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embarkation for Ireland.
I hope you will write me about all the matters mentioned in my last despatch to you, at length, and in your most closely-written hand. . Would that I could imitate you. Good-by.
As ever, affectionately yours,
To Judge Story.
Liverpool, Aug. 18, 1838.
My dear Judge,—. . . 1 From Chester I passed to the great Northern Circuit at Liverpool, with various letters of introduction to the judges.
The first day I was in Liverpool, I dined with the city corporation at a truly aldermanic feast in honor of the judges; the second, with the judges, to meet the bar; the third, with the Mayor at his country seat; the fourth, with the bar; the fifth, with Mr. Cresswell (the leader and old reporter), Sir Gregory Lewin, Watson2 (author of a book on Arbitration), the sheriffs, &c., Rushton3 (Corporation Commissioner), Wortley, &c., at a private dinner; and to-day, in a few minutes, I dine with Roebuck,4 who has just entered upon the Northern Circuit.
At the Judges' dinner, Baron Alderson alluded to me, and gave the health of the President of the United States.
I made some remarks, which were well received.
Mr. Ingham, an M. P. who was present, I observed, was quite attentive, and seemed pleased.
At the bar dinner, Adolphus,5 the reporter, proposed my health, which drew me out in a speech of considerable length,—the longest I have yet made.
I should not fail to say that your health was proposed and drunk, and that you are known very well.
I have a thousand things to say to you about the law, circuit life, and the English judges.
I have seen more of all than probably ever fell to the lot of a foreigner.
I have the friendship and confidence of judges, and of the leaders of the bar. Not a day passes without my being five or six hours in company with men of this stamp.
And can you say that this will do me no good,—that I shall be spoiled? My tour is no vulgar holiday affair, merely to spend money and to 