... regard Conservatism and Conservatives very much as Whigs would desire that foreigners and Englishmen should regard the principles and the chiefs of a rival party. We are far from blaming the Whigs for the importance they have attached to the social intimacy ...

... Melbourne ministry once more safely ensconced, fancied that the whole transaction might be looked upon as an excellent specimen of Whig diplomacy. . . . . To a simple ob- server, it appeared as though a young and innocent queen, who had so lately been the object ...

... verbal criticism and puny discoveries in black-letter reading into the gap that is supposed to be making in the Constitution by Whigs and Radicals, whom lie' qualifies without mercy as dunces and miscreants, and so entitles himself to the protection of Church ...

... governing powers, for their own purposes, chose to make them otherwise; at one time they must be made triennial, to fix the Whigs, or serve some dark or party purpose; and at another time they must be made septennial, to fix or annoy the Tories ! All this ...

... Lord BYRON, even if he had. not been rendered sceptieal at *4& COl UeY4Xy bteQJ ?144Th~ Ve tt; ut4edi A hlQI thantliatkind of Whig leader, so precious in the eyes of th&edieisrgh Reviewers, that they sacrificed the poet, root and branch, ini the ainger of ...

... inclined too much to the old Whig view of the Treaty of Utrecht. Most impar- tial judges now hold that it was England's business to get out of that galley by the shortest way possible, and that the war had become simply a Whig job. Nor is it disputed that ...

... or discarded. Sir Robert Peel gave his whole help to his party against the Irish Government of the Whigs, when, with the country thus peaceful, the Whigs would have secured by sound legislation a continuance of peace. But now, when the dismemberment of ...

... because we were ultimately unsuccessful; but after all that can be said, it will be difficult to show when the power of the Whigs ever made so strong a struggle against the Crown, the Crown being thoroughly in earnest and exerting all' its resources. Upon ...

... perfectly the Irish and Canadian debates of 1837, who followed closely the course of the Chartist agi- tation, who knows how the Whig Ministry fell and was re- constructed in 1838 and 1839, and how it went out to make way for the Peel Cabinet in 1841, &c. &c ...

... the date of 1809. Its spirit and its good sense are excellent, and the Whigs should have seen and profited by both much earlier than they did. 4 Do, for Heaven's sake, let your Whigs do something popular and effective this session in Parliament. Cry aloud ...

... without question to spend their leisure on the business of legislation. Because at more than one period of our history the great Whig families have produced patriotic Englishmen, true representatives of the best mind of their own country, they have hastened ...

... helps Lord North into retire- ment, dextrously brings him back for the coalition against Lord Shelburne, assumes the office of Whig adviser to the Prince of Wales, and at last, waving one hand to Fox and grasping Burke with the other, vaults into the Cha ...