... high society which is now afforded them by a presentation at Court. A few years later, when the prospects of the Whigs improved, when a - Whig Administration was actually formed and the Reform Act passed, Lady Cowper began to play a leading part in the political ...

... the most implicit confidence in his purity and his patriotism. There was never any doubt about his motives. When he left the Whigs, with whom nothing but the accident of birth could have connected him, it was to leave office at the same time. When Mr. Gladstone ...