... to ise the establishment of the Empire in 1852, hemg the actual occupant of the Foreign-office on the 2nd of December. The Whigs came into power Ave weeks after that event but his Lordship adds that doubtless they would have taken the same eordial course ...

... were chiefly confined, and it must suffice to say that from 1805 to 1820 he was a zealous supporter of the principles of the Whig party, except in 1815, when he supported the Ministers in renewing the war against Napoleon. No statesman ever won more respect ...