(Lewis), late advocate of the parliament of Paris, where he was born in 1696, and died in 1777. From him we have 18 vols. 12mo of Pleadings and Memoirs. A great number of singular cases occur in this collection; and the author has the talent of rendering them more striking by the agreeable manner in which they are stated. He was Travenol's counsell in his process against Voltaire, and was very satirical against that poet. The latter took revenge by describing him as a mercenary babble, who sold his pen and his abuse to the highest bidder.—Whatever may be the case, Mannory would certainly have been more esteemed both as an advocate and as a writer, if he had paid more attention to his style, and had been less prolix; if he had thought more deeply, and been more sparing of his pleasantry in causes where nothing was required but knowledge and sound reasoning. He published also a translation into French of Father Pareé's funeral Oration on Louis XIV. and very judicious Observations on the Semiramis of Voltaire. In company Mannory was full of wit and spirit, but sometimes a little too cutting and severe.