ety felt by all classes of his fellow-citizens in
the progress of one of the most remarkable cases ever submitted before a
jury.

After a brief announcement of the trial, he proceeds:

"Mr. Foxley opened the plaintiff's case, in the absence of Serjeant
Hanchett; and certainly even the distinguished leader of the Western
Circuit never exceeded in clearness, accuracy, or close reasoning the
admirable statement then delivered,--a statement which, while supported
by a vast variety of well-known incident, may yet vie with romance for
the strangeness of the events it records.

"Probably, with a view of enlisting public sympathy in his client's
behalf, not impossibly also to give a semblance of consistency to a
narrative wherein any individual incident might have startled credulity,
the learned counsel gave a brief history of the claimant from his birth;
and certainly a stranger tale it would be hard to conceive. Following
all the vicissitudes of fortune, fighting to-day in the ranks of the
revolutionists in Paris, we find him to-morrow the bearer of important
despatches from crowned heads to the members of the exiled family of
France. Ever active, ever employed, and ever faithful to his trust, this
extraordinary youth became mixed up with great events, and conversant
with great people everywhere. If a consciousness that he was a man of
birth, and with just claims to station and property, often sustained
him in moments of difficulty, there were also times when this thought
suggested his very saddest reflections. He saw himself poor, and almost
unfriended; he knew the scarcely passable barriers the law erects
against all pretenders, whatever the justice of their demands; he was
aware that his adversary would have all the benefit which vast resources
and great wealth can command. No wonder, then, if he felt faint-hearted
and dispirited! Another and a very different train of reasoning may,
possibly, have also had its influence on his mind.

"This boy grew up to manhood in the midst of all the startling theories
of the French Revolution. He had imbibed the doctrines of equality and
universal brotherhood; he had been taught that a state was a family,
and its population were the children, amongst whom no inequality of
condition should prevail. To sue for the restitution of his own was,
then, but a sorry recognition of the principles he professed. The
society of the time enjoined the theory that property was a mere
usurpation; an