Note * — Chapter XVI · OF THE NUMBER OF ATTORNIES IN THIS COUNTIE NOW AND HERETOFORE.

[There are now upwards of three thousand attorneys in practice in the metropolis alone, to whom the celebrated remark of Alderman Beckford to King George the Third may be justly applied, with the substitution of another word for “the Crown”,—“the influence of lawyers has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.”—J. B.]