The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-08 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS.

On Saturday last a Meeting of Merchants and
Tradesmen was held in the Town.hall, for the purpost of
" taking into consideration the propriety of petitioning Par.
Raiment to repeal the existing laws for the relief of 11 '1"'"411
Debtors."
The 3:AYou opened the business by stating, a reilli'i"
don having been presented to him numeriCally, and, he might
say, respectably signed, he had deemed it his duty. to tall die
Meeting together, to consider of a Petition to be sent to Par-
liament, praying for a repeal of the Insolvent Debtors' Act.
The Town-clerk having read the requisiden,
Mr. RUSHTON rose, and stated, that he bad been desired
to presort to the notice of the meeting a series of resolutions,
and a petition founded upon them, for the purpose of carryisS
into Effect tl.c object for which it had been convenal. Be could
not but regret, that this task had not been committed to *big.
hands than ma. Many persons much more competent than he
might have been found to undertake it • and he was glycol/
sorry that none such had come forward' on that occasioe,
Jt
wait admitted, on all hands, that great and cxying evils were
inflicted upon the trading part of the community by the °pets?
tion of the present law for the relief of insolvent debtors.
Htz
would be the last person who would attempt to repeal int,,llllt.'
for the relief of men whose suOrings had sprung from
misor-
tune ; men who had sunk under the pressure Of unavoidable.
calamity ; men who had become the victims of disasters which
elley could not avert. It was not the object adds sueetineea"
attempt to deprive unfortunate debtors of the only means winds
they had of escaping from the evils that had befallen them'
but it was their desire to break up the gigantic spool ot
fraud and robbery under which society was nor suffering, an!.
which had grown u under the present law. It was a mstter,o,
notoriety, that debts had been contracted by insolvents to tali
amount of many millions sterling, for which the credieori
not received one halfpenny in the pound. fie held in his liatwe
a statement, fmm which it appeared,_ that the debts of seven
insolvents had amounted to 90,4804 and the assets totearlit
the payment of those debts to only 171. 17s. 31„,i1t 'less's%
their estates had not amounted to three fuel:logs
peered, from authentic statements, that eleven soiiiv-:,..„am
had been contracted by insolvents, and that the De Pri"•44—nd
Was the tntito.
Could such a state of things be longer endured ?
trious teadman to he defrauded of his property in this marine!,
without redress? The evil could not be tolerates! longer, 11na._
effectual measures must be taken for stopping. eta destructive
career. The law, as it now stands, offers a direct bctuntYwi:
villany. The effects of the bankrupt laws are not tt be
pared with those which it inflicts on society. Its operate° 140
to deteriorate public morels ; so much so, that men, nit ow,
they have had a most respectable character, cone,!„er They
crime to contract debts without the ability to rePaY t"`''" text'
know that they can take the benfiet of the insolvent deb
act, by which they are exonerated from their debts, in I,:;111.
summary way, in the short space of eight.and-twantrinriu,
in the
And this is what they call " whitewashing." The eni e,
ate creditor has no relief in law. The insolvent is set at
and provided, perhaps, with the means of acquiring fresh ?,7_.
Pert,' ; yet how few instances have occurred of his comintivorn,
ward and discharging the claims of his tied
itorS
millions had, as c before stated, been taken from the 1;1
of the tratling. part of the community by this spei444,.`"futert
fraud, and tradesmen were left without the means el nem,
hera
freely
allowed,w
redress. Such a system of robbery ought not, lie again raLior,
ed, to be tolerated for one moment. The unfortunete
tit
described, ought to be punished with the uunost sever
as a preventive against fraud, and as a protection to 111 e
ought to
dtoedhahirave some means
yo.fseusc,aipsising, 11)0.4al
trious tradesman srainst the arts of unprincipled nese
Mr. ROBERT PRZSTON seconded the resolutions.,
in ori
then read, and agreed to unanimously. The
The resolutions and the petition founded ol';'11 IIT lyin
for signature, was onlered to be presented to 1I'" 11 oe'shy
Loris by the Earl of Derby, and to the House of Coon
the Members for the Borough. 'ass i 3
'Thanks were then voted to the Mayor, for his resit'
calling the Meeting, and for his able conduct in the Clear,
the Meeting separated.--(Lieeepool Courier, March )
petitio, st voto

• (From the Gloucester Journal, 111arth 3.)
~as of
THE HAUNTED COACH ! OR, TIIE per,
ItENTRILOQUTSM!—Monsieur ALEXANDRE, wit 4r
formances have recently so much delighted this citYl he
wilcre
llLLednesdady evening, returning from Tewkesbuclt , circles,
_he beendining with a friend well known in drarosucti celt,
ifnight was dark, and the occasion too inviting fa/ „1 of the'
rated Ventriloquist to forego his rokurries ! ue.-„y heo
box had not proceeded far, when be was assailed bitrlo
loheehdinrodytehoenco. a
Ills .sspaisiosewnge.r breathless tofovoie,-,:i',. ?rip:
he pulled up, and waited some minutes,but no on
the
after lion : the
colainaclet.;inadn"dital;gti r; calkliinf' ;lame: he's7atePr''ntil lYstr 011 0,°:,:,:?vi4911 t°:111;•
Coaches stopped ; but in vain—no one was near!'" " atceYA.
raged,anpb
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deis oe and
be
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coach
partyni
resistedse
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regard dla n d some
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wilne
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a deaf ear to his fo rnicr fri ee isngs‘dtl'a laces
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discew
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bEerxnectrahglairenmerdobef
tiyo,ienoa. meas- ore, heigimtuveb:3e't.`"ll.
voice front the inside the coach deinandet.a;to paP•
sPhaotrddallaitghhte: ofhethdied wsoliiPanailltftdsietanreliallrbidietire:l;°:bir, Sonte ti y
hr
tbeliTeinah eeandv,et:ner tido et
eetoed, Delb7ellseahtimi:Tverednlrehnrirewetaarelliinnil;P;:ce°llrt;sliTeillidillni-L',lcin4ckevt::"ca-(41
nu—his whip was projected in air, for he tfloi Ivorrreot of
that some evil spirit haunted the voiturc. 4.14 a detnefulei
courage, he drew on to a house near at 110, "La all 'o,`",;
a light, and, with the wondering passengers; T°lll, first riot`
Vercsomic la !—By and °cid coincidence, it via, conyietiO
our modern Phatten had driven this coach ,11 • all" his
it beslY;
! !vita so complete of an evil spirit being about it? -One
d rAnglaiir, he would never mount the box again' r r
diseove tor
outside passengers volunteered to go inside? and „410.1,
sible this mysterious visitor ; notwithstanding vir° for an '1 it
every precaution, Conches drew up more titan onseeif 00'w'
'tenor!, fare. Monsieur Alexandre, who was hinies
(3
passenger, endeavoured to tranquillize the fo— , the o'scral
renew. He said it might be Alexandre himself ;
titan, whose mind was now tilled with the fear of
it o of
agency, said, " I know he is at Cheltenham, a a
nduos;.i.
w
slide for him to throw his voice from thence la th`,o
coach." On their arrival, M. Alexandre line the
do
culty to persuade the passengers, or the coachmen, t
'non had been practised by himself.

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DIUTIIS. „....,, Cortaal"'
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On the Gth inst., in Tavistock-square, o'l' fif obe"
daugh.
28, ter. °Or
Feb at Spralton, near Northampton> the I,
%maiden, Esq., Jun., of a daughter. .........4

On Thursday, the 6th inst., at HOY
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MA /tit 1E1). , _b, yet► -yo
the Rev. John Hurst, son of Robert fluAllta'aoghtg„:„
Horsham Park, Sussr_x to Ottlierinc, 30°611' estor."-Nbefs
Rev. the Chancellor Pluliyn, of Pershore, WO roots kli
Last week, at St. John's, 31argate, Mr. John
of that town, to .Mists Harriet Jowl, of Deal.
cross Charcf;op, 1 ilic

On the ath inst., at Hampton, the infant sun af
gtl
George Hemming. Bath, 01
On Thursday, at his house in Henrietts.strcet,
Cuthbert, et. the East India Service, lienital•

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