The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-07 00:00:00

CERTIFICATED CONVEYANCERS.

FOR THE SUN.

LErfElt VIII.

MR. EDITOR)—A person tinder the signature of
: •
.'Cot.b6iia:ted.:conyeyatery; defends a body of
, .
men, which, if. be knowi them,- he too much
honours ; and as he spea;4,,bk.4k,Old.liarrister
with becoming reshect,_Lh is entitled to notice.
From the whole of his Letter, he appe;ss the
friend of all w 11d-be Conveyancers, and deserves
their thanks. It he- be not one of them, he may
exclaim,—

" La the galled jade wince, my withers are unweung."

f he be, and bath stolen into the practice of, but
not the 'profession, shielding himself under a

stamp act; and the delusive admission into one of
—the four Inns of Court, he will be unworthy of
any other answer than what is contained in the
former papers of the Old Barrister, who had only
• in his mind a LEARNED and a LAWYER-LIKE Con-
veyancer, as an exception against all pretenders
and usurpers in general. If be knew any thing
of proceedings in equity, be would haie answered
them line by line, but smarting under their truth,
and Wanting mathematical precision, lie hovers
round the circle, is blind to the point, and flies
oil at a tangent. He has taken up the cudgels
for 200 bise Conveyancers, and the great butt of
his censure is the whole fraternity of Attornies,
xvlio censure them as interlopers by a side-wind.
Its justifying the Certificated-men, who range at
large, like banki:upts; with a tin box in their poc-
kets, and' a'r'e no more qualified for lawyers than
-a poacher is to kill or steal hares and partridges,
under the pretext of a game licence, he looses
sight of those black sheep among them, on whom,
as a gentleman, and regular bred man, be would
otherwise look down with scorn. Let him read
the Old Barriiter's Letters with attention, and he
will see that duly qualified men are not his ob-
jects. Money • brokers, annuity-mongers, auctioneers,
builders, clerks, broken tradesmen, jail birds, and the
whole army of depredators, are the men, who, from
the very nature of their station and education, are
marked out for exclusion ; not men of learning,
who come from a college or a school, into the
profession as articled clerks, students of law,
and afterwards practisers under • the bar. The
Certificated Conveyancer, in defending a bad cause,
has totally mistaken the Old Barrister, in support
of a good one ; and the dignity of the most exalt-
ed.science in the affairs of men ; a dignity not to
be levelled into a trade. He has not said that

any one is an able or an honest man, because he is
an Attorney, any [sore than his being born in a
stable would make him a horse; or that a .stamp
certificate, or an entrance in Gray's Inn, would
make a man a wise one or a conjurer. He only
says, that no person should class in the profes-
sion of the law, without a regular process to it ;
none should infringe upon or disgrace rt, by their
blotted characters, and pitiable ignorance ; and
none derive a profit or a consequence from it by
their insufficiency (the were trick track business
of scriveners, rent and tar-gatherers only excepted.)
The cause is the Attorney's not the Barrister's,
or those illastriOus Conveyancers under the bar,
who may come to it when they please. The Cer-
tificate Gentleman will, therefore, do.well to read
the old Barrister over again, when he will find all
that he 118 s written, visibly under fears and alarms,
recoil on himself ; and.that it is fully answered in
every sense Of the word. No other opponent
will be noticed by

AN OLD BARRISTER.

FOR THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR,---A Writer in The Times of yes-
terday, under the signature of 1. B. has thought
fit to draw the public attention to the cases of the
distressed Seamen who are now to be found about
the streets in such numbers. With his reasoning
and statements I have no disposition to interfere.
He leas himself sufficiently established the prompt-
ness with which Government affords relief in all
cases where the applicant has any just claim, al-
. though, when he proposes that Offices should be
established to pay the Pensioners weekly (some
of them would receive only three or four shillings,
a week), I suspect that he is himself a candidate
for a place—as he must know, that if this were
done, discharged Soldiers would have equal claims
to the weekly allowance. Now there are 70,000
Seamen and Marines at present on the Pension
List, and probably twice as many Soldiers ; there-
fore .l. B. undoubtedly anticipates that five hun-
dred Clerks, all learned and zealous: men -rlike
himself, would be necessary to Make the pay-
But leaving this point to you, Mr. Editor,
at your leisure, I at present complain„of the at-
i'aek Which has been 'made by Itti:s mischievous
meddler on a brave'Officer who is absent on his
Country-s service, and unable to peak for him-
self. Captain DACRBS is accused of. having, by,

ments.