The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-16 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

your Paper of the 9th instant, you detail thel
particulars of an application, before a Court of very humble'
jurisdiction, for extra fees, for the interment ofa parishioner,
who had been paying parochial rates for upwards of twenty'
years. The plea for the extraordinary demand was, that
the man had happened to die out of the precincts of the
parish.
The demand is,. I know, occasionally made, either

through ignorance or fron► sordid motives ; but it is a
novel thing to find it referred to a legal tribunal. The re-
latives on •whom the demand is made, are generally either
too muldi distressed at the time to question any pecuniary
'claim connected with the sad event, and, therefore, ac-
quiesce in it; or, disgusted with what they think an unfair
attempt to exercise a mercenary or spiteful principle, allow
the demand to operate as an exclusion to the corpse being
deposited among the graves of its ancestors. I am not
aware that there is any written law on this point ; but I
think some arguments may be found for the opinion which
I shall venture to pronounce,—that the demand you men-
tion was very properly resisted, and the case very just 4
decided by the Court of Requests.
Every parish is bound to provide, and preserve in decent
order, ground for the burial of its dead, at the expense of
the holders or occupiers of property within the parish.
Would it not, then, be absurd and unjust, to refuse burial
to the corpse of an individual, who had, up. to the day of
Iris death, paid, and whose property was still liable to pay,
for ground for that very purpose? And what alternative
is offered in this case ? Why this, that burial may be de-
manded for the body, in the parish in which it ha:
happened to die. What ! then he is denied the accommo-
dation which he has purchaSed, and paid for by his contri-
butions to the Church Rate, and lie is referred to stranger.
for that boon, without an argument to sustain his claim
on them, except that, if made, they cannot resist it.
The truth is, the body of the man, (lie where he may.
has a right to be buried, not as an alien,' but as a parishioner,
without arbitrary or extra fees, in that ground, to purchase
or to preserve which, he was contributing when he died.
It has also another right of sepulture, but of a very dif-
ferent character.

If by accident a man should die in an alien parish, ane
neither relatives nor others come forward to remove tin

body, the parochial authorities where it lies cannot leave
it unburied, but are compelled to give it burial in then
lown ground. This latter right is none other but that of
la pauper. It is, however, upon this ground, and upon
this ground only, that, because an unclaimed corpse has a
right to an eleemosynary burial in an alien parish, that the
power of excluding it from its own pariah (for the demand
of arbitrary fees amounts to this), is asserted.
The two rights, however, are very distinct, and the one,
which is fortuitous in its occurrence, and is rather the per-
formance of a:deity to the public, than a concession to the
individual, will not annihilate the other, which is founded
on a compliance with periodical demands for payments
for. the very purpose of providing the accommodation in
question.
It does not appear certain that any higher ecclesiastical
authority than some officious and ignorant underling was
implicated in making the demand. The really respectable
am
ce
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founded
ona Church
quibblew ou d
toonot b found
flimsy
e
ng
child
and too contemptible to be used where there is still cha•
racter and credit to be supported.
Esher, Surrey.

A. B.

Saturday morning a meeting took place near
Cabernarry (Ireland) between Joseph Sargent, Esq., and
Captain Standish, the former attended by Captain Gill, the
latter by Henry 'larding, Esq., when, after an exchange
of shots without injury, the parties were reconciled and
'shook hands.

surgeon, l
fashionable' he
present
water was o[ .inea i )ut L.- irei ...,)
On Tuesday morning; between ten and twelve s
seasonC A R
promisesßcootUo SCARBOROUGH,
fullestU G U S
andT lmt.o—stwe •
o'clock, the house of Mr. Anderson,
less, turned their attention to the adjoining
Great St. Thomas Apostle, was entere4l by the have had for many this
years at. favourite watering place. all attempts to save Mr. Skinner's house
ex-
streethope-
door. The only loss sustained on this oc- : Since the
opening
of the Cliff Bridge we have numerous ~
•
ca ion was the usual silver things used at tl ‘; arrivals from ever • part of Yorkshire,' and the circtimja- '
er ions, the devouring element penetrated either
the cent provinces, even from the
breakfast table, consistincr of five or six tea-spoons, south of Scotland, to wit- houses. Notwithstanding, however, all their
i‘ ness this exquisite specimen art, surrounded as it is,
sugar-tongs,/-_,
salt-spoons, a butter-knife, &c. ' with :, the most lovely scenery in nature. Mr. Wilberforce roof of Mr. Tyler's extensive copper factory next
it was sometime bgfore all the engines,
arrived here yesterday with his family, and. at an earl extreme narrowness of the
MULL or GALLOWAY.--A light-house to door. From the
t.„' hour this morning was at the Spa, -admiring the recentrY
ati'suggesting new ones. A grand concert there was none), or insinuated itself through the
be built on one of the most conspicuous promon-
tories on the coasts of Scotland, has been con- abaii improvements,sllarrived in vast numbers, were
giventi,e ba t thefi Assembly Rooms, on the 23d which bad now
tracted for, and will be finished by August, 1828. of August, for)ebe brought into play ; but when the
lAtifie. Wilson,ld. the organist,h able to
The height of the tower is taken at 300 feet IF which will be patronized by ofalwere once in full operation, it was evident thatY
c' county. Lady Johnstone, oyf Harknessea Park,ng personsh a s
signifiedinte
and that of the beacon at 82 more above thethe flames
avenues
were checked in their destructive
;. her intention to he present, and as her ladyship's mansion pro-
medium level of the sea. Corsewall light-house gress. Notwithstanding this, from the '
livseee_x_pectel to be overflowing with visitors during the immense
is considerably higher, but the natural-elevationDoncaster races, we feel confident length of th&range of windows at
tothe the top of the
: 1
'''that'hperie party of the giant Mull will save a great deal of sub- ary will confer brilli.arkcy on the entertainments factory, the parapet wall facing Arch-street
stantial masonry, and will serve nautical of the evening.
every - b • The Marchioness of Londonderry, and e b
the beautiful Mrs. Lane Fox, are to be amongst the distin-11 beam which supported it havin been burnt,' the
purpose. .The expense is estimated at - /Igushed 3 Bqr"
~. ~ guests on that occasion. The following are the ;way, and fell into the street ,!.th gave
a. tremendous
including apartments for the keepers and their,: latest arrivals at Donner's Hotel :—Lady.Dudley and suite, crash. We did not hearof 1
any serious accident
who must reside constLor•
antly near a s iot.' -1 William Fitzgerald, Hon. E. Phipps, M.P., Ho c .
Hon. I. in consequence. After this the a '
.re sensibly de-
families,
the eagle might safely fix her • eyrie, and 'No
1 ' Mr. and Mrs. M‘Donald, Dr. Mackie, Archdetv u
Mark-
where
-n 7clined ; and, although it was
hatch and foster hey callow y9ung? museared by
4. Fretwell, Joseph Parsons, the Rev. Dr T Mackie, half-past two, no fl, A
. enrol, Walden spreading
?,sham, Rev, Messrs. Atkinson, Sidney Smith still burning at
~ further uanger of its '
any danger save the billows of the Atlantic. of Viraclhanh &c, Lseemed to be apprehended.