the contest is a bubble blown up by malice, he endeavours to disperse it. He makes not a Trojan siege of a suit, but seeks to bring it to a set battle in a speedy trial.

14. Before he enters the field he surveys his forces; which consist of his knowledge; his integrity; his proper estimate of worldly power; his liberty of speech; the succour and sanctuary of a free press; and public sympathy. He knows that the administration of justice mainly depends upon the ability and integrity of the bar. Who, in times when our liberties are threatened, when power is attempting to extend its influence; who but men of ability can be expected to resist these invasions? Is it to be expected that the herd who follow any body that whistles to them, or drives them to pasture, will have the honesty and courage, upon such occasions, to despise all personal considerations, and to think of no consequences but what may result to the public from the faithful discharge of their sacred trust?

15. He is diligent in discovering the merits of his client's case. He remembers the old adage, They who are quick in searching, seldom search to the quick."

16. If the cause be difficult, his diligence is the greater to find it out.—If a leading case be out of his practice, he will take pains to trace it through the books, and prick the footsteps thereof, wheresoever he finds it.

17. He never intentionally mistates either facts or law." Sir Matthew Hale abhorred," says Burnet," these too common faults of misreciting evidence, quoting precedents or books. falsely, or asserting things confidently, by which ignorant juries or weak judges are too often wrought on. He pleaded with the same sincerity that he used in the other parts of his life."

18. He exerts his power to strengthen his own case, and weaken his opponent's, because he knows that, taking all things into consideration, justice is best promoted by collision of intellect, and that the whole truth will be eviscerated by the opposite counsel, or that the intelligence which presides will not permit truth to be misrepresented by any partial examination. We do not say, "What is truth?" and go out immediately.

19. If he is obliged to arraign the acts of those in high station, he approaches them with the simplicity but with the courage of truth, who is fabled to be white robed, because she can have no stain or tinge of malice.

20. He is strenuous in the cause of his client: and, regardless of every obstacle, goes right onward in his course. The hard-minded and mistaken Jefferies, said to Mr. Wallop, on Baxter's trial, "I observe you are in all these dirty causes, and were it not for you gentlemen of the long robe, who should have more wit and honesty than to uphold these factious knaves by the chin,

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we should not be at the pass we are at." Similar language disgraced the bench on the trial of the seven bishops; but Mr. Hale and Mr. Somers were not likely to be deterred by such conduct from the discharge of their duties.

21. In the discharge of his duty, he knows no fear. When Sir Matthew Hale, in the case of Lord Craven, pleaded so forcibly for his client, that, in those miserable times, he was threatened by the then Attorney General with the vengeance of the government, " I am pleading," he replied, "in defence of those laws which the parliament have declared they will maintain and preserve; I am doing my duty to my client, and I am not to be daunted." So our advocate has always the honesty and courage to despise all personal considerations, and not to think of any consequence but what may result to the public from the faithful discharge of his sacred trust.

SECTION III.

HIS DUTY TO THE COURT.

1. He is ever mindful of the respect due to the court :--whether it is the highest or lowest tribunal in the country, the House of Lords, or the

Court of Pie Poudre, it is the place where justice is administered and is a hallowed place.

"When baseness is exalted, do not bate

The place its honour, for the person's sake.
The shrine is that which thou dost venerate,
And not the beast, that bears it on his back.
I care not though the cloth of state should be
Not of rich arras, but mean tapestrie."

Herbert.

2. If insulted he is more sensible of the injury to good feeling than to himself. He is not so ignorant of human nature as not to expect haughtiness from the proud, contempt from the rich, ill manners from the vulgar, foolish talking and impertinence from the ignorant and conceited;he does not expect to gather figs of thorns.

When Dr. Franklin came to England to implore the attention of our government to the representations made by America, he was ordered to attend at the privy council, where he was grossly insulted by Mr. Wedderburn; at the sallies of whose wit all the members of the council, except Lord North, were in fits of laughter. A day or two after he said to Mr. Lee, one of his counsel, "that to Mr. Wedderburn's conduct he was indifferent, but he was, indeed, sincerely sorry to see the lords of the privy council behave so indecently."

3. If insulted by an equal, he does not forget the respect due to the court, but suppresses his

feelings until he has retired.-Shallow streams are agitated by the wind, deep streams flow on. He knows that this tranquillity may have the appearance of timidity, but he heeds it not. Alas, what is the appearance of any thing? The little birds perch upon the image of an eagle. Quos ego-sed motos præstat componere fluctus, is his feeling.

When the ecclesiastic insulted Don Quixote before the duke, the knight rose in indignation, but instantly said, "The place where I am, and the presence of the persons before whom I now stand, and the respect which I always have had and always shall have for men of your profession, tie up the hands of my just indignation."

4. If a judge forget himself, and the infirmities of human nature appear through the ermine, he laments that the charity of patience and the conduct of a gentleman should be found only in the advocate. He says with Sir Edward Coke, "If a river swelleth beyond the banks, it soon loseth its own channel; but, if another punish me by doing what is wrong, I will not punish myself."

5. If he forget himself and yield to anger, he does not suffer it to rankle in his mind.-He remembers the anger of Hooker, which is said to have been like a phial of clear water, that, when shaken, beads at the top, but instantly subsides without soil or sediment of unkindness.