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... wasasomewhat loose politician-scarcely a whig, though he wrote g for the Edcnburf1h Review ; certainly not a tory. c Afterwards, it is needless to say that lie was a tory c of the tories ; and in those days whig and tory I meant more than the distinction ...

Literary Notices

... in the following remarks, in a vindication of itself prefixed to the magazine a few years after:- 'In a series of years the Whigs in Scotland had all the Jones to themselves. They laughed and lashed as theyliked; and while this was the case, did anybody ...

Court and Fashion

... considered hopeless. Lord Breadalbane, by his energy, his talents, and his vast, possessions, was long a valuable member of the Whig party in Scotland. As Earl of Ormelie, before his suc- cession to the peerage, he stood, in 1832, a contest for the representation ...

Literary Notices

... aggrieved whets he is called a Whig, and charged with W~hig liartialities. We find that be himself gloiied in the name. In one of his Edin- burgh addresses he speaks as follows: I look with pride on all that the Wh~igs have done for the cause of human ...