Delaware patriot & American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1828, 1828-05-23
TOR THG DELAWARE PATRIOT.
LITERARY SELECTION.
sir EDMUND SAUNDERS,

Lord Chic( Jasticp u fhs Court Of Kings Bench.
His character and oeginnin. equally
strange He ~ FIRST no better than roor
hegaar-bay. If MT soap l,arl,A fouuding. without
known pal cnt, d relations. he lad found a VA,
to live BY obseqaiavsne-s IN Clements inn. a.
TemeshslN aud cnartln- tie attoine.s clerks for
scraps. the extraordinary observance and dill
.ence Of tile bnl, mae The socirt, wiling 70 do
him gpnd He appca 60 very ambitious to learn
t. wtlte AMI oue # tae aviornies e0t board
knocked up at a Wtaiiea tht top Ut staircase.
ann thai was his d.~k. Nhrfe hr SAT and wrote
aip, copies Of the ceurt, and nther hands. the
clerks gave HIM. He made himself expert
writer that he took i'll business, and earned some
pence bv hackney writing. Thus, b, degrees. ..,r
pushed his faculties, and fell TO foims. and, b.
books, that were lent him. becan in exquisite en-
tering clerk /; and, by the same course Of improve
ment of himself an able counsel, first in special
pleading. then at large And, after he was called
to tile bar, had practise in the Kings Eeneh
Court. equal with any there. As to his persan he
was vesy corpulent and heastly, mere lamp Of
morbid flesh. lie used to say ''by his troggs
tsuch was All Humorous Way OF tahng he aiiec-
tetN none could say lie waited issue u has badly.
for he had nine IN his back He was tet,d
mass, that offended his neislburs at the bar IN the
sharDest degree. Those Nhuse III fortune il was
10 stand near him we're c0niessora. and, IN sam
mer tine, almost martYr5. His hatetel decay
of his carcass came ppon lin by continual snttsF-
ness. tor TO say nothing OF brandy, he was seldom
without pot ui ale at his nose, OF tedr ann. That
exercise VA, All he used the rest Of his lie was
sitting at his desk. u piping at home: an, that
home was "a taylor's house ic Bntcher-row, called
Ihls lodnings and the mans wife was his nurse or
worse but. By virtue of Ills money, OF which he
made little account, though he got q great deal, he
soon became master OF the family: and bens no
changeling, he never removed, bot was true to his
friends AM! they 70 him, to the last hour OF his life
So much for his person ana education. As fol-
his parts, none had them more lively than he Wit
and repartee in affected tnstIcity, were natural
to him. He was ready, aud never at loss,
and none came So as hes TO be match for
sejeant Mainari. HIS great dcXterity was in the
ait Of special pleading. and he would lay snares that
often caught his superors who were not aware OF his
trans He was 10 fond OF success tor his clients
that rather than fail he would set the court bard
, with his tricks for which he sometimes net with
remimand, which he wuuId wittily ward off, 81
that no one was much ot,eEsie. with hm--Bat
Hale could MT bear his ;rre.uiary OF life, and u
that. AM. suspicion Of his tricks. used to bear hare
upon him in the court But no i'll usage from ths
bench was too hard for his bold on business being
such as scarce any could do but h'mself With III
: this he had goodness Of nature and disposition
in 50 great degree that he may be tlasers edl
ST, led ghiiaphrOpe. lie was yer, Silenus t
the boys. a III TINS pace may term tne 5lnaeht'
J of the law, to make them merry Whenever he has
a mind TO it. He had nothing d the rigid aus
tere in him. II any rear h,nl at the bar. grumDet
: at h,s stencil, he ever converted the complain
into content and laughing, with the abundance o
his wit. As to lis ordinary dealings he was a
, honest as the driven SNOW white: and viii
. not. having no regard fer money, desire to bt
rich and for good nature and condesccnsion there
was not his fellow. have seen him for hours an,
] half hours togcthers Before the court sat, stand
the bar with an audience of students over agains
him, putting Of cases, and debating SO a, suitee
their capacities, and encouraged their industry
And so in the Temple he scidola moved without
parcel of youth hanging about him, and he uaerry
and testing with them.
1t will be reality conceived that This man wa
never cut out to be presbyter. or any thing tina
is severe and Grabbed. In no time did he lean t,
faction, but did his business without offence to any
He put off cttcious talk of government or politics
4 with tests, and SO made his wit cathocon OF
: shield, to cover all weak places and inilrmites
] When the court fell into steady of using
the law against all kind OF offenders, this wa
taken into the Kings business, and had the part O
drawing, and pcrasa Fl almost all indictments ant