This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...bribery? Nothing can exceed the fury of the old Tory ladies. Old Barry swears he knows an old lady who subscribed three hundred pounds to assist in bribing voters.1 "Roebuck was going to be very violent with Lord Powerscourt, but I stopped him and would not let him push it to a duel as he wished. He accused Lord ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...bribery? Nothing can exceed the fury of the old Tory ladies. Old Barry swears he knows an old lady who subscribed three hundred pounds to assist in bribing voters.1 "Roebuck was going to be very violent with Lord Powerscourt, but I stopped him and would not let him push it to a duel as he wished. He accused Lord Powerscourt of bribing, who denied it, and I believe he did not bribe or personally know of bribery, but he certainly treated. Roebuck called him a 'barbarian of weak intellect, ' and therefore, if any challenge was necessary, it ought to have come from the other side, and I think I did right in quashing the quarrel. A letter came here for you, having the Bath post-mark. I opened it and found the most abusive anonymous attack you ever read; very amusing though. The writer calls himself Anti-Jacobin. You are hiding your head at Freshford. Roebuck is shirtless, the spawn of a gipsey; you are only Catiline, malicious against British officers, with a due portion of treason. "August nth.--The Tories have made a desperate rally, carrying by force of money all before them. At Devizes Sir F. Burdctt was elected, and the riot was tremendous; several were killed, we hear. At York, also, Feargus O'Connor says there were fifty thousand combatants, pretty equal on each side; some were killed, report says. The result is that the Tories have the majority, and it seems to be the general opinion that Lord Melbourne will resign. So far as I can judge, the Tory reaction is all humbug; it is money and the people's apathy about Whiggism that has caused the defeat of the latter, for the Radicals are stronger and more determined than ever. I am, however, afraid there is one bad effect springing from the success of the Tories, viz., that the Radicals are ready to ...
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