The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-27 00:00:00

DIED.

At Kensington, on Monday, the '2sth itr.t. in her 41Ft year,
a fortnight alter the birth of her twelfth ehild,Sarah, the wife
of W. altec?;ett, Esq. of Broad-street, Golden-square.
Ott Monday last, after a few hours' illness, Mr. Mactarness,
cf Great Orutond•street, Queen-square,
>ame aged ,25, Mrs. N. Newterry. of Nelson-square,
arid daughter of Henry Pigeon, Esq. Southwinlc.
On Sunday twit, three days after giving birth to a daughter,
Emilia, the wife of Fred. W. c:Atiipbeii, E,;(1. of isa, bEce,s
N. 13. and of Englyfield-green, tiartey, aged ‘,i3.

PARLI AM ENTA R Y PAPERS.

' - EXTENTS IN AID.
_ ..
The Report by the Select Committee of the
tionie of Commons appointed to inquire into the
mode of issniug Extents inlsid, and the expediency
of regulating 'or of discontinuitig the same, -hes
jets,. been published.
After a cursory view of the origin and hiStory
of this prerogative process, the Committee pro-
teed to observe, that the issue of it_ has " en-
creased in a degree inconsistent with the equitable
spirit of the Bankropt: Laws, and the ease of the
so bject, and peculiarly ill suited to the stat e of things
produced by that extended commtrce of which
this country so justly boasts." •FrOM accounts
given in the Appendix to the Report, it appears
that the whole number of Extents in Aid issued
born 1801 to 1814, both inclusive, was only 207,
. ..
or Less than 15 per annum, of which the mafority
prodnably had a legitimate object, i.e. the recovery.
trout the parties•of ninnies which really belonged
to the public, and might otherwise have been lost :
while in the year 1515, alone, the number issued
'teas no less'tfian 208. •" Of this multitude," the
Committee remark, by far the greater proportion
" -ha, e been obtained for the purpose of gaining
an unjust priority in the recovery of: private debts,
in direct contradiction •to the law- as formerly laid
dowiee".-ahtlin inspection of the documents, it is
adthol, " will yield the strongest presumption that
many persons hare procured themselves-to be made
Crown debtors with the express and sole view of
a:insine- the power
,they surreptitiously obtained,"
,'Io illustrate the NH effect of . this oppressive
process, the Committee proceed to give a detail of
the foamier in which it is conducted, and in the.
following paragraph som lip its evil operation,
with singular force and clearness :—" Ott this at-
fielavic(ot the creditor) and the previous legal pro•
eeettings, lrn'se and unsatisfactot y as they are at
best, and often hurried through with all the expe-
dition of a race, to defeat that equitable division
of the property which a rival Commission of Bank-
rupt is set kilig to effect, does an Extent in Aid
issue ;
.and against a person not a debtor to (he
Crown, somethies not so even in the second de-
gree ; hut it may be against a solvent man Holm-
ttiowely indebted to one 'who chooses to believe
hin-insolvent, and who has sufficient ingenuity to
set Ilitiesell op as Crown debtor. The execution
is of the severest kind ; every thing -down to the
• - ritioneest article of his property is then seized: his
books, papers, and accounts, by which-he nieht
he enabled to dispute his creditors' demands, or
to forc'e his own, are earried off and withheld from
him. Nor is this ail : his person too (which a
common executien, after havog takeu the pro-
perty, would Lave untouched) may, be thrown
into jai), and kept there at the discretion of that
very creditor by whose oppressive conduct such
a waste of his !imperil may be occasioned, as
alone to produce that very insoiveucy,•on the al-
legation of which, as pleviotisly existing, the
seholeprocess was founded -;- and neither can a
Commission otallaelet ()prey, nor an Insolvent Act
release him. N.:- is this mere imagination ; it
appears to the Cominttee, that 5s far as respects
ti t• debtor, the whole is realized in at least one
cao. (Wonted in the Appendix."
'rtie Committee, attt-r thus poi''ting out the ex-
t t eme opprets!on of;en, tvm ked by this mode of
procedure on the unfortunate debtor -who is the
object of it, and the injustice it,occasions to his
' other creditors, &rect.-their attention to the vali-
dity of the reasons-urged for its maintenance. Is
the revenue, they inquire, berebsosecueed ? Is the
public interest advanced ? Both questions they
answer decidedly in the negative. " Of the nu-
melons cases,'' they state, " which have of late
been brought within public observation, this (the
public interest) does not appear to have been the
object in one single instance ; in very few can it
be •hewn to have been even incidetitally or pro-
bably &nerved ; and iii several the interest of the in-
dividual prosecutor of the Event has been put-
- sued to the absolote injury of. that very revenue,
for the safety of which, exclusively, the process
was originally insti!uted.''
‘• It seems. scarcelYdoobtfol," the Committee
conclude, " whether the whole process for private
debts ti e.-Extents in Aid) . might not be abolished
Without any disidvairtange to the public interest ;
while it will he worth consideration bow far any
supposed Oenefit may be outweighed by the evils
attendant on continuing the practice. The ruin
of unto ttunaie debtors, the injury of innocent and
. uesulreeting" creditors, and the extensive injury
wrought among the community-at large .by the
breach of good fai,h. and the consequent destruc-
tin)) of the honourable confidence on which the
Interest and ,the proiperity of a commercial coun-
try so esseui luny depend."
. I)3ea .",TFALEttS.—llast week, PHIMMER, Und,.l-
- of Drool Walt, in the N?tv Forest, fe;lia
sa;ith 'seven deer stealta s, of whom (with assislants)
he apprehended t w o ; but the other five fell opens
lino, ant] he wits in imminent danger of- being,
. teoidel,,
r,,,.(.11, s I.)sy it,1,10
Brent. These
so farhesete s to
depredators carried ott
kill and carry
, way bulloeks grazing iti the forest, as well as
rh
‘dcer ; and theyEappoared in such numbers, as to
:,,rut the keep, rs at 'defiacce. This latter eireton-
*ance tendered it necessary to appoint a greater
lit-ength of' men to be occasional assistants, in
Oon,ecpiettce of which several of the culprits were
apprehended and sent to gaol ; and there is mow
an active pursuit against others. By these mea-
StireS being promptly adopted by the head-keeper
of the wait, and supported by the most active
stool effectual aid of the oeiglihooritig Magistrates,
on whom tilt, much praise cannot be bestowed, a
discovery was also made of some of the receivers,
awl three persons have.been fitted in the highest
petotlty of 301 each.' The Magistrates forebore,
in the first iestance, to poblisiOthe names of those
' IcteiverS, but declared their intention in future,
71,)t only to follow op the practice Of levying the
highest penalties on them, but to publish their
.srantes in the county papers, a proceeding which
InttSt becominended, When it is considered that their
gratification can only be accomplished by crimes
lot which the offenders are subject, in some cases,
to high lihes, and in others to transpOrtation. ' lo
the ca'se-tittove alluded to, the crime of. murder
....... ... ,
-- - esseasertearly committed ; and it is well known that
offences of- this nature frequently lead to excesses
tit every sort most dangerous to socicty.—(Salis-
Lury Juurnat)

LAW INTEI.L!,:I;:NCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, AUGUST 26.

PRIVATE IJEARING.--CWEEN MAB.

WESTBROOKZ V. SHELLY.

• T'h s case was beard by his Lordship in his pri-
vate room. It was n petition presented by the
relatives. of the late Mrs. Shelley, praying that
the infant children might be removed from the
care of the defendant, their father, On the ground
that he had ‘vritten a book entitled " Queen
\lab," which was subversive of every moral feel-
ing; holding, amongst other tenets, that the mar-
riage-ceremony was a ridiculous proceeding. It
was contended for the .peti;ioners, that, on these
grounds, the defendant Was very 'nnfit to have, the
guardianship of the children, the eldest of whom
,was only five years of age.
The I:onn-CnAtieEt.Loit, on the former hearing
'of the case, ordered the children to be re.noved
from the custody of the defendant, and directed
tr.e Master to report who was a proper person to
have the 'care of them. Two Gentlemen were
proposed, and the Master reported a Mr.-Ken-
ot Warwick, a very respectable schoolguaster,
to be the proper person. To this order the de-
fendant excepted, and, hence arose the present
proceediugs.
The LORD CHANCELLOR deferred judgment un-
til he had read over the atfidavitS.

Messrs. HART, WETHERALL, MONTAGUE, an
HORNE., were the Counsel in the case.

IN OPEN CoUt T.

His Lordship, at twenty, mintres after eleven,
came into Court, and saizt he should to-morrow
confirm the order made in Mrs. 13aseley's case by
the Master.