You rascal! for an hour have I been grubbing, Giving my crying whiskers here a scrubbing, With razors just like oyster-knives.

"Sirrah! I tell you, you're a knave, To cry up razors that can't shave."

"Friend," quoth the razor man,

knave: >

"I'm not a

As for the razors you have bought, Upon my soul, I never thought That they would shave."

"Not think they'd shave?" quoth Hodge, with wondering eyes,

And voice not much unlike an Indian yell; "What were they made for then, you dog?" he

cries.

"Made!" quoth the fellow, with a smile—" to sell.'

XLIX.

Freedom of the Ancient Israelites.-CROLY.

THE state of man in the most unfettered republics of the ancient world was slavery, compared with the magnanimous and secure establishment of the Jewish commonwealth. During the three hundred golden years from Moses to Samuel, before, for our sins, we were given over to the madness of innovation and the demand of an earthly diadem,-the Jew was free, in the loftiest sense of freedom; free to do all good; restricted only from evil; every man pursuing the unobstructed course pointed out

by his genius or his fortune; every man protected by laws inviolable, or whose violation was instantly visited with punishment, by the Eternal Sovereign alike of ruler and people.

Freedom! twin-sister of virtue, thou brightest of all the spirits that descended in the train of religion from the throne of God; thou, that leadest up man again to the early glories of his being; angel, from the circle of whose presence happiness spreads like the sun-light over the darkness of the land! at the waving of whose sceptre, knowledge, and peace, and fortitude, and wisdom, stoop upon the wing; at the voice of whose trumpet the more than grave is broken, and slavery gives up her dead; when shall see thy coming? When shall I hear thy summons upon the mountains of my country, and rejoice in the regeneration and glory of the sons

of Judah?

I have traversed nations; and as I set my foot upon their boundary, I have said, freedom is not here! I saw the naked hill, the morass steaming with death, the field covered with weedy fallow, the silky thicket encumbering the land;—I saw the still more infallible signs, the downcast visage, the form degraded at once by loathsome indolence and desperate poverty; the peasant cheerless and feeble in his field, the wolfish robber, the population of the cities crowded into huts and cells, with pestilence for their fellow;-I saw the contumely of man to man, the furious vindictiveness of popular rage; and I pronounced at the moment, this people is

not free.

In the republics of heathen antiquity, the helot, the client sold for the extortion of the patron, and the born bondsman lingering out

life in thankless toil, at once put to flight all conceptions of freedom. In the midst of altars fuming to liberty, of harangues glowing with the most pompous protestations of scorn for. servitude, of crowds inflated with the presumption that they disdained a master, the eye was insulted with the perpetual chain. The temple of liberty was built upon the dungeon.-Rome came, and unconsciously avenged the insulted name of freedom; the master and the slave were bowed together; the dungeon was made the common dwelling of all.

Defence of a Client on his Trial for a Libel on the Clergy of Durham.-BROUGHAM.

Ir is necessary for me to set before you the picture, my learned friend was pleased to draw of the clergy of the diocese of Durham, and I shall recall it to your minds almost in his own words. According to him, they stand in a peculiarly unfortunate situation; they are, in truth, the most injured of men.

They all, it seems, entertained the same generous sentiments with the rest of their countrymen, though they did not express them in the old, free English manner, by openly condemning the proceedings against the late queen; and after the course of unexampled injustice, against which she victoriously struggled, had been followed by the needless infliction of inhuman torture, to undermine a frame whose spirit no open hostility could daunt, and extinguish the life so long embittered by the same

foul arts after that great princess had ceased to harass her enemies after her glorious but unhappy life had closed, and that princely head was at last laid low by death, which, living, all oppression had only the more illustriously exalted-the venerable, the clergy of Durham, I am now told for the first time, though less forward in giving vent to their feelings than the rest of their fellow-citizens-though not so vehement in their indignation at the matchless and unmanly persecution of the queen—though not so unbridled in their joy at her immortal triumph, nor so loud in their lamentations over her mournful and untimely end—did, nevertheless, in reality, all the while, deeply sympathize with her sufferings, in the bottom of their re

verend hearts!

When all the resources of the most ingenious cruelty hurried her to a fate without parallelif not so clamorous, they did not feel the least of all the members of the community-their grief was in truth too deep for utterance-sorrow clung round their bosoms, weighed upon their tongues, stifled every sound-and, when all the rest of mankind, of all sects and of all nations, freely gave vent to the feelings of our common nature, their silence, the contrast which they displayed to the rest of their species, proceeded from the greater depth of their affliction; they said the less because they felt the more!

Oh! talk of hypocrisy after this!-Most comsummate of all hypocrites! After instructing your chosen official advocate to stand forward with such a defence-such an exposition of your motives-to dare utter the word hypocrisy, and complain of those who charged you with it'

this is indeed to insult common sense, and outrage the feelings of the whole human race! If you were hypocrites before, you were downright, frank, honest hypocrites to what you have now made yourselves-and surely for all you have ever done or ever been charged with, your worst enemies must be satiated with the humiliation of this day, its just atonement, and ample retribution!

LI.

Noble Burst of Judicial Eloquence.*—MANS

FIELD.

Ir is fit to take some notice of the various terrors hung out: the numerous crowds which have attended and now attend in and about the hall, out of all reach of hearing what passes in court; and the tumults which, in other places, have shamefully insulted all order and government. Audacious addresses in print dictate to us, from those they call the people, the judgment to be given now, and afterwards upon the conviction. Reasons of policy are urged, from danger to the kingdom, by commotions and general confusion.

Give me leave to take the opportunity of this great and respectable audience to let the whole world know, all such attempts are vain. Unless we have been able to find an error which will bear us out, to reverse the outlawry, it must be affirmed. The constitution does not

* Delivered by Lord Chief Justice Mansfield in the celebrated case of the King against John Wilkes.