The Sun.
London, England, 1819-05-10 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

MR. Etwron—NothiTig, I see, will quiet Po-
pery until she gets her Quietus, Within twenty-
fo.t hours after tier defeat, site renews her attack.

if this does not Fove the instant necessity of pl o-
'Airing all her farther attempts, I know not ‘'‘ hut

will convince us.

The stale trick—almost as stale as ring-drop-

ping—is again resorted •to. Some small relaxa-
tions are demanded, upon the argument of their,
smallness : should these be conceded, the conces-
sion will be adduced as a 'reason for granting

something more important. So the mancEnvre
began—and so it will finish. Every boon which

Popery has obtained was asked—ali granted—
upon this principle; until nothing remained, ex-
rept the State, either to be asked or granted ; and
then we were plumply told, that, atter having
granted so much, we ought not to refuse the re-
mainder. A blessed argument truly ! becau,e
we have been weak, and credulous, and foolish,
through forty years ; our weakness, our credulity,
and our tally, are to be continued to the end of
the chapter !—We are never to become steady,
Cautious, or wise !—Logie like this may do well
enough the EnOish Popish Board, or the
Irish Popish Del,g3tion, tlee Earl AlmatiALl
or for the Priest Mit.Naz.--for the .Jesuits of
.!.'2,toneyborst, or the of Mayonoth—hut
it will trot go down with the free and pit rieged
Protestatits of Britain.

'With the alternative which the friends of Pa-

very have now so boldly put, I cnincine, onhesi-
tat;ngly and g)adly. Atl that remains ungronted
must be given, or all that hos been given must be re-
sumed. its latter, clause, however, is not only
the wisest, but the safest, Better it is, to meet
the disappoint tw.nt of Popery-than her triumph
to encounter her rebellion than to fed her as-
cendancy. And in tlis opinion lam fortified by
the at gonient of ter friends—that Protestant safety
depends on Popish Emancipation—since, if her al-
legiance, hangs so loose as to be shahen off by
the retusal of our State, its purchase. is not only
too dear at such a sacrifice, but is utterly insc•
cure at any sacrifice at all.—No:—Let us, while
the weapon is in our hands, while its edge is un-
bated'and its guard unbroken, let us strike out of
OUT enemy's hand
.the sword which we foolishly
placed in it,

Let us begin with repealing the Irish Statute
33d George 1/1. Chap. 21, which, among its'
other unfortunate concessions, enabled the Irish
Papists to vote at E'ections of Members of Par-
liament. lo most .of the Irish Counties, and,
indeed, of the Cities and Bornugl►s also, the Po-
pish voters preponderate; and no Candidate can
Lope to I•ae returned, u►►less he undertakei to sa-
crifice the Protestant Establishment to his Po-
pish Constituents., But more of this anon. My
proposnion will shortly come before the Public
-and the Legislature, with all its requisite argue
meets and details.

I say, that the attempts of Popery upon our
Establi‘hment arc systematically villainous. They
are marked with the broadest and most hateful
features of deception.—But, in this censure, I do
not include her Protestant Supporters, either in
or out of Parliament. Many of these may con-
scieotioody think that they are serving and saving
the Protestant Cause. Their delusion is to he
wondered at, and to be pitied—not to be blamed.
Sonic may be misled by the flourishes of libera-
lity; others may be induced by the kit of ren-
dering themselves popular. Alone of these mo-
tives, however, can be ascribed to the treacher-
011R, the intolerant, the virdictive Papist ; who,
like NAPOLEON at 3,4 a—with

". Peace on his lips, and poison in his hand,"

proffers to us destruction io the guise, of security.

No—Sir—no.—We will not be tricked Out of
our Establishment. AVe desire to meet the high-
wayman, with whom we can hold the deadly
struggle ; not the Pickpocket, who filches our
purse, and then sets up an alibi ; not the swind7
ier, who gets our hand to a Bill, and then absconds
with its value.

I trust, Sir, that when the next deceived Pro-
testant moves for the relief of the deceiving Pa-
pist, our Legislature will take care that Popery
gets rid of no " InalifiCations;" that she is not
en,ibled to increase the " Schools" of her
boors! Jesoitisto, avid extend its dangetous doc-
trine. Beware of her !—Watch and Ward !

VIGIL

In' addition to the expedition that has lost
sai!ed for exploring Baffin's Bay, and determining
the t-xiirence of a communication by water to-
rwArds Behring's Straits, another is about to be
nit ser,tkeil 0) lan!, which is to proceed in a
northern direction iront tile Hudson Bay Com-
pany's settlements. The persons to be employed
in tlt s ardoons tintlertal6ng, it is said, are select-
ed ; Jvci, front tlle assistance of the Notth Arne-
trill(-1, every prOspect of soccess is enter-
tained, It will he recollected, that many years
iq;10 it Irvine, and more recently Arr. M'Kenzi:.-',
led in with toe sea at two intermediate points, a
coniderable distance front each ix-her, betv,:ecn
Behring's Straits and Ballitt's Bay.

FOR THE SUN.

SiIdGEtiTIONS ON THE INSOLVENT DEBTORS' ACT.

[Continued and concluded.l

Mn. Enttroa—lf imprisonmeart is resorted to
for compelling payment, it must be on the pre-
sumption of solvency, for it is no part of the
Debtor's contract with the Creditor to submit to
imptisonmeot in default of payment. if insol-
vency I esult%, the punishment should not visit
the Debtor's foture industry to an extent which-
must check its exertion. With the loss of liberty
he loin paid•what the law requires of him, a sin-
ieto;t r of his effects tieing the coodirion of his dis-
charL,.e, arid the caps sun of the hotly being the
highest satisfaction which the law allows. And
it ,cems hut just that a into a defendant has given
hail to the Sheriff, and afterwards obtains a dis-
charge as to the debt on which he was so held to
b nil, such discharge on the terns of the Act
should be also an exoneration of the bail. It is
observable that the expeoces attending the exe-
cution of the Act have been much complained of,
and it woidd be well to diminish them. Taking
the expeneea of each Debtor's discharge at an
average only of at. each, and the number of
20,000 Debtors to have been released, the charge
thereon during th' operation of the Act has been
100,0001. which would have been flinch better
applied in liquidation of the Debts. View also
the operation of exitance resultil g from imprison-
merit, generally four months to each Debtor;
take that expence at only .5/. each Debtor, and
there is another 100,0001. wasted by coofitsement.
Add to this the charge of sapporiiug a family,
which would have been paid. from the earnings of
tbe Debtors if at large, and take such charge for
each family at 101. only for the time the Debtor
is coiliti,o, upon an average four months, tine
awount Iheraot would be 200,0001. Therefore a
thorter term of confinement, or no imprison-
ascot at all, would be much more beneficial to
the Creditors and tare public, as preventing that
accumulation ref expence attending the loss of •
'tarty and labour. And it may not he unimpor-
tarn to observe, that the Fees of Admission to, •
anti dcparture.from, many of the Prisons, as well
as the Poundage and Fees for the Rules of the
King's Bench and Fleet, amount to at least
100,0001. more, exelw.ively of the expence of
Arrest and Officers' Fees, which taken at 5/. for
each Debtor's caption and other proceeditigs,
would amount to another 100,0001.: conse-
quently, above half a reillion of money has
been lost to the Creditors and the Public
by the lmprisonsnient of Debtors even for
the time prescribed o'r restricted by the Insol-
vent Act. What would the loss be if mirt-
mired imprisonment was ,again resorted to anti
allowed by law ? 'Fite most desirable results would
follow the reduction of expence in all cases under
the administration of the Act ; and if fixed sala-
ries were assigned to and provided for the Clerks
of the Court, anti a Table of Fees established for
persons who act in it, the charges which are now
complained of would be considerably lessened,
and.' would no longer be arbitrary, as hitherto its
Many cases they have been. Instances are knOwn
of costs and charge, amounting to more than 201.
claimed from the Debtor, as a condition for his
discharge, after he hes actually sworn himself not
possessed of as many shillings. The practice, too,
would be lees fraught with evil, if confined only
to professional men ; at present it is too,promis-
cuous.

The continued imprisonment of the Debtor
must inevitably entail expence on 'the Creditor,
and, will always produce parochial burdens on the
community. To abolish imprisonmeut would be
therefore to diminish public expence ; to release
tl,e present captives is a requisite of right. The dis-
charge of 20,000 persons in a state, of insolvency
must necessarily have involved many others in
pecuniary embarrassments, and very serious evils
will result,, if the relief afforded to those already
dischatged is not allowed to those enthralled under
sitnilyr circumstances. 11Jerey to the former would
produce cruelty to the latter. To leav'it a discre-
tion to Creditors would he asking the conqueror
to take conditions from the prisoner; and the
fundamental notion of :ill law is, that the fate of
no member of the community shall he left to the
cap:ice of another; It fraud even has been prac-
tised by Debtors already discharged, it affords no
argument for vindictive conduct towards those
now confined, and who probably have been greater
sofferers by frauds than the Creditors who are
loud in their complaints, and deficient in their
proofs.
The Report of the Lords' Committee, from
whence this •Act originated, states very properly,
that it ought to be considered, " The Creditor of
to-day may be the Debtor of to-morrow ; and a.
" system which affects with exaggerated harsh-
" nees, in their several turns, so many of the in-
" dkiduals constituting the community, cannot
" be a convenient one for society." Anti in sup-
port of the manifest right on the part of the
Debtor to he free from personal restraint until the
debt is established by legal evidence, exclusive of
the Creditor's oath, the Report states, " When it
" is considered how cautions our Jurisprudence is
" with regard to the admission of an interested
4' witness, when it is obvious that the plaintiff, in
" such a case, is most avowedly interested,; when
" it is remembered that in the cross accounts he-
tweet) parcies, a question of debt may be corn-
" plicated and• problematical, and that the oath of
" the plaintiff would not be received as evidence
"• on the trial, much delicacy ought to be ob-
" served as to sanctioning, on such grounds, any
" measure which is to affect the credit, the mate-
" rial interests, or the liberty of the British sub-
" ject "
Creditors who have parted with their property
pending the existence of the statute, blame its
protisions for the result of their iodiscretion.----
They should not hazard their property on specu-
lation of immense profits, and then be allowed to
screw out payment by the torture of imprison-
ment.,

• ) celebrated Statesman, the late Mr. WIND-
HAM, 'Sai►t in the Senate, " Perish Commerce, let
the Constituticli live." Ai an advocate for the
rights of humanity, I would a6O soy, in answer
to arguments for the support of speculative credit.,
fetish Credit, let Humazaz y vive:'
It is admitted hy many of the most opOlent

awl respectable Corporate Bodies connected with
tia,!e commerce, that, among other bemlicial
operations of the insolvent Act, it has tended
greatly to diininidi the influx of negociabte secu-
rities, by exciting a caution which has checked
ihe circulation of Bills and Notes heretofore •in-
jorions to the communiy. Minor tradesmen
have also adthitted, that since the passing of this
Act, which has been in force five years, they have
lost hut little in comparison with the losses sus-
rained in the previous five years, and the renewal
of which losses would probably attend the repeal
of the Act, Instead therefore of baing (as falsely
alledged) a receipt for fraud or perjury, it has
been a protecting law to legitimate trade, and a
pietnittin to induce fair prices.

W. M Temple.

PAIZLIANI ENTARY BUSINESS.

ORDP.RS OF THE DAY FOR MONDIY, IN THE HOUSE

COMWONS.
1, Saying Banks (Scotland) Bill ;—Committee.
2, Royal Burghs :Iscotla‘ild) Accounts Bill;—Second Reading.
t't, Barnstaple Bribery Bill ;—Second Reading.
4, Settlement of the Poor Bill ;—Further Consideration of
Report.
5, Poor Rates Misapplication Bill ;—Second Reading.
(1, American Convention Bill ;—Seconel Reading.
7, Children in Factories (Ireland) Bill t-i—Second Reading.
6, Land Tax Commissioners' Bill ;—Corudittee.
9, 'Poor Relief (Scotland) Bill ;—Further Consideration of
Report.
10, Jury Court (Scotland) Bill ;—Committee.
Gaols in 11,9yal Burghs Bill ;—Second Reading. ,
12, Deputy Clerk of the Crown to attend, to amend Tauti-

. .
ton Return.
13, Supply;—Report. •
t 4, Supply;—Committee.
15, Ways anti Means ;—Committee.
16, Country Bakers Regulation BM ;—Third Heading.
17, Revenue Payments Bill ;—Second Reading.

PRIVATE BILLS :—Second Readings.
1, Barnsley ChHrch.
2, Fortescue's Estate Exoneration. -
3, Lord Blantyre's Estate.
Last day for receiving Reports of Private Bills.

TO CORitE,PONDENTS.
loNoTus to-mrrow.—Nlany other Favours shall be inserted

as sooni as possible.

TO-MORROW THE LOTTERY DRAWS.—TWO PRIZES
OF £20,000 MUST BE DRAWN IN THE FIRST FIVE
MINUTES!—FOUR PRIZES OF ,CMoon—TWENTY-
TWO CAPITALS—AND ONLY 10,000 -TICKETS.

THEATRICAL REGISTER.
Performed on Sat erda
MEATRF. ROYAL DRUELY-LANE.—Wanted a Wife: Princi-
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To nATRE: ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.----VeniCe Preserved :
Pierre, 'Mr. Macready ; Belvidera, Miss O'Neill. After
which, A Roland for an Oliver.

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