The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-22 00:00:00

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Co RN EXCHANGE, MARCII 94.
The supply of Wheat this mormog how Kent
and Essex being large:, and the demand for which
very trifling, s,tles were effected With diffiCalty at
a seduction of 21. per quarter on the finest quali-
ties, whilst the inferior deseriptionywere tendered
on lower terms, but could not be disposed of. liarr•
ley is 2s. and 34. cheaper, and only prime 3arrtplca
found buyers. Oats full is. per quarter lower chaff
On. this day week,. and went off hcavily at that
Bean's and Peas scarce any thing do-
ing, and prices; none

. IMPORTATIONS LAST WEEK.
Wheat
5,543 .
Barley
Oats
9,4G3

Foreign.

S.7.IITHRELD, MAften ;12.
Mr:Market was this u,uruin very well supplied witli prime
13 ?a4:s, which tort ready sale, and fully supported the- quota-
' ;lons of laq week. The whew of Sheep was tolerably large,
stri•io-fcil our last prices. Veal was not so bride
as last week, and tl.e price of that article seemed to.decline.
Pork•remains noatinal. The business in ate Hay Market was
rather.dull, wine') article barely supported last week's prices.
Ciiivcr was brisk, and the prime quality of that article met
higher Taices. Straw was dull in sale, atm] prices nominal
—The annexed ,is .a correct statement of the Numbers anti
Pt ices at market .
. , (To sink the Offal ; per Stone of Slhs.)
Beet 4s. Sd. to ss. 4,1.-1 Veal ss. od. to 7s, Od.
'Mutton .. Ss. tid. to es. 4d. I Pork Od. to 7s. Od.

'CATTLE AT MARKET.
Beasts 2220 I Sheep and Lambs ....13,400
Calves

.
HAY AND STRAW PER I.oim. -
Hay.... k 5 0,0 to x;7..0 0 I Clover.. k 6 0 0 to,CB 8 0
Straw .42
,10 0 to,C3 3 0

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Pu !NG'S THEATRE.—The comic, Opera of Le
Arczzi de Figarii %I.' as repeated on Saitird.ty before
a brilliant anclienee. It was followed by a very'
inAgnificeiit new Ballet, eni.itled .Le Maichalid
d'Esclizued, the story of which is interestii.g, anti
the Perhiriners in which were eicellent. The
Mit9lC was well serected an;l was admirahle.- Tile
pas de trois by BAPTIST:E, GOSSE, and m ILANIE was
encored. 'I he Ballet was abriiir'iy .conci4dedi
having just leached the limit ot canonical per-
mission.

CAnTrox.,--A sWindler, assun;ing the appear.
ance of a Gentleman, wcur on Thursday afternoon
and d:fradded Mts.Hutt, a
.respectable Widow,
residinz it Silver-strec, FA'leou-square, Of a num-
ber of i‘oiy-Itandled knives arid forks, to the
Va!tle loot' 'pounds. fiat:inf.; bargained for
them he ordered them to he sent, with A hill ant
receipt, toahottse in Woo,?-s,reet,-. Cheapside ;
a young girl %las di•patFbrd with them, a,ird the
usual tvick practised, viz. She. rrrs mut in t
passage letoing to the house by the fellow, nun.
it:. a seentiog p.siou, took Ito- 1)4(.0 awl .scut
her back for the desserts, which he stated. i.er
mistress had forgotten. Oo her return, of 01111'"•
he had decamped, and was unknown at. the !loose,
He is of the middle size, pals corupiczionoma
wore x brown coat,

FOR HL

IMPRP,ONNIENT FOR DEBT.

TO CREDITORS, TRADERS, AND MEN OF PRO-

PE RTY.

CREDITOR3i.-TRADERS, ard MEN OF PROPERTY,
fin. you and your protection only is Impai-
.sonmelit tor. lido said to be allowed ! But
do t.ot be lid to believe that your greatest evil
is yoor greatest good. Look closely at imprison--
111,w foe Debt, and see whether it is really what
ynu are taught to imagine. Consider it on the
i7Sounds of its alledged purpose ; and examine
wheth,:r icanswets, or is at all conducive to, this
purpose.:•View it on the grounds of your pecu-
niury interests;- and view it attentively, with eyes
(Merl ottevrty side to those interests. if it be
,found to 'promote them, let it, by all means, how-
tver contrary. to the rights •of nature, and the
claims of hAnanity, be continued, But if it. be
found tat be: iet direct and npiterial opposition to
tbose interests,- need the rights of nature or.the
claims of humanity be appealed to against it ?
That thet'Debtots being bound up in the idleness
and consequent wiproductiveness of a Jail cannot
in itself he beneficial or useful to any of von, even
to his imprison in; Plaintiff himself, is so obvious,
that the bate rt:icntion f it is the fulness of de-
tnoustration. At temp! i any farther illustration
of it would be absurdy itself ; it would be la-
bonrio4 to prove that it is dark at midnight. No
person can imagine drat tihproductiveness is pro-
Auctive ; that imtetivity is active; that the idle-
ness of the Debtor storks for the benefit or gain
of the Creditor.

Let us enquire what is its actual operation in
compelling payment.—The late worthy Mr. NEILD,
an active and enlightened Magistrate, Many years
Treasurer to the Socitty far the Relief and Discharge
of persans imprisoned for Small Debts, anti upwards
of thirty years in tie continual habit of visiting
our prisons, says, io his evidence before tlic LORD'S
ComtvuTTßP,, that '' Imprisonment for Debt"
(which be represents as a system big with evil)
does not nt all answer the end which the
Creditor means' to efE•et by it ; the whole of the
money seeming to be absorbed in law expences,
And scarcely one •Credit or in ten, the petitions of
whose Debtors come before the Society, receiving
one shilling ot debt above costs " Again he says,
that out of 520'persons,whose Debtors have been
tlischarged by the Society, 438 have not received
nt,e shilling of debt or costs." Here are upwards
Of seven to one who absolutely lose by impri-
sonmt,ot for debt, not only the entire of tfieit
debt, but what, in most instances, is more than
the debt, the Attorney's bill of costs and charges.
Here, Creditors, here is mote titan theory, more
than deduction, more than argument ; here
is proof, here is fact against this nefarious sys.
tem. Need any more be said against it ? Who
would engage in a business front which, for every
'one tnat should blintz ton :tny tlting, seven Would
he sure not only to bring ont,nothing of whet
was embarked in it, but to be at additional loss ;
81141 even the one bringing out any thing would.
be sure of not coming off without loss ? In no in-
sts.otee does the imprisoning Creditor get his At-
tot ney's full coot ,:ti charges. Therefore on every
occasion imprisonment for debt is a certain loss
ot -,atocthing, while in the number adduced by
11. Ir NEILD there were upwards of seven to one
who lost th'e entire of their debt and costs by it.
LQt us see bow many lost the entire of what
they imprisoned for ; for though a person should
get the whole of his costs -and charges, if be
gets nothing of what lie, imprisoned for, he will
have but his trouble and loss of time, and of peace
of mind, for his pains.: It is the plan of the
Thatrihed Hoose Society not to exceed ten pounds
for the discharge of any prisoner for debt ; and
what the Society allows is generally swallowed up
by the expenres of the bare arrest, and consequent-
ly out of those 520 imprisoning Cred:tors in-
stanced by Mr. NEIL!), while 458 lost the entire
of debt and costs, every one of them lost the en-
tire of debt, and had nothing for their pains but
their trouble and loss of time, and of peace of
mind. - •

But great as is this proportion of Creditors
losing by imprisonment. for debt, we shall find
that it is by no means the entire. It cannot be
too much to suppose, on an average, that for each
Imprisoning or Detaining Creditor every prisoner
for debt has tour Creditors who do not imprison
or detail, ;. dose also lose what the unfortunate
prisoner for debt owes them, as by his imprison-
ment lie is deprived of the ability of paying any
In tipr instance, therefore, adduced, there
were 2,600 Creditors, who, by imprisonment for
dvbt, lost the entice of what imprisonment for
debt is said to he allowed to procure.
Perhaps some persons may imagine that no-
thing like this is the case with those Creditors
whose Debtors are imprisoned for large debts.
Bit I never knew one prisoner for debt whose
Creditor got his debt by the imprisonment. Cer-
tainly in no instance does the imprisonment pro-
cure the Creditor the entire of the debt ; for in
Po c Ise is the entire of the Attorney's costs and
charges recovered from the imprisoned Debtor ;
and, consequently, what is deficient the Creditor
loses out of the debt. Supposing, then, that one
omit of twenty Creditors imprisoned for large debts
gets a part (for no one gets the entire) of the
debt by the imprisonment, how ,heavily at the
sidr even of such Creditors is the balance against
imprisonment. In the first instance, there are
nineteen who lose, along with, the costs and
cho'rges, the entire, for one who gets any of the
debt by it. Then, for every one of those Impri-
soning Creditors, there are four Unimprisoning
Creditors; consequently, for every one of them,
who gets any, there are seventy-nine ivito lose
the whole of the debt.

one.

(-fere, Creditors, is the actual operation of Int-
Aris..)nment for Debt in compelling payment; in the
i!.•!•ince given, there were upwards of seven Cre-
ditors to one, who dirt not get one shilling of
debt or costs. How many, consequently, lost
more than double their debt ? It is moderate,
in,teed, to take them at twice ICU times seven to
one. Then every one of them, that is, 520 to 0,
lost every farthing of debt, with time,' and ease,
and peace of mind, anti Christian " doing to as
they would be done-by," and humanity. Then
again .Ci evtry one of those 52Uobere were four

others who 100 every farthing of debt ; that is,
by the actual operation of imprisonment for debt,
`2,600 Cred;tori of nri,oners for small debts lost
every farthing of debt ; while 79 to 1 of the Cre-
ditors of pi isoners for large debts also lose every
faulting of debt by it.
Di N, Temple.
[To he continued.