... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... tiispicese Of I )fLrd DcrbyI He ceor ticeicely he s'etdto have ]lid aity political, ~ 'ife If 'gneally gave lies votes to the 'Whig party, but in thle Hoise of Lodof which body lie lied beet, a membuer 45 'ye tars, lie attalined to no eniteueuci. On sonic ...

... John Dalrymple-to call him by the title by which lie Di , was longest known in the political world-early embraced the M tr Whig cause, and more than once contested the roprecsentation so r- of Alid-Lothian without success before the Reform Bill. The Jr ...

... this Govermimnett in 1828, Viscoimmt ?? served uinder himn en Alahster-General ?? Ordntance, which office lie held till Chic Whigs caent into pester imi Novemn- ber, 1830. flume emnded time pumblic sreesi of Viscount Beresford ;amid], considerinig that lie ...

... Cabhiet of which his if eminent relative was the leader and the head. Wlhet lie be- r came associated with the more conservative Whigs who formed part of Mr. Caening's Cabinet, he gradiially ceased to be a strong Tory, and at lengtbe might fairly be reckoned ...

... sumirution of' Clue art atid eloqucince of ?? vietoriusits ndvocate. p The year 1830 saw all cad of tie lollg exile of the Whig arty froits power. 'lThe oflices of Lord-Adis ocutte umid of Sell- Ci tor-G leerslu fir Scothlmdl IIow fell by cosmusmeim asscnlt ...

... attentively the interests of his constituents. In his public capacity lie knew no party, e and made no distinction between Whig and Tory; and to this t cause, as well as to the high sense of honour which regtlated n | all the actions of his life, he owed ...

... his latest public the acts was to head a section 'of the Conservative party in Edin- burgh, in canvassing and polling for the Whig-Radical, Bailie and Brown-Douglas, on the ground' of his pledges to vote for the raff, abolition of the Maynooth grant. rit; ...

... notwith- ,a standing that politics and partyfeeling ran high at that particular a etra.- Mr. Mills was always a consistent Whig, and attached to h the party that maintained the principles of that s chool, which ha Charles James Fox, 'Earl Grey, and other ...