ABSTRACT
Mr. Brougham’s shirking of Lord Cochrane’s Charges –Mr. Ward and his Rotten Borough –The Cruelty of Corruption –One Hundred Houses pulled down, and One Hundred Families sent to the Workhouse, by a Boroughmonger, for Electioneering Purposes –Earl Grey in 1794 and 1817 –St. Leonard, Shoreditch, Resolution –Lord Holland’s Twattle –Bobby Southey and Wat Tyler, and Mr. Waithman’s Black Street Sweeper –Wat Tyler’s SONG, ‘When A dam delv’d and Eve span,’ &c. Dr. –Slop’s Green Bag, and Falstaff –The Reports, and the Butcher’s flatulent Horse –Kew Wall concerned in treasonable practices. Mr. Brougham denied that he had at all altered his tone on the subject The Noble Lord had alluded to a certain influence to be exercised over that House–not the influence of well disposed persons—not the influence of the wishes expressed by the People in their Petitions, but another description of influence, which appeared to him to be of the nature of intimidation.
