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

by Joseph Grego

[61] Wilkes’s Address to the Middlesex Electors.

[62] Lord Thurlow, who was frequently twitted by the satirists upon his penchant for the fair sex.

[63] Lord Bute’s secretary, the great dispenser of “back-stairs influence,” afterwards Lord Liverpool.

[64] For the screen of Carlton House Palace, see “Coriolanus addressing the Plebeians,” 1820; p. 338.

[65] The bard of the “New Chevy Chase,” being truly national, makes the descendant of the Russells and his other personages express themselves vernacularly in “Scotticisms” when under the influence of strong emotions.

[66] The bishop.

[67] “Charles Dix,” lately driven from France.

[68] Whose ministry caused the Bourbon downfall.

[69] Much as Gillray made his royal father scrutinizing and blinking at the presentment of Oliver Cromwell.

[70] Mr. J. Calcraft (W) succeeded in distancing Henry Bankes (W), but only lived a few months to enjoy his victory; a fresh election took place in October, 1831, vice Calcraft deceased, when Lord Ashley (afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury) secured the vacant seat.