Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr03thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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KINGS CIIAMPIOX.(From An Authintic History of the Corotiaiion of His Majesty Kia^ George tite Fourtli, by Robert Hiiish, Esq. 1S21.) misdemeanour in making and publishing the abovelibel. He was found guilty, condemned to pay200 marks, to suffer five years imprisonment, andto be brought before the courts at Westminster,with a parchment round his head declaring hisoffence. In April, 1776, Elizabeth Chudleigh was triedhere for having married Evelyn Pierrepoint, Dukeof Kingston, during the lifetime of her husband, guilty, advised not to do it again, and dischargedon payment of the fees. The whole scene, by thecaprice of a morbid fashion, was converted intothe semblance of a gala-day. Soldiers were postedat the gates, to regulate the entrance of the crowdsthat pressed in; and even ladies in full Court-dress attended to witness so rare a circumstance.Horace Walpole records the incidents of this trialday by day, in his letters to Sir Horace Mann. ^\estminstcr Hall.) A TRTAT. FOR BIGAMY. 553
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COROTMATION OF GEORGE IV. IN WESTMINSTER HALL: THE CHAMPION .S CHALLENGE.(From a ConUntporary Ensraving in the Gentlemans Magazine) 14a-Vol. III. 554 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (Westminster Hall. We shall have more to say of this notoriousDuchess-Countess when we come to Knights-bridge. In February, 178S, was commenced the trial ofWarren Hastings before the House of Commons,in Westminster Hall. This trial, it is well known,lasted nearly as long as the siege of Troy, havinglingered out through seven years, and having endedin his just acquittal, in September, 1795. An acutecriminal said that if it had been held instead in thecourt where he himself was tried, it would havebeen over in less than ten days. The agitation produced by Burkes speech atthis memorable trial was such that the whole audi-ence appeared to have felt one convulsive emotion ;and when it was over, it was some time beforeMr. Fox could obtain a hearing. Amidst theassemblage of concurring praises which this speechexcited, none w

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