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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1853 Excerpt:... The process, in that case, I will describe. A creditor begins it in the Court of Session against the insolvent person, and all fhe other creditors; by which means the amount of all demands is discovered, or of so much as exceeds the insolvent's effects: upon ascertaining this excess the court grants a sequestration, the effects are converted into money, and distributed among such creditors as have appeared; it will be, therefore, necessary for you to lay in your claim for a proportionable share. Send me up your account of principal and interest. In the mean time, my friend and fellow labourer, M'Konochie, whose knowledge, judgment, and probity, rank in the highest class, will write to Scotland for every circumstance of information relative to Mackintosh, and is most obligingly ready both to advise and act in the affair. Let me know if your Lordship hath not the collateral security of the brother, in whose behalf you lent so generous an aid in a season of so much danger. This affair, which I am determined to pursue, to of so much refined delicacy, that I am the less surprised at what has happened." Mackintosh lived for many years afterwards in Argyle Square, Edinburgh, where he died at an advanced age in 1810. After Lord Temple's death, he occasionally corresponded with his successor, and in one of his letters, dated in January, 1784, in reply, as it would seem, to a recommendation that he should apply to Mr. Pitt for some promotion he had solicited, he writes as follows:--" As to throwing myself upon your cousin in any situation, that I will not. He has the regards I owe his father's son, and I dare say he must have seen among his papers a very interesting correspondence, the most dangerous to me I ever hazarded, from which he cannot be ignorant of me, or m...