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1820 Feb. 20
Collectanea Constitut. Code — Bentham's Reform Bill Seen 1828 Jany 17
Ch. VI. Legislative
§ Secrecy of Suffrage
Suffrage Secrecy
necessary.
Secrecy of suffrage — Exemplification of the necessity of it.
Extract from Examiner Feby 20. 1820. — Taunton.

"Sir Thomas Lethbridge ... possess a good deal of
property in the Borough (Tauton) and ... drives his vassals
to the poll, just as a drover does his beasts to market.
The Baronet, it must be confessed, has an odd way of showing
his respect for "British freedom", which he says in
his harangues, excites "the envy of the world". When several
of his tenants took him at his word, and exercised a
little of the said "British freedom", in refusing to vote for
his Brother-in-law, he proceeded to eject them from their
houses: nor could the poverty of some of them, nor the
extreme bitterness of the season (it was last Christmas)
stay the stern hand of "the Protestant Champion".

Identifier: | JB/109/187/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.
Date_1	1820-02-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	109	Main Headings	Constitutional Code
Folio number	187	Info in main headings field	Collectanea Constitut. Code Benthams Reform Bill
Image	001	Titles	Secresy of suffrage / Exemplification of the necessity of it
Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::I&M [Prince of Wales feathers] 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	35842
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