The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-11-04

Isl, anu tnDse WHICH press hbC ." pi-0N'' ~"
of whimsical conpl xion.
You ar. tn know, Sir, that my Affairs
are managed by a head of the house, NH"
has the usual power To employ the eoinpa
Iny's Rrm, 20 Ia law in their name. MAKE
compositions, aud 50 forth. Bot ne eahh"t
touch The funds of the house without the
consent Of the younger partners, nho nave
thu. complete cheek upon any irregular
ity and So advantageous have found this
b lance of management, that am, perhaps,
a little too apt To drspise those who carry
On business on any other principles. But
indeed, believe it was, TIL some time ago,
the general mode of conducting business IN
the whole neigbborhoed, until the heads of
some establishments made encroachlnents,
and IN many cases tarned the junior part
ners out of the firm, Or retained them only
as clerks and shop boys.
This was especially the case in Lewis
Baboon'sf family, ill some five and tn enty
or thirty years since, when the clerks and
underlings took heart of grace, and assert
ed their right to be consulted in the man.
agement. If they had stopped here, il had
been well but instead OF the example
which had set them on a similar occasion,
they threw the head of the house, Ia very
good sort of man. down stnirs and the
house itself out of the window hired the
organlst to play uptaiIs all, and sailed out,
blud5eon in hand, to set at liberty, as they
called it, all. the clerks in the neis hborhdoi,
and chop down all the leading partners
TO law we went, myself among Others,
Mr.. Journalistic and many weary term
We had it in Westminster Hall, for more
than twenty years. Never was the noble
uncertainty of the law displayed to more
| advantage. The dispute took alternately
all the colours of the rainbow, and the par
ties were so jostled to and fro, that no.
body knew which hand to turn to. At
last the management of the Baboon mat
tiers fell entirely into the hands of little
dapper fellow, called Nicholas,A who had
been bred an Attorneys Clerk in old Loo
ls's service, aud clever fellow he was
But Of the counting room he trckcd the
msurgent partners. (who had brought him
in there,) took all Into his own hands, and
being a very devil at managing a law suit,
he had executions at one time or other at
every house IN the neighborhood except
my own-attached geods and cash-.rum-
mayed the tiil-and destroyed the ledgers
and bill book. | was particularly yexed at
the inroads he made on my good quiet
neighbour Lord Strut, man who, if YOU
would give him leave, would sit with Sc
gar IN his mouth all the day long, pay every
thing III gold and silver, never look at any
part of the bill but the sum total--a very
Jewel To Il customer. As such, | stood I'm
for him and when Nicholas wanted To
] pop his brother Joe in tho management Of
STRUTS hoose, without the leave of the
/ Partners-hold bit, said |, YOU n.ust law
and claw before John Bull will see his old
neghbOr robbed and plundcred before lG,.
face And so to law went more fierceiy
than ever, and though had one of the best
attornes that ever wrote court hand TO
manage the part Of the law suit, aud tho
he gained me several yerdicts, yet many a
talr pound did it cost me, Mr.. Journalist,
"fc got the vile little fellow elected from
the premises. Nay, don't know that
ever should have been able to manage it,
hut that Nicholas, like the pitcher that
went tod often To the well, got too veatu-
rous, and engaged in a most bloody row
with Mr. Saunders,F the Russian Merchant;
and, though he licked him the first two or
three rounds, yet, at length Saunders, who
is large hdlking fellow, came down top
of Nick with all his weight, aud so he fell
into the fire in Saunders counting Groom, il
was signal for all, aud sundry to be On his
Jacket rs soon as they smeiled the smuggling.
Corporal Lgnisbelg&E who had become
his game keeper, Squire Soulful who had
gwen HIM daughter in marriage, even
his namesake, Nick Trey, who had been
his errand boy, were all down at his tibi,y
at once But, although with my help, they
drove him ont Of Westminster Hall, and
Louis Baboon's premises at once, and pla-
ced IA second Louis, IA brother of him who
had suffered al the commencement of the
rev, at the head ofthat establishment; vet,
though Nicholas was thus titled out of the
saddle. Saunders, twho piques himself on
dong things m a eentlemanIike way,) and
Squire South, fwho as | said before, was
Nick's tather-in-law,) insisted he should be
1T the liberty 10 use the same Arm as before,
and set him up with handsome stock-in-
trade, I" avis and old shoes, in cobIer's
Stdli1t opposite To the splendid primises he
had SO lately occcupied. There WAS more
generosity than prudence in this manage-
ment for before Louis, Nho is something
old and equity, had half settled his affairs,
10 whips your master Nicholas, trundts
himself ap, aud Louis down stairs, and 50
he went to law again, more briskly than
eser. Luckily, this was but short job
My AttorneyHh Mr.. Arthur, whom | men-
toned before, settled matters in ii single
pleadlng-got verdict with cost-and Nj
ehoias, instead of being restored toa cob
ler's stall, WAS sent to the Fleet prison,N&
where he died after having spent a few I'M
happy years in squabling with the turn
keys
" was sorry for the poor Devil, as is
my nature on such occasions; bot, after