to bring in the Chevalier--The accession of George I., and the Tory discomfiture--“The Whigs’ answer to the Tories”--The Jacobite and Hanoverian factions--Ballads upon “Nancy,” “the Chevalier,” and George of Hanover, 1716--The disaffected and their hatred to Sir Robert Walpole--Ballad: “King James’s Declaration”--The abortive Jacobite rising in 1715--Ballad: “The Right and True History of Perkin”--The end of Perkin’s attempt. 56 CHAPTER IV. Sir Robert Walpole “chaired” on his election for Castle Rising, 1701--“Robin’s Progress”--Walpole in Parliament--His offices--Impeached by the Commons for corruption on the death of George, Prince of Denmark--Returned for King’s Lynn--Firmly established in power on the accession of George I.--“A Tory Bill of Costs for an Election in the West, 1715”--The Septennial Act, 1716--The elections of 1721--Walpole’s “universal salve”--“The Election carried by Bribery and the Devil,” 1721--Municipal corruption--Ballad: “Here’s a Minion sent down to a Corporate Town”--The elections of 1727--“Ready Money, the Prevailing Candidate; or, the Humours of an Election,” 1727--“No bribery, but pockets are free”--Ballad: “The Laws against Bribery Provision may make”--“The Kentish Election, 1734”--“The Country Interest” _versus_ “the Protestant Interest”--Vane and Dering _versus_ Middlesex and Oxenden--Vane’s treat to his electors--Walpole paraded in effigy--Hogarth’s design on the election of 1734: Sir Robert Fagg--“The Humours of a Country Election,” 1734--The first suggestion for Hogarth’s series of four election prints--Plays, operas, and poems on elections--The oath imposed upon electors--“A New-year’s Gift to the Electors of Great Britain,” 1741--“The flood of corruption”--Walpole, as “The Devil upon Two Sticks,” carried through the “Slough of Despond,” 1741--“A Satire on Election Proceedings,” dedicated to “Mayors and Corporations in general,” 1741--Walpole’s lease of power threatened--Satirical version of Walpole’s “Coat of Arms”--The Westminster election of 1741--Wager and Sundon _versus_ Vernon and Edwin--A patriotic “Address to the Independent and Worthy Electors” of Westminster, 1741--Royal canvassers--“Scene at the Westminster Election,” 1741--Lord Sundon calls in the grenadiers to close the poll--The Westminster Petition, 1741--A new election--Wager and Sundon unseated; Edwin and Percival returned--Admiral Vernon and Porto Bello--“The Funeral of Independency,” 1741--“The Triumph of Justice,” 1741--Walpole defeated--“The Banner of Liberty displayed,” 1741--A ministerial mortification--Ballads upon the Westminster election of 1741--“The Independent Westminster Electors’ Toast”--“The Downfall of Sundon and Wager”--“The Independent Westminster Choice”--“The True English-Boys’