The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-12 00:00:00

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1

THEATRE OF ANATOMY, MEDICINE, &c.
Blenheim-street, Great Marlborough-street.

rlll-1E A UTUMNAL COURSE of LECTURES
A. at this School will begin on the following days :

ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, and SURGERY, by Mr.
BROOKES, daily, at Two o'Clock, on bursday, October I.
Dissections ar. usual.

CHEMISTRY, MATERIA MFDICA, itcc. daily, at Eight
in the Morning; THEORY an,i PRACTICE of PHYSIC, at
Nine, with Examinations, by Dr. AGER, on Monday, Oc-
tober 5.

Three Courses are given every year, each occupying nearly
four Mouths.

Further particulars may be known of Mr. Brookes, at
the Theatre ; or of Dr. Sger, 69, Margaret-street, Cavell
dish-square.

ST. GEORGE'S MEDICAL, CHEMICAL, AND CHIRUR-

GICAL SCHOOL.

TLIE COURSES will RE•COMMENCE in
the following Order:—

1. On the LAWS of the ANIMAL ECONOMY, and the
PRACTICE of PHYSIC, on Monday, October 5, at Nine in
the Morning, at No. 9, George-street, Hanover-square. by
GEORGE PEARSON, M.D. F.A.S. Senior Physician to St.
George's Hospital, &e. &c. •
2. On CHEMISTRY, on Tuesday, October 6, at Nine in
the Morning, by W. T. BRANDE, F.R.S. &c. &c.
g. On SURGERY, by B. C. BRODIE, F.R.S. Assistant-
Surgeon to St. George's Hospital, on Friday, October 2, at
No. 42, Great Windmill-street, :it Seven in the Evening.

4. On THERAPEUTICS, with MATERIA MEDICA, on
Wednesday, Oct. 7, at Eight in the Morning, by GEORGE
PEARSON, M.D. &c.
Sir EVERARD HOME will' give, as usual, SURGICAL
LECTURES. gratuitously to the Pupils of St. George's
Hospital.

PUBLICATIONS.

This Day was published,

In foolscap Sec). with a beautiful Frontispiece, price ss. in
boards, the Third edition of

CORRESPONDENCE between a MOTHER
and her DAUGHTER at SCHOOL.
By Mrs. TAYLOR, Author of " Maternal Solicitude," &c.
And Miss TAYLOR, Author of " Display," &c.

" This is an inestimable little Volume, and will prove of
eminent service in conveying right sentiments with touch
aniuement, and at the same time serve as a model for epis-
tolary composition. It abounds with the hest maxims for the
improvement of the mind and the regulation of the conduct,
without didactic formality, or the tediousness of moral disqui-
sition."—New Monthly Mag. August, 1817.
Printed for Taylor and (lessey, 93, Fleet-street.

This Day was published,
In foolscap Bco. with a beautiful Frontispiece, price 61. in
boards,

DISPLAY: A Tale. By JANE TAYLOR.
4, We !lever met with any composition so completely
and beautifully simple both in sentiment and style, which at
the same time interested us so strongly by the naivete of its
descriptions, sometimes heightened by the must delicate
touches of humour and pathos ; by the heart that pervades
the narrative, and the air of reality which is thrown over the
characters."—Eclectic Review.

Printed for Taylor and Heasey,'93, Fleet-street.
Of whom may be had, by the same Author,
ESSAYS, in Rhyme, on MORALS and MANNERS, Third
Edition, price 6s. boards.

MRS. TAYLOR'S NEW WORK.
This Day were published,
In foolscap Bvo. with a beautiful Frontispiece, price Ss.
boards, the Second Edition of
RECIPROCAL DUTIES of PARENTS and
CHILDREN.
By Mrs. TAYLOR, of Onzar.
Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 93, Fleet-street.
Of whom may be had, by the same Author,
1. Maternal Solicitude for a Daughter's Best Interests.
Seventh Edition, ss.
2. Practical Hints to Young Females, on the Duties of a
Wife, a Mother, and a Mistress of a Family. Seventh Edi-
tion, Ss.
3. The Present of a Mistress to a Young Servant. Fourth
Edition, 2s. 6d.

This Day was published,
In Three Volumes, 12mo. price les. 6cl.

RECLUSE of ALBYN HALL.
By ZARA WENTWORTH.
Printed fur A. K. Newman and Co. Leadenball•street.
The following will appear this Autumn :
Veiled Protectress; or, The Mysterious Mother, by Mrs.
Mecke, 5 vols.
My Old Cousin; or, A Peep into Cochin China, 3 vols.
The Families of Owen and De Montfort, a Tale of Ancient
Days, 3 vols.
Nlanfrone ; er, The One-handed Monk, by Mrs. B.adeliffe,
Second Edition, 3 vols.
Mysterious Freebooter, by Francis Latium], Second Edi-
tion, 4 vols.
Louisa ; or, Cottage on the Moor, by Mrs. Heinle, Eighth
Edition, 4 vols.
Jane (le Dunstanville, by Mrs. Kelly, Second Edition, 4 vols.

It is a consolation to the industrious mechanic,
and persons of moderate income, who are afflicted,
to know they may have the best advice, gratis, if
they attend at certain hours, namely, Tuesday,
Thursday, and Sunday mornings, until one

o'clock, at the Medical Board, Great Charlotte-
street, Blackfriars-road. `l.'hat thousands suffer

from improper treatment is a fact—the latent
sect! of a dreadful disease lurks in the system, de-
stroys domestic happiness, and entails debility on
the rising generation.
The Medical Board claini3 the attention of
those afflicted with Strictures, Fistulas, Cancers,
Scrophidas, Nervous Debilities, Eruptions, ul-
cerated Throat, Pains in the Head and Limbs;
frequently mistaken for Rheumatism, Nodes in

the Shin Bones, &c.
Messrs. Coorea and Co. after forty year.' prac-
tice iN various Hospitals abroad and in this me-
tropolis, arc consulted at Woodstock-street, Ux-
ford-street, daily from eight till eight ; and at
the Medical Boar(!, Chat lotte-huuse, Great Char-
lotte-street, Blackfriars-road, precisely from twelve
until eight in the evco;,,g.
*,* Ruptured Patients, whose tumours e:-
ceeded '24 inches, have had them returned, to the
surprise of the Medical Profession.
private rooms for fe-
n* A side door, and
wales.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' ACT.

FOR THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR,-1 am encouraged, by your in
tertian of my former letter, to send you a conti
nuation On the same subject.

The impolicy of the law, in inducing persons to
become voluntary prisoners in preference to using
laudable exertions for settling, or compromising
their debts with their creditors, is self-evident ;

and I may venture to assert that such is the effect
of the Insolvent Act without a hazard of cow ra-
diction.
It the discharged debtors had been few in
number, and the personal liability to debt thus
wiped off moderate in amount, humanity might
have induced me to he a silent spectator; but when,
in the five years the Act has been in force, the
number discharged is nearly twenty thousand, and
the amount of debts several 'millions, it is surely
a matter of serious import, which, more or less,
affects every individual in the Kingdom. It pro-
bably may be a fact chat souse Tradesmen have
given hazardous credit with a view to exorbitant
gain, and to such of them as have been sufferers
from this Act, it may have been only a fair pu-
nishment or just retaliation ; but the greater pro-
portion of fair and honest Tradesmen only give a
reasonable and necessary credit—looking at the
time to a moral certainty of regular payments.
To them I will confidently appeal, whether the
losses have not been more frequent since the
passing of this law than before; and to those who
have been served with schedules and notices from
their debtors, it they have upon an average re-
ceived one penny in the pound on the amount of
their respective demands. Formerly, if a man of
honour and honesty contracted debts, a sense of
shame, combined with a dread of imprisonment of
uncertain duration, generally induced bins to effect
a settlement in some way or other, by offering the
best terms in his power, either from his own pe-
cuniary means, or by the assistance of friends.
Such a line of conduct I am afraid is seldom pur-
sued now ; the trriblushing effrontery of one
wicked debtor keeps another in countenance ; the
contagious example deadens every spark of
honour ; the sense of shame is extinguished its the
frequency, the almost generality, of imprisonment ;
the moral principle is lost, and the State may be
at length endangered. As the consequences of this
evil, one may faitly contemplate that every dis-
charged debtor, who has ten creditors amounting
to one thousand pounds, will embarrass two out
of the ten, and render them unable to bear the
loss ; then they become insolvent also, and have
the same course to pursue ; the same proportion
of their creditors become insolvent by the same
means, and in a few years a large majority of the
whole Community will have passed the ordeal of
a hearing before the Insolvent Court trade will
decay ; confidence be banished, and ultimately
universal ruin overwhelm the land.

The compass of a letter will not allow me to
enumerate a hundreth part of the serious evils that
present themselves to my mind, as having already
resulted, or being likely to result, if the Act is con-
tinued. if its principle is bad, I fear it is in vain
to attempt improving it by alterations. Let us
hope that the former law of debtor and creditor
will be again resorted to ; and if any real hard-
ships should be found to exist, there are many
humane Members in both Houses of the Legisl
tore, who, I doubt not, will willingly devote their
time and attention to find a suitable remedy, less
pregnant with evil ihan the present system ; and
it is due to the enlightened Senators, who advo-
cated the present Act, to admit that they were ac-
tuated by the purest motives in the endeavours
they applied, however strikingly the contrast may
appear between extended humanity and limited
justice ; the first prompted by virtue, and the lat-
ter restrained by vice.
As it now stands, the prediction of a great law
Lord (Ellenborough) is verified. He contended,
that this Act had a tendency to unsettle all known
and wholesome provisions of the law respecting
the relations of debtor and creditor.

SCRUTATOR.

iVine-otfice Court, Fleet-street,
Sept. 10, Isis.

A handsome silver VelSe, of the value of 50
guineas, was presented to the Rev. JonN 131tocx,
at Great Easton, Essex, on the sth instant, as a
mark of respect from the Rector and parishioners
of that parish, and in commemoration of his hav-

ing been resident and officiating Curate at that
place for fifty years. An elegant jubilee dinner
was provided on the occasion, in the free school,
at which the Rev. Dr. LAW, Archdeacon of Ro-
chester, who is also Rector of Great Easton, was
President.—The following is the inscription on
the vase:—

To the Rev. JOHN BROCK, B. A. who, for the period of
fifty years, has been the Resident Curate in the parish of
Eaton Magna, in the county of Essex, who has faithfully
and diligently executed there every pastoral duty, and who
has uniformly shown to his parishioners the kindest attention,
and the most extensive benevolence, this Memorial is pre-
sented by the Rector and Inhabitants of that Parish, as a
token of their personal regard and esteem, and as a testi-
mony of their high respect for his character, August, ISIS.

The Dey of ALGIERS is about to adopt a rather
singular expedient for replenishing the population
of his capital, which has latterly been not a little
thinned by the plagne, war, &c, He has decreed
that a cettain number of young men, aged 20
years, shall he brought daily to the public place,
and there presented with the choke either of re-
ceiving a bastinadoor a wife.--(were, which will
they prefer?
The embankment of 500 acres of fine marsh

has been effected at Pembrey, Carmarthenshire,
by the Eirl of AsnsuRNHANt. The length of the
bank is 2 miles, and in some places 12 feet
%sith a ihope of 7 to 1, the Woe e 4 feet