... 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 ...

... Florence has not long enjoyed the post, a , his appointment to which was loojeed 0upon as the roecompense , of bestowed9l by tho Whig (4overnm11ent for the steady party service I is to which Mr. Sheil devoted the last few years of his Parlia- t ,d mentary life ...

... year Ire was agrrin ciroser ireirser for Mid-Lrtiriars, at tire gene- ral eleetien corracquerrt ers tire aecessiors of tire Whigs to office -unider Lord Grersville. When that bliriotry fell, ii Miarcir, 1807, ?? nsew Prersaicrg the Duice of Portlaird, bestowed ...

... this subject—(loud cheers). Now, as it has been said that Mr Villiers is the brother of Lord Clarendon, and that he may have a Whig object in bringing forward the question, I may as well state, once for all, that it was at our instance—at the instance of ...

... made great subject of accusation against our y that after Lord Derby’s explanation in Parliament a meeting was held of the Whigs to see how the opposition could be best carried on. I want to know what ground there was for such a complaint, for Lord John ...

... humiliating coaxing, doled out to us from the procecds | of our own taxation. In pursuance of a settled line of policy, on | which Whig aad Tory are alike agreed, to strip Scotland of every vestige of her separate nationalily, aad merge it in that of England ...

... cattse as it was tteti almtost emnbodied in the itersizu of Fox. 'flers were fow, Scotch coittties at that titut itt which a Whig cetididtute had aity chance, of' sutecess, but tite aiiatuture itiflitetce, whichl hail swayed Atignts for tioure than ictlf ...