Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly

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CONTENTS

THE THIRD VOLUME.

DIARY OF THE PARLIAMENTARY LIFE OF

SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY- (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,

electors. Military punishments.

Committee on the delays in the

second address to the

Cobbett's attack.

Court of Chancery. - Disqualifying laws against Catholics.

Delays in the Court of Chancery.

chequer. Reform of Parliament.

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.

new administration; Lord Wellesley, Lord Moira, Lord Eldon,

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.
of Norfolk. - Prayer