Brougham said that the estimate which his learned friend formed of the property was vastly exaggerated, but that it was no wonder that a person who found it so easy to get gold for his lead should appreciate that heavy metal so highly.

The other day Pollock laid down a point of law rather dogmatically.

"Mr.Pollock," said Brougham, "perhaps, before you rule the point, you will suffer his Lordship to submit a few observations on it to your consideration." I received the Edinburgh paper which you sent me.

Silly and spiteful as it is, there is a little truth in it.

In such cases I always remember those excellent lines of Boileau "Moi, qu'une humeur trop libre, un esprit peu soumis, De bonne heure a pourvo d'utiles ennemis, Je dois plus a leur haine (il faut que je l'avoue) Qu'au faible et vain talent dont la France me loue.
Sitot que sur un vice un pensent me confondre, C'est en me guerissant que je sais leur repondre." This place disagrees so much with me that I shall leave it as soon as the dispersion of the circuit commences,--that is, after the delivery of the last batch of briefs; always supposing, which may be supposed without much risk of mistake, that there are none for me.
Ever yours affectionately T.B.M.
It was about this period that the Cambridge Senate came to a resolution to petition against the Catholic Claims.