... various steps which ended in the Act of Union. Finally, there are the contests for power which produced the resignation of the Whig Ministers and the ascendancy of the Tories; while, as an appendix to the graver questions of war and peace, to victories in ...

... what he means, if they are capable at all of understanding forcible English. The manner in which Mr Greg fortifies somne timid Whig position with his batteries of con- cise, pertinent sentences is quite admirable in its Waay; nor less admirable, as an artistic ...

... the last Irish Parlia- ment, wherein he led the opposition to the Union. His Liberalism, however, brought him no damage. The Whigs, succeeding to power, conferred on him successive promotions, until he was made Lord Chancellor in 1830. The persecution of ...