THE BEE, 



OR 



LITERARY WEEKLr INTELLIGENCER, 



FOR 



WEDNESDAT, FEBRUARY iff. I79I. 

 To the Editor of the Bee. 



Thoughts on the modern prevalence of Bahkruptcies. 

 Sir, 

 Your publication, which, though yet in its infancy, 

 I flatter myfelf will be of extenlive utility to the world, 

 invites the philofopher, the fcholar, the merchant, or 

 the obferver, alike to communicate their ideas, which, 

 after being fanctioiied by your approbation, are thus 

 given to the pubHc. Perhaps, in the prefent fituation 

 of the commercial world, the number of bankruptcies 

 which have of late happened, may claim a few thoughts, 

 as a fubjeft highly interefting to a mercantile nation. 

 To remedy the evil entirely is perhaps impoffible, 

 while trade exifts, and fortune is capricious; but ought 

 not fome diltinftion to be made in the eye of 

 the world, between the fituation of the extravagant 

 unthinking villain, the hafty fpe£lator, and the v/or- 

 thy man, who has been ruined by their fchemes, ftrug- 

 gling^ under the burden of a numerous family, and 

 deeply affected with his fallen condition ? A man in 

 the fituation of the latter, is mod deferving compaffion j 

 on him the creditor ought not to wreck that vengeance 



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