THE

LIVES

OF

THE LORD CHANCELLORS

AND

KEEPERS OF THE GREAT SEAL

OF

ENGLAND,

FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TILL THE REIGN OF

KING GEORGE IV.

BY

JOHN LORD CAMPBELL, LL.D. F.R.S.E.

IN SEVEN VOLUMES.

VOL. V.

SECOND AMERICAN,

FROM THE THIRD LONDON EDITION.

PHILADELPHIA:

BLANCHARD AND LEA.

1851.

CONTENTS

OF

THE FIFTH VOLUME.

CHAPTER CXXIX.

LIFE OF LORD CHANCELLOR HARDWICKE FROM HIS BIRTH TILL HE WAS APPOINTED

ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Character of Lord Hardwicke, Page 33. Difficulty in doing Justice to it, 33. His

Origin, 34. His Birth, 34. His Education, 34. He is put as Clerk to an Attorney, 35.

His Diligence and Desire of Improvement, 35. Greatly pleases his Master, 35.

How he escaped from the Tasks imposed upon him by his Mistress, 36. Friendships

he formed while in the Attorney's Office, 36. He is introduced to Lord Chief Justice

Parker, and becomes Law Tutor to his Sons, 37. He writes a Paper in the "Spec-

tator," 39. "Spectator," 40. His Preparations for the Bar, 41. He is called, 41.

He rapidly gets into Business, 42. Goes the Western Circuit, 42. His Transla-

tion of Coke upon Lyttleton into Verse, 43. His Marriage, 44. He practises in the

Court of Chancery, 45. Lord Macclesfield's excessive Partiality for him, 45. He

distinguishes himself there, 46. He is returned to Parliament, 47. His Prudence

in not speaking, 47. The Solicitor General accuses the Attorney General of Cor-

ruption, 47. The Attorney General is acquitted and the Solicitor General dis-

missed, 48. Yorke is appointed Solicitor General, and knighted, 48. Envy created

by this Appointment, 49. At first not employed in the Court of Chancery, 49. Soon

in every Cause, 49. He is re-elected for Lewes, 49. Sir R. Raymond, Attorney

General, 49. His Speech on the Prosecution of Layer for High Treason, 50.

CHAPTER CXXX.

CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LORD HARDWICKE TILL HE WAS APPOINTED LORD

CHANCELLOR.

He is promoted to be Attorney General, 51. An excellent Law Officer, 51. His

Mode of conducting Excise Prosecutions in the Exchequer, 51. Ex-officio Informa-

tions for Libel, 52. He writes a Pamphlet on the judicial Functions of the Master

of the Rolls, 53. He supports a Bill for the Banishment of Atterbury, 53. His

Behaviour on the Impeachment of Lord Macclesfield, 53. Yorke devotes himself to

the Duke of Newcastle, 54. Accession of George II., 55. Bill to prohibit Loans to

Foreign States, 55. Yorke's Speech for an Augmentation of the Forces, 56. Wal-

pole's Excise Scheme, 56. Yorke's Defence of it, 56. His moderate Success in the

House of Commons, 57. Yorke created Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and a

Peer, by the Title of Lord Hardwicke, 57. Lord Hardwicke as a Common Law

Judge, 58. His Management of the Puisne Judges, 58. Lord Hardwicke's great

Success in the House of Lords as a Debater, 59. His Speech on maintaining a

Standing Army, 59. Mortmain Acts, 60. Lord Hardwicke on the Legality of em-

ploying the Military to suppress Riots, 60. Explosion of Gunpowder in Westminster

Hall, 60. Law Arrangements on the Death of Lord Talbot, 61. Lord Hardwicke

Chancellor, 61.