A Correspondent has sent us an account which describes one
of the most monstrous cases ur legal oppression that we ever encountered. The story is. that a merchant. to assist an acqoaiutance, gave him some bills for a considerable %menet : the other. who was to have provided for the bills. afterwards sued his benefactor on one at them as for a debt; and when the merchant became bankrupt, coutriced to be- come the assignee to work the estate, the other creditoradiscouutenanciug the pre- ceedings : the merchant was thrown into prison ; his case has beeu brought before several Chancellors ; but, through varions technicalities and mischances. there he remains after thirty years' rosjisemest; his friends dead . and his means of suste- nance failing. Such is the tale ; but as it is ex parte, and involves elatemeuts of which we cannot undertake the responsibility. the manuscript will be returned to the writer as directed.
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