The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-05-30
Bribery in the Past.

In England for more than a century
the shadow of suspicion of corruption
has never been cast on the ermine OF any
magistrate. laAnd yet no longer age
than the beginning of the last century, 9
lord chancellor, the earl of Maccles6eld
was removed from office, fined and i'm,
prisoned for receiving bribes, And {
century earlier the iIlustrious name .o1
Bacon was Isoiled by the faint of a pc
cuniary. corruption. 1t is not much
more than 100 years sago-if the prac-
tice did not last down to the end OF
Lord North's administration that
members of Parliament were bought
for ready money by ministers, in sums
proportioned to their market value.
John Wilkes, in his, famous No. As OF
the. North ,Brton, declared that il
was By bribery alone that the peace OF
l763 had been carried through the
House. of Commons. It is on record by
the evidence of John Ross Mackay, who
was Lord Bute's private secretary, that
this was literally true, and that the
provisions of the treaty could not have
been carried through the House with
outfit. And Wilkes, writing from Par
is, while in exile there, reafirmed his
assertion, affirming that the members
of that House knew that it was extreme
Iy true as well as extremely scandalous.
The precise sums which were paid t.
secure this end Certainly very good
one) were e1, 900 toforty honorable gen
tIemen, and e50O to eighty not less
honorable but less valuable members.
The private secretary of Mr.. Pelham, a
Mr.. Roberts, told memoir writer OF
the last century 1--WE think it was Wrax-
alb that he himself used to pay with
his own hands the wages of these faith
full servants of the minister, being from
G4O0 to G80O each, conveyed in an ex-
pressive squeeze of the hand on taking
leave of them at the end of the session.
When the Duke of Newcastle succeeded
to the premiership on the death of his
bIother, George II. demanded the book
in which the record of these parliament,
airy. benefactions had been. kept, and
put it into the fire and held it down with
the poker with his own annointed hands
until it was entirely consumed. So
that 1t appears that Charles Surface had
some reason for boasting as to his two
ancestors, who had been NJ. P. s. at the
sale ne made of his ia miIy portraits, in
the ''SchooI for Scandal, that the
verify believed that this was the first
time that either one of them had been
bought or sold p Not to go back to
the old days of. the French farmers gen
eral, and the sale of justice in the old
French courts, the fall of the dynasty
of Louise Philippe was mainly owing to
the notorious corruption of the 1egisla-
ture. Under the late Bonaparte the
Legislative bribery, if any, came from
above, in the shape of imperial -fayers;
q and even his judges, though they could
not venture to deviate from the course
In political cases commanded by their
maker, were never, We believe, accused
of taking brides. And no such impu-
tation has ever been laid upon the pres
ent Assembly by its various enemies,
or upon the administration of justice,
that we have ever heard of.-Nea0 York
H1depeRdeJgt. IL ra f.a5a=
49, s- a@
O. MR. QUTESHATTEU8oBA, an apache
sachem, recently commenced his prepa-
ration for embracing Christianity by
killing his FIVE ssquaws. The military
proposed to hang him, Ebut Gen. Crook
interposed, and sent him on to q San
Francisco fort, to be. shut up Forever.
Z THE Egypt recently landed In New
York the largest number OF passengers
ever brought by one vesseI-l7O6 IN the
steerage and 5S In the cabin, making
with the ships crew a living freight oI
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