... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... the origin of thing that they might know how they stood. Tere had been a good deal of idle and foolish talk about “the “the Whig Clique,” the « Parliament-house Clique,” but it all meant hear). They all knew that when a bad charge could not be brought ...

... of the State to shift from its moorings Ile dreaded that it would be stranded by the popular surge, when Earl Grey and the Whig statesmen of these days conceived that the strain was in the very opposite direction, which if not yielded to, would produce ...

... how:ver, was to these vexatious tests abolished. It was not a political, and Lad never been made a political, question. The Whig Government had uniformly refused to take it up as a Govern- ment—except in the last session of Parliament, when they earned ...

... Government tossed from one hand to another, with no party strong enough to grasp them unassisted. Bat for this purpose a of Whigs, Peelites, and Economists, will be necessary. In this the Tunes thinks there is nothing improbable. But then comes the difficulty ...

... cordial assist- ance was the cause of his uverthrow. It is not easy to tell you exactly what I call myself—I call myself neither Whig nor Tory ; I think I can best describe myself by saying that I am liberal in feeling, and conservative in principle.” Mr Malcolm ...