TEW YORK

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SOR, LENOX AND
DEN FOUNDATIONS
1916

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,
13 Chambers Street, N. Y.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

LORD NORBURY.

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-

tion....

CLONMEL ASSIZES.

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Murder of Mr. Chadwick.-Trial and Execution of Patrick Grace.-The

Approver and Vengeance.-Murder of Daniel Mara.-Trial of the As-

sassins. Earl of Kingston.-The Melodrama of Crime--Capital

Conviction.-Causes of Irish Disaffection...

THE CATHOLIC BAR.

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.

-Catholic Marriages.-Money.-The Court of Chancery.-A Cath-

olic Lawyer's Religious Manifestations..

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

a Baronet.-His Danish Ancestor..

LORD-CHANCELLOR BLACKBURNE.

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-

ry. . . . . .

CONFESSIONS OF A JUNIOR BARRISTER.

Training for the Bar.-Gale Jones.-Early Struggles.—An Aggregate

Meeting. Results of an Oration.-The Lawyer in Love.-A Double

Confidant.-Eloquence de Billet.-The Gain of Godliness.- Hope de-

ferred.-Dancing into Practice...

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LORD-CHANCELLOR MANNERS.

His Biography.-Farewell to the Irish Bar.-Mr. Joy's Valediction.-

Catholic Magistrates.- Dublin Corporation.

THE MANNERS TESTIMONIAL.

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Scenes in the Chancellor's Career.-The Jesuits.-Judicial Incompetency.

-Lord Rathdown in Character....

THE CATHOLIC DEPUTATION.

184

Catholic Politics in 1825.-Invasion of England.-O'Connell en ronte.—

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

ARCHIBALD HAMILTON ROWAN.

An Irish Patriot.- Remarkable Exterior.- Flight from Prison.-Jackson's

Chivalry. Asylum in America...

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JOHN LESLIE FOSTER.

Louth Election in 1826.-The Roden and Oriel League.- Harry Mills,

the "Village Hampden."-Cost of making a Peer.-Leslie Foster in

Parliament. Nobility among the Commons.-Marquis of Anglesey.—

Bot Smith.-The Customs' Job.-Foster in Ermine..

THE CLARE ELECTION, IN 1828.

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

Speech." The Duke" and Catholic Emancipation.....

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PENENDEN HEATH MEETING.

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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.-Francis Jef-

frey. Scarlett.-Jocky Bell.-- The Speaker.-Lord Denman....

STATE OF PARTIES IN DUBLIN.

340

Recent Changes.-Mr. Bellew "in Silk Attire."-O'Loghlin.-Purcel

O'Gorman.- Dublin Election.-The Candidates: Moore and Recorder

Shaw, Harty and Louis Perrin.-Sir Anthony Hart and the Master of

the Rolls.- Mr. Saurin.-Dutch Smugglers.-Popular Triumph...... 354

INDEX...
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