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he was able. I have observed that in all his publications he is very 
particular in having F.R.S.E. appended to his name as author. 
Lord Campbell was educated at St Andrews, where he was a co- 
temporary of Thomas Chalmers and of David Wilkie ; though younger 
than either, for it appears he entered St Andrews at the precocious 
age of ten. Young Campbell was intended for the ministry, but he 
soon found that his calling was not to the Church. His sense of unfit- 
ness for clerical studies, joined with ambition to shine at the English 
bar, led him to London. Mr Sergeant Spankey, then editor of the 
“ Morning Chronicle,” gave him employment as reporter and critic. 
He seemed to have retained his connection with that paper up to 
1810, and, what is curious, chiefly as a dramatic critic, writing thea- 
trical articles. Young Campbell showed also at this time that he 
could claim resemblance to accomplished Roman lawyers, and, for 
example, to one celebrated by Horace — Asinius Pollio — who was not 
only a lawyer and statesman, historian, and conversant with the 
“ musa tragoediee,” but soldier also, as Campbell had joined the 
Bloomsbury and Inns of Court Volunteers, which consisted exclusively 
of barristers, attorneys, law-students, and clerks. To this circum- 
stance he jocularly referred in after life, in a suit he was trying 
connected with a volunteer regiment, by saying that he had himself 
once been a soldier, as a member of the corps, composed as I have 
said of diverse members of the legal profession, and which he re- 
ferred to as well known in the capital under the name of The Devil's 
Own. His great object, however, was law. He entered as a stu- 
dent of Lincoln’s-Inn in 1800, and commenced special pleading under 
that great master of the art, Mr Tidd, who at one time could point 
to four pupils of his own sitting in the House of Peers, — Lords Lynd- 
hurst, Denman, Cottenham, Campbell, — all of whom constantly 
acknowledged their deep obligation to their master. He was called 
to the bar in 1806, and went the Oxford Circuit, where he soon 
obtained considerable practice. It was to London business, how- 
ever, that he looked, and he was soon in great London practice — 
getting high fees in shipping cases, and in special jury cases at Guild- 
hall. It is well known that in establishing practice for a young 
lawyer much depends upon the favour with which he is regarded 
by the attorneys. Lord Campbell in his. “ Life of Pratt,” Chief- 
Justice of the King’s Bench, and father of the Marquis of Camp- 
den, says of him, that for eight or nine years his practice did not 
