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8 do. 133; Tanner v. Smart, 6 Barn. & Cress, 604. His political prepossessions may be studied in the numerous state prosecutions over which he presided, reported in the col lection of State Trials, volumes twenty-three to thirty-one. The most important of these

weight.1 During the tenure of Lord Ellenborough's successor, Charles Abbott, after wards Lord Tenterden (1818-32), this con dition of affairs was largely reversed: the reputation of the court was then due in large measure to the puisnes. Lord Tenterden

LORD TENTERDEN.

are the trials of Peltier, Hardy, HorneTooke, Stone, Despard, Johnson, Hunt, Lambert and Watson. It is noticeable that the popularity of the King's Bench during this time was due almost entirely to the energy and ability of its chief justice. His sole associate of firstrate ability was Bayley (1808-30), whose opinion in commercial cases carried great

was inferior to his predecessor in force of intellect and was surpassed by some of his associates in acuteness and learning. But he was a judge of liberal tendencies, moder ation and good sense. These are the quali 1 Doe d. Christmas v. Oliver, 5 M. & R., 202; Mon tague г. Benedict, 3 B. & C. 673; Cadell v. Palmer, I Cl. & F. 411; and the Cases of Harding v. Pollock and Forbes -: Cochrane in the second volume of the State trials, last series.