... installation of. the ex- Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Monteagle, in the lucrative sinecure of Controller of the Exchequer. Sir John Newport, an old man of eighty, and tottering on the verge of the grave, is induced for a consideration to resign the Co ...

... proportion of the different volumes in their through the press. Encouraged by this consideration, •e made cpplication to Lord John Russell, as Secretary for the Home Department, for assistance from die royal bounty to aid him the accomplishment of this ...

... of modern degeneracy thus practically proved to be quite erroneous. There understood to be plan in progress devised by Mr. John Martin, the celebrated painter, for materially improving and beautifying the banks of tbe Thames from Vanxhall bridge to some ...