Temperance pioneers of the West : personal and incidental experiences / by Thomas Hudson.

  • Hudson, Thomas, 1816-1902.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Temperance pioneers of the West : personal and incidental experiences / by Thomas Hudson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fuz); and have especially before me now a man of diminutive stature, with a remarkably florid face and long pointed nose, whose silvery tones of voice and graceful action charmed the Court, if his advocacy did not always convince the jury. This rising star in the legal profession afterwards be- came Attorney-General, also Recorder of Bristol, and eventually Lord Chief Justice Cockburn of the Court of Queen’s Bench. Among the most vivid of my youthful recollec- tions were the Bristol Riots of 1831. It should be observed that one of the stoutest opponents of Catholic Emancipation and Parliamentary Reform was the redoubtable member for Old Sarum, Sir Charles Wetherell. During the debates in the House of Commons on the latter subject, Sir Charles had contemptuously said that the inhabit- ants of Bristol did not want reform. The conse- quence of this rash statement was, that when, by virtue of his office as Recorder, he “ entered an appearance,” a numerous contingent of rough and ready-to-hand “lewd fellows of the baser sort” made the question of Reform a pretext to set “all the city in an uproar,” and perpetrated a wanton and indiscriminate attack on the persons and pro- perty of the law-abiding citizens. On the morning of Saturday, October the 29th, the Recorder was met by the civic authorities at Totterdown, on the
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