... never permitted the consideration of politics to influence him in his department of ! Commander-in-Chief, but gave alike to Whig as to Tory the preferment their service or their talents deserved. Secondly, in attaching himself to the party whose object ...

... or e death of a tig being done able. ork, from his as guided by circumstances at his Royal nsideration of epartment of e to Whig cs vice or their • ching himself ised to be to ighness would 11 the slightest The following _ _ _ . re table of the years since ...

... seen the term explained—the motto of a newspaper— Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. In the parties of the Whigs and Tories, the lower orders of either could have no interest. Nevertheless, the lower orders might have strong party feelings ...

... calculated to violate the obligations of that solcWa compact? Was it credible that Sir John Somers Lord Godolphin, the English Whigs of the day, have come down to propose to parliament such a I? strous violation of the faith of treaties (loud eheeripg., But ...

... auta% t—whig authority, too—who. writing klow the wars of Ireland may be said to the articles of the treaty ef Limerick ti fled, and, though the meaning of loubted, the ambiguous sentences were ur of the Irish. On these grounds horities—on whig authorities ...

... the leaders; indeed, ever since that party extinguished it' various ways, Mr. Plunkett has attached himself to the Grenville whigs, and between that party and Mr. Secretary Canning, there has been no known connexion which ought to make the Right Honourable ...

... chance that Mr. Canning has of being able to form a ministry ; this he can scarcely effect without calling in the aid of the Whig party, and then what prospect of continuance will such a :Ministry hold out? Contending with the Ministers who have retire ...

... The following statements or surmises do not rest upon testimony so authentic—though upon testimony fully as respectable. The Whigs, it is said, are not to take office ; (we beg to add) in the first instance, but they are to give their zealous support ...

... Mr. Canning and the Noble Marquis. Another circumstance which would lend support to this supposition is, that some leading Whigs, from their conversations, seem daily and hourly to have discovered new features of resemblance between Mr. Canning's policy ...

... with the Whigs, and by the success or failure of the negociation thus opened, the nature of the new arrangements must be considerably influenced. All the surmises that we have collected above, proceed, of course, upon the hypothesis that the Whigs will not ...

... Irishmen, Mr. Canning was chastised, humbled, and expelled from office. After some years of mortification, during which the Whigs rejected his overtures with bitterness and contempt, unhappy out of place, he accepted an appointment under the man whose ...

... crimes. Shade of the martyr'd Thistleton ! Protect thy now repentant son; Aid me to recount the story How oft I've changed from Whig to Tory, And back again; to gain my ends Did I e'er doubt to leave my friends? All I might leave to common tame, On this the ...