... array of youthful aspirants cast their fortunes, or as was then thought thle sacritice of their professional hopes, with the Whig party-when h1arry Erskine, Clerk, Giilies, Cath cart and othiers, were joined by Cranstoun, Jeffrey, 'Mon- creif', Cockburn ...

... political struggles of this country from 1792 downwards, and was on terms of intimacy with Fox and most of the leaders of the old Whig school. As an acknowledgment of the services which he rendered to that party, he was created a baronet in 1831 by the go- vernment ...