he should certainly recover it, having bought it of
a friend who had _introduced it to the particular acquaintance of every
Pawnbroker within the Bills of Mortality_.

DCCCXLIV.--SIR ANTHONY MALONE.

LORD MANSFIELD used to remark that a lawyer could do nothing without his
fee. This is proved by the following fact: Sir Anthony Malone, some
years ago Attorney-General of Ireland, was a man of abilities in his
profession, and so well skilled in the practice of conveyancing that no
person ever entertained the least doubt of the validity of a title that
had undergone his inspection; on which account he was generally applied
to by men of property in transactions of this nature. It is, however, no
less singular than true, that such was the carelessness and inattention
of this great lawyer in matters of this sort that related to himself,
that he made two bad bargains, for want only of the same attentive
examination of the writings for which he was celebrated, in one of which
he lost property to the amount of three thousand pounds a year.
Disturbed by these losses, whenever for the future he had a mind to
purchase an estate for himself, he gave the original writings to his
principal clerk, who made a correct transcript of them; this transcript
was then handed to Sir Anthony, and five guineas (his fee) along with
it, which was regularly _charged to him by the clerk_. Sir Anthony then
went over the deeds with his accustomed accuracy and discernment, and
never after that was possessed of a bad title.

DCCCXLV.--THE ORATORS.

TO wonder now at Balaam's ass, is weak;
Is there a day that asses do not speak?

DCCCXLVI.--MODERN ACTING.

JERROLD was told that a certain well-puffed tragedian, who has a husky
voice, was going to act Cardinal Wolsey,

_Jerrold._--"Cardinal Wolsey!--Linsey Wolsey!"

DCCCXLVII.--FEW FRIENDS.

A NOBLEMAN, extremely rich but a miser, stopping to change horses at
Athlone, the carriage was surrounded by paupers, imploring alms, to whom
he turned a deaf ear, and drew up the glass. A ragged old woman, going
round to the other side of the carriage, bawled out, in the old peer's
hearing, "Please you, my lord, just chuck _one_ tin-penny out of your
coach, and I'll answer it will trait _all your friends_ in Athlone."

DCCCXLVIII.--DIFFIDENCE.

AN Irishman charged with an assault, was asked by the judge whether he
was guilty or not. "How can I tell," w