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OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, 401,74, 1831. IJE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of his T MAJESTY'S ORDNANCE do hereby give Notice, they will SELL by PUBLIC AUCTION, AT THE TOWER, 1)1 TeNSDAY, the 19th Instant, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon precisely, SUNDRY LOTS OF OLD STORES, Consisting of Accoutrements, Harness, Sand Bags, Toole, .tending Vices, Staves for Powder Barrels, Scaling Ladders, Old Rope. Drums, Tanned Hides, Horse Shoe Nails, Lea ,ber Cartouches, Pickaxes, Shovels, Flints, Fire Wood, and t variety of other Articles; the whole of which may be ritattl at tile Tower, as expressed in the Catalogues, during •I:e wed: previous to the Sale, upon application at the Prin .:lpm Storekeeper's Office, where Catalogues of the Lots, and Conditions of the Sale, will be delivered to those persons -the may apply for the same. By Order of the Board, R. BYHAM, Secretary. HIGHT OF COLLECTING CEMENT STONE. PO BE SOLD—The right of taking CEMENT STONE, on that pan of the Ordnance Shore si. -.on between BLACKMAN'S BUOY and GAR. LAND'S MANOR, near HARWICH, beyond the dis. tam of 150 Yards from the Clif, is to be SOLD for the period of Seven Years, is Four Lots. Such persons as may be willing to purchase the right of Quarrying, collecting and taking Stone from either of the Lots, will be furnished with Conditions upon which the Tender must be made, by application to the Secretary to the Board, Office of Ordnance, Pall-Mall, or at the Engi neer's Office, Harwich. The Tenders must be sealed, directed to the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, and marked " Tender for Cement Stone at Harwich," and delivered at the Office of Ordnance, l'all-Mall, or at the Engineer's Office, Harwich, on or be fore the 23d Ju y next. By order of the Board. H. BYHAM, Secretary. Office of 0: dnance, June 24,1831. GENIC/INR WINES, &c. OF SUPERIOR QUALITY, AT REDUCED PRICES. .1k YLER & Co. Importers of \Vines, Spirits, T &c. No. 80, Mary-le-bone-lane, Oxford-street, in consequence of their connexions in Oporto and Bourdeaux, are et tabled to supply the public with WINES of the finest quality at the wholesale prices. For the genuineness and superior quality of their Wines and Spirits, they are autho rised to give reference to the Editors of the Monthly Gazette of P radical Medicine, who have examined their stock. The y have pleasure in laying the following Priced List of thei t Wines, &c. before the public : PRICED LIST OF WINES. per doz. Ohl Port, from the wood, in bottles ... 265. to 30 'Ditto, 2 years in bottle 36 Ditto, 3 years in bottle 42 Ditto, 5 years in bottle, and upwards .. 48s. & 34 Sherry, brown ... 30s. to 42 Ditto, pale ... 365. to 42 Ditto, real Amontillado per doz. Ditto. Lafitte and Chateau Margeau 635. to 72 13arsac 56 Sauterne ... 56 Teneriffe 365. to 49 Vidonia ... 42 Bucellas, (very fine) .. 42 Lisbon 36*. to 42 Mountain 365. to 42 Carcavella 50 Malmsey Madeira (pints) 30 Tints, Madeira .. (pints) 25 Fine Old Tent 50 Cape Madeira 18s. 21a. &24 Pon tac .. •. . 24 Yin de Grave ... 65 Moselle ... 50s. to 60 Old Hock ... • • 724. to 8 4 Hermitage 84 Burgundy . . 725. to 84 .ITS. and Fast India ... .. 50 , Madeira, (direct)... ... 36 Ditto, (West India) .. 42 Ditto, (East India) ... 54 Ditto, Sercial 48 Dims, Tints 48 .3larsala . . . . 25 Ditto, Bronti 30s. to 36 than wagne ..... 60s. to 84 Claret, St. Estiphe and La Rose .. 425. to 48 SPIIi per gal., per gal. Cognac Brandy .. 28s. to 30 Schedam Holland, ... 28 Old ditto, superior .. 32 ; English Gin, of superior Ditto ( White Champagne) 311 , May. & opal. 84. 9e. 10 &11 Old Jainaica Rum 14s. to 18 Gine Cordial Gin .. 12 Fine Ocange Shrub ... 14 Noyeau, Maraschino, Curacoa, Parfait Amour, Cherry Brandy, in eases or otherwise. Wines at the Docks, in Piyes, Hog s heads, and Quarter. Casks, regulated by the iondon Price Current. Superior Herefordshire Perry and Cyder.—Brrelay's Bottled Stout, and Scotch Ales, from 7e. to Bs. 0 The Marsala Wine is a very wholesome, pleasant light Wine for Summer, and for dyspeptic persons, superior to Sherry. DR. JA3IE . •.'S FEVER POWDER AND ANA LEP. TJC FILLS. T HE FEVER POWDER is universally ap -a. proved by the Profession and the Public—and is ad. r. istered with equal success in Fever, Inflammatory DiNaticg, Nlcaoles, Pleurisy, Sore Throats, Rheumatism, When given in Colds, Catarrhs, &c. it is generally iotind to check th.jr progress, or shorten their duration.— In Packets, 2s. Sti. and 245. THE ANALEPTIC PILLS, from their influence* in exciting the natural secretions are an excellent Alterative Remedy in Chronic Diseases, Rheumatism, habitual Febrile ird Gouty Affections, Indigestion, Bilious and other Corn• plaints of the Stomach and Bowels.—ln Boxes, at 4s. 6d. and 245. Sold by Messrs. Butler, Chemists, Cheapside, corner of ' st. Paul's, LoOdon, and the principal Druggists and Book 'client. C. Observe the Signature of R. G. G. Jig on the Label. The Public are requested to be cautious* in the Purchase of these Medicines, as spurious preparations are continual! Aired for sale. N. 13,835. GENERAL CEMETERY COMPANY. The Annual General Meeting of the Proprietors of the Cemetery Company, for the purpose of adopting measures for the establishment of a Public Cemetery, was on Tues day held at Exeter Hall. The meeting was numerously attended, and amongst The nobility and gentry present were Viscount Ingestrie, Lord Denbigh, Viscount Milton, Sir Robert Price, Colonel Henry Pynn, Ac. Lord MILTON, on being called to the chair, briefly ex plained the purposee of the meeting, and observed that a twelvemonth had elapsed since he had attended a meeting of the same nature, on the plan of various cemeteries esta blished in different towns of Europe ; and since then the project had met with more support than could have been anticipated, as the increase of subscriptions and shares could j best testify. He was unwilling to encourage gloomy anti- cipations, but when the Government had adopted precau tions to preserve the public health, it was highly essential ', that measures should be taken to meet any increase of mor tality amongst the dense population of this vast metropolis. In conclusion the noble lord observed that the committee were in treaty for a spot of ground, and they would apply to Parliament in order to have themselves incorporated. The Annual Report of the Committee was then read. It appeared that a piece ofground of fifty-four acres had been offered them two miles on the Harrow-road, tithe-free, for the sum of 9,0001. The Report, after detailing par ticulars at greater length, stated the funds to be in a flou rishing condition. Viscount INGEST RIE moved that the Report be adopted and circulated. fixonox CARDEN, Req. in seconding the motion, ad. vetted to the dangers which he considered might arise from the interment of 40,000 annually in the church yareis of the metropolis. Eminent physicians had declared that malignant disorders arose as much from local causes as from contagion. Sir JOHN DLitt PAur., in moving the first Resolution, that the Meeting approve of the site selected by the Com mittee, and that they be authorized to complete the put. chase, observed that at Liverpool, where a public cemetry had been established within the last three years, its bene ficial effects were manifest, and its advantages were ap parent. London was renowned for her advantages to the living, and it would be a pity if the inhabitants were back ward in adopting measures for the decent interment of the dead, which must in every Instance be peculiarly gratifying to the surviving relatives and friends. The Paddington Canal ran through the ground, and the funerals might be performed by water with much facility. In the course of six months he estimated they might be able to commence , their undertaking. The Resolution was then put and carried. The Earl of DENBIGH moved that the Provisional Com. mittee should be re-appointed for the ensuing year. Sir IL Pence seconded it, and observed that he did not entertain the same affection for the land at Harrow as Sir John did, but still he thought it was a beautiful spot, fitting for such a purpose. The money had been embarked without any chance of a reasonable remunera tion, but the proposition was not made from the idea of deriving any emolument. Lord IgoEsratE, in a few words, spoke highly of the advantages of such an establishment, and observed that from its locality the ground would be convenient to those residing in the City as well as the West End. Col. K. blomeir moved that the Committee he requested so take the proper measures for obtaining the Act of Par !lament. Mr. SPOTTIIWOODE seconded the Resolution, and re. Marked that the opinion of the Noblemen and Gentlemen in both Houses of Parliament was in accordance with theirs. The Resolution was then put and carried. After a few observations relative to the particular ar. rangements, thanks were voted to the Noble Chairman, and the Meeting dissolved. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR LAW. Miseria •i For a long time past, complaints loud and gene ral have been made of that collection of absurdity and oppression, the Insolvent Acts. These acts have been named, as if. in derision, Acts for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors—a law so respectable in its original conception, so terrible in the prac tice. But the abuse of the power given by these impolitic laws to the administrators of them, and the dreadful consequences which follow, have been most impressively denounced in a work of a Bar rister, Mr. CLAYTON JENNYNS, which is before the public.• We have, in some of our former numbers, given the observations of the same gen tleman on the bill of Lord Wynford, which the noble and learned lord is pleased to call, The Frau dulent Debtors' Bill ! Those observations, writ ten with as much truth as sensibility, made a con siderable impression. A general commiseration for the deplorable victims of the cruelty of a bar barous code was awakened. It spread itself even among men, whose principle and whose practice seem to experience no other sentiments towards their fellow-creatures, than those of harshness, tyranny, and brutality. Let the work which we have announced be read, and the reader will see details at which he must shudder. After it had been put into our hands, it created that interest it is so well calcu lated to excite. We unfeignedly believed, from the opinion we entertain of the candour and cor rect feeling of Lord Wynford, that had the pam phlet of Mr. Jennyns attracted his attention, he would have hesitated before he hurried through the Lords, to say the least of it, Lis ruin-spreading 'and ill-considered bill. Instead of inciting, he would have endeavoured to suspend the illiberal cry for coercion and punishment. He would have sought more humane and efficient means of pro tecting property and the interest of creditors, than by flinty law and sudden violence, by outlawries and confiscations. He has laboured enough for extreme justice, let him now sing his Palanodie, and do something for suffering humanity. It is our intention to offer to our readers some extracts from the tract to which we have alluded. The author, Mr. Jennyns, after having with considerable energy exposed the abuses of the ex isting system, offers such means as he considers the most effectual for their removal. lie has di vided his essay into several sections, of which the following is an analysis. Section I.—To extehd the benefit of the Act to all pri- Boners; without reference to the s ienitli of Imprisonment ; and to fiv e the power to an idsolvent debuir, without any i nt . prinient, on an early and voluntary surrender, as in the cue of bankrupts, to come in and take the benefit of l the Act. • The title Of the work Ile ' 6 Reactions on .some Points of the Law between Debtor•agii Creditor, and on the con stituent character of the lostArent C.outt, with its power et imprisonment without s Jury. By J. Clayton Jennyns, Esq." • Sc. its fatal consequences in tile dreadful, ease of Caro. ittie Eade•. • Sir J. flatlet in the last Session introduced a most humane bill, to take away the power of arrest for debt in all cues on which the sum did not amount to 1001. But he was opposed and overpowered by those spirits so common in Parliament, who always cry out innovation whenever any truth worthy of humanity is announced ; whose errors, founded in prejudice, continue in a barbarous obduracy, no maxims of reason can reclaim, no suffering appease. His Excellency the Marquis of Anglesey, ac companied by his sons, Lords George and Alfred, Sir James E. Anderson, his Excellency's private physician, and Mr. Paget, embarked on board his Excellency's private yacht, the Pearl, at Kingstown harbour on Saturday, from whence she sailed for Belfast to join the northern regatta, which commenced at Hollywood on Monday. His Excellency ap peared in the very beat health and the highest spirits. The Commissioners of the Rajah of Tanjore's debts have just made their Seventh Report t and many per. sons will, perhaps, think it by far the best Report they ever Made. It thus concludes—" We have comptetei the lowa. tigation and the adjudication of erery clans on'whlch the Commissioners at Airtime have transmitted their final Reports." And what is now to become of the 1, Board ?" Will it be Wass:sett—or pensioned on account of length of Service ? The order for the second reading of " Calcraft'a • , Divorce Bill," end consequently the attendance of Mrs. ,Loie, &v. yes*day, at the House of Lords, was,. rather 'suddenly, dissUrged ; and no othbr day was named. Mr. Charles Robert Elliston, the soli of the late Ellittin, if is understood, will take on hitnself the sole mahugemenf of the Survey Thearfi, his fatlier died possessed of a lease of that house. suPPLEVENT to the LONDON GAZETTE, DNESDAY, JULY 13. BY THE KING.—A PROCLAMATION, DECLARING HIS MAJESTY'S PLEASURE TOUCHING HIA ROTAL CORONATION, AND Till THEREOF. WILLIAM, R. IVitereas We have resolved, by the favour and blessing of Almighty God, to celebrate the solemnity of Our Royal Coronation, and of the Coronation of Our dearly-beloved Consort the Queen, upon Thnraday the eight day of Septem ber next, at Our Palace at Westminster; and forasmuch as by ancient customs and usages of this realm, as also in reard of divers tenures of sundry manors, lands, and °elect Iteredi_ tweets, many of Our loving-subjects do claim, and are bound to do arid perform, divers trebled on the day and at the time of the Coronation, as in times precedent their an. cestors, and those from whom they claim, hare done and performed at the Coronations of Our famous Pro g eni t o r; a nd Predecessors, Kings and Queens of this realm ; We, there. fore, out of Our princiy care for the preservation of the lawful rights and inheritances of Our loving subjects whom it may concern, have thought fit to give noticc of and publish Our resolution therein ; and do hereby glee notice ef and publish the same accordingly ; and lire do hereby further signify, that by Our Commission under Oar Great Seal of Great Britain, We have appointed and authorited Oar most dearly beloved Brothers and Councillors— ErnestAugustoDuke ofeumberland ; Augustus Frederick Duke of Sussex; Adolphus Frederick Duke of Cambridge; Our most dear Cousins and Councillors William Frederick Duke of Gloucester, and Prince Leopold of Sase Coburg ; the Most Reverend Father in GOD Our right trusty and right entirely beloved Councillor William Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan ; Our right trusty and well-beloved Councillor Henry Lord Brougham and Vaux, our Chancellor of Great Britain ; the Most Rev. Father in Goo Our right trusty and right entirely beloved Councillor Edward Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan • Our right trusty and entirely beloved Cousin and Coun cillor Henry Marquis of tan.. downe, Pre•ident of Our Council ; Our right trusty aaad well_ beloved Councillor John George Lord Durham, Keeper of Our Privy Seal • Our right trusty and right entirely-beloved Cousins and Canancillcre Bernard Edward Duke of Norfolk, Hereditary Earl Marshal of England; Wm. Spencer Dui. of Devonshire, Lord Chamberlain of Our Household ; Chas. Duke of Richmond, Our Postmaster-General; Geo: ge Dike of Gordon ; Geo. Wm. Frederick Dukeof Leeds ; John Duke of Belford • James Duke of Montrose; Alexander Duke of Hamilton Wm. Henry Duke of Portland ; Charles Duke of Dorset; Hugh Duke of Northumberland ; Richard Duke of Buckingham andChandos; Augustus Frederick Duke of Lc in stet ; and Arthur Duke of Wellington ; Our right trusty and entirely-beloved Cousins and CunclUors Charles Ingoldsby Marquis of Winchester, Groom of Our s ode ; George Marquis of Safford ; Jams. Brownlow Marquis of Salisbury ; Francis Char'es Seymour 31arquis of Hertford ; Richard Marquis Wellesley, Lord Steward of Our Household; John Jeffery, Marquis Camden; Henry Wil liam Marquis of Anglesey, Our Lieutenant-General and General: Governor of that part of Our United Kin.telaro called Ireland; George James Horatio Marquis of Cholttion deley ; Charles William Marquis of Londonderry ; Henry Marquis Conyngham ; and Ulick John Marquis Ciampi carde ; Our trusty and right well-beloved Cousins and Councillors Edward Earl of Derby ; John E orb of West morelsod ; George Earl of Carlisle ; Cropley Earl of Shaftes bury; William Charles Earl of Alb.marle, Master of our Horse; George Earl of Jersey; Wm. 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First Commissioner of Our Trea. sure • Dudley Earl of Harrowby ; William Shaw Earl CarhCart ; John Earl of Eldon ; Richard William Earl Howe; William Pitt Earl Amherst ; and John William Earl of Dudley ; Our right trusty at:d well-beloved Coon, ill ra George Hamilton Chielester, common!, called E rl o' B 1- fast,Vice-Chamberlain of Our Household; and Johnltuss I, commonly called Lord John Russell, Pqmaster i f Our Forces; Our right trusty and well-bAo•ed Cousins and Councillors Henry Vietount Hereford ; Percy Clieton Sydney Viscount Strangford ; Henry John Viscount Pal. merston and William Viscount Melbourne. two of Our Principal Secretaries of &ate ; Rolm Visceurt Mrlvtile Henry Viscount Sidmouth ; Thomas William Viscount Anson, Master of Our Buck Hounds; Granville Levesoa Viscount Granville; Wm. Carr Viscount B res'i r ; and Frederick Viscount Goderich,. ne of Our Primital cretaries of State ; Our right trusty and well-beloved Cousdllon John Pane, commonly called Lord Borg. berth ; John Charles Speecer, commonly called Vie. count Althorp, Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of Our Exchequer • William Lowther, commonly called Viscount Lowth e r; John William Por.sonby, comniotily called Viscount Duncsnnon, Chief Comrois•roner or' Oar Woods and Forests; Francis Lemon Gower, commonly called Lord Francis Levesen Gower; John Townshend, commonly called Lord John Townshend ; and George Thomas Beresford, commonly called Lead Geor e e Taunts' Beresford; the Right Revereral Father in God, Our right trusty and well beloved Cetancillor Charles James B shop of London.; and Our right trusty and well-beloved Councillors Peter Robert Lord Willoughby d'Eresby ; Henry R chard Lord Holland, Chancellor of Our Duchy of Larcastei ; Charles George Lord Arden; Geo. Lord Auckland; Master of the Mint; Alleyne Lord Sr. Helens; John Lord 'feigninoin h ; Edward Lord Filenberough ; Thus. Lord Manners; IlOwlar Lord Hill, General commanding out Forces; William Lord Maryborough ; Nicholas Lord Bexley; Charles Lord Farnborough ; John Singleton Lord Lyndhurst,. Lord Chief Baron of our Exchequer ; Charles Lord Tenteiden, Lord Chief Justice of Our Court of King's Bends ; Conynghant Lord Plunket, Chancellor of that part of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Ireland . ; Thomas Lord Wallace; William Draper Lord Wynford ; Thomas Lord Foley ; George James Welbeno Lord Dovor ; Charles Manners Sutton, Speaker of Our House of Commies; Robert ()ravine', ; Henry Plarepont ; William Fitzgerald Vesey Fitzgerald; 'Thomas Grenville; William Dundas; Charles Philip Yorke; Sir William Griot; Charles Arbuthnot; Reginald Pole Carew ; John Sullivan ; Rich. Ryder ; Sir John Nicholl; Sir J. Sinclair, Bart ; *Sir Robert Liston • Sir Robert Peel, Baronet ; William S tu rge s Bourne; Sir idward Thornton; Sir Henry Russell, Bate. net; Sir George Fitzgerald Hill, Baronet; Sir John Bec kett, Baronet; Sir John Leach, Master of the Rolls; Sir George Henry Rose; Charles Grant, President of the Hoard of Contioul . • Sir Samuel Shepherd ; Sir Stratford C a n n i ng ; B.r Gore Ouseley. Bart ; Henry Goulbum ; Charles Wat kin Williams Wynn; Sir Wm. Henry Freemantk ; Sit G. Warrender, Bart ; Sir Frederick James Lamb; Sir Willjoin Alexander; Charles Itichd. Vaughan; 8:r Geo. Cockburn ; James Abercromby, Chief Baron of Our Excheipier, in Scotland ; Sir Robert Wilmot Hutton ; JOhn Charles Her ries ; Sir James Mackintosh ; Sir Launcelot Showell, Vice. Chancellor of England ; Sir William Kopp. ; Thos. Frank. land Lewis; Sir Christopher Robinson, Judge of Our _Court of Admiralty ; Sir George Murray ; Slr Henry trardinge ; Thomas Peregrine Courtenay ; John II ilson Croker ; John Calcraft ; Henry Hobhouse ; Robert Adair ' • Sir Nicholas Conygliam Tiede', Lord Chief Justice of Our Court of Common Pleats ; Sir Brook Taylor; Sir William Rae, Ba ronet; Sir Janie, Robert George Graham, Baronet, First Commissioner of Our Admiralty ; Edward Gecfrey Smith Stanley, Chief Secretary in that part of Our United King. dom called Ireland ; George Robert Dawson ; Charles Pou lett Thomson, Treasurer of Our Navy ; Robert Gram, Our JadSe Advocate ; Sir James Karma, Master-General of Our Ordnance; Michael Angelo Tayloe • Sir Henry Parnell, Baronet, Our Secretary at War ; and Sir Edward Hyde East, Baronet ; or any five or more of them, To receive, hear, and deterndne the Pedaloes and Claims which shall be to them exhibited by any of t'ur lovingsub jeets in this Lehalf ; and We shall appoint our said.Com nilasioners for that purpose to sit in the Painted Chamber of Our Palace, at Westminster, upon Monday the twenty. fifth daof July inst. at eleven o'clock in the morning of t h e same d ay', and from time to time adjourn as to them shall seem meet for the execution of Idur said Commision, which we do thus publish to the intent that all such persons whom it may concern may know when and where to give th e i r at . tendance for the exhibiting of their Petitions and Claims con • arming their services bifere-usentiOned to be done and per fonnedat our !aid Coronaden ; and we do hereby signVy unto all abd every our subjects whom At mar concern, that Our will and pleasure is, and'We do hertby strictly charge ' add tbmmand ail potions, of what mi.k or quality soerer they be, irho,*either upon Our !alai to th em directed, or by reason of their offices or wines, or etherwitre k ere. to do e 4 service . at the mid day or time of Opr Coionation, Mai they do dul y their attendance accordingly, in all reaj eit fur ' nisbcd and appointed as to so groat a solemnity s u per ',ilk th, and answerable to the dignities and plates ald:h ev.ry on i~~.~ _ O . " N A ilf \4 \ e WP 1 110‘ o tinoNLARD, b voicAT 4 ' 1788. THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1831. Section 2.—Tho notice respecting so much of the Act as enjoins personal service. Section 3.—The Insolvent Court, its constitutional cha racter ; its infliction of long, close imprisonments, without the protection of a jury. Section 4.—To repeal the clause in the present Insolvent Act, compelling all Debtors, first to undergo a long preli. minary, close imprisonment within the wall+, before they ate allowed to take the benefit of the act. Section s.—lmposing the obligation on those who con fine to maiatain. Section 6.—Repealing so much of the Act as subjects to execution the future acquisition of insolvents. Section 7—To introduce a clause in the re-enactment of the present Insolvent Act, to render illegal the sudden re moval of a prisoner from his domicile in the King's Bench to the Fleet prison, and vice versa from the Fleet to the King's Bench, on fresh actions being brought tt these res padre Courts. Section B.—Restoring the old law, revoked without the authority of parliament, by which every Englishman's house was his castle, and rendering it on civil process, illegal to take him, either out of his house or his apart ment. It is to be expected that the facts and reasoning contained in these sections will be contested by the harpies of the law. The existence of some abuses will be denied, the enormity of others extenuated, and the impossibility, nay, the danger, of adopting the proposed reforms, will be hypocritically insisted upon. The general principle, however, carries with it the internal evidence of its truth ; and it is im possible for the most sinister interests, or the most determined bad faith, to lessen their force, or to deny the propositions deducible from them. One fact is incontrovertible, that during this conflict of opinions, the victims increase. They continue to suffer and complain; minds of sensibility deplore their wretchedness, and the callous take refuge in their doubts. Under these circumstances, it is the duty of le gislation, instead of allowing crude and ephemeral statutes to be eternally passing to its opprobrium, and aggravating the evil, to take into enlightened consideration reforms projected for the public be nefit. This purpose can be obtained by no better measure than by having recourse to the learning, experience, and humanity of a general committee; who, with no other interest than that of truth, after a profound and candid examination come to a de cision calculated to remove every doubt ; and to establish one uniform consistent debtor and creditor law. We have stated, that it is our intention to give from time to lime extracts from Mr. Jennyn's pam phlet. On the present occasion we shall confine ourselves to the insertion of the clear and luminous introduction of the author ; to which we invite the attention of our readers. The Great Frederic, immediately on his coming to the throne, abolished, throughout his dominions, the use of torture ; the putting an end to it, fur nishing, as he said, one of the certain means of not confounding the innocent with the guilty. It was his enlightened policy to apportion the punish ment to the offence, 4411 regula, perealis qua penal irroget *Ow ; Nr scutica dignum sectore flagella. Not so in England. The preliminary close impri sonment before trial, to which every insolvent is indiscriminately doomed by the present act, now to be le-enacted with that monstrous clause unre pealed, is tha direct converse of the humane prin ciple of the Fred2rician code. The Insolvent Act treats alike the innocent and the guilty ; it visits with the same indiscriminating severity the impru pent and the criminal; in its operation, audacious fraud and timid imprudence meet in the same jail. The swindler, who has committed every depredation on society, and the father of a family, charged with no other offence than accepting credit, are, by that absurd statute, indifferently condemned to a close confinement within the walls, there to remain during the whole of the proceedings.° It is the wisdom of the law to punish first, and to judge after. Torture is abolished throughout the continent of Europe ; in England, it is an hourly practice. Names do not change the essence of things. A long, close, hopeless, confinement, is as severe a torture as the rack or the thumb-screw. What it loses in intensity, it gains in duration. The pre liminary close imprisonment enjoined by the pre sent Act, in the first step of the process, is a cer tain punishment affixed to an uncertain offence. It is at all times a dreadful calamity. But, if the prisoner be cursed with en imagination, or with a heart of any sensibility, the torture of imprison ment is increased and aggravated at every moment of its duration. Yet it seems, as if the law exulted in the torture of the mind ; more oriel, more in human than that of the body, on which it prema turely fastens its chains. Who then can doubt than. imprisonment, without any legal procedure, without a judgment, and, when the issue of its being deserved is uncertain, is a monster in criminal jurisprudence, teeming with inevitable injustice. When we turn our eyes on the invasion of that domestic sanctuary, the house, by which the law authorizes the satellites of its violence to outrage the secret recesses of families, and to storm with ruffian assault that asylum, every where else respected, we see an inqnisiticn, mere scandalous, more atrocious, established in Engl.nd, in that land of liberty, selr-called its temple, than is to be found in any other country, the most despotic and unci vilised. How much then is a reform wanted, when this tyranny is hourly exercised, with no other title, than the affidavit of a creditor; when a powfr and a confidence are given by it, perhaps to a con temptible impostor, before trial and without a judgment, possessed by no ministers of justice. The humane pert of the public look to Sir Robert peel for the abrogation of abuses, which hate 'been allbived to creep into the administration of the law. It is with gratitude, they acknowledge PRICE SEVENPENCE. the invaluable reforms which he has so success fully introduced; that growing evils have been removed ; that apt remedies have been applied to the prominent imperfections in our criminal code. It is to him they owe, dint the roots of an infinity of abstract questions, eternal and ruinous, have been cat up ; and that, on many essential points, he has laid the foundation of a jurisprudence uni form and intelligible. The country has almost much to expect from the assiduous humanity, the sound judgment, and honourable pereerverence of Lord Aithorpe. To Sir James Scarlett, His Majesty's Attorney- General, what thanks arc not due, for the noble stapd he is opposing to the superstition of lawyers, to professiOnal habits and inveterate prejudices, by hie generous efforts, to render jails less necessary ; to unfetter the poverty-stricken prisoner, and to conciliate the general interests of humanity with the essential rights of property'. How much shall I congratulate myself, if, by bringing under such intelligent consideration, the errors, the cruel errors of the law, of which I have drawn an unfinished outline, they be promptly abro gated, and cease to be its disgrace. Above all, it is most urgent, that instant attention be directed to the mischievous construction of the Insolvent Court; to the enormity of the act, imposing on the insolvent, before he can seek that benefit of the statute, a preliminary punishment in the com mencement of the process ; and to the cumber some form of the personal service of the notice which it prescribes. It is, no doubt, the essence of every general law, and of the particular rules derivative from it, that he who comes within their operation should be able to execute them. Experience, more impe rative than any law—more decisive than any rule, has pronounced on the impracticability of those contained in the act. But the delay, the 'fur ther imprisonment, the misery occasioned by them, are of daily occurrence. This is not all ; the new, dangerous power, conceded to three in dividuals, and not possessed by any, the highest tribunals of the country, of inflicting, without a jury, dreadful, long, close imprisonments, ought to be immediately revoked. Decisions follow from them, by which thousands of families are an nually desolated ; fathers sent to perish in jail, and their children to be maintained by the parish. The re-enactment of the present insolvent bill without the addition of some new clauses, and without the repeal of the baneful ones, by which so many silent oppressions have been authorized, and so many orphans have been been made, if de ferred to a future period, if postponed to another session, abuses will accumulate, and new victims be added to the dismal catalogue. It was my original intention to have given a certain extent to the sacred principles I am anxious to sustain. But finding that the present insolvent act, on the motion of Mr. Bright, the member for Bristol, was, for the present to be re-enacted, with all its imperfections on its head, I felt the necessity of precipitating this unfinished work, in the hope, that some of the most glaring defects of the statute might be removed. I may be permitted to return to it, and to treat, more in detail, what so much affects the best in terests of society--the personal liberty of its in digent members ; the corruption of the laws, and the best means of applying the remedy. Some of these reflections have already been given to the public; but there are truths, of which the importance justifies the repetition. lam the more inclined to venture on reprinting the sub stance of them, from the flattering enlogium with which they had been distinguished in the House of Lords, by that great man, the late Earl Stan hope. It was my pride to have been honoured by his friendship, and encouraged by his approbation. 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