pared to pay, together with the 601., I will give you a receipt and discharge." In vain did I insist upon seeing Mr. Crafty; ah, he knew the way to catch the game was to hide himself—he kept away. But the answer put into the mouth of the clerk was, you should have written, then, I have no doubt Mr. Crafty would have waited till Monday.' But I told him I could not be here till Monday, and he said he would remember it.' 'Yes, but words are nothing-the parties look to the date of the bill.' You say truly, words are nothing to some men; they also have a peculiar mode of remembering, to make their own advantage of the confidence they inspire.' I paid the money, and told the clerk to tell his master I should not easily forget his promised remembrance of me. I wish this lesson had produced the effect of causing me to suspect others of the profession who have since most hypocritically and roguishly deluded and duped me."

“Sure never man was more cruelly and shamefully handled than you have been by unprincipled lawyers," said Charles. "Oh yes," said Clinton, "I could tell of many who have been equally and worse treated. I will tell you of one-Dr. Hartley, whom you once knew as well as myself, with a flourishing boarding-school of nearly one hundred boys, and a handsome house and grounds. How often have I gone to his public holiday festival, and conducted the business and public examinations for him!-I met three hundred guests at his house at one breaking up. his house was furnished like a nobleman's; but through the failure of some of the parents of his pupils, and the defalcation of some foreigners who owed him large sums, he was obliged to have recourse to a loan on his furniture. He obtained the loan through a legal friend; and this same friend demonstrated his friendship by emancipating him from his school and family by a single stroke, and sending

him to spend three months of retirement in the King's Bench! The money was called in; the Doctor not being prepared, could not get another loan to return it; without ceremony an arrest was sent down, the doctor hauled off from his affectionate wife and daughters and doating pupils to prison-an execution put into the house-bills of sale, and an advertisement of sale of too short a date to let it be known, inserted in a single paper-some brokers, brotherrogues with the Jew money-lender, with their fellows in disguise, attended, and article after article was no sooner put up by the auctioneer-rogue, who was in league with this precious band of legalised robbers, then it was knocked down to the brokers or their disguised knaves; and the furniture of a mansion, which cost 1,500l. and was at least worth as it stood 1000l., was sold off in one day for less than 250l. A rapacious creditor, who has the help of many hands as dirty and as grasping as his own, makes quick work in clearing off and sweeping bare a mansion which it required months to furnish. Thus the holidays arrived soon after the school began-the boys were all sent home and dispersed the doctor was laid by like a weather-beaten man-of-war in dock to refit-the wife and daughters had wide opened doors to march forth, with only their personal attire to incommode them, to some friend who would give them shelter, till they could rise from the blow that stunned them, and look round for employment! Thus one of the loveliest and most loving and good principled families, with all its magnificent establishment for pupils-its fish-ponds, and baths, and greenhouses, and lawns, and shrubberies, for the recreation of the pupils and classical, mathematical, French, and drawing masters, was all demolished and scattered to the four winds of heaven by the scratching of a few lines, under the inditement of his good and kind friend lawyer

Sly, in the form of a sudden arrest for a sum less than 3007. which any honourable solicitor would have advanced himself to save his client. Here, therefore, I give you another piece of advice-seek out professional men of good character and ample means, otherwise necessity may compel a needy friend to run you to unnecessary expense, or for the sake of redeeming himself from a difficulty, to plunge you into tenfold greater; and if you are arrested, he has neither the money, the heart, nor the courage to undertake for you."

"God forbid !" said Lord Gallendon, "that all poor lawyers should be knaves. I have known some of honest principle, though in confined circumstances, and they have risen to wealth and consequence by adhering to the maxim, 'Honesty is the best policy.""

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CHAPTER LXI.

DR. BRISK, THE VICAR OF NEWTHAM.-HIS ILLNESS AND

CHARLES had now outstayed at Newtham all his fellowcurates who quitted the laborious scene, one after another; and the old vicar, as before-mentioned, was swept away, with his clerk and sexton, and now "a new king arose which knew not Joseph." Dr. Brisk, who had for years conducted a school of young men of wealth and rank, near London, was presented by the father of one of his pupils to Newtham; and he came down in all the pride and importance of a pedagogue to school the people of Newtham. This living," he said, "has been the object of my life for years past; to this I have looked forward with the highest expectations, as the crowning point of all my hopes; and here I mean to do great things for the town.” He began his plans with meeting the mayor and corporation at their breakfasts, and knew no distinction between Radicals and Tories, but excited all to unite for general good large public meetings were called in the church, and there the doctor tried the powers of the pedagogue to rule and coerce a mob, and unite persons as averse to each other as the poles. "But nothing," he said, "should daunt him; he had broad shoulders to bear a heavy burden, and a robust frame to resist opposition; he looked, and walked, and talked, as if he could rule the whole town

like his school. He vowed he would make all the servants of the church be at their post to a moment-the clerk to his the sexton to carry the box to the grave for the curate to stand in, while reading the service-the bells should chime not a minute beyond the half hour; and as prayers were read twice every day, he commanded they should never stop the bell till the minister arrived, that he might know whether the curate was to his time. But he said he would take his turn each alternate week to read the prayers; but, unluckily, the doctor was the first detected by this measure, for the bells chimed, and chimed, and the single bell rang on for nearly an hour, but the doctor was so busied in conversation with another doctor, hard by, that he forgot the prayers, the bell, and the church. This was such a blow, that he acknowledged himself fallible, and promised in future not to be inexora ble towards the faults of others. Meanwhile the storm was rising against him and his proceedings in the town, and this was not a little accelerated by a law-suit with the widow of the late vicar for dilapidations, to cover the ex penses of almost rebuilding the vicarage house. The spe cial jury whom he selected, were all his companions at the festive board, where Charles occasionally met them. But lo! even they brought in their verdict against him; it was no sooner known, than a shout of triumph was heard throughout the court; and he had to walk home without a single friend! hissed by the mob. Meanwhile some of the more zealous told him, he did not preach the gospel, and the walls were placarded with allusions to him and his measures; and the attendance at church in the morning, when he preached, was thin-and in the afternoon very large, to hear Charles. One Sunday Charles had been preaching from the text in Rev. iii. 20, "Behold I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open