The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-08 00:00:00

SHIP NE‘‘ S.

PORTSMnUTH, J. 7 .—Arrived the ship Me-
dusa, HuTcHussoN, front Hilifax, with troops,
out five weeks. 'The Hercules ship, with troops',
sailed three weeks before the Medusa, very deep,
and has not since been heard of.

DovER, JAN. 7.—That there is some truth in

the complaints of the want of an Efficient Ge-
neral Police on the coast of this County, it is
of ly necessary to state, that some of the smug-
gl2rs, whoa short time since escaped from a neigi •
homing Gaol, are daily seen in the neighbourhood

of their own residences. Tics re must he something
radically drfective in the sy±.tetn of our Police,
to allow such things to pass with impunity. We

Io not understand that any public inquiry has been

made into theeirenmstances of the escape of the
persons alluded to, not tvithstanding the publicity

of it.

The Expedition, 11AxrEa, Master, from Ncw-
c93tle to St. Lucia, was totally lost near Aber-
deen on the 4th inst. and it is fearel all the crew

are drowned.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was hen at
East India House, when the following Captains
were sworn into tile command of their respective
ships, viz. Captain T. 11. LIAR:us, Prince livgent,
Madras. and Bengal.; Captait►"l'. E. WARD, Fair-
lie, Bengal and Bombay.

CERTIFICATED CONVEYANCERS.

FOR THE SUN.

LETTER IX,

EDITOll,—Your Correspondent, ‘.% A Bar-
rister," on the sohject of Certificated Convey•
ancers, appears either to avoid the point in goes.
tion, or not to see it. 1 have no where said tha

an able man shall not praolise conveyancing, ei-
ther with or without a certificate, or being a
minor member of Gray's Inn. .1 have no where
said that such a man shall not exercise his ta-
lents, unless he be called to the bar. On the

contrary, I have said that such a man is deeme
by the Attornies a necessary and useful character,
under the bar : but such a man loops no further
titan to them for employ, and they are his only
clients. My exception is against pretenders to
the science of law conveyancing, who may so far
rank with Scriveners as to know how a contract or
an agreement should be scratched ont ; but these
left-handed men do not rank among professed
Lawyers. They are trespassers on a business
which, since the dissolution of the Scriveners, has
devolved on the Attornies. They are therefore
smugglers, and their goods contraband. The
Attornies are not their clients. They assume a
part of the Attornies' business, without their,
name, and solicit the favottrs of the public, be-
fore whom they scatter their printed hand-bills
This is the gravamen, the evil that 'is to be van-
quished. Nut a word have I said against those
for whom your Correspondent apologizes, though
with me they ate not absolutely, end only condi-
tionally, tree from Wy particular exception. 1
ant now out without hopes that your Correspond.
cur, ‘.; A Barrister," trill see the subject for what
it realty is, and be convinced that I could not be
so lost as to contend for the exciusiim of welt-
grounded Lawyers as Conveyancers. I have known
and respected many, ;ho retired wit It dignity and
fortune ; but as for all intruders on the Attor-
nies, who set up for Couveyaucers, and thereby
insult the Dame, without baying talents, beyond
a ,vaste book, let them go hence, and be no more
seen, under the cloak of lawyers, to impose upon
and make a prey of tile public. Lei- their inte-
rested and ignorant attempts at conVeyaucing, and
also their acting as Scriveners, whose business,
-ince their dissolution, has devolved on,the
Attnr-
!ties, he put an cod 16 ; nod let them no longer
be permitted to dispo,e of law matters, ns
manglers and butchers, which can only be. done %y id)
security by PRorictENTs. I coliticnin them not
let them go, and itespass no more.
AN OLD BAII.r.f.Sii.Z.