... the resignation the Secretaryship War by Mr. Canning, Lord Palmerston took the vacant place, and idled until 1828. When the Whigs came into power, Lord Palmerston became Secretary of State f«r Foreign Affairs, and represented South Hants, and ultimately ...

... his e.'Say on Mil ten, in the EdtiJjunjh Review, drew upon him the attention the entire reading public. The leaders of the Whig party, acknowledgment of his literary superiority, appointed Mr. Macaulay Commissioner Bankruptcy, and in 1830 he entered ...

... North’s success, and of that of still greater man before him, Sir Robert Walpole, who kept the Hanover family the throne and the Whigs in otlice for many years. details of his i>olsey, which, in other hands, would have been dull and uninterestin?, served with ...

... fought a duel with the captain, obtained a divorce in the 1 louse of Lords, but never married again. The Astleys are a very old Whig family in Norfolk. The title dates back 1289, and, in ISH. the late peer aucccoJixl proving his right to summoned to the House ...