... her fleet almost alone resisted Napoleon, Pitt was what Canning called him-- ''the Pilot that weathered the storm. After the Whig reaction in this century, Pitt, at the hands of Brougham and Macaulay, met with less favour, and, indeed, hardly with justice ...

... career from 1774, when he dismissed himself from Lord North's Administration on the Boston I'ort Bill and joined the Rockingham Whigs, until 1782, the year before the recognition of the independence of the United States, is inextricably woven with the story ...

... Cclllyll L 11 Mlill K March 15, 1859. Attended a wedding at North Creake, of which his brother was Rector. Was defeated as Whig candidate for Portsmouth. March 15, 1869. Was serving in China on this day he had a shooting expedition at Chin-kiang. 1879 ...

... from the class of men which is influential in clubs and drawing-rooms, and knows all the ambitions and weaknesses of Society. Whigs were shocked when the office was given to the son of a Welsh tenant-farmer. The appoint ment was, however, a sign of the times ...

... in 1887. It has been said that Whigs, like poets, are born, not made. The Marquis of Lansdowne, on whom a heavy burden of responsibility lies just now, was born a Whig, and has remained a faithful adherent of the Whig leader. Although he entered the ...