LE PARTI WHIG ET

Considérons d'abord l'Opposition whig, faible et impopulaire. Pourquoi ce discrédit LA POLITIQUE DE c i v r • v vk i.

FACTION profond d un parti en qui jadis 1 Angleterre

elle-même s'incarnait? Les whigs ont-ils été vraiment vaincus, comme ils le prétendent, par l'or du roi George III

de Vansittart : He could not conceive any such thing as a contract betweon the Gommons in parliamont assemhled, and Ihc Gommons at large, by which the former 8tipuiati;d Ihat thcy would nol, under any circumstances, resort to a particular measure. Whatever might be the situation of parliament, they could not enter into a contract or bargain with the subjects of the realm at large, whose représentatives they were, and whose interests were identifled with their own (Pari. Deb., vol. XXIX, p. 854).

1. Memoirs, vol. III, pp. 23 sqq : the mcrit (de mon discours) consisted more in what I omilted than in what 1 said. I touched upon no topics calculated to court popular favour. 1 said nolliing of a reform of Parliament, of pensions, of sinécures, of economy in the puldic expenditure, of peace, or of any other of the subjects which arc at the présent moment generaliy to favourably received in i»ub!ic assemblies. — Alors, de quoi parlc-l-il?