 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1861 - 536 pages
...personally advised and recommended it. Writing to Lord North, 10th October, 1779, he said : " If the Duke of Northumberland requires some gold pills for the election, it would be wrong not to satisfy him."2 Attempts When the disgraceful traffic in boroughs was excorruption, posed in the House... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1861 - 544 pages
...personally advised and recommended it. Writing to Lord North, 16th October, 1779, he said : " If the Duke of Northumberland requires some gold pills for the election, it would be wrong not to satisfy him."2 Attom pts When the disgraceful traffic in boroughs was exto restrain . corruption, posed... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1862 - 738 pages
...had little advantage of the cash. "When George the Third, in 1779, wrote to lord North, "If the duke of Northumberland requires some gold pills for the election, it would be wrong not to satisfy him,"* his grace of Northumberland's electors were necessarily content with a bread pill or... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - 1865 - 486 pages
...Washington, Adams, or Jackson are exhumed, like that of the English king, who wrote, " If the Duke requires some gold pills for the election, it would be wrong not to satisfy him ; " no disgraceful traffic in boroughs ; no " nabobs, commissaries, or West Indians" here... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 pages
...dated 20 September, 1779. ' Diaries and Correspondence of Lord Alalmesbury,' vol. i., pp. 245 and 260. requires some Gold Pills for the Election, it would be wrong' not to satisfy him." "20Nov1779. " I never doubted that an Enquiry into the State of Plymh, when the French... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 462 pages
...dated 20 September, 1779. ' Diaries and Correspondence of Lord Malmesbury,' vol. i., pp. 245 and 2GO. requires some Gold Pills for the Election, it would be wrong not to satisfy him." "20Novl779. " I never doubted that an Enquiry into the State of Plymh, when the French... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 460 pages
...dated 20 September, 1779. ' Diaries and Correspondence of Lord Malmesbnry,' vol. i , pp. 245 and 260. requires some Gold Pills for the Election, it would be wrong not to satisfy him." "20Nov'1779. " I never doubted that an Enquiry into the State of Plymh, when the French... | |
 | Edwin Forbes Waters - 1878 - 64 pages
...his commission. The King also encouraged bribery in elections. " If the Duke of Northumberland wants some gold pills for the election, it would be wrong not to satisfy him," he wrote to Lord North. His pride, stupidity, and folly occasioned our War of Independence,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1886 - 596 pages
...who recognized and recommended it. Writing to Lord North, October 16th, 1779, he said, 'If the Duke of Northumberland requires some gold pills for the election, it would be wrong not to satisfy him.' These expenses were paid out of the King's Civil List, and were a heavy burden on his... | |
 | 1892 - 1088 pages
...supported bribery. Writing to Lord North in connection with one of the elections, he .said, ' If the Duke of Northumberland requires some gold pills for the election, it would be wrong not to satisfy him.' The Duke of Portland spent 40,000£. in contesting Westmoreland and Cumberland with Sir... | |
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Alalmesbury,' vol. i., pp. 245 and 260. requires some Gold Pills for the Election, it would be wrong 
