B° ° K half-pence, a day for his maintenance ; when the debt
— ^—' is proved, the creditor is releafed from the above-mentioned
■contribution: the debtor continues in prifon, at the difcre-
tion of his creditor, until the debt is difcharged ; and, if he
has no means of fubiiftence, is obliged to maintain himfelf
■by working with the delinquents in cutting wood, fawing
ftone, or cleaning the ftreets.
In cafe a gentleman contradis a debt, an adtion lies againft
his lands and goods, and not againft his perfon, unlefs he
gives a note o f hand with a double fignature, one intended
as an afcertainment of the debt, the other as a renunciation of
his exemption from arrefts; but a perfon of high diftindtion,
even though he fhould bind himfelf by this engagement,
can bid defiance to all danger of imprifonment.
C H A P .
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C H A P . VI.
Departure from Warfaw.— Bialliftock.— Entertainment at'
the countefs o f Branifki’spalace.— Dutcby e/Lithuania.----
Its union with Poland.— Defcription o f Grodno.— Diets.—
Phyfic garden.— General productions o f Lithuania.— Account
o f the Wild-ox.— O f the Remiz and its pendent nejl.— ■
Manufactures.— Entertainments.— Hofpitality o f the. Poles..
— Ele5liQn-dinner,.and ball.
BEFORE we quitted Warfaw we received' another inftance. c h a r .
of his majefty’s wonderful condefceniion, a letter writ- .. VI* .
ten with his own hand, to the poft-mafter at Grodno, ordering,
that we ihould receive every accommodation which could be
procured, qnd that we ihould be permitted to vifit the ma-
nufadtures and every objedt of curiofity..
We quitted the capital on the ioth of Auguft, crofted the
Viftula, and pafled through the fuburbs of Praga. About an.
Engliih mile from Warfaw a foreft begins, and continues,,
with little interruption,, to the diftance of eighteen miles..
At Wengrow we obferved a fine corps "of Ruffian troops,
quartered in the village. Some o f the places in our
route, though extremely wretched, enjoyed their own police,
and courts of juftice : they confifted of wooden huts, moftly
thatched, fome roofed with wood, and a few with tiles. The.
country was chiefly fandy and level until we arrived at the.
Bog, which we crofted at Gran: the river was broad and.
ftiallow. We afcended from its banks a fmall rife, and found
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