The Sun.
London, England, 1811-02-19 00:00:00

DEBTOR LAWS.

Ligrd Itt;r)KsDALe CALA to the recollection of tlwir
Lordships .what had taken place in Parliament last
Session on this subject. He adverted to the mea-
sures he had the honour to bring forward, which re.;
spected, first, an extension of the ameunt of the
sum fi t which a debtor could be arrested.-,-secondly,
the establishMent of a permanent profUsion for the
irge of clebtors,--,ind, thirdly, a general and
mote expeditious mode for the recovery of small
deb.s. The general' principle of these Bills had
been more than once discu.sed in the House. From
cirviinstances, in the last Session, only one of these
Bin gone through that 'House, • but had not
passed through the other House' od Parliament.
two other Bills did not adyance so 'far. After
a few general remarks on- the nature of the Bills he
was about forthwith to introduce; which we under-
stood' his 'Lordship to have said, were' two in the
';•resent inStanee one ruspttting arrests, under
wesue process, Szei which was si'wnilar to that,pass•
cd last • Session ; the,other Bill, which was for the
Rehel .of the Insolvent Debiors, wa,:new modelled
in Some, degree, and included the prilleiple of the
eessio Banarum, which to bi.lieficially prevailed in
Scotland; Jin Holland; and some other countries.--..-
The Noble and- Learned Lord, -then, alter a few
further observations, presented two Bills, found-
ed ott the principles he had adverted'to, which
were read a first time, -and ordered to be printed, -
The Earl of MblltA took occasion to compliment
the Nohle and Learned Lord on his so laudably com-
ing forward on an occasion of so great and general
importance-,--his assiduity and perseverance deserved
the highest praiser-he was happy, for the bt'iietlt of,
the country large, that the subject was hiken tip
by one every way so equal and competent 19 the
task j and it was his ,Sincere opinidit that such a
portion of any man's time could nut be so AVM)*
tageothly employed for the public, as that bestowed
by the Noble: and Learned Lord in the measure in
question. •
Lord HOLLAND concurred in what had fallen fran
his Noble Friend, as' to the lanchtble conduct of the
Learned Lord opposite. There was no pat of the
laW' which required the hand olcotrectioinor reform
so mucl'has that nosy in question ; nor could the task
have fallen into more adequate hands. It was by
professional characters alone, he thought, the collo-
try was to be effcctually benetitted id these t, spects;
,tier if benevolent perseverance, and pathetic elo-
quence, of themselves could prevail, long, long
since would the country have been indebted to his
Nuble,,riend for such an amelioration in its legal
system.t‘it were much to be ,wished that Parlia-
ment would pay a proportionate share to this of the
attention which it generally paid to political subject.,
and it would have been much. more fOr the ac:-

vantage pf their fellow subjects. There /was no
part of the. Noble and Learned Lord's .sys m gave
him more satisfaction, or that would be of more ge-
neral utility than that which woulego wthe libera-
tion of so many of their fellow-Subjects from the
over-crowded jails, and the houses of correction,
into which many of them were necessarily stowed.