... 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 ...

... ance her unrivalled persuasive powers lent to the victorious return of Charles James Fox, the great orator, statesman, and Whig chief, on the memorable electioneering contest at Westminster in 1784, the most famous struggle on record, and one that the ...

... the amenity and graces of her deportment, her irresistible manners, and the seduction of her society. The fair Queen of the Whigs, and, indeed, cu the ton of her day, was a reformer in dress, and introduced a simple, flowing, artless style to super sede ...

... of tragedy and comedy extending over two generations attended Mrs. Jordan's benefit performance, the occasion on which the Whig Club offered the substantial tribute of recognition to the merits of the fair comedienne already recorded. This was on April ...

... beginning of the century. When Pitt and Fox were alive there was one bench set apart in the House for the use of Privy Councillors. Whig or Tory, or what ever they might be, Privy Councillors sat on this one bench. The contiguity of members of opposing politics ...

... peculiar circumstances of parties in the present House. Time was when the lines of party were broadly divided by the fence between Whig and Tory. Now the field is cut up into various plots, the space on the floor of the House of Commons being, as it were, let ...

... Brocas. It then passed away from that family and became a post in the gift of the Sovereign. During the ascendancy of the great Whig families, when there was a recasting and rearranging of offices, the post being one of profit under the Crown, was made dependent ...

... now to what they were when Dr. Johnson evolved the Parliamentary debates of his day out of his own head, taking care that the Whig class did not get the best of it. In those days members were not quite sure that it was not a high crime and a misdemeanor ...

... save his hero from absolute condemnation, and as the great Doctor, in his Parliamentary reports, always managed to let the Whig dogs have the worst of it, so the detractors of the great Duke are invariably directed to take their seats fur ther towards ...

... ian, Civis-Romanus-stim sort of attitude of the modern Jingo. At the Table he was a Radical, but in Punch's pages he was a Whig, and not a little responsible for the steady support, or at least the special indulgence, with which our Comic Philosopher ...