Fancy the hurry-scurry, the unforensic attitudes and pleadings! Royal Cudgel rains blows, right and left: blood is drawn, crowns cracked, crowns nearly broken; and "several Judges lost a few teeth, and had their noses battered," before they could get out.

The second relay meeting them in this dilapidated state, on the staircases, dashed home again without the honor of a Royal interview.

[Benekendorf, vii.

33; Forster, ii.

270.] Let them learn to keep one balance, and one set of weights, in their Law-Court hence forth .-- This is an actual scene, of date Berlin, 1731, or thereby; unusual in the annals of Themis.