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A Poser By Lord Ellenborough
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DURING the Chief-Justiceship of the late Lord Ellenborough there was a
horse-cause, to which a certain Privy Councillor was a party, and who,
as of right, took his seat upon the bench at the hearing, and there
(while his adversary's counsel told his tale) ventured a whisper of
remark to the Chief Justice. If you again address me, Sir W----, I
shall give you in custody of the Marshal. It was a settler for him,
and, as it turned out, of his cause; for he lost it, and most justly
too.
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