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little seen ia bis f ) wa court . since the trials of Mr . Hone , at the close of the last year , in wliicb his lordship appeared to so little ad vantage , and the result of which caused him such evident chagrin . —Lord Ellenboroug h bears the reputation of a profound lawyer . His decisions on commercial questions are universally praised hy the mercantile part of the community . In political causes , his passions overruled his judgment : he displayed here , rather the eagerness of an advocate than the coolness of a judge . —His talent of discrimination was very great . He vras in this respect a
scholar worthy of his master , Paley \ whom he also imitated and resembled in his peculiarities of style . But he sometimes carried the manner of his school to excess , and turned aptness into quaintness , directness intobluntness , and strength into violence . —As a senator and statesman he was not
eminent . His intemperate language and boisterous manner were unseemly in the House of Lords , and sometimes exposed him io the lash of his opponents . His po litical course was winding . His ambition stifled his predilections . He seemed to be latterly devoted to the Court . Steadiness on one point must unhappily be conceded to him ; he was uniform in his * resistance
to a revision and improvement of the criminal code , and his name is on the list ( see p . 622 ) of those senators that both spoke and voted against Sir Sartfuel Roiwilly ' s bill for the abolition of the punishment of death for stealing' to the amount of five shillings privately from a shop ! By
bills- of his own , he even added to the number of capital offences ; one of these goes by his name . From these darker traits of character , we should be happy to tnrn to more pleasing ones ; but we must leave it to others more favourably situated than ourselves with regard to his lordship , to describe his virtues . Certain
occurrences in the Court of King s Bench , upon his resignation , are said to have aggravated the afflictions of his last days . He was a Governor of the Charter House , and before this is read , his remains will have been deposited in the cemetery of that establishment , by the side of those of its founder . He has left seven children by his wife who survives him , the daughter of G . P . Towry , Esq , whom he . married in 1787 .
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Lately , at Corky in the prime of life , Bernard Tkottbb , Esq . formerly private secretary to the late Right Honourable C . J . Fox a very worthy and ingenious niau , whose memoirs of Mr . Fox are most honourable to his head and heart , while they constitute an authentic record o > f
history and biography .- —Month . Mag . It should be added , that some doubt has been cast upon certain passages of the Memoirs * The work was reviewed , ou its first ap-
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pearance , in Moii . Repos , VI . 610—612 . There was a pamphlet published in 1806 , entitled " Circumstantial Details of Mr . Fox ' s Illness and last Moments , which
we know not whether we ought to attribute to Mr . Trotter . It will be seen by reference to Mon . Repos . II . 218 , 219 , that there is the authority of Lord Holland for pronouncing * the pamphlet . unan then tic .
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Of Mr . Alderman Goodbehebe , whose death was announced in our last , p . 723 , the following character appeared in the Times Newspaper : u The sudden and lamented death of this gentleman affords us another salutary admonition , and shews how- fleeting and uncertain is human life . About a year since he was somewhat indisposed , but for some time past was in excellent health , and continued so until Tuesday last , when ,, after breakfast , he fell in an apoplectic ftt ^ and expired the same afternoon . The share he bad taken in the proceedings of
the Corporation of London , for nearly thirty years , must be generally known . He had a clear capacity for public business , an urbanity of manners and incorruptible integrity , which rendered his services highly useful to his fellow-citizens ,
and made him generally esteemed . A character of this descriptiou , actively engaged during * so long and momentous a period , cannot be passed over without notice ; nor can his place , as a magistrate and a member of the Corporation , be easily supplied . His attention to public business was unremitting * , and no one possessed a more thorough knowledge of the rights and privileges of the city . He acted ia close union with Mr . Waithman for the
last twenty-five years , and the zeal and perseverance with which he espoused the cause of his friend , during" the late contest for the city , is well-known : his conduct was highly creditable to his feelings , and
shewed how much he was above those little jealousies which too frequently are to be found among the best political friends , where their views might come into competition . Mr . Goodbehere was a native of Cheshire : by fair and honourable
exertions in trade he acquired considerable property . He has left a wife and one son , the only ehikl , now about of age . They were at Brighton at the time of his death , on account of Mrs . Gfoo < ibehere s health , which had for some time been in a precarious state . "
This eulogy , temperate as it is , stirred up the venom of some bigot , who , under the signature of Cains , attacked the deceased Alderman , in the Times , as an avowed Infidel ; the sole ground of tbe charge being hi * associating * with tFintarians . A reply was made to the oalum niator , in which both his ignorance aiftl
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Obituary .- —Mr . Trotter — -Alderman Goodfrehere . 77 S
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 773, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/45/
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