ABSTRACT
The right of voting at Midhurst was in one hundred and twenty freeholds, which having been purchased up, the houses and land constituting these freeholds were again sold upon lease for nine hundred and ninety-nine years, retaining the nominal freehold, which fictitious character gives the right of nominating two members for the borough of midhurst. The inhabitants, however, keeping the severe treatment in remembrance, took the first opportunity to retaliate upon his Lordship, by a repetition of their former conduct, in 1784; when his Lordship, having every reason to apprehend that he should lose his seat for the county, offered himself and Mr. Jolliffe as their candidates. “The former of these two means is undoubtedly the most desirable both for the English Patriots, and for the liberal-minded of every country. Then the Revolution would be accomplished without agitation and without trouble; its results would only be the more happy.
