The Sun.
London, England, 1819-02-12 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 11.—John Hind, Esq. B. A. of St.
John's College, is appointed Nlatheru lical Lecturer of Sidne7
Sussex College.
Mr. George William Cranfurd, of King's College, was on.
Wednesday last admitted a Fellow of that Society.
The Rev. John 'Popham, B. A. of St. John's College, has
been ordained Priest, and William Vernon, B. A. of Emma-
nuel College, Deacon, by the Bishop of Worcester.
The Lord Bishop of, Lincoln has presented the Rev. Wil-
liam Palmer, Rector of Eyneshury, to the prebendal stall of
Welton Painshall, in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, va-
cated by the death of the Rev. David Lewis, Vicar of Kim-
bolton.

The Rev. John Maddy, D.D. Chaplain in Ordinary to his
Majesty, and Rector of Somerton, in Suffolk, has been insti-
tuted to the rectory of [tartest corn Boxted, on the presenta-
tion of the Crown:

His Grace the Duke of l3uccleugh and Queensberry has
been pleased to appoint the 'Rey. Henry Rolls, M.A. of
Balliol College, Oxford, and Christ College, Cambridge, one
Of his Grace's domestic Chaplains. •
A Dispensation has passed the Great Seal to enable the
Rev. Henry Rolls, M.A, to bold the ,Rectory of Barnwell
All Saints, to which he is presented by her Grace the l)uchess
Dowager of Buccleuch and Queensberry, together with the
Rectory of Barnwell St. Andrew, both iu the County of
Northampton and Diocese of Peterborough.

. .
GAM B Laws.--Some short time back a noble-
man offered five pounds reward to 'every in-
fol•tner who impeached persons boring hares.--
lie was soon • astonished to see the most
notorious poachers pour in with informations ;
•and, in the end, he found th►►t he was oiler-
ing a bounty for the commission of the offcnce.
A. and B. were poachers. A. agreed to inform
against. B. The penalty was 51. of which A. as in-
fotmer, received back 50s. and the NotkleMen's
51. into the bargain. It is almost needless to'add,
that when this trick was discovered, the Noble.
man rtlinquished his plan.
A jottrneyman stonemason, of Liverpool, has
brought writs of right ror the reCoveryOt an estate
in Ireland, which has long then in ukt,vonce, of
80001, a year ; and also an accumulated personal
property of more than haft a million. His pro-
spects of success have been pronotaneed to bet
very favourable by several Lawyers' of ibe first
eminence.

FOR TilEim.r:

ON INSOLVENCY.

EDITOR,--Aluch has been said in your
excellent Paper ❑pon the subject of Insolvency,
end more then I have had time or ouportunily to
Tea(' ; therefore, should the Plan here proposed
have been before advanced, mine would become

unnecessary,

The Insolvent Debtors' Act was designed for
the amelioration and relief of Poor Debtors, who,
from peculiar distresses, had or should be the in-
mates of a prison. It has not, I believe, an-
swered the purpose intended ; but has become
the means of designing oleo hting enabled to de-
fraud their Creditors, and to embolden them to
get into debt, rather than acempt to liquidate
o:ens; and thus, although some few honest and dis-
tressed Debtors may have found relief from it, yet
it is to be feared that a much more numerous class
of honest industrious Creditors have had 'reason
to lament its passing, and have been ruined
throtagh the villainy of those who have had the
benefit of the Act.
Many Debtors think it of small consequence
now to go to prison, because, in a very short pe-
riod, they may again face their Creditors wiih im-
punity, smile at them for their credulity in trust-
intt them, and produce exultingly their certificate
of discharge, as a full and sufficient dischaige'of
their debts.

The subject reduces itself to this question—
Are we to destroy the Act in 10to, and expose,
the Debtor to Ida Creditors, or ca6not a middle
course be found to remedy the present defects of
the system?
Previous to the passing of the last Act, I took
the liberty of addressing a Serjsant at Law, of
considerable eminence, upon the subject, as I had
understesod that he was preparing to bring into the
House a Bill for the relief of Insolvent Debtors.
The Proposal I made was nearly to the following
effect :--
" That Insolvents should be brouid to'entploy
their time in prison to some useful labour, ac-
cording to their respective abilities, aligt that pro-
per managers should he appointed over them to
sopesitoeed their work that a proportionate part
of their earnings, whete necessary, should be ap-
plied towards their support' ine prison, or of
theie families, anti the remainder in dischierge of
their deists, in rateable proportions, at suitable
periods : that Magistrates of the district should
in a summary way decide all qitestions of disputes
het:veer) Insolvents and their Managers, and have
power to visit them, and that an appeal should
be niters front their decision either to the Quarter
-Ses;itros, or to the Insolvent Court (if the expence
of sorb a Court should be thought necessary to
be continued) e that no Debtor, whatever might
be rank or station, sho•ild be exempted front
work, and that no gaming or unnecessary indoko
g.eneles, either in eating or drinking, should be.
staff;- ed to be enjoyed by persons having. money,
while in coitfioetneoto but that a regular platoot•
diet should he observed, with respect to every'
Debtor confined, making suitable exceptions for
Eases of sickness, old age, or other infiimities."
Bot, at the tittle of making the proposition, I
had souse doubts of the practicability of such a
plait, and front the inattention of that Gentleman
to the subject, I concluded that he did not deers
it feasible, or capable of being carried into exe-
cution. Lately 1 was reading Mr. Boxtroa's
work upon Prison Discipline, in which is pointed
out plansof conducting prison work , and which fully
convinces the that a system of that nature, with
respect to Debtora, would be found both prac-
tical and beneficial.
Among the advantages to be derived from the
system, would be with respect to genti&nen who.
now live, or, under the old plan, have lived in
prisoo upon that property which ought to be di-
vided antoog their crediors, faring sumptuously
every day, living in idleness, if not in dehaucliery,
and frequently gambling to pass away their time,
at the expence of those who are sugerets" by their.
dishonesty.--Such perioni would not, were they,
obliged to work and to live spiringlY, be So ready'
to continue in prison as has been the case. And:
when they became' tensible that they must work off
their &lies if they go to prison, they will take
more heed hoW they get into debt, or, if they still
have property, they will, sooner than remain in
prison, thicharge their debts and obtain their
living by other means more deSirable than the pri-
vations and discipline of a prison conducted upon
such principles.
I would not introduce perpetual imprisonment
in any case, even to the most unprincipled, and
particularly not thOse who were desirous of
, discharging their debts, had they the means of
doing it. But I think it would be a wholesotne
rule, and attended with advantage,- were the ge-
nerality of Debtors confined for five years at
least, u&ess
.by their labour or industry they
should in a shorter period wholly discharge their
• debts. This might be inconvenient at first—the
prisons, perhaps, would be filled but in a few
years, 1 imagine, a sensible alteration would take
place—for small Debtors would he enabled to dis-
charge their debts—greater people would be more
cireuto'spect how they get into debt—and, at all
events, Onptincipled Debtors would not be so
soon let out regain to exercise' theie frauds upon
unsuspecting Creditors. Still, perhaps, some
exceptions to the general rides might be intro•
direed in cases where amelioration -may be neces-
sato, loath as to the limitation of confinement,
and in other respects, under proper or. judicial
authority. rivse, and indeed the whole plan,
may be so shaped in a proper course by the wis-
dom of PatliAtoeut, as to answer the end desigrted
by all legislative enactments 'of this description,
11.4 to give, the intended relief to boneSt poor
DebtOrS,.ieltico to distress by unavoidable mis-
tortunes„. teitlbout exposing Creditors to the de-
signs sod shifts- of unprineijsled men, who seek
to turn the indulgences of our laws into eogines
of fraud, craftiness', and villainy. .
' this deserves the consideration of the Public,
you Will please to insert it—at all events, these
Milts maybe improved upon by wiser heads than
Your obedient servant,
DEETOII AND dtEalTort.