King Pippin : A new song. Sung with unbounded applause by S-r T. D. L---r, Bart. at a late Whig Dinner
[Edinburgh] : Butler, printer, Edinburgh,
[1832]
In one column.
'Tune - "Derry down."'.
S-r T. D. L---r = Sir Thomas Dick Lauder (1784-1848).
In one column.
An election squib directed at John Archibald Murray, who was later knighted and became Lord Murray, and Sir Thomas Dick Lauder. Murray was elected unopposed for the Leith parliamentary seat in December 1832 and re-elected in 1834.
'Tune - "The Arethusa".'
First lines read: 'I sing of King Pippin, the chief of his race, / The joy of the garden, the pride of the place-.
Lauder, Thomas Dick, Sir, 1784-1848
Murray, John Archibald Murray, Lord, 1778-1859
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