shire Sessions, 44. Leading members of Midland Circuit, 44. Mr. Ser-
jeant Vaughan, 44. Mr. Clarke, K.C., 44. Mr. John Balguy, K.C.,
45. Denman's friends, 45. Reader, 46. Dwarris, 46. Empson, 46.
Copley (Lyndhurst) and Francis Horner, 46. Denman's regret at Copley's
political apostasy, 47. Denman's early position and progress on circuit,
48. Extracts from Midland Circuit Book relating to him, 49. His first
retainer in town, 49. Letter to his wife from circuit, July 17, 1808, 50.
Denman's connection through Merivale and Bland with the "Critical
Review," 51. Extract from his notice of Chief Justice Marshall's “Life
of Washington," 52. Dr. Denman suggests legal publication as a means
of professional advancement, 53. Denman's reply, July 6, 1808, 53.
Letter of Denman to his wife from circuit, April 2, 1810, 54. Copley
and Denman at Miss Linwood's ball, 55. Walcheren expedition, 55.
The money runs short at home, 56. Money difficulties of Denman's
earlier professional life, 56. Never famous for prudence or economy, 56.
Mrs. Baillie's testimony, 56. Mrs. Hodgson's account, 56. She rather
blames Dr. Denman's parsimony, 57. Homely and frugal ways of Dr.
Denman and his wife, 57. "One luxury is enough," 57. The yearly
allowance doled out in weekly instalments, 57. Fondness of Dr. and
Mrs. Denman for their grandchildren, 57. Mrs. Hodgson's recollections
of them, 57. Prizes for being gentlewomen, 57. Primitive simplicity of
Dr. and Mrs. Denman's household, 59. Denman as a husband and a
father, 58. Mrs. Baillie's recollections, 58. His elevating influence on
his daughters, 58. Mrs. Hodgson's recollections of her mother and father,
58. His romps with his girls when children, 59. Poetic readings as they
grew older, 59. Took them with him on his journeys, 59. A child's day
at chambers and in Lincoln's Inn Gardens, 59. "Shooting the bridge,"
59. Denman an equally kind father to his sons as to his daughters, 59.
Letter to his wife, June 10, 1811, illustrative of his then circumstances
and social position in London, 60. His old friend Bland at Amsterdam,
61. Letter from him thence, 62. His return to England in October,
1811, 63. Byron's high opinion of Bland, 63. Byron in 1811 and 1812
intimate with Hodgson, Bland, Merivale, and Drury, 63. Denman only
once in Byron's society, 63. Reason of this, 63.
tract from letter from Merivale to Denman, Nov. 22,
of Denman's uncle Dr. Joseph Denman, in 1812, 67.
property, 67. The story of the poisoned bottles, 67.
duced by the occurrence on Denman, 68. Makes him cautious as to cir-
cumstantial evidence, 68. Letter from Denman to his wife on the death
of her brother, Lieutenant Charles Vevers, R. N., at the storming of San
Sebastian, August 31, 1813, 69. From same to same, April 7, 1814, 69.
Delight at fall of Napoleon, 70. "Rooted success ""
on circuit, 71.
Defence, in July, 1814, of some of the associates of Lord Cochrane in the
Stock Exchange Conspiracy, 71. The trial before Lord Ellenborough,
71. Partial summing up and severe sentence, 71. After career of Lord
Cochrane (Earl of Dundonald), 72. Denman, in August and September,
1814, visits France with his wife and children, 72. Extracts from letters to
Merivale describing the trip, 72. Meeting and reconciliation with Francis
Horner, 73.
Horner's subsequent death by consumption, 73. Public
honors paid to; Mackintosh's remarks on, 74. Political speculations of
Denman in 1814 as to Bonaparte and the Bourbons, 74. Theatricals in
Paris; music and dancing, 75. Column of the Place Vendome, 76. Ed-
mund Kean, 76. Denman appointed Deputy Recorder of Nottingham,
1815, 76. Death of his father, November, 1815, 77. Vigorous old age
of Dr. Dennman, 77. His death sudden at last, 77. His character by
his daughter, Mrs. Baillie, 77. His treatise on midwifery and lectures,
77.
Denman's practice on circuit and sessions very considerable in 1816, 1817,
78. Defence of Luddite prisoners in 1816, 78. Circuit Book entries,
78. Condition of the operatives in Nottinghamshire and the Midland
Counties during and after the close of the Great War, 79. Byron's testi-
mony to the condition of English operatives in the House of Lords, Feb-
ruary 27, 1812, 79. Distress of the people increased after the termination
of the war, 8o. Heavy taxation, So. No reform, either social or political,
80. Poor laws, 80. Corn laws, 80. Eldon, Sidmouth, and Castlereagh, So.
Effect of the great French Revolution on the propertied classes and the pro-
letariate in England, So. The year 1817, 81. Famine price of bread, St.
Stagnation of trade, 81. General want of employinent, 81. Distress in
Nottinghamshire and the neighboring counties, 81. Rising under Jere-
miah Brandreth," the Nottingham Captain," 81. Brandreth's address to
his followers, June 8, 1817, 81. Plan of operations, 82. Night march
of the rioters, June 9, 1817, 82. Brandreth shoots Mrs. Hepworth's ser-
vant, 82. Terror inspired, 82. Arms seized, 82. The yeomanry assem-
ble, 82. Insurgents aisperse at dawn, 82. The leaders captured, 82.
Special Commission at Derby, October 14, to try the rioters on a charge
of high treason, 82. Denman retained for the defence of Brandreth,
Turner, and Ludlam, 83. Facts clearly proved, 83. Only question
whether they constituted the offence of high treason by "levying war
against the king," 83. Argument on this point in speech for Brandreth,
83. Brandreth convicted of high treason, 84. Denman, in speaking for
Ludlam and Turner, dwells on the strange power of Brandreth over his
fellow-men quotes Byron's description of Conrad in the "Corsair," 85.
Conviction and sentence of the three prisoners, 86. Their execution, No-
vember 7, 1817, 86. Graciousness of his Royal Highness the Prince
Regent, 26. Letter from Denman to Merivale of September 10, 1817,
87. Miss Austen's “Emma,” 87. Bland and Hodgson, 87. Ride from
Leamington to Dunsbourne (Dr. Baillie's), 87. Studying the law of high
treason at Fontainebleau, 88. More facts as to Brandreth, 88. In
prison before trial, 88. "No more Derbyshire ribs," 88. Oliver, the
government spy, 89. What shall we do with our boys? 89.
Denman, in 1818, returned to Parliament for the close borough of Ware-
ham, 90.
Letter to his brother-in-law, Vevers, August 21, 1818, 90.
His political stand-point, 91. A constitutional Whig, opposed to Burdett
and the Radicals, 91. Denman takes his seat January 14, 1819, 91. The
Whig opposition in 1819, 91. Denman's earlier career in the House of
Commons less brilliant than was expected, 91. Causes of this, 92. Par-
liamentary distinction not his first object, 92. Doubtful whether he
ever could have become a leading debater in the House of Commons, 92.
His talents and character better lapted for the House of Lords, 92.
Denman's course as a member of the House of Commons honorable, use-
ful, and enlightened, 92. His own estimate of his House of Commons
career from 1819 to 1826, 93. The first session of 1819, 93. Legal re-
forms advocated by Denman, 93. Opposes allowance of 10,000l. a year
to the Duke of York for taking care of the King his father, 94. Speech
on Foreign Enlistment Bill, 94. The Holy Alliance characterized, 95.
The recess, 95. Condition of the people in 1819, 95. Meetings for radi-
cal reform of Parliament, 95. The Manchester Massacre, August 19,
1819, 95. Meetings called to protest against it, 96. Lord Fitzwilliam,
for presiding at one, dismissed from the Lord Lieutenancy of the West
Riding, 96. Second session of 1819, 96. The Six Acts, 96. Denman's
opposition to, 96. Denounces the Manchester Massacre, 96. Speech
against the Seditious Meetings Bill, 97. Against the Blasphemous Libels
Bill, 97.
Close of the session of the Six Acts, 98. Death of George III.
and accession of George IV., Jan. 29, 1820, 98. The Cato Street con-
spiracy, 98. Dissolution of Parliament, 99. Denman invited to stand
for Nottingham, 99. Returned after a close contest, 99. Expenses of
the election, 99. Denman's means a good deal crippled by them, 99.
His difficulty in getting money together, 99. Letter to his wife from
Warwick, April 10, 1820, 100. Dr. Parr at Hatton and in Warwick for
the Assizes, 100. The Blands at Kenilworth, 100. Michael Angelo Tay-
lor, 101. Messrs. Parkes's smoke-consuming apparatus, 101. Last ses-
sions as Deputy-Recorder of Nottingham, 101. Political feeling there
Denman's MS. narrative of the year 1820,
How dealt with, 102. Antecedents of
the Queen, 103.
Lives separate from her husband since 1796, 103. His
scandalous profligacy, 103. She leaves England in 1814 and resides
abroad till 1820, 103. Her conduct while abroad, 103. Milan Commis-
sion in 1818, 103. Its secret report, 1819, 103. The Queen's name
ordered to be omitted from the Liturgy, Feb. 11, 1820, 103. The Queen
determines to come to England, 104. This determination supported by
Wood, 104. Opposed by Brougham, 104. Antagonism between Brough-
am and Wood, 104. Denman takes a middle line, 104. His chivalrous
feeling for the Queen, 104. Feeling of the people for the Queen and
against the King, 105. Commencement of MS. narrative, 105. Denman
appointed Solicitor-General to the Queen, Brougham being her Attorney-
General, 105. Ought the Queen to come to England? 105. Arguments
in favor of her coming, 105. Alderman Wood, 106. Denman's opinion
of him, 106. Brougham's nickname for him, "Absolute Wisdom," 106.
Line of the Whig Opposition, 106. Tierney's alternative policy, 106.
Scheme of a divorce, 106. Sir John Leach, 107. Denman's opinion of
the Whi≈ policy, 107. Tierney's interview with Denman as to his ac-
ceptance of office from the Queen, 107. Possibility of the King's taking
a fancy to the Queen, 107. Fat, fair and fifty," 107. Interview of
Brougham and Denman with Lord Eldon respecting professional rank,
108. "The serpent more subtle than all the beasts of the field," 103.
Brougham and Denman called to the Bench of Lincoln's Inn, 108. Sir F.
Burdett tried at Leicester, March 20, 1820, for seditious libel, 108.
Makes his own speech and is convicted, 108. Denman moves for a new
trial, 109. Mr. Justice Bayley's judgment in Rex v. Burdett, 109. The
Queen leaves Italy and arrives at Geneva, 109. Alderman Wood goes to
Geneva to meet her, 110. Queen at St. Omer's, 110. Brougham goes
to meet her, I10. She leaves him there and sets out for London, where
she arrives June 6, 110. Denman, in Brougham's absence, acts as her
chief law officer, 110. Brougham arrives, 110.
meet the Queen at Alderman Wood's house, III.
the streets, III. Alderman Wood by her side, III. The Queen in
sight, 112. The Queen's bearing, dress, and appearance 112. "That beast
Wood," 112. The Queen's delusion as to the King's feeling for her, 112.
Denman's first reception by the Queen, 112. Brougham imparts his ap-
prehensions to Denman, 113. Denman's testimony as to Brougham's zeal
for his client, 113. The Queen's suspicions of Brougham, 113. The
charges against the Queen opened in the House of Commons, 113.
Brougham's incomparable first speech, 114. Queen's suspicions of
Brougham not removed, 114. Social position of the Queen, 114. Are
the ladies to call upon her? 115. Mrs. Brougham and Mrs. Denman do
not call, 115. Denman's reflections on this, 115. Remarks by the
present writer, 116. High spirit of the Queen, 116. "I will be
crowned," 116. Addresses to the Queen, 116. Her reception of the Lord
Mayor and Common Council, 116. Her popularity with the London
mob, 117.
Amicable arrangements attempted, 118.
Conference between Wellington
and Castlereagh for the King, and Brougham and Denman for the Queen,
118. First meeting on June 14, 118. Conference broken off on the 19th,
118. Description of the interview in the personal narrative, 118.
Attempts at mediation by House of Commons, 119. Wilberforce's mo-
tion June 22, 119. Denman's speech, "All that are desolate and op-
pressed," 119. Castlereagh avows that the striking the name out of the
Liturgy was the King's own act, 120. Hence the Queen's resolution to
make no terms, 120. Wood (and Denman too) opposed to her leaving
England, 120. Hesitation of the Queen, 120. Brougham prepares
answer accepting, Denman one rejecting, the House of Commons' address,
120. How the Queen receives the House of Commons deputation, 121.
The address rejected, 121. The Queen's answer to the address read in
the House of Commons, 121. Curious Scene, 122. Denman's view of
the conduct at this crisis of ministers and the majority, 122.
The country
gentlemen, 123. Attempts at arrangement having failed the inquiry goes
on, 123. Petition at Bar of Lords to suspend proceedings of Secret Com-
mittee till arrival of witnesses, June 26, 123. Denman's quotation:
"Some cogging, cozening slave," etc., 124. Bill of Pains and Penalties
introduced, July 5, 124. Resolved that the trial should commence on
August 17, 124. Counsel for the Queen, 124. Wilde brought into the
case by Wood, 124. Feeling against him at first, 124. Denman's testi-
mony to his usefulness and ability, 125. Pause in proceedings from July
IC to August 17, 125. Brougham and Denman on circuit, 126. Den-
:nar's exertions and fatigue, 126. Defends Major Cartwright, 126. Pre-
sides at Nottingham election dinner, 126. Return to London, 126.
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