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g I estimate for banding c ontribut e which i ne hig poorwi"inianireawdays compelled to to was upwards of 40,0001. had been ex. 170 1 ' 331 a . Ireally was a libel on common sense ?ce ded upon rh t ia talk of protection to all persons under, este . n equal n ding g laws, if abuses such a s those which he ; " L re A n i t tat l)e e e d I were stt to be tolerated. Tlie Act of Pattie ' - w h i c h authnrited the building of the church in. ,-, - • • Icon tained a clause.which authorised enoxigii ra con €1 35 " . i the erection of a n organ, but it was objected to and was 1 et out. The trustees , ho w e ver, had consulted 6 ,, nllstra „„„" ie l as to " whether an organ might not be introduced s',l, t be na m e of an or nament." The Counsel had de :e,`inej tha t it m i ght-.-(a laugh).and therefore an organ lie j b e en ptac.-- 4 in che r church, in., ite of the declared , ep i e inn of Pattiament. or t is organ P Bool.bad been paid, o inoel more for fitting it up—(Hear). The ttustees 41 6, c hu r ch were net only self.elected, bat according re !reissue of the Act, they were compe lled to account touch* , but to each other—(Hear). ere was one such abuses, and that was by one awde of thecting - profess theestabli shed preventing persons who did not religion, and were i inconnecte* t tts 0d en with the vestries, from rt' churches. If, how being taxed to support er, the system of unfair taxation were to cotinue, it o e i s v ld be much better to intrust We power of n effecting for instane i t —co a Protestant Bishop, and a plasterer, professing allow a carpenter, ',slater, the Protestant i digiere, whenever they found & ensue.. nient and useful to them, to levy a sum of money, of which each in his vocation obtained a share. It was usual to bear th's canary spoken of as the paragon of liberality, whilst Roman Catholic countries were equally decried for their illiberality and prejudice. He would l ea ve the House to judge whethe r t his character was jest, after he had stated the conduct which a Catholic mewl had observed towards Protestants? In 1791, the Diet of Hungary, which, lite the Parliament of this gamy, was composed of persons of different orders i the conicaturty to the number of 600, or 600, came to a resolution in the following, wordsa—"The Protes tant of this State shall not be called upon contribute to the Catholics either in m one y or , nor shall the Catholics, on the other hand, contribute to the Pro testants or to the 'establishment of their churches or schools." This resolution was passed by a majority of wore than three to one. In the same Diet Protestants were declared equally eligible with Catholics to fill every office and to hold every rank in the State. This was the conduct of a Roman Catholic State, and yet it was said that England surpassed every other country in the world. He hoped that he had stated enough to induce the House to take the subject to which he bad directed their attention into serious consideration. It struck him that one means by which the existing evil night be remedied, was the rendering of first fruits available, according to the intention of the Act of Queen Anne. Another mode was a recurrence to . the system which prevailed in the times of Henry VIII. and Erizabeth, of making the Clergy support the churches and the poor out of the tithes. The Aet of Queen Anne operated differently with respect toEngland and Ireland. In England the first fruits and tenths were appropriated to the improvement of small benefi ces, but in Ireland the tenths were remitted, and only the first fruits reserved for that , and yet the rich Clergy of that country calCd TP :sP e on the intim wrished laity to repair their Churches. In the first in. stance, therefore, he would propose that die lest 4reits ' should be made available for the support of the oh =hes. —lf that should be refused. he wield them introdoce a • hill to direct that, whenever any dime's should become V7Callt,l report should be made to the Bishop of the die ters as to the state of the Church, and if it should appear that the Church was not in a state to allow or the performance of Divine duty, the 'revenues of the benefice should be altogether applied to the re pair of the Church, with the exception of an allow oats for a curate to perform occasional service, and that the incumbent should not enter on the living soul the repairs were completed. !dome such legisla tive enactment was necessary to rescue the Clergy of Ireland from the disgrace of compelling persons who did not profess their religion to support their Churches. The Hon. Baronet concluded by moving the following Resolution: 44 That it apwars by the Irish Statute of the 12th of Geo. I. cap. 9, that many Parish Churches of Ireland, which were transferred at the time of the Reformation into the possession of the Established Chorch,were, in the year 1726, in a state of great decay, that Divine Service could not be performed therein; and it is also there stated that the said Churches could lot he rebuilt or repaired in coosequeoce of the Popish inhabitants out-voting the Protestants in vestries; that the same and many other succeeding statutes, for the purpose of removing such obstrectiotheotitiessed to enact dining an entire century, that no Popish inhabitant in any patio in that kiegdom should be permitted to vote at any vestries; that although the emirs espied of pa rochial taxes has been vested hitherssemeellelisabitants, aid although those pr (leasing thiihaholic:iallsienese ezeladed from all possible interiments with tbseii: dm cLerthes in many parishes have been allowed to con- Once in a state of progressive decay t they became in many instances absolutely ruinons,jwithout any attempts being made by-the Protestant inhabitants, episcopacy, or Government, to prevent such injurious effect.; that it , appeals in the highest degree unjust to effect the re building of churches, allowed to become ruinous, by time who had the power to prevent the dilapidation, at the expense of share pitrishionees who meetleete Slime of the parishes of Ireland the majority of the inha bitants, but *hoot the Legidsteit bat spetialfy ex& eluded, for being Roman Catbolics,frons altinserieresee in vestries , : Upon this resolution, if-carried, the Hon. )Baronet stated his intention of founding a Bill. Mr. GRATTAN seconded the motion, although ho acknowledged his dread that the Right" Hon. the Ste eretary for Ireland would render any Bill which might be . introduced for the purpose of remedying this grievance ineffectual. The power of taxing the Cathov. lies of Ireland for the support of Protestant churches' Might perhaps be endured, if exercised by Grand Jurors sitting under the influence of an oath, but was intolera ble when placed in the hands of a few vestrymen meet ing in private, and having only their own purposes to , late. Mr. GOULBURN complained of the personal at.' tlek which bad been made upon hied by the Hon. !dauber for Wicklow (Mr. Grattan), and et the unfair tie* *filch that Hon. Gentleman bad taken of his vestry bill. He could not assent that all the propos'. 'tens which had been brought forward by Hon. Geode !hen on the other side had been attended to in it; and, for th e he h he relative to the maintenance of the poor, ad certainly been of opinion that a subject of so much importance ought at least to become the object a a distinct discussion or measure; but be believed it would be admitted on everyhand i llue the Bill as it' lelookrOßO ilaingshmees boa linieleit mififineess of rates upon a lected that no a parishioner, aot by the same . important feature that the appeal - think themselves clesiastical Court, bishop himself, at Sessions, in which Protestants, might sit. Right Hon. Member for Water:roe - 0 position—that. Churches of Ireland, subsequent to the Reformation, i had been suffered to go to decay by the new authority which had taken possession of the. So soon after this change as during the Administration of Lord Strafford, ,the decayed state of the Churches in Ireland, and the absolute want of Churches for the purposes of ordinary worship in that country, had been the subject of com plaint. That the present state of arrangements in Ire- Mod, which compelled the Catholic parishioners to con-. tribute to the building of the Protestant Churches, was abardship, he did not deny; net should he be disin dined to consider of anT course which might be sug gested for the alleviation of that grievance ; but it ought to be stated fairly, what the real extent of the Oconee complained of was, and to what extent it had already been mitigated. The circumstances of the parish of St. George in Dublin were peculiar and had no bear ing upon the general question: the fact was, that the levy upon the population of Ireland for the building and repairing of 'churches was not in itself large, and its collection was so managed as to press in the4ightest possible way upon the convenience of those who paid it. The whole sum allowed for building each church was 1,4001. Fur the execution of the work, a large sum of money had been lent free of interest. Sir .1. NEWPORT inquired if the Right Vonourable Gentleman was sure that this wan the case r Mr. GOULBURN was perfectly owe of it. The money Was lent withoUt interest. It was to be paid by instalments, originally of six per cent. her annum upon' the whole tau, which was 841. a year upon the 1,4030 but now of only four , fer cent. which reduced the amnia „payment on the 1,4001. to 361. Under the operation of 'lbis law i 4 new churches, and 1162 new glebe.houses had been built in Ireland. Each parish had new a place of worship, and a house where a Minister could' reside in. It was impossible for him to admit the prin eiple of laying any farther load upon the Clergy of the ntry, whose incomes were already in many instances inadequate to their maintenance in a state of respecta bility. He had in his hand a letter, written by a Clergy man whir was now, unfortunately, no more, bat of *hose character, if he were to mention his name, no person could entertain a doubt, which described thi various heavy charges to which a living in Ireland was ilready subject. The living held by the Gentleman in question was one of 1601. a year; out of this be bed is pay for his first fruits 81. 181. a year. and other 011,111114,' amounting to 201. There was due to the late incum bent, on account of the glebe house, 178 L and he had to pay for expenses upon taking posiession. sides these charges, it was necessary, from the 'the parish, to keep a Ceram; ,and was the . °pianos that it would be possible, upon persons se burdened, to lay shy addisiseal espouse? I' Hon. Gentleman, after again complaining that have been held up by the Hon. Member for as an enemy to the interests of that country, vantage of which he had- exerted himself with his best ability to promote, sit down by moving the previous question. Mr. JOHN SMITH had opposed, as might be in the recollection of the House, the parliamentary grain for building churches in Great Britain ; and he thought it ae arrangement perfectly monstrous, that while churches were built by this greet for the inhabitants of England and Wales, who Weald have been content to build them for drew:selves, the dolt of building PrOtestant churches in Ireland should be expected to bI defrayed by the Catholic population. For the enlogittli which the Bight Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Goulburn) had pronounced upon his own services to Ireland, he re gretted to be compelled to confess, that, as far as his acquaintance with the people of that country went, those were services to which they appeared en tirely insensible. The fact was, that our whole sysiem of policy with respect to the sister kingdom was an absur dity ; and the farther we looked into any of the details ari sing out of that system, the more gross and monstrous theabuses appeared. There were instances of which he End heard, though they were not recent, of the greatest distress having been brought on individuals by raising Mosley for building Churches, and that, too, in parishes where there were not above ten or twelve Protestants. In cot:elusion, he thought chit Ireland would owe smo ther large debt of gratitude to his Right Hon. Friend if be succeeded in his motion; and if he did not suc ceed, he (Mr. Smith) felt assured that the day would come when they would be compelled to resort to some measures in consonance with common sense and com mon justice. What ought to be done he could not say. But, notwithstanding the present state of the finances' be for one would net object to vote for a sum of money for he erection of Churches. in Ireland: Ms . ..PLUNKETT would not follow the course of the , HOU. Geotimums and his Bight Hon. Friend. He pet it tit ISM of the House if it was quite fair and t to Shia many general measures of Govern tient, mi *Motion , which concerned the building of chord:nail:ly? What had the recovery of small debts to demi& thesobject ? He for ossehad received no notice of any discustiou on the law for recovering small debts,j DOT bad he been able to make the most remote guess at the nature of the observations of his Right Hon. Friend —least of ell could be have expected that they would have referred to the grievances of the last century. He could not see what connexion the St. George's Act of 179$ had with the question. Some grievances which before prevailed had been guarded against by that Act. If the carpenters, bricklayers, masons, and all the Protestants in the parish, were to league together according to the worst apprehension of his Right Hon; Friend, to assess the parish for the building or re pairing of a church, or for purchasing an organ, it was in the power of any one Catholic or Protestant to appeal, not to an ecclesiastical, but to a lay tribunal. It such conspiracies of bricklayers and carpenters etisted in the last century, the resolutions had nothing to do with that. It was allowed on all hands that the Pro.' I estant Churches must be kept up, and that it was no reaton for allowing them to tall into decay that desk were few Protestants amongst the parishioner!. The effect of the present resolutions would be to prevent the . , fruits from s. See of Rome to the Crown, and from the Crown to its own Commissioners, had never contemplated any other assessment than upon thevaluation in the Queen's books. Certainly it was never intended that it should be ac cording to the varying value of the benefice. Mr. SPRING RICE justified himself and friends from every imputation of hostility to the interests of the Protestant Church, of which' they were true mem bers and firm defenders, though in a sense differing considerably from the seal of the Right Hon. Gen tleman. He had very anxious hopes, that if the re solutions of his Right Hon. Friend were rejected, lathers df a more specific eature to which the Right, Hon. Gentlemen opposite had pledged their specific support, would immediately be introduced. Mr. Secretary PEEL expressed his readiness to give' , the -Hon. Gentlemen opposite the fullest credit for their declaration, that in supporting these resolutions, they were desirous to promote the real interests of the Este isliabed Church, while at the same time be claimed for nitneelf and his colleagues the same credit for mean ing to exempt i as much as possible, the Catholic tenantry •rif Ireland from undue burdens. He hoped, therefore, .that.shis question would be discussed upon its own in. isinsic merits, and without reference to the diversity of opinion which prevailed between them upon what was called the Catholic question(Hear.) He then defend ed his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Goulburn) from the sar casm witch had been thrown upon him for his Bill of last year, that had. in point of fact, materially benefited that part of the-Catholic.population to which it applied. The attack upon the Vestry Bill was therefore uncalled for; and the assistance which his Right Hon. Friend had given in the Tithe Composition Bill ought not to be forgotten in the sister kingdom. With reference to the present question,the course of proceeding by rack. lions was extremely objectionable, for it precluded that discussion either of principle or details, which was practi. cable in the introduction of a specific Bill. He was wry that this discussion had been embarrassed by alto sions to cases of peculiar grievance in the levies on same parishes, and particularly respecting the local . Act * foe' St.'George's parish. It ought to be remembered that' the latter was altogether a private Act, and if it had inflicted a grievance, the remedy was surely by a repeal of the objectionable clause, and not by the introduction of an irrelevant measure. It was,equally wrong to mix up cases of spoliation and outrage with the present con sideration, for ales ought to be punished and repressed ref:tents of the 1r topics whicbhad being one class of Dissenters were to be so far relieved, what reason could be assigned for not releasing all other classes who were not within the pale of the Established Church? Such a proposition would require very serious consideration, for the inevitable consequence would be, that all who were indifferent to the reformed system of worship would declare themselves Dissenters, for thil.l purpose of escaping this tai—(Hear).—Undonlited/Pl,l ire was prepared to admit that if one class of Dissenters' 'alive than another deserved to be looked upon in a more favourable light than others, it was the Roman * Catholic occupiers of land in Ireland, for they had to provide their own churches. as well as to assist ini making the same provision for the other church by loan.' Put while he entertained these feelings tower:lathe Ro. man Catholic occupier of land, he felt them not fee Mt landlord, and more particularly for his Protests* landlord, and still more so where he happened to bb an absentee.. Of all men, for him he had no consider*, tion—(Cheers).—He would not, indeed, compel him tie reside in Ireland, bat he would not exempt him, if bb could, by a bounty on his absence, ant for the purpo ' of casting the price of that bounty upon others:(Cbsers i With reference to th e Right Hon. Baronet's second pk 1 I position, for the insertion of a future clause into lessee ) ; to save the Roman Catholic tenant, and throw the, weight upon his landlord, he was rather favimnable to the consideration of such a regulation, if be could, see his way through the prevention of any abuse of its pro. visions —(Hear, hear). He did feel for the poor tenant who had taken his lease without any expectation that a Church would be built near his land, and who had 'afterwards to meet the expense of such a building. -1 With these Impressions, and with the utmost desire to go hand in, band with the Right Hon. Barotrt in giving a full and calm consideration to such parts of his plan as he bad allude& to. if brought forward in thy' forth of i specific Bill, be hoped he would withdraw' his present resolutions, otherwise he should meet them by the previous question, which would net prejudge the future consideration of the condition - of the Irish tenan try, or decide against hearing their complaints. As to the extension of the plan to Ireland, which had been acted upon in this country in the mode of building new churches, by making certain public advances for that purpose, he was not prepared to say how far that could be realized. At all events. he was not averse to the consideration of this branch of the subject if in troduced in a different form. Mr. HENRY GRATTAN complained in strong terms of the heavy taxation inflicted upon Ireland by the present mode of levying for the use of the Established Church. Above 1,620.0001. had been thus taken from the people since the year 1820. He contrasted this plan' of supplying churches for the established religion, with that resorted to for the erection of Catholic chapel& Sir J. NEWPORT, in reply, said that he should withdraw the resolution, and simply move for leave to' bring in a Bill, for amending the laws relative to the .rebuilding and repairing of Churches in Ireland, and lot relieving occupying tenants from church rates on' certain occasions. After a few words from Mr. G. Dawsow, which were not audible in the gallery, Sir J. NEWPORT said. that he merely withdrew the -i ~ . a , • -r ..art hearing, _ question of great importance to all the eostamercial interests of the country. His object was to shew that the law authorising the arrest for debt did not affect its intended object, while it inflicted a cruel punish ment upon many whose misfortunes alone reduced them to it. He had moved for returns, which were now before the Hoase._thewing that 3,130 persons *era confined upon - one given day in the prisons of the Me tropolis for debt. By the same returns, it appeared that between eleven and twelve thousand persons had been arrested For debt in one year under the warrant of the Sheriff of Middlesex. He should shew that this state of things crowded the prisons so as to produce the most distreasing scenes of sof:feting and depravity wi th in those receptacles. In the King ' s Bench Prison the•re turns stated that 950'persons were confined at one time. About 140 or 200 might be in the Roles; but at bne time 750 persons were confined within its walls, and be should shew that it was not calculated for the condom of half that number. The Hon. Member then stated the number of debtors confined in the Fleet, Whiteeross street, and Marshalsea Prisons, and represented them as being overfilled in the same proportion.' And when it was considered that besides the suffering to which many of the unfortunate prisoners were exposed, "very few of them could return into society without conta mination, after being placed is such close contact with the worst possible characters, he thought the Hone would see the necessity of some alteration in the law which was the cause of all the mischief. He dwelt apes the eslienses attending" the processes of bail and from prison, and said the expenses of bail= not to be greater in cases of debt that is cri charges; whereas the cost of bailing a charge of criminal offence was only 4.. 6d. while a man arrested for a debt of 101. after going throeih all the trouble some and tedious forms, could only pat in bail at an el. pence of 31. 10s. The law of debt was widely different in Scotland from law upon the sae* subject in N land. And he trusted, that if the law Of t h is country were not abandoned altogether, it would slt least be assimilated to the law of Beotlend es soft Iss ipossitle. In Scotland no man was arrested for debt. The debtor was compelled to give bills and bonds, and while they were dishonoured, the warrant of a Magistrate was issued against him after five days notice. Our law, although so severe upon the small unfortunate dSbtor, , suffered the rich debtor to live in luxury and spend his E estate, while not one shilling of it could be applied to stion of justice. By the law of - avoided, were , suffering 11, ' fees, after the original debts were paid. _ Hon. Member read several Reports of Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of Prisons ten years ago. He drew the attention of the House to the Report made in. 11114. and gated that since that period no improvement had been made. He complained of the manner in which men and women were confined together in the Fleet. The prison in that respect was a scene Of vice and ills.. naosality. A decent woman arrested and carried to the Fleet was ruined for ever. The Hon. Member *Hided to the want of medical attendance, and described a recent death in the Fleet to . have been occasioned by the want of assistance in a state of illness. The conchs *. be came to was, that the prisons were not fi t fbr t were he uses to which they apfliid. It also became a quake whelbet imprisonment or we proem could not be dispensed with ?-''lyre Hon. Member moved— That a &We Comidater lie Opeietneit to etiquire into the state of tie X King% &nabs_ ,Meradena. Fleet, Whitarreis &met, and Lose moons the state eat resort Imprisoned for ell = isrOwirt, and ssynsent of Iree& The si eassenieeitnisde for the simuip at the same since the Capon of a Committee laid before **.nears In late, and whether the rims asthenia/id imprisonment kr debt, Br.c.&c. • Mr. HOBMOUSE seconded the motion, bet consi dered the inquiri too large. He thought it would be bitter to divide it into two parts. Had the terms of the motion applied only to inqui4 into the state of the pythons; they might have had a chance deeming to a lio^clusion. The change contemplated could not be carried into effect. Many systems which had grown out of the laws must be changed before they could change the system of imprisonment for debt. At the same time he considered the House and the country obliged to the Hon. Member for Aberdeen for the ht. tention be had paid to the subject: His hope was, that the Right Hon. Gentleinan would be disposed to grant the Committee. and that the House would be put into a condition to know bow far they could correct the evils of which the }fon. Member complained. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL mated the Ram Gentleman who bad made the motion, that ha was utst disposed (the hour being late} to go into the arguments which had been urged over and over again. to prove the necessity of imptisoninent for debt. The House must be aware, that the abject had un consi deration on several occasions, and that the opinions of the most Dr. Johnson, who wrote turned his mind to the lowed that imprisonment antisocial feeling. The tertained by many taffeta. of Hastings, then Lord utmost extent. At the solvent Debtors' Acts they were annual, and that of the odium which had debt. It was' almost it deliberately maintain that civil debt ought not - Gentleman objected to had passed. Mr. HUME here observed, be objected before and afterthe verdiet. Otte ATTORNEY•Gunat AL ■ • . MA Materially to h ate meg o Cedonliceirem.papiegebenseataambiatemeausu aces to which the peoPla of Ireland had the existing law. If the Right liest:Gentleman would to Wig is oppased, under the old vestry syitens. For the bring his motionitt the form ofttealt with certain new dread refer. knambetinestecitsbelffoeses • • allowing Protestant vestries to make diScations which be would prop^ he was prepared Mr. feevetteepillEL said, that helatopel the Hew Catholic population„ it must be to give it his most earnest mention. He justified earemn iivoi4,ldnot.firessanyobeerwatien;Ohis i seppme vestryman' could make any rate upon the Act of last Session against the complaints which that any one was pledged to sopporitheall. Meheped Protestant or Catholic, which he did had been made of its te.enacting clauses. It was the Hen. Baronet would, at ail ekeists, defer the seceesd le act impose upon himself; and a most in the nature of a consolidating Act that it should reading of the AMU till aka the iselidays. cure of his (Mr. Goulbura's) new Bill was, be so. The Act did not create , any of the grievances After I few Words (tom Mr. BeelritoilP and &el. I against any rate by which parties might chenplained of, though it gave a remedy for many Nitensole f lemm ie r wzen teibrieg in the Bill. . 'es aggrieved, was removed from the Et- which existed before, and imparted new privileges to lir. B. DEMI obtained ism imbiber us 11111wes. sent, which was the Court of the Arch. the Catholics. He would utterlyinsist any Interpreta• efiloo°, err ai . 44 l:, lolBlo,4 rekvis &admit. 1, and carried to the Court of Quarter tion of the First Anits Act whith went to oppress that ti Z re ' - ': ** * e . t r.'" l , bb i th ;;;; uso l li s T radar • "" 1 " / " 111 * . bids Catholics, as Magistrates, as well as most meritorious and worst-paid body of - men, the LAM OE DEBTOR ADO 0112D1TOIL • tight sit. He denied the accuracy of the Parochial Clergy. He insisted on it, that the law, which Mr. HUME claimed the indnigenee of the Banat* [ember for Waterford's position—that the in ' both countries had conveyed the first fruits from the a short bearing, while he called their attention to a Ite 11203112• inilin istmou, as. wasdr• ....b--. . •••••• r---- --- -- - - --- r ------ CIPLA IV, ••• Mew NIA ... .... 0 • • 701:more without reference to any of the larger topics whicbhad ssion. Be- been introduced into this discussion—(Hear.) He the satisfaction of justice. By the law of Scotland these evils were avoided, and he contended that by adopting e extent of could not concur in the broad proposition which had a similar sysembin this country , even the creditor would House of been sketched by the Eight Hon. Baronet, namely, that Its &beady the Roulan•Catlicgic peasant odght tot tb be burdened be placed in a better sitoatioa. The Hen. Member t hen alluded to !roues hind the Insolvent Debtors' Court, The Itsgkre , with arty share of estpierro for the ' so r t of proms. 'hewing the extremely satin proportion of debts paid he should- tint chinches. If that principle were good foe be in proportion to those for which persons were arrested, r Wicklow land, why not equally so for England? Then see an d ment i on ed cases of long and severe suffering front ri the ad• the length to which it w as capable o f b e i ng carr i e d. If imprisonment upon the Attorneys' costs and fees, after eh hi. luat nile class of Dissenters were to be so far relieved, what the original debts were paid. The Hon. Member read . , t • . t 1 • ; ' i • , t ' • , 1,! . i • 1 1 1 1 11 1 ; ' I ' . .. 1 1 . ):, ' . i 1 l' i / 1 1 / : . , 1 , . 1 e ti '' , i , I % t , .; 1 1 .' , : il . I ; ; . t 1 . , :aims, and that it ha 3 called for nt eminent men in the country. ote in the italaider and Idler, II i I e question. That able man al- -1 1 ent for debt was in its nature t opinion of Dr. Johnson . was en- . 1 :es. Thirty years ago the Marquis I Moira, carried the opinion to the et period to which he alluded In- , I were only periodical, but niew that circumstance removed Mach i id been bed on imprisonment foe impossible that any proms geoid , that a person who tontraated a .. to be held to bail. The Man. , to imprisonment deer $ vatic* .. - bserved, he objected to imprison.. the verdict. GENEMALthooght the iisekear. . t (I 1 IT, Jill rild wit bes sot Ner. or- us. bat Act !co? ea, ,the 0 Pre! 14 - of OA lic: elk 'r•l