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FOREIGN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.
SEPTEMBER,1848.
From the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review.
THE LIFE OF LORD CHANCELLOR HARDWICKE.
1. The Life of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke: with selections from his Correspondence,
Diaries, Speeches, and Judgments. By George Harris, Esq., of the Middle Tem-
ple, Barrister-at-Law. 3 vols. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 1847.
2. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England. By
John Lord Campbell. Second Series. Vol. V. Life of Lord Hardwicke. Lon-
don: Murray, Albemarle Street. 1846.
Few public men have been so much misre-consulted for some special purpose; but
presented as Lord Hardwicke. By partial Mr. Harris seems to have been the first to
friends, even his faults have been eulogized; refer to them with the view of gaining a
and by enemies his good deeds have clearer insight into the character of the
been attributed to the basest motives. Un-founder of that house; and even with this
fortunately for his fame, Horace Walpole advantage there yet remain some doubtful
and Cooksey, the representatives of the points, which, from the lapse of time and
latter class, have hitherto been the chief the absence of collateral testimony, Lord
authorities whence the biographers of Lord Hardwicke's latest biographer has been un-
Hardwicke have derived the principal por-
tion of their materials; but though Wal-
pole's hatred of the Chancellor, from what-
ever source it sprang, is now well under-
stood, and Cooksey's accuracy, as in the
case of Lord Somers, is considered more
than doubtful, even Lord Campbell, with
every wish to do full justice to the subject
of his memoir, and aware that implicit
reliance could not be placed upon his au-
thorities, did not possess the means of cor-
The materials from which Mr. Harris has drawn up the life of Lord Hardwicke, consist of his extensive correspondence, both official and general, with the leading personages of his day, as well as with the members of his own family and his personal friends; his diaries; manuscripts of various kinds, including the notes of his speeches and judgments, both as Lord Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor; re
recting their errors. It is indeed not a ports of the state trials; and the diary of little extraerdinary that almost the only his eldest son, the second Lord Hardwicke; means of clearing away much of the uncer- besides numerous other documents and retainty enveloping the character of this cords of the highest value and interest : great man, should not have been earlier the whole of these have been unreservedly, resorted to. The archives of the house of and with the greatest liberality, placed at Hardwicke have often been advantageously Mr. Harris's disposal by the present Earl,
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