One can hardly help bursting out upon the Old Doctor here and calling him a hypocritcal vagabond. This is a pretty fellow, indeed, to cry up the excellence of the Act of Habeas Corpus! a pretty fellow to discover, now that a Bishop is caught, such a tenderness for the "liberty of the subject!" A pretty fellow to discover that a Magistrate violates this liberty when he refuses to take bail or when he delays taking it. This old hack justified the delay in taking bail in the innumerable instances, in which such delay took place in the case of the Reformers. The old hack knows well, that, in scores of instances bail was delayed on the alleged ground of want of time to ascertain the sufficiency of the bail. We cannot help laughing, however, at the idea of the Magistrate having had the Bill of Rights in view, and that he therefore avoided demanding "excessive bail;" and, we must admire the hint of the old Doctors' Commons, that if the Soldier (the Bishop's partner) "should now tender bail, it must be accepted!" This is a good hint of the old Doctor’s Commons; and thus the law-officers would have nothing but names to try; the parties having given their friends what is called leg bail. The Doctor's conclusion, namely, that this bail work has arisen from institutions, "closely interwoven with our liberties," wanted a rounding, namely, "envy of surrounding nations and admiration of the world," which I am sorry to perceive is rather going out of fashion, not having been used but once, as far as I have perceived, during the last Session of Parliament, and only four times on the two last Circuits. It is a pity it should go out of use; for it has caused more laughter than any one thing within my recollection, not excepting the unanimity in the passing of your famous Bill about Bullion and Paper-money.