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himself or family, and deprives society of the benefits that might be derived from his industry and talents. Imprisonment, as a punishment, is directed of its odium and disgrace, which should ever attend it, and thus becomes less efficacious in deterring the unprincipled from the commission of fraud upon the creditors as well as from other offences. In order to remedy there evils these evils, let it be the object of the law while it enforces its sanctions, to make a distinction between poverty and fraud, misfortune and crime. Of [?] the debtor be dishonest, and has seconded [?] or transferred his property, with intent to defraud his creditors, let the law, while it protects the poor and honest from from arrest and imprisonment for debts hereafter contracted, provide a remedy more scrutinizing than the present one, for the detection of the fraud, and a compulsory process against the fraudulent debtor, by which payment of his debts may be more effectually secured and enforced.