... lea, member for Dublin governs Ireland. The Whigs goverbl nothingd e Downing-street. The right honourable gentleman, the member fot Tamwooth, is contented with power without place or patronage, ard t rf Whigs are contented with place and patronage without ...

... service to him; for the above mistake does not prevent him from seeing, as logically it ought, that the pure Whig creed is essentially Conservative. Whig and Tory in the eighteenth century did really very often differ as Conservative and Liberal, notably so ...

... under any cir- cumstances. The infatuation of the Whig leaders made its return to power inevitable. Since the Queen's accession a combination of Whigs and Tories had governed the country with success. The Whigs had now determined that this system should be ...

... Tory Government. Marlborough and Godolphin were fast friends. They were in principle neither Whigs nor Tories; that is to say, they neither sympathized with the Whig oligarchy nor yet with the party of divine right and ecclesiastical intolerance. Their object ...

... of Canning with the Whigs; and it is- curious to find in a letter of Lord Palmerston to his brother, dated May 4,. 1827, a description of the behaviour of the Whigs differing very widely indeed from the account given of it by the Whig leaders themselves ...

... we think, calls Chathamite Whigs. The position of this little knot of statesmen between the two main parties in the State corresponds to that occupied by the Peelites after the death of Sir Robert Peel. They were not Whigs and they were not Tories, and ...

... seemed to indicate that his political career was at an end. The new leader of the Whig party was not the man to sympathize with Sheridan as Fox had done. The new ally of the Whig party, Lord Grenville, was still less so. Sheridan, indeed, had the Prince of ...

... never to have forgiven his master for the part which he played on this occasion. The Ministry was made up of Chathamites, Whigs, and King's friends, and on Shelburne fell the whole labour of maintaining the influence of the first: The representative ...

... most women she wa's a Whig ; wonl, tak Toryism naturally, as ducklings to the vater. Bt r aunt was a Whig from family and principle. AU the M clevilles had been Jacobites and Tories, the 1ralfaere5 al been pure Whigs. Pure Whigs-think of that a-a thi ...

... from i8x9 to I826 the Whigs did not touch the Reform question, quite overlooking his own great speech in I822. The mistake of the reviewer, however, if any at all, was in the implied statement that in i8i9 and in 1826 the Whigs did adopt the question ...

... damaging to the Whigs; and there is good reason to believe that if the King had lived, and dissolved again, as he would have done, in 1838, the reaction would have been complete. But it would have been chiefly due to a belief that the Whigs would stick ...

... popular imagination, of a mild and patriarchal Whig. But few perhaps remember that he was the son of one statesman, and the connection of another, who are best known to history by their opposition to the Whig families; that Lord Shelburne in particular, ...