  CHAPTER I. CONCERNING EARLY PARLIAMENTS AND ELECTIONS OF KNIGHTS AND BURGESSES. CHAPTER II. PARLIAMENTARY LIFE UNDER THE STUARTS; PAID MEMBERS. CHAPTER III. PARLIAMENTS AND ELECTIONEERING UNDER JAMES II., WILLIAM III., AND QUEEN ANNE. CHAPTER IV. ELECTIONEERING AND PARTY TACTICS UNDER GEORGE I. AND II. CHAPTER V. SATIRES ON THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 1754. CHAPTER VI. JOHN WILKES AS A POPULAR REPRESENTATIVE. CHAPTER VII. MIDDLESEX ELECTIONS, 1768-9. CHAPTER VIII. PETITIONS AND REMONSTRANCES TO THE THRONE, 1769-70. CHAPTER IX. REMARKABLE ELECTIONS AND CONTROVERTED ELECTION PETITIONS, 1768 TO 1784. CHAPTER X. THE GREAT WESTMINSTER ELECTION OF 1784. CHAPTER XI. REMARKABLE ELECTIONS AND POLITICAL MEETINGS, 1788 TO 1807. CHAPTER XII. ELECTIONEERING CARTOONS AND SQUIBS, 1807-20. CHAPTER XIV. CHARACTERISTICS OF ELECTIONEERING, 1833 TO 1857. A List of Books PUBLISHED BY CHATTO and WINDUS , 214, THREE-VOLUME NOVELS IN THE PRESS. CHEAP EDITIONS OF POPULAR NOVELS. Title: 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 Author: Joseph Grego Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 E-text prepared by MWS, Wayne Hammond, |
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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
CANDIDATES ADDRESSING THEIR CONSTITUENTS.
ILLUSTRATED FROM THE ORIGINAL POLITICAL SQUIBS, LAMPOONS
PICTORIAL SATIRES, AND POPULAR CARICATURES OF THE TIME
BY
JOSEPH GREGO
AUTHOR OF “JAMES GILLRAY, THE CARICATURIST: HIS LIFE, WORKS, AND TIMES”
“ROWLANDSON, THE CARICATURIST: HIS LIFE, TIMES, AND WORKS,” ETC.
London
CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1886
[The right of translation is reserved]
‘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.”
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.”
