expect it will be reversed. Leach,
foolishly enough, by question and observation, exhibited a strong
bias against the Chancellor, who never said a word, and appeared
very calm and easy, but with rage in his heart, for he was indignant
at these Lords having been summoned (as his secretary told
Lennard[6]), and said 'he was sure it was all Leach's doing.' What a
man! how wonderful! how despicable! carrying into the administration
of justice the petty vanity, personal jealousy and pique, and
shuffling arts that would reflect ridicule and odium on a silly
woman of fashion. He has smuggled his Privy Council Bill through the
House of Lords without the slightest notice or remark.

[5] [An appeal lies to the King in Council from orders of
the Lord Chancellor in lunacy, but there are very few
examples of the prosecution of appeals of this nature.
This case of Drax _v._ Grosvenor, which is reported in
'Knapp's Privy Council Cases,' was therefore one of
great peculiarity. The Bill constituting the Judicial
Committee had not at this time become law; this appeal
was therefore heard by a Committee of the Lords of the
Council, to which any member of the Privy Council might
be summoned. Care was taken that the highest legal
authorities should be present. It was the last time
Lord Eldon sat in a court of law. Lord Brougham, the
Chancellor, sat on the Committee, although the appeal
was brought from an order made by himself: this
practice had not been uncommon in the House of Lords,
but it had not been the practice of the Privy Council,
where indeed the case could seldom arise.]

[6] [John Barrett Lennard, Esq., was Chief Clerk of the
Council Office.]

May 16th, 1833 {p.370}

On coming to town found the Westminster election just over, and
Evans returned. They would not hear Hobhouse, and pelted him and
his friends. No Secretary for Ireland is to be found, for the man
must be competent, and sure of re-election. Few are the first and
none the last. Hobhouse is generally censured for having put
Government in this great difficulty, but the Tories see it all
with a sort of grim satisfaction, and point at it as a happy
illustration of the benefits of the Reform Bill. I point too, but
I don't rejoice.

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