Entered according to Act of Congress in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, BY BANKS, GOULD & CO., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Rec. Oct 7. 1848. * The HON. REUBEN H. WALWORTH was appointed Chancellor on the 19th of April, 1828, in the place of the HON. SAMUEL JONES, appointed Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the city of New York. +DANIEL MOSELY, counsellor at law, was appointed Judge of the Seventh Circuit, on the 16th of January, 1829 in the place of the HON. ENOS T. THROOP, elected Lieutenant-Governor of the State. ADDISON GARDINER, counsellor at law, was appointed Judge of the Eighth Circuit on the 25th of September, 1829, in the place of the HON. JOHN BIRDSALL, resigned. CHANCELLOR WALWORTH'S ADDRESS TO THE BAR, ON ASSUMING THE DUTIES OF HIS OFFICE. Delivered April 28th, 1828. Gentlemen of the Bar: IN assuming the duties of this highly responsible station, which at some future day would have been the highest object of my ambition, permit me to say, that the solicitations of my too partial friends, rather than my own inclination or my own judgment, have induced me to consent to occupy it at this time. Brought up a farmer until the age of seventeen, deprived of all the advantages of a classical education, and with a very limited knowledge of Chancery law, I find myself, at the age of thirty-eight, suddenly and unexpectedly placed at the head of the judiciary of the State; a situation which heretofore has been filled by the most able and experienced members of the profession. Under such circumstances, and when those able and intelligent judges, who for the last five years have done honor to the bench of the Supreme Court, all decline the arduous and responsible duties of this station, it would be an excess of vanity in me, or any one in my situation, to suppose he could discharge those duties to the satisfaction even |