... Barebones. So with the Whigs. The only one of tolerable dimensions In the Reform era was Althorpe, who was pretty much of tbe stamp of Sir Francis Baring, or Mr E. Ellice, of Coventry, the only real sample of the old Foxite Whig now living. What with the ...

... offenders from the pen of Lord Brougham. Lord Cockburn says that when Lord Lansdowne took office the death of Mr Canning, the Whigs were wtfoiced, because they felt sure that he would be guided by Mr Abercromby and Mr. Kennedy. Lord Brougham says that he ...

... governmental fabric. On the contrary, Pitt was the first to conceive the project of Parliamentary Reform, at the time when the Whig oligarchs had no relish for the change; and it was only when they found themselves wholly excluded front office that the d ...

... nearly all parts of the country there is a highly favourable expression of opinion regarding it, and although the Edinburgh Whigs as a body treat the 'propersals which Dr Begg has brought before the public with the affected contempt which they manifest ...