The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-25 00:00:00

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OFFICE OF SHERIFF.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR—Observations having appeared in several
Papers, under the above title, reflecting on my
conduct in regard 1,, refreshments for the Grand
Jury, at the Old Bailey, during the Sessions, but
of
,which I should not have taken any notice, al.
though in many respects incorrect, did not the
unfounded and nniust calumny contained in the
concluding paragraph cal! upon me to repel it
with indignation, dolt without comment. 1 beg
leave to s'lbjoin the wtiole of the correspondence
which took place on the oc adon.
(0,11 F.) " old 13ailey, Jan. 14.
Air. Sheriff. Parkins has been applied to by an
fficer. ,f the Court, who attended on the Grand
ty. tor font ho Iks of wine, for the use of the
('and Jury. The
.Sheriff begs leave to send his
compluneuts, and to say that ire will most readily
comply with their wish, and will send it to them,
if they will let him know the sort, either the Port
or Shetry.l'
" &Ili en t lem en of the Grand Jury have bad
the hol,,our to receive horn Mr. Sheriff Parkins a
note respecting four bottles of wine. They beg
to state that no such application has been made by
their order, but that they hate taken the liberty
to address an application to the Sheriffs jointly for
the usual allowance.—Grand Jury-room, Jan.! 4."
_ _

" Mr. Sheriff Parkins presents his compli-
ments to the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,
begs to inform them, that on a verbal application
for four bottles of wine for their use, he instantly
sent the answer expressing his ready compliance.
" Mr. Sheriff Parkins had not been applied to,
nor has he been informed of any usual allow-
ance' to the Qrand Jury. fle will with much
pleasure order whatever has been customary
whenever they shall be pleased to inform him.—
Sessions-house, Friday, halt-past 3 o'clock."'
" The Gentlemen of the Grand Jury return
thanks to Mr. Sheriff Parkias, for'his .polite and
ready attention to their application ; and, in con-
sequence of the Sheriff's desire, they note at foot
whit they are informed has been the usual allow-
ance to the Grand Jury at the Quarter Sessions.—
Grand Jury Room, Jan. 14.

" Six shillings and eight pence per day ; 31. 10s.
dinner-money. It has also been usual to send 6
bottles of wine into the .Juty-room."
" Mr. Sheriff Parkins, in reply, begs to inform
the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, that they must
have been misinformed with respect to any usual
allowance' having been made to them by the
Sheriffs ; and he begs to add, that if such custom
had at any periud existed, it is proper it should be
abolished.—Sessions house., Friday, 4 o'clock."
" N. B. The alleged custom as to the allow-
ance of 6s. Sd., and .31. 10s. dinner money, had
not been complied with by my-predecessors, nor
even 'by Mr, Sheriff Itothwell himself, who only
sent (which I was willing to do) six bottles of

Wile."

take for granted the anonymous author of the
paragraph in question is one of the Grand Jury,
and, therefore, ought candidly to have stated what
actually occurred. The insinuation in the para-
graph that I acted under the influence of sordid
views, is as completely beneath an honourable
man to express, as it is for me seriously to notice.
But I beg to assure the author and the public,
that it is not my intention, directly or indirectly,
to appropriate one shilling of the money that shall
he seceived by me as one of the Sheriffs of Lon-
don and Middiesex, for my own personal ad-
vantage; but, on the contrary, as I have been
induced to undertake such an auluons and impor-
tant duty, to rectify (so far as practicable) the
abuses of the office, totally unbiassed by political or
party views, 1 pledge myself to apply to charitable
or benevolent purposes all fees, fines, or dues that.,
may come into my hands, after discharging the ab-
solutenecessary
expellees that I may he liable to, in
part ot,tyhich I have already paid to the amount
of upwards of 10001., whilst not one farthing of
the fees, &c. has yet been touched by me; and,
it the line of conduct which I have adopted under
a conscientious construction of the chartered
rights of the City of London is not satisfactory,
I request that my Fellow-citizens and Livery of
London +will exercise their undoubted right, and
discharge me from the office, which, I airs sorry
to say, rather than retain for ten years, as ab-
surdly remarked in the pat agraph, I should be
most happy to yield up in ten days.
York [Ltd, Jan. 31. J. W. PARKINS, Sheriff,