The Sun.
London, England, 1816-06-26 00:00:00

STAGE•COACHES.

The Ear( LAtioRaDALE, adverting to the
Stage Coachtl Big (which .he was informed was
to be committed to-morrow), observed that we
should soon have Acts of Parliament to regniate
the rate of walking in the streets; and as persons
tometinies appeared in the streets after having
l'iranit too Much, we should' have Acts to regulate
the quantity which .ile might dtink. A bpi pee
Tyoung Justice, thriven along hi hiy carriage, if he
saw a Stage Coach pass Linn, might think that his
went too stow.
tUARITABLE FONDAtIONR:'

Lord fIEIiESVA,4I'.. Stated, • ikat a Bill lta‘d been
Tong upon ti,e table respecting ,tharitable Pottn-
dations..Nobody h.id moved the second reading,
and it was highly objectionable in all its clauses.
fie knew a Prelate Who, by this Bill, woidd he
liable to heavy penalties in reveet .of a charity
founded by himself; and certainly he (Lord Reties-
dale) would, if this Bill Were to pass, stand in
the saute predic ,tuvr,t,
The LORD CUANCIILLOR said, that no man
would venture to become trustee of a charity, it
such a Bill were. to pass ; and he indved that It be
read a second time this day six months. the
was.aecordingly ordered for a second reading this
clay six months.--:,-Adjournetl.
[For the Proceedings of the House id Conarnans, see the Last

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IMPORTANT PARLIAMEN I'A RV PAPERS.
(to be conlinued replerri,:;

INsor,vENV pEaToltc.

BILL to amend the Aet Of the 534 year of hi; preout Majes-
ty, intittited, " An ACT for thr RELIZI' of iNsorwENT
DEBTORS in ENGLAND ;" and to give powers, for a
time to be lituited, to ON Conn appointed Iv the said
Act.

'Whereas in Act passed in the fiftp:thitd year
of his present lifajesty's reign, intituled, " An
Act for the Belief of insolvent Debtors in Fang.
land ;" and it is expedient to amend the sail Act,
and to distinguish between the cases of such In-
Solvent Debtors who shall have been guilty of gross
injustice towaids their creditors, and the cases
of those who snail not havd so conducted then►-
selves

tae it therefore enacted and declared, by the
E.inWs most excellent Majesty, by and wittir the
advice and emlent of the Lords Spiritual and
`Temporal, and, Commons, in this present Partia.
fnent assembled, and by the authority of the sante,
That lions and after if it shall appear

to ,the Court established by virtue of the- said
recited Act, upon the examination of any prisoner,
or otherwise, that such prisoner has acted with
gross injustice towards his or her creditor or cre-
ditors, either iii contracting any debts, or enter-
ing into any engagements., without any fair pros-
pect Or probable means of paying such debts, or
fulfilling such engagements, or by stplantlering or
otherwise unjustly disposing of his or her ninnies,
effects, or other property, which he or she ;night
hove applied it) paying such debts or fulfilliag
such engagements, either wholly or in part, such
prisoner shall not be entitled to his or her dis-
charge by virtue of the. said recited Act, unless
the whole of the creditors of such prisoner shall
consent to his or her discharge, or such prisoner
shall have been confined within the walls of any

prison for the space of to be 'coch-
pnted from the time when such prisoner shall
have applied for his or hen discharge.
Aiul he it further enacted, that in -every notice
d'ireoted to be given. by the said recited Act, by
any prisoner, to his or her creditor or creditors,
sieh prisoner shall declare that he or she is ready
,and willing to 301,1114 to be folly examined touch-
ing the justice of Ilk, or her conduct to his or her
crNlitor or creditors.

And be it further enacted, that from and atter
it shall not be lawful for the
Said Court to order that any prisoner shell be ex-
amined at any Session of the Peace for the coon-
ti.eB of Middlesex or Surrey, or for the Cities or
Lib.aties of London and Westminster; or by any
one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace, out
of Session, for any County, Riding, Division, or
place whatsoever.
And be it further enacted, that the Court esta-
blished by virtue of the said recited Act, and the
'Courts of Quarter Sessions, shall examine each
And every prisoner touching the justice of his or
her conduct towards his: or her creditor or crc-

il;tors.
Awl be it further enacted, that the Courts of
ctrocer Scs3ions for any County, !tiding, Dili-
s'on, or at which any prisoner shall he exa.
mined, declare in open Court whether stich
pr.soner iltl4 acted with :,;1053 ipjustice towards

of her credli or etejitort, et- Unt, and sliali
also eertD'y their determination thereon to the
Court established 14 virtue of the said recited
Act.

Prrhided nheziy.k; that nothing in this Act con-
tained OA extend to repeal alter any of the
powers-or provision .of the!sAid recited-Act, or
of'annther Act passed in the tifty-fonrth year of
his 'Majesty's reign, " ast Act Ito ;Intend
tail Act of the tifty•tbird year of hia.l\l4jesty's
reign, for the relict of insolvent Debtors in Ent:-
Ilnd," flintier than Buy of the poVveis dr nruvi-
sioos in the said Acts are hereby expressly re-
pt:bled or uttered respectively.

Fit ILNUti PA PEitS;

rAitCASiOtSrNt, 3.:JNE 1.1.---Itt the d'etmiltheilt

dr the Isere, the different functionaries of justice
have exereked a proper ,everity against:the pe'r-
sons whom public Opinion, past conduct, and
their individual audacity and threats, had poihted
out as dangeratts. Sonic haVe received orders to
quit the department ; others have been put un-
der special superintendance. The corfectional
Tribuoals and the- Prevotal•Conit are trecupied
with the investigation of st:veral all4rs of politi-
cal offence. -
'lle most `serious otte—on which we have hi-
therto preserved 'a jlrofutrod silence, that we
might not impede the reseal cies snaking under
authority--k that which we shall now make
kpown in its true colours. We shall tints at once
destroy the falsc.rittnottrs which malevolence loves
to spread, and the exaggerated fears entertained
by persons devoted to the good cause,
On- the 31st of May, about six o'clock in the
evening, information was given that an individual
at Carcassonne 140,1-mysteriously received a letter
which. Caine from the prisons, and the contents of
which made him tremble.- This triter was sent
to the Authorities : ve- • shall cite only these
passages
. . • • ---

Sixrymen,determined to recover.their liberty,
are confident of bleilliing their They wish
me,rely to pot to death the, principal keaders, to
serve as an example to their ast,assin4, whotn.the
dread of a similar chastisement
.Kill intimidate.''

The proper precautions were inthiediately taken;
several depositions were rec,tired. On u visit to
the prisons, several papers were round, and among
them a scaitions procliimation. A man named
Jean Bewtx, asurgeon, a native of Ilillefranche
(haute-Garonne), detained for sedition; was ac 7,
cused of haying written the letter and the procla.:
mation. The stutling Of a chair conNiDed other
incendiary writings in the same hand. in the
tirison were likewise discovered several kinds of
poinards fabricated by the prisoners.
A corporal of the Legion of the'Ande was ar-
rested : he was a stibstitute, and iS from Perpig-
nan. The Prevost investigates the affair with the
greatest activity. The Civil tend Military Autho-
rities act always With an btu-ninny that. ensures
the tranquiiiity 9f,the city and of the department.
Vournul de laude.}
M. de I.ots'sart, atie of the richest bankers in
Pettis, died On Fi Way.