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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37438	Several essays relating to accademies, banks, bankrupts, charity-lotteries, courts of enquiries, court merchants, friendly-societies, high-ways, pension-office, seamen, wagering, &c. now communicated to the world for publick good.	Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.	1700 (1700)	Wing D845A; ESTC R5496	96,728	353

who is a Tradesman or Merchant shall break or fail or shut up Shop or leave off Trade and shall not either pay or secure to his Creditors their full and whole Debts Twenty Shillings in the Pound without Abatement or Deduction or shall convey away their Books or Goods in order to bring their Creditors to any Composition or shall not apply to this Office as aforesaid shall be guilty of Felony and upon Conviction of the same shall suffer as a Felon without Benefit of Clergy And if any such person shall take Sanctuary either in the Mint Friars or other pretended Priviledge-Place or shall convey thither any of their Goods as aforesaid to secure them from their Creditors upon Complaint thereof made to any of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace they shall immediately grant Warrants to the Constable c. to search for the said Persons and Goods who shall be aided and assisted by the Train'd-Bands if need be without any Charge to the Creditors to search for and discover the said Persons and Goods and whoever were aiding in the carrying in the said Goods or whoever knowingly receiv'd either the Goods or the Person shou'd be also guilty of Felony For as the Indigent Debtor is a branch of the Commonwealth which deserves its Care so the wilful Bankrupt is one of the worst sort of Thieves And it seems a little unequal that a poor Fellow who for mere Want steals from his Neighbour some Trifle shall be sent out of the Kingdom and sometimes out of the World while a sort of people who defye Justice and violently resist the Law shall be suffer'd to carry mens Estates away before their faces and no Officers to be found who dare execute the Law upon them Any man wou'd be concern'd to hear with what Scandal and Reproach Foreigners do speak of the Impotence of our Constitution in this Point That in a Civiliz'd Government as ours is the strangest Contempt of Authority is shown that can be instanc'd in the world I may be a little the warmer on this Head on account that I have been a larger Sufferer by such means than ordinary But I appeal to all the world as to the Equity of the Case What the difference is between having my House broken up in the Night to be robb'd and a man coming in good Credit and with a Proffer of Ready Money in the middle of the Day and buying 500 l. of Goods and carry them directly from my Warehouse into the Mint and the next day laugh at me and bid me defiance yet this I have seen done I think 't is the justest thing in the world that the last shou'd be esteem'd the greater Thief and deserves most to be hang'd I have seen a Creditor come with his Wise and Children and beg of the Debtor only to let him have part of his own Goods again which he had bought knowing and designing to break I have seen him with Tears and Intreaties petition for his own or but some of it and be taunted and swore at and denied by a sawcy insolent Bankrupt That the poor man has been wholly ruin'd by the Cheat. 'T is by the Villany of such many an Honest man is undone Families starv'd and sent a begging and yet no Punishment prescrib'd by our Laws for it By the aforesaid Commission of Enquiry all this might be most effectually prevented an Honest Indigent Tradesman preserv'd Knavery detected and punish'd Mints Friars and Privilege-Places suppress'd and without doubt a great number of Insolencies avoided and prevented of which many more Particulars might be insisted upon but I think these may be sufficient to lead any body into the Thought and for the Method I leave it to the wise Heads of the Nation who know better than I how to state the Law to the Circumstances of the Crime Of ACADEMIES WE have in England fewer of these than in any part of the World at least where Learning is in so much esteem But to make amends the two great Seminaries we have are without comparison the Greatest I won't say the Best in the World and tho' much might be said here concerning Universities in general and Foreign Academies in particular I content my self with noting that part in which we seem defective The French who justly value themselves upon erecting the most Celebrated Academy of Europe owe the Lustre of it very much to the great Encouragement the Kings of France have given to it And one of the Members making a Speech at his Entrance tells you That 't is not the least of the Glories of their Invincible Monarch to have engross'd all the Learning of the World in that Sublime Body The peculiar Study of the Academy of Paris has been to Refine and Correct their own Language which they have done to that happy degree that we see it now spoken in all the Courts of Christendom as the Language allow'd to be most universal I had the Honour once to be a Member of a small Society who seem'd to offer at this Noble Design in England But the Greatness of the Work and the Modesty of the Gentlemen concern'd prevail'd with them to desist an Enterprize which appear'd too great for Private Hands to undertake We want indeed a Richlieu to commence such a Work For I am persuaded were there such a Genius in our Kingdom to lead the way there wou'd not want Capacities who cou'd carry on the Work to a Glory equal to all that has gone before them The English Tongue is a Subject not at all less worthy the Labour of such a Society than the French and capable of a much greater Perfection The Learned among the French will own That the Comprehensiveness of Expression is a Glory in which the English Tongue not only Equals but Excels its Neighbours Rapin St. Evremont and the most Eminent French Authors have acknowledg'd it And my Lord Roscommon who is allow'd to be a good Judge of English because he wrote it as exactly as any ever did expresses what I mean in these Lines For who did ever in French Authors see The Comprehensive English Energy The weighty Bullion of one Sterling Line Drawn to French Wire wou'd through whole Pages shine And if our Neighbours will yield us as their greatest Critick has done the Preference for Sublimity and Nobleness of Stile we will willingly quit all Pretensions to their Insignificant Gaiety 'T is great pity that a Subject so Noble shou'd not have some as Noble to attempt it And for a Method what greater can be set before us than the Academy of Paris Which to give the French their due stands foremost among all the Great Attempts in the learned Part of the World The present King of England of whom we have seen the whole World writing Panegyricks and Encomiums and whom his Enemies when their Interest does not silence them are apt to say more of than our selves as in the War he has given surprizing Instances of a Greatness