The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-30 00:00:00

" Osborn House, West Brompton, Aug. 24, 1866.

"My Lord,—l feel certain that'itmust have been as pain-
ful for you to write as for me to receive the letter which
reached me yesterday evening, communicating your inten-
tion of not renewing my appointment as revising barrister
for the county of Middlesex, not on account of any defi-
ciency on my part in discharging the duties of the office,
but solely on account of the active and leading part I have
taken in a political agitation of no ordinary character; this
making, as your lordship considers, my re-appointment in-
expedient for the public service. I appreciate to the utmost
the kindly and friendly spirit which pervadesyour lordship's
letter, and which has induced you to enter so fully into tho
reasons which have influenced your decision. I accept at
once, and in the full assurance of its truth, your lordship's
statement that you are actuated by no other motive than a
conscientious sense of public duty, and I am as fully con-
scious of having myself been actuated by no other sense,
by none but the most pure and upright motives in all my
conduct, both professional and political. I have the entire
testimony of my own conscience that you do me no more
than simple justice when yeu express yourself as fully
satisfied that no strength of political bias would impair the
perfect integrity and sense of justice which I would bring
to the discharge of judicial factions, even on a political
matter; and that your refraining from again appointing me
is not from any doubt of my faithfully discharging the duties
of the office. The best proof of this being but simple
dpieuti
jus-
tice to me is, that I have never yet discharged tb
by
the -0s
of my office without being as warmly complimented
Conservative as by the Liberal agents for my
im-
partiality. Moreover, you may remember that n
me to the
kindly did me the honour of first appointing
pwer.feencto
additional revising
office, it was by appointing me as an being
in such a
barrister, in consequence o
of revising the votes. I have
through the onerous.
state that • the ordinary sktafff the
ef
barristers could not get
dwoirn being able to state that my exer-
tionsboth pleasure and
perfect and correct than it had
oritwhaemtdourtey a comparatively easy one, and
my appointment. Under all the cir-
cumstances for years before
e
proof or
that t
h have
registerren de
is
st P
I trust I may be excused, when, with all the
plaint of ineMciency or partiality in tile dis -
feigned respect
I ventureto suggest whether some
iyP,duties ought to have preceded such a measure
di:it:drab:deo: and warm esteem which I entertain for
_iiyicvuot:
r_sloauoin.
charge
as that of not renewing my appointment. I have said I have
felt pain, my lord, in receiving your communication, but
the pain is not so muchon account of the loss and the other
possibly serious consequent injury to myself in my profes-
sion, or the unjust or malevolent reflections it may bring
upon me in some quarters, as on account of the very in-
jurious and dangerous effect it may produce on the public
mind, especially in forcing tho people to the conviction that
no man, particularly no man in such a situation or profession
as mine, however upright in the discharge of his functions,
can sincerely and warmly advocate what he considers their
rights, without the risk of subjecting himself to very serious
personal loss, to the possibility of being made a victim of
party misrepresentation and rancour; and that for a man to
hold any judicial position it is necessary for him to suppress
and stifle his real and honest opinions.
"Thanking your lordship again, and very sincerely, forall your kind and flattering expressions towards myself, and
for the permission to make what use I please of your
•ii!
—which, I presume, includes its publication, if necessy—
reasons, that your lordship should have
and deeply regretting, for personal as well a s
felt mono
it
weightyadvisabact
ointment—l
and right to withold the renewal of my pp
le
am, my lord, yours very truly and fait,
ullEnektYo'
, sn BEALEs.
"The Bight lion. Sir A. E. Cockburn, Bart., .
Lord Chief Justice."

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