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 he is employed to hunt after evidence, instead of investigating the truth by dexterity and insinuation, and winding it out from unwilling witnesses, he talks to them as if he were at 'a hey for the boatswain's whistle'." "With all his thickness, I suppose," said our hero, "from his jolly corporation and clothes, he has got into the secret of making long bills." "Oh, that he has, he charges as highly as the first attorney in Bristol." "That is very unfair," said one of the ladies, "for a man, without ability and skill, to rate his services as highly as a master of his profession." "Not intentionally unfair in him, Madam," said Manchester, "Blunderbuss is a blockhead, but Blunderbuss does not know himself to be a blockhead." "How does such a fellow get business." "He is the only lawyer in the place, courts the 'squire and all his retinue,