The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-15 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' ACT.

tide now in existence.
Petitions are daily pouring in from all parts of
the Kingdom against the renewal of the Insolvent
Act, and they develope, without doubt, enormities
of the grossest nature which have been committed
under its protection, to answer the purpose's of
unprincipled persons ; but are there no honest
men who have found shelter under its provisions
from the violence of. rapacious Creditors, acid
whose families have been saved from ruin and star-
vation by its influence ; are there none of these,
I say, to come forward and present co.mter-pe-
titions !---Has a measure which cost so many
great and wise men the labour of weeks, nay,
mt:!-.iis together, produced not one single effect
which was intended ? Or, rather, is it not be-
Cause those who have been relieved in their ne-
cessities are either unable to appreciate the bene-
fits miliCh they have received, or unwilling to ac-
knowledge their former situation, and thus sit
down in quiet, while their benefactor is likely to
be undeservedly overwhelmed ? Much more acute
is the sense of injury than the sense of grati-
tmle.

I admit, Sir, to the fullest extent, the justice o

the complaints against the Act, for I am aware
that most of the frauds enumerated in them are
actually practised, and that a door has been
opt•ocd, through which bad and good have rustled,
almost wiz hoot di&criminat ; bat I require, at
the sante time, admissions, on the other band,

that all these charges amount to nothing more
than abuses of the Act—that no remedy
has ever been atternpted to be applied to
them, and that therefore they cannot be
pronounced incurable : we have, too, all these
abuses before our eves, and surely Providence is
not so partial to evil as to deprive the mind of
man of sufficient strength to counteract it when
it becomes palpably visible.
It is a principle universally and humanely re-
cognized by our laws, that private or individual
gain Must always be sacrificed at the shrine of
Liberty, and with this principle before them, I
II mild recommend those persons who are now

the most ardent in their petitions against the, re-
newal of the Insolvent Act to take into their view
an honest hut unfortunate man, who, by his re-
peated struggles with sickness, or other calami-
ties, has been compelled to contract a debt of
ten (Jr twenty pounds with an avaricious and un-
merciful creditor, and being unable to satisfy his
debt immediltely is cast into a prison without the
least previous warning or explanation, there to
spend his days nnpitied and unnoticed, a loss
to society and a misery to himself ; let them con-
sider that such are not single instances, but daily
occurrences ; and let them then turn their eyes
to the Insolvent Acts, revised, amended, and correct-
ed, and say, whether it, does not behove every
man to use his utmost exertions to stem the tor-
rent of nrejwlice against a measure so vitally im-
portant to the causes of liberty, honesty, and
humanity.

INDOCTUS.

ROYAL CoNDescaNstoN.---We are assured that
a few nights ..go the PRINCE REGENT, in a merry
mood, drterm;nrd to slip in the kitchen of the
P.teilion. A scarlet cloth was thrown over the
paremtnt, a splendid repast was provided, and
good-himioured Prince sat down, with a se-
lect party of his friends, and spent a joyous hour.
The whole of the servants, particularly the le-
tn>,lc part, were of course delighted with this
mark of Royal condescension.—(Brighton He-
rald.)

!' RD R or MR. TAYLOR THE SU RGEON.—A
letter kv4s received by Mr. FIELDING, of the
Queen-stpare Office, on Saturd.iy, stating that an
inditSiljouS MAD who lives near Somers-town,
%la,: the murderer of Mr. Liylor, at Elornqvy,
in 11))er last, and that proofs would be found
in his h-hse. An examination in consequence
took blur e, hnt the information was found to be
itilamou•ly false, and a reward has been offered
di.,,,,very of the writer of the letter, 1A Licit
ik " Thomas James,"

MR. EDITOR .--The unrestrained and impartial
discussion which you have so liberally allowed to
the Insolvent Act, has, as might be expected, in•
diced numerous Correspondents to contribute
their aid for the general benefit, by whose cam-

mtinications many .and serious grievance., arising
nu the present operation of the Act, have been
illustrated, which before were utterly unknown to
the Public, and which certainly never could have
ben contemplated by the original framers of the
law. The knowledge of these grievances by son►c,
and the actual experience of them by others, have
created a prejudice against the Act, which no-
thing but a thorough conviction of some real ad-
vantages being likely to result from its operation
On efface ; and it is, therefore, the object of this
letter to awaken the reflection of all rational men,
and prevent their minds from being biassed against
a measure which directly and indirectly affects the
true interests of society more than any other Sta-