... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... delightful book, but they will not lead to the ht appointment of the octogenarian Whig as Leader of the Liberal party-although it must be ad.] ermitted that, old as he is, Whig as he is, and deaf a as he is, he would be a better leader than Lord po to HarLington ...

... asked by some members of the Whig party in the House of Commoinst to consider their opinion that i theyoupht to make him theirleader. His own Opiniol asa in favou~r of Brougham, whom it w found, however, that many of the Whigs would not followr. Hie then ...

... intelligence of the present day. The Radical t faction is only powerful in proportion as it is helped by Whig support. There are Whigs and Whigs, Liberals and Liberals, as there are Tories and Torles. It is for the prudent and sensible of these various ...

... the two principal diffi- culties in the formation of a Government were Lord Brougham and Lord Palmnerston. The whole body of Whig leaders, it seems, were sick of l.crd Brougham; and it was found impossible to include him in the new Administration. But who ...

... vehicle for political satire, and, readapting it in 1717 under the namne of The NYoiy/uror, won at once the favour of the Whigs and the hatred of the Jacobite party. Half a century later, how. ever, a change had come over the spirit of parties. The satirical ...

... volume is taken up with Brougham's early tours in Scandinavia, Holland, Italy, and a mission to Portugal in iSHo, when the Whigs were in power. His journals are written with great vivacity, and show considerable power of description. Many lively sketches ...

... true also of the whole Whig party. And it is more probable, as Dr. Ranke points out in his recently published History of England, that the dis- missal of the Duchess was only one part of that general design for breaking down the Whig domination which was ...

... real and fictitious, belong to the period of the story -the reign of William the Third-in something more than in name. His Whigs and Jacobites are men of the time, with all the prejudicec, political and social, of that troubled period, and lastly his dialogue ...

... the policy of carping and cavilling, depreciation of English successes, and prophecies of English failures, pursued by the Whig Opposition under Lords Grey and Holland, and Tierney, Romilly, and Brougham, throughout the Peninsular War. The sketch, we ...