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AGENTS OF THE INSOLVENT-DEBTORS'

COURT.

FOR THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR,—Your Paper of the 21st, instant
contains my animadversions on the impropriety
and bad effects of abuses in practice resulting
from obtrusive and 'unauthorised agency, and a
full conviction of the evils urges me to a more
minute detail. It is useless to declare generally,
where instances are wanting to show particulars.
Having devoted nearly five years of my time in
carrying into effect the provisions of the Insol-
vent Act, 1 am free to pronounce, that most of
the causes which have rendered that measure ob-
noxious and unpopular are to be traced to the
vant of qualifications in those who have been
so numerously admitted to the practice of the
Court.'

The number of regular Attornies immediately
connected with that practice is not tome i,ts pro•
portion than 3 to 100. The great body of agents
‘vito are employed in applying for discharges of
Debtors under the Act, consists of persons who
have themselves passed•the ordeal of insolvency ;
and the routine tloonAis which the agent proceed-
ed in obtaining his own liberation, forms the pre-
cedent forleeking the release of others. The fa-
cility with which he can gain his certificate of
qualification (for a fee), and the smallness of the
charge attendant on his admis,ion, have induced
many to become agents of the Court, who might
have been more usefully employed in some of the
mechanical pursuits to Which n great part were
theretofore attached. Amongst the evils some of
the following are most conspicuous :
Professional men of regular initiation and ad-
missiom to the practice of the law, feel a
.becom-
ing reluctance to associate themselves the
Court with persons who are unqualified by edu-
cation, and -.unrestrained by the solemnity of an
oath. •lf professional users only were allowed to
practice, they would no longer be reluctant.—
The regular Attorney has paid much for his edu-
cation, 'mud) fur his lultnission, and is subject to

Renders-to prison have been. elected where no
previous process issued, 'and the collusion haS
evaded detection ; and notices of proceeding*
have been sworn to which. had never been served.
If the Debtor wishes to he discharged witho4
the Act, the Agent will .ei►gage to find hired. or
Jew for him, and go through the 'justifica-
lion upon payment of a certain per centage, and
the creditor loses his defendant, and ail trace of
the bail, at the same-time) always to 'his injury),
sometimes to his ruin.

here is no remedy for such conduct, as there
would be against a regtd4r practitioner, by tno•
tine in the Court whereof he is admitted an At-
torney, and therefore such legal responsibility has
no terrors for the ...Vera.
; a Debtor becomes supersedeable, the Insolvent.
Agent will also undertake that-duty, and to •oh-
tain a discharge trout. any Court whence the de•
taining process issued ; and in taking nut a sum-
mons, will enter his name in the 3n:lges Book',
as an Attorney of the Court does. In other
cases, he will use the name of the prisoner, to
save the expence of a warrant, and thereby,does
an injury to the 'revenue. Only last week, att
enrolled and certificated Attorney (who was mi.
ployed by a Debtor, and had obtained an order of
the Insolvent Court for hearing on the 24th inst.)
received an intimation that lie need takealerfurat
ther step in the business, the Debtor having been
superseded in each of the three actions wherelan he
was in custody. The Attorney.enquired bymliorrt
the supersedeases had been 'procured ; the answer
was, by Messrs. ***-"' and ********, who are
Agents qf the Insolvent Court. •

It is feared many instances have occur,rc4
wherein the previous knowledge of the insolvencs
affairs would have rendered it just and prinlentiAl
that lie should employ his regular Attorney,-l►ut
tl►e Debtor has .preferred the collusive agency-of
an adventurer, possessing no scruples of con-
science, and willingly promoting a falniCated
statement, intu►ediatrly tletrin►eutal to the rights
of Creditors, and finally destructive to the clia.;.
ratter of the Debtor.

To those who have frequented the insol vent Court
it must haveoccurred, that it is peculiarly devAding
to the legal profession, that most of the Briefs its
the hands of Counsel hear the names of persons
never admitted regularly to that profession : and
although it %ill not he it-apt-iced here that their
practice in such Court is illeg ml, time considerate
Reader wild necessarily conclude-that some ex-
tended circumspection in the choice of Agents is
desirable. As specimens _of the means resorted to
lay the present Agents of the Court, the following'
are subjoined It.
The Act has provided for the appointment of
Officers under the sanction and contiimation
the Chief Justices of the King's Bench, Common.
Pleas, and Exchequer; but it is not generdly
derstood or imagined that these Agents have
been so confirmed, or that it was intended by the
Legisiathre to admit and confirm persons licit
graduated by professional education. And it may
be said (without reflection on those who recOrn-mend their appointment), that, it they ate to he
permitted to interfere with the duties and emolu-
ments of the regular Practitioners, they omight, at
least, to bear an equal responsibility, and alike
contribute duties to the Revenue.

m******

Temple, Feb. 24, ISIS,
• " Messrs. B. and C. respectfully solicit the favours, &c.
haeing perfcoed themseter.t in tit, griteral Rovti,e of the
ProfesAionwhe;re Clarks to anot/Irr AKent Sapersrdeases,
Habeas Co/pus—arid all tither. Comnaolt Lau) Transuction.w.

" idsT OF ciiARGEs.
" Soperscileas hi K. B. •
Du. C. R.
.Do. Exch.

1-2 0
10
3 10

Habeas Corpus I .10
Removing. Coutenipis
(.4iuihrion Pleas...
Special Pleas a 2"

On Monday •last.a meeting ot. the Inhabitants
of the Borough of Penryn was held at the Town
h ail, to take into consideration the propriety of
establishing 3 Savings Bank in that Borough.
LIENRY SWANN, Esq. Member for the Borough,
.has very hani.somely.subseribed the sum of nifty
Pounds to set it-forward.