text:  But Lord Brougham would not surely speak or write in the same strain upon other and more ordinary occasions--if for instance the client for whom the country was to be involved in confusion was a railway company![15] Every man has something to be said for him in the way of defence or palliation; we have no objection to every man having his advocate in Westminster Hall; but we are persuaded that public opinion is far too indulgent to this "glorious and noble" profession when it permits its members speaking as from their own conviction to sport with truth to any extent that may be serviceable to their clients