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tion which the orator may frequently find of ufe to palUate Amount ci 



, . L'Td Piefitic:it 



error, but whicli the Judge needs feldom to employ, who is de- JJundas 

 firous only of inculcating truth. ' 



He maintained, with great flri6\nefs, all the forms of the 

 Court in the condudt of bufinefs. Thefe he wifely conlidered 

 as eflential, both to the equal adminiftration of juftice, and as 

 the outworks which guard the law againll thofe too common, 

 but moft unworthy artifices which are employed to proftltute 

 and abufe it. 



To the bar, he condudled himfelf with uniform attention 

 and refpe(ft. He liflened with patience to the reafonings of 

 the Counfel. He never anticipated the arguments of the pleader, 

 nor interrupted him with queflions to fliew his own acutenefs ; 

 but left every man to Rate his caufe in his own way : nor did 

 he ever interfere, unlefs to reflrain what was either manlfeftly 

 foreign to the fubjed, or what wounded, in his apprehenfion, 

 the dignity of the Court. In this lafl refpecl he was moft lau- 

 dably pundlilious. He never fufFered an improper word to efcape, 

 either from the tongue or pen of a counfel, without the fevered 

 animadverfion ; and fo acute was that feeling which he was 

 known to pofTefs of the refpecSl that was due to the Bench, that 

 there were but few occafions when it became neceffary for him 

 to exprefs it. 



There were indeed other occafions, on which his feelings 

 were moft keenly awakened, and on which he gave vent to a 

 becoming fpint of indignation. He treated with the greateft 

 feverity every inftance, either of malverfation in the officers 

 of the law, or of chicanery in the inferior pracSlitioners of the 

 Court. No calumnious or iniquitous profecution, no attempt 

 to pervert the forms of law to the purpofes of oppreffion, ever 

 eluded his penetration, or efcaped his juft refentment. 



Thus, perpetually watchful, and earneftly folicitous to main- 

 taiin both the dignity and the reditude of that Supreme Tribunal 



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