Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland

CHAPTER XVII.

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Charles, Earl Grey--Advocates Abolition of the Slave Trade--His Rise to Power--His Aid in Carrying the Reform Bill--Sydney Smith's Eulogy--His Two Great Measures, Parliamentary Reform and Abolition of Slavery--The Old and New Whigs--The "Coming Man" 193