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red), unless indeed it was in an attempt to give a colour to the 

 defence ! " 



There was a man named Hook, who, by some inexplicable 

 error in my solicitor, Mr. Clarke of Craven Street, was put up 

 as a witness for the defence we had plenty of sensible men to 

 offer in his stead who afforded considerable amusement. This 

 man, though I had not spoken to him twenty times in my life, 

 would always call me by my Christian name alone. Mr. Scarlett 

 said, " You seem very familiar with Mr. Berkeley," and he said 

 he was. Mr. Baring was examined, but Scarlett declined to 

 cross-examine him ; and Mr. William Norton produced the 

 large pocket-book he used in his trade on the day in question 

 he carried it in his breast coat pocket and which, luckily, 

 received and stopped the point of a pitchfork, and perhaps 

 saved his life. Mr. Scarlett, in his speech to the jury, coupled 

 me, of course, with Berkeley Castle and the riches of Colonel 

 Berkeley, and endeavoured to make his lucid (!) listeners believe 

 that I was, or might be, the owner of those domains ; and 

 Brougham, in his reply, had to assure them that a ghost had 

 been trumped up by his learned friend, with a view to their 

 deception, and that I had no more to do with the castle and 

 its riches than the Man in the Moon. However, the jury con- 

 tinued to smile on Mr. Scarlett, and to nod their heads on all 

 his periods, as listeners at an opera do to each cadence of their 

 favourite airs, while they cast sidelong glances at Brougham, as 

 if they thought 



f ' There was a laughing devil in his sneer, 

 That raised emotions both of rage and fear." 



In the end Lord Tenterden summed up with great partiality 

 for the complainant's case, for which, soon after, I most 

 religiously caricatured him in my album or sketch-book ; 

 and the jury gave, if I remember rightly, a sum above 

 that at which the damage was laid, amounting to a hundred 

 pounds. 



These, and such persecutions and prosecutions as these, with 



