... ridiculcd and Messrs. Jones and Jowett tilt with equal force at Tories. Labour ites, Liberals and the mythical Free Whigs. The Free Whigs arc a two-man party whose voles can save the Government or bring it down in a critical division. Hence the play. All ...

... their old liberties, particularly licensing hours, but without success. When Leonard Bilker, a so-called member of the Free Whig party, is made an M.P. under shady circumstances, an opportunity arises for Grout to get his Bill read and passed by a small ...

... Gillray as the epitome of the Wildean cynic: a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Courted by Whigs and Tories for his coarsely malicious pow ers of caricature, he works for both in order to pay the rent. The dangers of playing ...

... of the mis- ress of the house. After the de feat inflicted on the Jacobites he returns as a fugitive but is captured by the Whig force. He passes secret despatches to his sweetheart, v however, who makes the journey to France and presents them to James ...

... doctors who vied with each other in their ignorance and superstition, and the political upheaval caused by his illness, with the Whigs championing, for their own ends, the ambition of the Prince of Wales to be appointed Regent. In a series of affecting scenes ...