But in what terms shall we speak of the COM-
On suggested by Mr. Brougham to accomplish
the momentous enqairies so happily begun under
his own auspices; a connitission which was to
undertake the vast survey of the whole charity,
and the whole education of the kingdom ; which
was to pry into every nook of every charitable
foundation, however humble; and to penetrate,
with reforming energy, the entire magnificence of
the loftiest and most venerable—which was, in its
vague and shadowy expansion, to embrace every
clement in the formation of the natural intellect—
every seminary of literary or moral instruction—
every institution by %Well manners are twined, or
even exterioraceorrodisliment imparted—a com-
mission vtlinse definite objects could not be accom-
plished in much less than half a century, and
whose ulterior functions presented a dark vista of
inlet mineable scrutiny and impossible completion;
yet was it gravely proposed, that this fantastic
creation of enduring and universal terror should
be constructed, not after the ordinary fashion of
other constitutional fabrics ; that it should nei-
ther owe its original existence, nor its pet iodical
renovations, to the constitutional source of all
sicarious authority, but to the great inventor him-
self, through the formality of a Parliamentary no-
mination ; and having thus unnaturally sprung
into existence, should acknowledge responsibility
neither to Crown nor Parliament, hitt cantinoe
undisturbed and uncontrolled, iu the convenient
receipt of its ample emoluments, and the eternal
prosecution of its petty and vexatious labours.—
Nothing so vast in despotic conception, or so
terrible in protracted execution, has appeared in
England for ages ; and when to the singular com-
position of this dread engine of power, we add the
qualities required by its learned projector, as es-
sential to the character of its members ; the pry-
ing, suspicious, and sullen dispositions, which
were to fit them for their ungracious office, and
the unhappy exemplification of these and other
questionable elements in the person of Mr. Coe,

the " ready-made Co►uu►issinner," whose exclu-
lion Mr. Brougham so pathetically laments—and
above all, when we reflect on the startling pro-
ject, intimated by the learned Chairman, tur con-
fiscating to the use of the State tl►e chat itable

funds diverted from their proper objet.L, instead
of reviving and enforcing the primary and sacred
destination ; we are forcibly struck with certain
analogies which too plainly as*itnilate the mea-
sure in question to the beginnings of confusion ill
a neighbouring country, and which stamp upon it
a chatacter aliogether alien to the spirit of the
constitution, and the genius of thitish legis-
iation.*

* In the Pill brow:ht into Parliament during. the laqt
Sestion, fur the letiewal of the coloolisf,iont simir unimportant
modifio-ition:‘ were ,t(loptetl— such ;nI the increase of the

uunrher of Coilllloissioo4.l-9—htlt none Which could in the le:okt
degree as,tiruPAte it to the project origihally formed by Mr.
Brougham. That Cient fowl, at, attt-miot, but
without succe‘4, to get the Establi.limeot, huviog biwecial
visitors included.

('ro he C.l'tinned.)

Lord LYNDOCII and the Marquess of GakIIANI
here sett Stockholm after a fortnight's stay. A
short time before they were invited to dine svith
the King, CHAIILPS JOHN. Their Lords' i
.Ips niuke
the voyage to St. Petertburgh ou hoard the tia-
ninuali steam pac',cc,

No other deduction remains, except that whict
is to r2monerate the Undertaker, whoever he is, for
his time and trouble. It must be recollected,
that the Undertaker is the person who takes upon.
him to prepare and distribute properly the 10,800
copies of a Brief, to receive back those returned,
to receive the sums collected, to pay the several
expences, and finally to pay over the residue to
the persons entitled; that is, to the Charity. Its
doing this, he makes himself responsible for every
Agent and Collector throughout the kingdom.
The person who has performed this office, ever
since the year 1799, is a Banker of great respec-
tability ; but it is always competent to the persons
for whose benefit the Brief is issued to name
their own Undertaker, and this power is always
explained to them. They have chosen, however,
for that period of years always to take advantage
of the knowledge and experience of a Gentleman
accustomed to the office, and of whose punctua-
lity there can be no doubt.
Now, for the performance of all these offices,
which must be done either personally, or by
Aents paid by himself, the Undertaker's remu-
neration is only 4d. for each copy sent out ; a
lower could not well be imak;it►ed. Still when the
aggregate is looked at, in the Parliamentary Pa-
per above-mentioned, it may seem objectionable
that in many instances the Undertaker or Collec-
tor's payment amounts to as much, and some-
times to mote, titan the residue left for the Charity.
But what is the just conclusion from this ? Not'
that the Collector is overpaid, but that the collec-
tion, from the causes stated in my first Letters,
has been lamentably small. Suppose, for instance,
that the Collector or Undertaker receives 1501 ,
this sum denotes the number of fourpences paid
on Briefs returned. If, then, there remain only.
another 1501. for the Charity, it will be evident
that less than one shilling most have been collec.-
ed upon an average iu each place. An average
of Sd, would pay the two sum, of 150/. and a few
pence more will cover the expence of 841. fur
Patent, Fee.

Now let us ask, Could such averages ever hap-
pen, if Briefs were not too generally neglected
or disliked ? Certainly not. But if they ave-
raged t,o, three, or more shillings, the Fees and
Collection would still cost no more, find the slit -
idol would be dear for the Charity. But why
should any Parishes, except the very poorest,

collect so little as two or three shillings And
why should not very large, populous, and owl-
lent places, send in wore than as many pounds?
Let Briefs be fairly understood, and attended
to, and this will be the infal;ilde result. The
tbst expences and the last would then beconr?
equally inconsiderable, in comparison with tl;t:

whole coPectinn, and would no inure be thought
of. The whole consequence given to these de-
ductions has arisen from the miserable amount of
collections.

1311ILADE1,PfiCS.