The Sun.
London, England, 1820-06-24 00:00:00

PETTIFOGGERS.

GENTLUMEN—There never was a more ho-
t-towable, or a more necessary, aud, I trust
that it will be proved,. a mute useful In-
stitution than that which you have eats.
Wished. To prevent men who leave not been
regularly trained for your meritorious Profession,
(runt obtaining the management of property, or
from drawing legal inttroments, which, front their
unskilful construvion, may expose their deluded
Clients to ruin, are surely such Laudable purposes
as ought to excite the warmest patronage of all
iklembers of your iiherai Profession, at, Well si the
respect and gratitude of the. Community at large:
But there is one essential °hive( which it is
proper for you to iticliide within the scope of your
valuable and to ..Vlitch I take the li-

berry of now draA lug yi-rur atteibilon. it ton
?mullions that there area considerable number of
worthless Members of your 'Prot,ssion who de,-
rive a base and roost odious •lieelillood, in tiro-
'noting law•suite fur the sake of obtaining, pay-
ment for costs, though 'heir unfortunate Clients

should incur dig ace and ruin by the procedure.
I therefore presume to suggest that your Society
should keep a strict eye upon such woithless
Practitioners, and, at its own expence, publish an
account of all cases of that kind. Such a state-

meta will ()relate as a mainii.g to those ignotane

persons who way be ensnared into actions, or

&cements, merely to put enoliey into the pockets
of the despicable Pettifogger, who, regardless of
character, and dead to humanity, can be content
to subsist by such unworthy means. The Public
journals, indeed, ought lo insert gratuitously,
whatever statements your laudable zeal for the
honour of your Protession might present
to them, for they are often the victims of
such artifices as I lie ye now mentioned.—
lf, in the hurry of prepariug for publication the
various multiplicity of articles which are present-
ed to the Public Press, a paragraph should be
overlooked, which may have a tendency to affect
the character of an individual, and the most satis-
factory explanation had been given, with which
that individual is fully contented, yet, if be hap-
pens to fill into the Lands of any t.udi Horpy of the
Low as I have pointed out, he is probably in-
duced, under the hope of obtaining damages, to
go to Low, as the phrase is, and what are the
consequences ?—Why, thir the Harpy contrives
to get all the tl.ernsges himse:f, and sue poor de-
-I,ded Client is afraid to demand them, lest he
should only dra,r a heavy bill of expenses upon
himself, and be plunged in greAter dtfficulties. it

h a common practLe of one Paper to copy
s front another, and the; efyi e_, if some
such paragraph as f have Blinded to sbortld
be taken into any other Journal, without any
knowledge of the Navies coricrined, and, of
coat se, without any malevolent intention, but
merely to stale an at tide of oevvg, the Harpy
gets scent of the progrt9t of such paragraph, pa-
sties his game, and extorts a compromise from all
the Newspapers that have bten so unlucky as to
adroit it., Should not such conduct be fully exposed

by your Institution, which has so beneficial a faun-
dal ion, and which may so eminently contribute to
the security of property, the welfare of the pen.
op in general, and the purification of a Profession
in the highest degree useful to Society ? The
Pettifogger would shrink from the exposure of
his conduct and character on those occasions, the
People in general would be warned against such
execs Able Harpies, the respectable Members of
your Profession would find more employment ;
property and character would be more secure,
and the Profession itself would rise above the pro-
verbial sarcasms by which it is so often assailed,
and be ranked,, as it ought to be, among the
most useful and honourable orders of the State.
VINDEX.

P. S. In case any of the Proprietors of Newspapers, from
occupation, or unwillingness to wait the uncertain
issue of the Law, should compromise the matter with the
1-Lapy, it would be proper to publish the whole proceedings
after the settlement with him, and if the Plaintiff should be
swindled out of the money received from the Defendant, the
latter should be induced to give due information to one
of your Body to expose the Harpy, and render him an
example of conspicuous infamy. In cases where the Client is
not the Dupe but the Confederate of the Pettifogger, the
whole transaction should he published, and the names of the
parties branded with the ignominy which they may deserve.
1 venture to hope, Gentlemen, that the suggestions which I
now offer will induce you to reflect on the subject, and to
devise some measures by which such base artifices may be
openly disclosed, and it is highly probable that the fear of
such exposure before the world will induce even the most
hardened and hackneyed Harpy to pay some respect to public
opinion, if he is totally callous to the honour of the Profes•
s:on. Acting thus as a Moral Tribunal to bring selfish arti-
fice or confederate villainy to detection and di4race, you will
reader your Society more useful to the Country and more bo-
no:irable to yourselves.

LONDON

FROM TILE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

[Morning Chronicle ]
THE QUEEN.

Mr. Brougham stated in his place last night, that he bad
been to see her Majestysbefore three o'clock yesterday ; and
that eleven o'clock this forenoon was the earliest hour she
could fix for receiving the Deputation appointed to com-
municate to her the Resolutions of the House. He took an
opportunity of observing, at the same time, that on Thurs•
day evening he had neglected to state to the House, that her
Majesty, as soon as she received Me announcing the
erasure of her name from the Liturgy, wrote H letter com-
plaining of this to a Noble Lord in the Ministry, anti that
her Majesty had reminded him of that circumstance, in the
interriew which he bad recently lead with her. Lord Castle-
reagh acknowledged the receipt of the letter in question, by a
Noble Friend of his, and disclaimed all idea of insinuating that
her Majesty herself had not thought of this subject till the
conclusion of the late negociations. Her Majesty's letter was
written on the IS alt, and received on the 29th of March last.
The House is to meet this day, merely for the purpose of re-
ceiving her !Vloiesty's .Inswer, that they may be in posses-
sion of it previous to any discussion. We wish to speak with
due respect of the [louse, and to do justice to the motives-
which induced Mr. Wilberforce to interpose as a mediator on
this occasion; but assuming, as we have a right to do, that
the Queen is innocent of the charges agaiust her, and conse-
quently that she is an injured woman,.we cannot understand
on what principle of justice the House, instead of exciting
its power to induce the party by whom the itijistiee was
committed to make reparation, should step forward and
say to the suffering party, you hive suffered much on=
justly already, but you must consent to suffer more.—
The pariy coMmitting the iojustice is powerful, and the
other party is an unprotected female ; but surely the defence-
less situation of the Queen ought not to be a reason with
the House of Commons of England for throwing its weight
into the scale against her. Much was said by Mr. Canning on
the propriety of both parties yislding up something in a com-
promise. But this is not a case to which the maxim of the
Right. Honourable Gentleman properly applies. The Queen
Bei:sands nothing, literally nothing, from the King; but
sacrifices are demanded from the Queen. Upon the prin-
ciple of the Right Honourable Gentleman, the greater
the encroachment made on the rights of another, the more
the party eucroaching ought to benefit from it ; fur the greater
the' encroachment the better will such party be enabled to
relinquish something, and yet be a gainer. And this is
what Mr. Canning calls a fair compromise I—We do not won-
der, then, that the honest warmth with which the people of
this Country have received the Queen, and which they conti-
nue to display in her favour, should have endeared them to
her, and that she should feel unwilling to quit our shores.
Here she will at least be safe from the felonious encroach-
ments of Hanoverian Barons, and the rest of the base brood
engendered in the servile Courts of the Continent, and
always ready for dark undertakings. If, however, her Ma-
jesty should consent to relinquish this country, she ought at
least to he enabled to quit it without any stain on her honour.
We observe that same Dlinisteslet Members who supported
the motion of Mr. Wilberforce,. did not hesitate to state that
the original omission. of the Queen's near front the Liturgy
was most useless and improper. How are we to reconcile this
opinion with the vote in favour of the motion ? Do these
Members mean, by this vote, to say to the Queen :—Madam,
it is true the omission of your name was improper, and con-
veyed to the world an impression intended to be injurious to
your Majesty; hut really any opinion from that quarter ought
to snake very little impression on your Majesty; you have
our good opinion, and that is much better ?—Our readers
will see that Earl Grey has given notice pf a motion founded
on the Resolution: of the House of Commons, and which, as
we have no expectation of these Resolutions producing any
impression on her Majesty, will no doubt give rise to an im-
portant discussion.—lt was rumoured last night, that her
Majesty is by no means disposed to acquiesce in the Kesolu-
Con of time !louse of Commons.