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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 14: first weeks in London.—June and July, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
te to pronounce him a master orator. All my prejudices are against him; he is unprincipled as a politician, and as a man; and his legal reputation has sunk very much by the reversal of his judgment in the case of Small v. Attwood, Clark and Finnelly (House of Lords), Vol. VI. pp. 232-531. The Lords read their opinions on March 22, 1838. The case involved the right to rescind a contract on account of fraud. in which it is said Brougham exerted himself with superhuman energy: notwithstandin an Alexandrine postscript. . . . I have not spoken of arguments before the Lords. I have attended one, and sat in conversation with the Attorney-General, Lushington, and Clark, the reporter. Charles Clark, reporter (in association with W. Finnelly) of cases in the House of Lords. The Chancellor sat at the table below the woolsack; the benches of the Lords were bare; only two unfortunate members, to whom by rotation it belonged to tend-out in this manner, were present in order to consti