e an expert Practitioner, for the
last Word in the Debate. When the Partition-Treaty-Gentleman had
finish'd what he had to say,--He got up,--and, advancing towards the
Table, told them, That the Error they had all gone upon thus far, in
making out the several Facts in the Romance,--was in looking too high;
which, with great Candor, he said, was a very natural Thing, and very
excusable withall, in such a Political Club as theirs: For Instance,
continues he, you have been searching the Registers, and looking into
the Deeds of Kings and Emperors,--as if Nobody had any Deeds to shew or
compare the Romance to but themselves.--This, continued the Attorney, is
just as much out of the Way of good Practice, as if I should carry a
Thing slap-dash into the House of Lords, which was under forty
Shillings, and might be decided in the next County-Court for six
Shillings and Eight-pence.--He then took the Romance in his Left Hand,
and pointing with the Fore-Finger of his Right towards the second Page,
he humbly begg'd Leave to observe, (and, to do him Justice, he did it in
somewhat of a forensic Air) That the Parson, John, and Sexton, shewed
incontestably the Thing to be Tripartite; now, if you will take Notice,
Gentlemen, says he, these several Persons, who are Parties to this
Instrument, are merely Ecclesiastical; that the Reading-Desk, Pulpit-
Cloth, and Velvet Cushion, are tripartite too; and are, by Intendment of
Law, Goods and Chattles merely of an Ecclesiastick Nature, belonging and
appertaining 'only unto them,' and to them only.--So that it appears
very plain to me, That the Romance, neither directly nor indirectly,
goes upon Temporal, but altogether upon Church-Matters.--And do not you
think, says he, softening his Voice a little, and addressing himself to
the Parson with a forced Smile,--Do not you think Doctor, says he, That
the Dispute in the Romance, between the Parson of the Parish and John,
about the Height of John's Desk, is a very fine Panegyrick upon the
Humility of Church-Men?--I think, says the Parson, it is much of the
same Fineness with that which your Profession is complimented with, in
the pimping, dirty, pettyfogging Character of Trim,--which, in my
Opinion, Sir, is just such another Panegyrick upon the Honestly of
Attornies.

Nothing whets the Spirits like an Insult:--Therefore the Parson went on
with a visible Superiority and an uncommon Acuteness.--As you are so
happy, Sir, continues he, in making Applicat