... is himself the most conspicuous living instance of a great judge promoted to the bench as the Parliamentary advocate of a Whig Minister who knew how to reward eloquent partisans. But it is one thing to become a judge by distinguished services as political ...

... that whenever a rigid political virtue begins to be common among Englishmen, it may spread as freely among Tories as among Whigs and Radicals, and all together may agree in putting an end to the abominable system of which these three southern boroughs ...