... chance to exhume. And although we fear we are not likely to row much in the same political boat with Lord John, we know no Whig or Tory denizen of the club-house at Cowes, in whose yacht we would more gladly accept an offered berth. The Life and Corr ...

... natural feeling in all ; and nothing can sur- pass the sweet and pious sentiment of the ' Asking a Blessing.' The INorthern Whig,' of Belfast, a journal deservedly esteemed for the care and impartiality of its judgments, has an interesting mention of the ...

... accession to office as principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs, he became Under-Secretary. He subsequently served (after the brief Whig interval on Pitt's death) as a Lord of the Admiralty, still with Lord Mulgrave for his chief; blt in the latter part of his ...

... of State for Scotland. A few years later he entered Parliament; and, when he was forty-eight, having meanwhile promoted the, Whig interests in his native county, received from the Duke. of Newcastle the appointment of envoy, changed subsequently to that ...

... King would find him among the eminent men of his reign, but not among those whose rank will be confirmed by posterity. The Whigs, too, will observe -that none of their idols are brought forward: neither lampden, nor their Sidney, nor Russell. I think of ...

... is thought and motive in all he does, however trifling.' You know Burke and he were inseparables till the former left the Whigs; but their mutual regard, I believe, always con- tinued. Sir Philip told me that B'koe was convinced hedwas Junius; yet, before ...

... his verse which lift him above the ordinary level of the booksellers' Collections. A. Our first extract exhibits both these Whig employcs (Stepney was at this time in daily expectation of his Dresden mission) in correspondence with Lord Lexington. lir ...

... eloquence in the writings that bear his name, not to seem to us in the main trust- worthy. He was a talking vain man, says the Whig bishop, who bad long been in the king's favour, and had such an opinion of his own faculty of persuading, that he thought ...

... things, he ought to avoid attaching himself to a system apart from whi;cl lie can see nothing but misfortusie and ruin. Hey be Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, provided tsheS, When circumetance demand it, he make Iis private opinions give Vito the general ...

... great difficulty I got through it in two days. It is on the story of Lord Russel. John Lilburne himself could not have more whig-zeal. The style extremely deficient in grammar is flogged up to more extravagant rants than Statius's or Claudian's, with a ...

... as willing to admit us .to their most private and delightful confidences. The leaders and many distinguished members of the Whig party ,have presented Mr Tufell, M.P. for Devonport, and formerly Secre- tary of the Treasury, with a splendid candelabrum ...

... suspicion. We think it also an admirable touch where Fallen (who has descended in his miseries to be the paid agent of both Whig and Jaco- bite) is made to excuse his time-serving by his love to his children ; for that shows the susceptibility to the household ...