commenced. See _infra_, March 27th.]

It is a very trite observation, that no two people are more
different than the same man at different periods of his life, and
this was illustrated by an anecdote Lord Holland told us of Tom
Grenville last night--Tom Grenville, so mild, so refined, adorned
with such an amiable, venerable, and decorous old age. After Lord
Keppel's acquittal there were riots, and his enthusiastic friends
with a zealous mob attacked the houses of his enemies; among
others they assaulted the Admiralty, the chiefs of which were
obnoxious for their supposed ill-usage of him. The Admiralty was
taken by storm, and Tom Grenville was the second man who entered
at the breach!

March 23rd, 1838 {p.080}

On Wednesday I attended a Levee and Council. The Queen was
magnificently dressed, and looked better than I ever saw her. Her
complexion is clear and has the brightness of youth; the
expression of her eyes is agreeable. Her manner is graceful and
dignified and with perfect self-possession. I remarked how very
civil she was to Brougham, for she spoke to him as much as to
anybody. He was in high good-humour after it.

Yesterday we had a Judicial Committee, with a great judicial
attendance: the Chancellor, Lord Lyndhurst, Brougham, the Vice-
Chancellor, Lord Abinger, Lord Langdale, and Tom Erskine, with
the Lord President. It was to consider a petition of certain
apprentices in British Guiana, who wanted to stay execution of
the judgement of a Court there. Glenelg had it referred to the
Privy Council Committee in order to shift the responsibility from
himself. He expected that Brougham would get hold of the case and
make a clatter about it; but at the Board Brougham treated it
purely upon legal grounds, and was adverse to the prayer of the
petition.

They had come (i.e., the Chancellor, Lyndhurst, and Brougham)
from the House of Lords, where they had been reversing
Lyndhurst's famous judgement in 'Small _v._ Attwood.' Lyndhurst
was very hoarse, having just made a long speech in support of his
former judgement; but the Chancellor and Devon had spoken
against, and Brougham was prepared to side with them. _Sic
transit gloria!_ It was this judgement which was so lauded and
admired at the time, and upon which, more than upon any other, or
even upon the general tenor of his decisions, Lyndhurst's great
judicial fame was based; and now it turns out that, although it
was admirable in the execution, it was b