The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-09 00:00:00

CER I IFICATED CONVEYANCERS.

FOR THE SUN.

LE'll'Elt X.

Mn.Enrroa,—When I sent you my last letter,
I did tint !Ii ink I should make any addition ()tithe
stibicet of sui-disant Conveyancers : but hearing
that they Ilave mistaken the spirit of my remon-
strance, candour calls on me for an explanation.
I have said, it is not because a man is an .4t-

torney that he is an able or an honest man ; and
now say, it is not because a man coils himself a

Conreyancer that be is un mouvais sujet, or an
vvort by member of society. His endeavours to
provide for his family mly be laudable ; but when
he quits a calling to which be was brought up,
and encroaches upon • a profession to which he is
nut, he enforces a censure from those who are.

Before the statute which imposes a tax on At-
tornies, this sort of Conveyancers were unknown.
Those of the LAW were deep, and well trained in
the science. Their clients were the Attornies ;
but your Certificate-men of the present day offer
themselves to the Public as Conveyancers, not
the Attornies, whom they rival, and thence usurp
their business ; which they could not do, if this
statute had never passed, and which, inasmuch
as by raising a tax, and introducing an evil, is
greatly to be lamented. Were the Attornies, as
sensible men, leaving alone their virtue or lute-
Oty, to seek assistance from sad) draftimen,.
they would soon discover their inability, and seek
it no more. Not so with the Publicovho, instead
of physic, may be drenched with their poison.—
The Attornies are sworn to allegiance and su-
premacy in Church and State. They are On the
Rolls of the Courts of Law but these Certificat-
ed men are no body. They are under no re-
straint ; they have taken no oaths ; nor have
they been pupils to any preceptor in the Law ;
and let their coin be never so base, or their
charges never so enormous, the Public who suffer
is often remediless.

Law Conveyancers receive their fees as gifts,
not charges, from the Attornies, and are above
complaint. They circulate no hand-bills, nor
bang nut hoards, with words thereon, " Walk
in, walk lir, for I am the only true ductor."—
Merii is their motto; and to that they solely trust,
of which the Attornies are able to judge. They
apply to no mushroom Conveyancer; neither do
the Certificated-men throw themselves in their
way. It is the Public they open their shops to ;
and like salesmen of old clothes in Moninouth-
street, or Rag-fair in Rosemary-lane, they have
their barkers to proclaim their goods. The Public
are their looked-for prey, and the unwary who
do not see their snare, but devouring their bait,
become slaves to their unhallowed purposes. If
they consulted the Attornies, their business,
through their means, would be done with effect,
aul the assistance of those who unquestionably
deserve the name of Lawyers. Who else are
acquainted with the nature • and operation of
a fine, or a recovery, to destroy, or to en-
tail, or defeat a remainder ? Who else are
learned in the doctrine of uses and trusts ;

contingent and executory estates ; conditions
or possibilities ? It is no crime in these ad-
vertising Conveyancers, that they know nothing
of these things ; but it is to insinuate the con-
trary, and undertake, as bunglers, what they
-"cannot execute as proficients. I have said through-
out that the business of scriveners is excluded
from the exceptions against the jejune pretensions
of upstarts in the science of common assurances.
This may be within their reach, but knowing the.
sweets that are extracted from distress, they rush
forward to,relieve it, like mock doctors, who heal
one wound to make another worse, and profit by
•
the want's 'of the confiding patient..

This, Sir, is the destructive consequence of
imposi:ig a tax on Attoruies anti Draftsmen under
the Bar. This it is that requires a stop ; and the
powerful rein of the Legislature to regulate and
veslrain it as a disgrace to the
Here I must declare, that I know none of
these super-eminently learned, and worthy raw
Conveyancers, but from their hand bills, which
are now before me. I have neither assumed or
asserted any thing but what they prove, which
is the presumption of their authors ; who may
nevertheless be upright men ; and no doubt they
are so, for any thing known to the contrary, by
AN OLD BARRISTER•

DISTEMSSED SEAMEN.—Government have, with
the greatest promptitude and humanity, lent three
ships for the accommodation of poor seamen,
tinder the management of the acting Committee.
One of these vessels is to be used as an asylum for
able seamen ; another for ordinary seamen ; and
tf►e third as an hospital ship for the sick.—A hun-
dred and sixty pour fellows, who had been exa-
mined by the Committee, and found deserving,
were sent off yesterday from the King's Head in
Ihel'oultly to a h►►use which has been prepared
tilt'n their reception at Newington. In their way
there. they stopped in a body before the Mansion
11 Onse, and the poor fellows resumed an old habit,
s u tar as to ,give ,three cheers.