Cclii LIFE OF BACOX. 



-He is impartial ; (6) never suffering any passion to 

 interfere with the love of truth. He hears what is 

 spoken, not who speaks : (c) whether it be the sovereign, 

 or a pauper ; (e) a friend, or a foe ; a favourite advocate, (f) 



(/;) Hobbs says, &quot;A judge should be able in judgments to divest him 

 self of all fear, anger, hatred, love, and compassion.&quot; 



When a judge is capable of being influenced by any thing but law, or a 

 cause may be recommended by any thing that is foreign to its own merits, 

 we may venture to pronounce that the nation is hastening to ruin. 



Guardian, 99. 



Denys de Cortes, advocate of the parliament of Paris, and counsellor to 

 the Chatelet, was so renowned for his integrity, that when a man who was 

 condemned to death by the latter court, and intended to appeal to the 

 parliament, heard that he was one of his judges, he submitted instantly to 

 the sentence, saying, &amp;lt;r He was convinced he merited death, since he was 

 condemned by Denys de Cortes.&quot; 



A judge in the Isle of Man, on entering upon the functions of his office, 

 takes the following oath : &quot; By this book, and by the holy contents thereof, 

 and by the wonderful works that God hath miraculously wrought in heaven 

 above and in earth beneath in six days and seven nights, I do swear that I 

 will without respect of favour or friendship, love or gain, consanguinity or 

 affinity, envy or malice, execute the laws of this isle justly betwixt our 

 sovereign lord the King and his subjects within this isle, and betwixt party 

 and party as indifferently as the herring s back-bone doth lie in the midst 

 of the fish.&quot; Wood s account of the Isle of Man. 



(c) Parties come differently into court. It is the duty of a judge to 

 make this difference as little as possible. D. Lord Eldon, Gourlay v. 

 Duke of Somerset, Jan. 26, 1824. 



(e) By a decision in the House of Lords, which was delivered by Lord 

 Rosslyn when Chancellor, a most virtuous clergyman was in a moment 

 reduced from affluence to poverty. The moment the Chancellor had pro 

 nounced judgment, he walked from the woolsack to the bar of the house 

 where the clergyman stood. He said, &quot; As a judge I have decided against 

 you : your virtues are not unknown to me. May I beg your acceptance 

 of this presentation to a vacant living, which I happen, fortunately, to have 

 at my disposal/ It was worth about 600 a year. 



(/) He has no favourites in the court. It is a strange thing to see, that 

 th boldness of advocates should prevail with judges ; whereas they should 

 imitate God in whose seat they sit; who represseth the presumptuous, and 

 giveth grace to the modest. But it is more strange that judges should have 



