Excerpt from Law and Lawyers, Vol. 2 of 2: Or Sketches and Illustrations of Legal History and Biography
Lawyers' Failures in Parliament - Secret of Parliamentary Suecess - Erskine on Burke's Oratory - Sir Charles Sewell and his Periwig - America a portion of East Greenwich - Serjeant Maynard - Lord Eldon on Fox's East India Bill - Lord Alvanley's Wit - Erskine in Parliament - Lord Mansfield - Lord Ellenborough - Lord Thurlow - Lord Loughborough - Sir S. Romilly - Sir J. Mackintosh - Sir E. Sugden - Mr. Twiss and Lord Brougham - Mr. Pemberton - Lord Denman and Sir Charles Wetherell - Chancellor Jeffreys - Lawyers in the House of Lords - Lawyers excluded from Parliament.
It has been recorded that, in a debate in the House of Commons, on the commercial treaty of 1713, when Sir Richard Steele rose to speak, several members cried out, "Tatler! Tatler!"
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