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He will have more dilEcxilty of obtaining credit from 

 others : He will have more difficulty to preferve his ill 

 got acquifitions, than he now poffeiTes : He will of courfe 

 have much lefs temptation to put himfclf into that litu- 

 ation than he now has. If fo, he will guard againft the 

 chance of bankruptcy with greater care ; and if he fees 

 it unavoidable, will take care to (lop fooner than he 

 otherwife would have done ; as he v/ill thus have a 

 -better chance of being able to difchargehis whole debts; 

 without which he will foon find it would be impoffible 

 to enjoy life with any degree of comfort. 



But if the creditor be benefired, and if the frandit- 

 lent debtor be put into a worfe fituation than he other- 

 wife would have been ; furely no perfon could have 

 face to obje<3: to thefe regulations, becaufe they tend 

 to free the hone/}, thougli unfortunate debtor, from the 

 gripe of mercilefs oppreffion ; and to put it in his power 

 fo earn a fubfiftence to hinifelf and family, by his in- 

 duftrious exertions, of which at prefent he may be ut- 

 terly deprived, by the tyrannical difpofition of a def- 



Thefe are the aA'-owed and obvious tendency of the 

 meafures propofed ; and they are fubniitced to the con- 

 fideration of the public, in the hopes that their imper- 

 ietSVions may be fupplied, and their errors corrected, by 

 tliofe who are better capable of judging of thefe things 

 than the writer, whofe only claim to merit notice is tlie 

 uprightnefs of his intentions. 



To the Editor of the Bee. 



Queries refpeBing the Georgium Sidus. 

 Sir, 

 As I have lived in the country fmcc the year 178 c 

 till very lately, I have heard nothing as yet, refpeO:ing 

 the diftunce of the Georgium Sidus from the fun, ex- 

 cept from a calculation made by Mr. Lexel, profciror 



