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Dr. Carrie. — Bankrupts. — Mr. Bewick's Reply. [Nov. r, 



To lit Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



IN my Memoir on the late Dr. Ciirrie 

 I have (aid that " no corrtfp'ndL-nce 

 had I'ubfifted for a number of years" be- 

 tween him and that anf^'erer of the Leiter 

 of JaTper Wilfon who took the liiierty of 

 addrtfling his Reply to the Do£l ■)■ by 

 name, with the familiarity of an intimate 

 acquaintance. I ;-m fince informed that 

 Dr. Ciiriie never had any correfporidence 

 with the ptilbn in queition {Mr. George 

 Chalmers) ; and that their only acqv.ant- 

 ance arofe from the vifits oi the latter to 

 Liverpool, in one of vvhicii he was enter- 

 tained at the Doctor's houfe, and afliikd 

 by him in fome inqui;ies rei'pedling the 

 trade ot that town. 



I have authcriiy to add, thit Dr. Curi ie 

 had prepared a new edition of the Letter, 

 in vkfhich he had placed the conduft of 

 Mr. Chalmers towards him in a proper 

 light ; but that he was induced, by the 

 hazards to which writers obnoxious to au. 

 thority vvere expoied, to fupprefs it, afier 

 alaige part had been printed. 



J. AlKIN. 



Stoke Neiviiigton, Od. lo, iSo-. 

 To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



YOUR Correfpondent " A Frequent 

 Creditor" does not .'"eem aware liiat 

 the London Gazette conta'ns. a prevention 

 for llie inconvenience he complains ot. — 

 B.mknipicies and meetings for the decla- 

 ration of dividends are there announced, 

 together with fulficisrnt information to en- 

 able a creditor to avail himfeit thereof. — 

 Thcfe are copied into our daily and other 

 puhlicati.'ns, am.'njft the reft, into your 

 ufcful MagHzine; io that no ciet'Itorneed 

 be at a lol's tor obtaining his dividend, 

 provided he be at the conunoii pains of 

 leading thefe pviblidied lifts. In the 

 coudi: of much expeiieiice I never knew a 

 dividend loft if the debt had been well 

 looked after. If creditors duly apply to 

 their debtors, tliey wdl be timely advidsd, 

 in calesof iniolvency, of the couric tliey 

 aie to purfue to make a p-'ool of their 

 debts J and a channel is opened, through 

 the medium of fulicitors or afTignces, for 

 obtaining fubfequ-Mit information. If a 

 creditor has i egleiled lo prove his debt, 

 be is very 1 kely to lofe his dividend ; but 

 vhen he has attended to the firit meafure, 

 the (econd need not elcape him. If many 

 a dividtnd fee loft, it is not from a want 

 of infutin«tion on th-: fubjtil, but from not 



availing of informatim abundantly offer- 

 ed. Unclaimed dividends of ftock are 

 liable to accumulate, from a change of 

 proprietors, &c. ; but as every proprietor 

 conCcious of his dormant dividend may 

 receive it by applying to the Bank, f.> 

 every creditor, y ware of a deSt due to hirn 

 from a bankrupt's eltate, may have it by 

 applying to a folicitor or an afTignee-— 

 The bank-direclurs widi to convey infor- 

 maiioii toperfuDs whole monies they hold: 

 adi^nees do the fame in advertifing a divi«) 

 dcnd. 



In cafes of bankruptcy delay in the 

 making of a dividend frequently arilles 

 from choofing a banktr who is a creditor 

 both as zfTignee and irtalurer. It is the 

 duy of the fo.mcr, as agent for the bcdy 

 <f creditors, to diviie the effefls as 

 fpeediiy as poflible : it is the intereji of 

 the latter to poftpone this divifion. The 

 praclice has been cenlnred, from its evi- 

 dciit etfcfts, by hii;;h legal auihoiity, arui 

 commifTioneis of bankrupts would do their 

 duty to tnfi.rce this cciiluie. 



Commercial intcrcourfe is fo abundant, 

 and commeicial inorniation lb general, 

 tliat it needs not the formaiion or iritei fer. 

 erice of a i'.-cittv to put a diligent ci-edltor 

 in the way o\ col eiling in his debts. — 

 Punftuality of claiming debts cffablilhes 

 the character of a man of bulinefs, as 

 much as punctuality of paying them dots 

 his credit. I am. Sir, Sec. 



Obeervator. 

 Birmingham, Oc}. 5, 1805. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



MR. Pinkerton, in his work infilled 

 " The Scotlin. Cillery," having 

 Rated, on the authority of MclFrs. Mori- 

 fons, his correlponden s at Penh, that, 

 " Obfeiving the uncommon genius ol my 

 late apprentice Robei t Johnlbn, I employ- 

 ed him to trace the figures on the wood in 

 the Hiftory of Quadrupeds ;" and in your 

 Magazine for Augull lalt Mrs. Hodglbn, 

 of this place, who is a proprietor of one- 

 third part of that Work, having afferteJ 

 that I was employed merely as the " en- 

 graver or wood cutter," I relutlantly 

 come forward to repel both thefe attacks, 

 which are equalW f-ilfe and malicious. 



In anfwcr to the firft aflertion it is only 

 neceffary for mc to declare, and this will 

 be attefted by my partner Mr. Beilby, 

 who compiled the Hlltory of Quadrupeds, 

 and was a proprietor cf the work, that 

 neither 



