Mr. Blair's claim to represent the independent electors of the City of Edinburgh.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1832]
An address in support of Forbes Blair, concerning the campaign for election to the first reformed House of Commons. The campaign took place in the latter half of 1832 (the Scottish Reform Act became law on July 17 1832). Blair was unsuccessful.
The address begins: He will support a true, thorough, safe and substantial reform of every abuse in church and state, at home and abroad. / 2. He will unflinchingly advocate a strict and unsparing retrenchment of all superfluous expenditure, and the speediest possible abolition of useless places, pensions and sinecures, whether in the Court of Exchequer or anywhere else.
Blair, Forbes Hunter.
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Scotland Edinburgh.