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tion which the orator may frequently find of ufe to palliate Account of 



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error, but which the Judge needs feldom to employ, who is de- Dundas. 

 firous only of inculcating truth. 



He maintained, with great flriclnefs, all the forms of the 

 Court in the conduct of bufinefs. Thefe he wifely considered 

 as effential, both to the equal adminiflration of juftice, and as 

 the outworks which guard the law againft thofe too common, 

 but moft unworthy artifices which are employed to proftitute 

 and abufe it. 



To the bar, he conducted himfelf with uniform attention 

 and refpect. He liflened with patience to the reafonings of 

 the Counfel. He never anticipated the arguments of the pleader, 

 nor interrupted him with queftions to fhew his own acutenefs ; 

 but left every man to Mate his caufe in liis own way : nor did 

 he ever interfere, unlefs to reftrain what was either manifeftly 

 foreign to the fubject, or what wounded, in his apprehenfion, 

 the dignity of the Court. In this lad; refpect he was moft lau- 

 dably punctilious. He never fuffered an improper word to efeape, 

 either from the tongue or pen of a counfel, without the fevereft 

 animadverfion ; and fo acute was that feeling which he was 

 known to poffefs of the refpect that was due to the Bench, that 

 there were but few occasions when it became necefiary for him 

 to exprefs it. 



There were indeed other occafions, on which his feelings 

 were moft keenly awakened, and on which he gave vent to a 

 becoming fpirit of indignation. He treated with the greatefl 

 feverity every inflance, either of malverfation in the officers 

 of the law, or of chicanery in the inferior practitioners of the 

 Court. No calumnious or iniquitous profecution, no attempt 

 to pervert the forms of law to the purpofes of oppreffion, ever 

 eluded his penetration, or efcaped his juft refentment. 



Thus, perpetually watchful, and earneftly folicitous to main- 

 tain both the dignity and the rectitude of that Supreme Tribunal 



over' 



