RANK AND TALENT.

Printed by A. J. Valpy, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.

Why, Sir, 'tis neither satire nor moral, but the mere passage
of an history; yet there are a sort of discontented creatures,
that bear a stingless envy to great ones, and these will wrest
the doings of any man to their base malicious appliment.

MARSTON.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR HENRY COLBURN,

BY RICHARD BENTLEY,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1835.

RANK AND TALENT.

CHAPTER I.

"Law is the world's great light, a second sun
To this terrestrial globe, by which all things
Have life and being; and without which
Confusion and disorder soon would seize
The general state of men."

BARRY.

THE Summer assizes for the county of--, in the year 18. ., excited in the county-town where they were held rather more than the usual sensation; but in the remote and smaller town of Brigland, they roused a stirring interest. Long before the day of the trial, every vehicle which

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