4 On Arrestsand Mesne Process for small Debts, &c. (Feb. 1, 
when the party has. neither money nor 
friends); but the practice is pursued from 
habit, although often with neluctance, 
lest one creditor should lose an ad- 
vantage, through forbearance, which is 
gained by another, from an act of seve- 
rity. It is very common to find in the 
hands of the sheriff, several writs against 
the same man at the same time for trifling 
debts of 10]. to 121. so that by the expence 
of the remedy upon this class of debtors, 
their means of payment are reduced in 
proportion: if therefore, only for small 
sums, the speculation were destroyed, 
which from experience is shewn to serve 
no other purpose, than to encourage des- 
perate games of chance; the debtor lett 
at his hberty, even for a time before he 
could he reached by an execudon, and 
freed from the expence of such arrest, 
might be enabled to compromise the ac- 
tion, from which, he is now totally pre- 
vented, by incurring costs which he 
cannot avoid, and which eat up all his 
funds. 
A Tae, shewing the Number of Process in Middlesex, sued out in One Year, 
distinguishing the Number of bailable from those not bailable, Number of Arrests, 
Debtors sent to Prison, Bail Bonds, Executions, and Actions compromised or 
abandoned on Account of Poverty, divided into Four Ciasses. 
Debts under 101.|Debts above’ i01. 
and 
not bailablee 
Number and Process. 
. oF Process ...--- 
SOF “Agresks: ues e vie 
. of Bail Bonds... - 
No. of Prisoners . .... 
No. of Executions. ...- 398 
No. of Rules for 
Return of Writs } 
No. of Actions com- 
promised or aban- 
doned on Account 
of Poverty. ; 
10,000 
9,602 
Above 201. 
ar pn 301. and - 7 
under 201 . under 301. upwards. 
5,600 1,776 5,015 
2,470 725 1,958 
1,350 340 1,480 
.350* 77 573 
368 84 1,606 
700 300 1,200 
4,882 1,615 2,836 
* To which may be added the number of Debtors committed on Writs of Habeas Corpus, 
or ona Render in discharge of Bail. 
The Number of Middlesex Debtors discharged from Nreweate, by the Authority o 
Parliament, from 1794 to 1801; the Number of Prisoners, at one Time, withan 
Four Months after the Discharge ; the Number on the 13th of November, 1801, 
in Newgate, on Mesne Process, for want of Bail for Debts under 4Ol. and th 
Number of their Children, divided into three Classes. 
7) 6 ~ +n 7, at ST i Boa | we = wk Yom 
+ UD ws * ss Ulue.S Ie = D9 oo 3. Sy Sen es os 
oO i = 3 0/385 Soe FN ee “o* Sy 
a2 ie 5) Ses «3S SoS £ Ns at GP) us ree 
2] 2 pa PONS SS Sitien et as bn al. eae Magri ¥2 
Sight: Bo a sSs0lns aa oe ES Gomes Si | 
a => = 8 S ‘= 1 ome O a3 sx Calta, Pere Ow > oe 
ae a= g |ow RS et Bi te eee ake) 294 o 
= fue as fo} Al, Sete Ae Gq, 13 0 po) Wie a Pea eM D 4 
3) ee ? Sin el Ssa Un — Oo wo wf a suegs 
e> is : nO Sa Bo a ae So See eg eee 
am ow ca 4 SS OVERS a ei 390 4 S Ja 
[oy ies o ay ws © D oy nm o oO eH wo a eo 
tr, @ ow 2 om w/o as S Oe i oS oO 2 on ao 
ee 2 & a v }-2 2o6u73 9 Ee rds 3 ep) es 2-9 rep ws 
‘4, rot ¢ 3 SBxersaeecsS$ 38 6 s.c fers spacer BR eleet ae 
oe =) 2, 3° 8 So 8 OAS Bw 5A aw sO SA sauO 
mo 1S Z Z A Z 
207 a 45 Debtors 21 Debtors 9 Deteees 
182 110 having having beak 
] ne il f Child. 
1801 873 165 65 Children 44 Chi ay 1 
