“Vos suffrages et Interêts sont desirés pour le Très Hon. mi Lord Trentham, “UN VERITABLE ANGLOIS. “N.B.--L’on prie ses Amis de ses rendre à l’Hôtel François dans le Marché au Foin. “TO MY LORD TRENTHAM. “The King of France (my most glorious Monarch) being touched with a lively sense of the obligations he owes your Lordship, for the powerful protection you have given to his subjects in England, honours you with his thanks, and commands me to assure you, that your Lordship shall be the _Chief Manager_ of his _Playhouse_ in England, as soon as your Lordship and your Friends have brought those insolent rascals, the English, under his dominion, being satisfied the measures your Lordship and Friends now pursue cannot fail of your desired success. “I have the honour to be “Your Lordship’s most obliged humble Servant, “MIREPOIX. [French ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, 1749-1751.] “N.B.--Translated from the Original French.” Great favour was shown to docile voters, while the refractory were subject to crying injustices. The following handbill, circulated at the time, exposes the meannesses to which a Duke of Bedford could descend in the interests of his candidate:-- “TO THE WORTHY ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER. “A true Copy of a Letter sent to an inhabitant of Covent Garden, who thought himself at liberty (though a Tenant to the Duke of Bedford) to vote according to his _own conscience_; which having done, he received the following:--‘I hereby give you Notice, that you are to quit the house you rent of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, situate in Bedford Street, in the parish of St. Paul, Covent Garden, at Lady-Day next, or to pay his Grace _Seventy-two pounds_ a year for the same from that time. “‘RT. BUTCHER, Steward to His Grace. “‘_Nov. 29, 1749._ “‘_To_ MR. MATTHEW CREYGHTON.’ “NOTE.--I acknowledge to have received the above letter by the hands of Mr. Becuda, one of his Grace’s stewards, and accept the notice therein. The rent I at present pay is _thirty-six pounds_ per annum. I voted for and to my utmost have served Sir George Vandeput. Who would not? “⁂ _No_ rent due to his Grace. “MATTHEW CREYGHTON, “An insulted Elector of Westminster. “N.B.--The House to Let.”