Catalogue description ---- To the COUNTESS OF LINDSEY.

--I have told Mr. Lewis of your proposal that Sir Edward Northey should be your referee also, but he thinks it would not do, as you would have to open to him all the secrets of your case, and then, if the treaty broke off, (as he would certainly continue the counsel for the other side) he would be completely armed against you, and would fight you with your own weapons, " Mr. Lewis allows Sir Edward to be a man of undoubted probity, but it seemes to make use of what he comes to know in a treaty for the service of the client he sticks to afterwards, is no derogation to a lawyer's justice or to fair practice." This being the case, he thinks Mr. Reymond will be more proper than either Serjeant Pratt or Cheshire, " because they being sergeants and he [Sir Edward] none, he ought to go to either of their chambers, which he having been Attorny-General, he will be shye to do," and also because of the mutual friendship between Northey and Reymond.