20 APRIL 1833, Page 15
"ROBBERIES IN THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S COURT." A para- graph under
this head is going the rounds of the press. We ex- pected to read of the law's delay, of the iniquity of lawyers, the enormity of fees, and the expensiveness of Chancery. It turns out, however, to be only one or two cases of vulgar direct pocket-pick- ing. The persons have lost a watch, or a purse with a few so- vereigns, and make a great noise about it: they were probably suitors, whose whole substance was oozing out of their pores, and yet said nothing about that. How much there is in method ! Robbery, like the smallpox, is dreadful if taken in the natural way : art smooths every thing.