... entered life as a strong Tory, but, hsufnu. AIhw w. 6 ?? ?? aid oninrged until he might'have been classed amongst the advanced Whigs. He, however, never mingled in party politics, and butrarelyvoted at'parliamentary or municipal elections. Distinguished for ...

... of parlihament was at the general election of 1807, when George the Third e dissolved parliament to get rid of Fox and the Whigs, and 5 by which he unfortunately sf cured a long lease of power I to Toryism, and its then attendants of political and comn- ...

... take vhat little credit thero Is due to him, tor hc was not a very prointuent miemarr of thc 1Ministry. Ire split from the Whigs bec-ue he ri-fused to tahenany part in reproving that ?? in- reland-the, Irish Protestant Establishment, whic a injnstice still ...

... Court, Bdckingham- shire, who, for many years, represented Great Marlow in parliament, and was an influential member of the Whig Opposition in the days when, to use Sydney Smith's expressive phrase, it was considered as a piece of impertinence in England ...

... passing notice. He fair wa-a born in the yeiir of our II'great electiont, and awhile that keen and important contest between Whigs and ab Tot ies,-between the House of Stanley on the one side, LO aiid the Corporation of Preston on the other-was still'on- ...