Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-11-12

hunting after new fashins, starting fresh
nistresses, hunting the play house, or
acquiring other little town accomplish
meDts, which render their admirers fine
NEE in the opinion of but fools, eyre
gious feps in the judgment of the wise.
In his studies, he trafficks not only
with the infantry Of epitomes, abridge~
ments. and diminutive collectors in De-
elmo serto, but draws his knowledge
from the original springs, digesting
whole body of the law in a laborious
and regular method; but especially
aims tolbe we'll versed in thepractice OF
every court, and rightly to understand
the art of good pleadings, as knowing
them to be most useful to unravei the
knotty intrigues of the cause. and re-
duee it TO an issue, yet hates to poster
the court with .circultes, negative preg-
Dants, departu es and multiplied Inn
pertinencies he peruses the year books
and response prwdentiuns. with nee
dy and reverent eye delights to tread
in steps of the ancient sages. and THINKS
tits best sailing by known and sxperi
enced landmarks And therefore use
presidents, not as refugees ofignorance,,
bur as the safe guards of wisdom, and
yet rather than not keep pace with JUS
tice, will dispense with formallty con-
side.1ng that what he does is grounded
! on reason if it want precedent IN past
ages, will be laudable one to those to
come.
He never goes about with feigned al.
legations to cast a mist before the eyes
of Justice, that she may mistake her
road, and assign the child to the
wrong mother. endeavors not to pack
Jury by his interest in the under She
riff, not to balk an evidence with null
titude of sudden ensnaring interroga-
tories, nor maintains any correspon-.
dence with the knights of Alsatia, or
Ram Alley vouchers: he can prose
cute suit in equity without seeking TO
, create whirlpool; where one order
shall beget another.. and the poor client
be swung round llike cat before exc
cution) from decree to rehear1ng, from
report to exceptions, and vice UerSd, till
his fortunes are shipwrecked, and him
self drowned for want of white or yell
law earth to wade through on; he me-
YER studies delays to the ruin OF a taml
ly for the lucre of ten greats; nor by
drilling quirks, spins out suit more
lasting than buff, depending a whole
revolution OF Sa.urn, and intailed on
the third and fourth generation; he
does not play the empirick with his
client, and put him upon the rack to
make him bleed the more freely, cast
ing him into a swoon with rights OF
Judgment, and then revivihg him again
with Cordial Writ of Error, or the
dear Elixer of an injunction, to keep
the Brangle alive as long as ever there
are any vital Spirits in the pouch he
can suffer his neighbours to live quietly
about him without perpetual alarm OF
actions and indictments, or eonJuring
up dormant titles to every cemmodious
seat, aud making land full five years
purchase merely for lying within ten
miles of him.
He delights to be an arbitrator, not
an incendiary, and has Beati pacJics
oftener in his mouth than CUrrat Lea.
He never wheedels any into endless
, suits for trihes, nor animates them 10
undo themselves and others for damage
feasant, or. insignificant Trespssses-
! pediba>s an,bulundo, but las Tetephus's
sword was the best cure for the wounds
IL made) advises people to compose
their assaults and ISLANDERS overs the
same ale that begot them, nor does he
in weightier cases extort unreasonable
fees. For whatever the toul chopped
rabble may suggest, lawyers probes
sion is not mercenary; the money CIV
en- him is only an honorary gratuity,
! for his advice and trouble, or a CRATE
full Acknowledgements of our obligations
! for his well intended endeavors, and the
old emblem of the brambles tearing OF
the sleeps fleece that run to 1t for shell
! ter in a storm. can have no reflection
upon him whose brain is as active, and
his tongue as volub1e for pennyless
pauper, as when oyl'd with the ourum
potable of dozen guiDeas.
| Inaword, whilst he lives, he is the
delight of the court, the ornament OF
the bar, the glory of his profession, the
patron Of innocency, the upholder OF
right, the scourge of oppression, the
terror of deceit, and the oracle of his
country, and when death calls him to
the bar of Heaven by hdbeas corpus
cam cawsis, he finds his Judge his advo-