... it was not to be. This Lords suddenly appeared to take an excessive interest in the Representation of the People Bill, and Whigs, anneals, and ultra-Tories set themselves to find some claw which would retard, if not set aside, that which the Commons had ...

... brief, and gave in his adhesion to Earl Grey in regent to the amendments of which that earl had given notice. A succession of Whig p els were by Earl de Itrey and Ripon, in suppert of the resolution ; and a number of short Ole,: were made in that sense by ...