Speech to the electors of Bristol (1774) [ Practices ]
… Representatives in Parliament for that City, On Thursday the 3d of November, 1774. Speech at the conclusion of the poll Gentlemen, I cannot avoid sympathizing strongly with the feelings of the gentleman who has received the same honour that … it as it concerns the propriety of public conduct in this city. I do not pretend to lay down rules of decorum for other gentlemen. They are best judges of the mode of proceeding that will recommend them to the favour of their … you! you ought never to have been produced at this election, and the sheriffs ought not to have admitted you to poll." Gentlemen, I should make a strange figure, if my conduct had been of this sort. I am not so old an acquaintance of yours …
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