... At Hampton Court Palace Queen Anne was alternately the prey of interested political schemers, and between the intrigues of Whig and Tory favourites had but an uneasy time of it. Here Harley plotted to bring back the Pretender. In The Rape of the Lock ...

... Fox, and Sheridan. She cheered the orator's declining years, and to this fair paragon and reigning toast the poets of the Whig party consecrated their muse in all modesty That wishes which never were bounded before Are here bounded by Friendship, and ...

... of Canning to the Colonial Office, and ends soon after the passage of the Reform Act the third comprises the history of the Whig Ministry from the passage of the Reform Act to the fall of Mel bourne in 1841 the fourth, concerned with the gradual adoption ...