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Excerpt from The Life and Work Sir Samuel Romilly
From this highly coloured and dramatic life back to the drab of his new domestic hearth in prosaic Gower Street (no. And to daily practice in the law-courts of London, was a transformation indeed. His rise to eminence at the bar was rapid, despite the early forebodings and searchings of heart in which his autobiography abounds. He had taken silk in 1800 in 1805 he was made Chancellor of the County Palatine of Durham, and the Prince of Wales had occasion to. Requisition his services. That scape-grace prince, 'the first gentleman in Europe,' who gambled at Brooks's and patronised the Whigs, seems to have formed a high opinion of Romilly and predestined him for office in the event of the overthrow of Pitt.
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