The following letter has been sent to the present Lord
Chaneellor from Lord Brougham, withdrawing his offer to take the office of Chief Baron without the salary. "Paris, Saturday, 29th November IS34.
'My Lord—I had the honour of receiving your Lordship's letter. announcing the state in which Government at present is, and that not/day of nay kind eau be settled, either as to measures or any thing else, until the arrival of Sir It. Peel.
" Although I felt extremely anxious to accomplish the two object; of saving a large anm to the public and of completing the Reform of the Court of Chancery by abolishing The office of Viee-Chancellor ( i subject on a hid, I transmitted a full memorial to your Lordship fro la Dover. :nal on which I had sent a memorandum benne I left the Great Seal), yet sollIV communications %hick I base since received, from persons in whose judgment I entirely confide, give me room to think that my accepting a judicial situa- tion. Viough wi• hoot any emolument whatever. migia appear to others to interfere with zny Parliamentary duties; I feel myself under the necessity of tIcsiriog that the tender of gratuitous service formerly made should be considered as withdrawn. My own clear and unhesitating opinion is. that, following the example of Lord Loughbontagla and others, I could at tend as Illm-11 to Parliamentary duties alien on the Bench as when in a private statimi. But, in these Oates. I have no right to take any step a hid, has any tendency to discourage the efforts of those whose principles are my own, and whose CO nji4 ACC I am proud to enjoy. "I have the honour to be, Etc.
(Signed) " BROUGHAM."
[There is good reason to believe, that the pretence assigned I.y Lord Brougham in this miserably-written letter is a false one. His friends are not so anxious for his cooperation as he wishes to have it supposed. The fact in all probability is, that his application having been rejected, and the folly of it exposed in the newspapers which Lord Brouglium has read, he thinks it best to make another parade of pretended disinterested- ness, by relinquishing what he cannot get. As to the saving to the country, his services on the bench would be dear at any price : ask the Bar, ask the suitors in the Courts, if it is not so. If the noble and learned pensioner's conscience is aggrieved by pocketing the public money without working for it, let hint take the hint of the Courier, and give up his pension, or whatever part of it he can spare.] A ridiculous rumour, arising out of the known activity of Lord Brougham's mind, has obtained sonic currency, tint, for want of other occupation, lie will return to the bar.—Herald. ['Phis is not so ridicu- lous astis actual application for the Chief. Baron's seat on the bench.] Mr. Drummond, Lord Althorp's Private Secretary, has deservedly bad a retiring pension of 300/. a year bestowed on him. Lord Mel- bourne has, we understand, recorded his high opinion of Mr. Drum- mond's able and zealous services.—Courier. [ Lord Brougham, who got the pension for Mr. Drummond, after the Whigs were out of office, could probably tell more about the "able and zealous services" than Lord Melbourne. It is understood that Mr. Drummond was one of the chief managers of the Brougham section of the Ministerial press.]
Lord Brougham arrived at Paris on Friday. He alighted at the Hotel de Meurice, in the Rue de Rivoli, and immediately set about making himself us conspicuous as possible. The instant he reached the capital, he despatched intelligence to all the newspapers, sent out visiting cards by servants and porters to all men of note in the Doc- trinaire or Juste-Milieu parties and was " at home" to all the world, from the bookseller who went to ask for his subscription to his reading- rooms, to the President of the Chamber of Deputies, who invited him
to dinner. This was the first day's proceedings. But as the visits returned were not sufficiently rapid for the Ex- Chancellor, he set about visiting others on the second day, and began with the Duke de Brog- lie. To all inquiries as to the probability of the duration of a Wel- lington Administration (says the Constitutionnd), Lord Brougham re- plies, " that it is impossible the Duke of Wellington can stand before the Houses of Parliament." As the Constitutionnel is Dupin's journal, and as yesterday Dupin and Brougham were inseparable all the day, I take this assertion of the Constitutionnel to be official. On Friday night, he appeared at the soiree of Lord Granville, and con- sented to base his portrait taken by a French artist. At that soiree, be made himself most conspicuous.—inveighed against the Tories and Toryism—talked loudly and insolently of the Duke—and acted as a man would be expected to do, who had been refused the appointment he sought for trona his political opponents. Yesterday( Sunday), he attended at a meetiog of the French Society of Political Sciences, and carried on in very bad French a boasting conversation of what he had done in poli- tical science, and what French books lie had translated into the English language. When handed the book of signatures to sign his name, he wrote "Brougham, caveat et homage de lettres." From the Court he has as yet received no favour or notice. The Ministers of Louis Philip stand aloof from him. They have received their orders. Nothing is to be said or done by any one connected with the Govern. ment, which can be taken as an offence offered to the Duke of Wel. lington or Sir Robert Peel, or which can be taken as a preference shown to the Whigs.— Correspondent of the Standard.
Lord Brougham was received by the King of the French on Saturday evening, and remained nearly an hour with his Majesty.
At a meeting of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, an Monday, his Lordship made his appearance in company with M. Dupiu, M. Berenger then read an analysis of " The History of the English Constitution," by Hallam. After this was over, Dupin rose, and spoke as follows- - Gentiernou, ant dear fellow Members—We may congratulate ourselves that this analysis of the Constitution of England has been read in the presence of one of the most brilliant organs of the Go% eminent of that country, Lord Brougham, raised to the Iii:daest dignities of his country. has augmented their lustre. in caudiag to shine
with such in the exercise of his ofliee, that eloquence and t hose talents to %Idyll he owes his celebrity. A1111 ill this place of meeting. where we see him as A learned member of this Academy. it is to its a great fact in his favuur, that the roan who knew bow to maiutain the integrity of his character has lost nothing in our e%.3 or his personal value iu separating himself from the power and the honours with whi..11 he was invested.
Lord BrouItam smiled, smirked, and looked happy, and yet Lord
Brougham knew, whilst he gave his assent to this compliment, that it was a false one, and undeserved; for that he had been turned out, and had not resigned, and that he had endeavoured immediately to obtains new appointinent.—Carrespondent if the Standard.
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