... Admiral at 255. per diem, never to serve again or to obtain increase of pay ! And yet beside, and junior to him, was a scion of a Whig Member, who was not distinguinidecori; he was kept in employment in a pet lazy berth, a Flag Captain, and rose to be an Active ...

... underrated. He has been too much spoken of as a mere gladiator. Macaulay contrasts the great Crusader at Joppa with his great Whig hero at Neerwinden, to show that the strength of the muscles is far inferior in value to the strength of the mind, implying ...

... the Eeicudan Dhu, the Black Watch, who were specially recruited from, and Officered by Campbells, Grants, and Munros, noted Whig Clans, should be present to see their humiliation ; for they (the Mackenzies),” says the good-natured General, had always been ...

... the same year, he added greatly to the brilliancy of his fame. In 1862 General Scott was nominated for the Presidency the old Whig party, and in this contest he received the only disastrous defeat which he ever experienced. Only four States cast their electoral ...

... which circumstances might nevertheless render contrary to our own, for we have ingeniously contrived, under the long misrule of Whig Ministries, to become unpopular with every European Power in succession, whilst we have lost the respect formerly paid to our ...

... the 11th inst.aged 83. Ho bad represented the City of Bath -In Parliament and resigned bis seat fourteen years aoo. Ho was a whig in politics, but his political antagonists respected him for tho honesty of his convictions antLtno conciliatory way in which ...

... thing like the same degree, as we, in England, have suffered, from the evil operation of our Picktooth Government (whether Whig or Tory)—and yet, if you, Mr Editor, will kindly allow admission, into the columns of the Naval and Military Gazette, of the ...

... Thus,—What views do the pair of Attorneys, and Solicitors-General entertain honourable members of the bar—one party being Whig, the other Conservative—upon the disputed matters of Tweedledum t>. Tweedledee, before either party were blessed by the mantles ...

... it is believed, not less than 60,000/. contesting the various elections in which ho stood in that interest, and which the Whig Government of Earl Grey considered had justly entitled him to a peerage. Sjr James for a considerable period filled the office ...

... immediately after his return to London placed himself in communication with some experienced statesmen of the Constitutional Whig party, with a view to forming a Government in co-operation with them. The Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea. —On Wednesday afternoon ...

... accordance with the Institution. Even more, we assert that the most objectionable bit of patronage exercised by the head of the Whig Admiralty was conferred without one scintilla of claim ! But the head of Department always possesses very peculiar notions ...

... taking place by the Duke’s orders indiscriminately against such Highlanders as the Sutherland and the Campbell men, who were Whigs, and against the Camerons and the Frasers, who were Jacobites, His Royal Highness is reported to have said, with a smile, that ...