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the Attorney and Solicitor-General , Talbot and Hamwicke , in an appeal cause before the House of Peers ; and in 1737 he was retained as the junior counsel for the defendant , in the trial between Theophilus Gibber and Mr . Sloper . On this occasion the senior counsel happening to be seized with a fit in court , Mr . Murray , with only one hour ' s preparation , made a very eloquent defence ,-which added greatly to his reputation . Indeed , his conduct that day may be fairly said to have made his fortune , for he himself
was ever after accustomed to observe , " business nc-iv poured in upon me on all sides ; and from a few hundred pounds a year , I fortunately found myself , in every subsequent year . In possession of thousands . " In 1738 he married Lad y Elizabeth Finch , one of the six daughters of Daniel Earl of Winchelsea ; and this union added considerable fortune , and family connections , td his other advantages . In the ' same year , out of fifteen or sixteen appeals heard and determined in the House , of Lords , Mr . Murray
was employed in no less than eleven . After ten years praciice at the Chancery bar , he was appointed Solicitor-General in 1742 . In 174 . 6 , he distinguished himself on the trial of the rebel lords .
In 175 ) he was accused of being a rank jacobite ; his biographer and Junius , both of whom record and animadvert on the event , draw very different conclusions from the evidence . This circumstance , however , did not hurt his preferment , for in 1754 be succeeded Sir Dudley Rider , as his Majesty ' s Attorney-General , and on the death of that great lawyer , in 1756 , he was nominated Chief Justice of the King ' s Bench .
. ' Before he had been six months in office , he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer , fro tempore , and is here said to have brought about a coalition between Mr . Fox , afterwards Lord Holland , and Mr . Pitt , afterwards Earl of Chatham . The good of the state vvas the ostensible pretext for a junction of councils and interests , and proved perhaps beneficial only to the contracting parties . After this political , we are favoured with an humorous anecdote .
' One of the Right Reverend Bench having very charitably established an almshouse , at his own expence , for twenty-five poor women , Mr . Murray , in his juvenile days , was applied to for an inscription to be placed over the portal of the house ; upon which he took up his pencil , and immediatel y Wrote the following :
' Under this roof The Lord Bishop of Keeps No less than twenty-five women . " - We are next presented with a historical-series of all the celebrated decisions of Lord Mansfield while he presided in the King ' s Bench . This forms the principal merit of the work before us .
It does justice to his Lordship ' s discernment , that be was adverse to the prosecution of Mr . Wilkes : 'Lira decidedly against the prosecution , ' ' said he to some of his friends , ' his consequence will die away if you let him alone ; but by public notice of him , you will increase his consequence ; the very thing he covets , and has in full view . ' It must be allowed , on the other hand , that , in his judicial capacity he was not wholly exempt from the imputation of mingling politics with his law
, particularly in cases ot libels ; he also incurred much blame on the trial of Lord Grosvenor with the late . Duke of Cumberland . In the cases of the Quakers , Presbyterians , and Roman Catholics , he displayed great liberality ; he also merited the praise of being a steady patron , a warm friend , and a very excellent master .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of New Publications.
the Attorney and Solicitor-General , Talbot and Hamwicke , in an appeal cause before the House of Peers ; and in 1737 he was retained as the junior counsel for the defendant , in the trial between Theophilus Gibber and Mr . Sloper . On this occasion the senior counsel happening to be seized with a fit in court , Mr . Murray , with only one hour ' s preparation , made a very eloquent defence ,-which added greatly to his reputation . Indeed , his conduct that day may be fairly said to have made his fortune , for he himself
was ever after accustomed to observe , " business nc-iv poured in upon me on all sides ; and from a few hundred pounds a year , I fortunately found myself , in every subsequent year . In possession of thousands . " In 1738 he married Lad y Elizabeth Finch , one of the six daughters of Daniel Earl of Winchelsea ; and this union added considerable fortune , and family connections , td his other advantages . In the ' same year , out of fifteen or sixteen appeals heard and determined in the House , of Lords , Mr . Murray
was employed in no less than eleven . After ten years praciice at the Chancery bar , he was appointed Solicitor-General in 1742 . In 174 . 6 , he distinguished himself on the trial of the rebel lords .
In 175 ) he was accused of being a rank jacobite ; his biographer and Junius , both of whom record and animadvert on the event , draw very different conclusions from the evidence . This circumstance , however , did not hurt his preferment , for in 1754 be succeeded Sir Dudley Rider , as his Majesty ' s Attorney-General , and on the death of that great lawyer , in 1756 , he was nominated Chief Justice of the King ' s Bench .
. ' Before he had been six months in office , he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer , fro tempore , and is here said to have brought about a coalition between Mr . Fox , afterwards Lord Holland , and Mr . Pitt , afterwards Earl of Chatham . The good of the state vvas the ostensible pretext for a junction of councils and interests , and proved perhaps beneficial only to the contracting parties . After this political , we are favoured with an humorous anecdote .
' One of the Right Reverend Bench having very charitably established an almshouse , at his own expence , for twenty-five poor women , Mr . Murray , in his juvenile days , was applied to for an inscription to be placed over the portal of the house ; upon which he took up his pencil , and immediatel y Wrote the following :
' Under this roof The Lord Bishop of Keeps No less than twenty-five women . " - We are next presented with a historical-series of all the celebrated decisions of Lord Mansfield while he presided in the King ' s Bench . This forms the principal merit of the work before us .
It does justice to his Lordship ' s discernment , that be was adverse to the prosecution of Mr . Wilkes : 'Lira decidedly against the prosecution , ' ' said he to some of his friends , ' his consequence will die away if you let him alone ; but by public notice of him , you will increase his consequence ; the very thing he covets , and has in full view . ' It must be allowed , on the other hand , that , in his judicial capacity he was not wholly exempt from the imputation of mingling politics with his law
, particularly in cases ot libels ; he also incurred much blame on the trial of Lord Grosvenor with the late . Duke of Cumberland . In the cases of the Quakers , Presbyterians , and Roman Catholics , he displayed great liberality ; he also merited the praise of being a steady patron , a warm friend , and a very excellent master .