4,51 
1811 .] Mr. Jon cs^s Me medy h 
Sbsti'act of the Funds (f the St/rnput.heiic, 
llfh November^ 1811 . 
Lent upon heritable security, 
bearing 5 per cent, interest.. 200 0 0 
Property on Leith Walk, rented 
at 2.31. per annum....---- 252 15 2 
Feu Duties in Portland Place, 
North Leith, 421. fer annum 
560 
0 
0 
Leith Bank.-_ ....—... 
550 
0 
0 
Commercial Bank, of Scotland.. 
60 
0 
0 
Interests on heritable Bond, due 
11th of November, 1811... , 
15 
0 
0 
Half year’s Feu duty in Portland 
Place, due at do;...- 
21 
0 
0 
Half year’s Rent of Property on 
0 
Leith Walk, due at do. 
12 
10 
Inrerest due bv Leith Bank, at do 
14 
13 
0 > 
Do. by the Commercial Bank of 
Scotland at do..... .. 
0 
6 
4 
In the Treasurer’s Hands.- 
14 
17 
9 
Amount of Funds per above 2 6 
The society at present consists of tilty- 
slx members, having losb^ three since its 
commencement: tire families of whom,the 
original promoters of the institution have 
the saiisfirction to see in some degree 
provided for; and I am confulent it must 
yield you peculiar pleasure to communi¬ 
cate to the public, how an undertaking so 
laudable and beneficial has progressed. 
J. C. P. 
LdLhy Oct. 8, 1811. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
I HAVE read in late number^ of your 
valuable Magazine, several complaints 
against pettifogging attorneys and un- 
ptincipled lawyers, by Alfred, Iluma- 
nitas, and others; but the complainants 
most unfortunately have not been able 
to make out a case: for, even the in¬ 
stance given by Allred bears nothing 
against the attorneys concerned, but 
fciiows a common likeness ol two liiigious 
and unprincipled tradesmen. If due at¬ 
tention be paid to the circumstance as 
related by Alfred, it will appear, that 
the last tradesman who took out his writ 
was only returning the compliment to 
the first,’and that^he person who was 
* One of these. Captain James Blylli of the 
smack Hazard, lost his life in attempting to 
prevent his vessel from receiving damage in 
the river Thames, having got entangled in 
a coil of the cable, which almost cut him in 
two. The shipping company, in whose em¬ 
ploy he was, have, with a generosity which 
does them great honour, allowed his widow a 
sum yearly, equal to the annuity she enjoys 
from the Sympathetic. 
Dlc. t, 1811, 
Cases of Pett fogging.. 
last sued might have put in Ids pica of 
tender. And it is also wortiiy of Allred 5 
notice to bear m mind, that, out of t'iie 
three guineas paid for costs, the attorney 
could not clear more than 25s., a smn 
hardly sufficient to pay fur the di;!ner of 
a luxurious tradesman, the remainder of 
the monev having been laid out in stasnos, 
fees of offices, and officer: and Alfred 
will net worthy of the iionourahle name 
he assumes, if, when a general election 
liappens, he vvill impress upon the miml 
of his favourite candidate llie imperious 
necessity of having all law jiroceedings 
free from the vexations buidens of 
stamps andjfees, u liich make justice inac¬ 
cessible, by sulijeciuig a party to the enor¬ 
mous expenditure of above foi ty pounds 
before he can recover Ibrty shillings. 
The proposal, made by Ilmnaniias, of 
establishing a society, is no less illiberal 
than injudicious. lie might as well pro¬ 
pose a society against the deviations of 
the two otlier professions, to prevent 
medical men from puffing their medi¬ 
cines and themselves, or Ipnit the cleigy 
to a certain contour of belly, or to a 
certain number of drinking debauches. 
In all cases it would be attributing to a 
whole order of people a particular vice 
practised by a few individuals only. 
A cause of complaint may however 
often arise against attorneys, btU; the 
remedies are prompt and effiectual, and 
do not require the support of a society : 
an affidavit of tlie ma'ipractice put into 
the hanil of a barrister to move the 
court, will adjust the husinc.ss in short 
teiins, and gLmerally with a dash of the 
pen. To prevent the necessity, of such 
remedies, I have to recouimettd an anti¬ 
dote; it is a legal nostrum of mine, fur 
which I require neither fee nor patent. 
If any man, rectus in curia^ does not 
like to trust an attornej/j let Inm do his 
own ttrrti. The courts of law are open, 
and every Briton, reclia in curiay may 
take out Ins own wait, fde his own 
pleadings, &c. &c. and this I state frora 
my individual experience; for, when a 
student at the Temple some years ago, 
I made my affidavit' to hold to hail be¬ 
fore the proper officer, and presented 
my writ to he signed, which was refused. 
Meeting with such unexpected difficulty, 
with the benefit of two learned law lec¬ 
tures from the officer and his clerk, I 
applied to the cliief of law. His lortf- 
ship thought as I did upon the subject, 
and the officer sent me a respectful note, 
informing me, that my writ slioulc) be 
ready whenever I could make it conve- 
3 M meat 
