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and for a long titne have been, confined for debt Is
the feveral Gaols in this Kingdom', who are wdliag
and defirons to make the uonoft fatisfaltion in Mat
power to their Creditors. And whereas, notwith- •
(landing the treat prejudice and detriment which .
c.fional Alit of Infolvency may produce to trails . • 1
and credit, it may be co nvanien4 in the prefent Rate_ •
rl.e Prrions and Gaols of this Kingdom, that Gras - •
of the p7if .ners who are now confined therein, mar
fitriandering the • whole of their property to thar
Creditor s, mould be liberated," &c. By this atria
from she preamble, their Lordihips would fee that.
the Bill i• Self admitted the inconvenience, in point or•
policy, of fuch arong mcafores as went to tfilfolve .
contralla between man and•nsan. made under lbw
ellablifised and known laws of the land, and for the
purpole that Tome of the prifoners may be liberated,
Thus, the principle of the Bill chiefly refelved,issto,
the confideration that the prifons were full. 5y
fir it eriattracnt of the Bill as it.then Rood, Mblorte;
in ersaudy on the oft of January, or any limp fines
were atiowed i:s benefits. It would be a waft/ of
time to (hew what confequeaces Inch a provifion ;
would lead to. In fall, a Debtor who was sill nowt .1
am rfl invennti, would immediatelA in cootenspieti,
of the Bill. be found in price°. This would, indeed.
go to make loch a Bill an attire internment of milt
chief. He adverted to the abfence of a Noble Lords
the head ..t else firfl Court of Common Law, on this
important dilenffion, which was owing to the Int* . 3
rind of the Bill's being brought up. The communsl
of that Learned Lord had fatisfizd his own •
opinions upon the fubjed, and were he prefent hi
would he able to demonftrate the injurious conk.:
quences which, generally (pealing. refulted irons
fuch meafures. The reje&ion of the Kll of LA
year was, more efpecially with a reference to tha
eroding of the prefent Bill, produtlive of, falutary •
confequences ; as otherwife Creditors would be place.
ed in fuch a lunation as to become Debtors, and pro.
bably fubjcel to the operation of the- meature Is
fome.points of view, he thought the regulations of -
the Bar.krupt *Laws placed the Creditor in a better
Situation titan loch Bills as the prefent, as therein tha
Creditors, if they chofe, might withhold their con*
fonts. In point of lieu:icy, offences againa the
Bankrupt Laws were punilbable in an exemplary -
manner. Alter dwelling a litsle farther on the cow
parifon between the admmillration of judice under
the Bankrupt Laws and the provifions of Intolvent
Bills, he more especially adverted to thole of the ?re-
lent meafure ; refpefting which, be thought, ail that
could be dune% a Committee was to render certain
parts of the Bill leis tnifchievous than it would now
prove, and to reconcile them as far* as was parfait*
the confederations of legal jollier. I/pm titers
grounds, he &world make no objeition to an
your, by means of a Committee, to snake the M
ufcful as it could bc; at the fame done he defiredit to
be underlined. as not conlidering himfelf as pie
upon a third reading, even fo amended. He ha t•
proteft agaitill the bringing up loch Bills as that in.
quellion at filch a late period of the feats, and
though he knew their LordOsips were duly alive to
the calls of humanity, he knew, at the fame time,
they would at. end .to the confisterations of theit ditty.
This Bill they could not coofiaeotly pals without
great and confiderable alterations.
His Royal Highnefs the Duke of CLARENCE
role. He declared his entire furprife at ',hat the •
Learned and NAble Lord had Lod. He eettajnly
did not etre* to hear Ms Lordibip oppofe
being c,.rr He was eutir ely unprepared to
meet hi. I.ordlhip's oppofition. As to what the
Leatned Lord had addreffed fo pointedly to him—
Lord C.b.zereler p.p.rifed bar dfaveseal oft.Seq—
the Learned Lord fay. it was not fpoken to kiss.
But Le would tell the Learned Lord, what it.. Lee be
had in this bufinels; and then, perhaps, he would
fee that his lentiments did not differ materially from
his He had fat fisteee years in that
Houle, and had never before interfered in fuch BBL.
i.larty Lord, v....01d bear him winters, that in the
Btiis that had originated in that Houle, he had taken
no part. And tne reafon was, that be thought
it a lubjes or extreme delicacy. He had always
been revere our COnftliUtiOn and Laws ;
and was unwil:in?, to do any thing that violently
broke in it p..n emir ordinary principles. When fuels
ti.ptcs we c betore the Houle, he left them to thole of
their Lordthip,, whore profetlion and duties better
ipialified them to decide upon difficulties of that na-
ture. Wlizo he did prefarne to offer his opinion to
;heir Lordlliips, in on cafe (except in what might be
called peliics) Was he inclined to take that part to
which men r t Inci age ufually leaned. He netret
courted popularity; that is, he never did a thing
merely b:c.ture it was popular. He aged upon
consiaion only; and was always inclined to lop-
port reahrn againfl popular clamour. The prefent
Bill he had taken up, at the inftance of a Noble
Friend of his, who was compelled to return to a
military command be holds in Scotland. Their
Lot d ships would .now to whom he alluded. He
had the higheil tcfpett and affection for his Lordlltip.,
and had promifed to attend to the different pages
the He thought himfell called upon to make
thi, Statement of hi. feelings to the Houle.
Lord GRANTLEY remarked, that, in the courfe
of Ins exp.:, rence he had always found, that the ma-
,-,illrates with whom he acted, had (seen extremely
ansi u, to the intention. of the Legitlature, and
,o lee that fuch Arls were carried into effect
lee itriz!vt regard to the fouation of the creditoe.
',11,,111.1 their I.ord'hips think proper to pals the pre.
Lai, Le was pLiitinded the magittrates would
t:.e :AMC I: Li..t.ttion to carry the proviliuns of
LI.( i:1i..1). He cou!ei state, from the
tt i,toini it, that the prifons throughout die
.ittgdo.:l were et .reme:y crowded, !ed that in his
pillion it wool.; ire .h.i•itcable that their Lerthbips
(could entertain the Bull.
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