... as we do that there have been Whigs and Tories, trider various aopellations, ever since the world began, and although we do not wish to imitate his acrimony by stating the name (according to Dr. Johnson) of the first Whig, we cannot admit that one party ...

... damaging to the Whigs; and there is good reason to believe that if the King had lived, and dissolved again, as he would have done, in 1838, the reaction would have been complete. But it would have been chiefly due to a belief that the Whigs would stick ...

... 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 ...

... Yole bravoed thena, And gave Ilboillest blessings. All bough they knew his cutthroat bc, ; 'I'he Turk he leraed, by Whig consent, At the low cats of tell per celt. At heist tior hlludred millions, Yr. Dion Boucicault has promised to writO a d:'enma ...

... 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 ...

... send the stanes spirnen, Wi' a whirr and a curr till they sit roun'the tee. Then hurrah! &v. It's an uncolike story that baith Whig and Tory Mann aye collyshangy like dogs ower a bane ; And a' denominations are wantin' in patience For nae Kirk will thole ...

... Lady Holland's parties in a previous generatiou, Frances, Countess of Waldegrave, was looked upon as the chief dispenser of Whig hospitalities, and both Carlton Hardens and at Strawberry .Hill —Horace Walpole's Rococo retreat—she dispensed them with a ...

... 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 ...