Excerpt from Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Existence of Corrupt Practices at the Last Gloucester Election, Together With the Minutes of Evidence Taken Before Them: Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty

Before we direct our attention to the elections of 1859 and 1857, the corrupt practices at which have formed the principal subjects of our inquiry, it will be necessary to take a cursory retrospective glance at the system which preceded and followed the introduction of the Reform Bill. Immemorial as the origin Of electoral corruption appears to be in Gloucester, there are some facts which stand out in bold relief to denote the extent to which it had grown nearly half a century ago.

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