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DEATH S DOINGS.

But what, it may be asked, has Death to do withthe lawyer, any more than with the member of anyother profession ? It comes to him as it comes toall.

It may be so; but there are not wanting in-stances where the finer network of the brain,and a higher-wrought sensibility of the nerves,have given way to the entanglements and multi-plied intricacies of law; till Reason, tottering. on its throne, has been at last extinguished byDeath.

But though this observation may not be univer-sally applicable, yet we believe it would be diffi-cult to find a character to whom the approach ofthe King of Terrors would frequently be more ill-timed ; for, under the circumstances of profes-sional engagements, every thing that should bedone for every body, may be left, in chaotic con-fusion, to be handled by the unskilful, or scat-tered into fragments to furnish matter for fresh li-tigation.

Peter Plaintiff.