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
SEQUEL TO THE BATTLE OF TEMPLE BAR--PRESENTATION OF THE LOYAL
ADDRESS AT ST. JAMES’S PALACE. 1769 201
MASTER BILLY’S PROCESSION TO GROCERS’ HALL--PARLIAMENTARY
ELECTIONS--PITT PRESENTED WITH THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY. 1784 264
THE APOSTATE JACK ROBINSON, THE POLITICAL RAT-CATCHER. 1784 265
THE RIVAL CANDIDATES--GREAT WESTMINSTER ELECTION. 1784 266
THE HANOVERIAN HORSE AND THE BRITISH LION. MARCH, 1784 268
THE WIT’S LAST STAKE; OR, THE COBBLING VOTER AND ABJECT
CANVASSERS 275
LORDS OF THE BEDCHAMBER 276
THE WESTMINSTER WATCHMAN 277
THE CASE IS ALTERED 281
THE PROCESSION TO THE HUSTINGS AFTER A SUCCESSFUL CANVASS 282
THE WESTMINSTER DESERTER DRUMMED OUT OF THE REGIMENT. DEFEAT
OF SIR CECIL WRAY. HUSTINGS, COVENT GARDEN, WESTMINSTER
ELECTION. 1784 284
LIBERTY AND FAME INTRODUCING FEMALE PATRIOTISM (DUCHESS OF
DEVONSHIRE) TO BRITANNIA. 1784 285
DEFEAT OF THE HIGH AND MIGHTY BALISSIMO CORBETTINO AND HIS
FAMED CECILIAN FORCES, ON THE PLAINS OF ST. MARTIN, ON
THURSDAY, THE 3RD DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1785, BY THE CHAMPION
OF THE PEOPLE AND HIS CHOSEN BAND 287
PROOF OF THE REFINED FEELINGS OF AN AMIABLE CHARACTER, LATELY
A CANDIDATE FOR A CERTAIN ANCIENT CITY 293
PACIFIC ENTRANCE OF EARL WOLF (LORD LONSDALE) INTO BLACKHAVEN.
1792 296
MEETING OF PATRIOTIC CITIZENS AT COPENHAGEN HOUSE, 1795.
SPEAKERS: THELWALL, GALE JONES, HODSON, AND JOHN BINNS 298
THE DISSOLUTION; OR, THE ALCHYMIST PRODUCING AN ÆTHERIAL
REPRESENTATION. WILLIAM PITT DISSOLVING THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
1796 300
TWO PAIR OF PORTRAITS. PRESENTED TO ALL THE UNBIASED ELECTORS
OF GREAT BRITAIN. 1798 305
MIDDLESEX ELECTION, 1804. A LONG PULL--A STRONG PULL--AND A
PULL ALL TOGETHER 312
POSTING TO THE ELECTION; OR, A SCENE ON THE ROAD TO BRENTFORD.
1806 315
THE LAW’S DELAY. READING THE RIOT ACT. 1820 334
CORIOLANUS ADDRESSING THE PLEBS. 1820 338
ELECTION SQUIBS AND CRACKERS FOR 1830 346
HIS HONOUR THE BEADLE (WILLIAM IV.) DRIVING THE WAGABONDS OUT
OF THE PARISH. NOV. 28, 1830 354
LEAP-FROG DOWN CONSTITUTION HILL. APRIL 13, 1831 356
HOO-LOO-CHOO, _alias_ JOHN BULL, AND THE DOCTORS. MAY 2, 1831 357
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