The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-24 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY, 1819.

PUBLICATIONS.

DR. BURNEY.
TAMES ASPERNE respectfully informs the
ILP Admirers of the late Dr. CHARLES BURNEY, that
on the First of April will be published, THE -EUROPEAN
MAGAZINE far MARCH, with an interesting Memoir, ac•,
eompanied with a striking and remarkably fine Likeness of
that celebrated Character, engraved by J. Thomson, from the
original Bust by Nolickins, price es.; Proof Impressions of
the Portrait separate, at 4s.
This-interesting Miscellany has been before the-Public fur
nearly Forty Years, and continues to be published on t he First
Day of every Month, each Number containing a Portrait and
Biographical Memoir of sonic distinguished Person.
3e, Cornbill.

This Day were published,
The Second Edition, in lQmo. price as. 6d. boards,
NOTES on a VISIT made to some of the
PRISONS in SCOTLAND and the NORTH of ENG-
LAND, in company with Elizabeth Fry; with some General
Observations on the Subject of Prison Discipline. -
By JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY.
Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh ; and.
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Hurst, Ro-
binson, and Co. London.
Of whom may be had,
An INQUIRY whether CRII'4E and MISERY are produced
or prevented by our present System of PRISON DISCI-
PLANE. By Thomas Powell Buxton, Esq. M.P. Fifth Edi •
tiun, price la. ed.

PETER. PINDAR.
On April 1 will be published, price Eighteen-pence only,
THE LADY's MAGAZINE for MARCH.;
containing a Biographical Sketch of Dr. Wolcot,' alias
Peter Pindar ; an unpubli6Cd Poem by the late Dr. Wolcot ;
Criticisms on, and Extracts from, Evadne, a Tragedy, and
The Banquet, a Poem ; an Account of the Pedestrian Car-
riage, or Walking Accelerator, with a Fac-Simile Wood Cut
an Account of Matthews's Patent Safe Coach, with Fac-
Similes of the Four Horse and Pair Horse Coach, and Ex-
planatory Diagrams ; besides the usual Variety of interesting,
useful, and instructive Articles; and embellished with an
Original Portrait of the late Peter Pindar, taken a few days
previous to his Decease ; a Lady in the Fashionable Costume,
and a Pattern for a Child's Cap.
London : Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and. Joy, Pater-
noster-row; to whom Communications (post-paid) are to be
addressed.

PUB LI C A TION.I

•
To be published Ma, Ist,

EPERTORI.UNI BIBLIOGRAPHICUNI ;
Alio or, an ACCOUNT of PUBLIC and PRIVATE LIBRA-
RIES, in One large Volume, 'Royal. Octavo, exceeding. 700
pages, with Portraits, acc,
The Stiliserihers are respectfully 41bl-riled, that the above
Work will be ready for delivery on the ram' of MAY next.

sEETCH OF THE CONTENTS :
Introductory Account of celebrated Foreign Public Li-
braries.—The Public Libraries at the. Britisli, Museum,
Lambeth, Oxford and Cambridge, Canterbury, .Dublin,
Edinburgh., Eton College, Glasgow, Society of Antiquaries,
Tower, Westminster, Manchester, &c. &c.—The Private
Libraries of the King,TSir Joseph lianks, Marquis of Bnth,
Wiiliam Beckford, Esq. M.P. Marquis of Blandford (now
Duke of Marlborough), John Dent, Esq. M.P. the Dune of
Devonshire, Marquis-of Douglas" and Clydesdale (now Duke
of Hamilton and Brandon), Right Hon. Thomas Grenville,
Richard Ileber, Esq. George Hibbert, Esq Sir Richard Colt
Hoare, Bart. Earl of Jersey, Doke of ~Marlborough, the
late John North, Esq. Earl -of Pembroke, Duke of Rut-
land, Earl Spencer, Marquis of Stafford, Sir NI. M. Sykes,
Bart.,,n.p. Roger Wilbraham, Esq. and the late. Michael
Esq.--Lists of rare Books contained in the aLos'e
Collections, with occi:sional Notes and Biographical Re-
marks74,.--An Account of the most eminent .Lihraries
dTs-
perset auction, including the Roxlarghe, Towne-
let, Stanley, Crofts, Mason, Reed, Steevens, Chauncv, and
other celebrated Collections, with Prices of the niost rare
and curious .articles.—A copious Index of 70 pages, con-
taining the Titles of all the Books iii.tited in the vOlutne,
with the addition of others sold in the various Sales dtaring
the last tWenty years, with their Prices, late and present Pro-
prietors, &c-&c.--A Dialogue (in doggerel) in the shades,
between William Caxton, William Wynken, Clerk, and ,a
modern Bibliamaniaz..—A Ballet, entituled " Rare Doynges
at Roxburghe Hall," with Notts.—The Book will contain the
following Engravings :• Portraits of John Doke cif Roxburghe,
Rev. Mr. Crailierode,. John Towneley, .Esq. Rev. Thomas
Crofts' Dr. Gusset and Jonathan Boucher, Dr. Francis Ber-
nard, J. V. Pinelli Francis I. King of France, Anthony
Storer, Esq. Joseph Planta, E9(l.—An interior View of the
Bodleian ',Palmy, Oxford, and Vignette to the " Dialogue in
the Shades."

Three hundred and fifty copies only printed, and fifty on
lame paper. _ _

The price to the Subscribers will be three pounds, and for
he large paper copies, in two volumes, fire guineas. ,
To he pui)lished by WtwAst CI,4ItICE, New Bond-street.

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ARAIAGH .ASSIZES.

(From the Dublin
." Polriot.")

The efforts of Faction to accomplish her own
castigation have been ernintn(l)i successful: The
attempt of a few obscure and interested indPi-
duals to taint the pure atmosphere -.of tire North
with the pestilence engendered at the Rotunda
has drawn forth a docutfietit which cannot fail
of being lei hty gratii.ying to every real friend of
the Constitution and of Peace. The Grand Jury
'of this great and enlightened conntya body
second to none in point of personal respectability,
extensive property, politiesl influence, and inde-
pendence of principle—have, with two exceptions,
signed a Petition, of wkich the following is a
copy

" To the Right Honourahie and Honourable the Knights,
Citizens, and Burgesses of the United Kingdom in Parl'm-

meet assenibled:

" The Petition of the undersigned Grand Jurors of the
County of Armagh, assembled at Lent Assizes, t 819,
" That Petitioners, deeply sensible of the many -bless-
ings,s-ecured to these kingdorniby.our present glorious Con-
stitution in Church and State, cannot but feel serious alarm

at the renewed demands of Persons professing .the Roman
Catholic Religion, --(and thereby acknowledging a controlling
supremacy without these Realms,) to be admitted to an un-
qualified participation in the Administration thereof.
That, however impressed with these sentiments, Peti-
tioners would have left the decision of this important qUes-
tion to the unbiassed wisdom of the Legislature, but efforts
being now in progress to deceive 'your Honourable House
into a belief that the Protestants of Ireland are friendly to
those demands, Petitioners consider it their. duty to come for-
'ward and earnestly pray that tb,e Constitution may remain in-
Violate—which, Petitioners humbly conceive, can only be ef-
fected by its continuing essentially Protestant."

Signed by
WM. RicuAnDsox, Foreman,

Charles Brownlow, Joseph Atkinson,
T. Molyneux; Major-Gen. Thos. Seaver,
Maxwell Close, W. N; Thompson,
Roger Hall, Wm. Irwin,
N. A. Cope, John Ogle,
Wm. Blacker, ' James Forde,
Junes Johnston, Robert' Harden,
Thos. Verner, Wm. Loftie,
Acheson St. George, John Hardy,
Nicholas G. Johnston, John Winder.
The two dissentient Gentlemen were—the lion.
Henry Caulfield, brother to Lord- Charlemont,
who, however great his individual respectability,
(and it is conceded to him in ample measure) is
not understood to possess, in his own right, fifty
acres of land in the County; and Mr. George En-
sor, a Gentleman also of respectability, but of
limited freehold property in the County, author of
some works on metaphysical subjects, which have
drawn upon him some sharp critical animadver-
sions from the friends of revealed Religios.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, MARca 23.

The LORD CHANCELLOR resumed his Sittings
this day at Lincoln's-Inn-Hall. His Lordship
came into Court at a quarter to eleven o'clock,
and proceeded with.the wotions. The following
was the only case of any interest, and which ex-
cited considerable mirth in the Court :

INFRINGENIENT OF PATENT.
REVOLVING. HEELS OF BOOTS .AND SHOES.
STUBBS AND HUGHLS V. HOWARD.

Mr. HART moved for an Injunction to restrain
the defendant front making and exposing to sale
boots and shoes with moveable, or revolving
beds, without the consent and approbation of
the plaintiffs, as Ibey had obtained his Majesty's
patent for the invention.
The LORD CHANCELLOR." Hand me up one
of,the heels."—(A boot with the revolving heel
was accordingly handed up for his Lordship's ex-
amination.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR..-.-" By the assistance
of one of,My officers Ithink I understand the use
of the heel, that is, when it wears away it revolves,
and makes it unnecessary to send it to the cob-.
bler to be mended, by which means he is cheated
of his job. I thought at first it was the person
who wore it that revolved."

Mr. HART said, however simple the invention
was, his Majesty's advisers had thought proper
to grant the plaintiff Stubbs a patent for it, and he
had sold his property in it to the plaintiff Hughes.
The question was, not whether the invention was
of utility, but whether the Court would not pro-
reel, the right of a person who had obtained a pa-
tent. The defendant was selling the same article
without the licence of the Plaintiffs, and when► 'he
skewed that, it was sufficient for the Court to
grant a conam?n injunction on a bill being filer:.
The LOUD CHANCELLOR.—" Take your 1119•
ti 011."

CORONER'S INRVEST.-Yesterday, at 12 o'clock,
an Inquest was held at the sign, of the Pea lieu,
Huggin-lane, on the body of Elizabeth Hagget,
aged 79, who was burnt to death on Sunday
evening, about eight o'clock, at. the house of
Mrs. King, No. 1, Huggin-lane, where she
lodged in the two pair of stairs room. Mrs.,
King deposeditbat the deceased was a single wo-
man ; she went up stairs to her. aparlmerits be-
tween two and three, to sec if she wanted any
thing done, when she found her sitting by the
fire.. Mr. King then went down stairs, and saw
no more of-her till.pne of the lodgers came down
and told her there was a great smoke in Mrs.
Hagget's room, She went immediately up stairs
to her room mid, Mound the ,deceosed under the
grate, and Otocki-ngly hurni., and dead. Verdict,
'• Accidently burnt to death.".

I'oll 'l'llE, SUN.

INSOLVENT DEB fORS.

ME. EDITOR,—Your UCH reSpOndent, W. M-11,
Te!Bpi'', has stated, that " the money paid by the
Thatched House Society for the release of a
Debtor is generally swallowed up by the expellees
of the bare arrest." A more convincing proof
cannot be, that neither Debtor nor Creditor are
benefited by the present system of imprisonment.
Allow me then to suggest, through the medium
of ~our Paper,—tor indeed Tug Sy N appears the
only Journal that locks to the public welfare,—
that. the Thatched !louse Society should make the
experiment of paying the debts of those Debtors
only who are ant imprisoned. Thus, the Cieditor
will pause on incarcerating his wretched bonds-

luau, when he knows that theteby he will merely
feed his own Attorney, and deprive It of at y
ci,nee ,s 1 payineot. It ‘vonid be easy, Sir, to
make this regulation accord with tic oilier rules
of this exerneur Society.

CLEIENS.

FOR '1 II E

INIPIIISONNIENT FOR bE3T.

To cßmiToßs, TRADER., AND MEN OF Pr.o-
PEa"IY.

(Contiimed

There are bot fr,ur kind; 1) hints, and rutin)
et itch of those is it expected that Imprisonment
will produce or compel payment ? First, there is
the Dentor who has no.hing to ply any part of.
his debt. Secondly. he who has means to pay
part of it, but not the entire. 'Thirdly, he who
has barely sufficient ; and Fonrthly, he who has
more than sufficieor to pay the entire of his debt.
First, Then, from the Debtor who has nothing
to pay, what can lie • expected = lie is shut up
from his own exertions, which tt ere the only
rieatis remaining to enable him to pay any thing ;
of those he is now deprived—he is locked np
f.om the possibdity of earning; and can folly
itself imagine, that inability is enabled by the
vety act which entirely disables, or, if not en-
aldcd, can by that act he compelled to pay any
Secondly, The Debtor who has the means to
pay part, but not the entire of his debt, is equally
tibut np from the power of earning. lie is bereft
of his liberty, and tied tip from industry or effort.

How thco can he he expected to do that to tvhich
he was unegitai hetc,re % Oo the contrary, he is
obliged to live in his compulsory idleness on that

sx'hich tnight whet wise go towards paying' his
dch•, Aml li thus sooir without the pU3ai liiy of
thiog.
Thirdly, I)ebtor tvho has barely s3fficient
m aiti to riv his debt, sett-plescrvation, that
fitst law of I'.;:iture, will oblige to keep those

mein SI. 111)Oft Vxisteilce tiuder incarceration

lind involuntary inactivity. If he gives to his
imprisoning Creditor, he wrongs his unimprisoning

Cr:editors, and
,he leaves himself to starve.
I►efore he wars imprisoned, he offered his Creditor
as much as, with a just regard to st It-preservation
and the tigh:s of other Creditors, he was able to
pay, he is not, atter the various expellees to Bai-
liffs, in a loelti-up house, and in a prison, able
to give what was before rtfused. It he has not,

hufoic his imprisonment, made his Creditor a fair
offer, lie k not likely to do so alter imprisonment
has destroyed what was his strongest tie to do so,
his credit. Whether he is honest or no, his iru•
prisonment takes from him the possibility of pav-
ing the entire debt, as, since he was arrested,
part, and that also generally no small part, of
what was originally Irately sufficient to pay the
dehi, has been consumed.

No person ever, but the dishonest, or he who
is by habit hardened to imprisonment, suffers him-
self to be imprisoned for debt till he has done
more to avoid it than strict justice to himself or
his unprosecuting Creditors would allow. He then
sees, that if he gives his imprisoning Creditor
whatever remnant of property he still has, this
Creditor having it in his power, as the entire debt
cannot be paid, to continue or renew the im-
prisonment, will probably do again what he has
done (saute ; and that even though this Creditor
should give him his discharge in full, his other
Creditors, justly vexed at his haviog paid the un•
merciful Creditor every thing, and themselves no-
thing, will probably have recourse to what anger
as wdl as example invites them. fie sees, there-
fore, that not parting with what little lie has,
affords hint tke (slily chance of existence, while
be considers that the Creditor who has torn him
from fibers}, hurried him into ruin, .and blighted
all his prospects, deserves no great attention or
regard trout him. No honest man can but feel,
when the infliction is brought home to himself,
thou.-4h he may not in the case of others, because
not so hilly forced on- his reflertion, that he is
unjusily punished, because punished without crime
(for DEBT is not GUILT) ; and that the person
who punishes tutu unjustly owes hitn 'reparation
for the imprisonment. If therefore he tan pay
any thing. it is nor certainly to the man who
he considers owes hint reparation, he wishes to
pay it. To Ibis Creditor, revenge, or a sense of
justice to his other Creditors, forbids him to give
any thing ; this is always the case with the ho-
nest prisoner for debt. The dishonest prisoner
for debt in this case, who probably has been un-
willing, is now tendered unable to pay the entire
debt ; and from paying any of it he is still more
strongly than the lustiest prisoner for debt with-
held by self-pteservation, as lie has less to hope
for from character or mercy. -

bus from either, while in prison, and conse-
quently in cons owing iii!productiveness, there is
a physical impos!•ibilny of getting the entire of
the debt, wijle the Creditor has, in addition to
the los, of Ge debt, to pay his Attorney's heavy
bill of costs and charges.
But if, after finding the experiment of imprison-
ment vain, the Cu editor releases his Debtor, and
104 ks to his future acquisition, what acquisition
cat► he reasonably expect ? The Insolvent Acts
make the Debtor's future property liable to the

as well. as tioc on:lopristoimg
1 rte iniii,fice of this is not it's only tault, giving
equial claims over the Debtor's property to the
Creditor, who has deprived him of his first, his
inherent, at 4 most valuable property, of what
was so much more valuable than his debt, of his
hbertv; and to the Creditor who has not depriv-
ed him of any thing, nor had any payment what-
soever Irmo hint ; and thus holding out a pre.
orlon) to injustice and cruelty, which is undoubt-
edly a crying iniquity. But this is not the only
moral detect of this provision. The Acts are
somewhat delusive in this particular, and not more
so to the ntrimprisonmg Creditor than to the im-
prisoning. What chance. has the man, liberated
by ao Insolvent A t, of making any a, qui:ition
either for the imprisoning or onimprisoning Cre-
ditor, or even for himself 1 • He has no capital,
his credit is rained, his conoexioos are rent
asunder, and the character of. having been in
jail for debt, and liberated by an Act of
Insolvency, bangs about his neck like a mill-stone,
and keeps him tinder in spite of every exertom,
every effort, to rise ; instead of being able to ac-
quire ail, thing for the Creditors, be is more than
commooly fortunate it he can, by industry, pro-
vi-!e enough to enable himself to drag on a mi-
serahie existence of penury and degradation—or
finding his endeavours vain, his acti,,iiy baffled,
his enert::ies repressed, and all his prospects blast-
ed, he betakes himself to evil, but almost neces-
sary coot ses, which end in a death of crone and
igtmlioy• The annals of our Criminal Courts
will flay verify results of this nature.
From having no capital—from having his con-
nexions destroyed, and his credit ruined—and
tram the necessary habits of Mactivily contracted
in the compulsory idleness and melancholy torpor
of a jail, there is hardly a possibility of his being
coaled to do any more titan (Allah) a mere ex-
istence ; and even, in this (ate, the Creditor t►ill
only have the loss of his Attorney's hill of costs
and charges, with disappointment, vexation, trou-
ble, and loss of time, to add to that of his debt.

Here, Creditors, you see it is cleat from reason,
as well as proved by tact, what utter fully it
is to expect any thing but additi,Tal loss from
imprisouiug either of those three kinds of
Debtors—the Debtor who has nothing' to pay
any part—the Debtor who has only ,vti„t
pay part, but not the entire—or the Deb;or who
has barely what would pay the entire of his debt.
Yon only ruin them, and injure yourselves. You
reduce them from partial and present to entire and
lasting inability, while you do so at a heavy ex-
pellee tnyourseives ; and from entire anti lasting
inability who can expect any thing ?
Fourthly, Then, from the Debtor who has more
than sufficient to pay the entire of his debt, you
have to see what imprisonment is likely to procure
you ; for from this Debtor only it is that there is
any probability of Itoprisonment's procuring you
any payment. But this Debtor also must be di-
minishing his means, by his necessary consump-
tion of them, in his loss of liberty and exertion,
while the Creditor's lost is swelled by the law
expellees and charges. Thus the Debtor's ability
of paying will he lessened, wkile it trill be of no
utility to the Creditor, that so much of, perhaps,
most valuable time should be wasted away in
worse titan nnproductiveness. Besides, of the
very few who have more than sufficient to pay
their Debt, and will bear to be imprisoned rather
than pay it, nineteen out of twenty will stay in
prison 'till they spend what they have, rather than
pay him who has deptived than of the best bless-
ing of nature, liberty, in prejudice to the rights
of more merciful Creditors. Auger, pride, the
spirit of not yielding to compulsion, hatred,
obstinacy, and other motives, will urge them. Ex_
perience proves this, as well as knowledge of hit
man nature teaches it ; and until a Law of Resti-
tution shall be established for yielding to all the
Creditors a just and equal participation in the
means of the Debtor, any mode of compulsion by
Imprisonment or otherwise must he productive
of cruelty and injustice ; and the Creditor who
pursues a Prisoner with unrelenting severity, till
he obtains payment, commits a species Of rubbery
on the other Creditors, who have refrained from
such procedure, and with whose claims the per-
secuting Creditor is acquainted.
W. M—N, Temple.

LONDON JOURNALS.

FROM I'HE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

[Morning Chronicle.]

Extract of a Letter front an Officer in the Ve-
neznelian service, dated 100 miles on the River
thinoko, January 8, 1819 :
" A sail has just hove in sight, which gives me
the opportuni!y of sending you a few lines. Yes-
terday we tell in with the ship Tartar, waiting for
a pilot, and assisted her in getting into the River.
She is now at anchor, all well, in the Orinoko.—
Every thing in the affairs of the Patriots looks as
well as possible.—The Supreme Chief has left
Angostura, to take the command of the-aNny."

Extract of a Getter from a respectable house,
dated Kingston (Jamaica), Feb. 4t11.—" Al'Gre-
gor is arrived in an armed brig at Aux Cayes,•and
yesterday Sir Home Popham dispatched his Ma-
jury's ship Iphigenia to reconnoitre his move-
men ts.—(lbid.)