The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-06 00:00:00

THE LATE MR. COBB.

The following is the inscription on the tomb of
the late Jamus Coss, Esq. which we feel assured
will be read with interest by those who know
how to appreciate departed worth::—
Sacred to the memory of JAMES Conn, Esq. late Secretary
of the Slott. East India Company, which important situation
he filled with disting-nished ability, integrity, and zeal.
His moral acid social character was marked by the tenderest
sympathy for human sufferings, and the most benevolent ex—
ertions for its relief.

To the grace: of an accomplished mind, he united the most
endearing virtues. He gladdtned life by the charm of his
manners, and adorned it by his example.
The memory of his wo►tO will be his best and most lasting
monument, and has afforded his afflicted family consolatium
and instruction.

He departed thislife after along and painful illness the 24
of June, oily, in the (2d year of his age, in the humble and
de►•out hope of salvation t brough the merits of his Redeemer.

BULL. BAITING.—.I few days ago,. at Bilston
'Wake, Staffordsaire, as the bull was being taken.
fence the stake to the stable, he singled out a matt
of the name of Joseph Gaunt, whom he attacked
with great rage, knocktd hills down, trampled
upon him, tore off one of his ears, and gored him
in so shocking a manner us to-kill him on the spot.
lioxING.----The boxing match for, 100 guineas
a side, between Spring and Painter, will take
place to-morrow within 25 miles of London,
agreeably to the articles. The men fought on the
Ist of April last on- Michelharn Downs. when.
'Spring won it in one hour and an half, Painter
having hurt his shoulder in the early part of the
fight.—Betting is 5 to 2 and 3 to l on Spring.
,Abuts 12 o'clock on Tuesday, as the workmen
ware Ahura to le-are off
fwork at the new houses
in Bialington-gardens to go to. dinner, several
bricklayers and their labourers were upon a scaf-
fold, which, owing to some neglact on the part
of the persons, whose business it was to see it
properly securrd, gave way, and they were all
untortunately precipitated. to the ground. They.
were all very much bruised; but one poor fellow,
Francis Kelly, a labourer, of ;8, Peter-street,
who has a wife and four small children, was car-
ried to St. George's Hospital without any holies
of recovery.

( Tll
,vils()liNll4,'=, AND :>OI,ICITORS
l'iqNr; fN rr*: ‘,T T7,"•;""7.‘: cnT7ItTS OF RECORD

AT WESTMINSTER.

GtEs.rrt,w,mttsi,—Afte'r hAving sn strongly sp-
pep& to you in hehilt of (-no- prote•oor n, And re-
ple•effled the iojories which its interest and its
ehAricter wire .off,,ring from the intrusion of
•*err-ii 11 v.,itilar Practitioners, c lliti themselves
•, CretificAted Conveyancers," 1 shohld make a
vt-rs ‘,1.11)v re-mil to the attention with which
boo i ar, h 'mon, me, if I neglected to lay before
roil A ,tvetneut 0f the measnres which have been
taken, and the prospect (If redress which we A,
ale. you will see by it, I trust, not
1,111% that . I have fulfilled lily duty, but that a
;411,1 lellg iye co-operation on vont. pArts
essential to the secomplibltmociit

0111
jt might bay., been expected, perhaps, that so
l'elitin, s peesented to the two Houses of
PArii-itnent during the la*, Se,sion, and signed by
the most respect able Solicitor, could not have
tailed of produriniz some immediate legi.ilative
measure, whetehy the persons known by the title
of " Certifieattri 'Conveyancers" might he pie-
tented !heir intruding upon our peolession, and
the safety of the public, as far as it respects the
titles to their estates, protected. Mary causes,
o"-ever, have concurred in creating the'present
delay, n ltielt, hem laid before you, ,v ill fully prove
that I have omit, d no personal exertion for the
ticcess'all issue, which I still an'iripate obtaining,
pros, deft I im sufficiently supported.
(1' the lOth of February last, n
of the Attotnies and Solicitors resident in London,
was held a• the London Coff.e-House, 'or tote
purpo.r of taking this subject unto consideration,
and a tee was appointed, who forthwith
eler;ed t.ir their Chairman ‘Villiant Le Blanc,
E-q and this Gentletnin, with others of
th-
Co,nlmit ire, entered ou their functions so promptly
and strenuously, that upon their second wertiog,
the- 17111 of February, a draft of a bill %as pro-
duet-d, and ou the Thursday following, the I 9th
of Ftibi u.iry, the. heads of it ordered to be printed,
awl a Copy ,ent to the Lunation Ltw Society. At
the salt • tope a Coley teas diieett-d obe laid
bef,•re the Solicitor of the l'reasitry, and a, the
request of the Committee, Mr. Le Blanc and
Charles Bicknell, Esti. Solicitor to the Admiralty,
and one of lie Committee, undertook to take all
11P net. S,Ary Steps for tt,e immediate introduction
of the Bill into Parliament.

At rhy inst.-woe of the Committee the Periiion,
which Merl been signed by upwards of 200 of the
most tespretable praetitionei 6 in Lon,ion, was,
on the 2,H, of Fehroary, preiented by Wm.
Cour enay, Esti. one of ;he Masters ire (,hincerv,
To The Muse ~t Commons ; and the B I, which
bed been appioved of by almost every Aitorney
who perused it, and by many of the Conveyancer%
themselves, eats upon the. eve of being introduced,
when the S,cretary,of the LoAdon LAw Society
(who hail pi evimody hue,' elected a mem hvr 4
this Committee), addressed to me the folio wing

letier

Gray's-bin, March 9, late.

" SIR,--The Stlb-COMllllttve :ippiltillV4i try the Lax society
of Practisers in the Courts of Law and Equity will me'', tm
Wedne,day evening, at scorn o'clock precisely, at Wills's
Ci,ff,..-1111iise, to resume the consideration of- thr Bill for the
better regulation of C•tiveyancers. lam directed to rerun st
the favour of von to invite the rz.:.eilleiticti of tin- Committee
of Attornies and Solicitors to the Sleeting. to unite their
assistance in the litlbjeCt.
" I am, &c. W. B. FLEXNEY.
" Secretary."
To Mr. Anderton.

The Committee appoint, ci at the Meeting of
the rrotession on the 10th of Ft bt nary, as above
stated, accordingly held a conference with that of
the Law Society, when Mr Bicknell and Mr Le
Blanc were associated with five of its members for
the t.,rtherance of the Bill, and I was reptested
to row ione my services iointly with Mr. Fiesney.
Tit this I was induced to rieCede by,tny anxiety
for the completion of the ohject,illi hough I conld
not but 'egret that the Bill was thus taken out of
the hither() active and successful management of
Mr L" Blanc and our Committee ; my regret
was gteatty increased in finding that the B 11 which
they had prepared, and which so many of the pro-
fession had so Strongly approved, met in the Cotn-
niittee
of the Law Society a number of ohjec-
'ions. Under their alterations it soon lost its mi.-
ginal frame and features.
During tie tirne the Bill was under the consi-
derriti"n of the Law Society Committee, Peti-
tions in its support were pouring in from all quar-
ters ; and teelingthe importance of promptitude,
I-used every e,,eition in endeavouring to get it
itarroJuced into Parliament and at the saute line
I s!iare,i neither labour nor expellee in oht;tining
information of those abuses which the Bill was
de,igned to remedy.
By this time, however, all exertion was fruit-
less ; our own Committee had eedsell to act ; and
our dent', at ion hart ceased to attend on the Com-
isiiitee of the Law Society, in whose hands the
Inallitgentent of t:le 13.11 tine entirely lay.
The last meeting of the Law Society Committee
which I attended was on the 3011) of - April,
when I was led to hope that the Bill ;could within.
a few days be brought into Parliament. A draft
of it wHi laid before an eminent draftsman, and
he having returned it, Mr. Fletney sent me a
copy, of which'l immediately caused the heads to
he printed and disiribured. Having called on Mr.
Petal, y„ lie gratified me with the information
that the Bill was now so pet fect, and so fully
approved, thai it might be immediately brought
forward, a nit that be wvold for that purpose lose
fjo time in seeltig Mr. Kaye. the prolocutor
of
!,lie Law Sticiety. Several da‘s elapsed ; when,
Bearing nothing further, I• wrote to Mr. Flexney
to wicertain the:.-ctime of delay, and ircetved the
following answer:— ' .

CONVEYANCERS' RIP,. . •
66 Gray's-Ina, May ill, 4}-,
st, St a,—ln the progress of this Rill there has twin, hoth
jb
and out of the :louse, such a contrariety of opinion., not
iiutf
a. to ttfe prility of the re. but particularly as to the pro-
used enactments and provisintis, that the Comniatee hate
i, the sugxestion, Of several of thr,gcntletritir at
the bar who ails in Parliament, to postpone it to the nest
tii.ssion, in order that •it ntay not only undergo further co,.
)iiierat ion, but that the sanction of the Chancellorof the ES--
cheqaer, and of the Judges, may he obtained before the Pub-
s. again brought under the consideration of Parliament.
A. the proposed Bill involves a question of it cilium, it ,oust
ni i.4mate in a t' iiiiiiii itter of Supply c. froth the prowhie ter.
of the Session at an early day, the Pill„ireser so'
rvcciverl. could not have
_goi, theough
,Uoth
t,,,c the iir„rogation, SUJ therefore thi intitriascureatiisti

the lex, importance,--this consideration had also its weight
with the I 'oin mitt ce, in AC% riling to the stigKestion to which I
have alluded.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
't To Mr. Anderton. W. B. FLEXNEY, Secretary."

Constituted as the Loudon Law Society is, of
Gentlemen of the highest character, prActice, And
tortone, in our profession, it would ill beeilne me
to offer end' comment on the reasons which occa-
sioned a measure, so important to the honour mid
the interest of the profession, to he so feeble pro-
secuted, and the advantage of the numerous peti-
tions which had been offered in its behalf to be
thus abandoned.

The result of the afEtir gives me great reason to
repent that I cl,d not prosecute the object single
handed; but the sanction of the Law Society, and
iheir eo-operation, were considered too valuable
to he negl. cted ; anti for those objects we, who
prerareil the Bill, disseminated its purposes,
justifi,d its suggestions, explained its advantages,
arid obtained for it, at no small exertion and per-
sonal tirtoble, the concurrence of a very large
portion lit the profession, willingly joined with
that society, or rather surrendered to them the
future esouloct of the Bill. In return for this
great tritst, we expected from teem au active and
immediate eri-opertvion—sed relied for 'it upon
their own sense of the necessity of the Bill, pod
their own extierietiee of the mischiefs which it was
calculated to remedy
The session, hotNe‘..er, has past, and even the
Parliarirtnt has been dissolved, without any posi-
tive measure living taken to rear dv the evil, which
Is daily increas;ng. Much of our labourmust be
repeated ;--and the Petitions which have already
been presentvd must Again go through all the ne
CelSaly process of ingro%stnt•rits and signatures
before they can he °tiered to rite Hew Parliament.
Nevertheless, if the profession at large should still
see tine arlytqltages of the flit, the benttits which
its enartments would secure to theursttives and to
the Public, and if they are still resolved in give
their aid to this im•,ortant work, it will go forward
speedily and sueresstully : certainly the co-opera-
tion of the Law Society would be most essentially
useful; but unless it be active and unremitting,
laying ;ride all those difficulties and delays which
have hitherio impeded us, it cannot afford that
service or that hope which can make any reason-
able man confident of success.

The protession are too well aware of those mul-
tiplied evils which the " Certificated Convey-
ancers" ha,e entailed upon them, both in proper-
ty and character, to need any recapitulation on
my part. They have already had detailed to them
the injury which they stiffer front illiterate, needy,
or imprtiicipled men, who, hasi•ig lost both repu-
•atiou and means, take refuge in the " trade of
Conveyancing ;" for which the expense of a few
pounds fully (polities them, as tin y think, with-
out any previous study or practice, test or trial.
And thus the exclusive application of the valuable
years of our youth, our diligence, and our money,
have been expended upon a pursuit in which other
meo, catching hold of an oversight of the Legis-
lature, are permitted to engage, without any pre-
paration, trouble, or sacrifice. 'the injury of this
is self-evident, as also its injustice. Laying aside,
however, our own laitns, let us recollect those of
the public ; whose properly is exposed to hire'-
s iut and interminable litigation, and wh(.se titles
are placed in hopeless iusecnrity, by the ignorance
of these intrusive pretenders. They can afford to
work cheap ; they have neither learned their
trade nor purchased their tools—hut this cheap
work is neither sate nor ',sting it must either
be ttpairen by a regular practitioner, or it must,
together with it, cosi, be utterly thrown away.
A shoemaker can no more flame a secure con-
seyance 01 an estate, in which no defective elanse
shall (rave a loop bole, than a Solicitor can make
a pair of shoes, in which no defective stitch shall
admit a leak. Let kis confide our feat to the one,
and our fortunes 10 the other.

On this subject, l'cannot urge the serious aid
of the whole profession, anti the strenuous support
of the more forcibly than in the language
of an ant lent Law-writer, whose authority is con-
siantly received in
tl.e Cc►urts, and whose deep
Itarniug prints his thorough understanding of
every subject upon which he wrote.
In the Preface to Shephard's Touchstone of
Coininon Assurances," the ignorant piessunption
of these intruders, who seem to have infested his
titne not less then ours, and the peril
of the unwary who !lust to Them, art pourtiayed
in more convincing langtisge than any 1 atu
niaster.of, for which reason I will venture to quote