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:other thct was nelliieg bait file name ;:ilbsetily.t&.: shoul give the one such superiority ever (lie other' that te oie weuld be fir the most parr paid a ,whilst the of Would, in many instances, be left unpaid. But sae's were the established distinCtions which were san.qioned by the Laws of the Realm, and ,no evil was found to result therefrom.---With respeet to the cases which were stated to have occur! ed be fore the Master' in Chancery, a Bill might be brought in to remedy those particular eases without makiag any general alteration in the 'principle t of our Law. 4. This he conceived to be' a most impor tant consideration, and it brought into his mind the observation; that no country in the world • was so jealous of its political liberty as this was—apd yet he maintained that our political was nothing in coin, parison 'with our civil liberty. In this point of view he considered 'the WI as one that might be produ6tiVe of the most serious consequences to the country. It might have been necessary at the time of Edward the Firsf, but it was not suited to the state of England under Geo!ge 111. when commer cial speculations had increased to an extent that our ancestors donld not have thought possible ever to have been brought • about. If this measure was' to be new adopted'. a man who was disposed to corn- - mit a fraud would only be led to vest his money in copyhold instead of 'freehold-property ; and the commercial Man, if he possessed the most exten sive funded property, would have only to get into that House and he might defy hiS creditors. At Ole time of the introduction of the Statute of Frauds, the Statute of Limitations, and at the time. of the enactment of a Law to regulate the cases of Debtor and Creditor •in our Colonies, it must have. come to the recolleEtion of the Legislature thai. there was this peculiarity in the law which it was now pro posed to alter ; but still it was never, at these times, thought of changing, the law with resped to Eng land'; a Plantation was only considered as an instru- Ment of commerce, whilst the attachment to the soil of England was cherished by the Legislature. There have, since that, been two attempts to graft treasure, of the nature now before the House, upon the English Code, the one by the late Lord Kenyon, and' the other by another eminent Lawyer, but 'both these luminaries of the law, upon ma turd 'deliberation, abandoned the measure, as being unsuited to the genius and manners of the people. Mr. WYNNE ( ()served, that the frequent paSiing of...A.Cts of Insolvency was a proof of the de fetkof Our laws with relation to debtor and creditor. As the law now stood, a man that advanced a sum of - Money to another would take care to have the best security possible for the recovery of the amount cif- that debt, whilst the honest and industrious tradesman would, for the most part, suffer for want of a similar security. • Mr. NICHOLSON CALVERT declared, that he had conversed with severs upou.this subject, but he never beard 'or sticlr frauds as had been - alluded to this night. The men oflanded property he : now heard represented as being the rich and the oppres,. soli; and the commercial part of the community were spoken of as a poor and distressed set of people: The very .revetse of this he believed to be the fad. —The lhnded property-men - were the sheep, whom the Minister, whoever he was, could easily fay bold.of and sheer at pleasure; 'when, if a Minister attempted 'to iay his hands on •any particular branch of commerce, there were meetings in every coffee- - house in London, • and, in many cases, they escaped from 'his grasp. The LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND ob served, that it was a peculiarity in the English law Which was unknown to the ancient Greeks or Ro mans, or to any modern state in Europe, that the . death of a man should put an end to all the, moral"' obligations which he owed the world. He was himself, in the proper sense of the word, a strong Aristocrat, but he did not think it right to support the Aristocracy by such means as the law now sanc tioned. In. Scotland and in Germany a Most high and honourable sentiment of the antiquity- of fami lies prevailed ; -bat still they did not allow a nian to roil in the wealth which had been left him by his an-- ces:ors, whilst at the same time he would stare the creditor of that man in the face and say he would Trot, pay him. He asked any man in that Horse, Would it not give him an additional pang - upon his death bed if he knew that he was to die without be-- ing able to do justice to his fair creditors ? *lle asked any man, could he bear to think of going in gran deur to the funeral of a relation who had left him a considerable estate, without, at the same time, some qualms of conscience disturbing his breast, if he knew that the debta of that relation were left unsa tisfied, and that he'did not mean to discharge thetri ? A' man must have a mind incapable of judging right from wrong, 'or else he ' must design wilfully to de-, ceive, if he did not answer those questions in the' affirmative. It was but two days since the House passed a lavv'en the grounds of humanity and justice against every Argument of expediency which could , be urged, and could they then refuse their 5211611011 to A measure so foianded in justice as the 'present ! The idea of imu was held out as a bugbear; ' but was every science, art, manufaEture to improve by innovation, whilat the law alone should be de. prived of its to pursue 'a similar course of amendment ? Mr. CANN/NG ciimpared the present to • a law which had formerly been introduced tin . tho Regula tion of Country Banki, by making : their estates lia bye to their debts. Lord Kenyon observed mum that measure, that' it would be necessary that every. Banker should hifve a wap. of his estate, and cata logue of the incumbrances on it hung up in his house. 'A measure of that sort had been adopted 'in Ireland, and the:only result was that it increased commercial property,: and rendered the •estaresun saleable. Such, he contended, would be the result of the present -Measure, if it was to be adopted by the House. • The SOLICITOR GENERAL replied to the se veral arguments advanced against his Bill, which he could never hesitate to . call a remedy for grol4 inps ti6e. By what other name, he would ask, could the principle be.called, which this Bill proposed to remove, than unjust ? Was it just that one descrip -Con of men should be obliged to deliver up the whole of his property to his creditors, and.,if that were not sufficient to satisfy their claims, be himself liable to imprisonment .for life, while another. description of 'men should be permitted to hold their property ms touched by law, above the rearll.9l a creditor's equit able claim? With 1-:...gardf to the assertion that Bill ~ vas- an atNtek upon the Rrittocr,xy, he would A reportwas very generally circulated this morn ing, that His-Majesty's Ministers had resigned their offices, offices, and the Speech of Lord How icx. in the House Of Commons last night, upoil putting- otf the Catholic Bill, was considered as an almost unequivocal declaration upon that subje6l. We are, hoverer, enabled to state positively . , that Ministers have not resigned, nor do we believe that it, is their intention to tender their resignations. In com pliance with the Opinion expressed from a high quar 7 ter, they have abandoned the intention of pressing the Bill respthing the Catholics; but it is stated that they. have been also called upon to give certain pledges with respe& to future measures, and to enter into engageMents which they do not conceive that they would be justified in entering into. This we under stated is the precise state of the question at pre sent. It is understood that His MAJESTY'S pleasure will-be made-known upon the subjea this day. `Then - latter:rests precisely upon the grounds which we have stated, and having said thus much, we think it our duty to refrain from any observations upon a point of . so much delicacy and importance. LAST night we received Heintburgh and Altona Papers.: to the tjth inst. but they do not bring a l y intelligence of importance from the Seat of War.- The general retreat of the French 'Army is however at length distinaly admitted, and the head-quarters at , fixed at Osterodc ; " becauie from that place the coin munications with the different corps• of -the Army will be more , easy." We have very little doubt that the next French official accounts will inform us that some place on this side of the Vistula is still moro fit fur keeping up a communication with the different corps of the Army. The Prussian Garrison of Col berg continues to make frequent sorteei by which the French are very much harassed; and their coin• munications interrupted. THE subjeEt of the Peti.ion against .Mr. DAN, on the charge of'' tampering with evidence," on' the 'Westminster tleetion, was yesterday deter milted in the House of Cormnons, to the satisfac tion of every just and liberal mind. The Petition was decided to be " false and scandalous." DnAkt, who was one of Mr. PAnt.L's chief - Witnesses on this disgraceful b t isiness, has been committed tO . 3Niewgate, • We received this tirorning Letters and Papers from BCutland, but they contain no further accounts re- . spe(:lling.the Dutch Frigate which ran on shore near Thurso:- Yeterday 'His MAJESTY came to town from as usual, and held a Court at the Queen's .Palace; at two o'clock, when the Private Levee com menced, which was attended br The Archbishop. of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the herd President of the Council, the Lord edit ) , Seal, the iFirst Lord of the Treasuryohe Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Three Secretaries of State, the Master...‘.;eneral of the Ordnance, the •First Lord of the Admiralty, the Lord Chief I justi‘ie of the Court of King's Bench, the ludge Advocate, - the Laid Steward of the I lousehold ; Earls Winehilsea and Carn:itvon; Lord Heatlitidd ; Adniiral Dotninet ; General Messrs. Pierre point, aWkener. and Fordyce. Mr. i Pierrepoint was presented to kits Majesty,' upon his return - Arun : l his .Erribassy at Sweden.. Admiral DommET and Mr. FoßpvcE laid before • His MAJESTY the Seventh Report of the Commis . sioners bf Navallnqui ry. • . His MAJESTY 'hod a Privy Conucil, and .gave pri -I'7.ate audiences to most of the Cabinet Miiiiters. Mr. BoNn i the Judge Advocate, kaid , . before,his MAJr.s - ry the proceedings of several Courts Martial. His MAJps'r V' left the (-I , 4EN'il",ilace, t:‘,) - r sor, five o'clock. • AVAL • N \ DEAL,' MARCH 18,---Arrive I yesterday eOtiink -the Eipli)siOn Bomb from PortsthOuthi' with a 'het under convoy, consisting of coasting and Sive . dish Vessel , : _; the' latter are - saileci for Sheerneis to join convoy for the Baltic.• : This morning the Fary Bomb, with the 'Fran§- ports, outward-bound Vessels, Bce. unkler convoy, for Portsmouth, 'which sailed from the Downs on the 15th inst. put back ; also the Si and ..Lord liqwholury East Indiamen, and other Vessels which; sailed from the Downs last night. • • ''• Arrived the Zetra Bomb from Portsmouth; Rail lcur Sloop of War, Phosphorus. Fire-vessel, and several Gun-brigs from a Cruize, :fltid- remains in the Downs with the Ships as. per last: . P.S. Sailed the Flora Frigate for Yaraiouth. Arrived the Earl Spenter Cutter with • a convoy from Dublin and Scilly, which are sailed for the River. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 1 7.—Arrived the Renown, of 74 guns, from the Squadron cruizing off Roche; fort. Sailed the Dbadicea Frigate, on a cruize to the West‘irard, and the Lady Warren Armed Ship, with a convoy, for the Downs: Comiuodore KEATS, who commands the ,Roche fort Squadron, has shirted.his broad pendant 'from the Superb, of 74 guns, to the ,S;bari:att!, of 74 the former is hourly expeeled here tb FALMOUTH, MARCH Ib.-Arrived the _Nimrod Cutter from Off Ushant ; she left the Fleet all well on the .ioth Inst. • • Sailed the Insolent Gun-brig, Lieut. Mottßzs, for Plymouth. ' SUN-OFFICE, THREE O'CLOCK, P. M. EVE stop the Press to state, We have just 're ceived information that Lord ELDON M1;1 Lord 144WKESBURY were sent forto attend ITiS MAJESTY at Windsor, and that they left Town this . Morning for that purpose. It is understepd that they were sent for in order to receive lits.MAJEsTy's orders respelling the formation of alSieW Administration. Letters from Deal . and Dover say, there was no truth in the .mport of a firing having beetT heard along the Coast of Fraace on ThorSday last. Sir HOME Porn AM, accompanied by Capt. KING, and Mr. 14,0'1E, Agent to the former, appeared yes terday at LLOYD'S Coffee-house, and addressed a short speech to the Gentlemen - of that place, ex-, - pressive of his respe& 'fix th em as-the Commercial Props of the first City in the. world, and of his oWn hiyMty and patriotism during the whole of his pro fe6sional life. This Address was well received by the company present. ANrcnoTE.—ln a letter from benrmtk, dated 24th ult. Gen. Vic Ton, .now a prisoner of war at Elbing, requested permission, after his capture, to wi ite a letter to his wifit; bnt, some how or other, being suspe&ed of having Wrote another, an expresA was sent after his courier, in whose neckcloth a let ter was found to B'ONAPARTE, to whom be had wrote many particulars which belonged only to the profession of a Spy ; which occasioned him' to be searched, and a letter ‘vas found about him from NAPOLEON", Wrote on the battle of the 26th Deceni, bet, which he described as a yery tide day, but it had cot him 25,000 ! s. 'The Birth-day of the, Marquis. of Towzsisni?,ND, was celebrated in Dublin on the, I bth irist.with the re.ika due to that venerable Nobleman,- whose private virtues and social character will be long .re vered wherever they haveteen,knowli. Tug ORATonto.-The •sele6lion of last night, principally from flAspeL, was a proof of thy' snittid judgment of the /1.5i11..EY5. It was well attended,. and' veryiwell received. Yesterday the 'Recorder of London made his Re port- to his Majesty of the Convias capitally eon iCted at the Sessions before last, •at the Old Bailey, except four. Twelve of them were respited i • during his-Majesty's pleasure ; and Patrick Pr'endergrovt,, for breaking open and robbing the house of Mr. near Edgware, was ordered for execution next We&' nesday. Married,, on the 16th inst. at St. George's, Han over-square, Mt. WILLIAM SHERMAN, of Dedham, Essex, to toufsn, third danghter of JOIIN SKIN- Esq.' of Surrey-street, Strand. On Tuesday everting, about six o'clock, a most daring attempt was made by seven desperate con to escape froM Carlisle Gaol. Six of them liar ink got quit of their irons, rushed forth, and after knocking down the turnkey and his assistant, 1.1,:ho in vain opposed their passage, unbolted the door of that, part of the Gaol-yard which opens into Eng lish-street, whence .they fled in various dire6tions towards the fields, closely pursued by the Gaoler's sons, the turnkey,. and a number of other persons who 'happened to be passing. On the alarm being given, Capt. Scott, commander of a detachment of the Sussex Militia quartered in that city, ordered the drums to beat to - arms ; and great praise is due to that excellent Oflicer, as well as to the Serjeants• and Privates of his party, who assembled to a man at the main guard in less than eight minutes, and immediatelymarched to the door of the gaol, where they leaded with ball cartridge, and set out in quest of the fugitives, whoin they soon after . met in yes session of the jailor's ions and turnkey. Th e y were then 'delivered over to the military,,; who marched them into the jail-yard, where they were loaded with the heaviest irons, and re-conducted to their for tner cells. This appears to have b e en a d ee p-l a id p l ot, , as the villains had procured a pear of . pilitols, one of which was fired in the first attempt 10 c , 4cape, the other was afterwards feund upon one of the Con- • L . Y• ; '4 4 .; it', f*DiVlTFir..f44l4l3i7k . Cll AND. Ai. ; IONA BrituN, F,Ra.'2:3.-- , -The last accounts fr6rn tho ..Head-arters of the French army.-:areft - orn of the 200 ; February : notliing had occurred si n ee the affair of the i (ids. It is said tbat the -heod-nuartt.,rs of hip Milje,ty viii be horn._tdiately 're moved to OsterOde, from whence the conlmdkiications with all .the corps of the army will be more easy. Authentic - intelligence "from Stettin,. Etate, the town of Stutgard was attacked on the 16th of this month, by a Prussian corps, consisting of 50 . .) • infantry, 200 cavalry, and three pieces of Cannon; . belonging to the garri.4on of Colberg ; all the effur: . s.. of this detachment to enter thetown were fruitless; .it was repulsed at ail points, Ifter a brisk fire, and pursued to the neighbourhood of Massow had 30 _men wounded and 24 killed, .of whoa; two Oflicers . remained .upon the field of battle ; there is beside in the hospital one Officer and eight, soldiers : the French,had .two killed pod some wounded. Gen. 1 1 E= E Bet out in. the night of the 18 t h from Masst,w,mid i.ppeared at break of day before Neu-' garten. There is near that town a kind of morass, very deep, in tie midst of which is a height of firm land, upon-whch the enemyhad ereeted a redoubt. From the imp( ssibility of passing this morass, either by landor .water, and.of being able to turn it, it w 4 resolved to at t. ek it in' front. , When the necessary triaterials.were colleaed for filling'up the - ditch and mtking .a rood, Col. BOY I ER put hi nself at the head of the frisiteers of the guard, in this new road, over came all obstacles; and was the third who arrived on the enemy's parapet, in spite of .the violent fire, which did - not cease an. instant ;. the redoubt wt carried in five minutes, and the. French were masters of the town... The enemy eannon, and left near 'too killed . on the field of battle 138 prisoners were tile The loss 'of the French *.consists three killed and 22 wounded : the Gendarmerie OR duty behaved extremely well on this occasion. VIEN Vrl, FEB. frbin the front:ell of Turkey, dated the 7th of this month; States, that the Russian army, under the cOrnmand of G.L4cral I.ll;:ctkr.. - soN, is marching strait 46 Constantinople, and is alreatly at Georgia, beyond Widdin,- where it engaged a Turkish corps, and ki:ted dept thou Lind men, but it sustained itself a loss of theee thousand.* The Servians appear to have made :only- a 'seeming Peace with the Turks; besides, they have not yet given up to the latter Belgri(de not' Sehabatz ; and it is not dbubted but that they will join the Rnssihn4 as soon as these shall'.ba . ve pass( ., (l the Danobeyanti appear oil the other, side of Widdin.- There was lately a heavy discharge of artillery towards Sella batzi • _ . CON Sj'AsITINOPLIZ, JAN. is known that a Russian Corps of t MOO 'men is at Bucharest, and it is prc'paring to attack Giurgevo, which is sit,aated on the other side of the. Danube, apposite ttuzink ; that fortress has been put in thc. best state of defence.-- P4ll/0,v.,%;c AGA has. dislaiguished himself against the Russians, near Ismael ir he defeated a corps • cf . 3000 men, and has tent here 250 heads and 500 prisoners. ANCONA, Pacha of Janina, in consequencerof orders from the Sublime. Ports, will proceed to Ragusa with a corps of from ,8 to 10;000 men, for .the . purpose of joining Gen. LAunlsToir.' • CONSTANTFi:OPLE, :L YS. 2.5.--,Much has been said of a fruitless attempt of the Russians to obtain poSt. session of the fortress of Istnael; and it is reported that the RuSsian Commanding Officer summoned the commandant to open the gates. A report is also. current, that'thd garrison , Made-a sortie; and teak about 1000 prisoners, among whom Was a General: • But . 25 na,prisoners have yet arrived, the report of that viaory seems to. be without foundation. • . Tile Turkish squtdron, ..which' is stationed off Ba joukdera, where new batteries have also been ereEt ed,..is. daily increasing. It consists already of thirty Sail, eight of Which ar ships of the_line. The Porte has al."o demanded of the three Governments of Bar bary pccours of 30 ships of war. . The English line of battle ship Canopus, which took' Prince TTALINSKY as far as the Dardanelles, has there come to - an an char. The Prince went afterwards on board-.a Fri gate belonging, to - the same squadron, and proceeded io Malta. . , . anbe.A. to klle groii se=nse of 11, - e 1-laise, • - those who made that assertion were the friends of the Aristocracy ? What, were they friendly try the charter of that Aristocracy who could seriiti3ly maintain that its consequences depended an its members no‘t pay log their lust debts ? • He asserted ! that this Bill had the approbation of the three pre siding Judges of three of the highest tribunals of the, country—that it was a Bill foie the i-cief of the pour creditor against his rich debtoi% He described 'and - argued upon the situation in which poor servants and inferior tradesmen were placed with regard to their rich debtor, as the law now stood: For not having, in general, any bondS, their's being merely simple contract debts, they could not recover against the heir of their debtor.' After dwelling some time on the injustice resulting front this deficiency in the law, repeating the words of Sir J&'n Strange, that " 'a man who dies without making provsion for the payment of his.debts, sins in his grave," the Learn ed GentkAman concluded, with expressing - his hope that the House would not sutler a Bill to be lost which had for its objea the removal of that defi ciency ; and which proposed to remedy an evil that was, in fa& a reproach to the justice of the country. _ _ The MASTER of the tioLLs and the SOLI C ITOR GENERNI. mutually ekplained. The House divided, and the numbers were-- , For the Third Reading 47—Against it 69—Majority 22. The Biil of coarse is lost. Adjourned at hal( past twelve. MA 1 LS. ARRIVED-.. 2, Waterford. Du E- - t Gottenburgh, r Lisbon, Dublin, r Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols - - - - 6,2 thorn= - - - - I THE SUN. SOLLM LUIS DICLRR FALSJM AUDEAT? L 0 IV D 0 N, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1807. FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS. NAPLES, E4.17.—1n tl c beginnlng of this r. ton ,N - serious disputes occurred at IVlessina, tykt other places, between the English and Sicilian, troops,..;n, which the latter were supported by the it)habit'ants. I n one fight which took place between them . at Messina, forty men were killed, among v.hetu wa an English Staffgfficer. TRIESTE, FEB. 152.--On the ni g ht of the 6th in s t. twclve vessels,, laden with oil and rice, sailed from 0?2: port, bound, as it is stlpposz-::11, for Venice. bad, however, scarce sailed a Toile, when they wer e . captured by the Etitlish and Russian ships cru this part Yesterday the Eriti.,;h notified } ti'k