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Going Circuit. The South of Ireland.-Rules of Legal Travelling.-

An Approver.-Lord Avonmore.-An Irish Assize Town.-Larry Cro-

nan's Trial.-O'Connell's Success with Juries.-Trial of John Scanlan

for Murder.-Was he executed?......

HALL OF THE FOUR COURTS, DUBLIN.

O'Connell, Bushe, Lord Plunket, and H. D. Grady.—Curran.-Lord Clare.
-Serving Writs in Connaught.

DANIEL O'CONNELL.

In his Study, in the Four Courts, at a Popular Meeting, at a Public Din-

ner.- - His Personal Appearance.- Merits as a Nisi-Prius, and Crown

Lawyer. Influence with Juries.-As Catholic Leader.-Duel with

D'Esterre.-On Circuit.-In Parliament.

LORD PLUNKET.

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His Origin.-Conviction of the Sheareses.—Trial of Robert Emmett.— His

Intellectual Supremacy.—Style of his Oratory.- Personal Appearance.

-In Parliament.- His Catholic Politics.-Grattan.-Raised to the

Bench.-Appointed Lord-Chancellor.- His Enforced Resignation.... 98

CHIEF-JUSTICE BUSHE.

Descent.-The Historical Society.-An Anti-Unionist.-Solicitor-General.
-Catholic Board.-Aspect, Voice, and Gesture, as an Orator.- His

Conversation, Wit, and Eloquence.-Is made Chief-Justice......

ATTORNEY-GENERAL SAURIN.

121

Huguenot Descent.-Lord Clonmel.-Business Habits.-Opposes the

Union. As Attorney-General.-- Anti-Catholic Politics.-Loss of Office.

-Deportment and Aspect.-Skill as an Advocate.-Distaste for Letters. 150

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CHIEF-BARON JOY.

His Tory Politics.-Sympathy with Saurin.-Bar Advancement.-Is made
Solicitor-General.- His Legal and Scientific Attainments.-Skill at
Cross-Examination.-Character as a Judge.

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CALAMITIES OF THE BAR.

An Unfortunate Lawyer.-Tragic Scene.- Lord Manners.-The French

Bar.-Trippier, the Parisian avocat.—The Lawyer's Progress.—“ Mac-

Dougall of the Roar."- Pomposo, a Sketch from Life.-Monks of the

Screw.-Jerry Keller.-Norcott, the Renegade, and his Fate.

CHIEF-JUSTICE LEFROY.

186

A Saintly Lawyer.-O'Connell on Catholic Education.-Lefroy in the

Chancery Court.-Captain Rock in Limerick.- Raised to the Bench.. 216

MR. SERGEANT GOOLD.

An Amirable Crichton.-Sows his Wild Oats.-Edmund Burke.-Goold's

Nisi-Prius Practice.-His Vanity.-Opposes the Union.-Sir Jonah

Barrington.-Goold's Election Evidence.—Is made Master in Chancery. 232

MR. NORTH, JUDGE OF THE ADMIRALTY COURT.

Brilliant University Career.—At the Bar.-Irish Eloquence.-Compara-

tive Failure in Parliament.-Neutrality in Politics.-The Bottle Riot.. 252

MR. WALLACE.

Professional Progress.- High Repute in Jury Cases.-License of the Bar.

-Catholic Meeting.-Grattan's last Public Appearance.

WEXFORD ASSIZES.

The Leinster Circuit.-Archbishop Magee.-Bishop Elrington's Anti-

Necromantic Movement.-Irish Peasant-Girls.-A Pic-Nic Excursion.

-Massacre on the Old Bridge of Wexford.-Q'Connell's Triumphal

Entry.-Chief-Justice Bushe and Judge Johnson.-Trial of Father Car-

roll: Monomania.

CHIEF-JUSTICE DOHERTY.

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As an Advocate, and Crown-Lawyer.—Judges Perrin and Crampton.-

Lord-Chancellor Manners' Inefficiency.-George Canning's Career.-

Doherty versus O'Connell.-Raised to the Bench.- Declines a Peerage. 311

THE DUBLIN TABINET BALL.

"The Liberty" of Dublin.—An American Marchioness.-Lord Wellesley

as Bridegroon and Viceroy.-Sir Harcourt Lees.-"Ireland's only

Duke."-Lord Edward Fitzgerald.-Lady Morgan.-The Younger

Grattan.-Curran.-"The Tenth."-An Irish Hebe.

CATHOLIC LEADERS AND ASSOCIATIONS.

Confederates of 1642.-Enactment of the Penal Laws.-Catholic Com-

mittees.-Wolfe Tone and John Keogh.-O'Connell's first Appearance.

- Denis Scully, and Æneas M'Donnell.-Lords French, Fingal, and Kil-

leen.-Doctor Drumgoole.-George IV. in Ireland.-Catholic Associ-

ation founded.-Bishop Doyle and the Sorbonne Doctors.-Archbish-

ops Troy, Curtis, and Murray.-Bishop Kelly..

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