[14] P. 71.
[15] The following extract from a memoir of Lord Wynford, written evidently by a lawyer, manifests, in rather an amusing manner, the esprit de corps of the profession, and shows how the excitement of the contest between the advocates effaces the dull interest of what are called the merits of the case. Note how combative, how military, is the style:—"He (Lord Wynford) was a dangerous, because he was a most watchful and enterprising adversary. You could not any more sleep in his neighbourhood than could the Duke while Massena was near, though he might, in the neighbourhood of others, enjoy some repose. But if you never could be sure of his not making some venturous move himself, and were thus kept on the watch, so also you could not venture upon moves in the hope of his eyes being closed. It may almost safely be pronounced that he never failed to see or to profit by the slip of his adversary; to say that he never, seldom, made slips himself, would be very wide of the truth. In fact, he was not always a safe leader. Circumspect enough to see when his antagonist failed, he took a very narrow, or very one-sided, view of his own risks. Bold to rashness, hasty in his resolutions, quick in all his thoughts and all his movements, he was often in dangers wholly needless to be encountered; and though he would occasionally, by desperate courses, escape beyond all calculation from risks, both inevitable and of his own seeking, he could not be called a successful advocate."—Article on Lord Wynford, No. III., Law Review.
[16] Correspondence between Count Münster and the Baron von Stein, in vol. ii. of the Lebensbilder aus dem Befreiungskriege, Jena: 1841.
Letters of Baron Stein to Baron Gagern, in Von Gagern's Antheil an der Politik, vol. iv. Stuttgart and Tübingen: 1833.
[17] Besides the correspondence of Münster and Gagern, which refer only to the latter part of Stein's life, from 1811 to his death, we have only a notice in the Conversations Lexikon, and a short biographical sketch by Arndt, (the Baron's secretary,) appended to his Erinnerungen, (Leipsig, 1840,) to guide us in the early part of Stein's career. There are some notices in the body of Arndt's Reminiscences, in Varnhagen's Memoirs, and in some others, none of which, however, go further back than the year 1811.
[18] In Prag halten sich die stärksten Mächte und Autriche zum Hassen gegen Napoleon Zugammengehäuft.—Varnhagen von Ense, iii. 195, first edition.
[19] "Donnerschwangere Fulgurationer."—Hormayr, in the Lebensbilder, i. 63.
[20] Scharnhorst, Count Dohna, and President von Schoen, mentioned by Stein in a previous letter not translated.
[21] Essai sur les Fictions.