250 CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYEE. 



His portrait lias been well depicted by tlie 

 author of " Ten Thousand a Year ; " but he 

 must have been a man of considerably 

 more calibre than ever I took him to be, to 

 have attracted the notice of so unbiassed 

 and so discriminating a satirist. His fre- 

 quent contests with a little chancery barris- 

 ter the Constitutional lawyer, as he was 

 there termed were highly amusing. They 

 were well matched for size as well as volu- 

 bility ; and one night, when he had roused, 

 by his coarse aspersions, the political iras- 

 cibility of his opponent not a little shar- 

 pened by the potations he had taken the 

 barrister said 



" Stand upon your pins, Sir, and defend 

 yourself, or 111 knock you down ! " 



But before my friend Publicola could 

 put himself in attitude, the Constitutional 

 lawyer, not able to keep his equilibrium 

 fell flat on his face, to the great laughter of 

 the whole room. 



There were members of either Univer- 



