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en not labouring underany suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though theshining subject of much

ng tothe "parsimony of the public," which guilty public, it appeared,had been until lately bent in the most determined manner on

tored it to Conversation Kenge or toMr. Vholes, with one or other of whom I think it must haveorigi

edTo what it works in

ld knowwhat has been doing, and still is doing, in this connexion, Imention here that everything s

nty yearsago, in which from thirty to forty counsel have been known toappear at one time, in which costs have been incurred to the amountof seventy thousand pounds, which is A FRIENDLY SUIT, and which is(I am assured) no nearer to its termination now than when it wasbegun. There is another well-known suit in

her point on which I o

Cornelia de BaudiCesenate, was minutely investigated and described by GiuseppeBianchini, a prebendary of Verona, otherwise distinguished inletters, who published an account of it at Verona in 1731, which heafterwards republished at Rome. The appearances, beyond allrational doubt, observed in that case are the appearances observedin Mr. Krook's case. The next most famous instance happened atRheims six years earlier, and the historian in that case is Le Cat,one of the most renowned surgeons produced by France. The subjectwas a woman, whose husband was ignorantly convicted of havingmurdered her; but on solemn appeal

posely dwelt upon the roman