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and I find he continues, to repeat them in Paris, I’had a letter
Srom a medical student in that city who says so, and that letter
was published in one of the morning papers, and describes such
* operations as I cannot shock your ears by enumerating. (Here
the Hon. Member, notwithstanding his professions of delicacy,
very minutely detailed the cruel experiment performed ona
spaniel—we cannot follow him in the statements, which produc-
°-_ ed visible distress and: horror on his hearers.). “ Now,” said
counsellor might not one day be ?.. ‘Then it t off vexatious
claims, and produced a general interested civility in the neigh.
bourhood, under the expectation that whenever any little point
might arise, the young counsellor’s opinion might be had for no-
thing. Times have somewhat changed in this respect. Yet. to
this day, the young counsellor, who passes the law vacations
among his country friends, finds ‘(at least I have found it 'so)
that the old fecling of reverence for the name is not yet extinct,
and with ears erect to catch the soimds of comfovt’o hope
which their leaders had to administer, Finding iz impracti
ble to force my way towards the chair, [was obliged to aseend
and gccupy a ploce in the gallery, I must confess that I was not
sorry for the disappointment; for in the first fedise of awe
that the scene -inspired, I found, that my oratoriva! couras
Which like natural courage “come and
“oozing out”—but as the business and the passions of the day
cas
”
epeeronen ay and
. * Mr; Martin, one good thing at least has resulted from all this, | and that his dicta upon the law of trespass and distress for rent | proceeded; as‘the firé of national emotion lighted every eye, coe
‘ ‘ ‘The people of Paris have begun to notice the affair, and Mr, | are generally deferred to in his own county, mless when it hap- | and exploded in simultaneous volleys of applause, all my ap- * eC
‘ . \ -Magendi is deservedly unpopular in consequence ; and there is | peus to be the assizes time. . .
Fa pe perenne
prehensions for myse}f were forgotten. Every fresh round of
wy not a Gazette in'Germany, France, or I passed through my school and, college. studies with great
, or Italy, in which my charges ; huzzas that rent the roof rekindled my ambition. I became im- 6
: against him are not published to his shame.—(Hear, hear,)—I | eclat. At the latter place, particularly towards the close of the | patient to be fanned for my own sake by the beautiful white io ¥.
| “remember first hearing about him at St. George's Hospital, and course, I dedicated myself to all sorts of composition. 1 was | handkerchiefs that waved around me, and stirred my blood, 2 vet
Moye .. When I spoke of the monster to a young student, he told me he | also a constant speaker in the historical society, where I disco- | like the visionary flags of thé fatled Houari: inviting the Ma- F
, had attended his operations, and that Magendie’s dexterity was | vered, with no stight. satisfaction, that popular eloquence ‘was | homedan warricy tq danger and to glory. O'Connell; who. was). of,
fo “°.“sworderful. But when I asked ‘him whether he would publicly | decidedly my forte. In the cultivation of this noble art, I ad- | speaking, spied me in the galler He perceived at once thath . . tc
é Sie" confirm my statement, “Oh! (sayshe) you must not give my | hered to no settled plan. Sometimes, in imitation of ‘the an-| had a weight of oratory § Upon my injud, and‘ good- wok
4 » name for all the world! L intend to practise in London, and I’m cients, I composed my address with great care, and delivered it naturedly resolved to quicken the delivery. Without namine : ‘ 4 . "
i °° “4, sure nota lady in London would employ me, if she thought I was | from memory: at others I trusted for words (for Lam naturally | me, he made an appeal to ne under the character of “a Jiberal et et ‘e
‘ so unfecling as to attend such cruel experiments.” (Ecar, hear.) | fluent) to the occasion; but, whether my speech was extempo- and enlightened young Protestant,” which ] well understood, . me y.f
* . + €won't tell the young man’s name, but to say the truth he did'nt raneous or prepared, I always spoke on the side of freedom. | This was conclusive, and he had no sooner sat down than'I was Me yt ra
‘ “seem to feel much on the business, nor did he see the cruelty in At this period, and for the two or three years that followed, my | on iny legs. The sensation my unexpected appearance created a } 4
om « it that I did.—(Hear, hear.) I will now recommend to my hon, | mind waé filled with almost inconceivable enthusiasm for my | was immense. I had searcely said “ My Lord, [ rise’*— hy
te Friend, the chairman, to introduce a Bill himself next Session, | future profession... [ was about to enter if (can call my own | was stopped short by cheers that iasted some minutes, , ote
4 ‘ for so surely as I make the attempt J shall be foiled ; there is a | conscience to witness) from no sordid motives. As to money- really delicious music, and was repeated at the close of almost ve
: | regular conspiracy against every measure with which I am sup-| matters 1 was independent, for my father, who was now no sentence in my speech. I shall not dwell upoa the speech Ga, Looe
A posed to have any thing to do.—(Hear, and laughter.) | | more, had left me a profit rent of £L3Wa year. No, Mr. Editor, | itself, as most of my readers must remember it, tor it appeared ‘ 4
a - but I had formed to my youthful fancy an idea of the honours | the next day in the Dubiin Journals, (the best report was in the “ ae .
3
> S .) MiveMaltcon Benctvation Company. .,
: _» The interior of the immense Continent of Africa has hitherto
»* continued almost inaccessible to the mercantile and scientific
world. » Approach by water is precluded by the shallowness of
the rivers; and access by land is liable to various uncertainties,
which render it, at the best, precarious. The regularity of the
trade winds ensures punctuality, safety, and despatch, by the
only remaining mode of communication—namely, the air.
Itis proposed to establish air-balloon offices at Sierra-Leone,
and other convenient points, for the conveyance of goods and
\d from the various districts of Central Africa.
‘The concurrence of the Dey of Algiers, and the King of Congo,
hot has been already secured ; that of the Emperor of Timbuctoo
will, it is hoped, be speedily obtained.
4 A company has been formed with a capital of £500,000, in
shares of £50 each, “All applications for shares must be made
before 12 o’clock to-morrow, when thelists will be finally closed.
*,* Wanted, a Person well acquainted with the management
and duties of an advocate’s career, founded upon the purest mo-
i I pictured to myself the
glorious occasions it would present of redressing private wrongs,
of exposing and confounding the artful machinations of injus-
tice; and should the political state of my country require it, as
in all probability it would, of emulating the illustrious men
whose eloquence and courage had so often shielded the intend-
ed victim against the unconstitutional aggressions of the state.
It was with these views, and not from a love of “ paltry gold,”
that I was ambitious to assume the robe. With the confidence
of youth, and with a temperament’ not prone to despair, I felt
u > position papers
except the Times. It is enough to say that the effect was ot the
whole tremendous. As soon as I had concluded, a special mes-
Senger was despatched to conduct me to the platform. On m
I was covered with praises and congratulations.
yet I thought I could read in his eyes that there predominated
over that feeling the secret triumph of the partisan, at haying
contributed to bring over a young deserter from the enemy's
camp. However, he took care that I should not ge without m:
reward. Le moved a special resolution of thanks “ to his illus
an instinctive conviction that I was not assuming a task above trious young friend,” whom he described as “one of those rare
my strength; but, notwithstanding my reliance upon my natu- | and felicitous combinations of human excellence, ia which the
ral powers, I was indefatigable in aiding them by exercise and | spirit of a Washington is embodied with the genius ofa Grattan.”
study, against the occasions that were to render me famous in | These were his words, but my modesty was in no way pained at
my generation, . Deferring for the present (I was now at the | them, forI believed every syllable to be literally true, Le
Temple) a regular course of legal ygading, I applied myself, i i i iri My success
with great ardour, to the acquirement of general knowledge.
To enlarge my views, I went through the standard works on the
€
t ‘of Gag Establishments to go to Sierra-Leone. Apply at the | theory of govetnment and legislation. To familiarize my un- | of the general fame that would ensue, must inevita ly lead to
i Ofiice of Messrs. Gammon, Humbug, and Gammon, solicitors, derstanding with subtle disquisitions, I plunged | into the meta- | my retainer in every important case where the passions were to
} * Air-street. 2 physics; for, as Ben Jonson somewhere says, “he that cannot | be moved, and, whenever the W higs should come in, to aseatin
4 Ee contract the sight of his mind as well as dilate and disperse it, the British Senate. * * 2 * *
i in . : ‘ wanteth a great faculty ;” and lest an exclusive adherence to] After a resiless night, in which, however, when id ‘sleep,
i Jiart9x-Ganpex— Charles Hewett,a gentleman of the sooty | sue pursuits should have the effect of damping my popular | [ contrived to dreain, at one time that I'wad at the heed oe?
tribe, from whose dimensions we are at.a loss to guess how he sympathies, I duly relieved them by the most celebrated pro- | profession, at another that I was on the opposition side of the \
vould have ever surmounted x chimney pot, was brought up on
Thursday morning, under a warrant, by Lee the officer, charg-
ed with assaulting Mrs, Matilda Virginia Freclove, a lady resid-
: ~ ing in his neighbourhood. « cos ut
4 Mrs. Matilda Virginia, a Jady “fat and forty,” but not fair,
: was dressed in the pink of fashion, and accompanied by a num.
{ ber of equally elegant attired ladies. ‘The complainant stated
‘ * that on Monday last, as she was returning to her residence in
Mabledon-place, Burton-erescent; she perceived the defendant;
and as she had frequently before suffered from his “ opportuni-
ties,” she turned her back, and ran as fast as she could. © The
sweep, however pursued her, and on coming up to her, planted
fre other letters of the alphabet, and putting himself into a | fnal settlement of all disputed points in politics and morals.
fighting attitude, challenged her to combat. -Here Mrs. N .V-1 Such were the views and qualifications with which I came to
‘reelove, to illustrate the matter, put herself into a position | the Irish Bar. It may appear somewhat singular, but so it was,
i that would have afforded instruction to the candidate for the ‘that previous to the day of my call, Lwas never inside an Irish
championship, . . court of justice, When at the Temple, { bad occasionally at-
' Magistrate—Are you married? .° tended the proceedings at Westminster Hall, where a common
yes, Sir, and have six beautiful children, topic of remark among my fellow-stedents was the vast supe-
Pray, madam, whatis your busband? - riority of our Bar in grace of manner and classical propriety of
2,
m)
luctions of imagination in prose and verse. Oratory was, of
course, not neglected. I plied at Cicero and Demosthenes. I
devoured every treatise on the art of rhetoric that fell in my
way. When alone in my lodgings, 1 declaimed to myself so
often and so loudly, that ‘my landlady und her daughters, who
sometimes listened through the key-bole, suspected, as I afier-
wards discovered, that I had Jost my wits; but, as i
bills regularly, aud appeared tolerably rational in other inatters,
they thought it most prudent to connive at my extravagancies.
During tue last winter of my stay at the Temple, { took an ac-
tive part, as Gale Jones, to his cost. sometimes found, in the de-
ates of the British Forum, w! j
House of Commons redressing Irish grievances, I sallied forth
to the Courts to enjoy the impression which my display of the
day before must have made there. On my way my ears were
Tegaled by the cries of the news-hawkers announcing that the
had been alike, and our political opinions the same, except that
he sometimes went far beyond me in his abstract enthusiam for
the rights of man. I was surprised, for our eyes met, that he ,
did not rush to tender me his grectings. However I went up -
to ‘him, and held out my hand in the usual cordial way. Ie *
took it, but in a very unusual way. The friendly pressure wag
no longer there. Ifi
ed with warmth atmy approach, wasstill and chilling. He made
noallusion to my speech, but looking round, as if fearful of being
ra
: . . observed, and muttering something about its being “E
fe A sweep, Sir, and more genteeler man there’s not in the pro-| diction. [had therefore no sooner received the congratulations | day in the Exchequer,” moved away. This was a mnodification
‘ teehee fer complesion was a fair proof of her conjugal at-| of my friends on my ‘admission, than I turned into one of the of ¢ genuine fame,’ for which I was quite unprepared. In my
ment : :
Courts to enjoy a first specimen of the forensic oratory of which
Thad heard so much. A young barrister of about twelve years
v standing was on his legs, and vehemently appealing to the court
i stall events he only threatened to strike, while she not ouly | jn the following words.—* Your Lordships perceive that we
\ threatened but executed. Ile then presented his profile to the | stand here as our grandmother's administratrix de bonis non,
On his check wasa swelling the size of agoose | and really, my Lords, it does humbly strike me that it would be
ree the dusky inflammatory redness of which made a very | a monstrous thing to say, that a party can now come in, in the
pleasing contrast with the surrounding shade. of skin. As a very tecth of an Act of Parliament, and actually turn us round
witness, he ealled ‘ under colour of hanging us up on the foot of a contract made
anit®: Flaherty, an apple-woman, who protested she neversaw | yehind our backs.” The Court admitted that the force of the
pleated, man in her life get such a polihogue. This polihogue observation was unanswerable, and granted his motion witli
i The ‘Nowertall for the sweep, and according] costs. On inquiry,I found that the counsel was among the most
i; thew ‘agistrate discharged him on paying the expences of rising men of the Junior Bar. . *
Mre ha gee oe . . ‘ur the first three or four years little worth recording occur-
ene Matilda Virginia Freclove then withdrew with her suite,
present elevation of spirits, however, Twas rather
than offended at the occurrence. “I was willing to wet
my friend must have fonnd himself suddenly indisposed, or
that in spite of his better feelings, an access of involuntary en
vy might have overpowered him, or perhaps, poor fetlow, some
Painful subject of a private nature might be pressiue on tia
wind, 80 as to cause this strange revolution in his manner, At
the tine I never adverted to the rumour that there was shortly
to be a vacancy for a commissionership of bankrupts, nor had
I been aware that his name asa candidate stood first on the
Chancellor's list. He was appointe:
Here Hewett was called on for his defence; he protested he
never attempted to strike wntil the lady had called him a leef;
red, I continued my former studies, read, but without much | shaken me off, He praised i 0 -
‘ ently indignant, and expressed her conviction that had the ‘ i , . my speech in a confidential way, to in
‘ . z care, a few elementary law-books, picked up a stray scrap of | a mutual friend, and rgave hi E *
\ tage een heard at Bow-street, Sir R. Birnie would have shewn ‘ Re a } how (and I forgave him, for one gets tired of being "
technical learning in the courts and the hall, and was now and
then employed by the young attomies from my own county as
conducting counsel ina motion of course, At the outset I'w:
rather mortified at the scantiness of my business, for I had cal-
culated upon starting into immediate notice; but being easy in
my circamstances, and finding so many others equaliy unem-
ployed, I ceased to be i i
_ More respeet to“ female women,”
co morning I received many similar mauifestations
of homage to my genius from others of my Protestant col.
leagues. “Phe young, who up to that time had sought my socj.
, ety, now brushed by me as if there was infection in iny touch.
patient. With regard to my fame, how-| The seniors, some of whom had occasionally condescendod
IRELAND,
“Ssheteyes of the Yeish Var,
Maka y ) ever, it was otherwise, I had brought a fair stock of general | take my arm in the Hall, and treat me to prosing : j
Iwits litor—{ solicit the attention of your readers to the fel- reputation for ability and acquiremeat to the bar, but, having | adventures at the Temple, held themselves sullenly ' ot
ng sketch of myself, It ia i
e vanity on iny part, but it
judgment that the details fam about to
x i i Tf, have an inte
: rene thei own, which will éxcuse their Publication, minte
south, rather Was agent to an extensive absentee Property in the
of Ireland, Tle was a Protestant, and was respectably
ec: t was even understood in the country, that a kind
ip subsisted between him and the distant pro-
Of this, however, t have some
done nothing to increase it, | perceived, or fancied I perceived,
that the estimation I had been held in was rapidly subsiding.
This I could not endure—and_as no widows or orphans seemed | anger and estrangement, or, what was still less welcome,
disposed to claim my protection, I determined upon giving the
public a first proof of my powers as the advocate of a still no-
bler cause. Au aggregate meeting of the Catholics of Ireland
was anuounced, and | prepared a speech to be delivered on
their behalf. I communicated wy design to no one, uot even to
O'Connell, who had often urged me to declare myself; but, on
the appointed day, T attended at the place of meeting, Claven-
don-street Chapel. The spectacle was imposing. Upon a plat-
form, erected before the altar, stood O'Comnell and his staf.
d had just been taken by the
tloes strike
submit an my humb
forgive you 1) ‘the spirit of a Washington with the «
torly ‘left alone with my glory.” @ Catholics certainty
crowded round me and extalled me to the skies. One eulosiz.
ed my simile of the eagle: another swore that the corporation
would never recover from the last hit L gave them; a third thet
Bar was made. I was invited to all their
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had he suspected on my part
Being an elder son, I was des-
__ This abont thirty year ago
ong eae matter of course with our secondary gentry.—
Lition to have gan it Was at that time an object of great am-
Was a res csey, YoUg Counsellor’ in the family.
Tespeetable thiug—for who could tell what
flummery went, had unquestionably no can:
tT upon any assembly. The galleries were thronged | attorneys both in public aud private were londest in their admi-
with Catholic beanties, looking 0 softly patriotic, that even { ration of my rare qualifications for success in my profession
Lord Liverpool would have forgiven in tem the sin of adivided | but though they took every occasion, for wecks and months al
allegiance. The floor of the Chapel was filled almost to suffo- ter, to recur ta the splendour of my eloquence, it sti!! someno.y
cation with a miscellaneous populace, breathing from their | bappeucdthat Nor Ove OF THEM SENT ME 4 GLISLA.
looks a deep sense of rights withheld, aud stauding on iiptog (To be continued.)