MAITRE LABOR!.
Fro THE EDITOR OF TIIE " SPECTATOR.")
Sin,—Your excellent article on the reception .accorded to Maitre Labori recalls the words of Lord Brougham, which I will quote :—
" An advocate by the sacred duty which he owes his client knows in the discharge of that office but one person :in the world, that client and none other. To save that client by all expedient means, to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself, is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which he may bring upon any other. Nay, separating even the duties of a patriot from those of an advocate, and casting them, if need be, to the wind, he must go on reckless of the consequences if his fate m'hould unhappily be to involve his country in confusion for his client's protection."
The allusion to Brougham as a comparison in the article renders these words more interesting. They show the kind of commantary he would have passed on the work of the
[Lord Brougham, as usual, overstated and overemphasised the principle he desired to lay down, but when put with due caution and restraint it is undoubtedly the true one.—En. Spectator.]
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