It may be thought, Sir, that the fertility of my invention supplies the chasm of bailiffs knavery, and that to indulge an unjustifiable spleen, I have given my veracity a stretch; indeed there is no occasion for fiction, I have a most plentiful stock of substantial, well-attested infamy to cull materials from, and can produce many men who have gone through this ceremony step by step, with this variation only, that the scope of villany has been more extensive, and the catastrophe protracted to a longer date. Things are strongly misrepresented if a certain bailiff of Middlesex did not extort bills to the amount of 3000l. from one man in the afore-mentioned situation. But if these transactions, infamous as they are, were the ultimate of their villany, I should hold them so barren of vice as not to merit censure. Acts of a more alarming and cruel nature are daily practised by these BUCCANEERS and HUSSARS of law; I shall therefore overlook these as supernumerary artifices, bagatelles, and common garnish to their standing household dish of villanies, and proceed to a view of their integrity in the execution of a legal process levied on the effects of a defendant. The first step in this business is putting from two to any _requisite_ number of their own _worthies_ in possession, not to preserve the property, but to swear that no such property existed, if necessary. The goods are generally taken off the premises without the _tedious_ form of appraisement, inventory, or bill of sale from the sheriff; nor is the difference between the sum levied and the amount of the property any obstruction, these are niceties to be determined by law. Taking ALL the property they find is, in the Bailiff Dictionary, securing the ammunition to prevent A FIRING; the English of which is, robbing a man of ALL will prevent his having any thing left to procure redress. The burglary thus completed, the plunder is appraised by the FAMILY broker, and as formally sold to another _honest_ chapman in the FAMILY way. If the injured party should fortunately raise a friend to inquire into the nature of this atrocious robbery, what avails it! the matter comes before the court—affidavits innumerable _prove_ the legality of the whole transaction, and the oppressor triumphs in victorious villany. Yet a man of common understanding will answer, how is it possible these depredations can be committed with impunity, in the face of such excellent laws? I reply, that the excellency of those laws, and their favourable interpretation by our judges, &c. renders it almost impracticable to come at offenders of this class. Whilst affidavits can be procured at the stinted price of half a crown, to weigh in testimony against such as are the language of truth, dictated by conscience only, we have little hopes of redress for injuries of this stamp, as the complaint must be made by motion on affidavit, and the reply is made in