... and the Nottingham people, with a political heroism that deserves the highest praise, professed to be greatly pleased. Your Whig-Radical has a marvellous taste for martyrdom: he feels quite happy when he is grilled by his favourite statesman. When the ...

... we see that it' Pitt had been really anxious to eject Mr. Addington from office, by any means short of coalescing with the Whigs, he would have found it no easy task. That he was not anxious so to do is the conviction of Lord Stanhope ; as it certainly ...

... THE OLD WHIGS. The old Whigs are fast fading away from recollection.—lfr. Bernal Osborne on Too true, 0 facetious I3ERNAL, Are the jesting words you said : They have suffered eclipse eternal— The old old Whigs are fled. The Whigs of the Woburn Abbey ...

... on all these points his views were as Liberal as need be. But the one cardinal doctrine which removed him further from the Whigs than any difference of opinion on this or that policy could have done, was the right of the Sovereign to choose his own Ministers ...

... doomed the Whigs to fifty years of exile, never ceased to rankle in the mind of the.beaten general. To the last he called Pitt a low dog, and a mean rascal, and refused to contribute to his funeral because he had been the enemy of his country. Fox himself ...