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keepers as well as himself having been obliged to sue him 

 for their accounts. 



Advertisements calling on debtors to pay their accounts 

 were very common, and tenders were often asked for 

 debts as per list. But, now and again there was also 

 something like what we find in the Guiana Chronicle of 

 Deer. loth 1817, headed "Debts of Honour for sale at 

 fifty per cent discount of H. M. Bunbury, Esquire." Mr. 

 BUNBURY lost 25 Joes on one bet at the dinner table of 

 the Hon. Chas. Bean, and 8 Joes at the Whist Club, to 

 Samuel Phippen, who thus concludes his advertise- 

 ment : — 



" All the above Debts having been repeatedly de- 

 manded of Mr. H. M. B, since that period, and finally, 

 in this last week, on the eve of the Subscriber's departure 

 for Europe ; when Mr. H. M. B. replied, that he would 

 not pay them, and that the Subscriber was at liberty to 

 do what he pleased with them. He therefore takes this 

 method of publicly advertising them ; altho' they may 

 not produce a cash payment, they may be made a set-off 

 against any debt due that Gentleman of the like nature." 



From a letter in the Guiana Chronicle of April 23rd, 

 1819, we see the sort of thing that went on when men 

 were ready to quarrel and fight duels on slight provo- 

 cation. Mr. M. Campbell stated that Mr. Andrew 

 Mills of the Vendue Office called and handed him a 

 letter, in which ROBERT Phipps demanded a categorical 

 answer as to whether in a certain letter to the Chronicle, 

 he alluded to him — " yes or no." Mr. CAMPBELL having 

 replied in the affirmative, a second letter was handed him, 

 and which read as follows : — 



" Mr. CAMPBELL, — You are too great a scoundrel and 

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