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ANECDOTE OF LORD ELDON. came Jack Lee, as drunk as he could be. ‘I cannot

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IN lildon’s “Memoirs,” about the very same time, I
read that the bar loved wine, as Well as the woolsack.
Not John Scotthimselt‘, he was a good boy always, and
though he loved port wine, loved his business, and his
duty, and his fees a great deal better. He has a
,Northern Circuit story of those days, about a party at
the house of a certain Lawyer I‘axs'cett, who gave a
l dinner every year to the counsel. “ On one occasion,”
related Lord Eldon, “I heard Lee say, ‘I cannot leave
Fawcett’s wine. Mind, Davenport, you will go home

consult to-night; I must go to bed,’ he exclaimed, and
away he went. Then came Sir Thomas Davenport.
‘We cannot have a consultation to-night, Mr. \Vords—
worth ’ (\Vordsworth, I think, was the name; it was a
Cumberland name), shouted Davenport. ‘Don’t you
you see how drunk Mr. Scott is? it is impossible to
consult.’ Poor me, who had scarce had any dinner,
and lost all my wine—I was so drunk that I could not
consult! \Vell, a verdict was given against us, and it
was all owingto Lawyer Fawcett’s dinner. \Vc moved

immediately after dinner, to read the brief in that cause {for 3' new trial ; and I 11111517 say, for the 110110111‘ 0f the
that we have to conduct to—morrow.’—‘Not I,’ said than that thOSOFWO gentlemen, JRCk Lee and Sir Thomas
Davenport. ‘ Leave my dinner and my wine to read a lDflVCDpOI‘t, Pifld all the expenses between them of the
,brief! No, no, Lee; that won’t do.’—‘ Then,’ said firsttrial. Itls the only instance I ever lsuew, but they

1 Lee, ‘what is to be done? who else is employed?’ (lid. “’0 moved for a new trial (on the ground, I
‘——l')a,venport: ‘ 01,, young sg()tt.’—Lee: ‘ Oh, ho suppose, of the counsel not being in their senses), and
must go. Mr. Scott, you must go home immediately, it was granted. “7 11911 It came 011a the following year,
and make yourself acquainted with that cause, before the .111ng 1‘05‘3 and SMd—‘ Gentlemen, did any of you
our consultation this evening.’ This was very hard (hue With Lawyer I‘awcett yesterday? for if you did,
upon me; but I did go, andthere was an attorney from I “7111 not hear this cause till next; year.’ There was
Cumberland, and one from Northumberland, and I do great laughter. \VO gamed the cause that time.”—“ T/zc
not know how many other persons. I’retty late, in Four Georgia’s."

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‘l CHANCELLOR ELDON’S DEBUT.-—“ The first cause I ever decided,” said
. his lordship, “ was an apple-pie cause: I must tell you of it, Mary. I was,
1 you know, a. senior fellow at University College, and two of the under-
, graduates came to complain to me, that the cook had sent them an apple-
‘ pic that could not be eaten. So I said I would hear both sides. I summoned
the cook to make his defence; who said that he always paid the utmost
attention to the provisions of the College, that he never had any thing
unfit for the table. and that there was then a remarkably fine fillet of veal
‘in the kitchen. Now here we were at fault; for I could not understand
what a fillet of veal in the kitchen had to do with an apple-pie in the Hall.
,So, in order that I might come to a right understanding of the merits of the
. case, I ordered the pie itself to be brought before me. Then came an easy
. decision: for the messenger returned and informed me, that the other
‘undergraduates had taken advantage of the absence of the two complainants, '
and had eaten the whole of the apple-pie: so you know it was impossible
[,for me to decide that that was not eatable, which was actually eaten. I
lzoften wished in after-life that all the causes Were apple-pie causes: fine

,ieasy work it would have been.”

 

  

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The Volunteers—In 1803, in the face of the
i mostreol and fat-l danger, the Addingion ministry was
i afraid of allowing volunteer regiments, and Lord Eldon,
while pressing the necessity, could use as an argument
that if the people did not volunteer for the Cloveznment,
, they would against it. So broad was even then the gulf
between the governed and the governors. How much
,broader did it become in after years! I-Iad invasion
hreateiied us at any period between 1815 and 1830, or
ven later, would an“ ministry have dared to allow
,volunteer regiments? ‘Would‘they have been justified
in doing so, even if they had dared? And now what
has come to pass, all the world knows ; but all the world
should know likewise, that it never would have come to
pass save for—not merely the late twenty years of good
governinentin State, twenty years of virtue and liberality
in the Court, birt—Jthc late twenty years cf increasing
right-mindedness in the gehtry, who have now their'
rewardnin finding that the privates in the great majority,
of corps prefer being ofiicered by men of a rank socially
l superior to their own. And as good always breeds fresh,
good, so this volunteer movement, made possible by, the
goodwill between classes, willhelp in its turn to increase
,that goodwill: Already, by the performance of a ‘5pr-
‘mon duty, and the experience of a. ‘bominon humanity,
these volunteer corps are become centres ofi cordr’elity
between class and class; and gentleman, tradcsn'ian, and
workman, the more they see of each other, learn to like,
to trust, and to befriend each other more and more; a
good work in which I liOpe the volunteers of the Uni~
versity of Cambridge will do their part like men and
gentlemen, when, leaving this University, they become
‘each of them, as they ought, an organising point for
{fresh volunteers in their own districts—Alton Locke:
(By the Rev. C. Kingsley. -

LORD ELDo’N’s RUE? or L’ihfls.’—-l\‘IF.WCE)urtenay, now
Earl of Devon, being appointed this summer to a Mastership
in Chancery by the Lord Chancellor, (in whose gift these
offices liiy until the vemodellipg of them by Lord Broughum’c
Act, 3 and 4, W. IV, c. 94,) asked Lord Eldon whether it-
would be necessary for him to resign his retainer for Queen
Anne's Bounty, to which he was then the standing counsel.
“ Why, speaking as a friend,” answered Lord Eldon, “I
would advise you to do no such thing; the true rule,l fancy,
is, to get what you can, and keep what you have.— Twiss’s
Life of Lord Eldon. . p

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Louii Ennou on CniMiXXi:LAW.-Saturday,lFeb. 96,

l825..——\Ve had it long speech from Lorrl Sultield, introduct-
iug a bill to prevent people in future from setting spring—guns
anywhere. There was no opposition to it as yet ; but I
understand the Norfolk game-breeders are, or will be, against
it. For my own part, I can’t understand why these engines
of death should be allowed. I don’t think ii poacher should
13.6.9.1}: to (loatlrto preseriLq Ehflrfif’Ln partridge—Ibis].

,must show her up. 'And up came a very pretty
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‘ Loni) CiiAxr'icmmi ELDON, when he retired for the
vacation to his estate in \Viltsliii‘c, used to walk about
his grounds in very homely attire. One morning he
encountered two sportsmen, who had unwittingly tres—

1 passed on his lands-from the neighboring manor. ()ii ‘

lliis explaining this to them, one of them, producing;r all.

if couple'of half—crowns, said, “ Conic, my man, I think '

r we can make this all right; I suppose you are one of
Old Bugs’ keepers.” “ No, gentlemen,” said the curl,

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LinuuAurv or Loni) ELDorr.—In 1783, when Mr. Scdtt first became a
candidate for the borough of \Veobly, he was received and lodged in the
house of Mr. Bridge, the vicar, who, having a daughter, then a. young
Child, took a jocular promise from him, that if he should ever become
Chancellor, and the little girl’s husband should be a. clergyman, the Chan-
cellor Would give that clergyman a living. Now comes the sequel, partly
related by Lord Eldon himself to [his niece] Mrs. Foster. “ Years rolled
on——I came into office: when one morning I was told a young lady Wished
to speak to me; and I said that young ladies must be attended to, so they
young lady, and she
I could not recollect her. I
an3wered I certainly did not, but perhaps she could recall herself to my
memory; so she asked me if I remembered theclergyman at W'eobly, and
his little girl to whom I had made a. promise. ‘ Oh, yes!’ I said, ‘ I do, and
I suppose you are the little girl?’ She curtsied, and said ‘ Yes.’ And I
suppose you are married to a. clergyman? ‘ No,’ she said, and she blushed,
‘ I am only going to be married to one, if you, my Lord, will give him
a. living.’ Well, I told her to come back in a. few days; and I made
inquiries to ascertain from the bishop of the diocese that the gentleman she
was going to be married to was a. respectable clergyman of the Church of
England; and then I looked at my list, and found I actually had a living
vacant that I could give him. So when the young lady came back, I told
her she might. return home and get married as fast as she liked, for her in-
tended husband should be presented to a living, and I would send the papers
us'soon as they could be made out. ‘ Oh, no!’ she exclaimed, and again
she simpered, and blushed, and curtsicd; ‘ pray, my Lord, let me take them
back myself.’ I was a good deal amused: so I actually had the papers
made out, and I signed them, and she took them back herself the following
day. But, tiles, for the honour of man! Miss Bridge, after all, did not
become Mrs. Jones, until two years after the gentleman had been rector of
Stanton. The son of the clergyman who ultimately married them at
Stanton, writes thus:-——‘ Jones would have jilted the lady, but was shamed
into the fulfilment of his engagement by the friends and relations of both
parties. Miss Bridge, with her party, arrived there from Hereford in a.
post-chaise. She refused, however, to enter the parsonage-house, until size did

 

so as his wife.’ ” To conclude the story, Mrs. Jones survived her husband,

. and, being in indigent circumstances, once more applied to the Chancellor,
“ to obtain for her on admission into a. recently instituted establishment,
near Bath, for the support, maintenance, comfort, and benefit; of the widows
l of clergyinen and others.” Lord Eldon not only complied with her request,
‘, Epidsent her money to defray the expenses of her removal.—Life of Lord

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, E‘LDorr AND FLOOD ON THE INDIA Erin...” .
7 These leaders (Pitt and Grenville) had along followmg; among

lthe most conspicuous of whom may be noted, John Scott, after-
l wards Lord Chancellor Eldon, and Henry Flood, the rival of Grattan

in the Irish Parliament. Both of these eminent persons addressed
the House for the first time on the India Bill, and the speeches of
both were signal failures. ficott made perhaps the most; absurd
speech that had ever been heard Within the walls of the House of
Commons. It is not often that a member of the learned profession
has the good fortune to be heard with favour by that fastidious and
jealous assembly ; and. a finer opportunity than thm debate afforded
to a. legal candidate for Parliamentary distinction rarely occurs. It
was a question of high constitutional law, cf chartered rights and
vested interests. But; the eminent lawyer, instead of confining
himself to these topics on which he might have spoken with autho-
rity, with aperverseness of taste, which men of sense and know-
ledge sometimes display, fancied the subject was one to be treated
with wit, raillery and. sarcasm, and that his was the hand which
could Wield those dangerous weapons. He pulled a. Bible out of
his poobet, and proceeded to show, by quoting long passages, that
the Bill was foreshadowed in the Book of Revelation—wiuustm—
had not been witnessed Within those walls,
From the New Testament, Mr. Scott

passed to Thuoydides and Shakspeare; be accused. Mr. Fox of

 

l attempting to smother the constitution, citing Othello and the death
‘ of Desdemona, as a. precedent in point.
amazed to laugh; and the orator resumed his seat amidst signifi-
{cant silence.
reputation

The House was too much

Flood likewise failed altogether to sustain the high _
which he had brought from the _other_ srdc of the
Channel. He spoke in the last stage of the discussnon, when the

. Bubjgct, as well as the patience of the House was neaaly exhausted.
no

egan by saying that he was wholly unacquainted with the
question, that he had not read a line of the Reports which. lay upon

LORD ELDON’s Vrsm‘ To run limo—Mr. Wilberforce
said to Lord Eldon, about the time of the second illness.
of George III at the moment When the King again be-
gan to transact business, “How is the King? I fear
you and your friends have been in too great a hurry to
bring him back to public life; surely he can hardly yet
be fit for it.” “Indeed, but he is,’,’ said Lord Eldon,
“ and I’ll give you a. proof how much he is himself. The
first time I went to his closet after his recovery, to pay
ymy respects, he called to me as I was retiring, ‘ My
Lord, how is Lady Eldon ?’ She is pretty well, I replied
‘but I could hardly have flattered myself that she would

attract your Majesty’s notice or inquiries.’ ‘ Indeed,
but I am deeply indebted to her,’ replied the King,
‘since had it not been for Lady Eldon, your lordship
would at this moment have been a. country curate, in-
stead of my Lord Chancellor.” -—- Hmford’s Recollection:
ref Wilberforce.