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... advocate of that measure; which, considering that his family possessed several pocket boroughs, and that he was among that Whig aristocracy who so long regarded the government of the country as their prescripttve right, was an act deserving of historical ...

Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries

... certainly the most expensive contest that ever distinguished the annals of electioneering. Viscount Milton was supported by the Whigs; Air Lascelles (afterwards Earl of Harewood and grandfather of the present peer) by the Tories; and Mr Wilber- force (father ...