... progress of stirring national events. He early manifested advanced tendencies at a time when it -was considered advanced to be a t Whig:; but be was in advance of his time, i and during his public career he remained so. He was a staunch Presbyterian, and throughout ...

... the exiled Stuarts. The following extraordinary story is told of her:- It chanced on one occasion that Mr Forbes, a zealous Whig, but a man of profligate habits, had been entrusted arith some important private papers implicating her husband, to forward ...

... distance of the 1070e3' .oa' of the '%Thadfo andl the Derwoat, who s ndota sein time or eother exijoyed the hesptality of the Whig nobleman. And yetx ~:1 far this Maniftest ?? of dlispenitien mar acontributled to the poptularity of the Duke of U pelsairitCO ...

... was f seldom seeu. and never }ieard on a platform, but be did good public work in a quiet wvay. He ixes a leads-r of the old Whigs, Colin D'lap's c party, whose great services to the common1- T sealt'i are nowadays made light of ; le was the eldest ex-meniber ...

... His youth was passed chiefly in Edinburgh, in Peeblesshire, and on the slopes of the Pentlands, where the Dairy rising of Whigs was stamped out at Rullion Green. He has written about the shepherds and gardeners in whose society he took delight, aboat ...

... say ominous. Macaulay, as we have already seen, criticised it from 'i.te robust W'hig point of view in the Edinburgh Review with his usual ability and candour. The Whigs of the time looked upon the article as a complete refutation of the doctrines contained ...

... hs holdicg of which he will Lord alwaysh es w A quzrrel took place a ce, 'rbetweoen Lord John Pusaell, the chief of the u es Whig MVinistry, :uid Lord Palmnerston, who held naee the seails of ?? oOftiue. Itisnwlotabs la uit istlly believed theat this difference ...