The foregoing intimation caused some temporary abatement _of whiskered dalliance_; and the softer passions gave way to the spirit of revenge: the first fruits of which was a detainer for twenty-three pounds debt, lodged against him on the eve of his enlargement, after two year’s imprisonment, of which he had received a week’s notice:—the attorney who issued out the writ was applied to, and requested to give it to a Sheriff’s officer, to whom a sufficient bail-bond should be given, although the defendant denied owing the money. Such of my readers as are acquainted with the rules of practice will conclude with me, that the ends of justice, and the completion of an attorney’s duty would have been answered by this means; or, at least, any attorney who had not been _nursed by a Siberian Tartar_, would have thought himself justified by acceding to the proposition; but it was made to a wretch, “whose parent was a rock, And fierce Hercanean tigers gave him birth.” However, I see by the roll of attorneys, that the gentleman in question stands alone; and that Providence seems satisfied with the mischief done, by placing him there _solo_!—In my anxiety to procure food for my next number of legalized cormorancy, I made some inquiry respecting the general practice of this virtuous one, _et cetera_:—the answer I received from one professional gentleman was as satisfactory as laconic: “Did you ever see him?” I replied in the negative:—then, said he, “his heart is as ugly as his face; _and that is as ugly as Kit Chrishop’s_!” Cook’s brother, a poor hard-working man, happened to have about forty pounds in his possession, a sum devoted to pay for some timber, to carry on his business as a bedstead-maker; and who, under the agonizing affliction of a brother in such a predicament, in order to facilitate his enlargement, deposited the amount of the debt, and ten pounds costs, in the Sheriff’s office, until the return of the writ, when it was intended to justify bail, and try the cause. I will now account for Cook’s being defeated in a remedy provided even by an Act of Parliament.