... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...