Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. The two candidates for Middlesex, Burdett and Mainwaring, stand in the foreground, each making a speech with an election flag behind him: 'Burdett and Independence 70,000 Pr Anm, Stake in the Country' and (tattered) 'Mainwaring And Corrupt Influence with o.o.o Stake in the Country'; to the staff of the latter is fixed a padlocked collecting-box. Burdett is tall, athletic, handsome, and well-bred. Mainwaring squints, is knock-kneed and feeble, and looks vulgar and untrustworthy. The hustings strecth across the background. Voters approach it; poll-clerks sit facing them; behind are the candidates' supporters, shadowy figures, two being women. A voter walks off, but a man calls him back: "Holloa Mr this Fellow has not marked your Vote you had better come back and see him do it." Another gesticulates angrily: "You have decied [sic] me and robbed me of my Franchise & I'll seek legal redress." A third says: "I say you Fellow what do you eatt by marking my Vote to the wrong Candidate I told you Sr Francis Burdett." Another voter is told: "I dont think you have any right to Poll, beside I am ordered to Object to every one on your Side therfore you must go to the Sheriffs." Two men on the hustings say: "I dont Rellish ['M' scored through and replaced by 'R', showing that the speaker is Mellish] your going to those Votes [sic] for if you do they'll have a large Majority"; and, "It's true I did promise to examine your Votes but since I have been instructed not." A man stands beside a voter saying, "Don't let them bamboozle you you came to Vote for Sr Francis Burdett". A constable takes a man by the collar, saying, "If you don't Vote for Aris's Friend you shall lose your Licence." Description from the British Museum.