... array of youthful aspirants cast their fortunes, or as was then thought thle sacritice of their professional hopes, with the Whig party-when h1arry Erskine, Clerk, Giilies, Cath cart and othiers, were joined by Cranstoun, Jeffrey, 'Mon- creif', Cockburn ...

... Scottish bar in 1799, and through life was a consistent supporter of the principles of Fox-in short, a zealous constitutioloasal Whig. When the project w.a mooted, about the year 1825, of effecting two leading public improvernents in Edinbturgl, viz. thle approach ...

... opposition to the Whigs, Wle do not pretend to follow the course of this opposition in its mi-C nute details. Fur the first two or three years it comprised n- a sistance, first to the reform measure itself, and then to the measures whicb the Whigs introduced ...

... zeal and ardour to acquire a fresh auxili- ary in the person of the Dake of Cambridge. He was courted X alike by Tory and by Whig. On the one hand he was solicited by Fox, Sheridan, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Sussex, and the Duchess of Devonshire-on ...

... question he -was I placed in contact wmith the perhaps superior, anfid'crtainly I more leisure-fed, minds of eminent men of the Whig party. Struck with the views, he did not shrink from adopting t and carrying them against the earnest protests of his ( family ...

... second time assum powner ~withoult the Certainty of being able to retain it. hs twan ?? tobert Peal's comrse when ?? 89 on the Whigs being left in - a minority, lie wascle pnt frmn anladministration We allude to theecniin holh 'stipulated for with respect ...