... that he should hold along with the diocese of Exeter. Stanhope was worth £5,000 a-year, and the Bishop considered that the whigs cheated him in giving him the canonry instead, as it is worth only £2,000 a-year. But with what face the Bishop could have ...

... always opposed every change that would give the people more power, and yet they have gone nearer to chartism then ever the whigs did. The tories abolished the property qualifications for members of parliament. Mr. Walpole proposed to give the suffrage ...