Date: 1827
* It sends two members to Parliament, who are elected by one hundred persons, not freemen, but tenants and vassals, entirely under the control of one or two of the nobility.  It is surely mere mockery to talk of a representative body, composed in such a way, chosen by a handful of the veriest machines, while hun dreds of thousands of men of property have no voice in the election !  At 8 o'clock in the evening, we arrived at Low Harrowgate, and to our great disappointment found the hotel so thronged with company, as to afford no accommodations, and to compel us to ride a mile or two voi.