... doned their coast fortifications lastSoseion, but this Session they appear to be anxious to retrieve the reputation of the Whigs for perverse obstinacy by persisting in the construc- tion of useless men-of-war. If one thing has been more plainly proved ...

... the nation P Or is the Prince of WALEs's honeymeon only the excuse for official inaction I ss the real reason the traditional Whig instinct of self-preservation? Is it that they see and recognise the fell force of the dis- agreeable fact, that their existence ...