"Legality is the boast of English law, and I should dislike excessively to fail in that great essential.

The legality of the species of warrant under which Wilkes had been arrested was, however, a question of far greater importance; and on that no formal decision was pronounced on this occasion, the Lieutenant of the Tower, in his return to the writ of habeas corpus, and the counsel employed on both sides, equally avoiding all mention of the character of the warrant.

Mr. Legality is a cheat, and his son, Mr. Civility, is a hypocrite.