MAITRE LA_BORI.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Stn,—In your editorial note to Mr. McLaren's letter under the above heading (Spectator, June 15th) you speak of the principle as to the duty of an advocate to his client laid down in a quoted speech of Lord Brougham's as "when put with due caution and restraint, undoubtedly the true one." • I was present at the dinner given to M. Berryer in the Middle Temple Hall and heard Lord Brougham make the speech in question, and I also heard Sir Alexander Cockburn, who followed him. I am not able to refer to any report of the exact words used by the latter; but I shall never forget the emphatic tone in which he defined, in that most musical voice of his, such "caution and restraint" as you suggest. "The advocate," he said, "should ever bear in mind that his weapon should be the sword of the warrior and not the dagger of the assassin; and, while promoting the interests of his client, should always know how to reconcile those interests with the eternal interests of truth and justice."—I am, Sir, &c.,
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