The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-12 00:00:00

DEATH OF LORD LYNDHURST,

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OUR LADY NOVELISTS.—" Thirty years ago,''
says the Saturday Review, "no one could have
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the eyes of Englishwomen, and what a lucrative and en-
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poetic musings. There are heights in their profession just as
there are valleys, and no one can despise authoresses in the
days of ' Adam Bede' and Heart's Ease.' The authoress of
Adam Bede' goes, we confess, higher than we should have
supposed a woman could go, for she unites many excellences
that the world has hitherto thought reserved for men. If
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mour in print, we cannot recall her to mind. Romola' also
makes it clear that she can enter into spiritual difficulties,
and can view the range of spiritual facts with a breadth, a
calmness, and an insight that we should, but for her, have
considered exclusively masculine. Miss Martineau, too,
though not very strong on subjects like these, shows that a
woman can treat politics and political economy with
and good sense. In the walks that are more pe-
culiarly their own authoresses every day show surprising
power. They especiallyth
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publicthey combine the various elements
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as the Chronicles of Carr
of feminine fiction—ill the works and in the lower range
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of Mrs. Wood and Miss
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that the composition of - novel s
thing. As for mere tales, the quantityypnrodmuceeadnbsya:o:ln 31
every year is past all calculation ; and althowfh fiction of
some sort is the general vehicle for the thoughts of
authoresses, yet they produ3o a considerable amount
of other matter, and with fair success, Nor is there the
slightest sign of this state of things ceasing, or any reason
why it should cease. The public that reads the novels writ-
ten by women, or relishes the publications in which the
compositions of women hab.itu'Atly appear, is a public that
continual:3T increases. A 11gely novel by an authoress of
name is as good and as cer.tain a piece of property as can be
found, and therefore we may consider authorship as a per-
manent profession fo;. Englishwomen, and it is very well
worth euminin'", what are the prospects it really holds out

The brilliant career of Lord Lyndhurst amounts
to a political and legal history of three reigns. It is
a miracle of good fortune, a curious and unique
chronicle of shrewdness,ability and consummate tact.
It is the record of a life agitated by political pas-
sions up to the time when the veteran ceased to be
a politician, and became, in his extreme old age, a
patriot in whose wisdom and moderation both the
great parties in the State could implicitly confide.
Truly a strange and chequered life closed at five
minutes to three o'clock this (Monday) morning,
when the great ex-Chancellor breathed his last
at his paternal house in George-street, Hanover-
square. Born an American loyalist under the sove-
reignty of George the Third, he saw his native place
become the stronghold of ultra-republican Puri-
tanism, and witnessed the establishment of the Re-
public of which he has lived to see the irretrievable
disruption. Whiggish in his youth, and friend and
fellow-traveller of Volney, he accepted without
scruple (though, perhaps, he may not have courted
it as he appears to have done) the patronage of the
Tory Prime Minister. He defended the State pri-
soners accused of sedition, bud was so little uncivil
to the Government that he was baited for and in-
stantly hooked to the land of promise—the Treasury
Bench—without the faintest show of wriggling.
One of the grandest of his early speeches in the
House of Commons was made against Roman
Catholic emancipation. A few months later saw
him Chancellor under the Minister whom he had
attacked, and who harwithered him with a storm
of merciless sarcasms in the previous debate. Holding
a high judicial office which is understood to involve
abstinence from party politics, he turned out a
Ministry, and might, if he could, have formed
another on its ruins. Such are some of the peculiar

features in the history of Lord Lyndhurst. For the
last 10 or 12 years, ho has held a truly enviable posi-
tion in the House of Lords and with the country.
Lord Lyndhurst has lately kept aloof from party.
Though voting with the Conservatives, and occa-
sionally assisting them with his counsel, he has
poured forth the wealth of his eloquence, the mel-
lowed wisdom of his green old age, his wonderful
stores of scholarship and historical illustration, his
profound sagacity and the lessons of his varied ex-
perience for the benefit, not of his party, 'out of his
country. It is on account of the imposing gran-
deur of his old age that we all lament his death,
that the Queen and statesmen of all parties have
daily made anxious inquiries after the health of the
venerable peer.
The great lawyer who was destined to be three
times Lord High Chancellor of England, first saw
the light in Boston, Massachussetts, within the
transatlantic possessions of his King, George the
Third, the date of his birth being the 21st May,
1772. His father and mother were both conspicuous
persons in their way. John Singleton Copley
(whose Christian names were his son's also) was a
distinguished American artist. He was the son of
a Mr. Richard Copley, of Limerick, by the daughter
of Mr. John Singleton, an ancestor of the Single-
tons of Queinvillo Abbey, county Clare.
Apropos of his profession, a carious story is told.
In his boyhood he came down to dessert one even-
ing when his hospitable father was entertaining
some of his aristocratic friends, and he found the
company discussing the merits of the various pro-
fessions. " And what will you be ?" asked one of the
guests to little John Copley. "Anything," inter-
posed his father, " except an artist." Mr. Copley
then continued, " why not a lawyer ? The highest
honours are open to a great lawyer. John may get
a good circuit practice, may then become a King's
counsel, may obtain a seat in Parliament, may then
please his party and be appointed Solicitor-General,
and Attorney-General—nay, Jack, if he is clever,
and distinguishes himself in the House, may even
become Lord Chancellor !" How this prophecy,
which must at the time have seemed a rhapsody,
was literally fulfilled is matter of history. But we
anticipate.
When Copley the younger was called to the bar
the nation was in the threes of a great revolu-
tionary epoch. Paine's "Rights of Man" on one
side, and Burke's fiery philippic on the other, were
in every one's mouth. The young barrister was
inclined to espouse the apparently generous side of
liberty. He began his career with chambers in
Brick-court, Temple, and in his second floor he had
his first brief visits from Messrs. Willett and Co.
and Mr Murray, whose son came to be his secretary
in his chancellorship. He soon managed to secure
a large business ; in fact, he acquired the greater
part of that of Sergeant Rough, the leader of the
circuit, who had fallen into bad odour with the at-
torneys. Copley was more fastidious than Gifford,
who was said to draw pleas for almost nominal
sums, but he made his way in time. He became
first known in the higher circles of the law by his
" Case of the double return for Horsham," in 1808.
But it was not till nine years after this that the
young lawyer attained any eminence out of " Nisi
prius." In 1817 the demagogue, Henry Hunt,
called a meeting in Spafiolds, which ended in the
riots that led to the execution of Cashman, for
the murder of a Mr. John Platt, and the trial, for
high treason and sedition, of Arthur Thistlewood,
James Watson, John Hooper and Thomas Preston.
Sir Charles Wetherell and Mr. Copley were re-
tained for the defence. Sir Charles, though a ram-
pant old Tory, had conceivedsome spite against the
Government, and in his speech for the defendants
launched out into virulent abuse of the Ministry, its
spies, and its general villanies. Mr. Copley was
more shrewd, especially as Lord Liverpool was
present, and in his address, which was a master-
piece of reasoning on the law of high treason,
avoided the absurd indiscretion of his senior, much
to the Premier's satisfaction. About this time
Wetherell and Copley were toasted all over London
as the " People's friends !,, At the trial of the pub-
lisher of the Quarterly for an alleged libel on Col.
Maceroni, Copley being for the defence, the Duke
of Wellington and Lord Liverpool, who were sub-
were on the bench. So pleased peenaed in the case,
was the earl with Mr. Copley's speech and manner,
that he sent him an invitation to call on him after
the trial. Did Mr. Copley want a seat in the
House? Nothing better. It could easily be ma-
naged then, and Mr. Alexander Maconochie (after-
wards Lord Aleadowbank) resigning his seat, Mr.
Copley was returned forthwith by Mr. Holmes for
the borough of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, on the
28th of March, 1818, without any condition, pledge,
or promise. Lord Liverpool is reported to have
said (though the remark is also attributed to Lord
Castlereagh), "I'll set my rat-trap for him, baited
with Cheshire cheese." A
- -ow months later saw
Mr. Copley Chief Justice of Chester in the room of
Sergeant Best.
It fell to the lot of Sir John Copley, as Solicitor-
General, to take part in conducting the prosecution
of the wretched Princess of Wales. What a spec-
tacle was that ! The noble-looking Castlereagh,
the " plucky" Sidmeeth, the calm and impassive
Liverpool, the profoundly-learned Eldon, the patrio-
tic and impulsive Greenand the honest and sagacious
Lansdowne filled the seat of j ndgment, before which
Copley pleaded, with a Lawrence to look on the
scene with a painter's eye, and a Keane to study the
play of the passions in the memorable scene before
him. Sir John Copley's cross-examination of the
witnesses on behalf of the Princess Caroline was
t,:rrible in its tniunteness and its searching character;
hot he behaved coutt"nslY to the unlucky object of
all these long he offended nobody on
either side. The
people rushed out froth the House
debates, and
's splendid summing up, to
of Lords, after Copley's
witness the great eclipse of that memorable year.
he should have officially to pro-
It was curious that
secute (and with fatal
success) for high treason, in.
1820, the same Arthur Thistlewood whose acquittal
iu 1817 was achieved by his eloquence and tact.
To the amazement of the world, the great lawyer
lived on beyond leis 90th year went from London