... monarchs. Class Aven the Jaoobite rebellion of 1745 produced oon- he t Aratively little sensation in the country. The geat uncz whig aristocracy who had efected the revolution and are carried the Act of Settlement would have been de- Johi prived of their powver ...

... al power, chastened by a severer criti- iu cism than the great Irish advocate allowed ml himself. A whig himself, the intimate friend du of many whig statesmen, an Edinburgh reviewer, co and a brilliant writer on the catholic question, it was not very ...

... during the last five years. The Whigs were iR power at the queen's accession to the throne; the picture consequently represents them particularly prominent in this the first act of importance in her reign, and the Whigs are again in power when the engraving ...

... known as the A~rmed Neutrality of the Northern Powers. ,t Addington from the first disapproved of Pitt's junction with the Whig dissidents, who, under the IDake of Portland, had separated from Fox, when that eminent statesman quarrelled with Burke on ...

... this last rumour of may be as unfounded as the previous ones. Gl ( va t ON DITS. ; Some commotion has bean occasioned in the Whig political H scircles, through the indiscretion of one of its members, in re- of Ivealing the contents of a letter, meant to ...

... career of such chancellors as Thur- bi M low and Loughborough. He congratulates himself tic that he has now come to a pure whig, to a Yreat T1 orator, to a consistent partisan; and we may add, to th a man who, whatever were his virtues or his merits, ...

... another occasion he thus whimsically shippe1 described tlse different manner in which he felt. himsl ds taken I posed towards a Whig and a Tory. I'If,' said he, 'II saw aUpy andig and a Tory drowning, I would first save the Tory; up byn anwhen I saw that he ...

... repudiates, for the discipline adopted at Reading, the name of solitary. This word has bad traditions. It is like the word whig. He inmists apon the term separate. In like manner the rival systemn protests against an injurious designation. Theirs is ...

... mrei admirable, or of greater importance than this his- ml torie of the general floud, so was there nothing (though al or whig most chaneli to them in figure) that ever more aptly, more Dctbl lively, or more' exactly, prefaiured Christ and his church ...

... between the weakness of the house of Orleans and o the strength of the house of Brunswick was osoon established; the English whigs, both If privately and publicly, used every exertion to support the Duke-of -Orleans. Philip of Spain was forced to succumb ...

... List, Diplomaicy, Debt, I ILaw and Logislation; Etclcsaistical Abuses; Reform of the enotce of Commnt s ac the Colonies ; thes Whig Ministry and the prospects of' Financial- Reform, are oll nanalysed and exposed in their turn. StAt6istis and haistorical ...

... spe- cially Lord Napier and Sir William Parker, that he has in his mind's eye. But Mr. Macfarlane plainly looks upon all the whigs and fourfifths of the conser- vatives as downright Jacobins. He himself is appa- rently the direct opposite-a Jacobite, come ...