... Daniel's ship, the Steadfast, was probably named after the Steadfast Club, Bristol organisation which he and all the prominent whigs of the time belonged. Busy Birds. JT is a pleasure to pass on to readers the following delightful notes from our Stapleton ...

... 1792. This famous artist and caricaturist, prolific and dexterous beyond his competitors, for a generation delineated Tories, Whigs and Radicals with fine impartiality; satirical capital came to him from every public event wars abroad, the camp, the court ...

... 81 centuries, and suspect that while it always appeared a changeling among the Protestants, it was really at home among the whigs/ Remarking the absence private judgment and Church tradition the beginning of thei religion, Dean said that anyone who attempted ...

... as man of independent thought and character, and, apart from his disagreement with Roman Catholic emancipation, a rigorous Whig. In Praise of Glastonbury j volume chosen this week is one ot I immense interest and contains, besides delightful descriptions ...

... perhaps generally known that this fine statue might never have been seen in Bristol, but for the accident circumstance. The Whig party in London took steps to have a statue William of Orange set up, but the Tory Common Councillors refused a site and this ...

... Mary. Produce her! shouted someone In jest. Very well, said the Duke, and had the little girl fetched from her bed. The Whig I wits drank her health and cheered ' uproariously! Some twenty years later the same little girl now Lady Mary Wortley Montague ...

... municipal affairs either as this advertisement in the same issue of the 'Journal' shows':— Among the thousand instances of Whig (Liberal) meanness may be mentioned the manner in which our disinterested Ministers bestow their favours in small things, -as ...

... set of verses which began: November one is past and gone. With all its grief and glory. The wards are suited every one With Whig, Radical or Tory. The final verse runs: Now all good men and true rejoice. To see the Raddies beaten down And strive with ...

... Parent) was entirely non-party. The Dolphin, however, was formed in 1749 by the Tory Party in Bristol, and the Anchor by the Whigs in 17G8. The latter society decided, formation, to have a dinner once a month at the Three Tuns Corn Street and the costs of ...

... made yesterday to the Maze family of Ulster and Bristol and to the suggestion contained in letter published rn the Northern Whig and Belfast Post' of April that a Peter Maze was Sheriff of Bristol in th time of Charles I A careful search of records has ...

... acknowledging his long services a s alderman and magistrate, fiom which latter office he has been excluded by his Majesty's Whig Government, though nominated by the Town Council), has been unavoidably postponed for the present in consequence of severe ...

... VTFLBOURN STAKES (one mile and 3 sovs each, with 500 sovs fiddpd Bookseller (Ld Astor).^-— Lawson 4 8 1 Farthinghoe (Mr C F Whig Lawgon 3 The Above-mentioned Horses Have Arrived in Addition to Those • rained Locally* (Winner trained by Chilcott). Betting—3-1 ...