VI DEDICATION. 



some of you to move sideways, when you 

 ought to go straight forwards, and the 

 kicking and wincing which occasionally oc- 

 cur among the members of your learned 

 body, sufficiently characterise those agree- 

 able accomplishments in the horse, Avithout 

 the necessity of farther demonstration. 



But, beginning to feel as if I was actuall}^ 

 in court, it behoves me to reflect, that the 

 following performance may be subjected to 

 a cross examination ; and who shall abide 

 the introductory " hem,'' the re-adjustment 

 of the wig, or the preparatory blowing of 

 the nose, signals of attack which even his 

 Ludship on the Bench can rarely contem- 

 plate without emotion and alarm. 



It would ill become me, Gentlemen, who 

 have received so many civilities at your 

 hands, to condemn the casual aberrations of 

 y«wc^ into which you are sometimes betrayed 

 by genius, or the freedom of remark which 

 generally embellishes your orations. Certain 

 splenetic and unpolished members of so- 

 ciety, insensible to that suavity of manners 

 which usually adorns your inquisitorial la- 

 bours, may, perhaps, object to those little 

 indulgences usurped by 3^our profession, and 

 may feel disposed to dispute the title upon 



