will undertake your cause on this condition; you shall enter into an obligation to pay me one thousand guineas, if I gain the estate for you: if I lose it, I know the consequences; and I venture with my eyes open. Accordingly, he entered an action against the younger brother, which was to be tried at the next general assizes at Chelmsford, in Essex.

The lawyer having engaged in the cause of the young man, and, stimulated by the prospect of a thousand guineas, set his wits to work, to contrive the best method to gain his end. At last, he hit upon this happy thought, that he would consult the first judge of his age, Lord Chief Justice Hale. Accordingly, he hastened up to London, and laid open the cause, and all its circumstances. The judge, who was great lover of justice, heard the case attentively, and promised him all the assistance in his power. The lawyer having taken leave, the judge arranged his business, so as to be at Chelmsford before the assizes began.

When arrived within a short distance of the place, he dismissed his attendants, and entered a lonely house. He found it occupied by a miller. After some conversation, he proposed to the miller to change clothes with him. As the judge had a very good suit on, he readily assented. Accordingly, the judge clothed himself from top to toe with the miller's best. Thus prepared, away he marched to Chelmsford, and procured good lodgings. The next day, when the trials came on, he walked, like an ignorant country fellow, backwards and forwards along the county hall. He had a thousand eyes within him; and when the court began to fill, he found out the poor fellow who was the plaintiff. As soon as he came into the hall, the miller drew up to him: "Honest friend," said he, "how is your cause like to go to-day ?" "Why,” replied the plaintiff, "my cause is in a very precarious situation, and if I lose it, I am ruined for life."

“Well, honest friend," said the miller, "will you take my advice? I will let you into a secret, which perhaps you do not know; every Englishman has the right and privilege to except against any one juryman through the whole twelve. Now do you insist upon your privilege, without giving the reason why; and if possible, get me chosen in his room; and I will do you all the service in my power.

Accordingly, when the clerk had called over the names of the jurymen, the plaintiff excepted to one of them. The judge on the bench was highly offended with this liberty. What do you mean," said he, "by excepting against that gentleman ?" "I mean, my lord, to assert my privilege as an Englishman, without giving a reason why."

The judge, who had been highly bribed, in order to conceal it by a show of candor, and having a confidence in the superiority of his party, said, "Well, sir, as you claim your privilege in one instance, I will grant it. Whom would you wish to have in the room of that man excepted ?" After a short time taken in consideration, "Sir," says he, "I wish to have an honest man chosen in ;" and looking round the court, he said, "There is that miller in the court, we will have him, if you please." Accordingly, the miller was chosen in. As soon as the clerk of the court had given them all their oaths, a dexterous little fellow came into the apartment, and slipped ten guineas into the hands of eleven jurymen, and gave the miller but five. He observed that they were all bribed as well as himself, and said to his next neighbor, in a soft whisper, "how many have you got ?" "Ten pieces," said he. But he concealed what he had got himself.

The cause was opened by the plaintiff's counsel, and the scraps of evidence they could pick up were adduced in his favor. The younger brother was provided with a great number of witnesses and pleaders, all plentifully bribed as well as the judge. The evidence deposed, that they were in the self same country, when the brother died, and saw him buried. The counsellors pleaded upon this accumulated evidence, and every thing went with a full tide in favour of the younger brother. The judge summed up the evidence with great gravity and deliberation— And now gentlemen of the jury," said he, "lay your heads together, and bring in your verdict, as you shall deem most just."

They waited but a few minutes, before they determined in favor of the younger brother. The judge said, "gentlemen, are you agreed, and who shall speak for "We are all agreed, may it please your honor," replied one, "our foreman shall speak for us. "Hold," replied the miller, "we are not all agreed." "Why?"

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said the judge, in a very surly manner, "what's the matter with you? what reasons have you for disagreeing ?" "I have several reasons," said the miller: "The first is, they have given to all those gentlemen of the jury ten broad pieces of gold, and to me but five; which, you know, is not fair. Besides, I have many objections to make to the false reasonings of the pleaders, and the contradictory evidence of the witnesses." Upon this, the miller began a discourse, which discovered such vast penetration of judgment, such extensive knowledge of the law, and was expressed with such energetic and.manly eloquence, that astonished the judge and the whole court. As he was going on with his powerful demonstrations, the judge, in a surprise of soul, stopped him.

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"Where did you come from, and who are you?" "I came from Westminster Hall," replied the miller; "my name is Matthew Hale. I am lord Chief Justice of the king's bench. I have observed the iniquity of your proceedings this day; therefore come down from a seat which you are no ways worthy to hold. You are one of the corrupt parties in this iniquitous business. I will come. up this moment and try the cause all over again." cordingly, Sir Matthew went up, with his miller's hat and dress on, began the trial from the very commencement, and searched every circumstance of truth and falsehood. He proved the elder brother's title to the estate, from the contradictory evidence of the witnesses, and the false reasonings of the pleaders; unravelled all the sophistry to the very bottom, and gained a complete victory in favor of truth and justice.

MAGNANIMOUS CONDUCT.

Ar the time the Russian troops were in Holstein, says Capt. Bruce, General Baur, who commanded the cavalry, and was himself a soldier of fortune, his family or country being a secret to every body, took an opportunity to discover himself, which surprised and pleased those who were about him. Being encamped near Husum, in Holstein, he invited all his field officers, and some others to dine with him, and sent his adjutant to bring a miller and

his wife, who lived in the neighborhood, to the entertainment.

The poor couple came, very much afraid of the muscovite general, and were quite confused when they appeared before him; which, perceiving, he bade them make themselves quite easy; for he only meant to show them kindness, and had sent for them to dine with him that day. He talked with them familiarly about the country, and dinner being set, he placed the miller and his wife next to himself, one on each hand, at the head of the table, and paid great attention to them, inviting them to make free and eat hearty.

In the course of the entertainment, he asked the miller a great many questions about his family and his relations. The miller told him that he was the eldest son of his father, who had also been a miller, at the same mill he then possessed; that he had two brothers, tradesmen, and one sister, married to a tradesman; that his own family consisted of one son and three daughters. The general asked him if he never had any other brother than those he had mentioned; he replied, he had once another; but he was dead many years ago, for they had never heard of him since he enlisted, and went away with the soldiers, when he was very young, and he must certainly have been killed in the wars.

The general observing the company much surprised at his behavior to those people, thinking he did it by way of diversion, said to them, "Gentlemen, you have always been very anxious to know who and whence I am; I now inform you, this is the place of my nativity, and you have now heard, from this, my eldest brother, what my family is." And then turning towards the miller and his wife, he embraced them very affectionately, telling them, he was their supposed dead brother, and, to confirm it, he related every thing that had happened in the family before he left it. General Baur then made a generous provision for all his relations, and sent to Berlin, for his education, the miller's only son, who turned out an accomplished young man.

TRUE HONESTY.

In a little town, five miles from St. Petersburgh, lived a poor German woman. A small cottage was her only possession, and the visits of a few shipmasters, on their way to Petersburgh, her only livelihood. Several Dutch shipmasters having supped at her house one evening, she found, when they were gone, a sealed bag of money under the table. Some one of the company, had, no doubt, forgotten it; but they had sailed over to Cronstadt, and the wind being fair, there was no chance of their putting back.` The good woman put the bag into her cupboard, to keep it till it should be called for. Full seven years, however, elapsed, and no one claimed it; and though often tempted by opportunity, and oftener by want, to make use of the contents, the poor woman's good principles prevailed, and it remained untouched.

One evening, some shipmasters again stopped at her house for refreshment. Three of them were English, the fourth a Dutchman. Conversing on various matters, one of them asked the Dutchman if he had ever been in that town before. 66 Indeed, I have," replied he, "I know the place but too well; my being here cost me once seven hundred rubles." "How so ?" "Why, in one of these wretched hovels, I once left behind me a bag of rubles." "Was the bag sealed ?" asked the old woman, who was sitting in a corner of the room, and whose attention was roused by the subject."Yes, yes, it was sealed, and with this very seal, here at my watch chain." The woman knew the seal instantly. "Well, then," said she, "by that you may recover what you have lost." cover it, mother! No, no, I am rather too old to expect that: the world is not quite so honest-besides it is full seven years since I lost the money;-say no more about it, it always makes me melancholy."

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Meanwhile, the good woman slipped out, and presently returned with the bag. "See here," said she, honesty is not so rare, perhaps, as you imagine;" and she threw the bag on the table.

The guests were astonished, and the owner of the bag, as may be supposed, was highly delighted. He seized the bag, tore open the seal, took out one ruble, (worth 4s. 6d.