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15. C Of Culpable Insolvency

it thinks fit to give him ; as if conscious that the offer it makes assists <add>power it gives</add>
him were such as none but a bad man wocould accept. Instead of
taking measures for enabling the insolvent to provide his own
subsistence, and supplying the deficiency itself , it obliges the
Creditor to subsist him : The creditor as he has suffered so much , he is therefore
to suffer more . If But suppose the Creditor after the loss he has suffered
is not enough no longer able to maintain the man who caused
it to him , Is this the case ,? there is no remedy . The poor are not worth consideration considering or
redressing .

If frustrates its own purposes in favour of the Creditors In other respects this plan is still more mischievous to
Creditors than it is to Debtors . If a man has fifty Creditors
and cannot pay every one of them any every thing , he will not
pay any one of them any thing . Why should he ? If he pays
a farthing short he suffers for life ; if he does not pay so much as a
farthing he cannot suffer longer . Let him be where he will
it is better to be rich than pennyless . In a prison , or rather
what is called a prison in England , the advantages which
wealth has over poverty are greater than in any other place.
If a man has money he has a space to range in larger than many
a principality : if he has none he is thrust pell-mell with hundreds

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	192	Info in main headings field	of culpable insolvency
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23595
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