“Liverpool, Jan. 30.
“. . . What think you of the accounts of the
King? He is, I apprehend, rapidly
approaching to his death—and then for the Queen and Bruffam! I did
not tell you the other day, he has now in his possession the proper instrument
signed by herself, appointing him
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).