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fawn. of this swill-calusunial.a Act was, that it might
vi.l he rem ,Ind without cousiticrim: what measure should lie
Aitrodured it; its stititl, mid u hat superior tennis• applied
1,.. 311 evil the wouhi atill exult ; and rho' the noose would
Mien with caut.un to the sentimenta of persons, %lin, he it'd
,4 33 Ming enraged in trade, might have been
aggitiecd its operation.
Alit. WAlTtlitAll said, that the non. Menthe,- bad inialim
istund him when he represented him as saying that the
As' gave faciliti.s to ei. fit. He had sea no such thing, hut
it begot a hahit of carelessness ill those tell, obtain.•,(
roe and destroyed the morality of trade. It aas easy tOr
li,micottn utiscipminteit with such things to speak of the
clarity of re-adore; but he could dietary that, having at-
tended at thousands acmes, he never dud observed a dispo-
sition in the crtiliiiir to oppress the Ili burr; though he had
aid, he ails.-tea, of such cams. Oil a former night a
G. nilenian had ouid that people in trade gave credit too
en.ily aim carelessly; but it was impossible, he contended,
foi tender■ to carry ea their business on ally tither
pi inesple. He did state before, that between right and nine
millions hail hetet lost to creditors sip to March, 1817-
1. al, as not nor farthing in the pound was lecureyed out of
it. lie mktit, then, what advaumge did the trading soild
dci Iv- frutu the Act? %Vas it worth a man's while to leave
hi, himp, and go to Westininater to oppose the iiii.charge of
$ debtor, whet, he did not g• t a farthing in the pallid? He
Night to apologise to the House for dwelling so long on a
Subject which be well Imes was ill tabulated to (afire the
attention of Gentlemen not per:mostly interested. Let them
keit to the City of London --(lure-foutMs of the greatest
ltorrelassys there had once been clerks; and if they had cot
seen the eitesidate of sego's mg ■ character f•r integrity as
welt as capacity, they would never have risen to the station
thee steer gird He besought thesis Ili• II to comoier it might
he the consequence of cuillinuing a law which wrist to eclat
the mors!i4 of hailers. But the law al. not only ricstrue.
live of into nay, hot took away all the confidence of friend.
ship; fur in missy an instance a prr.ou who had, up to a
certain lirre.f life, maintained a fair reputation, availed
himself of his familiarity with a trader to procure his pro
petty, and larval paid for it. lie did not think it ineuinheitt
on those 11161C1/1340111N1 the Act to bring forward a measure
ill its place. He held tto office, and derived no emoluments
from the public, and had no measure to purpose ill lieu of
the Insolvent Debtors Act. It was enough for him to point
out It. .rats.
Alr.tlonnota said, that though he could not compete with
the Him. Member in the knowledge of matters of trade, tie
fiord be should Is• allowed to say a feu words in favour of
the d. hair—the unfortunate deldur. The Gentleman who
spoke against the Act had imputed all the Vim, to the
debtor, but was IitINC of it to hr laid on the creditor ?—.
(year.)—'lli r Worthy Alderman insisted on the fact of nine
er feu millions of pioperty having been nearly lost—lint he
urv,r adverted to what would have taken place had the Act
n. err ; iii his opinion precisely the same thilic would
liaprErd ni ILat raw, such that it was erroueous ma-
mmal/ to describe this as au effect of the I4Wf. He had also
said il.ai the shock given to credit wound destroy the mu-
te of trod,. Now his •iew of the matter was thirdly the
contrary; li•• thought that that occurrence tendril In render
trails mi r. moral, and that it world be advanced to the highest
pith ni..ah►y if c►edil were destroyed altogether, and
that all payments line made is ready tweiney.s—r Hear )
It was a wrung attempt of the Members of London and
hi endeavour to exude a fecllng against the Art.
The l'eliliou was then rear:, laid on the table, and ordered
to he petard.
Alters/tau WAITRMAS then ruse, to make the motion of
whirls he bail okcit—but, on the suggestiou of the
becattelt, it was puatp
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