to pay or settle the debt. If he wants money a _worthy honest_ man attends, who will lend it him, doing these things frequently to men in his situation. Five different messages are sent to his acquaintances to bail him; the messenger _mistakes_ the way, and goes to his other creditors for more writs; the prisoner is charged a shilling or half a crown for each of those _services_. Unluckily his friends were out—but what of that! Mr. — and Mr. — shall bail him to-morrow, and the scoundrel of a plaintiff will never have six pence (the only word of truth he hears). To-morrow comes, the office is to be searched—unlucky again! it is a holiday, or not office-hours, &c. &c. Now a bill is brought in of five or six pounds, for which his new acquaintance have eat and drank well; his pockets stripped paves the way to stripping his house—another writ or two is come against him by these delays. The unhappy man is now fairly in the trammels—what must be done! Why, any thing to obtain liberty. The bailiff’s good friends bail him, at the _modest_ expence of half the debts—and from that moment he dates his inevitable ruin. He is soon after called on to bail some rascal of their own upon a sham action, who is never to be found afterwards; therefore he must pay the debt and cost, which is snacked in the FAMILY. If it is inconvenient, out of pure _friendship_ and _humanity_, a little time is given upon a bond and judgment, which is no sooner signed, &c. but execution is taken out and levied. The _honest_ broker appraises the effects to one third the value, the monied _friend_ purchases them under the sheriff’s bill of sale, the deluded wretch is robbed, beggared, and branded for a villain by his fair creditors, whilst the attorney, bailiff, broker, and purchaser divide the booty, and the unhappy debtor is sent to the King’s Bench or Fleet, as an additional proof of THEIR industry. But as the same medicine agrees not with all constitutions, so the same doctrine suits not all principles, we will for a moment turn our attention to a fresh disease, and mark the operation of a fresh remedy. The patient now is a man of large dealings, whose credit is not quite exhausted, encumbered with a good-looking promising booty; he is therefore, in consideration of ten _per cent._ indulged with a length of tether, and bargains for a lease of liberty from term to term conditionally, that he neglects his business, and calls every day to treat his keeper with a bottle of Madeira, and some other _trifling_ present of five guineas value for the she Saracen who supplies the place of hostess to this infernal inquisition. However pernicious men may esteem those kind of _services_ when at a distance from the necessity of accepting them, there are few to be found possessed of sufficient resolution to reject liberty on any terms. If mankind in general were, Sir, blessed with your fortitude, they would eagerly concur in this maxim, that the worst of all danger is the dread on’t.