... soon as they returned to power; and that the Whigs connected themselves with the Regent Orleans in order to defeat the Tories, as the Tories had connected themselves with the late King in order to defeat the Whigs. This is very clearly put, both by Ranke ...

... consequence was the great breach in the Whig party. Sir Gilbert Elliott's correspondence is full of the most interesting particulars of the histwy of the negotiations between Pitt and the section known as the Portland Whigs for a coalition. Eiliott had great ...

... proved too strong a tempta- tion for so many of the clever young Whigs. The result was that he became a Tory Chief Secretary for Ireland and an anti-Reformer, though he drifted back to the Whigs with the Canningites, and became Home Secre- taryin Lord Grey's ...

... science, and of a broad and simple Christianity. Air Charles M-ilnes Gaskell writes as a Whig on Whigs, of whose future I-ehas but little confidence. The Old Whigs under the new conditions of l-c y~ol;cal world, he fears, will suffer a gentle euthanasia ...

... champion, their gratitude did not stop there. At the general election of 1812 he was invited to stand for Liverpool; and the Whig party, wanting to dish Canning, as he said,, put up two candidates, and thus lost both seats. Brougham remainedc out of ...

... much-is jpcrhaps the best in the number. The writl author rates Whig principles and Whig otatesmen intel rather too high; h ut onf the whole his analysis ?? Whig, literature, Whig politics, and Whig society isth acute,1 and the style in ...

... been published, was a man of sound and shrewd commonsense, and was, by virtue of his- position as head of one of the great Whig families, always thoioughly in touch with politics and society. He was a type of his class, and offered ii his own person a ...

... most brilliant and thoughtful exponents of Whig policy. He has been, as we think he said on one occasion, first an Englishman and then a Whig. For ourselves we have too often had to find fault with the Whigs. Too often the necessity has arisen, brought ...

... one of the Whigs, as Palmerston was one of the Tories, who on the break up of Lord Liverpool's Admi- nistration acquired the designation of Canningites. The Tories who -adhered to Canning on the defection of Wellington and Peel, and the Whigs who came over ...

... change the officers e of his household. The real reason was that the Whig leaders did not receive a direct and unlimited authority for forming a Ministry. They ( stood out for the old Whig doctrine that it was for the party and not for V the Sovereign to ...

... of the second rank, right or left, according to their political creed of Whig or Tory. The former are in a mighty flutter this afternoon, for Walpole's profegee should be a Whig-and yet she's supported by her Grace of Queensbury, who flirts with Bolingbroke ...

... expected promotion from the Whigs afterwards; as according to Lord Denman he did, having entertained the hope of being Tenterden's successor himself. Lord Brougham, however, agrees that he was very badly treated by the Whigs, though he could not have meant ...