IT is difficult to deal with this man.  I scarcely know how to treat so shifty, and, to judge from the evidence, so desperate a character.  When summoned before the court, he fails to appear; and if he does attend, he is gifted with such volubility of words and oaths, that I think myself well off to be quickly rid of him.  I have often known him twist round his accusations upon his accusers.  In a word, there is no creature living upon earth so subtile and versatile in villainy.  A slight acquaintance with him suffices to prove this.  Why then do you appeal to me?  Why not at once bring yourselves to submit to his ill-treatment, as to a visitation of God’s anger?