The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-20 00:00:00

cEnTIFICATED CONVEYANCERS.

It with much pteas►tre .we find that the ob-
servations, which tiriginaity appeared in THS
Sutsr, on' the mongrel Practitioners of the Law,
artd%vhich no other Journal, nor witlistanciing the
importance 61 the subject, has condescended to
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tottcp upon; has excited particular attention among
-Picdessional Characters, liarristris as tvell as At-
tornies.

The stibirct, we say, is of the otmo,t
importance, as the security of property dcp, nos
essentialiy on the knowledge and accuracy of those
who are employed in transferring and guarding it
from the mistake and blunders of rashness and
•ignorance. As a proof of the necessity of some
Legislative ipiterfererce in a subject so iuteresting
to the community at large, we subjoin two Ad-
vertisements from persons who act under the de-
scription of CERTIFICATED CONVEYANCERS, and we
invite Attornies throughout the United Kingdom
to give us such information as, by receiving pub-
licity through the medium of our Paper, may lead
ate attention of the Legislature to a subject of
such universal interest in. this great Commercial
Empire .

joliN S. LAMBERT, Notary Public, Master Extry. in
Chancery,'and Auctioneer, 97, Fore-street, Dock, respect-
fully informs the Nobility, Gentlemen of the Royal Navy and
Army, Masters of Merchant Vessels, and the public- in gene-
ral, that 'he still continues to prosecute the abot•e and un-
dermentioned Professions, with integrity and Exactness
" Notarial 13asino4.—Protests against Capt.;res, Wind
and Weather, &c. fur Loss or WA:age, Demurrage, Breach
of Charter-Part•, &c:

" .Nated and Prutested.—Foreign and In!and 131115 of Ex-

change, fur Nun-payment, &c.

" Conveyandieg.—Leases and Releases, Assignments,
Mot kg-ages, Bonds, Special and C'Mortion Powers of Attorney,
Charter-Parties, Declarations, Deeds of Emancipation, Con-,
tracts and Agreements, Conditions of Survey, for Sale of Es-
tates, or Houses, &c. Drawn and Engrossed on reasonable
Terms.

" Agdaviti.—Mr. Lambert swears half-pay Oflicers, be-
longing to the Royal, Navy and Army, and others, to their
accounts ; Masters of Merchant Vessels to their Protests ;
and also Widow Ladies whose Husbands recently belonged to
the-Navy or Army, &e. litho will be waited on (if desired) at
their respective houses.

" Ecclesiastical Court.—Wills proved, Letters of Admi-
nistration procured, and Copies of Wills obtained, from any
of the Courts in England.

" .InetioY.—Estates, Ht)IISCS, Goods and Chattels, Storks
in Trade, &c. of every description, sold by Auction on the
most reason:Vole Terms.

" N. B. Mr. Lambert intends, for the accommodation of
the Public, in a few months, to procure a Sale-room,.in an
eligible part of the Town, for the reception of all kinds of
Goods and Merchandise, intended to be sold by Public

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Auction.
The future commands of the Public will be gratefully
received, and executed with the'utmost Promptitude, Secrecy,
and Fidelity.
" Stpten►ber 1, 16152!

Wst,t,Ltm CALD%VELL, of Frodsham, in the Connty of
Chester, Gentlemen, duly Admitted end Enrolled a Nlember
of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, London, and
licensed to practice as a CONVEYANCER, respectfully informs
his Friends and the Public in general, that he is enabled
thereby to draw, prepare, and execute, Agreements, Assign-
ments, Bills of Sale of Ships, Flats, Vessels, Bonds, Con-
veyances upon the Sale of Lands, Tenements, Rents, Annui-
ties, and other Personal Prope'rty, Deeds of Exchange, Par-
tition, Gift, Fecolfments, Grants, Legacy Discharges, Mar-
riage Settlements, Mortgages, Notices to Quit, and to Pay its
Money due upon Mortgage and other Securities, :nd •ntures
of Apprenticeship, Transfers, 17-arrants of .e.ittorney to con-
fess Judgment, and other Powers of ,litorney, Wills, &e.
which will be completed on reasonable terms.

" WILLIAM CALDWr:LL begs leave to state, that he is a
Commissioner to take Ai&hails in the Court of Session, for
the County of Clit!ster ; and also Agent to the Phoenix Firs
Assurance Company, and Pelican Life Office fur Insurance on
Licts, Granting- Annuities, and Endowments of Children;
and also to ;nform them, that

" Simeock, of the City of Chester, Altterney at Law,
win attend at. Mr. CALowcrL's Office, in Frodsharri afore-
said, on Tuesday in every week, from ten o'clock in the morn-
ing mail four o'clock i❑ the evening of the same day, to re-
ceive•lnstructions fur Proceedings in the Courts of Law and
Equiq."

REGIS TER OF FASHION.

FASHIONABLE ENTERTAINMENTS.

Their Royal Iligbuesses the Duke and Duchess
of CUMBERLAND entertained a
,party of fashion..
ables on Thursday evening, in Cl-evelagd-row,
General HuLso gave a .grand Dinner on Thurt.
day last, at his apartments in Chelsea Coltege,
Lord FOLLY gt,ve an elegant Dinner in Hamil-
ton-place, on the same evening.
Mr. GakENwooo gave a splendid entertainment
to her Royal Highoos the Duchess of York, in.
Andley-square.
Lady PULTENEY entertained a fekv friend 3 ac
Pulteney-House, in Piccadilly, on Thursday even-
ing.

Captains King and Cox, Lieutenants Dunlive,
Maginnis, Toltrey, and Baylee, Pay-
master Sherlock, and Ensign Booth, are the offi-
cers ordered from the Depot of the 87th Regiment
for India. "

The body of a dead man has been found in
Comfit! Wood, near Riddlesdon, in Sorry, about
a quarter of a mile from the road leading from
Croydon to ‘Vestitam. It appears to be the body
of a man, about 60. years of age, and five feet
seven inches in height. He was found lying on
his right side, beneath an oak tree, from the
:)rand► of which was suspended the rein of_ a
bridle; a hat', and clasp knife open, were found by
his side. The body was conveyed to a, house in
die neighbourhood, for au invest to be held
upon it.

LI rEitA rr NEvtzw.

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(FitrSl A CofiRZSPONDEN'T.)

THE BIBLIOGRAVIIICAL DECAMERON: 3 'vas. goo.
Dy the Rev. T. 'F. DIEWIN.

In calling th'e attention of anr, Readers Ikthis
Avorrk, kt' hi ch r typographicalsbeauty, and
splcn-
'donr a'gritpliicAecoration,ha's seldom beet' equal-
`led, certainly never surpassed, we 'cannot retrain
from expressing our adthiration of the taste and
jadgment of its author.; but, more particularly, of
'that ardoor and enthusiasin for the peculiar Depaits
anent of titerattire which he so successfully cul-
tivates, and Which could have led him to undertake
the publication of such a work as this, entirely at
Ilk owl) risk nod expence. To this circumstance,
however, is the uncommon elegance of these yo-
'Tomes, perhaps, to he attributed. Having said
thus much of the manner of Mr. Ikatita's Wolk,
we come next to its matter. As the title informs
us, it is " Ten days' pleasant Discourse upon
nated MSS., early Engraving, Typography, and.
" Bibliography ;" thus forming, as it were, a
brief but uninterrupted view of literature and
subjects intimately connected therewith, from•
the earliest period of its' revival up to our
own times. The first day*: Discourse is devoted
to an account of the more rare and curious illo-
tninaled MSS. in Eur'ope, but particularly in Eng-
' land, with specimens of the art of design as dis-
playe:l in some of the latter, and, considering how
much the author was necessarily restricted in his
limits, he has shewn, in this part of hiswork,;
much curious research, and created the subject in
a manoer highly creditable to his taste, his in-
dustry, and his talents. Some of the embellish-
ulents are of Uncommon beauty.
The second -and third days comprize a history
of the rise and progress of Engraving, as seen in
some of the earliest productions of the press, with
unmerona specimens frOm Missals and other re-
ligious Manuals, from •Romances, History, and
Works of Sciences—This is followed by a history
of Printing.from the earliest time up to the pre-
sent day,, which occupies the fourth, fifth,
siztfe and seventh days; -the illustrations and de-
corations introduced into this disision of the
Book, are exceedingly numerous ; many of them
are very curious; while the information conveyed
upon subjects connected. with the revival of Let-
ters, and the more remarkable productions of the
first Prioters, is of the most valuable description.
We have our doubts whether Mr. Mama has
acted wisely, in entering so much at length into
' an account of the Fe'sent state of the Press'in.
England :—We think there is a good deal here
that might have been left to other times, but
as he thought fit to enter on this subject, we
think should base been more impat tied, and at
the saine,titne more genersl, and have given a
true acetiiitteof the actual state of printing in the
• United Kingdom at the present time.
The 'eighth day is upon. Book-binding, ancient
and modern ; this is certainly a subject. on which
little eras to be expected tiny way interesting
there is, however, even bete, a good deal to
amuse ; though, we confess, it appears to os that,
the whole might have been, with more propriety,
introduced incidentally in other parts of the
Book.
The account of. Book-auctions, in the• ninth
.lay's Discourse; am( lie characters of lining pind
deceased-frequenters of Book Sales, furnish many
curious instances of the Comparative value of rare
books at different pet iods, and the history of the
sale and dispersioo of sonic of the must valuable
private Libraries ver formed in this country.
We are now arrived at the tenth" and last day's
. Dialogue on Bibliographical Literature, and an
...account of the most celebrated Collectors and Li-
. bruits.' This ,is, doubtless, the best portion of Mr.
D's
,Work.; much of the Biography is original,
and several curious anecdotes of, and originallet-
terS from, celebrated Collectors, use now, for the
first tiine, made public. With the exception of
- the first and ninth days, all the others may be said
' to embrace subjects, in whieh, comparatively,
few persons take any real pleasure ; but the mat:
• ter of this tenth day will be found-highly interest-
ing by readerx of every description ; of the por-
traits -which decorate it, it is but with t 6 say that
. they are equally valuable, many of them front'
their originality, as well as from the exquisite
style in which they are engraved, with the excep-
tion of the portraits of Mr. BULMER and Mr.
l‘lmcitit, as they are certainly inferior to all the
other. That of Mr. &Tema is not a likeness.—
Neither our limits nor our inclination will allow
us to say more of the merits of this. Work; though
we must remark here, that, when be adopted the
colloquial form for Iris text, the author should
have hestoweil a little more pabis 'upon it ; it is
• quite evident throoghout the whole of it, that he
,has not paid soffieient attention to the language
of his•Litedoetitors. To this observation it will
prithably be replied, that it was ooly intended as
. a vehicle for the notes ; but this plea can afford
no excuse whatever ;—the title, of the book is
• Ten days' pleasant Discourse, &c., and he ought
to have given the dialogue more importance thau
it now possesses —Bat rota ithstanding this de-
fect, Mr. DIEDIN has in this Work given to the
public such a Mass of curious attd valuable infor-
mation'on the subject on which he•profesSes to
treat, as has never been equalled in this' or any
•other country, in 'the •same We'are not
•ignorant that there are many peraons,who are dis-
posed to hold pursuits like these very-Cheap; but,
without attaching more impoerance•to Biblicigra-
.phy than it is cot itled to, we are not of this nono..
bes;•there is much more respired in a writer of
-this 'class titan many are (baptised to admit.; the
Scholar who can see nothing excellent but what
is to be found in the pages of Csreece'or
or what is founded on theirmodels,satid who is,
at all times, but too prtnse to underrate the ta-
lents of every on-e. who-is not as deeply versed in
classic lore as himself, should not forget that it.
is to the invention olprintiog, and to the learning
and the indostry cif many of its lost prolesstirs,
oar he is indebted" for, the preservation. of every
thing lie dOilds, at VHS day, most valuable ;—a
that he oho devotes his time to the history of Stich
uteri sod labours, and traces this art from its
first rude-essays to its present state of perfection;
so far horn <misapplying his talents, is pursuing a
course which gives him substantial chit
ons upon
the gratitude of every friend to Literattne.

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