Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-09-04
ANOTHER IRISH pHiLLirs.
.SheecA Of Counsellor O'Garnish,

AM HER lhIS1I FHlLl.ItS.
Speech Of Counsellor O'Garniah,
On motion to have the interest calculated on
abill of exchange.
When look around me, and above
me, and below me, and dizzily ponder
over the tide of time, which, rolling thro'
this elevated edlfice, sweeps the mighty
and the mean to one common bourne,
whence, as the poet of nature informs US,
no traveller returns-when reflect that
the court which | now address, nav, per-
haps the very segment of seat | now
occupy, was heretofore enlightened by
that Aurora Boreaks of legal efulgcnce
which formed halo on the brows of a
Dunning and Mansfield, / feel rooted
with terror to the ground, and paralyzed
in my lower eXtrenities like the marble
thighed monarch in the Arabian Tales
When | reflect for one moment that
these venerable walls of legal science
once enclosed all that was brilliant and
useful in oratory, all that was desirable
as goodness in man, all that i. rs anna
BILE and good in virtue, am with these
reflections confoundcd, and astonished,
that an obscure, inexperienced individual
as myself, would, in these same hallow-
ed walls, have the power of speech or
utterance to address humbly your Lord
ships, forming the brightest forum in the
galaxy of the heavens of legal know
ledge. Would to God that the red hair
ed founder of this venerable hall had
snatched I'yrell's dart from his own bo-
som and plunged it into mine, ere | had
essayed this Office but the different
epochs of our existence checks the wish.
NY Lords, my client, the plaintiff, is of
that useful class of beings who give
broadeloth to the back, serge to the sto-
mach, buckram to the body, thickset to
the thigh, bread to his family, and good
subject to his king.--IIis manners are
modest, his conduct is crcditable, his
shop is snowy, and his residence is Rat
clifle. The defendant is an officer of
dragons lately drawn from the purieus
OF Pallmall, and quartered at Hounslow
1t might be accident, 1t might be design,
which caused the captain, the defendant
on visit to the Wrapping docks, to
lounge over Radcliffe highway. Attract
ed by these words, a Serge, tailor and
habit maker" he halted at the plaintiffs
door. An elegant pelisse, with arms
extended, hung swinging at the door
post. He entered the shop, and with a
Establishment well suited to the perhdy
of his design, he ordered pelisse of the
same workmanship and materials. The
superb ornament started like the web of
Arachne from the fingers of the plain
tif's journeymen, and on Monday fol-
lowing the defendant issued from the
Hounslow barracks, the envy and admit
ration Of his booted brethren His COL
lar was of sable fur--'e Get me a suit of
sables," cried he, mimicking the march
of the duke; but when he would have
added, " The deUiI zvears black" the
demon of darkness stuck in his throat
My Lords, you are and long may you
continue to be clad in the robes of office,
and you know what fur is. When you
reflect that the pelisse was Of extra SUI
perfine French brown; that bands of
braids were buttoned on the bosom, with
a fork of ditto behind that the side
seams were finely and fully figured; that
the tassels were tambored and that
frogs, as presumptuous as those of Pha-
raoh, enveloped the defendant from chit
terlin to chine; you will not, aim sure,
elevate your eyebrows with extra aston
ishment, when you learn that the price
demanded was seventeen pounds four
teen shillings and six pence.-Thep plain
tiff was pressing; the defendant was
dunned; but cash not being forthcoming,
the plaintiff drew bill of exchange for
the amount, which the defendant accept
ed, payable at Messrs. Child and Com
pany's, Temple Bar.
The bill was presented when due, and
was noted for non-payment. God for
bid that l should impute any blame to
Messrs. Child and Company. Their
answer was, " no effects:" and after Sc
dulous inquiry, ! find that when a man
has no money in a bankers hands, such
banker is not bound to pay his drafts
This, my Lords, the defendant must
have known. His acceptance, therefore,
was mockery of the lace merchant. 1t
was buttering the bacon of baseness; it
was thrusting the red hot poker of pert
ness into the already blazing connagra-
ton of my clients grievances. The
defendant had now threw away the scab-
bard, and the plaintiff had drawn the
sword: he issued out writ in the name
&c Eeoroa tho th,rd &c fba ,,o;+oJ Lsc,.