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A HISTORY

OF

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
AND ELECTIONEERING

IN THE OLD DAYS

SHOWING THE STATE OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND PARTY
WARFARE AT THE HUSTINGS AND IN THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS FROM THE STUARTS TO QUEEN VICTORIA

ILLUSTRATED FROM THE ORIGINAL POLITICAL SQUIBS, LAMPOONS
PICTORIAL SATIRES, AND POPULAR CARICATURES OF THE TIME

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AUTHOR OF JAMES GILLRAY, THE CARICATURIST: HIS LIFE, WORKS, AND TIMES
66 ROWLANDSON, THE CARICATURIST: HIS LIFE, TIMES, AND WORKS," ETC.

London

CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY

1886

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"I think the Tories love to buy

'Your Lordships' and 'Your Graces,'

By loathing common honesty,

And lauding commonplaces. . . .

I think the Whigs are wicked Knaves
(And very like the Tories)

Who doubt that Britain rules the waves,
And ask the price of glories."

W. M. PRAED (1826).

"A friend to freedom and freeholders-yet
No less a friend to government-he held
That he exactly the just medium hit

'Twixt place and patriotism; albeit compell'd,
Such was his sovereign's pleasure (though unfit,
He added modestly, when rebels rail'd),
To hold some sinecures he wish'd abolish'd,

But that with them all law would be demolish'd."

LORD BYRON.