... of surprise which entsued, Shrewsbury rose and thanked them for their offer. (This nobleman, it appears, was in reality a Whig, but he had succeeded in deceiving Bolingbroke, who fully relied upon his fidelity, and had bestowed upon him the offices of ...

... which in the old days used to present us four times a year with the spectacle of the grand old Tory forces and the young Whigs in battle array. More of that sort of strife is now carried on from day to day, and less is reserved for quarterly field-days ...

... quickly recovered himself and resumed his elabo- rate train of reasoning. Again and again, however, he recurred to old Whig ties and old Whig principles, conceding the best and highest motives to the leaders of the Opposition, while he mercilessly dealt with ...

... article is in the worst spirit. But it supplies us with a remark, which we must confess to be not altogether unjust, on the Whig gratitudes in statesmanship. The greatest statesman their party e- Lad was never admitted to the Cabinet, and when he* impelled ...

... the number of Whig statesmen in the Ministry, ultimately perceives that the measures of the Cabinet have been dictated, not by the Whigs, but by the Radicals, and are dangerous precisely in proportion to their departure from sound Whig principles, a departure ...

... as Mr Adolphus remarks, had fallen into contempt; and the Whig families were no longer ne- cessary to guard the parliamentary title of the house of Hanover. Let us add to this, that the Whigs wore them- selves broken into sections, separately weak, and ...

... course taken by England. Before the close of 1807 the Whigs were succeeded by a Tory Government, which about the end of that year issued other Orders in Council every whit as objectionable as the Whig Order of January. * *h * * * * The Orders, coupled with ...

... accession to office as principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs, he became Under-Secretary. He subsequently served (after the brief Whig interval on Pitt's death) as a Lord of the Admiralty, still with Lord Mulgrave for his chief; blt in the latter part of his ...

... such politicians invariably do, plumed himself on not being a party man. He was a Whig when the Tories seere in power, but very much disposed to turn Tory when the Whigs returned to office. He had too sharp an eye for abuses of all sorts not to be a reformer; ...

... said, but the little is said well. The political narrative is to show the distinct features of his character as a pure Whig, when Whig principles were the grounds of a well-defined course of action that had to be pursued against a toryism more an- ta-oonist ...

... But he took Canning's alters-n me. Palmerston, to his arms, who then by adoption became a Whig, and, we are bound to add, one of the most liberal of the Whigs. The volume before us contains highly satisfactory evidence on this head. After turning over ...

... retired from the contest. - Bridgewater.-Col. Tynte does not retire, on the contrary, he is certain of his return; and another Whig will also contest the representation with Mr Broadwood (the pianoforte-maker)) and a Mr Martin who have made a very lame canvass ...