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Memoirs Of Francis Lord Rawdon,
wnIi V . fe « completing so charitable and so necessary * ivoik . — The Bill was lost . rS" n ° f March ' howevei '> in the present year , his Lordship , lenewed his generous efforts in the cause of humanity , and presented to the House a Bill to amend the Law of Imprisonment on Mesne Unate tl Pishment of Fraudulent
vent Pnlf " r , ?"' J ° ™ Insol , vent Debtors . The principal clauses of this Bill went to prevent cWW ^ "S ^^^ sl y arrested ; to prevent their being capriciously confined m Jock-tip houses ; to prevent fraudulent debtors £ \ y ™* entt S »\ Vnsonwhat they should have applied for the fcenefit of their creditors ; to prevent persons in a state of sickness and disease from being dragged to prison at a time when their lives might be endangered and to
; prevent persons from remaining in prison for an unlimited time , without enquiring into the justice of the claims for which they had been arrested . ° In introducing this PI ' , i T Lordshl P said he would not address himself to the feelings of the . house ; he relied on it ' s justice . S Sread tWCeand ine
tnS ¥ v T- i' ver y sa » g » hopes were entertain e d of its being passed ; but on the question being put for the third readme , May 31 , so many legal objections were opposed , that TT ° Ril f ' with deep regret , relinquished all hope of success . i-le complained of having been deluded by some noble Lords , who « ad in the beginning of the business flattered him with expectations or their supportand seeing- such determined
; hostility , as he said TO the principle of the Bill , he would rather abandon it altoo-ether man give the House any more unnecessary trouble ° A motion of Lord Thurlow ' s for postponing the ' third readir . o- to that day two months being carried b y a majority of c outofre . votes , the Bill fell to the eround . ' S 5
How enviable must at this time have been the feelings of Ins T ordsnip , who for so long a period had dedicated his most earnest labours to the cause of suffering humanity . Undaunted by all the obstaclesopposed by interested men , and men who perhaps felt their consequence wouiicied by the consideration that the matter had not originated as it ought , among themselves , he persevered in if s support till it was found that his most vi efforts must
. gorous fail in a contest with iegal pertinacity . Of his Lordshi p ' s Masonic character there can be but one opinion lhe unwearied attention he has paid to the ' duties of that hiVn office , to which he was appointed by the late Duke of Cumberland , the of the Earl
on resignation of Effingham , and to which he was on the z ^ h of November 1790 re-appointed , with the most distinguished marks cf approbation , by our present Royal Grand Master , has secured to him the warmest affections , mingled with the profoundest respect , of the Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of England , r g 1
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Memoirs Of Francis Lord Rawdon,
wnIi V . fe « completing so charitable and so necessary * ivoik . — The Bill was lost . rS" n ° f March ' howevei '> in the present year , his Lordship , lenewed his generous efforts in the cause of humanity , and presented to the House a Bill to amend the Law of Imprisonment on Mesne Unate tl Pishment of Fraudulent
vent Pnlf " r , ?"' J ° ™ Insol , vent Debtors . The principal clauses of this Bill went to prevent cWW ^ "S ^^^ sl y arrested ; to prevent their being capriciously confined m Jock-tip houses ; to prevent fraudulent debtors £ \ y ™* entt S »\ Vnsonwhat they should have applied for the fcenefit of their creditors ; to prevent persons in a state of sickness and disease from being dragged to prison at a time when their lives might be endangered and to
; prevent persons from remaining in prison for an unlimited time , without enquiring into the justice of the claims for which they had been arrested . ° In introducing this PI ' , i T Lordshl P said he would not address himself to the feelings of the . house ; he relied on it ' s justice . S Sread tWCeand ine
tnS ¥ v T- i' ver y sa » g » hopes were entertain e d of its being passed ; but on the question being put for the third readme , May 31 , so many legal objections were opposed , that TT ° Ril f ' with deep regret , relinquished all hope of success . i-le complained of having been deluded by some noble Lords , who « ad in the beginning of the business flattered him with expectations or their supportand seeing- such determined
; hostility , as he said TO the principle of the Bill , he would rather abandon it altoo-ether man give the House any more unnecessary trouble ° A motion of Lord Thurlow ' s for postponing the ' third readir . o- to that day two months being carried b y a majority of c outofre . votes , the Bill fell to the eround . ' S 5
How enviable must at this time have been the feelings of Ins T ordsnip , who for so long a period had dedicated his most earnest labours to the cause of suffering humanity . Undaunted by all the obstaclesopposed by interested men , and men who perhaps felt their consequence wouiicied by the consideration that the matter had not originated as it ought , among themselves , he persevered in if s support till it was found that his most vi efforts must
. gorous fail in a contest with iegal pertinacity . Of his Lordshi p ' s Masonic character there can be but one opinion lhe unwearied attention he has paid to the ' duties of that hiVn office , to which he was appointed by the late Duke of Cumberland , the of the Earl
on resignation of Effingham , and to which he was on the z ^ h of November 1790 re-appointed , with the most distinguished marks cf approbation , by our present Royal Grand Master , has secured to him the warmest affections , mingled with the profoundest respect , of the Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of England , r g 1