...reater part of his indebtedness. The breaking down of his health and his increasing age, however, finally compelled him, in 1801, to take advantage of the Bankrupt Act passed in that year, his son, Richard Worsam Meade , being appointed assignee. Whilst Richard Worsam Meade was acting in this capacity it became necessary for him, in order to attend to certain transactions growing out of his own affairs, to visi...