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able and useful assistance of Wilde, who had been bred 

 an attorney, and but lately come to the bar, and of 

 Tindal, then rising into the great practice which he 

 soon obtained, and kept till he became Chief-Justice 

 of the Common Pleas. We owed the great benefit of 

 Wilde to the Alderman pressing him upon the Queen, 

 to which we readily assented.* We always felt that 

 Wilde had been put upon us as more fully trusted by 

 the secret advisers of the Queen than we were, and he 

 began with these suspicions infused into us against 

 him. We very soon found how utterly groundless 

 these suspicions were, and saw that they arose from 

 our discretion and circumspection being greater than 

 that of his recommenders, who were in the hands 

 of the mob, and had no discretion or circumspection 

 at all. 



Her solicitor was Vizard, whose strictly honourable 

 character and professional talents, with his sound judg- 

 ment, made him a valuable associate ; and his trust- 

 worthiness, the most essential recommendation in so 

 delicate a case, led to my treating him as one of the 

 counsel rather than the solicitor only. The experience 

 which I had had of him in the great commercial ques- 

 tion of the Orders in Council, 1808, when I recom- 

 mended him to the petitioners, and afterwards, in 

 1812, when I represented them in Parliament, left me 

 no doubt about recommending him to the Queen. 



In some respects I stood in a different position from 

 all my colleagues. I had been the Queen's adviser 

 for many years, including the critical times of 1813 



* Alderman Wood, a zealous but not very wise partisan : for some of 

 the foolish advice he gave to the Queen, he got the name of " ABSOLUTE 

 WISDOM." 



