... 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 ...

... upset the Ministry in a month. Yet he himself insists on the sincerity of his ?? episcolari, and affects to be surprised at the Whig objection to it. Why, to put aside all that was to be apprehended from Brougham himself, the people would never have been persuaded ...

... was healed in the presence of a common danger. But this loss of parliamentary strength could never be recovered. It gave the Whigs their chance, and neither the Duke of Wellington nor Sir Robert Peel had the peculiar gifts then required for retrieving the ...

... Govern- ments that this vice chiefly manifests itself, quoting the conduct of the Wh'ig party at the Peace of Utrecht in proof of this asser- tion. But though the Whigs of that day may perhaps have been chargeable with the brutalit6 in question, it ...

... up of thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors (Introd p. T.) If this is not a justification of Pope's sarcasms upon Whigs, Kinmgs Lords, and Merchants, we confess that we can offer nothing better' But Mr. Pattison will say, Pope ought not to have ...

... service to him; for the above mistake does not prevent him from seeing, as logically it ought, that the pure Whig creed is essentially Conservative. Whig and Tory in the eighteenth century did really very often differ as Conservative and Liberal, notably so ...

... length in No. 492 of the Spectator. We know that the ladies who originated the Blue-stocking movement were all Whigs. And now, what were the Whig colours ? says the free inquirer, triumphantly. And he who cannot perceive the relation of these two colours ...

... and consequently what results might be expected from improved processes. The scheme of class representation proposed by the Whig reviewer at that time, and acutely criticised by Grote, is not without analogy to other more recent suggestions. Grote argued ...

... happened that all the law lords who voted against the objection were Tories, all those who voted for it, Denman included, Whigs. And O'Connell got off accordingly. The permanent results of this famous judgment, when its immediate political result had ...

... does; but to deny that he was a bigot could hardly occur to any creature who has read of his furious, unreasoning hatred of Whigs, his furious, unreasoning hatred of Dissent,. and of a good many other things, men, and principles as well. We know- iot how ...

... political situation a hundred years ago is not materially different from that of the orthodox Whigs, though some casual phrases here and there show that Mr. Rae is a Whig and something more. It is still well to do anything to draw the attention of new generations ...

... 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 ...