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Debates on Insolvent Law and Slave Trade Regulations
An excerpted record recalls Lords Moira and Erskine quarreling over insolvency law, debt imprisonment, and the 1794 relief act as Moira argues for limited change while urging protections for creditors. The Commons then weighs clerks’ compensation, corn weight regulation, Quaker relief, and ongoing slave trade shipping rules with Wilberforce urging tonnage-linked mortality safeguards and gradual abolition prospects.
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