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He added, that his friend was a dealer in linen, but he had neither shop nor warehouse.
John May, a police officer, stated, that he took the defendant into custody by the direction of Mr. Astley, who said he had been riotous, but he let him go, as he knew him. The plaintiff was a clothes-dealer who furnished the dresses for the Royal Circus.
Mr. Garrow, for the defendant, in a speech of much humour, ridiculed the action as the most trumpery that was ever exhibited. His friend, the Serjeant, and the Jew witness, would fain have represented the plaintiff as a respectable linen merchant. But how did that turn out?—he had neither shop nor warehouse, and every man who had two shirts in partnership with his washer-woman, each having one at a time; might be fairly called as much a dealer in linen! It was more clear that he was a Jew, having due regard
