Read a letter from his M requesting the advice of the Lords of the Sanctum Sanctorum relative to the reception of Admiral Keppel on his firft appearance in the drawing room; fitly difcriminating between his coming alone, and with a retinue of vete

rans.

The secretary and gentleman usher ordered to withdraw, the Lords thinking that a matter of fuch magnitude cannot be debated too fecretly.

After an hour's confultation-Adjourned. Vera Copia. C. J.

On

On the infide of the cover, containing the foregoing letter from Earl Twitcher to Earl Jefferies, the confequential order, and the minutes, &c. were written in Lord Churllow's hand-writing.

Letter from Earl Twitcher, and order of Sup. Div. received 20th Feb. 1779. Sir T. M.bearer. Waited immediately upon Lord Twitcher to adjust neceffary measures.-Received confiderable affiftance from his Lordship in the adjustment.-Surprized at finding him fo knowing.-Much to be lamented by the inhabitants of Newgate, that his Lordfhip was not bred an Old Bailey folicitor. Riddle was a mere nincompoop to him.

28th Feb. dined at Admlty in company with D. r. y; D. g. y; P; R; G; and W; -secured them all upon much easier terms than we had reafon to expect, and fettled every thing to our fatisfaction.

Ma Foi, but they are all fix charming fellows, and fit for any fervice, even the most desperate : I do not wonder that they are favourites with Twitcher.

8th April 1779, received orders from the Sanctum Sanctorum to prepare a sentence for the C...t M....1, and to fend it to

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morrow without fail to D. r. y; the Adm... 1 setting off for Portsmouth early the morning following.

9th April 1779, Sir T. M. called for the fentence; Earl of Jefferies wishing to perufe it before it is delivered to Ad.. 1 D. r. y for the future ufe of the Court.

CHURLLOW.

EDITOR's EXHIBITION.

For the benefit of thofe of my Readers who live out of the world, and may wish to be better acquainted with the group of gaping Tritons, whom Lord Churllow in his Notes has made fuch honourable mention of, it will not be amifs or unfeasonable to expose to public view their fix fhades taken warm from

nature.

D. r. y.

Is a man of little reading or obfervation, of still less profeffional experience, and no more fit for the chair of justice he has lately filled, than he was to be Chief Justice of the King's Bench. It is however fome little apology for him, that he was drawn into it by a couple of lords, whofe fubtlety and power he was too weak to difcern, too timid to refift till lately he was modeftly fenfible of his incapability, and concealed himself

from

from notice and ridicule in prudent folitude and becoming inactivity. He was deemed an excellent tool, and deluded into bufinefs. Poor man! now that he has advanced too far to recede, he finds himself plunged in a fea of trouble. His greatest enemies however confefs, that he has been at fea once or twice before.

D. g. y.

was the eleventh that went into action, and the firft out of it. He is one of the few whofe conduct must have undergone a fcrutiny, had Sir H. Splice been condemned. He diftinguished himself very much in the trial, by questions which tended to embarrass the witneffes, and lead them to bring out facts in their cross examination that might contradict their first evidence. He has travelled through life with tolerable fuccefs, but owes it lefs to his merit, than to a happy and pliant arrangement of fmiles and fimpers, joined with a fober mien of gravity, which impofes on the world an idea of wisdom, whilft the moft ftudied courtesy imparts the femblance of friendship. He is almost an exception to the fcriptural doctrine, that one cannot ferve God and Mammon.

P. Is

P.

Is to a proverb illiterate, ignorant, ill-bred, and ridiculous; unfkilled in his profeffion, and in his life.

R.

Is neither a feaman nor a foldier; but he is a very judicious haberdasher of small wares, and keeps the best chandler's fhop of any dirty-fingered officer that ever difgraced the fervice. He too ftood or fell with the man he fat in judgment upon.

G.

Is as mere an old woman as Mrs. Oldfot, the venerable grandmother of the city; and like her is only fit to be a matron of Greenwich Hospital.

W.

Is nephew and heir apparent to Sir H. for which very reafon it has been contended that he was the likeliest man in the world to find him guilty. Granted; had the prifoner's poffeffions been intailed upon the judge; but fortunately for the Vice, they are the fruits of his own fervility, and he can bequeath them to his nephew or to his bye-blow, or I

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