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Updated: May 11, 2025
The author of the Rolliad describes his power as 'Even by the elements confessed, Of mines and boroughs Lonsdale stands possessed; And one sad servitude alike denotes The slave that labours and the slave that votes. It was on this political boroughmonger and jobber that Boswell was now pinning his faith.
Lord Pomeroy was there, the great lord who had returned William Ferrars to Parliament, a little man, quite, shy, rather insignificant in appearance, but who observed everybody and everything; a conscientious man, who was always doing good, in silence and secrecy, and denounced as a boroughmonger, had never sold a seat in his life, and was always looking out for able men of character to introduce them to public affairs.
'I have hated many men, he says, 'but never any one so much as you, 'I call you parson, he explains, 'because that word includes "boroughmonger" among other meanings, though no single word could be sufficient. Cobbett rages against the phrase 'redundant population. There would be plenty for all if the borough-mongers and stockjobbers could be annihilated, taxes abolished, and the debt repudiated.
A mere handful as to number, and in average talent very much on a level with the mass of their colleagues; counting in their ranks no orator, or minister, or boroughmonger; they commanded the ear of the House, and exerted on its proceedings an influence, the secret of which those who have studied the Parliamentary history of the period find it only too easy to understand.
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