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 — John Shaqi
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 VictoriaGrego, Joseph
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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
Grego, Joseph
Great Britain -- Politics and government; Great Britain. Parliament -- Election
or, the Last Dying-Speech of the Westminster Representative
at the Shakespeare Tavern,” 1800--Horne Tooke seated for “Old
Sarum”--The opposition to his membership led by Temple--Lord
Camelford’s nominees--“Political Amusements for Young
Gentlemen; or, the Brentford Shuttlecock,” 1801--“Horne Tooke
as the ‘Shuttlecock’”--Unexpected honours thrust upon Captain
Barlow at Coventry, 1802--Middlesex Election for 1804--The
Brentford Hustings--“A Long Pull, a Strong Pull, and a Pull
All Together;” Sir Francis Burdett drawn to the poll--“The
Governor in his Glory,” 1804--The Westminster election,
1806--The Radical Reformers--“Triumphal Procession of Little
Paull”--“The Highflying Candidate mounting from a Blanket,”
1806--The coalition between Hood and Sheridan--Paull tossed
at the hustings--Burdett for Middlesex--“Posting to the
Election; or, a Scene on the Road to Brentford,” 1806--William
Cobbett “A Radical Drummer,” 1806--“Coalition Candidates,”
Hood and Sheridan--Sheridan disconcerted--“View of the
Hustings in Covent Garden, Westminster Election,” 1806--“Who
suffers?”--The general election, 1807--A split in the Radical
camp--Differences between Burdett and Paull--“Patriots deciding
a Point of Honour; or, the Exact representation of the
Celebrated Rencontre which took place at Coombe Wood, between
Little Paull the Tailor and Sir Francis Goose,” 1807--“The Poll
of the Westminster Election,” 1807--“the Republican Goose at
the Top, etc.”--Horne Tooke and Sir Francis Burdett--“The Head
of the Poll; or, the Wimbledon Showman,” 1807--“The Chelmsford
Petition; Patriots addressing the Essex Calves” 289
CHAPTER XII.
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