Finally, Elliot and the Duke think themselves happy in a day's work, which ended in consigning the man who not only was, but was admitted to be, the most powerful genius of their party, to a third-rate post, and that most equivocal distinction, a pension on the Irish establishment.

The common explanation that it illustrates Whig exclusiveness, cannot be seriously received as adequate.

It is probable, for one thing, that the feelings of the Prince of Wales had more to do with it than the feelings of men like the Duke of Portland or Fox.

We can easily imagine how little that most worthless of human creatures would appreciate the great qualities of such a man as Burke.

The painful fact which we are unable to conceal from ourselves is, that the common opinion of better men than the Prince of Wales leaned in the same direction.