The accused were called upon for their defence; and Jemmy Green made the first essay; but, unfortunately for him, the fumes of the commingled gin and hot-spiced beef had not entirely evaporated--his brain seemed clogged with beefy vapour, notwithstanding the unctuous dews which distilled copiously from his forehead, and he found it impossible to make any defence at all. So he was ordered to find bail for his appearance at the Sessions, and he waddled out of the office under the superintendence of the turnkey. Launcelot then addressed himself to speak; and to the astonishment of all the witnesses, he smilingly denied--firstly, that he had ever been in the house at all; and secondly, that he ever in the whole course of his life carried an umbrella--_ergo_, he could neither have been there, nor could he have knocked the said Edmund down with an umbrella, as falsely alleged by Mary Mulready, the barmaid. He admitted having witnessed the affair from the court; and that, though prudence "bade him budge, he budged not"--like his prototype, honest _Gobbo_, he scorned running with his heels, and so he remained looking on, till he was seized by a watchman and conveyed to durance. In proof of this, he called a gentleman, his friend, who was present with him; and this gentleman said, "every word, what Mr. Launcelot Snodgrass speaks, is true as possible." But this worthy witness, unluckily for Launcelot, admitted that he himself was very drunk at the time, and also that he had an umbrella in his hand; and the magistrate--being of opinion that Launcelot might have _borrowed_ this umbrella for the purpose of knocking down the aforesaid Edmund Speering, believed all that the witnesses had said, and ordered Master Launcelot to find bail also. Whereupon he was handed over to the turnkey, who instantly locked him up with his friend Jemmy Green. JEMMY LENNAM AND THE JEW. Mr. Nathan Nathan, a slender, shapely, shewily-clad Israelite--"a tall fellow of his hands," but having only "a younger brother's having in that ancient Jewish indispensable--a beard;" thereby seeming to signify that he was, as yet, scarcely arrived at years of discretion, was brought up among a squad[30] of disorderly Christians from Covent-garden watch-house, and charged with having created a disturbance in Drury-lane theatre on the preceding night; and also with having assaulted Jemmy Lennam--time out of mind, Old Drury's little-wigg'd, big, old watchman.