... astonishment at the conduct of the whigs in promoting and applauding the late prosecutions. But to me such conduct appears neither extraordinary nor unprecedented. The country has long suspected, and now knows, that the whigs are no friends to the press. They ...

... looms and filled our workhouses—are repealed the government may as well attempt to set the Thames on fire, or find an honest whig, as arrest the progress of want by turning to the right about some few fifty Pounds a-year clerks, or superannuated underlings ...

... deserves further to be remarked that these prosecutions are got up under a whig administration. In saying so, of course, we only mean that the law officer who takes the lead in them is a whig. We leave it to Sir James Scarlett himself to reconcile his conduct ...

... of the present Quarter, it is no more than what is done at the end of every Quarter, and under every Administration, whether Whig, Tory, or Liberal. It is natural for all men to put the best face they can upon their transactions, and Ministers have the ...

... opponent whom he ever had, prove the vindictiveness his disposition ; this was a genuine Whig, and to confirm his title, and complete the parallel between the Whig of and 1830, the mail himself had licen real libeller. The passage prefixed the article ...

... Gazette are filled with bankruptcies and insolvents, and the columns of the daily journals with reports of the crusades of a Whig Attorney General against the liberty of the press. France has tried all parties, all schemes for her ameliorations and all ...

... principle of heat and light), and of course, render one such tub of three times more value than it was unsaturated. — Northern Whig. At a meeting of the iron-masters of Staffordshire last week, it was agreed to blow out fifteen brass furnaces, in the hope ...

... small in comparison we admit) of the eternal obloquy which will ever be attached to the name and reputation of the present whig-attorney-general. Of ihe share which the Duke of Wellington has had in this attack upon the freedom of the press we shall say ...

... that there never was a time when fiercer and more malignant party libels were published than that glorious era' to which the whig attorney-general so unhappily—we will not say so ignorantly—alluded. When Sir James Scarlett was so nice and so unsparing in ...

... tlic Whig' porty, for hoiisc* of parliiiincnt coinplyiug a* these it is the Duke's good fortune lead, could scarcely l>e made more ilexilde than he lias found them. However, certain it is, that did make such overtures to mic of the leading Whigs, who ...

... eneral who, though a Tory, filed more informations, and instituted m»re prosecutions against the press than any half-dozen Whig Attorney-Generals ever instituted. matter. The appointment might have been a right one—but to the Catholics was very unconciliatoty ...

... not deprecate the course adopted by the administration. Many persons cast all the odium on Sir James Scarlett, his majesty's whig attorney-general. We are unwilling to refuse to that learned gentleman any of the merit (for such be esteems it) of having ...