502 CORRESPONDENCE. [1810. 



how my defence was received by all who heard me, 

 and I began at the trial to entertain some hopes. 

 The jury retired and were locked up for two hours. 

 Having left the court, I heard on leaving the 

 Temple of our success ; and though far enough from 

 ascribing it to my exertions, I considered it as of vital 

 importance to my professional station, and had some 

 hopes that a like success might attend the other case 

 which was to come on at Lincoln, where I went on a 

 special retainer. The disappointment was great at 

 our failure there ; for the author himself having been 

 acquitted, there seemed little doubt that the printer 

 might have the same success.* 



FROM MR JEFFREY. 



"EDINBURGH, March 19, 1810. 



" MY DEAR BROUGHAM, I have been annoyed for 

 this last fortnight with my old nervous malady, which 

 puts me in dread of apoplexy or palsy, and at all 

 events really unfits me altogether for any sort of 

 mental exertion. I am a little better now, chiefly, 

 however, by force of spending my whole time in idle 

 exercise of the body, and consequently you have my 

 excuse for not writing, and the reason of my having 

 nothing satisfactory to write about, both at once be- 

 fore you. As to my arrangements for next number, I 

 am sorry to say that they are in very little forward- 

 ness. For my own share I think of making an article 



* See the " Case of John Hunt and John Leigh Hunt," 22d January 

 1811 Speeches of Lord Brougham, i. 13. 



