Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1818-10-13

tort an erorbitGnt price, and he will grind
it out Of him by cruelty aud oppression.
The summary method, given by law,
for the recovery of debts due for reni,
places the poor tenant often at the mercy
Of the " Landlord = hence the enquiry,
what is the character of the owner Of this
house, is quite as important to the poor
tenant, who depends on bis labour TO pay
his rent, as what is the rent demanded,
and will the house suit me
shall cite several cases that have come
under my Own observation, and others
th4t have heard Of, and, on inquiry,
lound TO be true. And here, beg leave
TO premise, that | do not mean to sacri
fee the cause of justice TO false delicacy /;
| mean to point at The individuals whose
conduct | shall arraign, SO that the public
lshali recognize them i shall endeayeur
Ito sketch their likenesses. so that The,
will know them for their own.
The first case | beg leave to cite, In
lproof Of what | have said, is known to
several !; it should be known TO the whole
lcity-and it is the duty Of every honest
man, who shall know the facts, to put the
poor on their guard against this man, who
las shewn himself capable Of acting in
the inhuman manner am about to relate.
The man alluded TO, and who is noto-
rious for his wealth, and lon cunning, is
the owner of several novels, which, 10th
ling but the extreme of poverty, could
tempt any human being to inhabit. How
he contrives TO get the money from those
who have no money, or scarcely any
thing else, is the mystery which must
unravel--sometimes he will advance them
small sums to gain them credit in the
lneighbourhood, get them to run IN deb'
Tor furniture and other properly, which
as soon as il is in the house, is swept away
with g Landlords warrant" His reui
is thus paid by the neighbours the mis-
lerable tenants are turned out OF doors, and
the old trap set to catch other gulls
iSometimes he will so harass his uniortu
nate victims, that strangers pay the debt
| 10 relieve them from his faigs--:ls;ss HI
lcontrives to Levy tar upon humanity, to
feed has aparice.
| Not long since, q poor Irish family just
LANDED in the country, consisting of a man.
IN Dad health, his wife, far advanced IN
a state of pregnancy, three small children
the two youngest tfins, aud OF whom ONE
| is since dead, and was at the time also IN
bad health, 10 immediate .~s=as Of honse.
and totally ignorant of what WAS fair
trent, seeing bill on one of those things
called houses, applied to rent it--much
pleased with the apparent liberality of th'
ownef, who in professions is the mosl
generous Of men, bargain was sool
made, and the house was taken at the
trent of one hundred and eighty dollars 8
lyear. As was TO have been expected il
such a place, the mans health got worse.
and he was laid on a sick bed Docto,
Baker humsnely administered to bis re-
lief, without a prospect of ever being
paid, aud urged a removal to place
where the chance of recovery was more
likely. The poor family had by this time
discovered, that they, as Strangers, were
taken 10, as to the rent, and that to pay
liz was impossible. The woman applied
to the 6 Landlord" TO receive mouth :
rent, not quite due, and TO relieve them
from the contract, proposing 10 sell bed
and raise the 5 dollars-this was refused,
as being contrary to bis rule /; but, if she
would pay quarters rent, or AS dollars,
which was considerable relaxation from
his usual plan of operations, she might
leave the house. He might as well have
asked her to pay 45,0O0 dollars--she
could as easily have paid the one sum as
1.-THE other. About TO be confined, the
is Hibernian Society" advanced Is dollars
Ito buy those necessaries the poor woman's
situation was about to render indispensa-
Ible; but having learned the true charac-
tier of her Landlord" she was more
afraid of him, than of want in her con-
Ifinement--he was solicited again to take
the charitable donation of Is dollars, and
permit the family to leave his house ;
this was refused, and the old terms Of
compromise insisted on. The woman was
brought to bed and, thus, the husband,
ruife, and one child were confined. Who
could have thought there was in existence
man, VIGOROUSLY worth more than fifty
Thousand dollars, who would undertake,
t such a moment, to Cypress SO helpless,
and so forlorn a family This man did
1.-THE took out warrant, had the man
taken before magistrate. got judgment
for is dollars, issued his execution, and
dragged the sick man from his bed TO Jail
Ito extort the pitiful sum of IS dollars
which he could not at the time have paid