... popular imagination, of a mild and patriarchal Whig. But few perhaps remember that he was the son of one statesman, and the connection of another, who are best known to history by their opposition to the Whig families; that Lord Shelburne in particular, ...

... soon as they returned to power; and that the Whigs connected themselves with the Regent Orleans in order to defeat the Tories, as the Tories had connected themselves with the late King in order to defeat the Whigs. This is very clearly put, both by Ranke ...

... consequence was the great breach in the Whig party. Sir Gilbert Elliott's correspondence is full of the most interesting particulars of the histwy of the negotiations between Pitt and the section known as the Portland Whigs for a coalition. Eiliott had great ...

... champion, their gratitude did not stop there. At the general election of 1812 he was invited to stand for Liverpool; and the Whig party, wanting to dish Canning, as he said,, put up two candidates, and thus lost both seats. Brougham remainedc out of ...

... one of the Whigs, as Palmerston was one of the Tories, who on the break up of Lord Liverpool's Admi- nistration acquired the designation of Canningites. The Tories who -adhered to Canning on the defection of Wellington and Peel, and the Whigs who came over ...

... change the officers e of his household. The real reason was that the Whig leaders did not receive a direct and unlimited authority for forming a Ministry. They ( stood out for the old Whig doctrine that it was for the party and not for V the Sovereign to ...

... expected promotion from the Whigs afterwards; as according to Lord Denman he did, having entertained the hope of being Tenterden's successor himself. Lord Brougham, however, agrees that he was very badly treated by the Whigs, though he could not have meant ...

... say; but the chief character of the ?? Belmore-is obviously, in some respects, the fictitious counterpart of a cele- brated Whig Lord who, some sixty years ago, used to gather about him, at his old suburban mansion, all the wits, poets, essayists, and ...

... upset the Ministry in a month. Yet he himself insists on the sincerity of his ?? episcolari, and affects to be surprised at the Whig objection to it. Why, to put aside all that was to be apprehended from Brougham himself, the people would never have been persuaded ...

... the bonds, of a State connection. In 1834, he was one of a deputation which pleaded long and urgently with Lord Melbourne's Whig AIlinistry for additional endowments; and his want of success was reihaps the first thing that shook his previously rigid defence ...

... we can hardly exaggerate their importance. It is true that he had quarrelled with the Whigs when this fragminnt was composed. But he had not quarrelled with the Whigs when he first resolved to side with George III. ; for he had never had any connection ...

... unnecessary pain. We should have liked Whig Reviewers, as Painted by Them- selves, in B'lackwood better, but for a certain self-righteousness of tone that pervades the article. See, it seems to say, how these Whig-Radicals of the Edinbiaghz hated each ...