would it have been for william the had he in the course of his universal ac � stumbled upon this precaution of the good on the contrary he conceived that the true policy of a was to laws and thus secure the property the persons and the morals of the people by surrounding them in a manner with men traps and spring guns and even the sweet walks of private life with hedges so that a man could scarcely turn without the risk of some of these thus was he continually petty laws for every petty offence that occurred until in time they became too numerous to be remembered and remained like those of certain modern dead letters � revived occasionally for the purpose of individual oppression or to ignorant petty courts consequently began to appear where the law was administered with nearly as much wisdom and as in those august the s and courts of the present day the was generally favoured as being a customer and bringing business to the shop the of the rich were a goodly gallows erected winked at � for fear of the of their friends � but it could never be laid the charge of the that hey suffered vice to under the rags of poverty about this time may we date the first introduction of capital a goodly being erected on the water about where white m stairs re at present a little to th of the hard by also was erected her f a very strange uncouth and tion but on which the ingenious william valued himself not a little being a punishment entirely of his own invention it was for of not a whit inferior of so renowned in bible history j ut the marvel of the contrivance was that the instead of being suspended by the neck to venerable custom was hoisted by he and was kept for an hour together and between heaven and earth � to the infinite entertainment and doubtless great of the multitude of respectable citizens ho usually attend upon of the kind it is incredible how the little governor chuckled t beholding and sturdy beggars swinging by the and cutting in the air he had a thousand and to utter upon these he called them his lions � his aid fowl � his high � his his his scare and finally his gallows s blessings attendant on birds which ingenious though originally confined to who had taken the air in this strange manner has since grown to be a cant name given to all for legal elevation this punishment moreover if we may credit the of certain grave gave the first hint for a kind of or by which our forefathers up their breeches and which has of late years � been revived and continues to be worn at the present day such were the admirable improvements of william in criminal law � nor was his civil code less a matter of and much does it grieve me that the limits of my work will not suffer me to on both with the they deserve let it suffice then to say that in a little while the blessings of innumerable laws became apparent it was soon found necessary to have a certain class of men to and confound them divers accordingly made their appearance under whose protecting care the community was soon set together by the ears i would not here be thought to any thing to the profession of the law or to its dignified members well am i aware that we have in this ancient city innumerable worthy gentlemen who have embraced that honourable order not for the sordid love of filthy nor the selfish of renown but through no other motives but a fervent zeal for the correct laws and lawyers administration of justice and a generous and disinterested devotion to the interests of their fellow citizens sooner would i throw this pen into the flames and cork up my ink bottle for ever than even for a nail s breadth upon the dignity of this truly benevolent class of citizens on the contrary i allude solely to that crew of who in these latter days of evil have become so numerous � who the skirts of the profession as did the dish knights the honourable order of chivalry � who under its commit their on society � who by md and like swarm most there is most corruption nothing so soon the as the facility of gratification the courts f law would never be so constantly crowded with and disgraceful suits were it not or the herds of lawyers that hem these with the passions of the and more ignorant classes who as if poverty were not a sufficient misery in itself are ready to it by the bitterness of they are in law what are in � exciting the malady for the purpose of by the cure and the cure for he purpose of the where the constitution the other he purse j and it may likewise be observed that i patient who has once been under the hands of i is ever after in and q the community in a himself with and an ignorant man who has once with the law under the of one of these is for ever after himself with his neighbours and himself with successful law suits my readers will excuse this into which i have been betrayed but i could not avoid giving a cool account of an too in this excellent city and with the effects of which i am acquainted to my cost having been nearly ruined by a law suit which was decided against me � and my ruin having been completed by another which was decided in my favour it has been remarked by the observant writer of the manuscript that under the administration of the disposition of the inhabitants of new experienced an essential change so that 