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I ..^..--- -,1. mmipmel .! , .1 . . . . . . . . _ ox CI ii owlQ-Th / v ~.. , .o.lv. .... .. v..• ~( q. ...... .l. •.. .. • • , 1.. .. _ ~ • . - N . 4 1 .117 - 1 rittsil.b. . , , ... _ . .. Numiri 6226 r NEW TREATRR ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Rt RPECIAI. DESIRE. THIS Eveninr, SATURDAY, November 16, Ms Majesty's Semoia :rill ;Hi form the Play of A NEW WAY TO I'AV OLD DEBTS. Lord Lovell, Mr. Thomason ; Giles Orerreark Mr. Kean; Wellloorn. Mr. Coonrr ; Allworrh , Mr. Peoley ; An, Mr. W. H. ; Nlarrall. Mr. Almaden; Justice 6,644, Mr Gamic. Lady Ailworils, Mrs. Knight; Mar. pre, Win Srnithsno ; Fruit, M... Ilarlovre. After which Otte lime). • weer Melo dramatic Romance, is three arty, railed THE TWO GALLEY SLAVES Frisson, Mr. Cooper; The Caton.", Mr. Terry; Masi sans Macaroon, Mr. Harks.; Irani', Mr. Knight; Dit iorant, Mr. (Wile; Delville, Mr. Mercer. Clara, Mrs. W. Weal ; Mariam. Mama Smith. Places for this Boxes to be lake. of Mr.Sprisr, Office, in the Militias * *here Emily Boers tier modatioo of Pori.• 11.11111111 lOC to the Imatt el IMP, opted, and • Private Boa had pithily; as NISI of Mr. Hookham ' of Bond street, who is appointed style Agent at Ike Kept End of lite Toon for the 'tightly disposal of Pri ests Boars belosging to the Len?, cf this Theatre. 10. Moody, the Tragedy of Kint Rlckisrd the Third—and laisirsssi in London. Os Tarsday, The Provoked Husband—and Paul sod Vin 1 101 .• Os Thursday, as Opera, in whirl, Mr. Brehm will appear for the Mai lion this season. the Hot• 711RATRR ROYAL, rOI'ENYGA RDEN. THIS Evening, SATURDAY. Nnwrinller 16, will be performed Shalispearers Tragedy of 11011E0 AND JULIET. Prince E'ealo., Mr. Hunt; Perk, Mr. Horrehnw; (den" tarok Me. Claremont ; Capinet, Mr. Egerton ; Romer., Mr. C. linable; Mercurio, Mr. Jobe.. Lady Calpulwi, Mu. Famed; Num, Mr*. Davenport; Juliet, Mire F. H. Kole (from the Theatre-Ro)n, Dublin, her 2d appearance in Loaden). Afier chilli a Piece called A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Val. Creeks's., 4r. Jones; Lard Rivera, Mr. Clagemsti. Laylizabetle Freetuve, Mr.. Gibbs. With (121 h tune). • Piece, in one set. railed THE IRISH UTOn ; lie. NEW LIGHTS. The principal Chewier* by M . Chapindu, Hunt, Coiner, CONON Mu. J. Scuts, sod Miss Lone. Pions for the Buses to be bad of Mr. Brandon, at the Box _ from Ten WI Foe,. A Private Dos. may Le had rev the Scare°, or Nightly, of Mr. Brariatia, at the live Ober. On Monday, Rumro sod Joliet—and Cherry mid Fair Star. Oa Taeaday. the Opera of Don John. Os Wedaesday, Henri Qestrr--and Ali Paths. A now Opera, is three arts, to br retitled Maid Marian, will be rodoesd on Satarday, the 23d inst. CORRECT MODEL OF THE - TREAD Nil LI! Will be presented Ibis Earning, 111111 tr the estpetuostetatenee of a. ingenious French Artist in ivory Wool', drawn JIM= hut scut& esperlence ow she .pot for the lost 1t,,.. Months. ADELPHI THEATRE, STRAND. IS Evening, S'All) it DAY; Nsn'e&wr THIS be pr.mooed Mist time), the celebrated Oos sad Ont Made, Comic, Operatic, Arimophouie, romalie, Analytic. Teepsichurir, P•11141f1161iC, Calllftlll Obseuratte transmute lorletta of Fun, Frolic, Fathom, nod Flash, Is Three Acta, called TOM AND JERRY ; OR, LIFE IN LONDON ! Catiathisa Tuns, Mr. Wienrh ; Jerry Hawthorn, Mr. John Reeve' Logic. Mr. Wilkinson; feigns, Giesn, Mr. Kate, Mrs. Saber; Set, Mrs. Milieu!; Jane, Mimi Ham asesslry ; Mrs. Tartar, Mrs. Daly; Writ Devi., Mrs. Bryon. To conclude will, (by pertienler desire) the Barletta of 'MUM)! OR, THE SULTAN'S FAVOURITE. Shaliabalism, Mr. D.ly; lemur!, Mr. Liiiikinehern; Shiro, Mt. Herring; Moil, Mr. %Villainous. Rosetta, Mri. Bryn ; Berbers, Miss I• lie Cu.,.. of the Piece. the Minnei de la C 0..,, he Mr. MlAbLesee sea Mrs. Berm; • criind Pas de Dealt, by Mr. M. Albin and Mies Simpson; sad • Comic Eiiireeepoza, by Mr. Walboorn. 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FAS. and continued to the clown( the Ittila Century, •ith a Catalogue of all the Names sad Dales, Ins. Art V A CHART of GENERAL HISiORP, by the same, pr.re 10s. 6J. PlKlee , ?d. nut against Sir I , ,d.ar . sf tank! for Ins rontior this.bprinesa ; we Insae o tise bighestoatherity,ftirl heiing it to hove been vier/ 'us, irorthx • inatiOn sod clierfeler, and that •oilstnity she public dreksraiior of his capital . riwmay,; Francis Train, oho, speech licfure the Col or Star Chamber is the course .1 lII e prorqdni made use of the following r nirtuaraille, " This I will • •y of him (that is, of, Sitder;!i%, and I would say as totrh to ages if I ,itworsti n" .! ✓ that never moil, Iverson 'sod hisfdace !ae better met in a bstsitieas thin my Lord Citkc '4144,1 my Lead Mier 'fustier, in the couseof tOrerhufS°." Hat shortly after this, osi the arraignment •of tie Thomas blouson, one of the ,gentlemio" chargril with Ovesboey's murder. the Chief jusdre dropped. insinestiometaberurely intimating thai the death of - ffvethory Mel in it something of retribolioo, ars if - Overhasty had been goittrit . nenamstag thetttrebbett Prince Henry. Whereupon, as meta were Mho. Pusp-ct the King privy to the rounder of Orribusy„ the King was so deeply incensed, that the trial of Monson was laid aside and himself diechairgYri, sod Sir Edward Coke severely rebuked fcir in discretion. coalisimsee, heritage I hid it front Mk of Sir Edward'. tone: Sir Edward lay then at she Temple, mid measured ant his lime at regular bours, two whereof were to go to bed at nine o'clock, and in the morning to rise as Hirer. At this time Sir Edward's son and some others were in Sir Edward'• lodging, but not in bed. when the messenger about out in the morning knocked at the door. where the sou met Wm and knew him. Says he, • I tome from the King, sad meet immediately speak wish year father.'—' If psis come fount ten Kings,' he answered, • you shall net ; fur I beim my ti ther's disposition to be foci, has if lie be disturbed in his 'tem he will wog be fit fise any hominess; but if yaw Will do as we do, you shall he welcume, end abort two hem hewer my father will nee, sod yen then may do so you plasm; to this be sweated. At three Sir Edward rung a hilly bell so Ore nosier so his servant 10 come to him, and then the 01:11. auger went to him cud gave la* the King's letter," M. • State reisk ea ml. rot. i. p. 324. r ;AWL ri ex" put. , . t , i 1 I s 11 , i I ,0 4M i ic ' t, . 1 i ..„ ik ~ -- ' FICANCE. PA RIB. NOVEidliga• [From the constitotionort] The moderation, the jurtter 01 oar edvreutiett were known; the events of Spain bare 01400 their prudence: They bare • hundred tigiegle cused the Constitutionalists of exciting by litelheat perfidious mesas the fire of foreign war, because they had no hopes of fumes but is the chances 'of trotthle aria direord that orwalf follow. Ardent de fenders of refigion, they grew iedigaent at the mere thonght that the sword ts•6ht be drown to succour Christian people ! and their fshis-devotion beitig hut the mask of their hatred of liberty. they turned Turks in the East, the better tp d tnd io France rbe - esiute of the *Reims regime-. A war tewhieh we shoats have remained strange', a distant war struck them with terror. They thought tiny taw all Prance in flews ; and now a war on our own frontiers, a war which they pretend to carry oil alone, does not give them the least fear. This contradiction, although great, is no more thou natural. In Greece it was proposed to fonnd th e independence of a people; in Spain it is intended In destroy it. The national interests are as nothing with this party ; hurl it not twenty times proclaiMed the fact ? It is the spirit of the oge that it welshes to put down, it is the progress of intelliigeutt that it wishes to arrest by cannon shot. The interest of the Government, which Mee also he that of France, prescribes that it should protect commerce and agriculture. But •n oligarchy has no country—it will lint permit liberty to exist any where. lit making war upon Spain it is privilege that it pmscribes. because it knows that cipiality in the eye of the law, amongst our neighbours, may he dangerous among ourselves to that which it is agreed to call social ouperiorsty. We are cr.nvim•rd that war would only rally the different parties in Spain ; whilst peace would calm the (~►..ions which are nourished and irritated only by restotance. We !persist in maintaining this: the opectucle of France, happy in the pooseotsion of her Constitettional Charier, with all her citizens, equal in the rye of the law, enjoying all their tied rend pnlitieal rights ender its protection, eserei•ing with tranquillity their ;storerooms' or their init./try, would operate more conquests in Spain than ali menacing arinieo. The example of our tnatUtutions would lie snore persuasive tliati the elogoeste of our baronet•. We have Unfortunately had hut too good Means to appreciate the immense louts produced for some days past. by the rumour, of war which were so suddenly propagated. These lone., which cannot be estimated at less than two hundred millions of Nor. would, however, have heels pr►- vented by anotticle ilf a few tines in the Nosh fear. Dui if the simple announcement of war has in so sheet a period produced evils of each magni►ttde, 'what will they be whew their effects are fully developed, and shall he fe't in all the bratiehrm of the public prosperity. which stand all in ti.ed of the mayor df capital which will be cou centrated slid withdrawn from circulation through the fears thus created ? Commerce, industry, agri culture itself, can they do without the aid of cap - tad ? What can they t oothier, bow can they en•. Liner to exist with Yet energy. if the grand ant , y which sustains their hfe become more or less pa. 4. lysr rf ? The prosperity srhieli France has enjoyed for same years past w•as entirely the, work of peace. It we: I care which, by reinvinthope, had multiplied el forte, and renewed that mutation which ensure• their eticcess. Peace is ilw natural state of inda.- trious nations, as war was formeely the industry of feudality. . _ _ . Th. c ettosoinfl or the state of peace still haws eon. simile-sees much more •criouS than those we 09.7 feel, and than all tt•o•e even esltteh resoltatl iittru f a rmer wars, when the nation ass net • wet icadhat state, of increase which mutt determine the.ehelrer to which she will ereatually attain. It Yysist only in the national and in the foreign funds tiss4,the shock will make itself be felt :it will he ea- .ammwelm..il ..,fll Fl LON DON, SATURDAY, imtcoince sorlETrit OFFICE, 81 's 1,.w. FLEET ItTRY.fr, NoVerses 16, 1842, I OH POItATION , •I the AN/ It •A 6LE 11. 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CIIARACTItIC of SIR EDWARD COKE. ------ • The following ',oracle from " The Life" of the above great Lawyer are retracted from lie North Aftericen Reeky, a periodical work of high character Sir Edward Coke was burrs in the year 154 - 0, at Mileham, in the county of Norfolk. Hit fattier Robert. • gentleman of good family, and an emi nent barrister. shed whilst this his only son rim yriutig, leaving him the heir of • large forinne. Edward was first sent to the free-achuel at Nor wich, thence removed to Cambridge, and after re siding at she, University about four years, entered as student of the Inner Temple. The quick roe. 'ration and 'mind judgment which he there din plaxed. occasioned his being called to the bar at nu early period. riarnely; after a noviciate of six years, which Will their accounted a very extraordinary mat kof approbstion The first cease in which be appeared in the Court of Queried Bench, as we learn from his own report of it, was in 16711, in the twenty-eighth year of his age*. About the tame time lie was appointed reader or 1..40n's Inn, and so continued for three year during which space hi. lectures were very much resorted to, in co n s equ e n ce or which his reputation and practice ineressed PO rapidly, that before he had been long at theism, he paid liis addresses to a lady „rant selthe litot lies and brat "willies in his native comely. This lady, Bridvt. daughter and co-helms* or Jobs Pastor), he shortly alter married, receiving with her iluric ihousiind pounds. sod lierniniog allied to some of the beat house. in the kingdoms I root this time he continued to rise with-onex ampler' rapidity ; the cities of Coventry and Nor w lel, chose him their . Recorder. he was engaged in all the great canoes of Wrettninstm Hall, acquires', use lassos, of tlhe I..ed Treasurer Burleigh, and wee frequently cosisulted on the Queen's affairs. His huge ramie and great credit in the enmity of Nor. folk. recommended him to the freeholders of that comity, mod procured his election its Knight of the Shire, in which capacity he distinguished himself so much, as to be mode Speaker ill the Parliament held in the Stith year of Elisabeth t. He was then Queen'aSolicitor. from which pm! hr was soon ad vanced to 'hat of Astoresey-General. Mr. Coke becoming a widower by the death of hi. wire shortly after he received the appointment of Attorney-General, paid his widens., to • ano th e r lady of rank and fortune, the Lady Hatton. relict of Sir William Hatton, cud sister of Thomas Lord Buslrigh, the oldest COO of the Lord Treasurer Borleigh. This second marriage, whichtook place im id9o. proved very unhappy, and even the cele bration of it caused the parties no little vexation. So much nonce was taken of irregular rummages this year. that Archbishop Whitgift had signified to the Bishops of his province, that he expected they would he diligent in bringing to prosecution all pennons who should be guilty of any irregularity in the celebration of moulage. ‘Vbether it was that the Attorney-General did not advert to this circumstance, or that he looked upon the qtality of Lady Hatton and of himself. nod the consent of her family. as setting them above such restrictions, they were monied iii a 'Hiving home, without either bannasse license. 11. rr• WM a proarcetion was coal. rntaced in the Aleolitshop's Court against them, L or d Boeleigh. the lector who officiated sit the MOP. nage, mad arsenal nth., !moons, for contempt rrf she authority or the church; but on their sobmis. pion by proxies they were absolved from the Irenal- . ties which they had incurred, because, says the re cord, they had ofieurted. not fiwn contumacy, but from iguisranre of the law in this particitlee. The prosecution dues not serest to have proceeded from any personal attiniu.ity of the Archbialtup's; on the contrary, this relate 12 known to hoop h a d. germs esteems for Coke; and when the latter was Oppilitited Queen's Attorwy, Whitgift vent hien a copy .( the. New Testament, lulls a ns'esosge to this effect, that he hid now stashed common law emit ,sins should thereafter study the law of God. An I. et • The rile of Lotll Cromwell, in Cokio Rep. pt. i 14 v n.' D'E•to Journal of P.01131E011, p. 46g. _ MEMBER 16, 1822 inolsoble that .Coke intended t o a l ig h t , she rininji by his informal marriage, bezause be was always a firm friend to the chuical and the clergy ; selsickis! apparent from an extraordinary vo e of thaitk• )(lieu him tinder veil by the ch titter of the cathettral church of Norwich, for his gash/nous mud unsofieitial , exertions in preserving many of the mo r sel the ' chapter from the illegal practices of persona clam mis them under pretence of concealments; us a l s o . 9 froth his liberality in the bestowment of the twine 'l4;ut benefices in fits gift. to regard to which he fre quently declared, amoug the many ether memo rattle *eying.: of his which are recorded, that he would have church livings pass by livery and steins, no' by bargain and sale. Of the numerous dratingtialied lawyers •Ito Bon risherf ID the latter part reign of Elizabeth. Yelverion. Philips', Ffsl OAake lit.-15•0. ham, Anderson. Dorldertitge, Mbar. and.many others, none, were treated with greater respect iu his profession or in private life than Coke. as Queen's Attorney; for lie was consulted by the Ministry in nil matters of difficulty. and furnished them with a legal colour fur some of their proceedtivi, which might otherwise have been esteemed unjust and tiOntordiorry. The most important tiffatr in whir lie was officially concerned at this tune, was the pm ! seciaton or the unfortunate Errl of Essex, who, to• getter will. hi. kinsman, the Earl of Southampton. was brought to trial before the Lords in the year 1600, for ins ill-advised attempt to stir tip the city of Loudon to rebel. and assist him in getting pos.. ors.ion of the Queen'. person by force of arm*. The evidence against these Noblemen was fun and de cities,. and their guilt unquestioned ; but they con stantly accused the Aitorney-Gesieral, who con ducted the prosecution for the Crown, of unioihter• prolog their motives, pressing ahem with undue se verity,abusitig threats sftlie Lords with slanderous charges, and acting from a desire to rubserve the personal enmity 01 the Ministers toward% the ac cused, rather than from a sincere regard to justice. The Earl of Essex especially complained of being talked out of his life by corrupt crews ; and Southampton, in his defence, said to Coke—" You urge the matter very far, and you wrong me there to ; my blood be upon yam head." • Batt although the Attorney•Oenetal sometimes addressed these Noblemen with considerable sharpness in the course of the trial, lie does not seem, from the report which we have of it in the State Trials and Camden's Elisabeth, In hive extended their crime any further than he was borne oat in doing by the law and the evidence. As Coke had been in habits of intimacy ond con fidence with the Miiiisters at the close of Eliza beth's reign, so he continued in the Lieginuisig of the nest; there is even good reason to believe that the proclamation of King Jamas and _other state pspers of this period, were drawn up by him; and although he was not so eager as were many persons of Miens,. rank, to gain admission to dames, yet when the stew King, on account of his peaceable occeveion, entertained the principal gentlemen of his kingdom at Greenwich (1603), he, together weds Henry Lee, the Lord Mayor, and Juho Creeke, Recorder of Loudon, received the honour of kinghthoird. In the same yea► happened the famous trial of Sir Walter ((sleigh, on a charge of high treason, before • Court ,r Special Cummissionere at AViii cheater; iu the muusgement of which trial Sir Edward Coke intairditaleigh with such interupe rate sod overbearing violence, as left en indelible blot upon his character. The whole plot in which Raleigh was charged with, bring implicated is now, as it was then, involved in the deepest my•trit• ; and whether be was guilty-or not. it is certain that the evidence produced at the trial was wholly mead fiction. not to say palpably absurd; and the ►esehiet must have bees obtained from the jury by foul means, in order to graiify the resentment of the Knit; and has Meunier' against Sir Walter. But. the virulesit abuse heaped on Raleigh by the At weary-General is no less remarkable thou the week near of the proofs on which the conviction was (minded. Sir Edward Coke was not merely am wilted with coutunially styling Raleigh a notonoos traitor, but even went so ter ea to bestow such epi. theta us " viper, moaner. siiidet of hell, vile and execrable traitor, odious fellow, ,and damnable Atheist," upon one of the must willow' and ucconi [dished geutlemen of England. who both as a scholar and as a soldier deserved to be accounted ilw pride of his country, and who has rendered himself for ever memorable lit the history of our own, by his noble exertions to the discovery and settlement of Americo. Tim customs of that age, indeed, allowed . great severity on the part of putiliC officers toward State criostiah, the hardship of whose situation in this respect was mach aggravated by their being denied counsel. sod obliged to reply to the charges brought ogaiost them without any preptiratiou for defeiseet but So Edward's semi tor the cause of justice, o► obsequiousness to the Crown, appears. iu this case, to have hurried bum beyond all bonnets, so that on one occasion he treated the Court its►lf with indeeeney. For when Loyd Cecil. one of the Cutiounowners, interrupted Sir Edward Coke, pad, as *owe authors affirm, re buked him fur his conduit with much asperity, Sir Edward immediately nit down, and refused to speak any more. until he was urged sad esstrealtd to proceed by the Commiesinsiers. when; after much difficulty. he agam rum stud rer•spitelated all the evidence, in a owner still wore attune. than before his interruption 6 . Sir Edward Coke's behatioar in this trial raised up many enemies against him at the time, endless been justly and universally condemned eve► Illiet ; but be retiieved he. credit seen afterwards by Ilia vigileuce and moody to onrovelliog the fidonjous sod monstrous project knows. by the name of the Powder Treamn, rod by his arlasitoble 11611 in roa nsOw the trial of the eonspirstors: At the trial of Garnet, esiwcially, he 1/overuses osswinclog proofs Ist ;his tatoossm. gispecity and solid judgment. as induct, d Lurd Cecil, flf , W become Earl of Sias Itsbuty, to say, in regard to the speech of the At• torireyrOeneral, tltat—.. He had never heard melt ,a manor of matter better crittracted, or made .more intelligible to a Jory ;" and the hest judges * later times have confirmed him opinion, all acconnts rug this speech Sir Edward Coke'e masterpiece in forensic oratory. In remuneration of his services on this and other occasion., the next year (1606) he was called to the degree of Serjoigilt at Law, ptepsrstory to his being itgmrdiiiirly oberwards indite Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. It has been observed, that the motto which lie gave upon his rings es Ser. jesit, Le: est tartisstraa couis, proved very appli cable to his subsequent fortune. By his promotion be made way far Sir fleetly . Hobart to tweeted him,. Itt.- 41 !"Atkile(tetPl. Winch enabled Sir ' , rouges aeon to twain the poet of Solicitor. It- appear!! from • letter*, which Bacon wrote to Ceke jnot before these several appointments tank place. that Sir Francis had repeatedly sought for the station of Solicitor iu the last reign and she present, and at tributed Ins failure in not obtaintng it to the bed offices of Coke ; which circumrairce shows the ori gin i,nd cause of the animosity that, as we shall pre sently tree, grew up between these great men, and prompted them to harass and mortify each other whenever they rould find an opportunity. After Sir Edward Coke had d as Chief 'hit her of the Common Pleas • little over seven years, with great probity and sufficiency, and as it seems without any desire to change, he was removed to the King's Deitch, ostensibly, indeed, because it was alleged that his great abilities might be more esserful to the KII , in the leiter sitealtou e but in reality, as it has been sioppmed, through, the in trigues of Sir Francis Bacon, who was now its (rigour with the King, and who lbws procured the place of Attorney-General, by the oppowtment of Sir Henry Hobart to the Common Pleas, to the room of Sir Edward Coke. Sir Edward Will also sworn of the Privy Courted • few weeks afterwards (1613), although he had never shown himself • friend to the boundless prerogative claimed by the King, and itt sonic particular eases thwarted the wishes of his master, which lauded Sir Francis Bacon occasion to represent hint in a rather un favourable light to King James. Thus, when the King once desired to procure from the Judges au extra-judicial opinion with regard to • supposed care of treason, Sir Francis Bacon, who was chosen to manage the business, easily succeeded with the other Judges of the King's Bench, but met with an obstacle in Sir Edward Coke, whose constant maxim it was to be • Judge in a Court and not a Chamber, and who, ilietefOre, tiotwith.tandong the dexterity and address of Bacon, returovri an att ract so little satisfactory, that Sir Francis. told the King he was glad to seod it iu the Chief Justice's hand-writing for his own discharge. Another time, however, when Oliver St. John was sentenced to hue and imprisonment by the Star Chamber (1613) for opposing a benevoleece set on foot by the King, the Chief Justice delivered his opimon of the low vet y strongly for the beurvoli nee, unit might per ils!), have thereby recovered the good graves of his master if this act of Compliance had been more sea. suitable. In the same year (1615) was discovered the poi soning of Sir Thounni_ ()witry in the Tower; and a. the Chief Jostler, by rrnaon of his o ffi ce , (14 obliged to be peculiarly active to bringing the offenders to punishment. and thus incurred the hatred Of the many powerful person. implicated in the Earl or Somerset'. crime or injered by thus sunsion's fall, we are not to wonder that hi. con duct in the whole alai► was violently censured Il4id grossly misrepresented by many of the contempo ►ary historians. lie was personalty directed by the Kitt to investigate the circumstructs of the mu►- der. as WWII as the perpetration of it W.lll known. awl, at biologist request, was jostled in coinum , sion with several Noblemen, in order that !hey might share the heavy responsibility, whirls he foresaw must attend such a scrutifty. to detecting the per. mous concerned in this ilreadfel tragedy. the Chief Justice proceeded wish equal vigour and caution, and with onweatied diligence. taking several hun dred examination., until all the subordinate agents in the murder were eturvicted snots the must.ample eradenett. Notwithstanding the aspersion, thrown .fie Cifife'e Ltfi of itstrelgh prefixed to his /lister!, of the World, mud she Slate Traete. ir ~. -r • This letter ism carious and pediment, that we think it worth extracting. It is contaieed to SaCinia Work., p. 234, and is as follows : " MR. ATTORMIVT-1 thought best, once fur all, to let you know In plainness what I lied rayon, and what y.. 0 shall fiat of me. Yea lake to ynorsolf a liberty to di.grace aid dis able my law, roe experience, my diserei:ma. What it &sloth you I pray think of me ; I em one that know both mine ow., wants and WIWI' 111,11 . /. and it may IW, per chance, t►at mine mend, when others stand at n atay. And surely I may not endure, in public place, to be wronged without repelling the same to my beet advantage to right aye If. You are great, anal therefore hate the more envier., which would be glad so have you pail at soother's cost. Sine, the time I missed the Soileito.'s plan•, the ra• thee I AWL by your wars, I cannot espect shut 50ii and I shill ever serve as Attorney awl Solicitor together; but either to serve with another at your remove, or to attp into sumo usher course; so as I am more free than ever 1 wa, trout any occasion of unworthy conforming my•clf to you, more than general good manner., oi your pailictilar (Mai usage, shall provoke; and if you had lint h.. o *hurt-sighted in your own tomato., an I thick , you 1111(111 h.ve 1.1 1 1 more of me. But that time in Ictard. f write not this to chew my friends what a brave letter I have unglues, to Slr. Attorney. have none of those humours. But that I hare written is to a gond end, that i., to she mire decent carriage of my asseiter'r service, and to our particular better ondereteuditig one of another. This letter, if it shall be answered by you in deed, and not in word, I suppose it will Doti be worm for us bulb; 'else it is but a few litres lost, which for a math smaller matter I world hive &denatured. So this being to youraelf, I fi.► my part rest," ike. This letter is suppose.' to have bee* written in 1606, shortly before the apponttreeot of Sir Edward to the Cost touts ►'leer. t Roger Coke's Deteetion, pp. 7R, 79. This pomp eon• taming a curious notice of Sir Edward's private life, we will j extract part of it When lir Ralph (Whammed) ease to guystaii and arquaiated t►e Kisig with what he had Woo scrod shoot Sir Thomas Overlsory's mu►der, the King wan 0 0 sorgensed h►rewith,. thus. he posted away 9 messenger t• Sir Edward Coke so apprehend the Earl. I speak this wish