118 POINT D'ARGENT, POINT DE SUISSE. 



the want of money he cannot prove that innocence, 

 of course from the want of his innocence being proved 

 it is quite right and proper he should be condemned. 



I believe there is such a thing in some few cases as 

 suing in what is termed in formd pauperis, and a 

 very poor way of suing I believe it is generally found 

 to be, and a poor prospect, I conceive, opens to him 

 compelled to such a mode of proceeding. Not being 

 conversant with such things, I do not know if I am 

 correct ; but I suppose a man may also defend him- 

 self by the same means, when I conclude his prospect 

 of success would be about as bright as in the other 

 case ; but even allowing that poor people cannot get 

 justice, they have no right to complain if they only look 

 at the thing in a proper point of view, which, as a 

 matter of course, is the view the rich take of it. 

 " There is law for the poor man as well as the rich :" 

 so there are pine-apples ; these are only Is. 6d. a 

 pound, and to get justice is certainly not more than 

 a penny a word. The poor man says he cannot 

 afford to eat pines at 7s. 6d. per pound : well then, he 

 must do without them, and does so : in fact, he has 

 no right to expect to get them or anything else 

 intended for aristocratic mouths. Why then, if he 

 cannot afford to pay a penny a word for justice, 

 should he be so unreasonable as to expect to get 

 justice ? I hate such discontented people. 



If I should be asked whether I mean to infer that 

 any Gentleman of the Long Eobe would advocate a 

 cause less strenuously when doing so pour T amour de 

 bon Dieu than he would from having received a good 

 retainer, with something handsome in prospective, I 

 beg to decline answering such an interrogatory, and 

 leave it to the gentleman's conscience: but, sup- 



