clients. He is eminent as a Lawyer, having distinguished himself on several occasions, not forgetting the great case of King v. Lord Rivers, in which he addressed the Court at Serjeant's Inn for, I believe, two successive days. But independent of his attainments in this respect, he is by no means a bad public speaker, I mean in addresses to the Jury. I have had an opportunity of listening to him with pleasure several times on the Western Circuit, and if I am not much mistaken, a very considerable share of the business therc will fall to his lot in consequence of his recent appointment. He by no means wants fluency, but he is rather deficient in impressiveness: he is uncommonly quick without much of the appearance of it, for he has rather a slow, or (to use an expressive though somewhat vulgar word) a drawling tone of voice, and a manner not altogether inconsistent with it: his countenance also has too little variety: we often see the faces of men express a great deal more and better than they think, but the contrary is the case with Mr. CASBERD. He is a Member of Parliament, but I do not re

collect ever hearing him speak there, or seeing his name in the newspapers excepting in lists of majorities. To this circumstance, perhaps, (for I speak hesitatingly,) may be attributed the peculiar advantage he has within a short time obtained over his competitors.

It remains for me to notice Mr. WARREN and Mr. HARRISON, two King's Counsel, who have sat for some years before the Bar, but whose names and merits are comparatively little known to the public: yet their time has been by no means unprofitably, though rather unostensibly, employed, for they have enjoyed a great share of business before Committees of the House of Commons. This is a branch of the profession to which I have not yet had an opportunity of adverting, and it is not by any means the least lucrative or honourable: Counsel who are employed by Candidates, in cases of contested elections, are always most liberally feed; and where the conflict is protracted, small fortunes are made out of the pockets of those who have large fortunes to spend. In the same way, when

private Bills are brought into Parliament for enclosures or turnpike-roads (which, by the bye, are not unfrequently jobs between the Attornies and Surveyors of the Parish), one party promotes and another opposes the project, and the merits are in consequence referred to a select number of Members of Parliament: Counsel are employed to discuss the matter before them, and to conduct the examinations of the various witnesses, and many hundred pounds are frequently disbursed about a piece of waste land, the fee simple of which is not worth one-tenth part of the sum expended on its enclosure.

To matters like these the attention of Messrs. WARREN and HARRISON has been principally devoted: the former of these gentlemen has never laid himself out for common law business; and though the latter, at one period of his life, would willingly have obtained it, he has more recently been quite as profitably and probably less laboriously occupied in his official capacity, in perusing and settling the various Bills brought into Parlia

ment by Ministers, independent of those which he has been employed to consider for private parties. He has besides generally obtained his share of business before Committees; and if Mr. WARREN appeared on the one side, Mr. HARRISON generally led on the other. The qualifications necessary for such a situation are pretty much those required by a Nisi Prius Advocate, excepting that a knowledge of the practice of Parliament and its Committees is to be substitufed for an acquaintance with the rules of evidence and such technical points of law as ordinarily arise in our Courts. Mr. WARREN has obtained a considerable and a deserved reputation for his learning on the law of elections, a peculiar and in some respects an intricate branch of knowledge, and for the readiness in difficulties, as well as the general acuteness he displays when the exercise of his talent is required. Sometimes however he is charged with being a little slovenly in the manner in which he conducts business of this kind, but I must admit at the same time that it is where peculiar industry and address were not required. He is a very

fluent and a perspicuous speaker, and by no means deficient in impressiveness, the power of exciting and securing attention. The want of this faculty is Mr. HARRISON's principal defect: no man can exceed him in volubility; he perhaps utters more words in a given time than any other man at the Bar, and to the purpose, for he seldom travels out of his case; but he is the least or one of the least effective speakers in the profession. Mr. Adolphus is perhaps next to him in rapidity, but far before him in emphasis and expression: Mr. HARRISON'S mode of speaking is one continued, almost unintelligible rattle, that wearies the ear instead of attracting it. In examining a witness however he often shews great shrewdness and skill, though it not uncommonly happens that he is obliged to put the question twice over, because an unpractised witness cannot follow the velocity of his delivery. Both these gentlemen probably reaped a golden harvest in the last Session, in consequence of the number of petitions presented against the return of sitting Members.-Private Bills have been much less numerous for