... Government with their own, and proceeds to explain why. The present Government have been developing the changes inherited from the Whigs, and supplying their deficiencies. He alludes to the enormous expenditure up to the year 1863-4, when the first decrease commenced ...

... income. But be that as it may, I am in no way responsible for it; I neither passed it, nor sanctioned it. It was carried by the Whig Government of Lord J. Russell, not only atter I had ceased to be a member of theGoveniment, but after the defeat of the short-lived ...

... retired from the cabinet on the 5th October, 1771, and in May following when the old Doke of Newcastle, the head of the great Whig con- nection, followed his example, Bute was appointed Primer, and realized, if he ever held, high ambitious hopes by becoming ...