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 ¬professors of the law : — As well indeed might a traveller in our York waggon complain of the driver for not overtaking the mail ; — hut it appeared, from all my inquiries, that it was much too easy, without proper securities, to institute complaints in this court — The Romans punished their criminals by throwing them over the Tarpeian rock, but the punishment was in the hands of the magistrates, whereas any man in Armata may throw his neighbour over this tower of Babel, which differs only from the Roman precipice in this, that the victim seldom reaches the bottom. ¬I shall conclude the subject by a curious spe- cimen of Armatan conveyancing, which I lite, rally was witness to myself, and to which indeed I was a party, before its mysteries were known to me. ¬As I was sitting at dinner with Morven and a large company, a coach suddenly drove up to the door, when the person it belonged to ¬m 2 coming ¬