Sam went down accordingly, after doing Messrs.

Dodson & Fogg's case as much harm as he conveniently could, and saying just as little respecting Mr.Pickwick as might be, which was precisely the object he had had in view all along.
'I have no objection to admit, my Lord,' said Serjeant Snubbin, 'if it will save the examination of another witness, that Mr.Pickwick has retired from business, and is a gentleman of considerable independent property.' 'Very well,' said Serjeant Buzfuz, putting in the two letters to be read, 'then that's my case, my Lord.' Serjeant Snubbin then addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant; and a very long and a very emphatic address he delivered, in which he bestowed the highest possible eulogiums on the conduct and character of Mr.Pickwick; but inasmuch as our readers are far better able to form a correct estimate of that gentleman's merits and deserts, than Serjeant Snubbin could possibly be, we do not feel called upon to enter at any length into the learned gentleman's observations.

He attempted to show that the letters which had been exhibited, merely related to Mr.
Pickwick's dinner, or to the preparations for receiving him in his apartments on his return from some country excursion.

It is sufficient to add in general terms, that he did the best he could for Mr.Pickwick; and the best, as everybody knows, on the infallible authority of the old adage, could do no more.
Mr.Justice Stareleigh summed up, in the old-established and most approved form.

He read as much of his notes to the jury as he could decipher on so short a notice, and made running-comments on the evidence as he went along.