text: " Scott told him that he must lose by it about L2000 a-year; and on the king expressing surprise he said "That the attention of the law-officers was called to matters of international law public law and revenue law--matters which as they were not familiar to them took up a good deal of their time and that the fee usually given to the solicitor-general with the government cases was only three guineas while those from private cases were from ten to twenty-five