THE

BENCH AND THE BAR.

VOL. I.

THE

BENCH AND THE BAR.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

"RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LORDS AND COMMONS,"
"THE GREAT METROPOLIS,"

&c. &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1837.

OTHER

LONDON:

PRINTED BY IBOTSON AND PALMER,

SAVOY STREET.

PREFACE.

IN submitting the present work to the public, the Author wishes it to be considered as a companion to his "Random Recollections of the Lords and Commons,"-it being written on the same plan, and as nearly as possible in the same style. In the estimates he has formed of the various members of "The Bench and the Bar," whose names he has introduced into his pages, he has been most anxious to avoid saying anything which could by possibility be construed into an ill-natured observation; while at the same time he has not shrunk from that free expression of his opinions which could alone confer any value on a work of this kind.