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rank, and, not having any other, returned behind the 

 bar, Lord Mansfield announced that he should call 

 upon him after those who had precedence ; and the 

 bar intimated that they had intended to propose the 

 same thing had the Chief Justice not anticipated them/"" 

 Dunning had not held his official rank longer than we 

 had ours. The injury to my seniors was very great 

 of the rank being refused by the Crown, from the 

 personal hatred of the King and the timidity of 

 Eldon. Several men were nearly thrown out of practice, 

 because, being my seniors, they could not hold junior 

 briefs with me. In Denman's case a remedy was 

 afforded by the City of London choosing him their 

 Common Sergeant. Lord Tenterden was not the man 

 to apply a remedy as Mansfield had done in Dunning's 

 case, though certainly Dunning was as much as possible 

 opposed politically to Mansfield, and showed as little 

 deference to him professionally. But Tenterden re- 

 collected the preceding year, and well knew the King's 

 personal antipathy both to Denman and myself. This 

 spite of the King's, so well seconded by Eldon's want 

 of nerve and the shabbiness of the other legal autho- 

 rities, was very distressing in its consequences ; and I 

 felt it strongly, though of course I had no hand in it ; 

 but others, and not myself, were really the sufferers. 

 My practice recovered rapidly, and in one year I made 

 in a stuff gown above 7000 : so that in 1827, when 

 pressed to take the rank so long withheld, I at first 

 declined ; but it was urged on account of others, and 

 I consented. While my exclusion continued, it was 



* In 1768 lie liad been appointed Solicitor-General in Lord Shelburne's 

 first Administration. He resigned this office on the change of ministry 

 in 1769. 



