Alas! for honest Aytoun! : A new song.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1832]
In one column with a woodcut above the title.
Tune - The Arethusa.
The song begins: The Whigs are vapouring thro the town, / That Frank, the Barber's* coming down, / (The doited, petted, gabby loon) / To put out Jemmy Ayton.
On Aytoun joining the Whigs and leaving the radicals during the campaign in Edinburgh for election to the first reformed House of Commons, in 1832. Aytoun later withdrew from the contest.
Aytoun, James 1797-1881
Blair, Forbes Hunter
Great Britain Parliament
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Scotland Edinburgh.