Corbettino and his Famed Cecilian Forces, on the Plains of St. Martin,” 1785--Corbett ordered by the court to make his return--Cast in damages--Fox’s final majority 257 CHAPTER XI. Another Westminster election, 1788--Lord Hood appointed to the Admiralty Board, 1788--A fresh contest--Lord John Townshend, a candidate in the Whig interest--Defeat of Lord Hood--Two Whig members for Westminster--Mob violence, the Guards, Hood’s sailors--Ministerial support--“Election Troops bringing their Accounts to the Pay-table” (Treasury Gate), 1788, by J. Gillray--“An Independent Elector”--Helston, Cornwall, 1790--Lady canvassers--A violent “eccentric”--“Proof of the Refined Feelings of an Amiable Character, lately a Candidate for a Certain Ancient City,” by J. Gillray--“The ‘Marplot’ of his Own Party”--Abuses of patronage--Traditions of boroughmongering--Accumulations of seats and parliamentary interests--Cartwright’s tables of pocket boroughs--Pitt’s early patron, Sir James Lowther--“The tyrant of the North”--“Pacific Entrance of Earl Wolf (Lord Lonsdale) into Blackhaven,” 1792--Great distress prevalent throughout the country, in 1795; its effect on political agitation--Political clubs clamour for parliamentary reform--The king and his advisers in disfavour--Revolutionary societies and the “Seditions Bill”--Gillray’s caricatures--“Meetings of Political Citizens at Copenhagen House,” 1795--Whig agitation against the threatened incursions on the “liberty of the subject”--“The Majesty of the People”--“A Hackney Meeting,” 1796--A threatened constitutional struggle averted by a dissolution of parliament, 1796--Pitt’s tactics--“The Dissolution; or, the State Alchymist producing an Ætherial Representation,” 1796--Mr. Hull’s costly electioneering experience at Maidstone, 1796--Horne Tooke unsuccessful at Westminster, 1790 and 1796--Fox and the favour of the mobocracy--“The Hustings, Covent Garden,” 1796--Electioneering squibs--The _Anti-Jacobin_ and the member for Southwark--Canning’s lines on George Tierney, “The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-grinder,” 1797--Grey’s reform measure first moved in 1797--Defeat of the Whigs, and their temporary abstention from the debates--Increased political agitation out of doors--Great reform meetings--Medal commemorative of the gathering at Warwick--“Loyal Medal,” a parody of the “Greathead” patriotic medal--The secession of “the party”--Horne Tooke as a political agitator--The Brentford Parson’s pamphlets--Horne Tooke a political portrait painter, and the _Anti-Jacobin_--“Two Pair of Portraits, dedicated to the Unbiased Electors of Great Britain,” 1798--Meeting on the twentieth anniversary of Fox’s membership for Westminster--The Whig chief’s speech to his constituents--“The Worn-out Patriot;