... the present sovereign up to the commencement of last year, the Conservatives had created only fifteen peerages, while the Whigs had conferred the enormous number sixty-five, or more than four times as many. The Scotch Reform Bill is in almost as much ...

... only vacated his seat in the middle the session, but came down in person and introduced to the constituency the nominee of the Whig peer to whom he had sold it. My lords, lam obliged to confess that ten years afterwards I was guilty of the ingratitude of ...