... estates, pensions, and salary ; now the stimulus is ambition and greed of power. The future representatives of the two old Whig families, true to their instincts, are pushing themselves into a more advanced position. The tenets of their political ancestors ...

... people in the background, influential * men in the moon,' came and went make private arrangements between local leaders of Whigs and Tories, and did their work. Plans were deeply laid, and ably carried out. The great and the mighty—the few and the Inf ...