... the public declaration of his approval of the contents of such a petition would tend to cast doubt into the minds of those Whig politicians who had been mainly instrumental in urging on the miniiters in a mischievous course. We are convinced that we were ...

... embarrassment and distress. This was pressed upon Mr. HUSKISSON, in an especial manner, by more than one or two gentlemen of the Whig party in Liverpool,—a party that Mr. HUSKISSON appears, now, particularly anxious to conciliate. He defended the proceedings ...

... Hence, we witness the most arbitrary and unconstitutional acts defended, in the highest tone of Prerogative, by a professing Whig. We do not allude to Sir James Scarlett's Ex-Officio prosecutions; but to his defence of the King's uncontrolled right to such ...

... g to a family which encountered great public obloquy, the writers and speakers appertaining to the party of the I.'4:alit-Whigs, for having joined the Alarmists, on a former occasion,—has been induced to exhibit a public demonstration of his unqualified ...

... good course, by that tendency to split hairs, and exhibit ingenuity, which has always characterized certain members of the Whig-party, in Parliament. The Tory-party—we mean such as stood aloof from the late Government—are well acquainted with the present ...

... delusion which familiar names is so apttocreate, forget that the great distinction that formerly existed between 'those of the Whigs and Tories, who were cat inert political adventurers, exists no longer. The question the inviolability of the Protestion c ...

... _ Third, The accession of independent Tory Members of the House of Commons to the extensive measure of Reform proposed by a Whig Administration. When speaking of fresh evidences of the Question having acquired strength, since last week, from new converts ...

... Goulburn, Croker, Herries, and Planta rose, eventually, to be placed in offices of great trust, influence, and importance. The Whigs, on their accession to office, did not, we believe, appoint a single man of this description. They retained the men in offices ...

... dextrous and admirable specimen of parliamentary tactics,—an example of the successful exercise of that art, for which the Whigs have always exhibited an unaccountable inaptitude,—and it is of a character which rendered any previous estimate of the members ...

... reputable stations in life. Whoever casts his eyes over the names attached to those petitions would see, that all distinctions of Whigs, Tories, and Radicals were, on this occasion, laid aside; and he would especially see, that many of those men that used to ...

... opinion being in favour of the - Government? All modern writers, and all public speakers, ru.t belonging, particularly, to the Whig-Party, from the days of Lord Chatham, Junius, and Burke, to those of Canning, Peel, and Huskisson, have contended, that public ...

... is the contrast between this occasion and all others, we may still be pardoned for a brief allusion to it. When the Whigs were deprived of power, on account of their consistent zeal for the Catholics, in the year 1806, Ills Majesty dissolved the Parliament ...