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 ¬suitors who succeeded, and the unsuccessful were often undone, nay, sometimes all of them together, and the lawyers whom they em- ployed — of which I saw a most notable instance in the prison of the principal court, which I was carried as a curiosity to see. ¬In passing through the rooms of the prisoners, we observed four persons who were playing at cards together, when my conductor, who was still the same eminent advocate, desired me to stop and observe them — " That first," he said, (pointing to the man nearest us,) " is an honest baker with a large family, who brought a suit against his partner at the table, to recover about twenty pounds of your money for bread that he had sold him ; but for which the other, Avho is a carpenter, could not pay, having a large family also, and his taxes to government in arrear, for which his little effects had been sold. — The baker prevailed in his suit, but the pictures of the sovereign, and the expenses of the proceeding, beyond what he could charge to ¬m 4 his ¬