Degrand, it
was done by the advice of an _ignorant_ attorney."
We are enabled to give an accurate statement of the event to which
the editor of the U.S. Gazette above alludes; we copy it from a
publication made at the time:--
"On the 20th October, 1811, Capt. Chillingsworth Foster, jun.,
AEt. about 41 years, departed this life; on the same day
Benjamin Bangs, Esq., of Harwich, with one Mr. Scotto Berry, of
the same place, called at the house of the deceased for payment
of a sum of about one hundred and thirty dollars, due said
Bangs, and requested the father of the deceased to give him his
security, said Bangs well knowing the parent to be in low
circumstances, and about seventy-five years old, and the mother
about the same age. The father refused to comply, stating
his inability to answer so great a demand without suffering
immediate distress. The said Bangs then declared that if he did
not comply, it was in his power to arrest the body of the
deceased.
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