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Updated: May 18, 2025
Save for this and the sound of falling timbers in the town, San Sebastian kept silence. 'Wonder what it feels like? Sergeant Wilkes, not catching the meaning of this, turned about slowly. The speaker was a tall young corporal, Sam Vicary by name and by birth a Somerset lad a curly haired, broad-shouldered fellow with a simple engaging smile.
'It has been a second language to me from a child, said I. 'I had an English nurse; my father spoke English with me; and I was finished by a countryman of yours and a dear friend of mine, a Mr. Vicary. A strong expression of interest came into the lawyer's face. 'What! he cried, 'you knew poor Vicary? 'For more than a year, said I; 'and shared his hiding-place for many months.
At which words the Vicary, who looked at him still more wickedly, was ashamed to laugh and grew very red; since which all the world has pitied the poor man."
Vicary, his face a study of patience, was standing by the side of the 'sardine-tin, which was already packed for transit, and whose occupants set up a joyful screech of welcome. "Of course, if Dr.
They went so far as to endeavor to poison religious instruction at its source, and declared that the students in Catholic seminaries must undergo, before ordination, an examination by civil officials. This tyrannical law was courageously opposed by the venerable archbishop, Vicary, of Friburg. The faithful clergy were banished, imprisoned and fined.
Vicary Gibbs, who were employed against me, added, that so far from wishing to degrade me, they did not even wish that I should make any personal apology to his lordship. If my counsel would say for me, that I admitted the offence against the law, and regretted the uneasiness that I had given to his lordship, there should be an end to the business.
Vicary." A strong expression of interest came into the lawyer's face. "What!" he cried, "you knew poor Vicary?" "For more than a year," said I; "and shared his hiding-place for many months." "And I was his clerk, and have succeeded him in business," said he. "Excellent man! It was on the affairs of M. de Kéroual that he went to that accursed country, from which he was never destined to return.
The Attorney-General, Sir Vicary Gibbs, as well as Lord Ellenborough, were almost frantic with rage at the boldness and the perseverance with which he proclaimed the truth of his statements, as to the conduct of Lord Castlereagh.
We went to our sitting-room, silent and apprehensive. 'Sit down, said Vicary, shutting the door and standing against it. He was wearing a tourist suit, with a gray overcoat, and his grizzled hair was tumbling over his hard, white face. 'What's the matter? Frank asked. 'Anything wrong?
Cobbett wrote a spirited article in his Register, in which he indignantly expressed the natural feeling of an Englishman, upon hearing that German troops were employed for such a purpose. This publication was seized with avidity by the Attorney-General, Sir Vicary Gibbs, who not only moved for a Criminal Information against Mr. Cobbett, the author, but also against his printer and publisher.
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