Wit  Inn  tuenty  minutes  nt  hii  entering  the  Houm:  uf  Commoas
a!ter  Kin^  declared  duly  elected,  I  heard  him  take  part  in  a
debate,  and  otlcr  himself  to  Lord  John  Kusscll.  But  Lord  John^


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when  the  opportunity  came  to  himi  would  not  tmyi  and  James
remained  a  pqpolar  member— until  Lord  Yarborough  gave  him
the  choice  <rf  leaving  En^and  or  being  indicted  here.  He  went
to  New  Torfc,  where  the  enemies  of  the  Republic  said  the  bar
had  fewer  scruples  as  to  its  associates.  Edwin  James  found  to
the  contrary.  After  many  years  banishment  he  returned  to
England.  Re-admission  at  the  bar  being  impossiUei  he  began
a  new  legal  career,  and  kept  terms  in  a  solicitor's  office,  to  come
up  for  examination  as  a  new  candidate.  I  often  met  him  walk-
ing to  the  dty  at  an  early  hour,  pale,  sedate,  unostentatious—
his  ruddiness,  grossness,  and  pomposity  gone  out  off  him.  I  felt
req>ect  for  his  courage  and  perseverance.  Death  intervened,
aad  he  came  to  his  end  without  attaining  his  purpose.
CHAPTER   LXIII.
THE  STORY  OF  CARLO  DE  RVDiO.
