Attorney-General
a govern-- mental law officer. In the United States the Department of Justice is presided over by the Attorney-General, whose duty it is to furnish all legal advice and Western emperors. The Vandals, the Ostrogoths, the Gepidæ, and a part of the Franks united under his banners, and he speedily formed a pretext for leading them against the Empire of the East. He laid waste all the countries from the Black to the Adriatic Sea, and in three encounters defeated the Emperor Theodosius, but could not take Constantinople. Thrace, Macedonia, and Greece all submitted to the invader, who destroyed 70 flourishing cities; and Theodosius was obliged to purchase a peace, Turning to the W., the "scourge of God," as the universal terror termed him, crossed with an immense army the Rhine, the Moselle, and the Seine, went to the Loire, and laid siege to Orleans.
The inhabitants of this city repelled the first attack, and the united forces of the Romans under Aetius, and of the Visigoths under their King Theodoric, compelled Attila to raise the siege. He retreated to Champagne, and waited for the enemy in the plains of Chalons.
When the victory of Attila seemed assured the Gothic prince, Thorismond, the In England the highest legal functionson of Theodoric, poured down from the neighboring height upon the Huns, who ary permanently retained, on a salary, were defeated with great slaughter. In to take the part of the crown in any the following year Attila tried to seize suits affecting the royal (by which is upon Italy, and demanded Honoria, the really meant the public) interests. In sister of Valentinian III., in marriage, precedence, he ranks above the Solicitorwith half the kingdom as a dowry. When General. this demand was refused he conquered