draws up a bulletin of his kicks and bruises in the form of an affidavit, to found a motion that another writ do issue,' or as it might be more correctly worded,' that another process-server do expose himself to as sound a threshing as the last.''

HORNE TOOKE AND THE BAR.

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The prosecution of Horne Tooke for a libel, in 1777, when he conducted his own defence, appears to have given him a great predilection for the profession of the law. In the year 1779, he applied to be called to the bar by the Benchers of the Inner Temple; but an objection was made to his call, that he had received priest's orders. Upon this occasion three Benchers only, (Sir James Burrow, Baron Mazeres, and Mr. Wood) voted in his favour, while eight voted against him. peated the attempt in 1782, when he votes in his favour and eight against him. It was subsequently determined, by an aggregate meeting of delegates from the four Inns of Court, that a person in deacon's orders ought not to be called to the bar. It is laid down by Lord Mansfield, (Doug. 353,) that all the power of the Inns of Court concerning admission to the bar, is delegated to them from the Judges, and that in every instance the conduct of those societies is subject to the controul of the Judges as visitors. A man

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damus will not lie to compel the Masters of the Bench of an Inu of Court to call a candidate to the bar. From the first traces of the existence of the Inns of Court, no example can be found of the interposition of the Courts of Westminster Hall proceeding according to the general law of the land, but the judges have acted as a domestic forum. (See also 2 Br. Ch. Rep. 241, and 20 How. State Trials, 689.)

QUARRELS BETWEEN COKE AND BACON.

The hostility which existed between these two celebrated men appears to have had its origin in professional rivalry. The seniority of Coke, and his reputation as a lawyer, had raised him to honours of which Bacon was very ambitious, and which he imagined that Coke had prevented him from obtaining, by casting reflections upon his legal acquirements. It is probable also that Coke felt some jealousy at Bacon's great proficiency in other pursuits. The different tempers of the two men, and their very opposite political principles, must likewise have tended to keep open the breach between them. Bacon had endeavoured for some time to obtain the place of SolicitorGeneral, and attributed his ill-success to the interference of Sir Edward Coke: under this impression, he addressed the following letter to his adversary, at that time Attorney-General :

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"Mr. Attorney,

"I thought it best, once for all, to let you know in plainness what I find of you, and what you shall find of me, to take to yourself a liberty to disgrace and disable my law, my expe rience, my discretion: what it pleaseth you I pray think of me; I am one that knows both my own wants and other men's, and it may be perchance that while mine mend, others stand at a stay. And surely I may not endure in public place to be wronged, without repelling the same to my best advantage to right myself. You are great, and therefore have the more enviers, which would be glad to have you paid at another's cost. Since the time I missed the solicitor's place, (the rather, I think, by your means,) I cannot expect that you and I shall ever serve as attorney and solicitor together; but either to serve with another upon your remove, or to step into some other course : so as I am more free than ever I was from any occasion of unworthy conforming myself to you, more than general good manners, or your particular good usuage, shall provoke; and if you had not been short-sighted in your own fortune, as I think, you might have had more use of me. But that side is passed. I write not this to show my friends what a brave letter I have written to Mr. Attorney; I have none of those humours, but that I have written is to a good end; that is,