[2] For obvious reasons the declarant’s name is kept back from publication.

[3] It is but an act of “cold justice” to mention that Mr. Ebsworth, in addition to being an able lawyer, is a practical seaman who has passed through eight years’ experience, and holds a chief mate’s certificate from the Board of Trade.

Final Battle with the Lawyers.


“Law was design’d to keep a state in peace,

To punish robbery, that wrong might cease;

To be impregnable: a constant fort,

To which the weak and injured might resort,

But oft, perverted minds its force employ,