Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-01-31

cal Bottle at our elbow, we were ooI'5e"
70 give up few UGses.
took me IN one o! their
minor courts % judicature SIX OF which,
he said, were in Swaloab, for the rep'es-
sion of disorders and the appFehen"'""
nf offenders. There was little ceremony
or show at this tribunal, where the mag
trates were seated at plaza table, 10
their every day wigs and PantalooIs' "A
crowd of spectators surrounded 'hen'
while revenue officers, constsb!es, clerks
and thief catchers--a tribe OF persons
,chor ,ce hare happily no occasion for m
Enriand-were moving in and ont OF
The room. / looked rousd for the Offend
ers whom these vigiIaut guardians Ut the
law had unprecedented during the pr'ce.
dug night, when MTven lnIo;med me
that a question fac more interesting than
petty cases of stree, quarrc.s and robhe-
lies was about TO lie heard. Observe"
aid lie, L" that sharp looking middle sized
man, with a scratch brown wig on his
head, and a broad green riband across
his shoulders, sittiag rear the magis-
tratcs.n had indeed noticed him; bur
supposing him to he one of the judges,
had paid his wig or his ribaad very little
attention. A complaint" continued
Morven, " has been lodged against him
for evading the revenue law, and is row
to he heard
Different as erery thing "! ich lad
seen in this new world vas tron the ha-
bits and manners Of fn2land, my aston
ishmcnt now was extreme. ! could
scarcely believe that M"rven was not
sporting with my simplicity. when tie de-
scr;bed an accused person sitting iamllI-
arIy BY his judges, and listening to their
couusels. " lie is i lord" whispered my
friend, lend lords in Armata are entitled
to a seat Oh the bench Of Judgment, even
when their own causes are umder Discus
sion"
L" You are indeel,' replied l., a sirgG-
lar people. Our loIds in England nave
10 such privilege; and, at all events, we
haze 10 sue! lords as The Specie, betore
NE"
" PERHAPS not" rsjoined Morvcn -
" the nUbIcman whom you see was 4 ca
Diet of an ancient family in the north part
OF Armata, called Tartcnr, the natives
whereof flock daily into Swaloab and be-
come ineligible by degrees. lie was
bred to the bar, and soon became 4 rcpu-
lar lawyer. How it NAY be in your
wrrlG know net; but with az, = good
deal of cloguence, and very little learn
ing. carry man on wonderfully, esp--
cially if he becomes a svstemat;ck cp-
poser ct the government, and the vindi.
Gator of al who endsayor to subvert it,
A few years ago." continued nv friend,
when the sovereign vas compelled 10
charge his ministers. this parsonage step
ped iNto place, and occupied the highest
post of the law. A judge who. right or
wrong, must decide against one party,
can never please both; in hrs elevation,
therefore, he managed as well as the
uiscst o. his predecessors, and one party
vas alwaYs pleased with his decisions
wrong or right"
Moral possibilities, | aCkHOw LEGGED,
were the same in England as in Armata.
aud that our history presented ~ in
stance Of chancellor pleasing both
plaintiff and defendant. I was about
making many other excellent ob.er,a.
tOns on th, radica. reform, which would
have swcllcd my second volume famous
ly. when MOrven proceeded to inform
me that this learned judge had since lost
his Office, but had retained his title: it
briug the custom in Armata-rpry differ
ent from that in Engiand-that the title,
which is conferred in consequence Of the
Office, shall continue after the Office is
Withdrawn.
The hearing was now commenced Of
his lurdship's case, who, found, had ex.
changed the business of Judge for that Of
a pedisr, and, in the genuine spirit of
Tariauian foresight, had helped cut
sCanty ri,tance Of six thousand pounds 4
year by hawking about the streets ard
suburbs Of owal0ab species OF twiggs,
artificially bound up for the purpose Of
swearing rorms. NOT unlike those familiar
utensils which 10 England We term BE-
SONS. They are applied also in ArTara
To tie scaTlcatiOn OF the posteriur parts
of idle children. told Mo,vrn that |
had some recollection of TINS stimuIant
process having been experimental upon
myself, though rot with sufficient success
to warrant its repetition.
The sale, however. Of these domestic
and discipllnarlan articles i, prohibited
BY the Armatan law, unless iIcCh.e Is
taken out by the itinerant vendor, which
license, totally contrary 10 the custom ?f
ENGLAND; must BIZ paid for by stipulated