This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com 4c 102,1 MEMOIRS THE LIFE OF SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF; WITH A SELECTION FROM HIS CORRESPONDENCE. EDITED BY HIS SONS. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. MDCCCXL. 1031. London : Printed by A. Spottiswoode, New- Street- Square. CONTENTS THE THIRD VOLUME. DIARY OF THE PARLIAMENTARY LIFE OF SIR SAMUEL ROMILL Y — {continued). 1812. Slave trade ; Registry of slaves Bristol election; candidates; Mr. Protheroe. — Resolution of the Independent Club, and letter respecting it Mr. Protheroe; Hunt Address to the electors. — Mr. Rider's motion, police of the metro polis ; increase of crime. — Abuses in Ecclesiastical Courts ; Sir Wm. Scott. — Bristol election ; letter to Mr. Edge. — Reversion Bill. — Bill to repeal 39 Eliz. — Transportation to New South Wales. — The Regent's determination to re tain the ministers; his letter to the Duke of York. — Colonel M'Mahon's sinecure. — Delays in the Court of Chancery ; Michael Angelo Taylor. — Master in Chancery not fit mem ber of a committee to inquire into the delays of the court. — Expulsion of Walsh from the House of Commons. — Local Poor Bills; Stroud. — Military punishments; Brougham. — Bill to repeal 39 Eliz. ; Lord Ellenborough. — Abuses of charitable trusts ; Mr. Lockhart. — Visit to Bristol, reception, Speech second address to the electors. — Military punishments. — Cobbett's attack. — Committee on the delays in the Court of Chancery. — Disqualifying laws against Catholics. — Delays in the Court of Chancery. — Tellerships of the Ex chequer. — Reform of Parliament Murder of Perceval; conviction of Bellingham the murderer. — Provision for Per ceval's family and a public monument ; his character. — Pro jected change in the ministry. — Address of the House of Commons. — Abuses in Lincoln jail. — Attempts to form a new administration ; Lord Wellesley, Lord Moira, Lord Eldon, a 2 IV CONTENTS. Duke of Cumberland Bill to regulate office of Registrar of the Court of Admiralty. — Lincoln jail. — Subscription for Bristol election. — Sir Wm. Scott's Bill respecting Ecclesias tical Courts Bristol Election Bill to suppress disturb ances in the counties of Lancaster and York. — Bill to create a Vice-Chancellor. — Vacation. — George Wilson, Lord El- lenborough, Lord Grey, Duke of Roxburgh, Dugald Stewart. — Parliament dissolved. — Bristol election; speech; coali tion of Davis and Protheroe ; contest given up ; speech ; letter to Mr. Castle. — H. Davis's address to the electors of Bristol; R.'s observation upon it. — Practice of some judges with respect to transporting felons ; Mr. Justice Chambre. — Offer of a seat in Parliament by the Duke of Norfolk ; motives for accepting it. — Parliament met. — Bill for creating a Vice- Chancellor ; pamphlet, Objections to the Project of creating a Vice- Chancellor of England. — Election at Arundel. — Duke of Norfolk. — Prayer - Pages 1 — 77 1813. Tanhurst. — Lord Redesdale's answer to Objections to the Pro ject of creating a Vice- Chancellor of England; reply. — Criminal Law. — Sentence in high treason Garrow, Solici tor-General; corruption of blood Roman Catholics. — Mo tion respecting the Princess of Wales ; speech. — Mr. Nash's visit. — Bill for creating a Vice-Chancellor. — Mr. Nash's application respecting the Princess of Wales; Lord Yarmouth. — Duke of Gloucester. — Conversation with Mr. Nash. — De bate on the Princess of Wales Dinner at Mr. Nash's. — Lord Ellenborough — Bill to repeal the Shoplifting Act. — (Note) Case of the Island of Jersey. — Bill to take away corruption of blood ; Charles Yorke ; Yorke's Considerations on the Law of Forfeitures ; vote of Lord Yarmouth. — Bill to alter the punishment of high treason. — Plumer appointed Vice-Chan cellor; the Lord Chancellor, Richards. — Address to the Princess of Wales. — The Lord Chancellor Case of Philip Barry, Lord Norbury Clerks of the peace ; fees taken upon them by acquittals. — Lord Redesdale's Bill for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors ; Common Council, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Eldon, Cooke. — Sir Wm. Scott's Bill for Reform of Ec clesiastical Courts ; amendments, Lord Eldon. — Bill for re- CONTENTS. V gulating the office of Registrar of the Admiralty. — The Speaker's speech on the last day of the session. — Delay in executing Insolvent Debtors' Act. — Vacation; Tanhurst ; visiters ; Bowood. — Opening of the session Lord Itedes- dale's Insolvent Debtors' Act. — Lord Ellenborough. — In solvent Debtors' Act Law of Debtor and Creditor ; writs of error. — Law promotions. — The Houses of Parliament adjourned .... Pages 78 — 125 1814. Tanhurst ; weather. — Sir Wm. Garrow. — Case of the Earl dom of Airlie; Lord Eldon. — Adjournment of the Houses of Parliament. — Attorney-General appointed Chief Justice of Chester. — The Lord Chancellor. — Events on the Conti nent. — Tanhurst Debate on the Speaker. — Bill to take away corruption of blood. — Punishment of high treason. — Bill to subject freehold estates to the payment of simple contract debts Bill to repeal act of 5 Eliz. relating to ap prenticeships.- — (Note) letter to Dumont. — Treaty of peace with France. .— Slave trade. — Meeting of African Institu tion ; meeting in Freemasons' Hall. — Lord Erskine. — Poles. — Wilberforce's motion against the slave trade. — Illegal fees in courts of justice. — Lord Cochrane. — Irish Insurrection Bill. — Lord Cochrane re-elected for Westminster. — Duke of Sussex and Princess Charlotte of Wales. — Bill to subject freehold estates &c. — Corruption of blood ; punishment of treason ; note of Lord Eldon. — (Note) letter to Dumont. — Speech on the slave trade published. — Resignation of the Chancellorship of Durham; inefficiency of that court. — Militia kept embodied contrary to the act 42 Geo. III. — illness ... - 126—152 1815. Illness (Note). — Bill to subject freehold estates, &c. — Militia Corn law ; riots in London. — (Note) military punishments. — Bill to compel clerks of assize, and of the peace, to make returns of criminals. — Landing of Bonaparte in France ; Louis XVIII. quits Paris. — Difference between Lord Grey and Lord Grenville. — Bonaparte. — Regent's message to the VI CONTENTS. Houses of Parliament. — Scotch Jury Bill ; Ecclesiastical Courts. — Issues in courts of equity. — Bigamy. — Case of Robert Lathrop Murray. — Punishment of the pillory. — Whitbread's motion against war ; arguments for war ; argu ments for peace. — Sergeant Best's Insolvent Debtors' bill. — — Taxes on law proceedings. — Treaty with Austria, Prussia, and Russia against Bonaparte Grattan and Plunket Lord Erskine. — The subsidies to the Allies Bill to enable the King to embody the militia. — Proposed removal of disabilities fromj the Roman Catholics. — Conduct of Governor Ainslie at Grenada and Dominica. — Proposed registry of slaves ; Stephen, Wilberforce. — Return of slaves moved for. — Registry ; Wilberforce. — Military punishments ; speech ; Manners Sutton. — News of battle of Waterloo. — Trans portation ; increase of crime ; return of persons committed. — Chancellor ; his illness ; Master of the Rolls ; appoint ments, Jekyl, Stephen. — Freehold estates to be made as sets &c. ; Objections in the Lords. — Orange societies. — Pillory; bills passed by the Commons rejected by the Lords. — Thanks to the Duke of York. — Death of Whitbread. — Parliament prorogued. — Bonaparte; Sir Francis Burdett; letter from the Duke of Rovigo. — Captain Maitland's letter to Lord Melville. — Interview with the Chancellor. — Tour on the Continent ; Geneva; Italy; Bonaparte's works ; Ge noa ; King of Sardinia. — Paris ; removal of pictures, &c. from the Louvre; state of Paris. — King of France Alleged per fidy of the Allies. — Instability of the French government. — Return to England. — Death of the Duke of Norfolk. Pages 153—212 VS 16. Parliament meets after an unusually late prorogation. — Amend ment to the Address Freehold estates to be made assets &c. — Leach; his character. — Irish grand juries Vice- Chancellor. — Shoplifting Act ; police of the metropolis Late treaties of peace ; Lord Clancarty's letter ; French pleni potentiaries to the Duke of Wellington ; communication from Gallois. — Removal of works of art from the Louvre. — Great military peace establishment. — Property tax. — Persecution of Protestants in France. — Insolvent Debtors' Act ; petitions CONTENTS. VU against it. — Marriage of the Princess Charlotte. — Shoplift ing Act ; boy of ten years' old capitally convicted under it ; the Recorder ; Eliza Fenning. — Property tax rejected. — The Regent; Brougham. — Lord Stanhope on the Shoplifting Bill. — Remission of excise penalties Police of the metro polis. — Alien Bill. — Shoplifting Bill; Lord Holland's protest. — Persecution of Protestants in France. — Newspaper reports. — Attack in the Courier ; epigram. — Thanks of the French Protestant Committee. — Protests on the Shoplifting Bill. — Extents in aid. — Alien Bill. — Whitsun holidays; West, the painter ; Stoke ; the Regent. — Case of P. D. Perrot. — Lot teries. — Insolvent Debtors' Act. — Death of George Wilson. — Freehold estates to be made assets &c. ; Lord Grey ; pro test. — Insurrection at Barbadoes. — Lord Seaforth's endea vours respecting the law of murder. — Brougham and Can ning. — West Indians' claims to the benefits of the British constitution. — Alien Bill, and wrongous imprisonment Police committee. — Facility of enacting capital punish ments