[120] Inverness Courier, Sept. 3rd (quoted in “Annual Register,” 1854, p. 129).
[121] From a nervous habit he had contracted of twitching his nose Lord Brougham was known to his contemporaries by the nickname of “Jemmy Twitcher.”
[122] On this occasion the Great Seal was reserved and for the time put in commission, the commissioners being Sir Charles Pepys (Master of the Rolls), Vice Chancellor Shadwell, and Mr. Justice Bosanquet. Eventually it was presented to Sir Charles Pepys (Lord Cottenham), and the slight produced such a stunning effect on Brougham that he retired from active public life for a time, and sought solace in the pursuit and study of literature and philosophy.
[123] For this interesting table, see “Annual Register,” 1833, p. 83.
[124] “One whose name is unconnected with any honourable action, whose whole life has been one scene of skulking from dangers into which he had drawn others, and who is occupied from one end of the year to the other in devising plans of drawing enormous fortunes from squalid beggary.”—Dr. Maginn.
[125] Vol. xciv., August, 1863.