... we think, calls Chathamite Whigs. The position of this little knot of statesmen between the two main parties in the State corresponds to that occupied by the Peelites after the death of Sir Robert Peel. They were not Whigs and they were not Tories, and ...

... never to have forgiven his master for the part which he played on this occasion. The Ministry was made up of Chathamites, Whigs, and King's friends, and on Shelburne fell the whole labour of maintaining the influence of the first: The representative ...

... 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 ...

... hopeful, cheerful candidate, Is not yet over. The victory is not won; The smallest act must not be left undone, Because the Whigs are in tremendous fettle, Which ought to put us Tories on our mettle! And quite right, too; for those who wish to keep Their ...

... sincere, and the rejection of then was strongly condemned by many members of the Whig party. Sir George Lewis, though he recognizes the honour and integrity of the Whig leaders, believes them to have been mistaken in refusing these proposals, and seems ...

... the House of Commons. In i830 Lord Lansdowne returned him to Parliament for the family borough of Calne, and as soon as the Whigs came into power he was made a Commissioner of the Board of Control, and a few months afterwards Secretary. At the general election ...

... to the demonstration as significant, of the popu- larity of the Prince and the unbounded loyalty of the people. But as both Whig and Tory Governments have persistently refised to ex- tend that clemency shown to the chiefs of the rebellion to their humble ...

... these points. At all events, we see that so early as i833 Macaulay had begun to doubt whether he could continue to act with the Whig party, and this was one of his reasons for accepting the appointment in India. And again, in .1852, he declined to join Lord ...

... tristis Orestes. Their Tories are mere hot-headed, no-surrender men, all alike; their Radical is a mere wandering voice; their Whig simply a melancholy prey of the Fates, condemned to strike the blow at his mother, Privilege. The feudal Toryism of Everard ...

... Morley, himself of republican and free-thinking tendencies, takes a fair middle course. Contrary to what may be styled the Whig view of the revolutionary epoch, namely that where the French had one or more courses open to them, they invariably chose the ...

... complicated campaigns of Marlborough, or Peterborough's eccentric flashes of genius -at home the struggles for power* between Whig and ITory in Parliament and country, the secret influences at siork at the Court, the dominant figures of statesman, wits, ...

... power, has suffered grievous misrepresentation in ot the pages of Hume and his sucoessors; while even th the more friendly Whig historians have done him os but half-hearted justice, tempering theirpraises ba with concessions to established prejudice in ...