His misfortune in not being required to be initiated in liberal studies,

45. His exclusive attention to law, 46. His dislike of the theatre,

46. He writes reports of decisions of the Courts, 47. He is

acquainted with Horne Tooke and Dunning, 47. His economical

mode of dining, 48. He is called to the bar, 48. His slow pro-

gress, 49. He fags for Dunning, 49. He becomes a great case-

answerer, 50. His merits as a draughtsman, 50. He fags for Lord

Chancellor Thurlow, 51. He is made Chief Justice of Chester, 51.

CHAPTER XLII.

CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LORD KENYON TILL HE WAS

APPOINTED MASTER OF THE ROLLS.

He is introduced into Paliament, 53. His impatience to meet a charge

of bribery, 53. He is counsel for the defendants in the prosecution

for deposing Lord Pigot, 54. How he came to be counsel with

Erskine for Lord George Gordon, 55. His successful cross-examina-

tion of a witness, 55. His miserable speech to the jury, 56. Peril

to the prisoner, 58. Glory of Erskine, 58. Kenyon Attorney-General

to the Rockingham Administration, 59. His altercation with Sir

James Mansfield, 60. His zeal against public accountants explained,

61. He adheres to Lord Shelburne, 63. He is turned out by the

"Coalition," 64. His parliamentary conduct while in opposition, 64.

Dismissal of the "Coalition Ministry," 66. Kenyon again Attorney-

General, 66. He renews his attack on public accountants, 66. His

conduct as Chief Justice of Chester, in the Dean of St. Asaph's case,

67.

CHAPTER XLIII.

CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LORD KENYON TILL HE WAS

APPOINTED CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE KING'S BENCH.

Kenyon is made Master of the Rolls, 70. His vote in the Westminster

election, 71. The bad advice he gave respecting the "Scrutiny," 71.

Honourable conduct of Lord Eldon on this occasion, 72. Mr Fox's

censure of the Master of the Rolls, 73. Kenyon is made a Baronet,

74. Sir Lloyd Kenyon and the Rolliad, 74. Letter from Sir Lloyd

Kenyon to the High Bailiff of Westminster, 75. Kenyon as an Equity

Judge, 77: Q. How far a covenant to refer to arbitration may be

pleaded in bar to a suit or action? 80. Sir Lloyd Kenyon's merits

as an Equity Judge, 80. Resignation of Lord Mansfield, 81.

Lord Kenyon appointed his successor, and raised to the peerage, 82.

CHAPTER XLIV.

Sir

LORD KENYON AS CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE KING'S BENCH.

Unpopularity of the appointment, 83. Lord Kenyon takes his seat in

the House of Lords, 83. His speech on the insanity of George III.,

84. He maintains that Mr. Hastings's impeachment had abated by

the dissolution of Parliament, 85. He opposes Mr. Fox's Libel Bill,

86. Questions proposed by him for the opinion of the Judges, 87.

Lord Stanhope's speech to banter Lord Kenyon, 87. Lord Kenyon's

answer, 88. Charge that he made a pecuniary profit by the abuses in

the King's Bench Prison, 89. Lord Kenyon's improved tactics in self-

defence, 91. His judicial character, 91. His Latin quotations, 92.

His bad temper, 92. Account of his demeanour in Court by Espinasse,

92. His partialities and antipathies, 93. George III.'s congratula-

tion to him on the loss of his temper, 94. His anxiety for the rights

of the "legal estate," 94. His decision that no action at law can be

maintained for a legacy, 95. Rule that a married woman shall never

be permitted to sue or to be sued as a single woman, 95. His

behaviour on the trial of Rex v. Stockdale, 96. His severe sentences

in prosecutions for alleged sedition, 98. Pasquinade against imprison-

ment for debt, 98. John Frost's case, 98. Rex v Perry, 99. Per-

version of the clause in the Libel Bill enabling the Judge to give his

opinion to the Jury on matter of law, 100. Stone is tried for treason

before Lord Kenyon, 101. Trial of John Reeve for a libel on the

House of Commons, 102. Trial of Gilbert Wakefield, 103. Trial of

the proprietor of the Courier for a libel on the Emperor Paul, 105.

Trial of Williams for publishing Paine's 'Age of Reason,' 106. Lord

Kenyon's display of his knowledge of ecclesiastical history, 106.

Trial of Hadfield, when the biographer first saw Lord Kenyon, 107.

Proof of the prisoner's insanity, 108. Lord Kenyon interferes and

puts an end to the trial, 108. Sound view of the question how

far mental disease exempts from criminal responsibility, 108. Ben-

jamin Flower's case, 110. Dialogue between Mr. Clifford and Lord

Kenyon on moving for a writ of Habeas Corpus, 110. Lord Kenyon's

attack on Lord-Treasurer Clifford and the ancient nobility, 111.

Mr. Clifford's retaliation, 112. Lord Kenyon laid down the true con-

stitutional doctrine since affirmed by Act of Parliament respecting

the power of the two Houses to print and publish, 112. Rex v. Earl

of Abingdon: Peer not privileged to publish speech delivered by

him in the House of Peers, with a view to libel an individual, 114.

Doctrine of consequential damage, 115. Rescue of the public from

Surveyors, 116. Lord Kenyon's laudable zeal against manufacturers

of slander, 116. Misled by his love for morality, 118. Lord Eldon's

protest against Lord Kenyon's ultraism, 119. Lord Kenyon's in-

dignation at being called a "legal monk," 120. By his hot temper,

betrayed into the toleration of insolence, 120. Lord Chief Justice

Kenyon kicked by John Horne Tooke, 121. Erroneous decisions of

Lord Kenyon, 126. Criminal information for a jeu d'esprit, 126.

Lord Kenyon overruled in Haycraft v. Creasy, 127, Lord Kenyon's

fury against forestallers and regraters, 129.

CHAPTER XLV.

CONCLUSION OF THE LIFE OF LORD KENYON.

Lord Kenyon's career about to close, 133. Death of his eldest son, 133.

Lord Kenyon's last illness, 133. His death and burial, 134. His

epitaph, 134. Touching praise of him by his second son, 134.

Character of Sir Leoline Jenkins applied to him, 134. Discrimination

required in his biographer, 135. His popularity with common juries,

135. His ill-usage of attorneys, 136. Ruin of Mr. Lawless, 136.

Lord Kenyon serviceable in repressing pettifogging, 137. His kind-

ness to students, 138. He is rebuked by Thurlow for disparaging

the Court of Chancery and solicitors, 138. Lord Kenyon's eulogy on

George III., 138. His opinion given to George III. respecting the

Catholic question, 139. Lord Kenyon for a severe penal code, but

not a "hanging judge," 140. Specimen of Lord Kenyon's love of

mixed metaphors, 141. Lord Kenyon's Reports, 142. His facetiæ,

142. His penurious mode of life, 143. His villa at Richmond, 144.

His dress, 145. His will directing his executors to avoid the expense

of a diphthong, 147. His descendants, 147.

CHAPTER XLVI.

LIFE OF LORD ELLENBOROUGH FROM HIS BIRTH TILL HIS MARRIAGE.

Feelings of the biographer in commencing the Life of Lord Ellenborough,

148. His family, 148. His birth, 150. His education, 150. At

the Charter-house, 151. At Cambridge, 151. His choice of a pro-

fession, 154. He studies the law, 155, His diligence in a special

pleader's office, 155. He practises as a special pleader under the bar,

157. His success, 158. He is called to the bar, 158. He joins the

Northern Circuit, 159. His slow progress in London, 162. His silk

gown delayed by his supposed Whiggery, 162. Law in domestic

life, 163. His courtship, 163. His marriage, 164.

CHAPTER XLVII.

CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LORD ELLENBOROUGH TILL HE WAS

APPOINTED ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

He is retained as leading counsel for Warren Hastings, 165. His pre-

paration for the trial, 168. His first speech for Hastings, 169. His

contests with Burke and the other managers on questions of evidence,

171. Debi Sing's case, 175. Law's opening of the defence, 180.

His proœmium and peroration on the Begum charge, 182. Perora-

tion, 185. Conclusion of Hastings's trial, 189. Authorship of the

epigram on Burke, 189. Law's great advance in business from his

fame as counsel for Hastings, 190. He resents Lord Keynon's ill

usage of him, 191. He is opposed to Erskine in Rex v. Walker, 192.

Prosecution of Redhead Yorke, 194. Law's triumph over Sheridan,

196. Law reconciled to the Tories, 199. His readiness to fight,

200.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LORD ELLENBOROUGH TILL HE WAS

APPOINTED LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.

He is made Attorney-General, 201. Rev. John Horne Tooke, M.P., 204.

Governor Wall's Case, 205. Illness of Lord Keynon, 211. Law is

made Chief Justice of England and a Peer, 212.

CHAPTER XLIX.

1 CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LORD ELLENBOROUGH TILL HE BECAME

A CABINET MINISTER.

His qualifications as a Judge, 214. His puisnes, 215. His conduct as

Chief Justice, 216. Lord Ellenborough's decisions, 218. Validity

of deeds of separation, 218. Action for Crim. Con., notwithstanding

deed of separation, 219. No implied warranty from high price of

goods, 219. Liability for publication of a libel in England by order

of persons living out of England, 219. English underwriters not

liable for embargo put on by the Government of the assured, 221.

Validity of marriage of illegitimate minor, 221. Case of the HOT-

TENTOT VENUS, 222. Liability of captain of a ship of war for

damage done by her negligent management, 223. Lord Ellenborough

supposed to be influenced by his love of lobster sauce, 223. May the

executor of a lady maintain an action for breach of promise of mar-

riage? 225. May a trespass committed in fox-hunting be justified?

225. Illegality of cock-fighting, 226. Consuls not privileged as

public ministers, 227. Privilege of House of Commons to imprison

for contempt, 228. Doubtful doctrine in Rex v. Creevey, 229. Free-

dom of literary criticism, 230. Trespass by balloons considered, 231.

Privilege of counsel to criminate an attorney, 231. Award of trial

by battle on an appeal of murder, 232. Lord Ellenborough in the

House of Lords, 234. His maiden speech, 234. His exposure of the

Athol job, 235. Right of the Crown to the military services of all

subjects, 237. His hostility to the Roman Catholics, 239. Trial of

Colonel Despard for treason, 239. Trial of Peltier for a libel on

Napoleon Buonaparte, 242.

CHAPTER L.

CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LORD ELLENBOROUGH TILL THE

TRIAL OF LORD COCHRANE.

The Chief Justice a member of the Cabinet, 246. Impeachment of
Lord Melville, 255. Dismissal of "All the Talents," 256. Lord
Ellenborough's speech on the restoration of the Danish fleet, 258. His

altercation with Lord Stanhope, 258. Lord Ellenborough and the

"DELICATE INVESTIGATION," 267. Lord Ellenborough a member of

the Queen's Council, as Custodian of the King's person during the

Regency, 274.

CHAPTER LI.

CONCLUSION OF THE LIFE OF LORD ELLENBOROUGH,

Trial of Lord Cochrane, 278. Trial of Dr. Watson for high treason,

281. Lord Ellenborough's tour on the Continent, 283. His prayer

when his health and strength were declining, 283. Trial of William

Hone, 284. He is unable to go the Summer Circuit, 286. Lord

Ellenborough resigns his office, 288. Complimentary letter to him

from the Prince Regent, 289. His death, 290. His epitaph, 291.

His character, 292. Lord Ellenborough's Act, 292. His approval of

a severe penal code, 293. His dislike of foreign laws, 296. His

facetiæ, 297. Lord Ellenborough in domestic life, 303.
His figure

and manner, 304. Imitation of the Chief Justice by Charles Mathews

the comedian, 304. His portrait by Lawrence, 306. His style of

living, 306. His children, 307.

CHAPTER LII.

LIFE OF LORD TENTERDEN, FROM HIS BIRTH TILL HIS ELEVATION

TO THE BENCH.

Disadvantages and advantages in the task of writing this Memoir, 309.

Lord Tenterden's father and mother, 310. Birth of Lord Tenterden,

311. His early education, 312. Lord Tenterden at Canterbury

school, 312. Danger he ran in his fourteenth year, 313. Q. whether

he was to be a hairdresser or a Chief Justice? 314. He is sent to

the University, 316. He obtains a scholarship at Corpus, 317. His

diligence and good conduct, 319. His prize poem, 320. His prize

essay, 325. His Bachelor's degree, 327. His horsemanship, 328.

He is appointed College tutor, 328. His acquaintance, with Judge

Buller, 329. He is entered of the Temple, 332. His industry as a

law student, 333. He practises as a pleader under the bar, 334.

He is called to the bar, 335. His success on the Oxford circuit, 335.

The accident he met with, 336. His book on SHIPPING, 337. His

business at Guildhall, 338. His large income, 339. His incompe-

tency as an advocate, 339. His chief effort in oratory, 341. His

conduct as Attorney-General in the Grand Circuit Court, 342. His

marriage, 342. His wife, 344. His desire to be made a Judge, 346.

He is disappointed, 346.