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how Adam can be a fit judge in such matters, God 

 only knows ! The place may suit him, but that he can 

 suit the place is impossible. It is twelve years since 

 he even saw &juryi and before that he never was in 

 jury practice at all. Is it conceivable that he should 

 be up to the law of evidence or nisi prius, which 

 Erskine will tell you he has forgotten, and every man 

 must, by want of practice ? To send him down to in- 

 troduce a bad, bastard kind of law, is really too absurd. 

 Yet I doubt not Lauderdale is ready for it, and has 

 fifty arguments to support it. I wish you would com- 

 municate these objections to him from me. They 

 seem to me decisive ; and if they don't so strike the 

 Scotch bar, it shall be no fault of mine, for I write to 

 Jeffrey by this post. Yours ever,- H. B." 



TO EARL GEEY. 



" BROUGHAM, September 25, 1814. 



"DEAR LORD GREY, In this and another cover 

 I send the sheets of the article, which is execrably 

 printed, but you will follow the argument ; and it is 

 likely to give pain, also to create discussion. 



" I am clear Perry will do neither. He is a sad 

 one, and I heartily wish the Algerines had him, and 

 his wife were free. I perceive White has, with match- 

 less impudence, advertised something Foxitish ; and he 

 who, down to last Sunday, had been abusing the party 

 from highest to lowest, expects now to make money of 

 them ! As his newspapers are the very worst written 

 in London, and the dullest as well as the most black- 

 guard, I heartily regret such men as Coke being de- 

 ceived by his flummery to patronise him. It will 

 finish the little credit we still have among the popular 



