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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Report from Philadelphia on a bill pending in the British Parliament to bar lawsuits in Britain or its colonies for pre-peace treaty debts contracted in America if the creditor's property was confiscated by U.S. states. Sir James Wright and Joseph Galloway reportedly influenced its introduction after receiving compensation for their losses.
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A bill is now depending in the British Parliament, entitled, "An act for the better preventing vexatious suits being brought for the recovery of debts contracted in America, previous to the treaty of peace with the United States:"—the effect of which is to render the confiscation of property, by any of the United States a sufficient bar to actions brought in Great-Britain, or in the British colonies, against the former owners of such property, for debts which had been contracted in America anterior to the respective acts of confiscation. It is said that Sir James Wright and Mr. Joseph Galloway, who have had the address to obtain from a profuse ministry a compensation for their losses in America, amounting to double the sum they ever were worth, have likewise had sufficient influence to introduce this measure.
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Philadelphia
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May 19
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A bill is now depending in the British Parliament, entitled, "An act for the better preventing vexatious suits being brought for the recovery of debts contracted in America, previous to the treaty of peace with the United States:" —the effect of which is to render the confiscation of property, by any of the United States a sufficient bar to actions brought in Great-Britain, or in the British colonies, against the former owners of such property, for debts which had been contracted in America anterior to the respective acts of confiscation. It is said that Sir James Wright and Mr. Joseph Galloway, who have had the address to obtain from a profuse ministry a compensation for their losses in America, amounting to double the sum they ever were worth, have likewise had sufficient influence to introduce this measure.