... the public mind. Any discredit for inaction in the Reform cause must, says the writer, be equally shared by Mr Fox and the Whigs. The Westrminster article on Election Expenses, more than half- disposed to suggest that voting be compulsory on all electors ...

... clubs, and each year saw the establishment of many more, great and little. Politicians followed the fashion of authors, and Whigs and Tories had their separate centres of action. The Kit-Cat Club, begun by a pastry-cook, and specially devoted to the eating ...

... uncompromising Whig.e It was not a battle between the two men, but the two principles; and politics carried the day, Wilson being elected, as his wife, in true partisan spirit, writes, in spite of all the machin- ations of his enemies, the Whigs,-whose meanness ...

... King was determined not to be caught in the trap which was set for him; that be had taken alarm at the progress made by the Whigs, and said he should settle it all by turning out Canning. Bates comes from London, and brings with him our passports, c. He ...

... circumscribe the penalties of death in cases of forgery, was unreported by the papers, and is only preserved in Hainssard. The Whigs, whose ranks Macaulay had reinforced, thought the Bill did not go far enough; and the young member spoke on the question as ...

... speaks, are Lord Melbourne, Lord Aberdeen, and the Duke of Welling- ton. Lord Melbourne he found the least radical of the Whigs, impartial from clear sense and indifference, a 'judicious epicurean, an agreeable egotist, gay without warmth, and mingling ...

... life. * The family of Mrs Trench was, 'we believe, Tory in politics, but that she had herself what the Americans would call Whig proclivities is evident from many pas- sages of her Remscains. Take the following portrait of a Tory Peer as a specimen. ...

... prejudices of George the Third prevailed: he would l listen to no proposal for bringing him into personal contact I with the great Whig statesman, of whom he complained i not only as a Sovereign but as a father. The sequel of i this rejected plan is thus told: ...