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Excerpt from The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV, Vol. 5: Second Series, From the Revolution of 1688, to the Death of Lord Chancellor Thurlow, in 1806 Advantages from the Rise of Men of Mediocrity, 432. Wonderful Elevation of Lord Chancellor Bathurst, 432. His Family, 433. -his Father the first Lord Bathurst, 433. His Father's Introduction to Sterne, 434. Pope's Lines ad dressed to the first Lord Bathurst, 434. Burke's Allusion to him, 435. Birth of Henry Bathurst, 436. His Education, 437. At Lincoln's Inn, 437. He is called to the Bar, 437. He is returned to Parliament for Cirencester, 437. Dr. Johnson's Report of his Speech on the Impressment of Seamen, 437. His other Speeches in Parliament, 438. He conducts the Prosecution of Miss Blandy for the Murder of her Father, 43 9. His Speech in opening the Case to the Jury, 439. His Reply, 442. Verdict and Execution, 442. Bathurst's Speech against the King, 442. He goes over to the Court and is made a Puisne Judge, 442. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.