“Brooks’s, Sept. 9th.
“The House of Lords is adjourned to Tuesday three
weeks, the 3rd of October. You can form no conception of the rage of the Lords
at Brougham fixing this time: it interferes
with everything—
Henry Peter Brougham, first baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868)
Educated at Edinburgh University, he was a founder of the
Edinburgh
Review in which he chastised Byron's
Hours of Idleness; he
defended Queen Caroline in her trial for adultery (1820), established the London University
(1828), and was appointed lord chancellor (1830).