... position in the county. Spencer's brother, William Cowper, was whig member for Hartford; and at that time and place political passion on the Tory side was bitterly intense. Besides Whigs and Tories, there were living int the town many of the bitterly ...

... incident occurred in the church which has often been told, hibt may be repeated here. Tile vicar was Samuel Peploe, a zealous Whig, and an ardent supporter of the Hanoverian cause. Some of the Jacobite soldiers then in the town found; their way into the ...

... peated of favouring the pretensions of the Stuart ?? ?? If perchance, from ignorance of the character of the house, any unhappy Whig and partisan of the House of Hanover ?? strayed into John Shmw's, he found hirnself in a worse position than a solitary wasp ...

... amused it -when it was in Oppositiou byilo#sing no opportunity, in the law courts, O pf expos ngtlfe ignorance of law of the Whig Chan eellor, LordiBrougham, but he took little part in- debates.' ' ' ?? . : ' He was always loyal to his party, though his ...

... ing bloclk, while the cynical King suffers themi to be nacrific-d, and waits for the turn of the tide which would put the Whigs in their place. It was after this turn of the tide that two mnen; minor but pieturesque and interesting characters iu ?? Btraddon ...

... tion-rooms, with their frescoed ceilisgs, r 'ft' liers of crystal and silver, their Orienat elia a their priceless pictures, Whigs for a nbhl,. f hatred of Tories, men of letters rulai shoW,' the clubites and the bucks. Lord b tbore, who passed his life ...