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went away from the place, leaving the fact of De la Pivardiere's existence enveloped in greater mystery than ever. Some time afterward, the accused parties were put upon their trial for the supposed murder, and an order was issued for the ar rest of the individual who was said to be De la Pivardiere, wherever he. might be found. He did not, however, require to be searched for, but voluntarily came forward, and ap pearing before the procureur at Remorentin, declared that he was De la Pivardiere, and avowed his double marriage. What follows is indeed singular. Instead of being ar rested and tried for bigamy, he made a formal demand that his identity should first be established by legal proof in a civil process. We will not weary the reader with a re cital of the various trials which were found necessary before the final settlement of this perplexing question. It was not, however,

until the 14th of June, 1701, that this extra ordinary case came to an end, and De la Pivardiere was legally himself again. A judgment was finally entered in his favor, and a decree made, acquitting all those placed under arrest, and condemning Mar guerite Mercier (her fellow-servant Le Moine had died during the proceedings) to make the public amende honorable, and to be pub licly whipped and branded with a fleur-delis on the right shoulder, and thereafter to be banished. Through the exertions and intercessions of the noble woman he had so foully wronged, De la Pivardiere was saved from a prosecu tion for bigamy; and after revisiting Auxerre to bid a final farewell to her whom he had devotedly loved, he obtained through his relative, the Due de la Feuillade, a semimilitary employment, in which- he was killed while leading his brigade against a large band of contrebandiers.

THE EARLY DAYS OF ADVOCACY. "T TNDER the law of nature and Moses cordance with common usage we have given there were no lawyers" (avocats), the latter sense to D'Argis's " avocat," are says Boucher d'Argis in his short history two very different people, and legal knowl of the Order, or, as he goes on to explain, edge may be said, even now, to be more an "no class of persons professionally appointed accident than the foundation of an advocate's to defend the interests of others." Under training. It belongs to him as a smattering the Mosaic dispensation men pleaded their of all knowledge belongs to him, — as matter own cause in primitive fashion before the for the exercise of his powers of talk. All tribunals; and such, for many ages, was the- that Cato required of the advocate was that he should be " a good man skilled in talk simple rule of advocacy. It may not be without some interest to ing;" and, the element of goodness more or trace, as briefly as may be, something of less modified by circumstances, such the eminent nisi-prius barrister very much re the rise and history of the professional ad vocate, evolving him, as we shall, chiefly mains. In Athens and at Rome, until some from the interesting and scholar-like pages period difficult to fix, advocacy and law were of Mr. Forsyth's " Hortensius," a book in things apart. Athens, indeed, had no law which much quaint and various learning yers properly so-called, unless we seek them on matters connected with the history of in the " logographers," who wrote and com posed the speeches that were to be delivered the bar is pleasantly collected. in court by others; and at Rome, the juris An advocate and a lawyer, though in ac