This he failed to do, and the Duke commenced an action against him.
The case was tried in June, 1824, in the Court of Common Pleas.

It was ludicrous to hear the extravagant terms in which the counsel for the plaintiff and his witnesses described the nuisance--the noise made by the engine in the underground cellar, some times like thunder, at other times like a thrashing-machine, and then again like the rumbling of carts and waggons.

The printer had retained the Attorney-general, Mr.
Copley, afterwards Lord Lyndhurst, who conducted his case with surpassing ability.

The cross-examination of a foreign artist, employed by the Duke to repaint some portraits of the Cornaro family by Titian, is said to have been one of the finest things on record.

The sly and pungent humour, and the banter with which the counsel derided and laughed down this witness, were inimitable.