The Sun.
London, England, 1818-02-26 00:00:00

SHIP NEWS.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 25.—1 t has blown a heavy
gale at W. S. 'V. all clay, and still continues. The
outward-bound ships put in here appear to ride
well. .A brig came in here last night during the
gale, and anchored at Spithead, htit it has been
impossible to communicate with her.

PLYMOUTH, FEE. 24.—• Last night the brig En•
deavour, KRAFT, parted one of her cables, and
cut the other in Hamoaze, and drifted across the
Spanish brig Vincinha, carried away her fore-
mast and bowsprit, and !hen she got on shore at
the back of St. Nicholas Island, where it is
thought she will this next tide go to pieces very
little of her cargo has been got out.

FALMOUTH, FEB. 23.—The only vessel which
has sustained ii,jury in the gale yesterday, beside
the Ocean, was the brig John and Thomas,
EsKELsos, from Trieste—she lost her main-mast.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 24.—Pot hack the•SpArtan,
of New York, that sailed the 29th tilt. for Savan-
nah, with loss of main-mast, boats, and bulwark.
The William, NF.wTotsx,_,of this port, for Per-
nambuco, i 3 at Beaton Ails, with loss of anchor
and cable and main boom.

PADSTOW, FEB. 23.—The brig Le Prospere,
of Brest, Mitas Ross, was brought into this har-
bour this morning in great distress. The ve,sel
is on shore, but expected to be got ofE One
of the pilots attending her was unfortunately
drowned.

PENZANCE, FEB. 23 —We bad the wind here
yesterday at East, aid it came round to the S. S.
W. and W. with heavy rain ; about four o'clock
it began to blow a gale from the N: to N, N. E.
—not a gale, but a hurricane, and it came so sud-
denly that several ships got adiiit, and received'
much damage : among them are—the Albion and
the Venus, bulwarks stove in ; William, upset
her windlass ; Ann, stove her starboard. boWs in ;
Valency, stern stove in ; Lord Howe, bowsprit
and boom carried away : the Dolphin and Drake
cutters rode out the gale.
MARGATE, FEB. 25.—The brig Richard, MAR-
SHALL, Of and from Ramsgate fur London, was
twought into this port yesterday, after baying been
on shore and rec,ived much damage. A schooner,
reported to be the Luna, of Yarmouth, has lost
both anchors and cables and bowsprit, and is
now off this port, and expects to bet in next tide.
DEAL, FEB. 25.—Arrived, and sailed for the
River, the Hebe, CARpEN, from Waterford ;
Thetis, YARROW, from Marseilles. Came down
from the River the Kingston, LetstimANT, for
Martinique ; Hippolita, HILL, for Bengal ; Juno,
Bisnor, for the Cape of Good Elope ; Thomas,
BELL, for St. Vincent's ; Harriet, SKILLER, for
Madeira and Barbadoes ; Traieller, LLOYD, for
Demerara ; Tobago, WESTMORLAND, for ditto;
Hero, JAMES, for the Mediterranean ;- and Hart-
ley, from Shields for Grenada. Put back the
Maly, NEWPORT, for Dublin, with loss of anchor
and cable ; also the Dutch ship Zeelust, FRED-.
RIKS, from Amsterdam, with troops for Batavia,
with lois of tore•mast, bowsprit, main-top-mast,
sails, &c. having been run foul of by another ship
off Beachy Head.
Five o'Clock.—The ships appear to ride well;
the wind having moderated.

COWES, FEB. 25.—Arrived the Christina,
WALLts, of Sweden, from Malaga, laden with
wine, &c. ; very leaky, She is under quarantine.
GR AVE SENDYEB. 25—Sailed theCanulep, John-
son, for Batavia; Briton, Crane, for Jamaica ; Mi-
nerva,Straehau, for Demerara ; Rover, Bo,.ver, for
Newfoundland ; Endeavour, Parry, for Cork ;
Flora, Pay; for Hamburg!) ; and the Duke of
IVellington, Martin, fur Ostend.

The very great satisfaction the plan adopted in
former Lotteries cave to persons residing in the
Country, has induced T. the•Contracior,
to repeat it in the present ; and he hones he has,
as in a recent Lottery, selected sonic of the Capi-
tals amongst those numbers advertised,—The un-
dermentioned Numbers may be hail either in
whole Tickets,: Halves, Quarters, •Eighths, or
Sixteenths, at No. 4, Cori-thin :
12,309.110,212
17,232 6,826
11,486 16,087
13,200 13,232
11 456 10,213
The following No
whole Tickets, Pal
Sixteenths, at No. 9,
10,214 12,321 u
13,234 10,215
16,089 17,231

16,088 7,412
11,488 3,121
16.057 2,818
10,185 8,323
15,074 1 11,122
Imbets inky be 1
Ives, Quarters,
, Charing Cross :-
1 11,490 4,6081
4,511 11,123
3,002 13,571 I

2,820
17,E.)1
11,121
I 2,757
I 3,110
m►ttl either in
Eighths, or

13,553
7,415
8,285

17,204
15,071

16,090
13,235

10,1301 2,822
11,459 3,122

3,131
2,816

The present Lottery contains Three Prizes. of
30,000/.—One. Hundred Capitals—all Sterling
Money—no Stock Prizes—no Classes—no re-
drawing. The Drawing commences Wednesday
the 4th of MARCH.

PRESENT Pitic*.
Ticket - - - ,)19 10 0
Half - - XlO 9 0 I Eighth - £2 13 6
Quarter - - 5 5 0 I Sixteenth - 1 7 0
*** Letters (post-paid) containing Bank Notes,

or Post•Otfice Orders, duly attended to.
The last Lottery that contained '1 hree Prizes
of 30,0001. litsn sold them all ! and last Lottery
Le sold Three PrMe9 of 20,0001. all i❑ Shares.

CERTIFICATED CONVEYANCERS.

At an ADJOURNED Mgt TING Of ATTORNIES and
SoLiciroas of his Majesty's Courts of lle..ord
at Westminster, duly convened by Advertise-
ments Intl-dished in ibe ll.ily Newspapers, for
" the purpose of taking into comsideration the
" intended Application to Parliament, for p r -
venting the practising of Conveyancing by
" unqualified Persons, and amending the pre-
" sent Laws relating to litiornies and Solid-
" tots," held at the London Coffee House,
Ludgate Hill, Feb. 10, 1518,
JESSE GHEGSON, ESQ. in the Chair;
Mr. Andcrron having. reported, that the Peti-
tions to Parliament, approved of at the last Meet-
ing, had been numerously signed by the Attar-
nies and Solicitors of Lgtittlon,
Resolved Unanimously,—That the Petitions he forthwith
submitted to Parliament, and the Draft of a Bill for reme-
4ing the Evils complained of, immediately prepared, under
the Direction of a Committee.
Resolved Unanimously,—That the following Gentlemen do
form such a c,,,,niiuce, with power to add to their number,
and that Five be a Quorum, viz.—Messrs. Gilbert Jones,
Charles Bielinell, Nathaniel ~ttchesoit, illiam Le Blanc,
James W. Freslifield, Jesse Gregson, Bovill, Wil-
liam Nethersole, Thionas Lane, W. B. Flexney, George Hun-
dleby, Henry Stratton, John S. Taylor, and James Ay- •
derton.

Resolved Unanimottsly,--7That the Law Society be requost-
ed to co-Operate its the ohjects of this Meet
Resolved Unaiiimonsly,—That the Provincial Law Societies
be also requested to afford their assistance.
Resolved Unanimously,—That the Thanks of this Meeting
are in an especial manner due, and are hereby given to those
Gentlemen who have afroided information of the Abuses com-
plained of; that they he tequested to continue their assist-
ance, and transmit all necessary information to the Secretary,
at his Ottice, No. 5, Inner Temple-lane.
I{e olved Unanimously,—That a Subscription he entered
into for defraying the reasonable txpenses incurred ill prose-
cuting and carrying into effect the object of the inteuded ap-
plication to Parliament, and that the Attornies and Soli-
citors throughout England and Wales be requested to join
therein.
Resolved Unanimously,—That the Subscriptions be under
the Ina nazencent and disposal of the Committee, that Jesse
Gregson, Esq. he Treasurer, pro Impure, and Mr. Jae.es
Andertow, Secretary.
Resolved Unannuously,—That the Stcretary shall, at the
request' in writing of any Five Sobscriliers of Otte Guinea
or upwards, call a General Meeting of the Snbseribet s, to
be held at the Londou Cotlee House, within lout eel' days
next alter such request.
Resolved Unanimously,—That the Thinks of this Meeting
ke given to Mr. Anderton, for his indefatigable versev,eanee
in promoting the objects for which this Meeting is convened.
Resolved Utetnimously,-4 hat these Resolutions he printed
and cir calmed under the Direction of the Committee.
JESSE CiItEGSON, Chairman.
•
The Chairman Navin! left the Chair,—
Resolved Unanimously,—That the Thanks of this Meeting
be given to Jess Gregsou, for Ins able and impartial
conduct in the Chair.

.1:1N1ES ANDERTON, Secretary.
N. B.—The Petitions vvili lie fur Signatures
few days longer, at the Secretary's (Mite, where
Subscriptions are also requested to be pail, or
to the Treasurer, No. 4, Angel•court, Thrug-
thOrton.street.

No. 5, Inner Temple Lane, 18th Feb-1318.
am directed to transmit to you the annexed printed
Copy of a Petition, aliont to be presented to Parliament, to
prevent improper and unqualified persons from practising as
Convi,yancers, together with a Copy of the Resolutions en 7
trred into upon the subject, at a numerous Meeting of At-
tw-nies and Solicitors held on the loth inst.

Committee appointed by these Resolutions are now oc-
cupied in preparing Bill to meet the objects referred to in,
the Petition, and in oiler to enable then► to collect as sc•ou
as possible a Fund to defray the expellees, they have appoint-
ed Mr. I. Sharp, Law Stationer, Cursitor-street, Chancery-
lane, to wait upon the Gentlemen of the Profession in Lon-
don, to solicit and receive Subscriptions.
The Committee desire me to express their confident hope
that you will unite with them, trod with the Profession at
large, in promoting an object of such general interest; and
I heft to inform you that the Collector will wait upon you in
a few days fur your Subscription.

I a:in, Sir,
Your most oliedient `errant,
JAMES.ANDERTON; Sccrrtary.

To the Ilononrabk the CoMmons of the United of
(heat Britain and Ireland in Parliament assrinNed.
The humble Petition .of -the several Persons whose
names are herenoto subscribed, being respt ctively
Attorit es or Solicitors practising in his Nlajesty's
Courts of Law and Equity at Westminster, and re-
siding in and near the Metropolis,
by the Laws now in force no person cats
be admitted to practise as an Attorney and Solicitor, unless
he has duly served a Clerkship of five years, and has paid
Stamp Duties in his Articles of Clerkship and on his admis-
sion, amounting together to upwards of 1' 51.
That these Laws have bi en highly beneficial to the Public,
by increasing the 'respectability Of Attornies and
and ditniuishing the evils occasioned by the errors rind mis-
conduct of ignorant and 'wetly Practitioners.
That Conveyancing is a principal, and the most reputable
and advantageous branch of the business of an Attorney and
Solicitor ; it requires more extensive anel abstruse leaguing
than any other branch of the 'Law, and the practice of it by
ignorant persons invalidates or renders insecure and imper-
fect the titles to landed property, and is highly injurious to•
the public, by creating a multiplicity of suits, and invoking
their property in litigation or insecurity.
That the Stamp Act of the 4ith year of his present Ma-
jesty authorizes ally person, being a Member of one of the
four Inns of Colllt, to draw and prepare Conveyances with•
out requiring hint to keep any number of Terms, or pro-
'clueing- ;to testitnoni,tis of his having had a professional edu-
cation to qualify bin) for such an undertaking. •
That the Stamp Duties and EximiceS of obtaining admis-
sion to an lit) of Court, qualifying a person to practise ;AS a
Conveyancer, amount only to 251. or thereabouts; and trades-
men and persons who have no connection with the profession
of the Lav,-, and who frermtntly come froni distant parts of
the country, are permitted to become Menthers of an Inn of
Court, without any inquiry into their characters, education,
or cotopeteuey to become practising Conve)ancers..
That in tionsequelKe of the low Stainp Duties paid by Con-
veyanccrs, together with the easy means of obtaining ad.
missitio as Members oy an lon of Court, many ignorant anti
incompetent persons, such as Linen Drapers, Shopkeepers,
Sheliirs Officers, Annuity Brokers, Bankers' Clerks, Ace-
tioners, Schoulina;ters, and inferior Tradesmen of almost
every description, together with discarded Writers from At-
tornies' offices, have been enabled to get admitted Members
of an Inn of Court, and are now actually prictising in ca-
rious parts of the kingdom, as Certificated Conveyancers, to
the great disgrace of the.Prolession, and ultimate injury to
the Public.
That your Petitioners respectfully submit it never could he
the intention of the legislature to authorize persons, if the
above description, merely by being admitted 'Members of
lon of Court, to practise as Conveyancers, 'IA cause ecer,,,
Member of an Intl of Cot,rt is presumed, up.in 16, test
att-
mission, to be in the commencement if a course of legal
education, in order it) qualify himself-for future practice.
That your Petitioners beg leave to sntditit, that the evils
they icomplAin of should be remedied by legislative provi-
sions, and that persons ought not to be 'permitted to practi.ie
as Conveyancers without receiving a conilisitent legal edrica-
Lion,. and. that upon their admission as Members of an Inn
of Court, and upon their certificates or admissions to practice,
Stamp Duties should be imposed similar to those which are
paid upon the Articles of Clerkship, and the admission of
Attorntes and Solicitors.
Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray, that your
Honourable House will.he pleased to take the subject
complained. of into consideration, and grant, such relief
in the premises as to your Honourable House shall
seem meet.
And your Petitioners will over pray, &e.

The statement in .some of !he !liters of yester-
day of the reported intended matrimonial alliance
between the Dike of CLARENcE and Miss ;VYKEi.•
HAM, having been sn fdr arranged as to have al-
ready obtoined the consent of the PRINCE RE-
GENT, is totally void of foundation.—(Morning
Post.)