The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-24 00:00:00

SUN, LONDOD:‘, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1861.

DEATH OF LORD CHANCELLOR

CAMPBELL.

The public will sympathise with us in the deep
regret with which we announce the sudden death
of Lord Chancellor Campbell. He died yesterday
morning. He had attended a Cabinet in the course
of the day and had entertained a party at dinner on
Saturday evening with that keen and hospitable
enjoyment of society which always distinguished
him. He retired to rest in his accustomed health
and spirits, and passed away without giving an
alarm. Shortly before eight o'clock yesterday morn-
ing his servant upon entering his bedroom found
him seated in a chair motionless, with his head
thrown back and blood oozing from his mouth.
Medical aid was immediately in attendance, but he
had evidently been dead at least two hours. It is
believed that the cause of death was the rupture of
one of the great arteries in the region of the heart.
One of the most n•)table judges that ever sat in
the Court of Queen's Bench—Lord Campbell's in-
dustry atoned for the want of genius; his intellect
reached by good sense to results which ether men
attain by subtleratiocination ; his kindness of heart
and liberality of sentiment reconciled men to the
absence of refinement ; facility of quotation and
abundance of amusing anecdote supplied the place
of wit; and his language, if neither passionate nor
polished, was, at all events, clear and trustworthy.
With little that was attractive in his manner, with
nothing that was graceful, with everything to re«
mind one of the title which at one time he affected
of " plain John Campbell," he obtained by energy
and determination the highest rank in his profes-
sion, and he so fulfilled the duties of Lord Chief
Justice and of Lord,..Chancellor as to win a name not
unworthy to be placed beside those of any of his
predecessors whose careers he has described. There
is a well-known Scotch proverb—" He that will' to
Cupar maun to Cupar"—which connects the place of
Lord Campbell's birth with a display of indomitable
resolution, and there can be no more fitting illustra-
tion of that saying (which is precisely the same
in spirit as the motto of the family—audacter et
aperte) than the history of ate rough Scotch lad
who entered college at the age of ten, and who by
sheer force of character fought his way up to the
House of Peers, where, at the age of four score, he'
was as much beyond his years in vigour as in youth
he had been before his time in intelligence. Not
many men begin life so early as he did ; still fewer
end it so late, and very few indeed spend so long a
term in equal labour, usefulness, and honour.

It is an odd circumstance that Lord Campbell, to
whom both as judge and legislator the law of Eng-
land owes so much, was born at a place which gives
its name, " Cupar justice," to the peculiar system of
law which hangs a man first and tries him afterwards,
and that he had his country residence (Hartrigge-
house, Roxburghshire) in the neighbourhood of
another town which gave the name of " Sedburgh
justice" to an equally summary code, the great prin-
ciple of which is, " Hang all or save all." His
family were for several generations settled in the
"Kingdom of Fife," as it is called, being a branch
of the Campbells of Argyle, through a certain
George Campbell who in the troubles of Covenant-
ing times considerably impaired his fortune by an
adherence to his chief, the first Marquis of Argyll,
an 4 who finally (1662), after the restoration of the
Stuarts, pitched his tent in St. Andrews, becoming
proprietor of the estate of Baltulla in the vicinity.
The great grandson of this patriarch, and the father
of the late Chief Justice, was the Rev. Dr. George
Campbell, for 54 years Minister of Cupar. Lord
Campbell was greatly attached to him, and it says
much both for the influence of the father and
for the affection of the son that when the latter was
Attorney-General, and his chambers in Paper-
buildings, Temple, were one night burnt to the
ground, all his law books and MSS., together with
valuable official documents, being consumed, the
loss which he most of al: lamented was that of a
collection of letters written to him by his father in a
continued series from the time when he left the
manse for college until in 1824 the aged pastor had
departed this life. Dr. George Campbell married in
1776 a Miss Hallyburton, through whom he became
distantly connected oiith several noble familiesamong
which deserves to be especially mEntione'l the family
of Wedderburn, the Lord Chancellor: By this lady
he became the father of five daughters and two
sons. One of these daughters married a man of
true genius, although his reputation is confined to
Scotland, where, however, he is held in high esteem
as a poet and as a scholar, the late Dr. Thomas Gil-
lespie, Professor of Humanity in the University of
St. Andrew's. Of the sons, the elder was Sir George
Campbell, of Edenwood, who died in 1854. The
younger is the subject of the present memoir, and
was born at Springfield, near Cupar, September 15,
1781.

John Campbell received his first instruction at
the grammar school at Cupar, but he was removed
at a very early age to the United College of St.
Salvator and St. Leonard's in the University of St.
Andrew's, with the view of studying for the Church.
No man in Scotland can enter into holy ordersunless
he has passed through a curriculum of eight years'
study, four being devoted to the classics and philo-
sophy, and four more to theology. But if with
such a regulation men went up to the University at
the period usual in England, they would be 25 or
26 years old before they had a chance of a living—
an arrangement bad enough anywhere, but impos-
sible in a poor country like Scotland. The conse-
quence is that the freshmen are often mere boys,
who at the end of the University term, which lasts
only five continuous months in the year, return
home either to be sent back again to school or to
study under a private tutor. It was in this way that
in November, 1791, Thomas Chalmers entered at
the University of St. Andrew's, while not yet 12
years of age, and being, in fact, with but one
exception, the youngest student there. That excep-
tion was John Campbell, who appears to have en-
tered in the same session, when little more than
10 years of age. In these days the arrangements
at St. Andrew's were somewhat different from those
now adopted at all the Scottish Universities. The
students lived in college and dined at a common
table. Till a very recent date the rooms occupied
by Chalmers and by Campbell were to be seen, and
the visitor in looking at them was reminded of many
a wild escapade in which the ingenuous youth of
that boisterous period indulged. If, as was most
likely, the youngest student in the University cul-
tivated the acquaintance of the next youngest, he
certainly could not have found a more riotous
companion than " mad Tam Chalmers." In one
respect, if we may trust to tradition, the fellow-
students were very much alike. To his latest hour
Chalmers had a difficulty in speaking without notes;
he read his addresses to the society, and used to
horrify a Scotch audience by reading not only his
sermons, but even his prayers. The tradition with
regard to Campbell is that when he had but all com-
pleted his theological course he was called upon to
sa-
crificed dith
fibsoerihnt;
eeacsru.
os customary a ry
prefermentf o r the students in the
Divinity Hall to perform this duty by turns, and he
so egregiously failed that in a fit of disgust he sa-
uess for clerical duty, working and determined to
study for the h
assigned
about this time powerfauel
true one is, changeprobabl
wt Other
irnega reasons havehe r w
iatlhs also
n am-
bition been
of his intentions ; but the
for distinction
'Whigs. The feeling ltyi deep-rootedaffe cted t
hsee sense
no
gf
Scot-
tishunfit
the English bar which
century. studies for Not
wh whith which a Scotchmen
rsantbaart itshevbereygirdthiffinegrenntf
ien sel
days,f e ne
over
then, it is
dtraue, every young
from the views of anEasansgpi
ya seatedon the
nthoew
atthear of Westrnm-
a nerataionve the
y. Scotchmen seemed
lawyer
woolsack hopes
butes t o
nfi find
ohs
pres-
tige ei
er :Os ae rea, chancesrrasecdotttni sbhe: onaftatttahi
onebn profession,attached
it
to be carrying off more than their due share of the
highest legal honours. It stirred their blood to see
one of their own people (for, although Mansfield
was educated in England from a child, he was still
by birth a fellow-countryman) Lord Chief Justice
of the Kin's Bench. The elevation of Wedderburn
to the Chancellorship " reminded the Scottish
youth"—to use the words of Campbell, himself a
cousin of Wedderburn—" that if they could no
longer hope to rival the fame of Belhaven or
Fletcher of Saltoun in their own land, and if the

decrees of their supreme court were to be subjected
to revision in the British Houle of Lords, loftier
objects of ambition were presented to them than to
their forefathers, and that they may enjoy the power
and eclipse the fame of a Somers pr a Hardwicke."
Erskine, who had studied at Campbell's own college,
and who, indeed, was a school and class fellow of
Campbell's father, was in all his glory, a predestined
Chancellor; and Macintosh had won great renown
for the vigour with which, in defence of the French
Revolution, he had i roken a lance with no less a
man than Edmund Burke. Such examples roused
the ambition of the Scottish youth; and arnong a
crowd of eager competitors we note two in particu-
lar who preferred the bar of Westminster to that of
Edinburgh. Both were connected, either by the tie
of friendship or by the tie of relationship, with Prin-
cipal Robertson, who up to that time had done
more than any man to identify the intellectual
aspirations of Scotchmen with those of Englishmen.
One of these was Henry Brougham, who had actually
entered at the Scottish bar; the other was John
Campbell, who went straight to London from St.
Andrew's, and whose ambition, after long waiting,
was to be gratified by becoming first Lord Chief
Justice and finally Lord Chancellor of England.
When Wedderburn left Edinburgh for London in
1757 the journey occupied six days. " When I first
reached London," says Campbell, " I performed
the same journey in three nights and two days, Mr.
Palmer's mail coaches being then established; but
this swift travelling was considered dangerous as
well as wonderful, and I -was gravely advised to stay
a day at York, as several passengers who had gone
through without stopping had died of apoplexy
from the rapidity of the motion," It is not difficult
to imagine this ungainly Scotch lad, with his
broad Fifeshire dialect, making his way through
London, and delivering letters of introduction to
his fellow-countrymen, who cling to each other so
tenaciously all over the world. Young Campbell
is a thorough-going Scot, and, what is, more, a
thorough-going clansman. He is a " Cawmell,"
Macallumore is his chieftain, and anything dero-
gatory to the name of Campbell is wormwood to
his soul. To the very last he never lost this cha-
racteristic, and one is amused on looking through
his "Lives of the Chancellors" to see the pride of the
clansman continually breaking forth. He is "sorry
to say" that a certain jury were all Campbells; he
is at a loss to understand how in the rebellion of
1745 all the wit, all the poetry, all the good tunes,
and all the good songs, " with the exception of The
Campbells are Coming," were on the side of the
Jacobites ; he is distressed to think that the
Massacre of Glencoe has brought infamy on the
house of Campbell; and, after noting that the Irish
House of Lords had committed a John Campbell to
prison for breach of privilege, he announces with
exultation—" My clansman was released." Accord-
ingly his associates in London were those Scotch
Whigs to whom the name of Campbell had a fine
Presbyterian flavour. He very soon joined a club
of Sons of the Clergy of the Church of Scotland, of
whom Sergeant Spaekie and Wilkie, the painter,
were members, the sentiment which bound them
together being expressed by Wilkie in words which
Campbell delighted to quote long afterwards when
he was raised to the British peerage—" Born in the
manse we have all a patent of nobility.' To Wilkie
he was related by a double bond, for not only was
the painter's birthplace, Cults, quite close to Camp-
bell's birthplace, Cupar, but also the painter's wife,
the beautiful Mary Campbell, was an aunt of "plain
John's." To Sergeant Spankie, then editor of the
Morning Chronicle, he was indebted for an appoint-
ment on that. newspaper, by which he became a
reporter and theatrical critic. We believe that he
held the office of theatrical critic on that journal
even so late as 1810. Probably he was thinking
very much of his own experience when in writing
the life of Wedderburn he pointed out how great
muAt hive been the influence of the green-room in
assisting the future Chancellor to get rid of his
Doric accent, and when he summed up the results of
his attempts to attain a Southern pronunciation in
an exhortation to his young countrymen to beware
of clippi(ig the Queen's English. To the same ex-
perience we are to refer the very frequent allusions
to the stage, and to the incidents not of dramatic
literature in general, but always of acting plays
which occur throughout his writings. The young
son of a Scotch clergyman seems to have taken very
kindly to the drama, which is the great bugbear of
Puritan divines; and the young Scotch Whig still fur-
ther showed his freedom from prejudice by so far vio-
lating the principles of his party as to indulge in war-
like aspirations.. He joined .that gallant,corps, the
8.1. C. A.—the Bloomsbury and Inns of Court Asso-
ciation—a body of volunteers which, like the rival
corps, the Temple Light Infantry, er Devil's Own,
consisted of barristers, attorneys, law students, and
clerks.

It wa.4 not for these pursuits, however, that
Campbell had come to the great metropolis. He
had come to study law. The club gave him friend-
ship, the regiment gave him excitement, the news-
paper gave him pay, but the law was to be his pro-
fession, and by the law he was to rise. Imme-
diately, therefore (November, 1800), he entered
himself a student of Lincoln's-inn, and began to
study the mysteries of special pleading, under the
guidance of Mr. Tidd, through whom he traced his
legal pedigree up to the celebrated TOW Warren,
father of this wondrous art. Tom Warren begat
Serjeant Runnington, Serjeant Runnington begat
Tidd, Tidd begat Campbell, and Campbell begat
Dundas and Vaughan Williams. "Tidd," writes
his grateful pupil, " lived to see four sons
Lynd-
hurst, Lord Denman, Lord Cottenham, and Lord
Campbell. To the unspeakable advantage of hay-
sitting together in the Rouse of Lords—Lord
tog been three years
that when at the end of
him a second fee ofb 100 guineas he that it would not be
success at the bar. I have
henethee discovered
yroevfeesreedd
tt oh
etake
finesta second,an analytical
lyti
a l head, and if he had devoted
quite
insisted on returning me the
first. Of all the ui. his
te my pupil
le
pgn ivrlreeslan ticehni
teyear pridefifnyr me i nasrcercitobnre recording
himself to sciencec I lawyersatnslurheavtehaetvehr
but
s known
world hhe hadav
e
earned great fame
and his manners as a discoverer. His disposition
male him universally beloved."
Campbell, always egotistical, was in later years
fond of dwelling on the difficulties which he had to
surmount in early life, and filled the footnotes of
his biographical writings With anecdotes illustrative
of his career. In this
hsSianYcoln's-inn Hall, where,
we vividly see him
eating his first dinner in
after a long silence at rness, a brother student,
offers wishing to be sociable, to break the por-
tentous pause by addressing the c b
. young ~cotcuman,
" Pray, Sir, what is your opunon of the scintilla
paris r The silence having thus been broken, the
associates strike up an
acquaintance, and amicably
proceed to enliven their dinner by a discussion with
regard to the feeding of uses.
Campbell has scarcely
entered Lincoln's-inn when 4 rumour spreads that
Lord Thurlow, after a long absence from Parlia-
ment, would on a certain nigh appear in the House
of Lords to deliver a speech oa a Divorce Bill, by
which, for the first time, it wts proposed to dissolve
' the marriage tie at the instance of the wife, the hus- ,
band in this case having been Roved guilty of incest.
All the great lawyers present were intent on reject-
ing the measure, but Thullow, in a powerful
speech, converted them. to hiE4 views, the Bill was
assed, and established a Precedent in cases of
similar aggravation. The scene made a profoun d
impression on young Campbell, who, at a later
period of life, recalling to his recollection the ap-
pearance of the great Chancellor " bent with age,
dressed in an o:d•fashioned gra, coat, with breeches
and gaiters of the same stuff, %brown scratch wig,
tremendous white bushy eyebrows, eyes still spark-
ling with intelligence, dreadful
crowsfeet round
them, very deep lines in his countenance, and
shrivelled complexion of a sallow hue,,, exclaimed
in an access of legal enthusian " Virgilium vidi
tantum."

ss and a pleasure,
and T hau making law
at the
samet i bmoet h
educating a busp
.i business
his powers and
adding to his means by visil the theatres and
writing for the press, Campbel was called to the
bar in Michaelmas Term, 1806. He travelled the
Oxford Circuit, where he soon
c6tained consider-
able practice, and where he fo
Itned an intimate
acquaintance with the late Justice Talfourd, who
had a certain sympathy with him
in his admira-
tion of the dramatic art. But it was to his Lon-
don business that he chiefly looked for advance-
ment in his profession, and it mist be confessed
that he pushed his way in a manner the most
original. In one of his biographies remarks of
Pratt that he 'zpersevered for eight or nine years,
but not inviting attorneys to dine with him, and
never dancing with their daughters, his practice
did not improve." 'Whether Campbell cultivated
cultivated the
for this purpose the arts of dining
and dancing
we do not know, but he certainly
acquaintance of the attorneys, and in a way pecu-
liarly his own. Between 1809 and 1816 he pub-
lished a series of reports at Zisi Prius,
extending to
four volumes, which are' mos! valuablein themselves,
but which were of especial interest to the attorneys
who had been engagedlin any of the cases recorded,
linasmuch as for the first time in the history of such
reporting he had at the ens of each decision stated
the names of those attorneyl who had to do with the
leadilv solicitors, obtained ti large practice, and was

retained, EIB a mat ter of course, in shipping cases and
in nearly every important cause tried before a
special jury at the Guildhall sittings. Apart, how-
ever, from the popularity of these volumes among
the attorneys, they were held in still wider estima.
tion as the admirably-reptlrted decisions of Lord
Fdlenborough ; and Campbell took credit to himself
for having in some degree created the reputation of
that lawyer. " When I was a Nisi Prins reporter,"
he said, " I had a drawer marked ' Bad Law,' into
which I threw all the cases which seemed to me
improperlyruled: I was flattered to hear Sir James
Mansfield, C.J., say, Whoever reads Campbell's
reports must be astonished to find how uniformly
Lord Ellenborough's decisions were right.' My
re ected cases, which I had kept as a curiosity—not
maliciously—were all burnt in the great fire in the
Temple when I was Attorney-General."
In this way John Campbell plodded on laboriously
from year to year, extending his practice, but,
under the stern rule of Lord Eldon, attaining to
none of the honours of his profession, although long
before •the retirement of that Chancellor he was
the leader of the Oxford Circuit. There is but one
incident to break the monotony of his labour. In
1821 he married Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter
of Sir James Scarlett, afterwards Lord Abinger, a
lady who in addition to other attractions had this
most important one in the eyes of a Campbell, that
she wore the Campbell tartan—her mother having
been a maiden of the clan, the third daughter of
Mr. Peter Campbell, of Kilmorey, in Argyllshire. It
was probably due very much to the influence of Sir
James Scarlett that in 1827 John Campbell at length
obtained the honour of a silk gown and a seat within
the bar. That was the year in which the Coalition
Ministry, headed by Canning, came into power ;
Sir James Scarlett was Attorney-General, and Lord
Lyndhurst appointed as King's Counsel a con-
siderable batch, which, irrespective of politics, was
intended to include every barrister who had a fair
claim to this distinction, Mr. Denman being the
only name of importance that was excepted. From
this time forward the Whigs gradually increased
in power, and Campbell determined to improve his
chances by trying for a seat in Parliament. He
accordingly presented himself in 1830 to the electors
of Stafford, to whom he was introduced by his rela-
tive Major Scarlett. The result of the contest was
that Campbell stood second on the poll, and accord-
ingly represented Stafford during 1830 and 1831.
In November, 1832, he was appointed Solicitor-
General, and in the following month was returned
by Dudley as its member in that reformed Parlia-
ment the election of which was, in Lord Eldon's
view to seal the doom of the nation. One has a vivid
idea of the bigoted but kindly old Chancellor, and
the vast good humour of the Solicitor-General in his
new honours—which, if Lord Eldon had had his
way, he would never have reached—through an
anecdote related by Lord Campbell himself. Eldon
and his son are walking in Piccadilly, when some
one drives past them in a cabriolet, takes off his hat
and makes a low bow. " Who is that who treats me
with respect now I am nobody ?" inquires Lord
Eldon. His son replies, "It is Sir John Campbell,
the Whig Solicitor-General." "I wonder what they
would have said of me," exclaimed the ex-Chancel-
lor, " if I had driven about in a cabriolet when I
was Solicitor-General ?" " I will tell you what they
would have said,—" There goes the greatest lawyer
and the worst whip in all England."
Sir John Campbell was appointed Attorney-Gene-
ral in February, 1834, on the retirement of Sir
Williem Horne; but, unfortunately, on presenting
himself in the same month to his constituents at
Dudley for re-election he was unseated. By the
appointment of Francis Jeffrey, however, as a Lord
of Session, a vacancy was shortly afterwards created
in the representation of Edinburgh; in the June
following Sir John Campbell was elected in the
place of that distinguished reviewer, and continued
member for the Modern Athens until his elevation
to the peerage in 1841. The most enduring ser-
vice which Sir John Campbell rendered to the
country during the period of his Attorney-
Generalship was the inauguration of a aeries of legal
reforms, which year by year have become more and
more important, and which in the progress of revi-
sion and consolidation Campbell fostered to the
utmost of his power. lie, for example, introduced
an Act, called Lord Campbell's Act, for the amend-
ment of the law of libel asit affects newspapers, by
which the proprietor is permitted to pay a small
sum into court, and to escape further damages by
proving both that the libel had appeared without
malice end that it was followed by the insertion of
an apology. To another measure of not less im-
portance he was urged by the case of the Duke of
Cadaval, who was arrested on a false affidavit for a
debt which he did not owe ; and accordingly he in-
troduced a bill to limit the powers of arrest, requir-
ing fee judge to be satisfied on oath before the order
is issued, and permitting the defendant, when ar-
rested, to dispute the plaintiff's affidavit, and so
obtain liberation. When rendering these solid ser-
vices to the public, a lustre was imparted to his
career as a barrister by certain very important cases
which were tried during his Attorney-Generalship.
In the prosecution of Lord Cardigan before the
House of Peers for shooting Captain Tuckett—in
which case the House of Lords sat as a criminal
court for the first time since the trial, 64 years pre-
viously (1776), of the Duchess of Kingston for
bigamy—he failed, but failed so completely that
those who knew Sir John Campbell's diligence and
careful accuracy, and had observed the wonderful
tenderness to the accused Earl displayed in his
opening address, charged him with intentional
failure. Immediately on the closing of the case for
the prosecution, Sir Wm. Follett, whom no technical
lapse could escape, coolly rose and pointed out that
the prosecution had neglected to establish an import-
ant fact—a fact which nobody really doubted, which
could most easily have been proved, but which was
essential to a conviction—namely, that the person
engaged with Lord Cardigan in the duel was named
Harvey Garnett Phipps Tuckett, as alleged in
the indictment, or that a Captain Harvey Gar-
nett Phipps Tuckett was on Wimbledon-common
at all on the day of the duel. The result was
that the case broke down, and Lord Cardigan was
pronounced not guilty, without being called upon
for his defence. Sir John Campbell was not more
successful in vindicating the privileges of the
House of Commons in the celebrated case of
"Hansard v. Stockdale," an action brought against
the priutar of the House of Commons for a libel
contained in some papers printed by order of the
house ; bat the speech delivered by him on this
occasion may be regarded as a very complete
treatise on Parliamentary privilege. The most
celebrated of all his forensic displays, however,
was the defence of Lord Melbourne in the action
for damages raised by. Mr. Norton—an action of
the more importance from the fact that the cha-
racter of the Prime Minister, and to some extent
the stability of his Cabinet, depended on the issue
of the trial. Sir John Campbell successfully re-
butted the charge, and proved the utter ground-
lessness of the imputation that had been cast on
the lady. After a long day's sitting, the jury
unhesitatingly gave their verdict in her favour at
9 o'clock that night, and Sir John Campbell, as
he entered the House of Commons near midnight,
was rewarded by the cheers of the members pre--
sent. In a moment of leisure, which soon came
to him, he published his speeches as Attorney-
General, and placed this one in defence of Mrs.
Norton at the commencement of the series. There
is nothing remarkable about it save the extraor-
dinary calmness with which Sir John Campbell
could handle such a subject. The publication of
these speeches was a very harmless exhibition of
vanity, at which his friends made merry. "If
Campbell, said Perry of the Morning Chronicle,
" had engaged as an opera dancer, I do not say he
would have danced as well as Deshays, but I feel
confident he would have got a larger salary."
Perry's remark, however, seemed not to hold
good when Campbell was appointed Attorney-Gene-
ral. Whatever his qualifications for that post, it
certainly did not seem that he was likely to get too
many of the good things which belong to it. Pepys
was appointed over his head to the Mastership of
the Rolls, and then Bickersteth was as Lord Lang-
dale elevated to the same office when Lord Cotten-
ham was raised to the woolsack. The nomination
of Bickersteth to the Rolls seemed at first scarcely
credible, and Lord Melbourne certainly had great
difficulty to encounter in passing over the claims of
the Attorney-General, the chief obstacle to whose
preferment was that he was not an equity lawyer.
Campbell, however, gave way ; the Cabinet ex-
pressed their sense of his generosity by raising Lady
Campbell to the peerage in her own right under the
title of Baroness Stratheden, and "H. B." illustrated
the transaction in a Sketch of the Serpent tempting
Eve, and Eve tempting Adam, with a coronet for
an apple, in the garden of (Strath) Eden. This was
in January, 1836, and for five years more Sir John
Campbell waited apparently without the prospect
of a rise.
Sir John Campbell, however, was not to be trifled
with, and the Whigs saw the necessity of providing
for him in some way, especially as they felt they
might soon have no opportunity of serving him. A
bill was therefore projected " for Facilitating the
Administration of Justice in Equity," by which he
would be raised to the peerage. The Opposition