Song to Vernon’s Glory”--Triumph of the “Country party” or “Patriots”--“The Body of Independent Electors of Westminster” constituted into a society--Their anniversary dinners--A dinner-ticket, 1744--The Stuart rising of 1745--Lord Lovat’s trial--Meeting of “The Independent Electors of the City and Liberty of Westminster” at Vintners’ Hall, March, 1747--Jacobite toasts--“The Spy detected:” ejectment of a ministerial spy from Vintners’ Hall--The state of parties at the Westminster election, 1747--Earl Gower and his son, Lord Trentham--Falling-off of the Independent party--Trentham and Warren _versus_ Clarges and Dyke--“The Two-Shilling Butcher,” 1747--The Duke of Cumberland and the Prince of Wales as rival canvassers--The Duke of Bedford’s support of Lord Trentham--“The Jaco-Independo-Rebello-Plaido”--“The Humours of the Westminster Election; or, the Scald Miserable Independent Electors in the Suds,” 1747--Jacobite vagaries--“Great Britain’s Union; or, the Litchfield Races,” 1747--The Jacobite rebellion--Political animosities carried on to the race-course--Alternate Whig and Tory race meetings--The Duke of Bedford horsewhipped at the Litchfield races on Whittington Heath--Ballad on the _fracas_: “The Lords’ Lamentation; or, the Whittington Defeat,” 1747--Trentham _versus_ Vandeput, 1749--The _fracas_ at the Haymarket Theatre--Frenchified Lord Trentham’s deadly attack on his own electors--Gallic valour and the Admiralty Board--Ballad: “Peg Trim Tram in the Suds; or, No French Strollers,” 1749--“Britannia Disturbed, or an Invasion by French Vagrants, addressed to the Worthy Electors of the City of Westminster,” 1749--Violence and bribery--“Aux Electeurs très dignes de Westminster”--The Duke of Bedford’s oppression and injustice to his tenants--Hogarth’s print of “A Country Inn-yard at the Time of an Election,” 1747--The Hon. John Child--“No Old Baby.” 78 CHAPTER V.