THE ARISTOGRATTCAL REVOLUTION;.OR THE SICK, DYING, AND DEFTJNCT.BIRTHRIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE
... spendthrift landlords and adventurers, are all eager to be meddling with the glittering stores in the Treasury. Before the Whig Revolu- tion in 1668, when constituencies had tohire their representatives, a seat in Parliament was rather shunned than covetted ...