PREFERMENT.

AN auctioneer having turned publican, was soon after thrown into the

King's Bench; on which the following paragraph appeared in the Morning

Post: "Mr. A., who lately quitted the _pulpit_ for the _bar_, has been

promoted to the _bench_."

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