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When the eccentric Rabelais was physician
Tis Cardinal Lorraine, he sat at dinner,
Beside that gormandizing sinner;
Not like the medical magician,
Who whisk'd from Sancho Pagmes fasces
The evanescent meats and sauces,
But to protect his-sacred master
Against such diet as obstructs • •
The action of the epigastre,
s O'etloads the biliary ducts,
The peristaltic motion crosses,
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And puzzles the digestive process!
The Cardinal, one hungry day,
First having with his eyes consumed
Some lampreys that before him fumed,
Had plunged his fork into the prey,
When Rabelais gravely shook his head,
Tapp'd on his plate three times, and said
64 Pah !—bard digestion! bard digestion !"
And his bile-dreading Rmin•nce,
Though sorely tempted, had the sense
To send it off without a question! •
^•Hip! hallo! bring the lampreys here!"
Cried Rabelais, as the dish he snatch'd;
And obbling up the dainty cheer,
The whole was instantly dispatch'd.
1114.dden'd with vain attempts at stilling
At once his wrath and appetite,
His Patron cried—" Your conduct's rude;
This is no subject, Sir, for trilling ;
How dare you designate this food
As indigestible and crude,
Then swallow it before my sight?"
Quoth Rabelais, it may soon be shewn
That I don't merit this rebuff:
I tapped the plate, and that. you'll own,
Is Indigestible enough;
Batas to this unlucky fish,
With you so strangely out of favour,
Not only 'tis a wholesome dish,
But one of most delicious Savour!"

LAW IhTELLIGENCE.

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RABELAIS AND THE LAMPREYS.
/ROM Till NEW MONTRLY NAGAZINEMORNOVIIMS.

COURT OF ZINO'S BENCE!, NOVEMBER 2,
DAUNT V. BALL.
Mr. ANDREWS stated that this was an action of i
*rover for a horse of the plaintiff, which the defend-
sat had converted to his own use.
Mr. Manavar detailed the circumstances under
which the plaintiff sought to recover. The only_ques-
tion in the cause would be, whether the gelding in ,
dispute was the property of the plaintiff or of the de..
fendant—that is to say, whether it was one which the,
plaintiff had lost ; or one which the defendant had
.lost ? Now the defendant had fixed the period of his
loss on the 9th of September, 1820, and thus he had
3srered that it was impossible the gelding should be
Isis, because at that very time the animal was in the
stable of the plaintiff. fie would prove that the
plain:iff purchased the horse at Nortirallerton fair, in
Yorkshire ; his history would be traced for several
years previous ; and it would be distinctly shewn to
Le the same, by witnesses who could not be mistaken.
he bore himself was at the door of the Court, ready
to.v:alk in if his presence should be needed.
To support this statement, Mr. John White, of
Yot k, was called, who deposed that he sold the geld..
ire (which he could positively identify) to the plain,
tie. Several other witnesses deposed that they had
known him sicce he was two years old, and had no
dcubt whatever that the horse now at the door of
Guildhall was that which the plaintiff had bought
of Mr. White.
Mr. GURNEY, for the defence, said that he had
to ice as many witner.es who would speak with equal
confidence to the gelding .as the property of Mi.
Ball. He had the man who bred the horse ; the
~-,roolll who broke him, and several others well qua.
teed to give an opinion on the case, by the oppor-
tunities they had of knowing the gelding. lle would
shew that the gelding was foaled on the premises of
Galant, a farmer in Berkshire, in June, 1816 ;
Erat it was sottby him to the defendant ; and that
it continued in the stables of the defendant until Sep-
tember, 1820,. when it was stolen from him. There '
seas one other witness—the best of all witnesses in
such a case—thelorse himself, who when he was '
brought back knew his old haunts, walked directly to
the stable door, and finding that shut, went to the
pump where he had been accustomed to stand. This
evidence would, he trusted, decisively shew.that Mr.
Gansu and.his witnesses were mistaken.
The witnesses mho were called to substantiate this
statement spoke with full confidence as to the identity
of the horse with that which Mr. Ball lost.
The Loan CHIEF JusTica left the Jury to deter-
mine on which side the balance of testitnon.y prepon-
derated, and they found a verdict for the defendant.
BTEWART V. BEIART.
This was an action by the plaintiff, a spirit broker,
to recover commission and brokerage on a quantity
of spirits put up by him to sale, at defendant's request.
It appeared that the spirits intrusted to Mr. Stew-
art for sale were not ultimately sold, but bought in
by the dtfe;idant. He claimed ss. a puncheon on
them for incidental expenses, and also for his trouble.
It was admiuetrihat he had a ri,,2,lrt to recover the
expenses, the amount of which was *accordingly paid
into Court, but that he had no claim for his trouble
unless the spirits were actually sold.
Witnesses ,were called on both sides to shew the
custom of the trade, several of whom sustained the
allowance as cu,tornary, and others denied that it
Was usnal 'within their knowledge.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE left tke Jury to decide
on the reasonableness of the claim, which they esta-
blished by finding a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
mites £5. 25. 6d.
AIISTIN V. PRY.
This was an action to recover damages of the de-
fendant, for so unskilfully driving a mare which he
Lad hired of the plaintiff, that she was thrown down,
and became' seless.
SPARLETT stated the case on behalf of the
plaintiff, who, he said, was a livery-stable keeper,
Laving stables in Windmill-street and Bermondsey-
street. The defendant was a currier and tanner, in
which capacities he might be excellent, but he would
tnake a very indifferent member of the Whip Club.
In March last be hired the mare for a short excursion,
which hs took in a whiskey, accompanied by his
friend, Mr. Gerrard. As they were proceeding, the
defendant could not resist the temptation to use his
ship so.lreely that the animal, though exceedingly
quiet when well used,' becami restive and ran vio-
lently eons the road. Upon this the charioteer and
his friend, determined to save themselves, got out at