A tale, from the days when Irish barristers were still addressed as ‘Counsellor’, of a barrister from Dorset Street, a popular street for legal residences of the time, summoned for failure to provide a good character for a cook who cut bits off his meat for herself

The story, from Saunders’s News-Letter, 3 June 1817, features a guest appearance by Counsellor Leonard McNally, revered at the time as an Irish patriot but discovered after his death to have been in the pay of the British Secret Service all along – a false character himself if there was ever one!

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