The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-16 00:00:00

TRICKS OP INSOLVENT DEBT,

A countryman came up to London in Apt
the purpose of avoiding a hostile creditor, and
house in the neighbourhood of Smithfield.
creditor promised to follow and arrest him,
enable him to take the benefit of the Ins°!vet
Act. After a delay of a few days, finding that
had not arrived, he disclosed his condition to thi
who at once offered to introduce him- to r
with a convenient conscience, conducted him. t+
house in a court in Fleet-street, and there
acquainted with a Mr. D. 8., who agreed, for
2/., to put him into Whitecross-street prism
called Queer-street. B. communicated with hii
left the house, but returned soon with a bundli
exchange, out of which he made a selection
directed the countryman to endorse it. That
ceremony being over, and the 21. for the fat
arrest having been paid, it became necessar:
who appeared to be the detaining creditor,
tend the Insolvent Court on the hearing of th,
man's petition. The self-made creditor,
thought the thing too good to be abandon(
squeezing a little more money out of it, a,
cordingly refused to honour the Court
presence. This course produced another pours,
attended, and swore he never knew the man
had arrested, as before described, nor where
him, till within a few days of the arrest, when
vent was pointed out to him by a friend. T'
seeing that the countryman had been collusivelt
dismissed his petition. The scheme having failed
thing the countryman naturally sought was, hi
and he sent to B. for his discharge. "No," Bah
have your own acknowledgement that you owe I
sum of money, and out of quod you sba'n't le
you hand me over six quid (pounds)." The c(
in vain reproached the fictitious creditor. All
would abate of his demand was 1/. ; and the ui
countryman, who has no money at all, is now u,
retributive justice in Whitecross-street, where ht
upon the gaol allowance, as his family cannot sem
single shilling, and where the only consolation
the bitter one that he in reality owes not a sing'
to the person who detains him. B. is well
Whitecross_street prison, from whence he was
in November last, when he pleaued great po,
begged for pecuniary assistance. This worth:
on payment of a certain sum of money, to
detainer against him, and immediately proceeded
from a tin case a bundle of old bills, out of which
one, which he desired the man to endorse. This
and next day some person made oath that the em
indebted to a prisoner confined in Horsemonger,
201. and upwards, and a writ was issued accorditn,
of the more respectable of the prisoners in W
street having heard of this circumstance, metal,
the Governor, who immediately investigated
and caused the detainer to be withdrawn, and
man's name to be struck off the bill. If this had
the case, the wretched 40s. prisoner would have
with the Insolvent Act ; and after selling the
from under his wife and children to pay the erg
going up to Court, would have been completely turned:.
as the Commissioners would doubtle,s have seen throP
the scheme, and dismissed his petition.

LONDON MARKETS.

PRICE OF BREAD.
The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is gd. for
41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from jid. to 1301. i 1
that price.

PRICE OF SEEDS.—JuIy 15.
New English'led Clover Seed (per Cwt.) 40s. 60s. fine 655.
Old Ditto Ditto..
New Foreign Ditto
O'd Ditto .1.1•00••••••••••••••10
—s. fine —s.
40s. 565. fine 60s.
—s. —4. fine —s.
255. 28s. fine 30s.
—s. —s. fine —4
20s. 255. fine 265.

New White Clovi

0 fd Ditto Diti

31d Ditto
Rib Grass

English Carraway
Foreign Ditto -

-8. —B. 7.35. fine

St. Foin
Rye Gra

.(per Quarter).---.. 465. 48s. fine 50s.
255. 30s. new 335.
365. 445. new
—s. 50s. fine —s.
445. 50s. —s. fine
-4. —s. 70s fine

Ditto

Canary Seed, Ne;
tlitto Old
White Mustard Seed......(per 8u5he1)...... —s. Bs. 10s. tine
Brown Ditto . - —s. 20s. 245. fin'
Turnip Seeds, Rounds . —s. --s. 18s. tine
Green and Red Ditto -A. —s. 18s, tine
Tares, Old —4. 4s. fine se.
Ditto New .—s. ss. fine ss.
Rare Seed, English, fine (per Last) 25/. 28/. ..... Foreign 241.

PRICES OF HOPS.—July 15.
New Kant Pockets (per cwt.) 51 Os. 01. Os. to 61.
61. 63. 01. Os to 71.
61. Os. 71. 03. to Cl.
71. 10s. 01. Os. to 01.
0!. Cs. 01. 03 to 01.
0! 03. 01. Os to 01.
41. los. 51. ss. to Oh
The Hop Duty is estimated at 17(,000/.

East Kent
Choice ....

New 5.,,51

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