for Libel, 115. Chief Justice Lee Chancellor of the Exchequer, 117.

Death of Chief Justice Lee, 117. His Diary and Almanacs, 117. Chief

Justice Lee's Greatness in his own Time, 119. His Eloge by Sir James

Burrow, 119. Chief Justice Lee's MSS., 120.

CHAPTER XXVI I.

LIFE OF CHIEF JUSTICE RYDER.

SIR DUDLEY Ryder, 121. His Origin, 121. His Education, 122. He is

called to the Bar, 123. He is made Solicitor General, 123. Description

of Dublin and the Irish Bar in the beginning of the 18th Century, 124.

Irish Judges and Juries, 127. Sir Dudley Ryder is made Attorney

General, 128. His Speech for the Bill to disfranchise the City of

Edinburgh, 129. His Speech in support of a Motion in the House of

Commons for the summary Punishment of a Libeler, 130. His Speech in

Favor of Impressment, 131. His Speech for attainting the Sons

of the Pretender, 132. His Speech to prove the Expediency of

allowing the Insurance of Enemies' Ships, 136. His Speech on the

Regency Bill, 137. His Speech in Support of Lord Hardwicke's Marriage

Bill, 138. His Prosecution of Colonel Townley for High Treason, 139

His Speech on the Impeachment of Lord Lovat, 140. Signal Defeat of

Mr. Attorney General and of the House of Commons, 143. Irish Porter's

Song on Sir Doodley," 145. Ryder, Lord Chief Justice, 145. He is

about to be raised to the Peerage, 146. His Sudden Death, 147. Letters

of Archbishop Ryder, 147. Expectation that Sir Dudley Ryder's Peer-

age would be conferred on his Son, 148. Letter on this subject from the

Honorable Charles Yorke, 148. Sir Dudley Ryder's amiable Character

in Domestic Life, 149. Letters from him to Lady Ryder, 150. View of

Westminster Hall, 150. The Chancellor at Drury Lane, 151. Anni-

versary of Sir Dudley Ryder's Wedding-Day, 151. Fashionable Gossip

152. Perils of a married Lawyer when living en garcon, 153. How &

Lawyer may account for a Headache got by taking too much Wine, 153.

Departure of the Family Coach for Bath to bring back Lady Ryder, 154.

Sir Dudley's Joy at her Approach, 155. His Descendants, 155

CHAPTER XXVIII.

LIFE OF CHIEF JUSTICE WILLES.

Two Chief Justices of the Common Pleas, 156. Origin of the WILLES, 156.

Sir John's early Career, 157. He enters Parliament, and is made a Welsh

Judge, 157. Subsequent Disappointments, 158. He becomes Attorney

General, 158 His Speech against the Repeal of the Septennial Act,

159, He is made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 160. His Dis.

appointment on the Death of Lord Justice Chancellor Talbot, 161. His

Intrigues with Lord Carteret, 161. He is made First Lord Commissioner

of the Great Seal, 162. He loses the Chancellorship by his own Mis.

management, 163. Scene between Sir John Willes and Sir Robert

Henley, 165. Sir John Willes broken-hearted, 165. Death of Sir John

Willes, 166. His Judicial Decisions, 166. His Conduct on the Trial

of Elizabeth Canning, 167. His Private Life, 168. His Descendants, 168.

CHAPTER XXIX.

LIFE OF CHIEF JUSTICE WILMOT.

Sigular Characteristic of Lord Chief Justice WILMOT, 170. His Birth and

Education, 170. Johnson and Garrick his Schoolfellows, 171. He is

called to the Bar, 172. His Dread of being known or employed, 172.

He becomes "Devil" to the Attorney General, 173. He refuses a Silk

Gown, the Appointment of King's Sergeant, and a Seat in Parliament,

173. He is Counsel for the Defendant in a Crim. Con. Cause, 173. He

retires into the Country as a provincial Counsel, 174. He is appointed a

Puisne Judge of the King's Bench, 175. He is a Commissioner of the

Great Seal, 177. His first refusal to be Chancellor, 177. His Escape at

the Worcester Assizes, 178. Offer made to him to become Chief Justice

of the Common Pleas, 179. Letter from his Brother to persuade him to

accept, 179. How he became a Chief Justice by Duress, 180. Letter of

Congratulation from Mr. Justice Yates, 180. From Judge Blackstone,

181. He again refuses the Great Seal, 182. He resigns Justiceship, 183.

Wilmot in Retirement, 183. His Death, 184. His Judicial Character,

184. Actionable to state in Writing that a Person has the Itch, 184.

Meaning, in a Policy of "usurped Power," 185. Qu. whether an Action

lies by a Lady against a Gentleman on a Covenant to marry no one but

her, 187. Power of the Solicitor General when the Offie of Attorney

General is vacant, 188. Power of the Superior Courts to punish Contempts,

189. Satire on Chief Justice Wilmot by Horace Walpole, 190. Character

of Chief Justice Wilmot by his Son, 191. Censure on his Want of

Ambition, 193.

LIFE OF LORD MANSFIELD FROM HIS BIRTH TILL HE WAS

CALLED TO THE BAR.

Qu. how far LORD MANSFIELD's Career a fit Subject for Biography? 194.

Sources of Interest to the Author of this Memoir in composing it, 195

Lord Mansfield's illustrious Descent, 196. Founder of the Stormont-

Murrays, 196. David, 1st Viscount Stormont, 197. 5th Viscount Stormont,

198. Birth of William Murray, afterwards Earl of Mansfield, 199

Refutation of the oft-told Tale that he was removed to England in his

Infancy, 199. Words which he could never learn to pronounce like an

Englishman, 200. Fable of his having been educated at Lichfield, 200.

Willie Murray at Perth School, 200. Items in Family Accounts for Books,

&c., for him while he was a Schoolboy, 202. Deliberations respecting his

further Education and his Profession, 203. His Brother James created by

the Pretender Earl of Dunbar, 204. He advises that Willie should be

sent to Westminster, 204. Willie to ride thither on a Pony, 205. He

bids Adieu to his Native Country, 206, His Journey, 206. His Arrival

in London, 207. Received and taken care of by a Scotch Apothecary,

207. Items of Disbursements for him, 207. William Murray at West-

minster, 208. Letter from the kind Apothecary to his Mother respecting

him, 208. Anecdote of him while at Westminster, 210. He is elected a

Scholar of Christ Church, and goes to Oxford, 211. His Destination

changed from the Church to the Bar, 212. Assistance afforded him by

the first Lord Foley, 212. While at Oxford he is entered of Lincoln's

Inn, 212. His Studies at Oxford, 213. He devotes himself to the Arts of

Oratory, 214. His Latin Essay criticising Demosthenes, 214. He gains

the Latin Prize Poem on the Death of George I., 217. Origin of the

Rivalry between him and the elder Pitt, 218. Murray at Lincoln's Inn,

219. He attends a Debating Society, 221. He "drinks Champagne

with the Wits," 222. His Intimacy with Pope, 222. His Excursion to

France and Italy, 224. He is called to the Bar, 224. His Accomplishments

as an Advocate, 225.

CHAPTER XXXI. '

CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LORD MANSFIELD TILL HE WAS

MADE SOLICITOR GENERAL AND ENTERED THE

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

At first without Business, 226. His Attachment to his Profession, 226. He

takes Chambers in King's Bench Walk, where he is visited by Pope, 227.

His Letters "on the Study of Ancient and Modern History," 227. He

prospers at the Bar of the House of Lords, 229. He is Counsel against

the Bill for Disfranchising the City of Edinburgh for the Murder of

Captain Porteus, 231. He is crossed in Love, 233. Comforted by Pope,

233. Cured by Business, 234. He is placed at the Head of the Bar by

his Speech in a Crim. Con. Cause, 234. No Truth in the vulgar Story of

his being suddenly required to speak on his Leader being taken ill, 235.

Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, his Client, 237. He appears at the Bar

of the House of Commons on the Petition for a War with Spain, 237. His

Marriage, 238. After the Fall of Sir Robert Walpole he attaches him-

self to the Pelhams, 240. He is made Solicitor General, 240. His Private

Life, 241. His friendly Letter to Booth the Conveyancer, 242, Letters

from him to Lord Milton, the Scotch Judge, 243. Regret of Pope that

Murray, had abandoned the Muses for Law and Politics, 245. Verses

written by Pope in Murray's Chambers, 246. Their last Meeting, 246.

CHAPTER XXXII.

CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LORD MANSFIELD TILL HE WAS

MADE ATTORNEY GENERAL,

Murray's Brilliant Success in the House of Commons, 248. Pitt his Rival,

248. Murray's Speech on the Employment of Hanoverian Troops, 249.

Murray the Prop of the Administration in the House of Commons, 251.

Rebellion of 1745, 253. Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, 253.

Murray prosecutes the rebel Lords, 254. Trial of Lord Balmerino, 255.

Trial of Lord Lovat, 256. Lord Lovat's Compliment to Mr. Murray, 259.

Libels upon him indiscreetly answered, 260. Murray an ultra Free Trader,

261. His Speech in Defense of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 262. In-

terval of Quiet to Murray in the House of Commons while Pitt was in

Office, 263. Death of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 264. The Regency

Bill, 264. Charge against Murray that he drank the Health of the Pre-

tender, 265. Hearing of the Charge before the Privy Council, 268.

Murray's Speech in his own Defense, 269. He is acquitted, but suspected,

271. - Pitt's Attack upon him as a Jacobite, 271. Murray's celebrated

Vindication of our Naval Rights, 272. His Private Life, 273. His En-

joyment of Lassitude, 274. His Patronage of Blackstone, 274 Death of

Mr. Pelham, 275. Murray declines the situation of Prime Minister, 276.

Duke of Newcastle Prime Minister, 276. Murray, Attorney General, 277.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LORD MANSFIELD TILL HE WAS

MADE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE KING'S BENCH.

Murray refuses the Rolls, 279. Passages of Arms between Murray and

Pitt, 279. Letter to Lord Milton announcing his Appointment as Lord

Justice Clerk, 281. Disagreeable and apparently desperate Position in

which Murray found himself, 282. Sudden Death of Sir Dudley Ryder,

282. Murray claims the office of Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 283.

Vain Efforts of the Duke of Newcastle to induce him to remain in the

House of Commons, 283. Murray Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 285.

The Appointment generally approved of, 286. His Farewell address on

taking leave of Lincoln's Inn, 287.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

VIEW OF LORD MANSFIELD'S JUDICIAL CHARACTER AND

OF HIS DECISIONS.

He takes his Seat in the Court of King's Bench, 290. Necessity for a Re.

view of Lord Mansfield's Judgments, 290. Was he a great Judge' 291.

His unparalleled Ascendency in Westminster Hall, 292. His passionate

Love of the Duties of a Judge, 294. Reforms of Procedure introduced

by him, 295. Improvements, founded on Principle, which he contemplated,

299. Panegyric upon Lord Mansfield by Buller, 301. His Treatment of

the Law of Insurance, 302. Bills of Exchange, 305. Right to Freight,

306. Employment of " Puffers" at an Auction, 306. His Colonial Law,

307. Campbell v. Hall, 308. Legality of Ransom Bills, 311. Remedy

against the Governor of a Foreign Possession, 312. Fabrigas v. Mostyn,

312. Lord Mansfield's Respect for the Jurisdiction of other Courts, 314.

Right to Wreck, 315. Somersett's Case: a Slave becomes free in Eng-

land, 316. Legality of pressing Seamen, 318. Wagers, 318. On the

Result of an Appeal to the House of Lords, 318. Two Heirs “running

their Fathers," 319. On the Sex of the Chevalier D'Eon, 320. Conspiracy

to corrupt a young Female indictable, 323. Lord Grosvenor v. Duke of

Cumberland, 324. Literary Property, 325.
Lord Mansfield's Decisions

on the Law of Evidence, 329. Famous Case of Perrin v. Blake, 329

Controversy respecting the contradictory Opinions given by Lord Mans-

field, 333. Charge of Junius against Lord Mansfield for trying to subvert

the Common Law, 337. Censure of him by Lord Redesdale, 338. Vin-

dication of Lord Mansfield, 338. His supposed Preference for the Civil

Law, 338. His supposed Neglect of established Forms and former

Decisions, 339. His supposed Confounding of Legal and Equitable

Jurisdiction, 340. His real Love for Common-Law Modes of Proceeding,

342. Lord Mansfield as a Criminal Judge, 343. Lord Mansfield's Merits

in deciding Scotch Appeals in the House of Lords, 343. The Douglas

Cause; Explanation of Lord Mansfield's bad Speech upon it, 345.

CHAPTER XXXV.

CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LORD MANSFIELD FROM HIS

BEING MADE CHIEF JUSTICE TILL THE ACCESSION

OF GEORGE III.

Offer to Lord Mansfield of the Great Seal, 346. He takes his seat in the
House of Peers, 347. His Maiden Speech there, 347 Lord Mansfield
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 348. Intrigues for the Formation of a new
Ministry 349. Lord Chatham's first Government, 350. Lord Mansfield