... duke had originally a lease of Mon- tagu House, on such ridiculously low terms, that no Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether Whig or Tory, I could for a long time be got to renew it. We were further informed that, at last, when a Tory ministry was in the ...

... government, and it had been the- practice of this government to recgnise' de facto governments. In less than twelve months a Whig govern- ment, because it had suited its purpose, had recoenired i Belgium, and it would not do to say that the-civil war was ...