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LAW AND LAVnTESS. 



four days and nights on the road. I cito, si sat bene.' It was the im- 



There was no such velocity as to 

 endanger overturning, or other mis- 

 chief. On the panels of the car- 

 riage were painted the words, 'Sat 

 cito, si sat bene,' words which made 

 a lasting impression on my mind, 

 and have had their influence upon 

 my conduct in all subsequent life. 

 Their effect was heightened by cir- 

 cumstancc3 during and immediately 

 after the journey. Upon the jour- 

 ney, a Quaker, who was a fellow- 

 traveller, stopped the coach at the 

 inn at Tuxford, desired the cham- 

 bermaid to come to the coach-door, 

 and gave her a sixpence, telling her 

 that he forgot to give it her when 

 he slept there two years before. I 

 was a very saucy boy, and said to 

 him, 'Friend, have you seen the 

 motto on this coach V ' No.' ' Then 

 look at it : for I think giving her 

 only sixpence now is neither sat 

 cito nor sat bene'. After I got to 

 town, my brother, now Lord Sto- 

 well, met me at the White Horse, 

 in Fetter Lane, Holborn, then the 

 great Oxford house, as I was told. 

 He took me to see the play at 

 Drury Lane. Love played Jobson 

 in the farce, and Miss Pope played 

 NeU. When we came out of the 

 house it rained hard. There were 

 then few hackney-coaches, and we 

 got both into one sedan-chair. Turn- 

 ing out of Fleet Street into Fetter 

 Lane, there was a sort of -contest 

 between our chairmen and some 

 persons who were coming up Fleet 



Fleet Street, or we in our chair first 

 get out of Fleet Street into Fetter 

 Lane. In the struggle, the sedan- 

 chair was overset, with us in it. 

 This, thought I, is more than sat 

 cito, and certainly it is not sat bcne. 

 In short, in all that I have had to 

 do in my future life, professional 

 and judicial, I have always felt the 

 effect of this early admonition, on 

 the panels of the vehicle which 

 conveyed me from school ' Sat 



pression of this which made me that 

 deliberative judge as some have 

 said, too deliberative and reflec- 

 tion upon all that is past will not 

 authorize me to deny that, whilst 

 I have been thinking, sat cito, si 

 sat bene, I may not have sufficiently 

 recollected whether sat bene, si sat 

 cito has had its due influence." 



ROMILLY'S AFFECTION. 

 Sir Samuel Romilly, when a 

 child, was intrusted to a female 

 domestic, whom he thus tenderly 

 refers to in his Diary: "The 

 servant whom I have mentioned 

 was to me in the place of a mother. 

 I loved her to adoration. I re- 

 member, when quite a child, kiss- 

 ing, unperceived by her, the clothes 

 which she wore ; and when she 

 once entertained a design of quitting 

 our family, and going to live with 

 her own relations, receiving the 

 news as that of the greatest mis- 



going up into my room in an agony 

 of affliction, and imploring God, 

 upon my knees, to avert so terrible 

 a calamity." 



JOHNSON'S BOSWELL. 

 Lord Eldon relates in his Anec- 

 dote Book : "At an assizes at Lan- 

 caster, we found Dr. Johnson's 

 friend, Jemmy Boswell, lying upon 

 the pavement inebriated. We 

 subscribed at supper a guinea for 

 him, and half-a-crown for his clerk, 

 and sent him, when he waked next 

 morning, a brief, with instructions 

 to move, for what we denominated 

 the writ of ' Quare adhcesit pavi- 

 mento,'' with observations duly cal- 

 culated to induce him to think that 

 it required great learning to ex- 

 plain the necessity of granting it to 

 the judge, before whom he was to 

 move. Boswell sent all round the 

 town to attorneys for books, that 

 might enable him to distinguish 

 himself; but in vain. He moved, 



