Star.
London, England, 1801-12-12 00:00:00

Larr fICTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DECEMBER tr.
DE COETLOCON V. COLE.
This was an Aftion on the part of the Rev.
Charles De Coetlogon, to recover the furn of 5001.
dile on a bond by the late Mr. Cole, from Mrs.
Cnle, his widow and adminiltratrix. The bond
had' been given for; wool.; Soot. of which had
been paid by Mr. Cole, and the interefi of the re-
mainder, up to the year 1799. • Since Mr. Colc's
death, meetings of his creditors had been held,
and dividends had been made; but not to the
amount of twenty Millings in the pound. The
Counfel for the Plaintiff contended, that the money
due by this bond was of the higher order of debts,
it being under teal, and confcquently had a right
to precedence of payment of other debts, fuch as
promifory-notes, fimple•contra& debts, ftc. On
the atteaing witneffes being called for, only one
appeared, the other being abroad at Jamaica.
William Hancock, fornterly apprentice to Mr.
Cole, when requefted to look at the bond and its
fignatures, and to fay whether the flea fignature
was his, Paid that he could not (wear it was not,
but he did not believe it was. On examination,
it was the opinion of the Court, that both figna-
tures had been made by the fame hand and pen ;
and, on looking farther, it was contended that the
filling up of the bond, and alto the fignatures were
the hand-writing of one and -the fame perfon,
namely Mr. Cole. Whatever had been the motive
for which this trick had been played, it appeared
that Mr. Cole had aEled fairly by it, and it had
been acknowledged by the adnunifiratrix ; the Jury
therefore returned a verdiet of fool. with intereft,
for the plaintiff.

MARTINDALE V. LORD PETERBOROUGH.

This was an Aaion brought to recover a eon-
fiderable furn of money, due by the defendant to
the plaintiff, for his fubfcription to a club held at
his houfe. It appeared by the regulations of the
club that, if a member did not pay-his fubfcription
within a limited time, his name was polled in a
particular part of the room for a given period, after
which, if he did not come forward, he was not
any longer confidered as a member. This rule
had not been complied with. After hearing the
cafe at confiderable length on both fides, it was
the opinion of the Jury that the plaintiff was not
entitled to recover, and they accordingly gave a
verdift for the defendant.

COURT OF KINGS BENCH, DEC. x i.

)REACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.

AIIDREWS 17. MOIRISON.—This waa an ACtion
for a Breach of Promife of Marriage made by the
Defendant to the Plaintiff.

Mr. ER SKIN I opened the Cafe on the part cf
the Plaintiff. He obferved (among other things)
that if there were any cafes that more than others
deferred the attention of Juries, they were thole
wherein the interefts and she injuries of Women
were concerned.—Man, they knew, was the Lord
of the Creation.—Men made Laws ; men admi•
nigered the Laws which were made by Men—
Women were in no refpets, that he knew of, in-
ferior to Men, except in being weaker, which, to-
gether with their virtue and their beauty, made
them objetts of our proteftion and love ; add, ac-
cordingly, they had, in all ages, and among all
Nations under Heaven, been under the protettion
of the other fez, as they ought to he, for as we
make Laws, and we carry them into execution,
we thould protect thole who have no (hare in either.
It would not be refpeftful in him towards the Jury,
if he were to endeavour to convey into their minds
any ideas of his own, concerning the nature of
the injury of which this Plaintiff complained; that
is, the nature of a difappointment of a Woman
under fuch a promife as that of marriage: The
Jury knew the nature of fuch a cafe. They knew
that no injury under the fun was fo great. A man
or woman might bear lofs of property, lofs of
health, and many others of the calamities which
this world brought upon us—but 4,a wounded fpirit
who could bear ?" A woman who is addreffed by
a man, and who, for any caufe whatever, is difap-
pointed in her expeltations, is difparaged. Lct her
be as unfpotted as Diana, as beautiful-as (he is un-
(potted, as accompli(hed as (he is beautiful, the
mull, neverthelefs, fuller in the opinion of others,
at lead of our fez, if the is once addrcffed and af-
terwards deferted by a manwhom the is intended to
wed; becaufe there is a fort of pride in man, which
will make him than what another appears to think
unworthy of his acceptance. A man argues with
himfelf thus :—" There mull be a reafon for this,
although none be given. There is no fmoke without
fire ; there mutt be tome fort of blame attached to
this Lady, although it does not meet the eye or the
ear of the Public." He (aid, he did not know, whe-
ther any confiderable part of the Jury, moll pro-
bably Come of them, were parents. Moll of them
appeared to him to be many years younger than
hunfelf, but to fuch of them who were fathers, he
would put it as a quellicm, what they would think
of (itch a difappointment to one ofitheir daughters ?
He Ihould therefore content himfelf with raying
that if the cafe was made nut as it was Rated to
him, the Jury would feel they had it not in their
power to compenfate, for no money could corn-
penf rt e the injury this young woman had received.
—He was ready to admit, that it was not every
breach of promife of marriage that ought to be
fcourgcd with fevere damages ; there were circnnt-
fiances under which a promife might be made, and
afterwards broken, and yet the party difappointed
Oscadd not have any aftion. If a man made a pro.
mik of man iage to a woman who afterwards ap-
peared not to be prudent and modell in her beha-
viour, the party ptomains marriage (hall be ab-
relived ; or if prudent and model in her behaviour,
yet that the may be known to have tome defeat
which were not known at the time of making the
pemik, a man Ilan not be bound by his promife,
for a man is not bound by a pia:intik of this fort to
aftliet himfelt with the contempt of all who knew
him. If (he had any &kale which might be com-
municated to her offspring, and that was difywer-
ed after the promife, the promife (ball not be held
to be binding. If a man without any ellablithment
in the world, depending merely upon the good will

of others for his rnaintetante,—who was under the
Government and controul of others, and had no
Cu ppm t but from them, and had yet, either from
the impetuolity of his paffions in his youi,D, or
from fome inditcretion, made a promile.wiuchl
would be a ruin to himfelf and every body con-1
nefted with him—ilich a promile thould not be
binding, for fuels a promile was more honoured
in the breach than the obfervance. But this
Cafe was like none of there, it had no excufe which I
either of thole would have for a non-performance,
for here the Defendant was a man at the years of
difcretion, a fubftantial tradefman living in ?vire-
table bufinces for himfelf. The Plaintiff was not a
Lady likely to draw him to an expense which his
circumflances in life would not enable him to bear.
She was the Defendant's neighbour, the daughter
of another tradefman, educated as the defendant had
been, and with whole conneftions he was perfeftly
well acquainted,and therefore it WAS not too much to
fuppofe that their purfuits were fimilar. The Prom ife
was prefumed to be difcreeily made, and therefore
there was no excufe for the breach of it; and for the
breach of it the Jury were not only called upon by
the rules of Law, but they were bound by the
principles of humanity as well as the dictates of
clear Juftice, to give ferious damages; for nothing
(bort of ferious damagescould•aniount to a compen.
fation to this young woman. Having Paid this by
way of preliminary, he thould now thortly Rate the
circumftances of the cafe which was to be laid be-
fore them. The Plaintiff was the daughter of a
Mr. Anderfon, who lived in Gofwell-ftreet, a re-
putable grocer there. The defendant was alto a
tradefman in the fame greet, and refpeftable in
every thing, he dared to fay, except the occafion of
his being before that Court today. The Defen-
dant
had, for three years, paid his attention to this
young woman, and fome time in February lA, ob-
tained her father's leave to court her in marriage,
and under that folemn fanCtion, he vifited the fa-
mily, the fanftion of honour; and honour was not
to be found only at St. James's, or in theAsurliens of
a palace ; it was to he found under humbler roofs,
and was indeed the companion of all ranks of per-
tons in this country, and it was the grand charac-
teriftic by which this country was diftinguithed
from all the other countries of the earth, that, with
us, honour was known, felt and'afted upon among
all ranks of people. This Defendant was admit-
ted as the intended hutband of this young woman.
He paid his addreffes to her, and he gained her
affeetion under the folemn pledge, not in a few loft
words whifpered in her ear in a corner, which
might be fat afide by the authority of parents, but
under the folemn vow of a future marriage, and
that in the view of all the neighbourhood ; and
that promife made gravely to the father and the
mother of this young woman, and which was veri-
fed by the defendant making his folemn oath of his
fincere intention to carry that promife into circa,
for he took out a licence for the aftual celebration
of the marriage, which he could not have obtain-
ed without an oath, Rating, among other things,
there was no juft impediment to the marriage ;
which impediment there mutt be, if he had any
reafon for the non-performance of his promife.—
Under there circumflances, one evening when this
young lady had been defired to fix the time of the
marriage, the (aid, it was at his difcretion—he
prefented her with a ring, and el& with the li-
cence : the thought it indelicate for her to keep the
licence, becaufe the did not appear to diftruft him,
as molt affuredly the did not. He left it with
her, and he Paid it was immediately to be fol-
lowed up by marriage.. For this purpofe he in.
vifed the young lady's mother to view his houfe,
and to fee whether any alterations could be
made, agreeably to the willies of the young lady.
Now, it had been infinuated to him, that there
was a defence to be let up, and that in fupport
of it, there was to be fome attempt at !hewing
that this young lady had (hewn a difpofition to
expense, which the Defeo dant could not, confi ftently
with prudence, undertake to indulge; that the was a
perfoa of fpirit beyond the Ration of the Defen-
dant. He &sold put an end to that (pecks of
defence, and all argument arifing out of it : he
fbould thew to the that the only carafe of the
breach of the promife of marriage in this Cafe,
after having gone this length, was the fudden whim
of the Defendant, who had feen another Lady, and
to whom he was afterwards married. He not only
laid this Licence before the Plaintiff, but he bought
alto a ring for the purpofe of celebrating the mar-
riage, as be bad laid already. But having thus
fuddenly changed his mind, he was defirous of
getting the Licence out of the hands of the Plaintiff,
for the purpofe of robbing her of the evidence, as
he thought, of the promife of the marriage. The
manner in which this was effeEted was mean, and
he was lorry to be obliged to Rate it : there was a
manlinefs and a Gentleman-like way even of doing
mifchief, which this Defendant had no idea ot,
as appeared from his conduft in this cafe. He did
not come forward and fay, " I am lorry I cannot
perform my promife with you : I have determined
on marrying another woman and therefore the
licence for our marriage is of no ufe." He did
not take that courfe ; he found he could not get
the licence away without deceit : he therefore pre-
tended to make an apology for an abfence of Tome
time after the purchafe of the licence. He pre-
tended that he wished the marriage fpeedily to
take place ; and to put this young woman off her
guard, he fent a metienger to her for the licence,
—a very important grave charaEler, drefed up in
the gravity of his office, the Beadle of the parills.
This was dune to inveigle this young woman, and
to make her give up the licence, under an idea
that he was going so make arrangements for the
celebration of the marriage. The Beadle came,
with the grave afpeti which belonged to fo grave
a charaCter, and it was enough to deceive any
man or woman. He Paid he came from Mr. Mor-
rifon, and that he lhould be obliged to her for the
licence, to prepare for the marriage ; upon which
this poor young woman gave up the licence, and
then the Defendant laid to himfelf, now that I
have got the licence, I will never fee you again.
He never did fee her, nor her mother, brother, or
filler, or any body of her family : he left her with-
out apology, and deferted her without eaufe.
Th;s cafe made out, the qatflion of da-

triages would be to be eonftdered, and upon that '
fubjed he would adopt the role laid down by the
Learned Judge who prefided at this trial, and who
refided at another at the other end of the town
lately, the fixbltance of which was, that the Jury•
would confider the rank of the parties, becaute
what was compenfation to one defcription of pet--
fiats was nothing to another. Now he did not with
to draw the Jury from that line of moderation
which was the charatieriftic of Juice, at the fame
time he was perfuaded that they ought t 3 be con-
fiderable in this calewhich the Jury would find
required their greatelt attention.
Wm. Andrews, brother to the Plaintiff, laid,
he knew the Defendant ; he was a baker in Gof-
well-ftreet, and lived oppofite to him. The wit-
nefs's father was r.t3w dead ; he was a grocer.—
The families had known each other many years,
and vifited as neighbours. The Defendant had
vifited for three years at their houfe as fuitor to his
filler. Since his father's death lie had heard him
fay, that he intended to marry her. In April or
May WI he prefented his filter with a wedding
ring. He aficed if it would do ? the faid, yes !
He then laid, there was nothing further to be
done but to go to church; and added, when !hall
that be? She anfwered, that is for you to fay.—
Shall it be next week ? If you pleafe, was her
anfwer. He had alto had frequent converfations
with the Defendant refpe&ing his property. He
had reprefented himfelf as having 'soul. per an-
num more than his bufinefs, which, he raid, he
would fettle all on his lifter. Be told him that
would be imprudent and foolifh. On crofs esami.
nation he laid, he did not think the Defendant a
fool.—He was not of the brightcft parts, nor of
the moll Ready deportment.
Ann Andrews, the mother of the young woman.
gave the fame teftimony. She raw the ring on the
table, though the was not prefent when it was fit('
given. She remarked that fhe had not been con-
jolted ; upon which the defendant alked if the
would give her content? the faid the would. A
licence was received by her daughter from Mr.
Morrifon. In May, by his invitation, the went to
fee his honk, and the expreffed her fatisfaftion
at finding every thing better provided than the
expeEted. On crofs examination the faid, that af-
ter he had fent the licence, he abßained from coin-
ing to the bottle for three weeks. It was then that
the went to vifit his bode ; and her daughter and
her took a walk with the defendant that evening.
She denied that there was any quarrel.
The Regifter of the Defendant's marriage with
another woman was put in and read.
joleph Hawes, the Beadle of St. Luke's, Rated,
that by the dire&ion of Mr. Morrifon be fetched
away the licence from Mrs. Andrews's.
Mr. Guess, for the Defendant, contended that
the contra& was refcinded between the parties ;
and Rated, that after they had taken the walk, as
Rated by Mrs. Andrews, finding they could not
[ accommodate the difference, the licence was by
mutual confent given up the next day. The cir-
cumftance of it's having been fetched away fo foon
afterwards, he argued, was fufficient proof of the
fgt. He faid, the marriage was alfo not approved
of by any of the Defendant's friends, not from any
imputation again(' the Plaintiff, but only becaufe
the was thought to be too highly educated fur a
limple Baker's wife: •To make out this cafe he
called,
Jane Gilmore' Sifter to the Defendant, who
(poke to a converfation between her and the Plain-
tiff on the day the licence was procured, in which
the Plaint tff declared that the was incapable of at-
tending to the Baker's bufinefs, as the Witnefs's
Mother Lad done. She alfo Rated, that MA An.
Brews proyfed that the Withers fhould attend to
the bitfinet , and The live in the dining room. So
far from he: Brother having 1501. a year clear of
his bufinefs, the did not believe he had a (killing
more than would ray his debts.
Mr. ERIK IN E made an able reply, in the condi
of which, among(' many other things, he obferved,
that the defence in this cafe had branched out un-
der a greater number of heads than was ufuid. a
bad recommendation to it altogether. Defence
the
.figf, 44 That the Father of the Plaintiff dicd
infolvent." He died in affluent circumftances.

Defence the favall—'s The Defendant is not
worth 5501. year."—lf it is not true that he k fo,
he told a lie, and deceived another who believed
him, and-ought to pay for it ; if he is worth that
fum yearly, he can afford to pay.
Defence the third—" That he is a feel"—fo he
may, but that is no reafon why he lhould not be
anfwerable for the injury he does another.
Defence the jourr&-0 That he Is an odd man."
You would be twelve add men, if that was a fufli-
cient reafon, for not finding a verdit againfk him.
Defence the, yil,--" That he was either lick, or
(hammed to be lick, when his attorney called upon
him to take inftruaions for his defence." He is as
well as either of you at prefent, but I apprehend
he will not be fo after your verdict.
Defence theixtb--44 That he is an'assorrerriaik
lam" 1 fay, unlefs the Law of England has been
changed fenceaaion commenced, be is an ac-
'countable man, and mull account according to
your verdia.
Defence the frondh—fi That he is a man suit&
eat rhyme sr reafay." That defence he has undoubt-
edly made out, bat without caring for the rhyme,
your verdia will, probably, reftore him to reafon.
The Learned Counfel then went over all the ob-
fervations of Mr. Guess, and maintained, there
was no relinquithment whatever of the contras in
this cafe on the part of the Plaintiff; and conclud-
ed with obferving, that althodgb he did not with
that the Jury &mid be fevere in the Damages
they Ilsonld give, yet they were, as he had faid-in
his opening, to endeavour to. imitate the Learned
judge, now upon the Bench, in the trial of aun.
ther cafe, who was to give and who was to receive.
damages in this cafe. The Jury were fomc of
thera, probably, parents, and they would confider
wha one of their daughters ought to have in fucl
a cafe as this. That was the fum they ought to
give. The Defendant deferred to Cofer, for his
condo& was extremely improper.
Mr. lattice La 'lsaac then fnmmed np the eve.
(donee
to the Jury.
Vcrtlii' for the Plairtiff—Damsges

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iiiiii-iii*sirLEGAL OPINION.

lit LORD Cstaucataioa on Wednefday repro-
bated the **Mee of poblifhing the examinations
that take place, and evidence produced, at the
Police °Sees, previous to the trial of parties.—
Nothing can be more juft than this cenfure. It
undoubtedly is unfair towards a prifoner, and it
may fometimes defeat the ends of Office to pub
tilt thefe proceedings. Thi. pradice has grown
up infenfibly, but it ought to be dikontintied. At
the fame time it thould be underflood, that all the
newfpapers equally that' beprohibited from giving
this intelligence.
With refped to publilhing fair reports of Law
Proceedings, we apprehend that his Lordrhip's
opinion is neither continent with found reafon, nor
with conftitutional principle. The Courts of this
kingdom are, by the law of the land, fuppofed to
be open: Every man is entitled to be prefent ;
for here, thank Goa, wehave no Secret Ti ibunal, 1
and we milt the day will never come, when a
LORI) CIIANCILLOR of England fhallitt in judg.
anent, forrouuded with the myffery of a Grand
Iff thtlßfore, the public are entitled to heat can.'
fes tried, they are entitled to repeat what they
heir. AU Edema is pi efumtd to be prefer& t*
truth, a fair piblication of a trial li'pethapt the belt
way of rendering the event as little prejedicialles-
poflible tothe parties. Wbirpers and vague impel--
feet acconnts, are far more cakolated to injute
charatters, than fair ftatements in the newfp.apers;
for if a partial, unfair flaternent is girth, it will
not pafs unnoticed by thofe who are interefred.
It certainly was the opinion of Chief ignite*
Eras, that a fair report of a Law Cafe was no
libel, and the authority of that Judge it, we be.
lieve, in the opinion of Moll then, of no final.
weight. We venture to fay, 'that It is at kid •
ecittal to that of him who que*ions it. In truth,
the reports of Cafes form a part of the law itfelf.
Sball it be laid that a Man flay recoiled r
in the (tape Of a book; but net in a fingleeCtrt ?
How is any innovator, or law maker, to cl'Aw the
stittinftion? If it be*joftitable to poiliTh a fair Te-
port a year after the deeftion, it is ktftifiable to
publifit it next day.
To proceed, however, front tthe ftritf legalky
of the thing, to the advantages of the pradice.—
Tbcfe we deem very great; fo great, that none
but a very peevith mina, or very limited one, Al
quarrel with a few difadvantages, when the bene-
fit far predominates. A fair report of a lair cafe
is infttdaive to thofe who read it, and it gives
prattical taunt to thofe who have neither leifirre
nor inennation for profound inveftigation. But ere
fay more, that the daily £nhlication of law pro. 1
ceedings is highly beneficral from the rognery it
prevents. Nofuitor, who comes into a Coast asith
clean hands, will he afraid o'f having his conduit
fubmitted to the public. A man s.bo hat a bad
caufe, a man who gives a fare tit• doubtful evi-
dence. may with much to ftspprefs the publication
of the caufe. May not fueh publicitions, how_
.;
ever, rend greatly to difcourtgefraud and hquiiice?
Am an who wool dnot he fitatero cheat?* s neighbott r,
if'it were not to be known at all, or, which is to
the fame effect, if it were only to be known with.
in a narrow circle, will Shrink from public expo.
Pure. Nay, we are Cure, that in many cafes this
exportoe, if it does not make men hone*, forms'
a powerful check neon knavery. It obliges men,
who value reputattion, to forbear committing thofe
actions by which it would be comprennifed. On
the other hand, it is for the interell of fociety, that
the authors of fraud and injottice Should be known.
The learned lodge who prefyies in the Court of
Ding's Bench, °fedi touches upon this point in his
charges to Juries. He tens them, that their deci-
'loos will not only-be a guide, but an example ;
and if thefe ate advantages, is it not beneficial that
the example and the guide fhould ffeedily be
pointed out to the public
It is highly advantageous too, that all men
who are convetted with the adminiftration of the
laws, Should a& under that excellent buttrefs of
virtue, public opinion. It is fit that thofe who
Judge, Should feel that they will be judged. It is not
fit that what is done in our Courts of Law, Should
be done as if it were done in a corner. It is the
happinefs of this country, that decifions and their
grounds are fubmitted to public confideration.—
The adminiftratios' of jullice here can Curtain that
publicity; but we doubt whether any inftitutions
can of themfelves be Secure againft abufe, merely
by their intrinfic merit. The &hill; Nation, we
art well convinced, would be Cony to fee any fa.
eilities given for the difplat of caprice, or fame-
thins worfe than Caprice, in the dtfpenfing of juf..
rice, either by Judges or Juries. The
judging matters
of this kind. It is right that it Mould meferve ita
force and controul. It is the belt reward
good Judge; and it is no izconfiderable check
upon a bad nue. It would not be well that this
opinion Mould be limited to the members of the
Court, the parties in a caufe, and the kilt or curious
who occafionally taunter into Weftminfter Hall.
contending that law reports are jullifiable if
fairly Ilated, we adhere to this qualification. fin-
fair wilfoily partial flatements are infamous and
omi,lit to be punithed. Confidering the danger, it
certainly is not the iniertf+ of any one to publifh
other than lit and impartial reports. We go far-
ther, however, and confefs frankly that every thing
palling in a Court of Law is not proper for pub-
ocation. It may often be to the higheft degree
cruel to (tate things which would by no means
amount to liha. The feelings of individuals
ought not to be wantonly injured. It would he
' :tier to avoid the report of frivolous cafes, in
ii:th the publication might be painful to indivi-
ditAle, without communicating to the public any
t!.:;1?, hut that fort of pleat-me which -bad minds
. .1,0; iii feeing their neighboors ?Dade tidienlons.
in Lich, and from every thing injurious to pub-
.- moral:, we (hall carefully abtiain, becaufe there
~'meshing tells us to do lo which is as high in
rincii:l! and as faired in its obligation as the
1.. • lion of any Alt of Parliament.
reeling, of a man arc faired. They form
. :r.at ran of his elittence. Thay are the me.

'dium through which he is to be correaed and
improved, through which he is to be made happy
or miferable. They ought to be touched with
gentknefs, becattfe they are f;nfible only in a vir-
tuous man ; in many, perhaps in moll, they are
canterifed, and the blindnefs of the law, and the
want of difcrimination in its profeffors, generally
apply the punilliments that affect the feelings to
thole who have a fenfe of honour and charaaer.
To hardened offenders they are no puniaiments at
all. But who flinuld fet the example of attention
to the feelings of others if it is not thole who arc
placed in high fituations .>—Sometimes their feel-
ings may be hurt by the petulance add malignity
of their inferiors. Thofe, however, at the top of
the order, whether they be eagles or reptilkr,the two
fpecies that, according to an ingenious French wri-
ter, are moll luccefsful in afcending to eminence,
have not only the confolation but the prnteaion
of their eminence. The (hafts that are aimed at
them fall fliort of their height, unlefs the aria that
throws theirs be ening with the vivre of truth.
But when `Met in high Ration, as we hate often
l*lrd theft do, take the tibeity to afpeah thdfh'
thirtr,. the inifelsief hYs Flo mitigatleit.—='
Rom the eminence (thin which it is thrOwii, ft
depends With additiOnal deferuatbn, and Chillies
etery thing On which it lights.
I 'We admit that men in high places mutt have
'their feelibigs, as they mutt every quality of the
heart red the head in higher perfection than any
body inferior to them in fintation. We know that •
it is "boons high place that high characters are
drawn."
" A Piet is Jett, a Cletnelorjafter RJR,
Aflownfman lettrokl—e bithop what you will;
" Wife, if a Mionter—htn, if a King,
" More wife, moretrated, more jun, mere every thing..." '
Admitting, then, that great men mull be good
men, we hope it is not too much to alk of great
men to have the condefernfton to think that at is
poffible their inferiors may have" terg,foine
'education, fume regard to .tough
they are not, and are not likely to be, judges,
Chancellors, Minifiers, or 13ithops. A man to be
lure, who has plodded his way through the la-
byrinths of Chancery practice to the towering emi-
nence of the Woolfack, mutt have culled many
flowers, extraaed many Tweets, in the journey
thtough that gay, verdant, and fertile province,
with which to refrefla and invigorate the native be-
nevolence of his heart, and to enrich the Flores of
his noderflanding !
We agree with the Loan CasucesLct, that it
would be improper to report to the letter every
thing that paifel in a caufe. For inlialice, it would
be fcandalous to relate all the inveilives which a
Counfellor thinks proper to throw out againhi an
adverfe party, or witnefs. We forbear to do fo
from two motives. We would not load refpe&a-
ble men with opprobrious epithets, and we would
'sot difgult our readers with a licence of perfcrna-
lity peculiarly belonging to the Courts of Law.—
We would not retail the prof, fcurrility daily per-
mitted in the debate of law proceeding,*. We
would not follow either the Bench or the Bar oot
of the record, to afperfc men behind their backs,
however unconnedled with the caufe in hand. The
gentlemen of this .4 large profeflion, who give
forked conflict, take provoking gold on either
hand," have their privilege.
We have Rated there remarks without apology,
convinced that it is the undoubted right of Po irons
to diktat with temper doarines interesting to a
free people, from whatever place or authority they
proceed. If the doarines are wring, fo much the
more they ought to be espoied, becaufe they de-
rive a malignity from the charader and Ration of
him who delivers them. That Ration, indeed,
ought to fccure a cautious and aria obfervance of
decorum towards the man,,4lnce it is of impor-
tance that great Magiftracies Should be inverted
with great refpea ; and though in the opinions
themfelves there be Something which, evincing au
unconaitutional Spirit, might jultify towards an
ordinary perfon a greater Seventy of cenfure, yet
for the fake of the dignity, the individual Should be
• (pared.
• We would by no means be endcrftood to apply thefe ob.
(creations unlverfally to every member of a very honourable
profcffion. Many of them are men of the moil unqucitions-
hik liberality of knornent. and poffeffed of all the virtue that
can elevate, and the learning that can adorn a charadier. We
allude rather to thofe who have obtained a certain eminence at
the Bar without lierstoß of say laud, cies in the Law ; ankh
indeed, to ufr a phrafe of Mr. Burke." the fweepteas of Weft-
minfter Her am be cared Law.

A letter from Lugano, in the Cifalpine Repub.
lie, fays,—" Our Commune and the neighbouring
ones are in a great meafure under water fince the
Lake has overflowed its banks ; the boats and vef-
fels have all been thrown afhore. The intelligence
we recs.ive of ruins, (hocks, and earthquakes, keep
the mind in continual fear. The noife of the rain,
which falls without interruption, the dafhing of the
waters precipitated from the mountains, and the
thundering of the fragments which are torn from
the mountains and rocks; the waters impelled by
the winds againft our walls, our houfes, and our
blidges, arc objeas of equal horror and defpair."
Letters from the Ciotet are full of the moll af-
fliCting details of the aces of the inundations
c.iuled by the rains. Property, either in land or
,in bottles, can minor be recognized. The find
has covered a large AAR in other places there
remains only a naked barren rock.

Another from Alemmdria (Italy) rays, « The
Tanaro, the Bormida, and the &rivia, have fo
overflowed, that they 01121 but one body of water.
The rife of the Tanaro prevents us from palling
from the city to the citadel. Ten perfons have
been drowned on that fide. The Bormida flows
on one fide up to the gates of the town, and on the
other has inundated the folds of Marengo, Spice-
ta, and St. Guiliano. In fhort, we can now go
in boats from hence to Tortona. Yekrday morn-
ing the flying bridge which was in the Bormida
was carried away, and towards the etening we
tins mfals is Amin Nara. and the deluge is not yet

over.'l

Letters ft mit Milan, of the r 6th Nnvernber, !late,
however, thatthe waters having funk during the
laft three days, they have received cooties from
Gaga, Florence, and the Po.