hy inn with its steamy stinking atmosphere, and bed-room porter
drinkers for good and all, and let Lothario O'Flanagan, Spinster
Letty, Lawyers Allewinde and O'Laugher, with Justice Kilpatrick,
settle the matter by themselves their own way; but that you must,
willy nilly, in spite of rain, crowd, and offensive smell, stay and
help to settle it with them. Into court therefore return, unfortunate
witness; other shelter have you none; and now being a man of strong
nerves,--except when put into a chair to be stared at by judge, bar,
grand jury, little jury, attorney, galleries, &c., &c.,--you can push
your way into a seat, and listen with attention to the quiddities
of the legally erudite Mr. Allewinde, as on behalf of his client he
ingeniously attempts--nay, as he himself afterwards boasts to the
jury, succeeds in making that disconcerted young gentleman in the
witness chair commit perjury.

Mr. Allewinde is a most erudite lawyer. He has been for many years
employed by the crown in its prosecutions, and with great success.
He knows well the art of luring on an approver, or crown witness,
to give the information he wants without asking absolutely leading
questions; he knows well how to bully a witness brought up on the
defence out of his senses, and make him give evidence rather against
than for the prisoner; and it is not only witnesses that he bullies,
but his very brethren of the gown. The barristers themselves who are
opposed to him, at any rate, the juniors, are doomed to bear the
withering force of his caustic remarks.

"No, really, I cannot suffer this; witness, don't answer that
question. The learned gentleman must be aware that this is irregular;
my lord, I must appeal to you. Stop, stop; that can never be
evidence," and so on:--the unfortunate junior, who fondly thought
that with the pet witness now in the chair, he would be surely able
to acquit his client, finds that he can hardly frame a question which
his knowing foe will allow him to ask, and the great Mr. Allewinde
convicts the prisoner not from the strength of his own case, but from
his vastly superior legal acquirements.

How masterly is he in all the points of his profession as evinced in
a criminal court. With what "becks, and smiles, and wreathed nods,"
he passes by his brethren on the prosecuting side, and takes his seat
of honour. How charmingly he nods to the judge when his lordship
lays down the law on some point in conformity with the opinion
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