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• FOR SALE BY AUCTION. AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE, HASTINGS, , . Olt TbiURSDAT, the 17th day of MARCH, 1831. at Eleven o'Cloek in the Forenuon, __ _ THE under-mentioned GOOD S, in Sundry Lots, vas._ About 250 Gallons of BRANDY, i—ner. 113 Ditto GENEVA, proof. 54 Ditto BRANDY, oder-proof. Two Anchors; 90 Fathoms Rope, and 211 Half Ankets, cut up f or P a ils, Keeler. and Fire Wood. The above Goods may be viewed on the morning of the day of Sale. N.H. Twenty-five Pounds per Cent. will be required as a Deposit. APPROVED MEDICINES, SOLD ST Messrs. BUTLER, Chemists, CIIEX PSIDF, Corner of St. Paul's, London; Sackville-street, Dublin ; and Princes -street, Edinburgh; and may be bad of the most respectable Dealers in Pstei.t Medicines in the United Kingdom. DR. JAMES'S FEVER POWDER—is universally approved by the Profession and the Public, and is administered with equal success in Fever, Inflammatory Diseases, Measles, Pleu risy, Sure Throats, Rheuinaism, &c. When given in Colds, Ca tarrhs, &c. it is generally found to check their progress, or shorten their duration. In Packets, :".s. 9d. and 441. CHING'S WORM LOZENGES.—The extraordinary efficacy of these Lozenges in cases of Worms, as well as in Obstructions in the Bowels, and every disorder where cleansing physic is required, is so universally known, and has been publicly acknowledged by so many persons of distinction in society, that it is unnecessary here to enlarge on their peculiar virtues. In Packets, at Is. l ed. and 2s. 911. BUTLER'S CAYENNE LOZENGES—for Habitual Sore Throats, Hoarseness, Relaxation of the Uvula, &c. Also a refreshing stimulus in Fatigue, Field Sports , &c. In ozes, at 2s. and 4s. 6d. TOWERS' FLUID EXTRACT OF BARK.—In the Fluid Extract of Bark are combined the fine and essential qualities of the purest Peruvian Bark, viz. the Quinine, Cinchonine, and valuable astringent princi p le in a concentrated state; it thus affords the readiest means of pr eparin g Bark Draughts of any strength with the utmost facility. In Bottles, at 2s. 9d. 4s. 6d. and I Is. BUTLER'S CAJEPUT OPODELDOC—used with much suc cos in cases of Rheumatisms, Sprains, Bruises, &c. Also an excel lent application for Chilblains, by allaying the irritation. In Bottles, at Is. lid. 2s. 9d. FOTHERGILL'S NERVOUS DROPS—are much used by those who are afflicted with Nervous Affections; such as Lowness of Spirits, Fainting-Fits, Hysterical and Spasmodic Diseases, Debility, and Relaxation of th e System, and are highly extolled by those who have bad recourse to them. In Bottles, at 4s. 6d. I Is. and 225. MARSHALL'S UNIVERSAL. CERATE, an excellent remedy for Chilblains, Scalds, Burns, Wounds, Sores, and Ulcer, of every de nomination, especially Sore and Ulcerated Less. In Boxes, is. I d. and 2s. 9d. BUTLER'. STOMACHIC AND DIGESTIVE CANDY—of which the principal ingredients are Turkey Rhubarb, Ginger, an Antacid and Carminatives, in such proportions as render it a pleasant Aromatic Stomachic and powerful Digestive. It will be found most serviceable in all those affections originating in an impaired digestion, and also an agreeable gentle Aperient for Children. In Boxes, 2s. and 4s. 6d. PERRY'S ESSENCE FOR TOOTH AND EAR-ACHE— has been found of such extreme service in relieving Tooth and Ear. ache, that it kas been commented upon most favourably in several Medical Journals; it affords instantaneous relief, and generally pre vents any recurrence of pain. In Bottles, at Is. lid. and 21. 9d. BUTLER'S PECTORAL ELlXlR—strongly recommended in Colds, Habitual Coughs, Asthmatic Affections, &c. In Bottles, at Is. lid. and 2s. 9d. N.B. The above Preparations, when Genuine, will have the Name and Address of Messrs. BUTLIR attached to them.—Particular atten tion to this caution I. requested. HIGHLY INTERESTING INFORMATION! 4, CONGREVE'S GOLDEN BALM," Till NUT COMPANION SON Till NM NSW, If OF TIM UTMOST DIPOSTANCII TO CHILDREN CUTTING THEIR TEETH. THIS remedy possesses superior advantages to all others, in counteracting the dreadful effects arising from painful den tition. It is a well known fact that many thousand children are eat. ried off annually, at this important crisis, in fits and convulsion.... No antidote hitherto introduced for alleviating the distressing paroxysms endured by the tender infant, at this period, can beset of equal merit. It cools and comforts the gams; assuages the alga violent anguish consequent on their infiammation ; and its demulcent properties to soften and render elastic these acute parts as generally to produce the teeth in their regular order with incredible ease and ra. pidlty, without constipating the bowels and exciting other baneful et. fees; by which the necessity of lancing the gums, so pregnant with dangerous results, is entirely superseded. The fond mother, sympa. thizing with her tender offspring in its writhing agonies, will be lost In astonishment at the value of this discovery. It is introduced at the lowest price by the Proprietor, frurn the pure intention of rendering universal benefit to this class of sufferers, who ever claim our sw i m s . est sympathy. The following Letter will prove it is' The Mother's Best Companies for the Nursery. No. 1, Queen's Row, Palmer's Village, Westminster, Nov. 7, 1830. Sill—ln hopes that all parents will try the same remedy, I have thought it my duty to inform you that your Golden Balm has wrought the greatest wonder in my Child, aged 7 months, in taking one bottle only. I cannot describe the agony she endured from her gums before its use. Night after night she deprived me of rest by constant crying, and nothing seemed to give her a moment'e ease, and I was often afraid she would expire in convulsion fits. Her gums were very hard, and much swelled and inflamed. She had wasted away to a mere shadow. But, Sir, only judge of my astonishment 1 A few drops rubbed on her gums gave her immediate ease. I applied it two or three times a day always with the same effect ; her bowels, which were very costive, be came regulated ; and I thank God the child is fast recovering its flesh, and strength. She has since cut two teeth with considerable ease. In writing this I perform a duty I owe to you and the public. Your humble servant, MARY CARTER. witness, Sarah Harford. The above article, and the " Balsamic Elixir," u stated below,a; prepared by the Proprietor, Henry Congreve, SO, College4treetr Chelsea, with the greatest care, from the original recipes, his late fathe having been a medical man of very respectable, extensive, and sue. cesstul practice, during a period of more than a quarter of a century The public may confidently rely on their intrinsic value, which, in private practice, and since their public introduction, have been de veloped in an astonishing degree. SOld in bottles, at 130. rich, by most of the respectable wholesale and retail Medicine Venders In London and the United Kingdom. From whom may be had, CONGREVE'S BALSA :BIC ELIXIR, so justly celebrated for the cure of Coughs, Hasping Cough, Shortness of Breath, Astbmab, and all Disorders of the Chest and Lungs, for which it is an infallible remedy; price Is. led. 2s. ftd. and 411.6 d. the bottle. N.B. None are genuine unleu signed by the proprietor, in his own name, " HlthßY Covoarva," across the Government Stamps. THE IRISH COBBLER. " Sutor Ultra Crepidam " ACOBBLER, in the county Cork, 'tis said, By hard industry gain'd his daily bread; Would drink his whydity, and enjoy his joke, Talk politics, sing ballads, laugh and smoke, Make brogues, heel puntps ; and none, beyond dispute, Knew better bow to renovate a Boot ! Through all the parish, none like Cobbler Pat Repeated an old tale, or knew "what's what." Tb' Exciseman and the Schoolmaster would often Sit in his bulke, the parish cares to soften; And, notwithstanding all their learning, said Our honest Cobbler had a knowing head ; For frequently the Cobbler would proceed, as The ancient's us'd, like old Archimedes, And, like this fam'd Philosopher, enquire What element could best produce a fire. Of Carbon, and the famous sluriatic, Our Cobbler never knew but they were physic— So seldom troubled his industrious skull 'Bout things that often puzzle poor John Some one from London, called a Nobleman. Taller than Pat', acquaintance by a span, And therefore greater, came into the village To look about his rents, estates and tillage ; And one of his domestics shortly brought His Lordship's Boots to be repaired by Pat. Pat saw their brilliant gloss—the san shone bright— Pat tried to smoke, but could not find a light ; Then seiz'd a Boot, reflecting WARREN'S black.. Which lit his pipe (as Pat said) " in a crack :" This F.;.s ) . Shining and Brilliant BLACKING Prepared by e, Wa fir/ I 30, STRAND, London; And sold in every Town in the Kingdom. LIQUID in Bottles, 6d. 104.1. 12d. and 18d. each. PA:ITE BLACKING, in Pots, 6d. 12ii. and &Bd. R} Be Particular to inquire for WARREN 'S, 30, STRAND. ad I. OTHERS AR! COUNTER /a ir. 77777 !J ~ 1 N°. 13,729. WIVE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.—" There is a newly.insented Patent Recumbent Chair, by Mr. DA WS of 17, Margaret.street, Cavendisb-square, London, which it is but justice to a most ingenious man, to introduce to the particular notice of oar readers. The King, we hear, has them, and certainly the in. firm, the sedentary, and Ladies whose temporary bttrthen may dis pose them to a little additional repose, have never before lounged oih a cleverer piece of workmanship ; it Is handsome and compact, and the contrivance ts so simple, that the required position is attained by the slightest movements po ssible."—Rsamioer. " Possessing these advantages, it is not comparatively dearer than a common easy chair."—Tirnes. The chair alluded to will form near 20 positions. The principle and name were the invention of R. Dews, the patentee, and such is the high approbation and patronage he has gratefully to acknowledge, and so well is the perfection of it attested and approved, that where an easy chair or couch is desirable or necessary, it will take precedence as a much more comfortable and elegant supply for both. There are many imitations which are called improved recumbent chairs, but R. Daws can have no need to say they are deceptions of dangerous, since he has for three years part, and still continues to offer f.. 300 for the production of the kind which a majority of competent judges will pronounce more perfect, and for which his signature may be had on application. Soma are admirably portable. One shall be sent for inspection by favour of a reference, and payment of expexccs or at the rate of 10s. per 100 miles; he warrants his principle seven years. MESSRS. A. ROWLAND and SON view it as a duty incumbent upon them to acknowledge, with the proudest emo. tions of gratitude, that distinguished patronage with which they have been honoured by the Nobility, Gentry, and Public at large, with respect to the ORIGINAL MACASSAR OIL, and KALYDOR, articles which have obtained a celebrity pre-eminently great. A. R. and S. respectfully solicit a continuance of that high patronage with which they have long been favoured ; at the same time, earnestly caution the Public against base counterfeit imitations. The original KALYDOR has the name and' address of the Proprietors on the Government Stamp, and the MACASSAR OIL is distinguished by the names on the label of each bottle, in red, " A. ROWLAND and SON, 20, fIATTON GARDEN," And Countersigned, "ALEX. ROWLAND." ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL, the first production of the age, and the original and genuine : a vegetable production, possessing salubrious and wonderful nutritive properties, which prevents the hair falling off, or turning grey, Ste. and has the unequalled property of giving a most fascinating and delectable appearance to the hair. Price 3s. 6d. 75. 101.6 d. and 215. per bottle. ROWLAND'S ESSENCE OF TYRE, for changing Red or Grey Whisken to Black or Brown. Price 4s. 75.6 d. and tos. per bottle.l, To protect the Skin and Complexion from Cold Winds and Damp Atmosphere is recommended ROWLAND'S KALVDOR. Its soothing, cooling, and ameliorative properties immediately allays the smarting irritability of the skin—assuages inflammation—heals harsh and rough skin—removes cutaneous eruptions, and produces a beautiful Complexion—affords soothing relief to Ladies nursing their offspring : and to Gentlemen after shaving, it allays the smarting pain, and ren ders the skin smooth and pleasant. Each Genuine Bottle has the name and address engraved on the Government stamp, which is pasted on the bottle—" A. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton Garden." Price 4s. Bd. and Bs. 6d. per bottle. ROWLAND'S ALSANA EXTRACT for the tooth-ache. Price 2s. 9d,— 4s. 6d. and 10e. 6d, per bottle. Also, ROWLAND'S ODONTO for cleansing the Teeth and Gums. Price 2s. 9d. per box. The above articles are sold by the Sole Proprietors, A. ROWLAND AND SON, 20, HATTON GARDEN. FROM TIE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. Commiuions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Kent. Tunbridge Wells Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet Robert Willis Blencowe to be Lieutenant; Edward Hussey, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Blencowe. Cobham Troop of Yeomanry—The Hon. John Duncan Bligh to be Captain ; William Brown, Gent. to be First Lieutenant ; Thomas Saunders, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant : Wm. Gladdish, Gent. to be Cornet. Maidstone Troop of Yeomanry Cavaltya.Charles Viscount Marsham to be captain ; Charles iVykeham Martin, Gent. to be Lieutenant ; Thomas Fairfax Best, Gent. to be Cornet. Oxenbeath Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry—Sir William Richard Row lett Geary, Bart. to be Captain ; William Knox Child, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Sevenoaks Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry—William Pitt Viscount Holmesdale to be Captain ; (Benjamin Henry Harene, to be Lieutenant. Dartford Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry—Percival Hart Dyke, the younger. Esq. to be Captain ; Francis Hart Dyke, gent. to be Lieu tenant ; Carey Bonham Hopkins, gent. to be Cornet. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Limiter. Leicestenhire 31ilitia—To be Captain—Lieutenant--Cheslyn. To be Lieutenanu—Ensign—Cooke, Ensign—Tupman, Ensign--Hurst, Henry Osborn Fitigibbon, gent. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northumberland. Northumberland Militia.—To be Captains--John Richard Scott, William (layering, Charles Vincent Loraine, and William Aubonc Surtees, Esquires. To be Lieutenants—Robert Falder and Bowes Todd Wilson, Gents. To be Ensigns—Matthias Hawdon and George Pawson, Gems. Comminions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Renfrew. Itenfrewshire Yeomanry Cavalry.—To be Lieutenants—Cornet Adam Keir, and Cornet George Robertson, To be Cornet—David Crawford, Gent. DIVIDENDS. April 12, J. Duke Etasinghall-street, warehouseman, at three, at the Court of Commiss ioners—April 1, W. Bullard, Maidstone, Kent, chemist, at three, at the Court of Commia•iioners, London-3larch i 9, J. Poynton and T. Poynton, Brook street, Holborn, hatdwareinen, at nine. at the Court of Commissioners--1114rch 29.0. G. Giroux, Webb's County Terrace, New Kent-road, music -seller, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—,March 26, T. Hurst, J. Hurst, and J. 0. Robinson. Waterloo-place. Pall-mall, booksellers, at ten, at the Court of Commis sioners— March 29, W. Sloan, Shad Thames, liorselydown, South wark, stone merchant, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners—March 29, W. C. Hitch, Hereford, statuary, at twelve, at the Court of Com tuis.iontrs— March 26, T. Bourne, Norwich, woollen draper, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—March 29, William risen), Maidstone ' Kent, cattle salesman, at twelve, at the Court of Commisaioners—Much 29, T. Edgar, Nottingham place, Commercial-road, draper, at twelve, at the Court of Commis sioners— ltlarch 29, J. Berridge, George-yard, Whitcombe.street. stable keeper, at eleven, at the Court of Comtuissioners--March 29, R. Wright, Theobald's.road. builder, at eleven, at the Court of Coin. missiontrs—March 29, J. Scott, Bread-street, Cheapside, shawl ware houseman, at one, at the Co u rt of Commi u i o ners--31arch 29, H. Simons, Blackmore, Essex, grocer, at twelve, at the Court of Commis. slot:en—March 31, J. Coop e r, ncing, Sussex, grocer, at nine, at the sea House Hotel, Worthing—April 13, A. P. La Bigne. Bristol, wine inerchant,at two, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol—March 29. W. Fisher, IVhitehaven, Cumberl a nd, d raper , at e l even , at t h e O ffi ce o f Mr. Hodgson, Whitehaven. CERTIFICATES--Nlaacti 29. W. Young, Rochester, Kent, coach master—H. Crutch and A. Crutch, Loudwater, Chipping Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, paper ma nufacturers—G. Symmons, Atherstone, W arw i c k s hi re , bookseller— J. : Glover, Wigan ' Lancashire, draper—G. A. I Wren, Wentworth place, Mile End-road, general merchant-...J. V. Complin, New Aires ford, Southampton, corn merchant—J. Foster, Derby, grocer—J. Pen ning, Holles.street, Cavendish-flume, cabinet maker—J. Botchetby, Darlington, Durham, linen manufacturer. PA RTN ERSII IPS DISSOLVED. W. Cook and E. Burrows, Little Thurrock, Essex, grocers—J. Candle and P. Drake, Briglithelmstone, chernists--J. Mitchell and Co. Leeds, cloth-dressers—S. and G. Jcssop, Hanley, Yorkshire. drysalters —H. and M. ileticy, S:ainford, Lincolnshire, milliners- -J. C. Hurst and' G. Edgar, Darttord, surgeons—J. Smith and Co. Lakenheath, Suf folk. general shopkeepers (so far as regards J. Smith, sen.) - T. and J. Spencer, Ledbury, Here:Ordshire, woollen-drapers. ON LORD WrNFORD'S BILL. Utatatea ifagitiis sic nunc Legibas laborati. intituled,—" An Am to prevent Debtors fn defrauding tbeir Cri a:- ton by tying in Prison or absconding from England." The cause of humanity, of charity, of liberty, are words in fashion ; the cheap passports to celebrity. Every mouth is full of them. Yet, at no time, was there ever seen miads so callous to ti' sufferings of the destitute prisoners, or persons so concentrated in mean personal interests. Professions of humanity are converted into dispensations from the practice ' of it, and the glaring contrast between their language and their conduct neither excites shame nor provokes reprobation. In these observations, we point to no fixed figure for the hand of scorn ; though many are the counterfeits, whom the sincere philanthropist might denounce to reason, to truth, to common sense, and to public utility. We accuse no one: we make no personal allusion. We will not, however, suppress the expression of our surprise on seeing exhibited, in the preamble of a bill, lately carried into the house of Peers,by a learned Lord, the wonder exciting discovery of con-' fined Debtors living idly and luxuriously in prison. We won dered where the Noble Lord could have ferretted out all those pampered happy creatures--where are they ? Shall we seek them among those civil victims, immolated to that rapacious idol commercial credit, exclaiming with a thousand voices, credit is indispensable ; it is the god of trade—the pedestal of fortune! Yet, what is credit ?—if it be not fictitious wealth, the extinguisher of all real wealth, economy. When I that treacherous bane credit is administered, ruin is the de creed destiny of him alto takes it. The misery begins the moment it is accepted. The dismal jail lowers io the per spective ! Already grates on his fearful ears, the appalling sound of its doors opening to count him among the tenants of its gloomy abode. Are Lord Wynford's luxurious idle voluptuaries to be found in that aggregation of deplorable in digence ? Did he seek them among the outcast beings, languishing without succour—without food—a prey to dis ease and poverty, in a hopeless state of opprobrium and humiliation: unfortunates whom Providence appears to have compensated in no other manner for having given them life, than by the hope of soon ending it. These victims of the barbarity of the laws, are, besides, guilty of no crime, but that of haring been seduced into the acceptance of credit. lf, however, their criminality be a problem, their misery is not. For with all the respect we entertain for the authority of Lord Wynford, the statement, contained in the pream ble of his Bill, is unanswerably negatived, on higher autho rity even than his own. It comes with that sacred cha racter of truth, which the combined sophistry of the world cannot obliterate. It will not be by the exaggeration of the miseries, for the relief of which I am the humble advocate, that I hope to conquer his Lordship's conviction, or to im plore his compassion for the extreme wretchedness so long neglected ; but by a simple exposition of facts, and by the observations of the most humane of mankind—well worthy all his attention. The immortal Howe RD, in his circumnavigation of huma nity, on his return, after visiting those mansions of sorrow on the Continent, saw in no part of Europe so much misery as he found in the gaols of England. He blushed for the cruel laws, and merciless proceedings, of his own Country. He had no where witnessed so little attention paid to the misery of prisoners for debt, as in England. He found them in every part of the kingdom, the " most pitiable objects in our jails," wanting necessary sustenance, and literally starving. Want of food was the general complaint. Every where he heard the dismal cry, "We arc locked up and starved to death." He further save, " Many who went in healthy are, in a few months, changed to emaciated dejected objects ; some are seen pin ing under disease, sick, and in prison expiring on the floors." In a burst of indignant humanity he exclaims, " that, how ever sanguinary the wish of an unfeeling creditor may be, when he arrests and imprisons his debtor, their destruction is not only unjust, but is inconsistent with prudence and sound policy." And further he says, " that this frequent confinement in prison had convinced him how full of empha tical meaning is that curse of a severe creditor, who pro nounces his debtor's doom to rot in jail." Yet, now we are to have a bill, exciting him to severity by law, and to protect him in it. Mr. Howe IID continues, " Hearing the cries of the mise rable, I devoted my time to their relief. In order to pro cure it, I made it my business to collect facts, the materials of which could not be disputed." Has Lord Wynford never read Mr. Neild's book, describing the destitution of the poverty-stricken wretches, confined for small debts; has he never seen the appeals of the sheriffs, annually calling on the charity of the country, in aid of the stareing dormers locked up in the dungeons of London. We unshrinkingly say, that before he introduced a bill so penal in its consequences, it was a sacred duty imposed upon him, to have made himself better acquainted with the state of the prisons and with gaols, so corroborated by such unde niable evidence, as to make it impossible to the most obdurate incredulity to lessen their effects, or to counteract the con clusion deducible from them. Let the learned lord follow Mr. Hown ft D's example—let him visit the jails ; he ‘‘ ill there see details of wretchedness at which humanity shudders. He will there meet with the refutation of his supposititious preamble the spurious offspring of an ardent imagination, a new fiction—added to others— the satire of our laws. There he would see starving deb tors crowded together, and misery presenting itself in so many hideous forms, that he might arrive at a more enlight ened justice, through the sentiment of a generous compassion. The u igorous close imprisonment of the debtor's person, as the first stepiu the process, on the showing of a creditor, on his mere affidavit so liable to suspicion, cannot be justified on the principles of sound policy. It is gratuitous punish ment, useless to society and productive of the greatest evils. It is unjust, as it constituted no part of the contrambetween the parties, when credit was either given or accepted. He who gave never stipulated for, nor would he who accepted, have taken it, on the condition of hy potheticating his person, in default of payment.— If the taking the body of the debtor, on the failure of his engagement, formed any part of its conditions, the dread .~~++ of the jail might have warned hint against the seductions of credit, and many wretches would have been re-r'ee'l from falling the victims of a temptation in which tbe:e i , no proportion between the temptation and the formidahlt 1 0. cult. Had such a reflection ever occurred, bon many multitudes who have suffered a lingering and prettiatlea death, would have shrunk from the conseytentia! pettish . went, with the ruffian suddenness of its mortal in!:iction, before trial, and without any preliminary judgment. Take away credit altogether, or make it less penal ; g' a• it no connection with the prison ; when character would re sume its influence, and ;Aims become unnecessary atal untenanted. But so far from taking any precautions against heedless extravagance, every facility of getting into debt i 4 offered to thoughtless imprudence. Let the man who trty!a make himself acquainted with the person trusted ; let him enquire whether his reputation be without blemish and without reproach, and, seldom would it happen, that be became the victim of his confidence. How mournful and revolting is the picture of the misery inflicted on individuals, on families, on the state itself, from the multitudes whom credit uselessly imprisona, and wantonly immolates on its i altars. If the prisoner be the father of a family, the et i; 1. irreparable. Who will putted, who will maintain titian, ' when no longer subsisted by the daily labour of the father ' Vot political calculators counterbalance this dreadful abuse I, the pretended support it gives to commerce ; there are °the', who boast of the purification that takes place in these fu. ' paces of adversity and debasement. But the corruption ~1 morals inseparable from them, and the depravity.lhere inc: . cated, are notorious. Nor can these cruelties & -I justffigh from any expectation of recovering the debt ; that heconi. , impossible, and is often abandoned as hopeless—a I !VIII 41. 1 vulged in the grim records of every prison, and confirmed ii; ' daily experience. All that the relentless creditor derive , from his cruelty is revenge ; or the regret of not having pre ferred indulgence to imprisonment. Confinement has ruined his debtor. What can remain to him *hose occupation is gone, whose Mends and supporters fly from him—whose de tention has destroyed even his hopes—who has no ' thing to lose, and from whom nothing can be extorted ! Chemistry can extract no more gold front mixed bodies than is included in them ; nor can the torturing crucible of a gaol work out of the marrowless bones of indigence, the liquidation i of a debt he has not the me ans o f di sc h arg i ng . H a d not a I blind destiny pronounced otherwise, would not the severity lof the law, and its f a n c if u l o ff ences , so preposterous l y con- Ifounded, have been, long since, in favour of the Os/titer, ' mitigated—not inflamed ? Had not a perverse fate low:- posed, should we have seen, at a moment when the c:ut I abuses which had crept into the administration of justice 0 0 ! .. ito be reformed, an Act of Parliament proposed for the adopt in.* 1 of the legislature, to render it auxiliary to the oppression of the imprisoned debtor ; and which, if passed into a law, o ould leave him no hope of ever escaping from the sanctuary of justice, but in beggary, in ruin, and dishonour Should Ise have seen a new law without that wisdom which holds the balance equally between the parties, and discerns with pru dence the exact point which separates the just from the unjust ? No, indeed : but we continue to see the confound ing, in matters of debt, the innocent with the guilty, among the barbarisms of modern statesmen. In the proposed bill ' of the noble and learned lord, no distinction, clear and pre cise, is established, or attempted to be established, be tween the honest and . the fraudulent debtor ; no line of demarcation drawn between innocent insolvency and inveterate fraud ; the one blended with the other in sweep ing reprobation. Yet how wide is the difference. Ins.a - vency is the impossibility of paying, occasioned by misfor tune, by losses, by sudden imprisonments, by abuses of the law, by its ruinous nsesne process, and by an army of taint ciona practitioners, the vultures and vampires of the lower orders of society in England. On the other hand, fraud is the offence of secretly assigning effects, of concealing or falsifying books, of creating creditors, and of setting up fictitious debts. Fraud is a crime, in solvency a misfortune. In the preamble, however, of Lord Wyndford's bill, they appear synonimorm. The thus confounding ideas and principles, is in its tendency most mischievous. It is productive of this great evil, that from such disorder and confusion, all correct notions cl pioliitv become effaced and disappear. An inevita:ile result, w a r o ,. ever misfortune and crime are confounded. If the honest and diahonest be f.unished with the same indiscriminating severity," regardless of good or of evil tame," it would be to favour the unjust at the expence of the just, at least in tespect of character. Besides, there are fraudulent creditors aril usurers, as well as fraudulent debtors ; and such bills, as Lord Wynford's, are calculated to enable the rapacious to turn to his account the necessities of the just, and to profit from his own injustice. Yet all these ill-boding enactments are not enotq..l). All the sources of unmerited obloquy are exbaestt II to calumniate the insolvent whom they cannot con demn. New, misplaced, and rigorous enactments, are annually divulged, by which the severity of the t x isting law between debtor and creditor is petpetitated and aggravated. Every thing is done for extreme jos tise and oppressive opulence, nothing for suffering; lm inanity. The pretext of the public advantage, the sure pre cursor of some merciless encroachment, and the legislature seems employed in contriving laws useful to those who pos sess, and beating down all who have nothing. These legislators, the moment the pison doors close on the debtor, consider all the ties which unite blur to society dissolved, and every sentiment of compassion extin guished. It cannot be doubted that the freedom fromarrese for debt, by which the members of either house, framers of acts of parliament, are shielded front the misery they inflict, is the germ of that reek less insensibility which has taken such root. --The having no dread of becoming one has rendered them callous to the sufferings of the prisoner. It is an exemption. operating at once as much an instrument of attack as of defence. In the moral certainty of never being placed under similar circumstances, they neither sympathise with, nor commiserate a calamity, from which they consider them selves exempt. .Take away the privilege of the person, as the French have done ; bring peers of the realm, as well as commoners under the operation of the law of arrest; make them suffer, or fear to suffer, and the genius of sympathy, that divine sentiment,—" ilaud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco"—would awaken in their minds a ge nerous fellow feeling. They would no longer look upon the abasement and misery of jails as a condition fo reign to themselves, in which they had no concern. It would be always present to their thoughts ; it would he for ever recurring, it is the fate of another to-day, it mi , gla be mine to-morrow. Take away the privilege of Parliament, the freedom limn arrest for debt and we shall hear no more of preliminary close imprisonments, before a wretched insolvent can take what is called the benefit of the act; or of making outlawries more penal ; the extinction of bail in civil cases ; of enlarged powers given to the provisions of the Lords' Act; and of unrestricted sweeping con** dons. All clauses contained in the Act now in prograbi, with uhich prisoners origitives for debt are threatened by Lord Wyn ford—clauses which we do not: fear to denounce as mon stious and repugnant to sound policy—dangerous wearcns, from which society will derive no advantage, of which the honest creditor will make no use, and which nine time: i r ten will secure the triumph of avarice, El usury. ialld tortion. 111111 t \v .i, r d // ----.1=7: - ~"'"----.----. --";„. ,I "•-• issiCATIC 21fir 7 C 1.11033 4ja 0 ISIONLAR I DS 1788. THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1831. r x KN , ,NTO\ PRICE 7n. 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