The destruction of Abercrombie!
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
1832]
Relating to the campaign in Edinburgh for election to the first reformed House of Commons, in 1832. Aytoun later withdrew from the contest.
The destruction of Abercrombie - first lines read: Abercrombie came down like a wolf on the fold, / And his pockets were furnish'd with Devonshire gold.
Honest Jemmy Ayton - first lines read: The Whigs are vaporing thro the town, / That Frank, the Barber's coming down, / (The doited, petted, grabby loon) / To put out Jemmy Ayton.
In two columns with a woodcut above each.
Two ballads.
Dunfermline, James Abercromby, Baron, 1776-1858
Aytoun, James 1797-1881
Jeffrey, Francis Jeffrey, Lord, 1773-1850.
Politicians