Harvard College Library Mrs. E. D. Brandegee Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, By J. S. REDfield, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York. STEREOTYPED BY C. C. SAVAGE, CONTENTS OF VOL. II. His Rise and Progress.-- Fighting One's Way to Fortune.-Sir Boyle Roche's Bulls.- Robert Emmett's Trial.-Norbury's Judicial Brutality. His Personal Appearance.-Scenes in his Court.-A Noble Jester.- His Intolerant Politics.-The Saurin Letter.-His Enforced Resigna- Murder of Mr. Chadwick.-Trial and Execution of Patrick Grace.-The Approver and Vengeance.-Murder of Daniel Mara.-Trial of the As- Exclusion of Catholics.-Sir Theobald Butler's Pleading against the Penal Laws.-The Gallant Sarsfield.—British Violation of the Treaty of Limerick.-Lord Chesterfield and Lady Palmer.- Mr. William Bellew. SIR MICHAEL O'LOGHLIN. His Person, Deportment, and Descent.-Bar Costume.-Bumbo Green, the Legal Falstaff.- British Judicial System.-Chief-Baron O'Grady.- Sir W. C. Smith.-O'Loghlin appointed Master of the Rolls.-Is made Chief Baron Wolfe.-Peter Henchey and Lord Manners.-Peter Bur- rowes.-Ill-timed Ascendency Manifestation,-Curran's Eloquence and Conversation.-Blackburne's Practice and Promotions.-Orange Char- ter Toast.-The Burning of the Sheas.-Sheil's Speech to the Peasant- LORD-CHANCELLOR MANNERS. His Biography.-Farewell to the Irish Bar.- Mr. Joy's Valediction.- Scenes in the Chancellor's Career.-The Jesuits.- Judicial Incompetency. 184 Catholic Politics in 1825.-Invasion of England.-O'Connell en route.— Dr. Milner and Charles Butler.- Burdett, Plunket, Brougham, Weth- erell, Peel, and Joseph Hume, the Dukes of Devonshire and Leinster, Lords Durham and Abinger, Dukes of Sussex and Norfolk, Coke of Nor- folk.-Character of O'Connell's Eloquence.-Catholic Meeting in Lon- don.-A Dinner Batch of Nobles.- Charles James Fox and Lord Grey. 192 An Irish Patriot.— Remarkable Exterior.- Flight from Prison.-Jackson's Louth Election in 1826.-The Roden and Oriel League.-Harry Mills, Vesey. Fitzgerald opposed by the Catholic Association.-Candidate-Hunt- ing. O'Connell in the Field.-Tom Steele, O'Gorman Mahon, and "Honest Jack Lawless."- Father Tom Maguire.-The Priest of Cor- ofin. The Contest.-O'Connell's Victory, and its Results.-Sheil's 235 Gathering of the "Men of Kent."-Cobbett and Hunt.-The Brunswick- ers.-Lord Camden, a Model Sinecurist.-Sheil's Unspoken Speech.. 315 LORD CHANCELLOR BROUGHAM, IN 1831. His Elevation.-Lord Lyndhurst.—The Chancellor's Levee.— Archbishops of Canterbury and York.- Wellington and Brougham.-Fraucis Jef SKETCHES OF THE IRISH BAR. LORD NORBURY. THREE remarkable incidents have lately taken place. LORD NORBURY, in testimony of his long and numerous services, has been created an earl, Lord Plunket has sunk into his successor, and Lord Manners took his leave amidst a strong odor of onions, and the tears of the Irish Bar.* I had intended to make these three events the groundwork of the present article; for Lord Plunket's first appearance on the stage from which Lord Norbury had just made his exit-his wan and dejected aspect, which was, as much his intellect, in contrast with that of his predecessor-the melancholy smile which superseded his habitually haughty and sardonic expression-the exultation of his antagonists at seeing him descend from his recent elevation, and the sympathy which the liberal portion of the Bar felt in what was considered as his fall, presented a scene of deep and extraordinary interest. It was also my purpose (inasmuch as no reasonable expectation can be entertained that a new edition of Rose and Beattie will afford an opportunity of attaching, by way of appendix This Sketch was published in November, 1827, but appears to have been written before Canning's death, which took place in August, during the same year. The retirement of Lord Manners from the Chancellorship, and the appointment of Plunket as Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas, took place, under Canning's Administration, in 1827.— M. |