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... Earl, fa P ebtiese felt that his opinions were rather too n advanced for the direct representative of one of T greatof Enlish Whig families; but he re faled tu derive fror sach a fant the compensat- dr in, cron ?? which under such circumstances to is'derived ...

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... by their merits, I hav-e a majority against the Government. Such are the ?? with which we commence the Whig Parliarment-a Parliament called by a Whig Premier and the first of the reign of a new Sovereign. I forgot to say that in the muiti. tudinous host ...

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... the exiled Stuarts. The following extraordinary story is told of her:- It chanced on one occasion that Mr Forbes, a zealous Whig, but a man of profligate habits, had been entrusted arith some important private papers implicating her husband, to forward ...

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... 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 ...

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... when he lost his seat, and for a th considerable interval kept aloof from active political th life. As an adherent of the Whig party, he had in HR those years taken a stronq interest in, anld had spoken often and with great effect on,b various liberal ...

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... distance of the 1070e3' .oa' of the '%Thadfo andl the Derwoat, who s ndota sein time or eother exijoyed the hesptality of the Whig nobleman. And yetx ~:1 far this Maniftest ?? of dlispenitien mar acontributled to the poptularity of the Duke of U pelsairitCO ...

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... DEVATH OF JANIES SHERIDA.N KNOWLE3, (Mrom the Northern Whig of Monday.) A trlegrsm received yesterday evening has broaiht the .0,ws of ttq deatb, at Torqnay, to Devonsbire, ol James Vb-rldan KEowles, the greatest of the dreantists whone writlsgs have ...

LAST WEEK'S PARLIAMENT

... was mere fly in amber, and he must have more than once asked himself how the O'Conor Don had got there ? he is anything, he a Whig; and now that he has determined purge and live clean, hope wholesome example will find sufficient imitators among the miscellaneous ...

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... l4ordfelhavenhasloungoccupied a position of some prominence in the West of Scotland. In politis his Lordship was a staunch Whig of this old school. He sat in Parliamenteas a Scottish Re. presentative Peer, from .182)0 to 1830; and,. in 1831; he was, by ...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. LORD BLANTYRE AND CHARLES WILLIAMS. Erskine, Glasgow, November 1879. Sir,—Having ..

... declared to be necessary as Irish policy. The man who declines to follow out that policy may be a veiy good Irisn Liberal or Whig, i*ut is no Home Ruler or Nationalist. am well aware the Glasgow Liberal Club having retired from the controversy with is now ...

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... was f seldom seeu. and never }ieard on a platform, but be did good public work in a quiet wvay. He ixes a leads-r of the old Whigs, Colin D'lap's c party, whose great services to the common1- T sealt'i are nowadays made light of ; le was the eldest ex-meniber ...

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... There can be little doubt, therefore, t that he came forward emphatically as a I people's candidate in oppsition to the s Whigs. On the side, however, favourable to I his political consistency, it has been maintained s that even then he was looking forward ...